Author Topic: civiMail on ThinkHost - Pointers? Where to go to learn what I need to know? (Read 1859 times)

conductorchris · September 25, 2008, 11:20:05 am

I set up civiCRM (in Joomla) on ThinkHost (shared hosting) and though I was golden when my test mailing arrived happily in my in-box. But my scheduled mailing isn't mailing and when I went into the documentation I find myself at sea, over my head.

So I'm asking,
1. Anybody have any advice on setting up civiMail on ThinkHost?
and
2. Where can I go to learn the basics of how this stuff works, enough to follow the documentation anyway. Google searching is not doing it. I'm savy enough to have installed civiCRM with not much trouble - I can learn, but will be grateful for some pointers.

This is the page that has my head spinning:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviMail+Installation

Piotr Szotkowski · September 26, 2008, 01:41:12 am

Basically, you need to do two things:

1. Create a cronjob that will run periodically and send any scheduled malings.
2. Handle the ‘return channel’ so that you can track bounces and your recipients can (un-, re-)subscribe by email (this step is the most problematic to setup, and you can skip it if you’re not that interested in bounce handling; the recipients’ actions can done with HTTP links instead).

You can also consider the paid CiviSMTP service, which, once easily setup, should handle all of CiviMail for you (here’s the service’s website and forum board).

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Author Topic: civiMail on ThinkHost - Pointers? Where to go to learn what I need to know? (Read 1859 times)

conductorchris

civiMail on ThinkHost - Pointers? Where to go to learn what I need to know?

Piotr Szotkowski

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