Installing The SmartLists Software
Before using your mailing list you must first install the Smartlists software to your account. This is done by entering your control panel and clicking on the Mailing List option. Once inside the Mailing List option you will see a button that you need to click to install the software to your account. It will take approximately 10 minutes for the server to install the software to your account.TOP
Creating A Mailing List
Once the software is installed you create your lists from inside the Mail Manager in your Control Panel. After you have installed the software you will see a link inside your Mail Manager named "New List", click it to create the list. See the following screenshot.
After you click add to create your list, you will be taken to a new window giving you a somewhat poor description of your list, just click on the Home link in the upper left hand corner of the screen to return to the Mail Manager. Once you return to the Mail Manager, you will see the name of your new list. See the following screenshot.
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Assigning A List Administrator (Maintainer)
Before you can edit or administer a list, you must first provide the system with the Maintainers email address, the Maintainers password, and the maximum number of emails that can be stored in archive.Maintainer = the person who has permission to edit and administer the list.
To provide this information click on the list name and you will be taken to a new screen where you provide the maintainers information. We have provided a screenshot of this screen below. Once you fill in the needed information, you will need to click on edit. The system then provides you with the name of the file that you can edit. We will get into editing the files below.
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Location Of Files To Edit For Your Mailing List
So far you've learned how to install the mailing list software, create list, and assign a maintainer to the list. Now the list is ready to make it do all the neat little tricks lists can do in order to work the way you need them to. Before you can add commands to your list, you need to know where the files are that you edit to apply the commands to.The location of the files that you will edit for your mailing list are located in this directory: /home/yourdomain/yourdomain-mail/nameoflist/. You can either edit these files from inside the File Manager of your Control Panel or upload them to your own PC and edit them as a text file. If you upload these files to your hard drive to edit, remember to FTP them back to your account in ASCII mode.
Each file located inside your list directory contains instructions for editing and should be read carefully prior to editing. Following is a screen shot of what your list directory will look like if viewing it from the control panel. We've created a list named <mylist> that we are using as an example.
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List Commands
Now you are ready to apply commands to your list by editing the files using SmartLists Commands as indicated above.Go to SmartList Commands
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