Mercury Dokumentation

Automatic Sending of Newsletters

The integrated newsletter has been enhanced with an automatic sending option. This makes it possible, for example, to automatically send a mailing with the latest news at predefined times.

Part of the Mercury expansion pack

This feature is not included in the open source version of the Mercury template, but is part of the Mercury extension pack from Alkacon Software. Please contact us if you are interested in our Mercury extensions.
Further information
Newsletter: Konfiguration des automatischen Versands Newsletter: Konfiguration des automatischen Versands

A newsletter mailing can be configured to be sent automatically. To do this, create a new newsletter mailing in the Newsletter app. In the context menu of the newly created mailing, click on “Edit.” In the form editor, activate the optional field “Automatic Sending.”

Next, you need to define the time for automatic sending. Optionally, in the “Additional Settings” field, you can restrict sending to specific weekdays. Otherwise, the mailing will be sent daily.

Then edit the contents of the mailing, for example by displaying a list of articles. Finally, publish the new mailing along with the created content.

Newsletter: Dialog for activating automatic sending Newsletter: Dialog for activating automatic sending

Ensure that all content for your newsletter mailing has been published. Then click on “Send” in the newsletter editor or in the context menu of the mailing in the app to activate automatic sending.

Leave the “Send automatically” option activated in the dialog box that appears.

To send the newsletter mailing manually or change the times for automatic sending, automatic sending must first be paused.

If you want to pause automatic sending, click on “Pause automatic sending” in the newsletter editor or in the context menu of the mailing in the app.

To send the mailing manually, click on “Send” in the newsletter editor or in the context menu of the app, and deactivate the “Send automatically” option in the dialog box that appears.

The main component of a newsletter configured for automatic dispatch is usually a list of, for example, current news items. This list may be supplemented by “static” content, e.g., in the header and footer areas.

In contrast to manual dispatch, the list is not “fixed” when the newsletter is sent automatically; instead, the list always displays the latest news items.

Automatic sending ensures that no content for the list is sent “twice,” i.e., if there is no new content to send for the list, the newsletter is not sent.

However, this only applies as long as the configuration of the list in the newsletter is not changed. If the configuration of the list in the newsletter is changed subsequently, content that has already been sent previously may be sent once when the newsletter is sent again.

For automatically sent newsletters, no archive of the sent mailings is created; instead, the mailing created in the editor is sent again and again with the list. The content of the list is updated each time it is sent.

A demo of the automatic newsletter mailing service.

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