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danatchison

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Simple Email Signup
March 16, 2010, 12:52:19 pm
Does Civicrm have an option for a simple email signup on the homepage and then do mailouts to all those that opt-in?  I'm looking for something similar to Constant Contact but through Civicrm.  I don't want people to actually have to become members with long forms.

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Re: Simple Email Signup
March 17, 2010, 02:17:13 am
this is how I do this on Joomla:


use the Joomla "Newsletter Subscriber" plugin to display a very simple sign-up form.  This will automatically send an email message to a preconfigured email address with the subscribers details

Set this preconfigured email address to an email address which is read by the CiviCRM inbound email processor (see the following for this feature:  http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Autofiling+email+activities+via+EmailProcessor )

with this enabled, anyone who signs up will be automatically added to the CiviCRM Contacts database.  You can then use CiviMail to send broadcast emails

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Re: Simple Email Signup
March 17, 2010, 01:14:38 pm
You can also use a Profile Snippet for this - with just an email field and the 'add contacts to group' setting for the Profile. You will need to have the CiviMail component (part of CiviCRM) enabled if you want a double-optin process. Otherwise folks are just added to the group (mailing lists are groups in CiviCRM). Might want to browse the online book for a bit more background:

http://en.flossmanuals.net/civicrm
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Re: Simple Email Signup
August 08, 2011, 07:15:09 pm
Hi Dave,

I got this working really well with the profile snippet except I can't get it to do a double-opt-in. CiviMail is enabled and working. The contact is created w/ the correct profile and is just added to the e-mail group. Is the opt-in for the creation of the contact or for the contact being added to the group and how do I enable it.

(Drupal 6.22, CiviCRM 3.4.1)

Thanks in Advance.

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Re: Simple Email Signup
August 09, 2011, 10:11:29 am
Check this doc:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC40/How+to+Create+Profiles#HowtoCreateProfiles-DoubleOptinandNewslettersubscriptionsviaProfiles

... and that this setting is enabled (1) in civicrm.settings.php for your site

define( 'CIVICRM_PROFILE_ADD_TO_GROUP_DOUBLE_OPTIN', 1 );

Also, there were some fixes for this functionality in 3.4.5 (latest stable) so you might need to upgrade.
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