Campaign Email Basics

Sailthru can send campaign emails to large numbers of people rapidly. This is appropriate for newsletters, massive notifications, breaking news, and so on.

Every campaign email is sent to a mailing list. When first getting started, you will want to upload your initial lists. You can do this via the Manage Lists menu item in the interface.

• Click Create List and type in the name of your new list.
• Click on the list name to view the list page
• Click Browse next to List Upload and select a text file containing emails, newline-separated, and click Submit

You will receive an email when your list has finished importing; depending on the size of the list, it could take a few minutes.

Of course, going forward you will not want to manually maintain your mailing lists. You can easily subscribe and unsubscribe emails to your list using the email API call.

$sailthru->setEmail('example@example.com', null, array('subscribe_list' => 1));

For more on this topic see integrating mailing lists.

Now that you have a list to mail to, you can set up a campaign email via the Campaigns tab in the interface.

• Click the Create New button to start a new email, and enter a name for it in the popup that appears.
• Fill out the Basics tab. The fields you must fill out are From Name and Subject.
• Fill out the Code and/or Text Version tabs.
• Test your campaign email by clicking the "Test Send" button, and entering your email address in the popup that appears.
• When you are done, click on the Schedule Send tab and choose the List you want to send to via the dropdown.
• Then select the date and time you want the mail to be sent in the Scheduled Time box. If you want immediate delivery, you can leave this box blank.
• Click Schedule This Blast and the blast will be scheduled for delivery.

If you want to automate this process, you can do so with the blast api call.