Introduction to Sending

Composing your message with jMailerPro is very simple, and is the final step to sending with jMailerPro. The interface is fairly straight-forward, and creating a test file will help you tweak your message to get it exactly the way you want it.

Creating a test file

We highly suggest creating a test file to use in jMailerPro, so you can get a good idea what your recipients will see.

Simply create a test file by creating a title row that describes the information in each column and then enter your information on the next line:

Now, replace John Doe's information with yours (you can leave the IP field as 127.0.0.1, as this is just a test.) and upload it to jMailerPro. The title row is not required for your test file, but we suggest using a test file with the same columns as the list you want to send, so that you can test your message with working personalization tags, which we will cover in a later section.


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Uploading to jMailerPro

When you first log in to jMailerPro, there is simplay a place to browse for the file you want to upload. Click on "browse" and locate a CSV file you want to upload. If your file contains a title row, be sure to check the "File uses a title row?" box, then click on "upload". Once your file has been uploaded, the mesage composition screen becomes available. This is where you will create the message to your list.

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Inserting Personalization Tags

When you are composing your message in jMailerPro and you used a title row in your file, you will notice a list of your available personalization tags in the left column. Clicking on these tags will insert a personalization tag in either the subject or body fields (which ever had the last focus.) The personalization tag is the column title specified in your file, encased in percent signs (%). So, if your column's name is "first", the system will insert %first% at the cursor position.

However, there has been some reported issues with this not working in certain versions of Internet Explorer. If this is the case for you, you can also insert these tags manually by simply typing them in.

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Composing a message

Once you have uploaded your file and arrived on the message composition screen, you will see seven input fields.

• Your Name
• What you enter here will be shown as your name to the recipient.
• From Address
• This is where you want recipients to reply to your message. This should be routed to an e-mail box you check regularly.
• Bounce Address
• This is where bounces will be routed. If you are using automatic bounce processing, enter the proper address here.
• Subject
• The subject of your e-mail. This can contain personalization tags.
• E-mail Message
• The message body of your e-mail. This can also contain personalization tags.
• Send Rate
• This is the rate at which messages will be sent. Refer to 'The Send Rate' for more detail.
• Content Type (plain/html)
• The type of content inside the message body of your e-mail. jMailerPro does not send multi-part messages. Trends show that plain-text e-mails are more deliverable.

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Unsubscribe Links

If you've attempted to send your message without one, you might have noticed jMailerPro warning you about it. An unsubscribe link allows your recipients to be added to jMailerPro's internal suppression list automatically. What does this mean? This means, once a user clicks on their unique unsubscribe link, they are added to a "do not contact" list that jMailerPro automatically maintains and will skip anyone on the said list.

To insert one is easy. Simply place your cursor where you would like the link to show, and click on the "Unsubscribe Link" option from the left menu.

This should insert %%unsubscribe%% in your e-mail message.
This will be replaced by a link similar to: http://example.com/jmailer/unsub.php?e=john@example.com&h=abcdefhijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456 at the recipients end. When clicked, the e-mail address will be added.

Note for HTML e-mails: If you use an anchor text for your unsubscribe link, %%unsubscribe%% needs to be the target location (the href property) of your link.


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