Om te starten¶
LionsBase lets you easily prepare and send newsletters to a list of recipients. A newsletter is nothing else than a TYPO3 “page” with a custom template suitable for sending as an email.
First step is to find the newsletter folder of your club / district / multiple district. It is easily recognizable with its special “letter within a blue folder” icon in the page tree, e.g.,
In order to actually create a newsletter, just proceed as if you would create a page in your website, nothing fancy here.
Good to know:
You do not have to think about choosing a “Newsletter” template for your page, it will be automatically configured for you when the page is created.
The title of the newsletter is the title of the page you create.
Depending on the template you use, it may be possible to define the sender email address being shown in the footer of the newsletter by editing the page property and defining the author e-mail field.
Direct Mail¶
Once your newsletter is ready to be sent, you will make use of the various Direct Mail modules available in the left menu of the management website:
The three modules are:
- Direct Mail
Main module used to schedule newsletters to be sent.
- Recipients Lists
Overview of existing distribution lists showing the number and the actual list of recipients and management of them (creation, deletion, modification and renaming).
- Statistics
General statistics about the status of the newsletters (whether delivery started and completed, etc.)
Overview of the statistics for existing newsletters:
Detail of a given newsletter:
