Send mailing

When you are in the Send mailing menu, you will first be taken to the overview. Have you sent mailings before? Then you can see it here.

From this overview you can manage the mailings: you can add, view, copy, change and delete mailings.

Sending a mailing

To send a mailing, click on the Insert button. A new window will open:

In this screen, you'll see four tabs:

• Mailing: in this tab you can schedule a standard mailing. You can read more about this under the heading Mailing. 
• Batch delivery: do you want to send your mailing in batches? This can be useful if you're communicating about a new website and want to spread your traffic. Then you can make settings for batch shipping here.
• A/B test: if you have created several emails to test, you can select them here for an A/B test. Here you determine the test duration, based on which element you choose a winner and how large the remaining group is to which the winning email should be sent.
• Slurp: it is possible to retrieve external HTML and send it to one of your groups.

Mailing

In this menu you have the option for two types of shipments:

• Test
• Definitively

Test

Before you send the mailing to a group, we always recommend that you test your mailing first. You go through the following settings:

• Dispatch date/period: this is where you schedule the sending time of the mailing. To decide what the the best sending time is for your target group, you can get from your statistics of previously sent mailings. For the test, it is most convenient to choose the Immediately option.
• Kind over delivery: To schedule a test mailing, choose Test at Type of shipment. If you are going to send the mailing to a group, choose Definitively.
• Subject prefix: by default it is set to (TEST), but you can also put something else. This section is placed before the subject line, so you can clearly see in the inbox that it's a test message.
• Test mailing? (screenshots and spam filters): here you can have the mailing tested fully automatically in a large number of email clients. In addition, it can be tested whether or not your mailing is flagged as spam by the most commonly used spam filters. Select the tests you want to run. 
  The results of the selected tests (screenshots of the mailing in the selected mail clients, filter result of the selected spam filters) will automatically become available in the overview of mailing checks for the mailing in question.
  
• Sending order: a standard order can be followed alphabetically or sent randomly to addresses.
• Mailing to send: select the mailing you want to send as a testmailing.
• Recipient groups: select the test group to which the mailing should be sent. It is also possible to exclude a group from sending here.
• Erase test results: if you have already sent the mailing (as a test), statistics have already been generated from this test sending, subscribers may have unsubscribed, a poll may have been voted on, etc. If you want to delete this collected data (to start with a "clean slate"), choose Yes here. It is advisable to delete the test results before you send a final mailing.

Definitively

If you want to send a final mailing, you have to go through the following settings:

• Dispatch date/period: this is where you schedule the sending time of the mailing. To decide what the the best sending time is for your target group, you can get from your statistics of previously sent mailings.
• Kind of delivery: to schedule a mailing to a group, choose Definitively. If you want to test the mailing first, choose the type of mailing: Test. We always recommend that you test your mailing before sending it definitively.
• Recipients of the results:it is possible to change the address here. You will receive the results of the mailing at this address.
• Max. number of emails per hour: by default, it is set to Full Speed, but you can adjust it if necessary.
• Sending order: a standard order can be followed alphabetically or sent randomly to addresses.
• Mailing to send: select the mailing you want to send.
• Recipient groups: select the group to which the mailing should be sent. It is also possible to exclude a group from sending here.
• Erase test results: if you have already sent the mailing (as a test), statistics have already been generated from this test sending, subscribers may have unsubscribed, a poll may have been voted on, etc. If you want to delete this collected data (to start with a "clean slate"), choose Yes here. It is advisable to delete the test results before you send a final mailing.

Advanced

Under advanced, you'll see the setting Block task data managment. This means that no changes can be made to data related to the sending of a mailing until the mailing has been sent. Think, for example, of changing recipient groups. By default, this option is set to Yes, but it is possible to change this setting to No.