The Address Book > Using the Address Book

The Address Book is a central place for all members registered to your mailing list. It servers as a powerful online marketing tool. The Address Book is where all members are stored, and where you will send your email newsletters. The Address Book has specifically been designed to be powerful enough to handle almost any amount of members, and is able to send millions of email in a very short time.

To get started open the Address Book module by clicking the icon on the right.

When the Address Book opens you will see a window much like the one below.

The Address Book consists of "Mailing Lists" that allow you to group the emails in your account according to groups. This is purely for organization and has no effect on the system or number of mails you have. We recommend creating mailing lists so that you can separate the emails that you collect and import. Mailing lists also allow you to draw in emails from the Contact Manager and the Subscribers Manager without having to export them first.

Click the Add Mailing List, to add a mailing list, but make sure you have selected the correct mailing list from the list on the left (if you want to have a mailing list within a mailing list.) The tree format of the mailing lists are purely for organization.

Click OK to add the mailing list. The window will then reload, displaying the new mailing list.

Once you have created the mailing list you can view the properties of the mailing list in order to see more information including renaming, moving and deleting. This is also where you can change a mailing list to a dynamic mailing list, to list members from the the Contact Manger or Subscribers Manager.

Here you can see that you can remove all the members of the mailing list.  Rename it by simply changing the name as it appears in the Mailing List Name. The Parent Folder, if changed will change the location of the mailing list. See that the drop-down displays all the existing mailing lists, and by default the current list is selected. Click the Delete button to remove the members AND remove the actual list.

All mailing lists are created by default as Static Mailing List. A static list is one that will allow you to manually add members to the list or import them from Excel.

Change the List Type to "From Contact Manager" in order to make the mailing list draw the members automatically from the Contact Manager. When you select this option the Filter option is visible. The Filter allows you to select members from either the entire list or only selected groups of either subscribers or contact forms.

Other options on the left include viewing the Outbox and viewing the sent mail Reports. The outbox contains a record of the outgoing mail batches. These batches show the number of mails sent and allows you to restart a send if its been stopped.

Take a look at the right hand side of the Address Book. These options are for Maintaining Email Members and Sending Mail.