Ben
Ben
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Cron job setup instructions appear on-screen when it is relevant or needed. Here are the full list of them:
When you are at the ‘Define recipients’ page, you will see the cron job setup instructions in a yellow box at …
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If your campaign is stuck in 'Preparing' status, it means your cron job is not executing the
scheduled.php
script.The path to
in "Preparing" and refuses to send Comment by Ben January 2024
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Try turning off 'Cloudfare Proxy' for your domain and try again.
In my experience, Cloudfare causes lots of unforeseen and peculiar issues for Sendy and other web applications in general.
Thanks.
Best regards,<…
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Thanks Joe! Much appreciated.
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Sendy never had this feature where you can "re-send" double opt-in confirmation emails to users again is because it will increase your complaint rates. There are reasons why some users do not confirm their subscription. By pestering t…
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If make.com doesn't support passing the 'GDPR' flag into your Sendy list, try connection your Google form to 'Webhooks' instead, where you'll call Sendy's
subscribe
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Click on the subscriber's name or email when inside a list, a modal window will appear showing you all the custom field data:
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You can pass
silent
=true
into thein How to auto-confirm subscriber for double opt-in list? Comment by Ben October 2023
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Edit your list settings and check if the double opt in confirmation message is empty.
To access list settings:
- Go to 'View all lists' on the left sidebar
- Click the pencil icon on the list item to edit its…
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Yes, you can use personalization tags in the subject line.
If the personalization tag does not convert to the correct value, you may be using the personalization tag incorrectly.
For example, if the custom field that y…
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If you uploaded the files to the correct directory, your Sendy installation will immediately be updated.
To check if you uploaded Sendy to the correct directory, change the file name of
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There are no options to add an attachment through API. I suggest using a download URL that links to the file instead.
For unsubscribe tag, it's the same as how you'd use unsubscribe tags inside Sendy itself.
When you c…
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Even if a subscriber is included in multiple lists that you've chosen to send your campaign to, only one email will be sent to them.
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When you set the 'Privacy' settings in the brand settings, it is such that when you create a campaign, it will honour the settings that you have set in the brand settings. It won't change the privacy settings of "already sent" campaig…
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One thing to keep in mind is that people can reply to the 'From email' as well.
For instance, when responding to an email where the 'Reply to' address is 'do-not-reply@domain.com' and the 'From' address is 'hello@domain.com', …
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To re-verify domains in your Amazon SES console, delete the domain. Then verify the domain again. You'll get the 3 x
CNAME
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Edit the list settings to check the confirmation email setup to see if anything is amiss.
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When an email is 'Marked as spam', it means the recipient marked your email as spam.
The subscriber's status is not marked as 'Marked as spam' when emails are sent directly to the spam folder.
(Quote)ISPs does not …
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(Quote)If you're going to use Sendgrid, then there's no need to do the IAM setup step.
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Set your list’s ‘Unsubscribe setting’ to ‘Double opt-out’ so that another confirmation link needs to be clicked by the recipient in the unsubscribe page before they are being unsubscribed from the list.
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If your list is 'Double opt-in', the subscriber will be added to the list as 'Unconfirmed'. In addition, the subscriber will receive an email containing a confirmation link that needs to be clicked in order to change their status to '…
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I'd request Amazon to raise the daily sending limit. Please see → https://sendy.co/troubleshooting#raising-your-daily-sending-limit
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You can just add the 3 x
CNAME
records to verify your domain, it won't affect any existing setup.Thanks.
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Please ensure you're using the unsubscribe tag correctly, here's how:
When you create or edit a campaign, you will find the unsubscribe tags at the bottom of the page (see screenshot below):
in How to use unsubscribe tags correct Comment by Ben September 2023
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When you create or edit a campaign, you can set the 'From email' to anything you want:
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(Quote)Yes, can use any 'From email' address that belongs to any domain you want to send emails.
When you create or edit a campaign, you can set the 'From email' to anything you want.
If you set a 'Custom domain' f…
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Set the 'Unsubscribe settings' of the list you're importing your CSV into to 'Only this list'. After which when you import CSVs into that particular list, Sendy will not consider the 'Unsubscribe' status of the subscriber in other lis…