Setting up newsletter archive

You can use the newsletter archive to let your website visitors take a look of your old newsletters.

Requirements

 

Request script as HTML variant

If you call the script without parameters it will show the start page of newsletter archive. You should use this variant to link it with your own website.

 

Calling script as RSS feed

Add parameter ?showRSS to http(s):// URL to show the newsletters of current year as RSS feed. By adding &showAll additionally all newsletters in newsletter archive will be shown as RSS feed.

 

Setup of newsletter archive

On menu Project you must select "Newsletter archive" to configure the script.

Urgent hints

 

Tab informations

Option Hints
Enable newsletter archive Enable this option to use newsletter archive. SuperMailer will upload the files and scripts to your website before email sending process will start.

 
Folder with template file na_start.htm (blank = program folder) To use more than one project with an own newsletter archive you can use different newsletter archive template files. Should you use only one project than you can leave the filed blank. In this case SuperMailer will use the template file from program folder.

If you use more than one project file you should copy the template file na_start.htm in own folders and change the layout of these files. This folder you must specify as templates folder.

 
Username/Password Specify username and password to protect newsletter archive. This data will be used by removing entries from newsletter archive.

 

 

Tab Upload

Option Hints
Domain incl. directory Enter the complete URL with http(s):// and directory. The directory must be corresponded with the FTP directory or the upload directory in the script upload.php .

Hint:
Is the URL not correct than SuperMailer will generate an error message and you must correct the URL.
Filename of script Enter the name of PHP script. The script must have the file extension .php otherwise it will not be executed. In the filename of the script you should only use the letters A-Z (a-z), the numbers 0..9 and underline or hyphen.
 

Select the transfer mode which SuperMailer should use to upload the files and the script.
Select FTP in order to let the data directly transferred by FTP. This is the recommended variant.

In firms it is often not possible to set up a direct FTP connection, in this case you should select the transmission with help of the upload script by HTTP. See also: setting up the upload script

FTP upload

Connection type Select connection type. At login area of your web space provider you can find information about required connection type.

You can select:

  • FTP (Port 21), unsecured
  • FTPS (explicit FTPS, Port 21), secured
  • FTPS (implicit FTPS, Port 990), secured
  • SFTP (Port 22), secured, based on SSH

 
Port Change port only when your web space provider requires this explicitly.

 
FTP Server Enter the FTP server name or IP address of FTP server.

Information for the FTP server you can get from your ISP.

 
FTP Username / FTP Password Enter username and password for FTP access.

Information for the FTP server you can get from your ISP.

 
FTP directory Select the FTP directory to upload the files and the script. In order to select the directory you must specify FTP server, username and password.

Hint:
FTP directory and domain incl. directory must correspond.

 
Use passive mode The option "Use passive mode" should be selected for (A)DSL connection or if problems occur while uploading the scripts.

 

HTTP Upload

URL of upload script If you have decided to use the variant to transmit the scripts per upload script.
See also setting up the upload script

Enter the HTTP request inclusive name of the upload script.

 

 

Tab Appearance

Hint: For translation service Google Translator will be used.

Color scheme Select color scheme, click on "Sample preview" to see a sample.

 
Language of newsletter content Select language of newsletter content this information will be send to Google Translator as source language.

 
Links to be displayed You can change the visible identifiers and URLs. Activate a link to display it in newsletter archive bar.

 

 

Tab Default texts

The default texts can be change as you like. Please do not specify to long texts this can be cause problems on website.

 

Tab Imprint

Should the script show on each webpage your imprint than activate the option "Show imprint" and type in (or copy in) your imprint.

 

Tab Replacements

In personalized emails you can use placeholders for the name or title this placeholder must be replaced with neutral texts. You can now specify default texts for the placeholders.

 

Tab Header

This values will be written in the invisible header of the HTML page. The values can improve the search engine position.

 

See also
Remove entries from newsletter archive

 

 

Setting up the upload script

You can use our upload script upload.php as substitute for FTP transfers. This script can be found in your SuperMailer directory. You have to upload this script once via FTP to your web space, after that you can upload files without FTP. This script should be reconfigured before uploading it, so that your upload files are copied into the right directory.

hint
You should change the filename of this script, because that not everyone can put files on your web space.

You can also use this script for file upload, tracking or the newsletter archive.

changing the script configuration

  1. open this script with an text editor (not Word or WordPad!)
  2. search for:

# Upload directory with / at the end of path
# the upload directory is the complete directory from the root directory
# the directory can be differ from ftp upload directory
# under linux you should chmod the directory with rights 777

$UPLOADDIR="/home/www/tracking/";

  1. Change the value of $UPLOADDIR from /home/www/tracking to your directory.
  2. Save this script and upload it on your server/webspace.

If you don't know the correct directory, then ask your web space provider