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How to use JINC JINC 0.2

 

JINC (Joomla! Integrated Newsletter Component) is easy to use and configure. Here you can find some instructions to manage newsletters, messages and subscriptions.

After JINC installation process you will find a new choice in the Components Menù of your Joomla! Administration part as you can see in this screenshot

 

How to use - Screenshot 1

 

JINC comes with a sample newsletter already defined. Next screenshot shows its definition and as you can see you can define

  • The newsletter name and description
  • Sender name and mail address that is used sending messages of this newsletter
  • The welcome message subject and body. The welcome message will be send to the user at subscription time.
  • The "Welcome message after user creation" body.  This message will be send to a user when an administrator create the user account and subscribe him to the newsletter using "Create and Subscribe" function. Using this message you can send user account infos to the user (comprised user password just created).
  • The newsletter disclaimer. This message will be added to every message of the newsletter and can be used add privacy or legal information.
JINC How to use - Screenshot 2

After newsletter creation you can create a message defining only few information
  • Message subject and body.
  • The associated newsletter.
  • The content type that can be "Plain Text" or "HTML"
  • Sending option: "Massive mail" or "Personalized mail". With "Massive mail" only one mail will be send with every newsletter subscriber as Blind Carbon Copy. With "Personalized mail" one mail for one newsletter subscriber will be send. Using "Massive Mail" [USERNAME] and [USERID] tags won't be substituted
Next screenshot shows a sample message definition



At this point you can publish the newsletter on frontpage creating a menù item. Now a user can subscribe to the newsletter as showed by the next screenshot

 

Now you can send the newsletter message using the "Send" icon in the messages list. Before you can send a preview to yourself using the "Send preview" icon. Moreover you can see the list of users subscribed to every newsletter using the menù item "Subscriber"
Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 September 2009 14:40
 

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