RSMail! Follow-Ups
The RSMail! Follow-ups tab allows you to create a collection of email messages that are triggered in specific time frame.
Basically, there are two types of follow-ups: after user subscribes and after a specified date selected by the administrator.
Setting up a Follow-up:
- In the follow-ups tab click the new button.
- Name your follow-up and select when to start (After the user subscribes or On a specific date).
- Each follow-up is assigned to at least one subscriber list.
- Choose the list(s) you want to send the messages.
- Final thing to do is to add the messages in the follow-up timeline, to add a message click on the blue "plus" bullet.
- Select the message from the dropdown menu and press the Add message button.
- Map the corresponding fields, set the delay until the message is sent then press Add.
- The message and the message delay is added to the timeline.
- You can add as many messages as you need.
Note:
You can change the messages occurrence order directly from the timeline by dragging the messages up or down.
In order to get the auto-responder to function a server side Cron job is required. This can be configured on your cPanel server and add a new Cron job with the following command:
lynx "http://yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_rsmail&task=autoresponders"
In case this doesn't work, use the following command:
wget -O /dev/null "http://yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_rsmail&task=autoresponders"
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