1.1 What is the Autoresponder and Mailing List Manager?
The Autoresponder and Mailing List Manager (AMLM) Pro is a very specialized
mailing list system. You can create unlimited email messages, which are
automatically sent out to the subscribers of your mailing list at different time
intervals. The script also allows you to create and assign an autoresponder to a
mailing list, so when someone sends an email to the autoresponder, they are
automatically added to the mailing list, and follow-ups begin. Tons of features
are included with this powerful script such as multiple mailing lists, multiple
autoresponders, personalized follow-up messages, ability to schedule one-time
mailings, unlimited custom fields, double opt-in, unsubscribe, plus much more.
1.2 Benefits and Uses
This list is only limited by your own creativity. Below are some the benefits
and uses our many satisfied customers are putting their autoresponders to:
Sales Tool- Use your autoresponder as a sales tool, Write
multiple automated email follow-up messages to sell your products and
services automatically, 24hrs a day, 365days a year!
After Sales Service- Follow-up with your customers after closing
a sale to make sure they're happy with their purchase. You can also inform
them of any new products, services or special deals that you have available.
Up-Selling- Entice customers who purchased basic packages from
you, to upgrade to ones with more features by sending them a series of
up-sell messages.
Educational Program- Your autoresponder can send a series of
tutorials or reports to your subscribers on a regular basis determined by
you. A great way to increase sales and traffic.
Ezine and Newsletter Delivery- the autoresponder's instant send
feature enables you to send periodic ezines and newsletters while
automatically accepting and removing registrations.
MLM / Associates Programs- Use the autoresponder in any MLM /
Associates program to give your downline members a powerful tool in their
sales arsenal.
Motivational Messages- Send a series of motivational messages to
people in your sales organization with the autoresponder.
Post Sales Confirmation- If your product isn't an instant
delivery product or is "pricey", use the autoresponder to avoid buyer's
remorse.
Generate Email Lists- Your autoresponder can collect emails
through an on online form or directly from incoming emails, create email
lists, and automatically send back a reply!
And many other uses and applications. There really is no limit to the uses
the Script can be put to in helping your business grow.
As you can see by now, our autoresponder software can save you a tremendous
amount of time. You will end up with a much healthier bank balance at the end of
the month!
What are you waiting for? Download the AMLM Pro today and supercharge your
business!
1.3 Features
Below is a brief list of the features of the Autoresponder and Mailing List
Manager.
Mailing List Management- The
Autoresponder and Mailing List Manager allows very easy and powerful
management of your mailing lists. An extremely easy-to-use interface has
been created which allows you to add, edit, delete and view entries of your
mailing lists. You can easily search and browse all your mailing lists. The
script can support huge mailing lists (tested with 3,000,000 subscribers),
with no problem.
Managing List Entries- Managing mailing
lists with the Autoresponder and Mailing List Manager has been made very
easy. You can easily edit, delete or view entries in your mailing list by
the email address. You can easily search your entire mailing list for the
needed entry.
Subscribe Confirmation Message- If
necessary you can define a subscribe confirmation message for every mailing
list. By setting this, every time someone subscribes to the mailing list,
whether through the autoresponder or by using a subscribe HTML form, the
script will automatically send them a welcome message.
Email Duplication Check- Every time
someone subscribes to a mailing list, the script will first check to make
sure that email address is not already in the mailing list. If it is, the
script will not add the subscriber to the mailing list again.
Autoresponders- You can easily create
autoresponders, which may be attached to your mailing lists. Then, everytime
someone sends an email message to your autoresponder, the script will
automatically send an auto-reply, add the sender to the mailing list, and
begin the follow-ups on them.
Multiple Autoresponders- You can create
multiple autoresponders. Each autoresponder you create can be assigned to a
different mailing list.
Multiple Domain Names- You can create
autoresponders on multiple domain names. For example, you could create an
autoresponder at tom@mydomain.com, and another at,
prospects@myotherdomain.com.
Capture Both Name and Email Address-
When someone sends an email to an autoresponder, the script will capture
both, the sender's name and email address. This way, your follow-up messags
can be personalized with the subscriber's name.
Automatic Follow-Ups- This is the heart
of the Autoresponder and Mailing List Manager. You can define follow up
settings for every mailing list, which will send out the selected email
messages at different time intervals. For example, you could have follow-up
settings for a mailing list which will send out an email message three days
after a subscriber is added, then send out a second email message four days
later, and a third message two days after that.
Easy to Manage- The Autoresponder and
Mailing List Manager allows you to easily manage all follow-up settings for
all mailing lists. There is a nice, easy to use interface which makes
managing the follow-up settings much easier. You can easily add a follow-up
setting just by entering the number of days to wait, and typing in new
message.
Personalized email Messages- One of the
great features of the Autoresponder and Mailing List Manager is that the
follow-up messages can be personalized with the subscribers information.
One-Time Scheduled Mailings- You can
even schedule one-time mailings with the Autoresponder and Mailing List
Manager. This allows you to send an email to everyone in a selected mailing
list on a specifed date. All you have to do is specify a mailing list, date,
and type in the email message.
Here is a brief list of additional features:
Uses MySQL for
speed and reliability.
Installs on your
web site or server for data security and 24 x 7 access.
No monthly fees
and no ads or banners in your messages.
Create and run
unlimited number of autoresponders, each with an unlimited number of
follow-up messages.
Create plain text
and HTML messages.
Optional double
opt-in for the autoresponder.
Customize your
subscription confirmation pages to match your site.
Create
time-sensitive offers.
Send one time
broadcasts to your entire subscriber list or selected groups - immediately
or schedule for sending later.
Multi-tasking -
send multiple broadcasts at the same time.
Receive a summary
email when the process is complete.
Attach files to
your messages - e-books, spreadsheets, PDF files, music, video, graphics.
Different
(personalized) subject line per follow-up message.
Optional email
notification to you when someone subscribes or unsubscribes.
Custom reply name
and email address per autoresponder.
Real time dates.
Automatic form
HTML generator with on-screen form preview.
Store an unlimited
number of custom fields per subscriber and use the data in your follow-up
and broadcast messages, subject lines, headers and footers.
Powerful
subscriber management system with search capability.
Importing and
exporting of prospects.
Automatic
capitalization of subscriber's name.
Automatic
splitting of a name into first and last names.
Background
processing of lengthy tasks to free up your browser. You can even log off
and switch off your computer - the background tasks will continue until
complete.
Email notification
to you of task results.
Choice of SMTP or
Sendmail for sending your messages.
Clone an existing
autoresponder.
Import messages
from one autoresponder to another.
Test each
autoresponder by sending it to your own email address.
On-screen preview
of plain text, HTML follow-up and broadcast messages.
Plus many more as
we add new features constantly...
1.4 System Requirements
Only the most basic of web hosting
packages will not have the resources to run the Autoresponder and Mailing List
Manager. Please check with your host before ordering the software:
Apache web server running UNIX, Linux or Windows NT/2000/XP with your
own CGI-BIN. Installing on IIS server probaly required the some additional
support.
MySQL (at least 3.23)
Perl 5.005 (Active Perl on Win32 platforms) or greater and modules:
DBI and DBD::mysql
CGI
GD (required for diagrams)
FTP access for installing and configuring AMLM
Sendmail, Qmail, or SMTP
You don't need to have access to
.forward or .procmail file to collect subscribers by sending a blank email.
The AMLM can connect to any POP3 email account and check mail for new
subscribers. Not just your domain POP3 access, but also the free ones!
Mail Program Setting:
Sendmail path (eg, /usr/sbin/sendmail):___________________
Send through (eg, sendmail):______________________________
SMTP server (eg, localhost or mail.mydomain.com):______________________
1. CRON
1.1 Setting up CRON (Optional)
If you want to set up CRON you need to read this section.
If you prefer or if you do not understand this, you can set up an
activation link (Section 4).
Firstly you need to set up script through the CRON
(Note this step can be done
automatically by AMLM Pro during installation):
In the 'startercron' script in 'cron' folder in zip distribution, edit
the line below "put here absolute path to your broadcaster directory":
$yourdir='/home/username/public_html/cgi-bin/amlm';
Change it to your own directory path (refer to Section 0 above).
Secondly, you must log into your webhost's control panel and do this
(Note: this must be done manually):
For cPanel, click the Cron Jobs to edit CRON. Select Standard.
For some web hosts, click the FTP Manager and then CRONTAB to edit CRON.
If you do not know how to do this, ask your web host to do it for you.
1.2 Upload all files using FTP
Upload all the files contained in this archive (retaining the directory
structure) to the /cgi-bin/ directory on your server or hosting account.
Tip: I suggest you to create a new subdirectory in your /cgi-bin/
For example /cgi-bin/amlm/
All files should be uploaded in ASCII mode. If you are unfamiliar with
what this means please refer to your FTP client documentation. In most
cases this is all handled transparantly by your ftp client but if you
encounter problems later you should be sure the files were uploaded
correctly as described here.
If you do not want to use cron jobs to start broadcast you can remove your
'cron' directory from installation.
HINT: A good FTP client you can use is CUTEFTP (evaluation) or SMARTFTP (free).
2. FTP
Using your FTP client set the permissions of the following 16 files to CHMOD
'755'
broadcaster
sender
bounce.cgi
conf.cgi
func.cgi
logpng.cgi
pref.cgi
r.cgi
register.cgi
responder.cgi
rss.cgi
starter.cgi
update.cgi
xmlexport.cgi
xmlimport.cgi
install.cgi
Check that all the above files have attributes changed to "-rwxr-xr-x".
You do not have to do anything to the other files which will have permission
CHMOD '644', exept 'cnf.rd'.
While installing file 'cnf.rd' must be set to '666' permission after that you
can
change permission to '644'.
CHMOD '666' to the file 'broadcast.log' - script will write broadcaster logs
there if you will check option "Save broadcast logs" in the "Statistics" -
"Current broadcast log".
CHMOD 777 to directory 'backup' - script will write MYSQL backups there.
HINT: To change the file permissions, right click and select "change file
attributes" in your FTP client, enter the number into the Manual box.
3. INSTALL
Once all the files have been uploaded and permissions set you should
point your browser to the install.cgi file. For example if your domain
name is www.mydomain.com and you placed Autoresponder and Mailing List Manager
in a directory http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/amlm/ you would enter:
http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/amlm/install.cgi
into your browser. When you have done this you should see the Installation
screen appear.
Before proceeding with installation you should ensure you have a database
available. Most good hosting accounts now come with at least one database
as part of the basic package although it may need to be setup before first
use. Ask your provider for details if you are unsure whether you do or not.
Once you have reached the installation page you need to fill out several
fields. There are 4 steps.
--Step 1: To start installation please enter your registration key (license
code).
It will be in the email you received during registration at our site. The script
will not work properly if you use a wrong registration key or if you ask for a
refund (we will disable the script remotely). It will also not work properly
if you exceeded the number of domains and copies you purchased. Refer to the
website for details of the version you purchased.
--Step 2: Database connection
If you do not have or do not know the database server, database name,
database username, database password, please check with your hosting provider.
The database server is typically localhost but this is not universal! The
database prefix allows you to enter a few characters, short name, etc.
which all tables used by this installation will be prefixed with.
The default (swd_) will usually be fine. However if you have more than one
copy of Autoresponder and Mailing List Manager using the same database be sure
to
alter it or you will receive errors during installation.
NOTE: If you receiving error like: "Can not write to cnf.rd file: permission
denied",
please set '666' permissions to it.
HINT: Go to the cPanel of your web host, click MYSQL Databases to do the above
changes. You must (i) create a database, (ii) Create database user and Password
and
(iii) add the user to the database with ALL privileges.
--Step 3: Database installation.
The script will check existing tables on your database. If tables with same
prefix
exists, you can skip database installation.
If you are updating script from Lite or old version please look at update*.txt
file
for instructions.
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!ATTENTION: If you chose to install database all existing tables will !
!be dropped. !
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--Step 4: Password to access to administration page. You will need to choose
a password for the initial administration account. You will be able to change
it later.
Write down your password here for record purpose:________________________
The installation script will create and populate all the necessary tables.
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AFTER INSTALLATION YOU CAN REMOVE install.cgi and update.cgi scripts from
server.
Please backup and change permissions to '644' to your 'cnf.rd' file.
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4. ACTIVATION LINK
You can omit this step if you use
Cron.
Now you MUST set up the activation link.
You place a 1-pixel "image" on a well viewed web page, which activates
the script periodically. If there even one visitor a day it will work fine.
When activated, it checks the POP3 email accounts you specified and sees
if it needs to send a confirmation email to your contacts and adds them
to your mailing list.
You can even place the activation image on another domain. It will activate
the script everytime somebody visits that page. However, in my experience,
I suggest that you place it on the entry page to your site.
Alternative method is to set up script through the CRON:
See Section 1.1 above for steps.
5. SETTING UP
Now login to the admin area using the password you specified during
installation. To run the admin area, just point your browser to the
responder.cgi file
Like this: http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/amlm/responder.cgi
After you logged in please go to "GLOBAL SETTINGS" and enter all required
information.
A. Personal: Here you can set your admin email and admin name.
Admin email
Admin name
You can check to receive
broadcaster statistics by email.
B. Send Options: Here you
should specify your server's mailing program
You can get these from your host control panel or by contacting the host's
support.
Sendmail path (eg,
/usr/sbin/sendmail)
Send through (eg, sendmail)
SMTP server (eg, localhost,
mail.mydomain.com)
Performance Settings: a new
feature which allows you to send within a budget host mail server's sending
limit. For example for a sending limit of 200 email per hour- you enter a
delay between emails of 18 seconds.
Bounce return path address:
Choose one of the 3 ways- Read the explanation there.
C. Access: Here you can change
your password. Make sure you remember your password!
D. Time Settings: Change time depending on your time zone.
Enter the correction time ie., the
difference between your server's time and your local time.
For example you may live in Sydney
but your host server (where you host the AMLM Pro) may be situated in Texas.
So you enter the correction +14 hr to
correct for the time difference.
Then all the time will be adjusted to
your local time in AMLM Pro.
Select the date format setting
whether US or British style.
E. Performance: Use this to test send your messages.
This is a quick way to test your
setting in SEND OPTIONS.
Enter your email address (preferably
a POP mail on your own domain) and the blast size here.
F. Backup/Restore: Backup and restore your database.
This is where you can backup and
restore your datebase.
It is recommended you perform this at
least once a fortnight.
Once you have completed the installation, you need to delete out install.cgi and
update.cgi from your server. Leaving it in place is a very serious potential
security issue.
6. CREATE NEW ACCOUNT
Add New Account:
Press "Add New Account" to set up your accounts. Press clone to copy an existing
account.
A. Account Options
This is where you setup the following
account options:
Enter you name and email address
Set up subscribe, double opt-in
and unsubscribe pages.
Admin notification settings
Duplication message checking
Localization
Modification of contact
information by prospects
POP3 settings- allow your
subscribers to sign up by sending a blank email.
For the subscribe, double opt-in and unsubscribe pages, you
can either generate them automatically or set up three webpages on your site
as follows:
Redirect subscriber:
thankyou.html ("Please check your email to confirm your subscription!")
Redirect removals: removal.html
("Your subscription is removed!")
Double Optin: confirmed.html
("Congratulation, your subscription is now confirmed!")
B. HTML Form
This is where you set up the
following:
Copy the html code to use as form
on your webpage.
Add customized fields eg., age,
sex or address.
Select the other accounts you
want to automatically subscribe/unsubscribe when a prospect sign up for a
particular account.
Preview the form.
C. RSS Channel
RSS 2.0 Channel Settings
Main RSS Settings
Text input settings
D. Subscriber Manager
This is where you manage your
subscribers:
Add new prospects- you can add a
prospect here and set which day of the message sequence to add him/her.
Import list- you can import your
prospects via the input box or a text file. The script accepts input in many
popular formats. See the list for details.
Export list- you can export your
prospects (active or inactive or all) into a text file or a webpage.
Copy from account- You can copy
prospects from another account.
'Bulk removal- You can perform bulk
removal by pasting emails of prospects into the box.
E. Edit Messages
This is where you edit all your
messages (in text or HTML format) as follows:
Double Opt-in Message
Subscribe confirmation message
Unsubscribe confirmation message.
Add new messages to be sent out
as follows:
Autoresponding messages to be
sent on day=0, 2, 4 etc
On a particular date eg., May
5, 2010
Manually ie., broadcast.
F. Link Tracker
This is where you add your link
tracking tag for link tracking statistics ie., clicking of links in your email
messages.
Here you define a tag like [LINK22]
with its forwarding URL. You then insert the tag into the body of your messages.
7. MORE MENU OPTIONS
Below are some menu options:
Languages- Select the languages
in: English, Portugese, Russian, German, French and Spanish.
Global Settings- Explained in
Section 5 above.
Statistics- Activity log and
broadcast log.
XML Import- A tool for XML
import. Read instruction.
XML Export- A tool for XML
export. Read instruction.
Bounced emails- bounced email
handling. Add your bounced email account and blacklist here.
8. HTML EDITOR
Online HTML editor installation:
8.1. Download Xinha online html editor from:
developers website: http://xinha.python-hosting.com/
8.2 Upload 'xinha' directory to your server document ROOT.
HTML editor URL must be like http://www.yourhost.com/xinha/ and you can
not change directory name.
9. INSTALLATION SERVICE
Do you want us to install AMLM Pro
for you?
If you want me to install it for you, please send $25 (per account) by paypal to
"drquek2 @ gmail.com" (remove spaces before and after @).
Please provide the following information required for the installation of AMLM
Pro from your web host.
You can request for them by copying and pasting the following items marked with
an * into an email and send it to your host.
*1. Ftp server
*2. Ftp username and password
*3. Domain url
*4. Absolute path to your directory eg., /home/yourname/public_html/cgi-bin/maillist
*5. Mail Program Setting:
Sendmail path (eg, /usr/sbin/sendmail):___________________
Send through (eg, sendmail):______________________________
SMTP server (eg, mail.mydomain.com or localhost):______________________
6. Either one of the following:
a) Login details to your web host's control panel. This allows us to login and
create the mysql for you.
Control Panel URL: _________________________________
Login name: ______________________________________
Password:________________________________________
7. Give us the email you want to use as admin email
Note: You must uninstall your earlier installation(s) of AMLM in order for the
new installation to work properly.
2.2 Upgrade
How to update Autoresponder and Mailing List Manager from Lite or older
versions to AMLM Pro.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+UPDATING SCRIPT TO NEW VERSION KEEP SAFE ALL YOUR DATABASE +
+INFORMATION. UPDATE SCRIPT JUST CREATED SOME OF NEW TABLES AND +
+COLUMNS IN YOUR AMLM DATABASE. +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
To update script you must:
1. Backup followings files and directories:
- ‘cnf.rd’ - file with your database connection settings
- ‘cron’ directory with ‘startercron’ file
- ‘templates’ directory with your saved signature TXT files
- *.html files in your ‘shabl’ directory (if you already changed
some HTML templates like ‘regerror.html’ or ‘linknotfound.html’)
- ‘backup’ directory.(Database backups are stored there)
2. Delete all the files from followings directories:
- ‘shabl’ (except your modified *.html files)
- ‘lib’ (Delete this directory)
- all files from AMLM root directory (EXCEPT ‘cnf.rd’ files)
3. Upload unpacked files from received archive directories: ‘shabl’,
‘lib’ and all files (except ‘cnf.rd’) from AMLM root directory. You
need to upload all files in FTP TEXT mode (except shabl/error.gif - this
file must be uploaded in BINARY mode).
4. Change permissions for all *.cgi and 'broadcaster' and 'sender'
files to '755' (please sure that all *.cgi files has permission 755
and was uploaded in FTP TEXT mode if you received 500 error in your
browser) .
Change permissions to '666' to 'broadcast.log'
5. Probably you need to upload some saved in the ‘Step 1’ files.
NOTE: 'templates' directory changed to 'personal/signatures' and you need move
your TXT files from 'templates' to 'personal/signatures'.
6. Run this script from your server like http://www.yourhost.com/cgi-bin/maillist/update.cgi
7. Step 1: Enter your license number.
8. Step 2: Click 'Finish' button to complete database upgrade.
9. Delete 'update.cgi' and 'install.cgi' files.
10. Online HTML editor installation:
10.1. Download Xinha online HTML editor from
developers website: http://xinha.python-hosting.com/
10.2 Upload 'xinha' directory to your server
document ROOT.
HTML editor URL must be like http://www.yourhost.com/xinha/ and you can
not change directory name.
So finally you have installed the script. Now you need to set up the global settings.
Personal
Send Options
Access
Time Settings
Perfomance
Backup/Restore
Personal
Here you can set the admin username and email address that
will receive mailing reports and notifications when someone subscribes or unsubscribes.
You can check to receive broadcaster statistics by email.
Send Options
Mailing method setup. Here you will need to select and setup
either your servers mail program and path or the address of your SMTP server.
You can get these from your host control panel or by contacting the host's
support.
Sendmail path- here you should write down the path to
the sendmail program on your server (ask you hosting administrator for it -
usually it is /usr/sbin/sendmail)
Send Through- sendmail or SMTP
SMTP server- in this field type your SMTP server. You
can have it on your server or in other place. Usually it is something like
localhost or smtp.myhost.com
If you select sendmail you will have to set sendmail path. By default: /usr/sbin/sendmail/
If you select SMTP you'll have to define SMTP server. By default:
localhost. If your SMTP server request authorization you have to set
username and password.
Performance Settings- With the help of this feature our script
sends email through some concurrent streams.
There you can define how many competing processes your messages will send. If
you use shared server and don't need high performance I advice you to set this
value to 1 process. Performance of processing your messages depends on your
server configuration and I can advice to find optimal value by testing.
If your server has not many resources you can use delay between sending each
messages in seconds. If you set this option script will wait between sending
each message.
Quantity of concurrent processes - select how many
processes do you want to be (the more the better for most servers).
But if you have some problems with concurrent processes you
can check the checkbox use old (single proccess) algorithm of sending and
the script will send email with the help of old algorithm.
Delay Between Emails: a new feature which allows you to
send within a budget host mail server's sending limit. For example for a sending
limit of 200 email per hour- you enter a delay between emails of 18 seconds.
Bounce return path address: Choose one of the 3 ways- Read the explanation
there.
Access
You can change your admin area login password here. Make sure
you remember your password!
Time Settings
Here you can synchronize your server's time with your local
time. Useful for scheduled and time sensitive mailouts.
Enter the correction time ie., the difference between your
server's time and your local time.
Use "-" sign before the time to decrease time or "+" sign to
increase
For example you may live in Sydney but your host server (where
you host the AMLM Pro) may be situated in Texas.
So you enter the correction +14 hr to correct for the time
difference.
Then all the time will be adjusted to your local time in AMLM
Pro.
Select the date format setting whether US or British style.
Performance
This is a facility to test the performance of your server in
sending out mailings. This test will tell you how long it takes your server to
send out emails.
Enter your email address (preferably a POP mail on your own
domain) and click the Test button ONCE only. The AMLM will send emails to the address you enter. The
process will be timed. This test will use sendmail.
Enter the blast size (minimum 30).
Backup/Restore
This is where you can backup and restore your database. Useful for
those who want to move the script to other server or for those who want to
backup their databases.
It is recommended you perform this at least once a fortnight.
Select the account from the accounts working panel
Click on "Account options"
In this place we have such groups of options:
This is where you setup the following account options:
Personal- Enter you name and email address
Set up subscribe, double opt-in and unsubscribe pages.
Admin notification settings
Duplication message checking
Localization
Modification of contact information by prospects
POP3 settings- allow your subscribers to sign up by
sending a blank email.
Ban emails
Personal
In this group of setting you should set up personal
information.
"From" name
in this field write down the name which is indicated in
the field "From" of the email
"From" name
here write down the name which is indicated in the field
"From" of the email (email part)
Default User Name
in this field you should type the user name which will
be used if the user name isn't set
Reply-to header
in this field you should type an email you want that
email will be replied to
Set up subscribe (Thank You Page), double opt-in and unsubscribe pages.
For the subscribe, double opt-in and unsubscribe pages, you
can either generate them automatically or set up three webpages on your site
as follows:
Redirect subscriber: thankyou.html ("Please check your
email to confirm your subscription!")
Redirect removals: removal.html ("Your subscription is
removed!")
Double Optin: confirmed.html ("Congratulation, your
subscription is now confirmed!")
Prospect will be redirected to "Already subscribed page URL" if
email already exists in account. If this page is not defined existing
prospect will be redirected to Thank you page. In thank you page
settings you can define to ways how to show it after registration.
Redirect to to static page
In this case prospect will redirected to Thank you page URL
Show personalized page
In this case personalized page will be displayed after registration.
Personalized page must be located in personal/templconfirm folder of
AMLM.
Pages can be personalized with same rules as you're using in message
Subscribers double opt-in confirmation settings
Here you can enable double opt-in confirmation. If you enable this option
special message with confirmation URL will be sent to subscriber after
registration. Prospect will be redirected to Double opt-in confirmation page
or to personalized page from template.
Unsubscribe settings
Here you can define 2 URL: Usubscribe and already unsubscribed pages
Admin notification settings
Notify me when someone subscribes
Send email to admin when someone subscribes
Notify me when someone unsubscribed
Send email to admin when someone unsubscribed
Here you can set notifications options. You can enable or disable
notification and set administrator email address, different from those than
you've entered in Personal settings.
Duplication message checking
Do not send duplicate messages to subscribers
Check this to stop sending duplicated
emails
If you will set option Do not send duplicate messages to subscribers
AMLM will not sent the duplicated messages.
Localization
Do not uppercase first letter of prospects names
Check it if you want it
Default character set
Select the default charset depending on your region
Do not uppercase the first letter of prospects names - when this
option is enabled first letter of prospects names will not be uppercased.
Default character set- will be used as default in your messages
Modification of contact information by prospects
You can perform the following related to contact information
of prospects:
Allow the modification of contact information.
Preferences page template.
Confirmation email.
If you add special tag [MODIFY_CONTACT_INFO] in your messages your prospects
will be able to modify contact information by clicking the link that will be
generated in messages. In this section you can set additional parameters or
disable modification options.
POP3 settings
You can also get subscribers by having them click on an email
link. Just create a new email address for your domain or any pop3 email
account. This is especially useful if you want to avoid the possibility of
someone entering a false name and email address because it will collect their
information directly from their email client.
Allow subscribing by sending blank email
Check it to enable blank email subscription
Subscribe email
Type here an address for blank emails
POP3 server
Type an address of the server to get mail from the
address with blank email (usually pop3.yourhost.com)
POP3 username
Write down a username for authorization
POP3 password
Set a password for the authorization
POP3 server port
Set the port (usually 110)
Collecting subscribers from mailboxes
Allow subscribing by sending a blank email: Checkmark this box if
you wish to allow people to subscribe
to your mailing list by clicking on an e-mail link or by sending a blank
email.
POP3 server: The incoming mail server for your POP3 account. Your
POP3 e-mail account provider
should provide you with this information.
POP3 username: Your username for accessing your POP3 account.
POP3 password: Your password for accessing your POP3 account.
POP3 server port: On the majority of servers- 110. But if you
receive an error, ask your server administrator.
Ban emails
Ban list (1 rule each line)
You can add emails adresses or hosts which you whant to
ban like "spam@yahoo.com" or "hotmail.com"
Custom error message
This message get prostects if they emails
was banned in registration error form.
Ban list: You can add email addresses or hosts which you want to
ban like "spam@yahoo.com" or "hotmail.com".
Custom error message: This is the message prospects see at
registration if their email address is banned.
Now we have set up the account options. The next operation is
to set up HTML form for the subscribers
Up to this time you have set up global and account options, HTML form for the
users. Now let us learn how to work with prospects.
To start work with prospects you have to get to the prospect menu:
Click in the account menu on the account
Click the "subscriber manager"
Now you see a new menu with five items:
Add new prospect
Import list
Export list
Copy from account
Bulk removal
You manage your prospect lists in this menu.
You also see display features for viewing your
prospects.
To delete the prospect check the checkbox near prospect (highlighted above in green
circle) and click "Remove" (highlighted above in red).
Also you can change account status (active/inactive). For this check the
checkbox near prospect (highlighted above in green circle) and then
click button "Invert status".
To show/hide field check/uncheck checkboxes highlighted in blue line and click
"Display"
Let us examine the first item of the menu:
Add new prospect
This item is used for administrators to add prospect by hands. For example,
you want to add a prospect and with the help of this item you can do this from
the admin area.
After clicking on this item you'll see your HTML form as it is on your site.
You have to fill in the fields. Below the HTML form you have to choose beginning
what day prospect should be added:
Without sequence
Check this if you want prospect be added from today
Add prospects into sequence beginning with day
Check this if you want prospect to be sent message from
x-th day in the sequence
But it is impossible to add a lot of prospect by
hands. For this you can use the "Import List" item of menu.
Import List
Here you can add new contacts to your "current prospects" list and run them
through your entire message set.
You can either paste them into the "Insert
text" box or upload them in a txt file using the many popular formats as
follows:
Tom Jones|his@email.com
or:
his@email.com
or:
<his@email.com>
or:
Tom Jones <his@email.com>
or:
“Tom Jones” his@email.com
or:
Tom Jones his@email.com
One contact per row. When ready, click the Import Prospects button.
Check "Send subscribe confirmation message for all imported prospects" if you want
all users to confirm their subscription before adding them to the list.
And then below you can choose beginning
what day prospect should be added:
Without sequence
Check this if you want prospect be added from today
Add prospects into sequence beginning with day
Check this if you want prospect to be sent message from
x-th day in the sequence
Export List
The next item of the menu is Export list
This feature is for copying your mailing list and backup to a text file or a
webpage.
Now set export options.
In the "Format" field select the exporting format for the list.
In "Filter"
field select what account to export: Active, All, Inactive.
And below select
where to export your list: File or Page.
Copy from Account
In the next item of menu Copy from account you can copy
prospect from the other account.
For this select an account in the select box and in the filter field select what
type of prospects do you want to copy.
Bulk Removal
And the last item of the menu is Bulk removal.
This item for removing prospect from the list. You can type an
email or emails and it will be deleted from account or accounts. You can also
use a mask. For example if you type "hotmail" in the text box this will remove
all emails that contains
"hotmail" in any part of the email address. i.e. hotmail@aol.com, joe@hotmail.com,
myhotmail@email.com - all these will be removed from the list.
The last item of our manual is this page. Here you'll know how
to create, edit, remove messages. Also how to send them.
To get to the message manager you should do this:
Click in the account panel on the account
Click menu item "Edit messages"
When you do this you'll see such a screen:
With this manager you can:
Editing double opt-in, subscribe and unsubscribe messages
Create new messages
Edit messages
Remove messages
Send messages
Terminate processes
Test send
Editing Double Opt-In, Subscribe and Unsubscribe Messages
At the top you can see three messages which cannot be removed
because they are reserved by the script. But they can be edited as you wish. To
edit these messages just press "Edit" button next to them. There you can change the
subject, type, charset, priority and body of the predefined messages.
The messages consist of three types of messages which you can
edit in text or HTML format:
Double Opt-in Message
Subscribe confirmation message
Unsubscribe confirmation message.
Uncheck the checkboxes and press "Update settings" if you want
messages not to be sent.
With the preview button opposite the messages you can preview
how they will look.
Now let's learn how to create a new
message.
Create New Messages
For this press "Add new message>". You'll get to the create
message section. Fill in the form as you wish (you can use tags or variables as described at the bottom of Create message section) and press "Save".
The message could be of three different types:
Autoresponding - the script sends messages automatically
after specified days (these messages displayed in the "Sequential messages"
section)
At date - the message will be sent at the specified date
(these messages displayed in the "Manual/Schedule messages" section)
Manually - you should by your hands send message (these
messages displayed in the "Manual/Schedule messages" section)
You can create either TEXT message or HTML messages. For this
please select an option in the field "Type"
Edit Messages
You can also edit messages which
are already made.
For this just click on the Message Subject and you'll get to
the "Edit message" section as from "Create message" earlier.
Remove Messages
You can also remove a message.
Just check the checkboxes next to the messages and press
"Remove" button underneath to remove the selected messages.
Send Messages
We have also feature which gives the opportunity to
send messages manually.
With the help of "Broadcast" button you can send "manual
messages" and "At date messages". For this:
Check the boxes opposite messages you want to send
Press "Broadcast
The marked messages will be sent immediately.
Note you cannot do this with "Sequential messages"
which is queued for sending at the appropriate time.
Terminate Process
And one more thing - what is the use of the button "Terminate
process"?
In the column "In progress" which is opposite the message
subject you can see how much messages are left to send.
It terminates the process of sending messages. For example,
you have pressed "Broadcast" but have mistaken and want to terminate the sending
process.
Then you:
check checkboxes opposite message where you need to
terminate broadcasting
and just press the Terminate Process button.
Test Send
To check sending messages at the bottom there is test send:
These is also an input screen for RSS 2.0 Channel Settings:
Main RSS Settings
Text input settings
What is RSS?
RSS is a Web content syndication format. Its name is an
acronym for Really Simple Syndication.
RSS is a dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the
XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
website.
AMLM used RSS 2.0 format to publish messages line.
What is personalized RSS?
Each prospect in AMLM account has own unique link to RSS
feed. If you will use special tag [RSS_LINK] it will be replaced by URL to
RSS feed.
If you set your message that must be published in RSS feed
short message description will be added to personalized RSS feed when
current message is sent to prospect.
RSS chanel settings
Required fields
Here's a list of the required channel elements, each with a brief description,
an example, and a pointer to a more complete description where available.
Title- The name of the channel. It's how people refer to
your service. If you have an HTML website that contains the same information
as your RSS file, the title of your channel should be the same as the title
of your website.
Link - The URL to the HTML website corresponding to the
channel.
Description - Phrase or sentence describing the channel.
Optional channel elements
Channel language - The language the channel is written in.
This allows aggregators to group all Italian language sites, for example, on
a single page. A list of allowable values for this element, as provided by
Netscape, is here. You may also use values defined by the W3C.
Copyright text - copyright notice for content in the
channel
Text input settings
A channel may optionally contain a textInput sub-element, which contains four
required sub-elements.
Title - The label of the Submit button in the text input
area.
Description - Explains the text input area.
Input script URL -- The URL of the CGI script that
processes text input requests.
Input script parameter name - The name of the text object
in the text input area.
The purpose of the textInput element is something of a
mystery. You can use it to specify a search engine box. Or to allow a reader to
provide feedback. Most aggregators ignore it.
Adding messages to RSS line
Not all messages will be published in RSS feed and web-based archive. This
option can be enabled for each message in your account. If RSS publishing
enabled you will see RSS icon near message in Edit messages area
To activate RSS publishing in message you need select checkbox
Save current message into personalized RSS-feed and set RSS-feed description
text below.
Publishing links to RSS and web archive
Finally you need to inform your prospect about links to RSS and web based
archive in your messages.
You just need to add text with special tags that will be replaced by links to
RSS feed and Web based archive. For example you can add following text in your
"Thank you for subscribing" message:
Hello [FIRSTNAME]!
Thank you for subscribing on demo account RSS!
------
You can find your web based messages archive at [HTML_LINK]
Your personal RSS feed: [RSS_LINK]
------
Why I need to use RSS?
If for some reason message was not delivered to
subscriber, he can always open copy of current message from web.
Many people use RSS Readers.
Link Tracker
Link Tracker allows you to create tags for link tracking purposes i.e.,
clicking of links in your email messages.
Here you define a tag like [LINK22] with its forwarding URL.
You then insert the tag into the body of your messages.
You can view the statistics and perform task like:
On the top left corner of the Admin panel, there some menu options:
Languages- Select the languages in: English, Portugese, Russian,
German, French and Spanish.
Global Settings- Explained in Section 3 above.
Statistics- Activity log and broadcast log.
XML Import- A tool for XML import. Read instruction.
XML Export- A tool for XML export. Read instruction.
Bounced emails- bounced email handling. Add your bounced email
account and blacklist here.
Online HTML Editor
Bounced Emails
Sending options to collect bounced emails
At first you need make sure that bounced messages come back to your POP3
mailbox
If you can already receive bounce messages you can skip this step
Go to the Global settings -> Send Options If you are going to process bounced
messages you can define bounce sending options there.
SMTP sending
If you are using SMTP to send messages you will see the screen below.
If you are using SMTP system for sending your messages you can specify an
email address that's different from your 'From' or 'Reply-To' headers. You have
to check 'Use following email address as SMTP sender' checkbox and specify the
email address.
Setup using the Sendmail Command
Your results will be mixed with this method, but it's worth a shot:
Note: I advise you to use sendmail with -f flag because it is
most easy way to receive bounced messages
Technique 1: The -f flag.
You have to check 'Use sendmail -f flag' and specify email address there This
should set the Return-Path header.
Technique 2: Return-Path header. If that doesn't work, you can
try to set the Return-Path header explicitly. This is not the best idea,
however Qmail allows you to do this.
Technique 3: Errors-To header. The Errors-To header seems to have
been created just for this task, but it's actually a deprecated header, so
you should use it with caution. You have configure Sendmail to see the
Errors-To header. I don't recommend using this header, but if all other ways
fail you can specify Errors header.
Testing
To test out any of these configurations, send yourself a test message and
view the source of the message itself, in your mail reader. In the mail headers,
you should see the Return-Path header like:
Return-Path: yourbounceaddress@yourhost.com
Delivered-To: helpdesk@sellwide.net
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Type: text/plain
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 2.117 (F2.71)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:26:41 UT
From: FUMP Registration
To: FUMP administrator
Subject: User jd12345@yahoo.com registered at the dlfumlpl account
Working with accounts
Here you can edit your bounce POP3 accounts to collect bounced messages and
define rules/actions with prospects (remove or inactivate prospects). To create
a new account you need click on Add new account>>> link. Now you
should set new account properties:
POP3 server - your POP3 server to collect messages
POP3 port - default POP3 port is 110
POP3 user - username to access to mailbox
POP3 password - password to access to mailbox
Remove prospects after:
hard bounces: count of hard bounced messages before prospects
will be removed or inactivated (Hard bounces are messages telling you
about permanent errors like host or user not found, spam reject, and it
means that your message will not be delivered to the recipient). By
default prospects will be removed/inactivated after 1 hard bounced
message, but you can change this option.
soft bounces: count of soft bounced messages before prospects
will be removed or inactivated (Soft bounces messages are about
transient temporary errors like user mailbox over quota, their server
down, etc ). By default prospects will be removed/inactivated after 3
soft bounced message, but you can change this rule.
Actions:
remove prospect from database: your prospect will be removed from
database
set status to inactive: your prospect will be inactivated
add prospect to BlackList emails database: you can set this option
to automatically add prospects to the BlackList when they are removed or
inactivated.
When you press "Save account" button you will see bounce accounts list like:
Testing your account
Just click "Test" in the accounts list. The script will try to connect to
your mailbox and receive first 30 messages.
Script will show you a bounced description if some of these messages are
bounced.
Bounced messages statistics
You can find daily bounced report by clicking "Totals" link.
Here is the sample of this report
Bounced messages list
Here you can look at your bounced messages and error codes description
You can classify this list by Account, Email, Bounce code, Hard/soft type,
Processing status, Bounce reason.
Online HTML Editor
In addtion you can also install an Online HTML editor:
Download Xinha online html editor from developers website:
If you database connection settings was changed you need follow these steps:
1. Upload install.cgi script to server by FTP in TEXT mode
2. Change permissions to 755 on install.cgi
3. Open install.cgi in your browser like http://yoursite.com/cgi-bin/install.cgi
4. Enter your license key
5. Enter new database connection settings
6. Skip database installation step. Otherwise your existing database will be
deleted
7. Delete install.cgi script from server.
How to transfer database
Scenario 1
1. Transfer database to new server by using phpMyAdmin tool.
2. You need upload install.cgi script to server and set new database settings
there.
3. Change permissions to 755 on install.cgi
4. Enter your license key
5. Enter new database connection settings
6. Skip database installation step. Otherwise your existing database will be
deleted
7. Delete install.cgi script from server.
Scenario 2
1. Create your database in site control panel
2. Backup old by using Global settings -> Backup/Restore
3. Install clean AMLM follow instructions in Installation of AMLM with new
database settings
4. Restore your database by using Global settings -> Backup/Restore
Transferring installation of AMLM
To transfer installation to new domain have to do the following:
1. You have to backup your existing database. You can backup database in your
built-in site Control Panel PHP My Admin toll or you can use Backup/Restore
function in Global settings.
2. You have to copy files to the new server (please look at Installation of AMLM)
3. If you have no free hosts in your license you need to login to your members
area and delete your old domain from your license
4. Now you can run installation script (please look through Installation of AMLM)
5. Now you have to restore your saved database
* If you use PHP My Admin you have to execute your backuped dump of your
databadase
* If you use built in Backup/Restore tool you have to
1. Download your backup from backup folder of AMLM in your old server
2. Upload file to the same location of new server
3. Run Backup/Restore, select your file and restore database
How can I import subscribers from CSV files
AMLM cannot import information from CSV files. You need to use import from tab
demitted files
1. You need open Subscriber Manager -> Import list -> Import from tab-delimited
file
2. There you can "Download example tab-delimited file"
3. You can edit this file with MS Excel
4. You need open your CSV file in MS excel too
5. You need copy past your columns from your file to downloaded example
6. Save Excel file as tab delimited
7. Upload file to AMLM by using Subscriber Manager -> Import list -> Import from
tab-delimited file
How many Lead import custom fields can I use?
You can add so much custom fields as you want in Account -> HTML Form -> Custom
fields
How messages sequence works?
Probably to clarify all questions how to sequence works I have to explain in
what way script sends messages. Each prospect in the database has 2 fields –
Sequential message ID and Sequential message last sending date. Every time these
fields updated automatically.
So, you have 5 messages #1,#2,#3,#4,#5 which equal with sending dates.
Prospect registered at 05/01/2006.
First message will be sent in one day after registration. And then “Sequential
message ID” will be updated to 1 and date will be updated to 05/02/2006
Every time when broadcasting starts script tryes to calculate: "Do I need to
send next sequential message to prospect?". So if script will be executed next
day it will notice that next message to send is "#2" and it must be sent after 1
(2-1) day after sending message #1. So if prospect has received message #5 and
you will add message #7 all prospects that received message #5 more then 2 days
ago will receive message #7 after you will add it to sequence. If message #5 was
sent less then 2 days – message #7 will be sent after 2 days after sending
message #5.
But if you have messages #1,#5,#10,#20 and trying to add message with days 15
all prospects that received message #10 but not #20 will receive #15 but is they
are already received #20 they will not receive #20 because #15 sequence already
done.
AMLM did not send messages
There are few reasons why AMLM did not sending messages and you need follow
instructions to find it.
1. Try to send test message
1. If you've not revived your message you need to look at Send Options and and
ask your hosting provider about sending messages settings
2. You can try to send message from your server from other software to make sure
that problem happened bacause of the server
2. If test message was received correctly first you need to visit
Category:Statistics-> Current Broadcast Log
1. If your broadcast process was not executed long time you need to check your
broadcaster activator options: Web activator or CRON jobs activator.
1. Make sure that activator URL or CRON settings is OK.
2. Try to start broadcaster by opening URL http://yourhost.com/cgi-bin/AMLM/starter.cgi
(yourhost.com - your domain name and /cgi-bin/AMLM/ path to your AMLM directory)
How to send test message
To send test message from AMLM you should open Edit messages area in your
account and click "Test send" link near your message. If your message has
Multiple (text and HTML) format you will need to select format of test send
message on the next step.
What difference between sequence FINISHED and DISABLED status?
"Sequence Finished" means that in prospect profile will be saved information hat
last sequential message was already send.
"Sequence Disabled" means that any sequential messages will not be sent to
current subscriber.
Insert image in HTML
You can use 2 ways to insert images in HTML messages:
1) Internal image: You can attach image into message. If image filename is
foto.jpg you can insert HTML tag like
<IMG src="foto.jpg">
2) External image. You just need to publish image on your site and use URL for
image like
