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WARNING:  Most of the template sites are hosted at Siteground.  Siteground has a bug in their Sendmail binary. You will hit this bug if you configure your site to use Phpmailer or Sendmail AND you configure CBMailing to put the recipients addresses in the BCC field.  The problem is that the mail goes out ok, but the bcc email addresses aren't hidden.
Sending a bulk email to the users of your site is a two-step process: First you use CBMailing (Joomla->Components->CBMailing->Send mailing) to select the users to receive the email and to export this list of users to PHPList, which is the program that actually sends the mail.


If you are on Siteground, your site should be configured to use SMTP and thus avoid the problem. As delivered the sites are configured to avoid this, so this message is really a warning to those who might be thinking of refonfiguring the mailing options.
Once you have exported the list to PHPList, you open PHPList, which is found at yoururl/lists/admin (e.g. http://hrtemplate.org/lists/admin).  In PHPList you can compose your message; send yourself a test copy of the message to see what it looks like; and schedule the bulk mailing to your entire list.
 
You will find detailed instructions for all of this in the links below.
 
[[Selecting users to email with CBMailing]]
 
[[Composing, testing, and sending with PHPList]]
 
[[More information about PHPList]]




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Revision as of 14:41, 28 January 2010

Sending a bulk email to the users of your site is a two-step process: First you use CBMailing (Joomla->Components->CBMailing->Send mailing) to select the users to receive the email and to export this list of users to PHPList, which is the program that actually sends the mail.

Once you have exported the list to PHPList, you open PHPList, which is found at yoururl/lists/admin (e.g. http://hrtemplate.org/lists/admin). In PHPList you can compose your message; send yourself a test copy of the message to see what it looks like; and schedule the bulk mailing to your entire list.

You will find detailed instructions for all of this in the links below.

Selecting users to email with CBMailing

Composing, testing, and sending with PHPList

More information about PHPList


Return to main Master Template page

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