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phpList manual View All Search Shelves Books Sign up Log in Info Content Page Navigation What is phpList? A quick tour of phpList Campaigns Subscribers Subscribe pages Campaign Statistics What is Open Source? What is phpList.com? What does phpList not do? Feedback Book Navigation phpList manual Introduction 4 Pages System overview Case studies About this manual GDPR Basic usage 5 Pages Logging In Adding your first subscribers Composing your first campaign Sending your first campaign Basic Campaign Statistics Growing and using complex lists 8 Pages Understanding Subscribers and Lists Creating your lists Adding Subscribers (to Lists) Creating a subscribe page Setting up your List Categories Using Attributes Using placeholders Targeting your campaigns Designing and assessing your campaigns 7 Pages Templates The footer Creating a template Advanced templating DIY: Super Simple Template Subscribe page design and configuration Advanced Campaign Statistics Installing and upgrading 8 Pages Installing phpList manually Automatic updater for phpList Installing using an auto-installer Configuration: verify settings Upgrading a manual installation Upgrading an auto-installed installation Common Installation Errors Modifying Administrator Permissions / Subadmins Sending 6 Pages Methods of Sending (Browser, Cron, Command-line) Setting up your Cron Scheduling Sending a web-page Sending plain text Bounce Management Plugins 1 Page phpList plugins Translations 1 Page Setting up phpList in your own language Send speed 1 Page Setting the Send Speed (Rate) API integrations 1 Page API and integrations Troubleshooting Techniques 1 Page Troubleshooting Techniques Contributing to phpList 4 Pages Development Translations Bug reporting Write for the Blog Books phpList manual Introduction System overview System overview Welcome to the phpList Manual! This first chapter will explain what phpList is used for and give you a basic overview of how it works. What is phpList? phpList is used for sending email newsletters, announcements and notifications. It is designed to send a single message (a campaign ), by email to large numbers of recipients ( subscribers ). You organize your subscribers into lists and you can import email addresses from your email account, online shop, blog or database. You can also import attribute data, for example, subscriber name, city or shoe size. Campaigns are composed in a web interface and can be personalized for each subscriber. Personalization is done with the use of placeholders which display attribute data within the text of the emails, as well as unique links that allow subscribers to join or leave lists easily. You can use plain text, HTML and templates. Once a campaign has been sent, phpList will show statistics about it. This will include opens/views (who read the campaign), clicks (who clicked which link in the campaign) and bounces (which addresses were incorrect and delivery failed). Bounced mails and unsubscribes are automatically removed from the system, which will benefit future delivery of campaigns . phpList is Open Source software and it is published under the AGPLv3 license. You can install and host phpList on your own servers or you can use it via the phpList Hosted service. A quick tour of phpList phpList has an attractive web interface and a wealth of features to explore. Campaigns Composing and sending campaigns is achieved by following a step by step process. Subscribers In phpList you upload your contacts once and the information is ready to use every time you send a campaign. You can group subscribers into one or more lists Simply choose which list you want to send to when you create your campaign. Subscribe pages Subscribers can sign up to your lists though subscribe pages, which are fully customizable. ...and can be integrated with your website. Campaign Statistics You can view basic and detailed statistics about every campaign you send to help you learn more about your subscribers. What is Open Source? Open Source, or "Free Software", means that the original programming code is made freely available and may be modified. In practice this means that; phpList is very adaptable, easy to change and improve. Open Source development relies on communities of users contributing to the project they use. You pay nothing for the software, but you are encouraged to collaborate with the project though contributing code and/or though bug reports, translations, documentation, spreading the word and if you feel it has enriched your life, you can even donate! What is phpList.com? phpList.com offers phpList as a service is the cheapest way to have a fully working installation without having to worry about servers, blacklisting, bounces and deliverability. We manage the day to day maintenance of the software including updates and security. Using phpList.com is also a great way to support the future development of phpList. What does phpList not do? phpList is a one-to-many email program. It cannot easily be used to have "email conversations" many-to-many as you might do on software such as mailman Feedback Discuss this chapter here. Previous Introduction Next Case studies Details Revision #10 Created 4 years ago by mariana Updated 2 years ago by mariana Actions Revisions Export Contained Web File .html PDF File .pdf Plain Text File .txt Markdown File...