KB00022608 Getting Started with Mailing ListsMailtraq's Mailing Lists are a powerful and versatile feature, and with little work they can improve your company's appearance and customer services. This guide takes you through the process of configuring a variety of mailing list types.
Workload Sharing
sales@your-company.com
When the volume of e-mail being sent to your sales or support department is too much for one person to handle, how do you share it out? Simple -- let Mailtraq distribute the workload between a number of staff.
Here's how to do it...
- Create a new Mailing List by going to File -> New -> Mailing List
- Set the List Name to "sales"
- Set the Description to "Sales Group"
- Check Distribute evenly between subscribers
- Click on the Subscribers tab
For each member of your sales team repeat the next steps
- Click on New
- Enter their Full Name and their E-Mail Address and Send-To Address (their mailbox name will do for both of these)
- Check the flag Receives Messages
- Click on OK
Now any messages sent to sales@your-company.com will be distributed to each member of the group in turn.
Sending Announcements to your Customers
announcements@your-company.com
You can use an announcements mailing list to tell your existing customers that you have a new product or service, or inform them about some news they may be interested in. A particularly useful feature is that customers can add themselves to the mailing list.
Firstly, to create the mailing list..
- Create a new Mailing List by going to File -> New -> Mailing List
- Set the List Name to "announcements"
- Set the Description to "Announcements List"
- Click on the Access tab
- Check Enable Subscription by Mail
- Check Moderated by and select a mailbox to receive messages from by customers
- Click on Guest Properties
- Clear the Posts Messages flag and check the Moderated flag
- Click on OK
- Click on New Subscriber Properties
- Clear the Posts Messages flag and check the Moderated flag
- Click on OK
- Click on the Subscribers Tab
- Click on New
- Enter the name and e-mail address of the person in your company who will be posting messages to the Announcements Mailing List
- Check the Posts Messages flag
- Click on OK
The mailing list is now ready to use. To add a customer to the list manually, send a message to mailserver@your-company.com with the line
subscribe announcements customer@their-company.com
(replacing the e-mail address with theirs). Customers can add themselves to the list through a variety of methods. The simplest is to write to announcements@your-company.com with the subject line reading only "subscribe".
If you company has a web site, you can include a button to do this by creating a form with the action
mailto:announcements@your-company.com?subject=subscribe
Publishing a Price List
prices@your-company.com
Price lists can be an invaluable tool, particularly for retail companies. Essentially, the price list could be any document which customers may wish to obtain.
For this example, we won't actually use a mailing list (although it could be done with one), but instead an ordinary mailbox with an auto-responder.
- Create a new Mailbox by going to File -> New -> Mailbox
- Set the Mailbox Name to "prices"
- Click on the Mail tab
- Check Automatically Respond to Mail
- Click on Edit Reply
- Clear the document and copy your price list into the clipboard, then paste it here and close the window. (Do not save under a different filename.)
- Click on the Message Expiry tab and set the expiry to 7 days
- Click on OK
Now every message that is sent to prices@your-company.com will automatically be replied to with the price list (which you can change by repeating step 5). The messages sent to prices@your-company.com will be stored in the mailbox, which is why the Message Expiry function was enabled, thus clearing them after seven days. |