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Setting up your first mailing list

MailsDaily offers an easy way to create and manage mailing lists. In this chapter we will take a look at creating your first mailing list.

Before we proceed to create our first mailing list we need to understand two key concepts.

Key Concepts

Single Opt-in Mailing List

  • Email addresses on a (single) opt-in list are not confirmed.
  • Anybody can submit anybody’s address to the list, and it will be there until it is unsubscribed

Double Opt-in Mailing List

  • On a double opt-in list, all email addresses must be confirmed before they are added.
  • A request for confirmation is sent to the submitted address and the address owner must take necessary action to confirm that he/she is the owner of the email address, the address is working and he/she indeed wants to subscribe.
  • Most often, the confirmation action is as simple as replying to the confirmation request or clicking on a link.

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