How to use Dada Mail

Here is the menu you'll find in your Dada Mail control panel. Some of the options are self-explanatory enough to not be included in our How-To pages. (And some of them I just haven't gotten to yet, but I will....) Brief instructions are in red font. Click the blue links for in-depth instructions.

If you have any questions that are (a) not answered here, and (b) not easily figured out when you explore the control panel, please contact Terry at Tech Support. Your question will likely be added here for other users, too.

• Sharing your list with the world: Handy Links to Use

  Send a List Message
  • Send a Webpage
  • Send a List Invitation

• Manage List
  • Change List Information
  • Change Your Password
  • Mailing List Options
  • Sending Options
  • Delete This List
       If you click this accidently, you will reach a screen that asks,
       "Are you sure?" Once deleted, it cannot be retrieved.

• Manage Subscribers
  • View
  • Add
  • Remove
  • Statistics
  • Options

• Manage List Archive
  • View Archive
  • Archive Options

• Manage Copy
  • Email Messages
  • HTML Messages
       You probably don't need to change this. It's what subscribers
       will see on your website when they subscribe or unsubscribe.
  • Create a Back Link
       Be sure to use this! It can lead users back to your home page
       from the Dada Mail screen.

• Manage Appearance
  • Edit Template
       Best to leave this alone. It only changes how the Dada Mail screens
       look, and we've already designed a very nice look for you :)
  • Subscription Form HTML
       Very handy! Use this to generate the code for a sign-up form
       (and optionally an unsubscribe form) to paste into your webpage.

• Customize Feature Set
     Root-level admin chooses which options an indvidual list's owner can access.

• Plugins
  • Discussion Lists
  • Scheduled Mailings
       Plan posts in advance! For example, if you want to send a monthly reminder about a staff meeting that's always held at the same time and location, design the email, then paste it here and set the timer.
        However, for this to work, you first have to set up a cron job that will run the scheduler. Set the cron job to run every five minutes. Use the following path (all on one line, of course, and changing username to your account's username (this is the same as your cPanel logon's username). If you don't understand this, contact Terry at Tech Support.
  
  /usr/bin/perl /home/username/public_html/cgi-bin/dada/plugins/scheduled_mailings.pl --run >/dev/null 2>&1

• Extensions
  • Multiple Subscribe
       This enables users to subscribe and unsubscribe to more than one list at
       a time. The same rules of confirmation apply to this as in any other method
       of subscribing. If a list is closed but not hidden, it will show up here, but the
       potential subscriber will not be able to actually subscribe. This works
       imperfectly, though, and we don't recommend its use.
  • Update Subscriptions
       Very handy! Put the link to it in your Favorites folder. Provide it to your
       subscribers. In one easy step, you (and your subscribers) can change
       their email address -- simultaneously on all your lists they're subscribed to!
     
       You can also use this to look up an address and find out which list (if any) it's on.
       To do this, simply enter the same address in both input fields.
    
       Here's what the URL of this link would look like:
    
       http://yourdomain.org/cgi-bin/dada/extensions/update_subscription.cgi