[ic] How to create mailing lists?

Gerry Kirk interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Jan 8 17:48:00 2003


On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 16:36, Mike Heins wrote:
> Quoting Gerry Kirk (gerry_kirk@alumni.uwaterloo.ca):
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I see the functionality in the latest demo to craft content for an
> > existing mailing list, but how does one create/delete/update the mailing
> > lists themselves?
> > 
> > I tried to find info on this by searching help and the mailing lists but
> > failed.
> 
> You weren't thinking of using Interchange to arbitrarily send email
> to people who didn't specifically request it, I presume. 8-) I wouldn't
> like it to be used in that way.
> 
Of course not.Just those who are dying to buy my client's products. :)

> WRT what is there, people automatically add themselves to them as they
> check out, providing you have the mail list functionality enabled on the
> checkout page. You can do that by setting the variable
> CHECKOUT_MAIL_LIST in catalog.cfg or variable.txt.
> 
Only at checkout is possible? What if I want users to be able to sign up
from the home page, without buying anything? Or when submitting an email
via a form? 

> The actual checkout page code is now in include/checkout/mailing_status
> in the foundation demo. I can't remember if the mail list adder is
> enabled by default. Since you ask the question, I presume it is not...
> nope. I just added it to the "Mailings" preference area.

I'm still not clear on how to create the mailing lists via the admin
pages. Does it have to be done by editing files directly?

Thanks,
Gerry

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