Dada Mail comes with ability to draft a message to be sent at a later time. You can also have this mass mailing be sent on a recurring schedule – and have the message itself come from an outside, dynamic source! The process to do all this is actually quite simple, and leads to your subscribers being delivered fresh content right to their inbox without any additional work on your part, once you’ve set things up <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Mass Mailing Drafts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
All email messages destined to become a part of a mass mailing start their life as a draft message. In Dada Mail’s list control panel, navigate to, Mass Mailing All Drafts: Stationery\/Schedules<\/strong>. This is also the default screen you’ll land on, once you log in. On that screen, click the button labeled, + New Draft<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n You’ll be taken to a screen to create your message, including the Subject and the body of the message itself. Once you’re done, click the button on the top toolbar labeled, Save as: Schedule<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Your draft message will turn into a Scheduled Mass Mailing – now you can set just when the message is to go out to your subscribers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On the top of the screen, you’ll see the Scheduling Options. Let’s quickly go through how to set up a message to be sent only once:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your one-time scheduled mass mailing is now set up! <\/p>\n\n\n\n To set up a recurring scheduled mass mailing, rather than selecting One-Time<\/strong>, select, Recurring<\/strong>. Options to set just when the message will be sent out on its schedule will be revealed: <\/p>\n\n\n\n There’s lots of options you may set, including a start and finish time, what day you’d like your message to be sent (say: every Monday), as well as which week of the month (say: only the first Monday of the month). <\/p>\n\n\n\n There’s also this option: Only send the next scheduled mass mailing if the primary content differs from the previous<\/strong>. This is going to be important for us, as we’d like each message we send out in our recurring schedule to be different, so we’ll want this checked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Although we could<\/em> go into our saved scheduled mailing and periodically change the message body’s content manually, what we really<\/em> want to do is set an outside source for the content of our mass mailing message. That way, we can keep the schedule set up as-is in in perpetuity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There’s a few ways to do that – one is to grab the contents for your message via a URL. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If the content of that URL is different from the previous message sent on your schedule, a new mass mailing will be sent out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We can take this idea one step further, since Dada Mail can read RSS\/Atom feeds. Blog software usually has the ability to publish these feeds, which means anytime there’s new posts on your blog, the feed also gets updated and that’s new content that you can then send out using your recurring schedule mass mailing! <\/p>\n\n\n\n There are a ton of options below to customize what content you want to grab, as well as make sure you only send out the content you want (and not content you’ve already sent in a previous scheduled mass mailing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Click](\"https:\/\/blog.dadamailproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-1.png\")
Turn a Draft Message into a Schedule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Setting Up a Schedule for a One-Time Mass Mailing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Message From a Dynamic Source (URL)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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