Mosaic Site Creator's Mailing list allows you to add email subscription forms to your site and send mass emails to all subscribers. You can create an unlimited number of mailing lists, and visitors can subscribe to one or several of them. You can control subscriptions by enforcing email confirmation on subscribing to a given mailing list or manually editing the list of subscribers.
Mosaic Site Creator mechanism for processing of Mailing List emails ensures priority sending of the messages of Business Accounts and fairer logic for processing of all mails on the queue. For Personal Accounts it is essential not to send more than 200 emails at a time as otherwise a huge delay may be observed in processing all the mails sent from personal accounts.
Mailing lists also allow you to restrict the access to the whole site, a given page, file or original gallery image only to subscribers. You can additionally set automatic email notification for mailing list members when new updates are published on a given page. The mailing list provides automatic unsubscribe interface which can be appended at the end of each message. Here is how it all works:
How to add a mailing list
To access the mailing list management interface rollover the 
icon on top right and choose Mailing Lists.
In the popup that appears you will see the options to create a new mailing list, compose a new email and review the log of sent e-mails.
- To add a new mailing list click the
button. Choose a name for your mailing list and define whether the users should confirm the subscription to this mailing list. The subscription confirmation will ensure that the email address subscribed to this mailing list is valid.
After you added the mailing list it shows up in the main Mailing Lists interface. Here you may also a short statistics for each mailing lists added to your site. The statistics shows the number of subscribers, number of emails sent and date of creation for each mailing list.
To send an email to the subscribers of some mailing list use the 
button. If the Add Unsubscribe Link is checked, Mosaic Site Creator will automatically append an unsubscribe link at the end of each message. To view all sent emails click the 
button. You will also be able to check here the sending status of your recently sent messages (if they are still being sent out).
From the Actions panel you may modify the properties of each Mailing List, add subscribers, change the subscription messages as well as delete each Mailing List.
- To change the properties of some mailing list click the Edit
icon for this mailing list. You can change here the name of the mailing list and enable or disable the subscription confirmation for it. - To see the list of subscribers to a given mailing list click on the Show Subscribers
icon. You will be able to add new subscribers or delete the existing ones. The subscribers interface is also accessible when you click on the Mailing List Name. - To edit the default subscription confirmation and welcome messages that are sent to mailing list subscribers click on the Mailing List Subscription Messages
icon. You can define the email address used in the From field and select appropriate encoding for your messages from the Encoding dropdown.
You may insert the following wildcards in your subscription messages: $name, $site, $confirm_url, $unsubscribe_url. These wildcards will be automatically replaced respectively by the name of your mailing list, your website URL, URL for subscription confirmation, the unsubscribe URL.
- To delete a mailing list use the Delete Mailing List
icon. If this mailing list is referenced from some Mailing List form, from the Form editor, etc, however, you should first remove all references, publish and then will be able to delete the mailing list.
How to add a mailing list subscription form
In order to allow users to subscribe to some mailing list from your website you will need to add a Mailing List subscription form. Like the Hits counter, HTML Snippet and Forum/Blog, the Mailing List form is an Advanced element that needs to be enabled before it may be added on a page. 
- Roll-over the Control Panel
icon in the top right corner in Admin view and select Advanced Elements. -
In the dialog that opens select Mailing List Form and press Update.
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The option for adding a Mailing List Form will now appear under the 
menu option of content element icons on the page.
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Note that the Advanced Elements are enabled per working session. So, the next time you login and wish to be able to add an advanced element - you should repeat these steps.
To add a Mailing List Form to a page select Add > 
from the Area 
icon or other content element icon. A popup will open where you may define the Mailing List Form properties.
- From the Mailing List dropdown choose the mailing list to which the visitors who submit this form will be subscribed. To create a new mailing list choose [New Mailing List] and type a name for your new mailing list in the adjacent field that shows up. This name will be used to identify your mailing list when you refer to it in Forms or other areas on your site.
- The Alignment defines the position of the mailing list subscription form on the page.
- In the Email Field Prefix you can specify the text to be displayed just before your subscription form. E.g 'Enter your email in this box'.
- The Button Label is the text on the button that the visitor should press in order to get subscribed to this mailing list after s/he has filled in an email address.
From all options, only Mailing List is mandatory. After you fill in this form and press Add the mailing list subscription form will appear on your page. To make it visible to the public you will need to publish it by clicking on 
.
Once the mailing list form is available on your web site, visitors can start subscribing to your mailing list.
Additional mailing list features
Mailing lists have many traditional usages, but in Mosaic Site Creator we have added a few more. You can restrict access to your site or any given page only to the members of a given mailing list. Check the Access Control section of Page Properties and Advanced Site Properties for more details. Similarly, you can set restriction for access to individual resources such as an original gallery image or a file added in a File Area.
You can also use the mailing list functionality to set automatic notification to all members of a mailing list when new updates have been published on a given page from your site. This option is available in the Special Features section of Page properties.
For a detailed personal introduction and advice on integrating mailing lists in your site - please schedule a personal consultation call with Mosaic Site Creator Web Consultants. For questions or issues with your mailing lists contact Mosaic Site Creator Support.
