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General Help & How-To / run cron more often?

« on: April 23, 2007, 11:24:01 am »

thanks DW, i set it up so hopefully that does the trick!
Brian

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General Help & How-To / run cron more often?

« on: April 22, 2007, 11:32:19 pm »

Hi DW,

Sometimes dailymail doesn't make it through the entire list (I think my webserver sometimes kills the job if its been running a long time).  When I log in sometimes I see failed dailymail runs at the top that I have to resume by hand.

Is there any way automatically get these to resume?

For example, can I just run dailymail every hour or so?  If it sees a failed previous run, it will resume it.  But it won't start the next batch until at least 24 hours have elapsed?  I wasn't sure if you had designed dailymail this way, so I could just increase how often the cron runs.

If not maybe you have another solution.

Thank you!
Brian

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Development, Suggestions / Show which follow ups lead to unsubscribe, which to sales

« on: April 08, 2007, 09:46:06 am »

great!  I look forward to the next update.
Brian

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Development, Suggestions / Show which follow ups lead to unsubscribe, which to sales

« on: April 06, 2007, 11:34:25 pm »

DW,

I think these would be two really useful features.

1. I'd like to see some type of report that shows the opt-out rate for each follow up.  This will help you see which follow ups are turning people off, for example...your average opt-out rate might be 1%, but one particular follow up causes 20% to opt-out, that would be crucial to know.

2. I'd like to see a report on which opt-ins are leading to sales.  Maybe a snippet of code that we could paste on our order success page, that included the buyers email address.  The script could then query LMP to see where that user was in the sequence.

Thanks for a great product!
Brian Armstrong

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Development, Suggestions / Wrap Lines

« on: March 26, 2007, 08:08:16 am »

I think a good feature to have would be an option to automatically wrap lines in the plain text emails, at a certain number of characters.

This is common on email newsletters to wrap at 65 characters because it makes them readable in all email clients, and easier to read overall.

Currently I'm having to do this formatting in an external text editor, and then move it into the follow up system, but each time I make changes sometimes my work wrapping gets messed up.

Thanks!
Brian Armstrong

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Development, Suggestions / Quick Question About !data Field

« on: February 28, 2007, 11:41:57 pm »

Thanks DW that worked!
Brian

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Development, Suggestions / Quick Question About !data Field

« on: February 25, 2007, 07:35:35 pm »

instead of simply forwarding the user we could use PHP to load the page, process it, and output it.

This would be a useful feature for me.  It's impractical to hard code in a header and footer on the signup success or error page.  Every other page on my site uses a php "include()" so that I only need to update one file to change the header/footer everywhere.  Having it hard coded into the signup success or error page breaks that model.  Would it be easy to add?

Thanks!
Brian

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General Help & How-To / when duplicate user signs up sends him back to beginning

« on: February 02, 2007, 01:04:26 pm »

Hi,

I have overwritedupes set to 1, and when a duplicate user signs up, their seq. number gets set all the way back to 0.

I like the fact that I don't have a duplicate user in the DB, but I don't think their seq should get set back to 0.

Imagine someone comes and signs up and receives some emails over the next month.  Then they are at a different computer (or for whatever reason) have to enter their info again.  Now they start receiving all the same emails over again.  This not only breaks the illusion of the emails being personalized, but it will cause them to unsubscribe quickly.

What's the best way to process a duplicate user signing up so that no errors are shown, and nothing is changed.

Thanks for a great product!
Brian

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General Help & How-To / Capitalization

« on: December 21, 2006, 02:05:33 pm »

Hello DW,

As far as I can tell the client never sees the mis-capitalized name.  It appears to be working.  Just initially confusing to not see it capitalized in the user DB.  Thanks!
Brian

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General Help & How-To / Capitalization

« on: December 20, 2006, 10:41:54 pm »

I checked the "capitalize" checkbox for the firstname field, but when people sign up it is still showing their names with incorrect capitalization.

Is this because the capitalization is done later, right before the message gets sent out? This is confusing. I'm going to test it by signing up with a poorly capitalized name and waiting to get my first follow up, but I wanted to ask here as well. I was expecting to see signup notifications (and the user database) showing correctly capitalized names.
Brian

p.s. i posted this elsewhere but didn't get a response yet, i apologize for the duplicate

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Development, Suggestions / "name capitalization" function discussion

« on: December 19, 2006, 11:06:19 am »

I checked the "capitalize" checkbox for the firstname field, but when people sign up it is still showing their names with incorrect capitalization.

Is this because the capitalization is done later, right before the message gets sent out?  This is confusing.  I'm going to test it by signing up with a poorly capitalized name and waiting to get my first follow up, but I wanted to ask here as well.  I was expecting to see signup notifications (and the user database) showing correctly capitalized names.
Brian

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Customization, Integration / A simpler PHP insertion script

« on: October 24, 2006, 10:40:05 am »

I was able to solve this myself.  In case it happens to others, here is my solution:

Code: [Select]


$url = "http://www.domain.com/newsletter/signup.php?list=2&email=".urlencode($_POST['email'])."&fname=".urlencode($_POST['fname'])."&seq=1&del=0";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);


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Customization, Integration / A simpler PHP insertion script

« on: October 23, 2006, 10:25:04 pm »

The code is working, and the user gets added, but it displays ugly looking warnings on the page:


Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in /homepages/18/d177540450/htdocs/file.php on line 52

Warning: fopen(http://www.domain.com/newsletter/signup.php?list=2&email=b%40b.com&fname=bbb&seq=1&del=0) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Success in /homepages/18/d177540450/htdocs/file.php on line 52


Any ideas?

Brian

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Development, Suggestions / User-defined Text Message Code Not Working

« on: September 14, 2006, 12:45:30 pm »

In general, my message codes are working.  I tried putting !fname and !remove for example and they show up fine.  But then I tried making a user-defined text message code called !footer

And this one doesn't work.  When I preview the email it shows up exactly as "!footer" and not the text I want in its place.

I made the code global.  I checked typos (i named it "footer" put it in my message as "!footer" and it shows up in the preview email as "!footer")

ANy ideas?

Thanks!

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Development, Suggestions / A run down of suggestions.

« on: September 14, 2006, 11:43:37 am »

terryj,

Thanks for the suggestion on how to "hack" headers and footers.  I've been doing it the hard way!

Thanks,
Brian