Postmaster is a simple to use email-on-post / newsletter manager for Textpattern. For all its simplicity, it’s quite flexible and that means there’s a lot to cover. The result is the Postmanual.
Whether this is your first time visiting, or you’ve come to solve a problem, your first step is to follow the tutorial (for people resolving an issue, this provides a baseline to work from).
Otherwise, use the search field at right, or browse the Table of Contents to find what you need. Please help the documentation: post your successes or failures, questions and solutions, either as a comment here or in the support forum thread.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION TO POSTMASTER
- Overview: A high-level view of Postmaster and what it can do for you
- Tutorial: A simple walk-through; also a proof that Postmaster works correctly
- Un/Subscription Forms: An overview of un/subscription forms using Zem_Contact_Reborn
- Simple Subscription Form: A simple example
- Subscription/Contact Form: A ZCR form that can be used for Subscriptions and/or Contact
- Unsubscription Option: How to add an unsubscription option to the form
- <txp:bab_pm_unsubscribe />: Easy unsubscription
- <txp:bab_pm_unsubscribeLink />: Custom tag that outputs an "Unsubscribe" link in emails
- Under the Hood: How Postmaster + Zem_Contact_Reborn work together
- Default List When Subscribing: How to automatically enter a list for new subscribers
- Enter a Subscription Date: How to automatically enter a date with each subscription
- Form Option Aggregator: Spiffy name, spiffy function
UN/SUBSCRIPTION
- Subscriber Custom Fields: Explained.
- Cascading Lists: How to create "cascading lists"
- Importing Subscribers: A quick look at how to import a list of subscribers
- Exporting Subscribers: This article explains how to export subscribers to a text file
SUBSCRIBER & LIST MANAGEMENT
- When You Click Save: What happens?
- Textpattern Forms as Email Templates: The concept of TXP Forms as email templates
- Creating an HTML Email Template: How HTML emails are handled with Postmaster
- <txp:bab_pm_data />: The custom data tag (for outputting Subscriber data, List data, etc)
- <txp:bab_pm_unsubscribeLink />: Custom tag that outputs an "Unsubscribe" link in emails
- <txp:bab_pm_mime />: A custom tag needed to create HTML -- "multi-part" -- emails
- Create a Digest: Getting tricky with Textpattern's tags
- Text vs. HTML: My rant on the benefits of text vs. the dangers of HTML emails
MAILING
- Known Bugs: Bugs found by users -- keep 'em coming! Let's get this plugin working perfectly.
- Acknowledgements: This is a community plugin; much of Postmaster is a re-hashing of other Textpattern and plugin code.
- Defaulting To "Always On": If you don't like how the mail module is hidden on the Write tab
- Feature Requests: Please feel free to add requests using the comment form:
- Customizing Preferences: Labels, batch volume and more
- Changelog:
- Support: How to get and give support
- Setting Privileges: Restrict which user types can access the Postmaster tab
MISCELLANEOUS
- Diagnosing Issues: First steps to diagnosing your issue
TROUBLESHOOTING
- Other Mailers: Swiftmailer, PoMMo, Dada Mail, PHPList and more
- Anandgraves.com: Advice on creating HTML emails
- Taming the Beast: HTML email — you either love it or you hate it. But it doesn’t really matter whether you love it or hate it because sooner or later a client will ask you to design one of those ‘pretty looking email thingies’ for their own customers, and then what do you do?
- The support forum thread
- The ZCR documentation
RESOURCES