Gossamer List - Help

The "Account" menu allows you to modify your own Gossamer List account and (if you are an administrator) the accounts of your users. The email templates used to build emails sent to your subscribers can also be managed from here. The menu allowing you to modify your own profile is displayed by default.

- The values entered in the "First Name", "Last Name", "Email address", "Company Name" and "URL" fields can be automatically added to messages sent from Gossamer List using the following tags:

<%pro_first_name%>
<%pro_last_name%>
<%usr_email%>
<%pro_company%>
<%pro_url%>

- The "Reply-to-Email" and "Bounce Email" fields contain the addresses that will be set as the default reply and bounce email addresses in the "Create Message" menu.

- The "Date format" drop-down menu controls the date format that will be used for your messages. To create a custom date format, select one from the drop-down menu and modify the format in the field to the right.

- The "Editor Advanced" drop-down menu controls the default message format that will appear when creating new messages.

- Click the "Update Profile" button to save your changes, or click the "Reset" button to restore the original values.

Change Password
Clicking the "Change Password" link displays a menu allowing you to change your Gossamer List password.

- Enter your current password in the "Old Password" field, enter your new password in the "New Password" and "Re-type new" fields and click the "Update Password" button.

Email Templates
Clicking the "Email Templates" link brings up a menu allowing you to edit the templates that will build the subscription, unsubscription andvalidation emails that are sent to your subscribers. Administrators can modify the default content of these templates; read the help section for"Default Email Templates" in the Templates menu for more information.

- Select the specific template you wish to modify from the drop-down menu and click "Load". The email template will be displayed in the "To", "Subject", "From", "Extra Body" and "E-mail body" fields.

- Make changes to the text and tags included in the desired fields and click the "Save" button. The following tags can be included in any of the fields:

<%pro_first_name%> will automatically insert the value entered in the "First Name" field in the Account menu.
<%pro_last_name%> will automatically insert the value entered in the "Last Name" field in the Account menu.
<%usr_email%> will automatically insert the value entered in the "Email" field in the Account menu.
<%pro_company%> will automatically insert the value entered in the "Company Name" field in the Account menu.
<%pro_url%> will automatically insert the value entered in the "URL" field in the Account menu.
<%sub_email%> will automatically insert the subscriber's email address.
<%sub_name%> will automatically insert the subscriber's name.

- You can save the template under a different name by entering one in the "Save template as:" field and clicking the "Save" button.

Header & Footer
The Header & Footer menu allows you to create headers and footers that will be attached to the tops and bottoms of all messages sent using your Gossamer List account. Whether the HTML or text headers and footers are attached is dependant on whether you are sending a message in HTML or text format. The following tags can be inserted into the HTML headers and footers:

User info:
- <%%usr_username%>
- <%%usr_email%>
- <%%pro_first_name%>
- <%%pro_last_name%>
- <%%pro_url%>

Subscriber info:
- <%%sub_name%>
- <%%sub_email%>
Unsubcribe URL allowing subscribers to remove themselves from the list:
- <%%unsubscribe_url%>

Global tags:
- <%%site_title%>
- <%%site_url%>