Friday, April 22, 2011

Webteam: transition to phplist

After upgrading to the latest version of dadamail, we were unable to get Chinese to work in the eNews. As the result, we are transitioning to phplist.

Tasks:
  • prototype and test the send process
  • write up procedure
  • download/upload the member list
  • update the footer in email to be legal compliance
  • update the list subscription page
  • change the subscribe on sjccc main page to use the new subscription page 
  • edit technical configurations for phplist

Technical configurations: config.php changes: (~/www/phplist/config/config.php)
  • define ("REGISTER",0);
  • define("EMAILTEXTCREDITS",1);
  • define("PAGETEXTCREDITS",1);
  • define ("NOSTATSCOLLECTION",1);
  • define("MAILQUEUE_BATCH_SIZE",360);
  • define('MAILQUEUE_THROTTLE',1);
  • define("USE_MANUAL_TEXT_PART",1);
Others to try out in the future:
  • define('CLICKTRACK',1);
  • define('CLICKTRACK_SHOWDETAIL',0);
See documentation:
  • Send Rate, etc: http://docs.phplist.com/PhpListConfigSendRate
  • Personalization: http://docs.phplist.com/Placeholders

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