December 2009
Beginner
416 pages
9h 53m
English
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Mass Mail
Mass Mail is a component that allows you to email users who are registered on your website. You can choose to email everyone or just a select group of individuals. This component works fine for smaller websites, but we wouldn’t recommend it for large sites.
Note
You should check with your host to see if they throttle the number of emails per hour you’re allowed to send out before you’re red-flagged as a potential spammer. The Mass Mail component has no throttling like newsletter components, so use it with care if you’re sending out a lot of emails.
The Mass Mail interface is pretty straightforward. Access Mass Mail by going to Tools→Mass Mail. The Mass Mail interface only has a few options as shown in Figure 16-11.
Figure 16-11. Mass Mail interface
- Mail to Child Groups:
If checked, all children of the selected group will be included in the email.
For example, if you selected the group Author and checked the “Mail to Child Groups” checkbox, Editors and Publishers would also receive the email.
- Send in HTML mode:
If checked, the message will be sent in HTML mode. This is useful if you wish to enter HTML in the message text area.
- Group:
Select the user groups you wish to send this email to.
- Recipients as BCC. Adds copy to site email:
User email addresses will be added to the blind carbon copy (BBC) field of the email. This prevents users from seeing the other email addresses the message ...
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