I wish to send an attached file with list guidelines via welcome message when the confirmation E-Mail reaches to the new subscriber.
How can we do this?
Thanks,
Amit Bhatt
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:17:06 +0530 "Amit Bhatt" <misterbhatt@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Amit,
I wish to send an attached file with list guidelines via welcome
Does it need to be an attachment? Why not enter the guidelines into the body of the message as plain text?
<soapbox> Of course, 99.999% of people *don't* read the welcome message, never mind keep a copy so they have the unsubscribe instructions. Not that the unsub instructions are generally needed, since they often get tacked onto the end of every list mail anyway. Even then, people seem to have difficulty unsubscribing should the need arise. </soapbox>
-- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" Who's a sucker now? Edward The Bear - The Damned
On 2/12/2013 6:37 AM, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:17:06 +0530 "Amit Bhatt" <misterbhatt@gmail.com> wrote:
That was my first thought. Put all the info in the main message (and make sure there's a readable text/plain part, too). Doesn't guarantee that it'll be read, but higher probability than if the user has to do something extra, like click on the attachment.
z!
Carl Zwanzig wrote:
That was my first thought. Put all the info in the main message (and make sure there's a readable text/plain part, too).
Absolutely! (There's way too much attaching of word processing documents and PDFs where simple plain text will do).
Just put the text of your guidelines in the list's General Options -> welcome_msg box. See the "(Details for welcome_msg)" link for more info.
Note that the welcome message itself is sent as a simple text/plain message so there is no way to include HTML or attachments.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 2013-02-12 3:00 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
Absolutely! (There's way too much attaching of word processing documents and PDFs where simple plain text will do).
Not to mention the fact that someone who neglects to read the email body is even more likely to ignore an attachment...
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:17:06 +0530 "Amit Bhatt" <misterbhatt@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Amit,
I wish to send an attached file with list guidelines via welcome
Does it need to be an attachment? Why not enter the guidelines into the body of the message as plain text?
<soapbox> Of course, 99.999% of people *don't* read the welcome message, never mind keep a copy so they have the unsubscribe instructions. Not that the unsub instructions are generally needed, since they often get tacked onto the end of every list mail anyway. Even then, people seem to have difficulty unsubscribing should the need arise. </soapbox>
-- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" Who's a sucker now? Edward The Bear - The Damned
On 2/12/2013 6:37 AM, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:17:06 +0530 "Amit Bhatt" <misterbhatt@gmail.com> wrote:
That was my first thought. Put all the info in the main message (and make sure there's a readable text/plain part, too). Doesn't guarantee that it'll be read, but higher probability than if the user has to do something extra, like click on the attachment.
z!
Carl Zwanzig wrote:
That was my first thought. Put all the info in the main message (and make sure there's a readable text/plain part, too).
Absolutely! (There's way too much attaching of word processing documents and PDFs where simple plain text will do).
Just put the text of your guidelines in the list's General Options -> welcome_msg box. See the "(Details for welcome_msg)" link for more info.
Note that the welcome message itself is sent as a simple text/plain message so there is no way to include HTML or attachments.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 2013-02-12 3:00 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
Absolutely! (There's way too much attaching of word processing documents and PDFs where simple plain text will do).
Not to mention the fact that someone who neglects to read the email body is even more likely to ignore an attachment...
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