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Scheduled mailings

Tony Ingall
asked this on March 05, 2011 19:35

I'd like to use the personlised mailing calendar component to send a weekly calendar reminder to people who request it.  I've set up a mailing channel so people can subscribe.  Is there a way to automate the mail sending so it goes to all subscribers to that channel at the same time every week with no human intervention?

Tony 

 

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Justin Ruffell-Ward - Insight Support
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We don't currently have scheduled mailings but this is something we're working on at the moment and it'll be released before the end of the month. It'll allow you to schedule a repeat mailing e.g.a weekly mailing.

March 08, 2011 12:40
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Tony Ingall

Perfect.  Txs Guys.

March 08, 2011 13:01
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Jessica Smith

Great! I'm really looking forward to that!

July 21, 2011 09:12
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Tony Ingall

it's in place now and works well

July 21, 2011 09:29
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Jessica Smith

Oh, I just tried to use it and got a message that said - (scheduling disabled for this type of mailing). I'm trying to work out what mailings might be disabled and which ones work? Clues? 

July 21, 2011 09:48
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Jessica Smith

Can you only use scheduling when you are in a mailing channel with subsrcibers, not just for regular group emails?

July 21, 2011 09:52
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Justin Ruffell-Ward - Insight Support
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Scheduled mailing is currently available only on mailing to more than 100 people. We do plan to add it for smaller mailings in the future.

July 21, 2011 09:52
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Jessica Smith

Thanks for letting me know. Very helpful! We'd love it for all mailings, but that makes sense. Jess

July 21, 2011 10:01
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Justin Ruffell-Ward - Insight Support
Endis

Actually, to clarify, you can only schedule mailings sent to more than 100 people that you send through the mailing area. This is because we only schedule mailings sent to a specific group of people, as we can send it to whoever is a member of the selected groups again the next time it's scheduled, even if the list now contains different people. When mailing 100 or less people you can deselect individual users, or when mailing from a query you also don't necessarily get an entire group of people so we don't allow scheduled mailings for those types of mailing.

July 21, 2011 10:04