Now that we have seen most of the admin functions and have learnt to create the necessary user groups as well users, we will take an overview of how the system stats and reports are organized within MailsDaily.

The system stats and reports are thoroughly organized within MailsDaily.

When you login to your admin area – you are redirected to the Overview page of the MailsDaily system. The overview page will give you several details about the system such as delivery forecast , delivery history, number of active users, currently online users, top bounces, top spam complaints and campaign pending approvals.

Delivery Forecast
This chart will show you the show you a tentative figure about the number of campaigns and emails which are scheduled in future. This way you get to know that how much traffic your mail servers are going to handle in near future.

Delivery History
This gives you a detailed view on how the past deliveries have happened at what intervals and in what kind of volume on a graphical chart.

Active Users
This will show you the active users within your MailsDaily.

Online Users
If you have users working on the MailsDaily, sending campaigns, adding lists or using MailsDaily, then they will be shown online to you.

Top Bounces
This will give you the details about the top bounced back emails processed by your MailsDaily.

Top Spam Complaints
This will show you the number of spam complaints received for the emails which were relayed from your MailsDaily system by your users.

Campaign Pending Approval
There are times when you provide limited access to your customers and give them the rights to create campaigns but not send them out immediately. In similar cases your users will create the campaigns and they will be added to the pending approval queue – this queue will allow you to go through the content of the campaign and then decide whether to approve the same or not.

All the campaigns requiring approval will be displayed under this tab.

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

We strongly recommend that whenever you are creating a mailing list – use double opt-in list, this will save you a big hassle with managing the unwanted subscribers.

• To create a new mailing list click on the “Lists” tab.
• On the right side click the button “Create New List”

This will bring up the list creation wizard

• Enter the name of your list
• Select the subscription type [whether you want to have single or double opt-in mailing list or not - for this example we have selected double opt-in]
• You can tick the option to hide the mailing list from subscriber area
• Now click on the “Create List and Edit confirmation email”

Now that we have configured the basic list options – we must create the opt-in confirmation emails. These confirmation emails will be activated and sent to the user who is subscribing to our double opt-in mailing list.

MailsDaily allows you to configure your opt-in confirmation emails using 4 different methods, please remember that in any of the method used to create the necessary confirmation emails must include opt-in confirm and opt-in reject links. These links will allow the subscriber to confirm or reject the subscription.

From Scratch
This option will allow you to compose your email using an HTML editor. You can also paste your own HTML code and create an opt-in confirmation email.

Template Gallery
This option allows you to select a built in template for creating an opt-in confirmation email. MailsDaily offers a wide variety of templates which can be used to create stunning confirmation emails.

Copy from another list
If you have already created a nicely formatted confirmation email for another list within your account then you can easily copy the same using this option, this method can help you reduce the time in creating a new set of confirmation email(s).

Fetch URL
You can use this to fetch a URL which will have a formatted content for the confirmation email. Please be sure that this content will have to have the opt-in confirmation and opt-in reject links within the content.

Once you select this option you will be provided a screen which can allow you to define the settings of your email such as Sender Name, Sender Email address, Reply to name and Reply to email address.

• Enter the sender name
• Enter the sender email address
• You can tick the last option to keep the same reply-top information or un-check the option to add a different reply-to information

Now we need to go to the content part of the confirmation email by hitting the “Next” button.

Content Type

You can set the content type as html, text or both.

Subject
Define the subject line of your confirmation email.

Content
Please add the content as shown in the example below.

Now we need to review our confirmation email by hitting the “Next” button.

Dear Subscriber

In order to confirm your subscription please click on the below link.

##Link:Confirm##

In case if you think that someone else subscribed your email id or you subscribed to our mailing list by mistake – you can reject the subscription by clicking on the Subscription Reject Link below.

##Link:Reject##

Thanks and best regards XYZ Corporation

When you are done with the content part of the confirmation you need to go to the next step where you can review your email. The last step will allow you to preview your confirmation by sending a preview email or on browsers. It will also allow you to get the detailed content and spam analysis.

This is the final step to finalize your confirmation email and save it.

After you are satisfied with the preview you can save it by click on the “Next” button.

There are two types of custom fields offered by MailsDaily * Local custom fields [added specifically for a particular list] * Global custom fields [added globally and available for all the lists]

• To add a new custom field ,go to the “Lists” tab
• Select the mailing list you wish to add new custom fields to.

• Click on the “Custom Fields” link as highlighted in the above screen from the List Options
• Click on the “Create new custom field” tab.

Name
Name of your custom field

Type
You can select the field type you want to use – this will determine the html form element type and can also limit the data that can be saved under this field.

You can use the following types of the fields.

• Single Line
• Paragraph text
• Multiple Choice
• Drop Down
• Checkboxes
• Date Field
• Time Field
• Hidden Field

Default Value
In some of the field types you can define the default value for the field so that it will be displayed to the user.

Validation
Validation can help you validate the input and ensure that the user is not entering or populating the random value.

You can either disable the validation for the field or choose from 6 validation methods built into MailsDaily.

1. Numbers
2. Letters
3. Numbers and Letters
4. Email Address
5. URL
6. Custom

Visibility
You can also define the field visibility – whether the field is available for the subscribers under thier subscriber area or it is only visible by the List Admin.

Make this field mandatory
Use this option to make the field mandatory to fill in.

Force unique value entry
Tick this option to force a unique value entry, unless the field is populated by the end user with a unique value it will not allow the user to go further.

Make this custom field available across all your lists
Using this option you can make the custom field globally available for all your lists.