Setup + Configuration
10 min
prerequisites before you can use the newsletter plugin, it needs to be activated by purple contact your project manager or customer success team to request activation of the newsletter plugin in your hub initial configuration 1\ access newsletter settings after the plugin is activated navigate to all settings in your purple hub look for the new entry called newsletters click to open the newsletter settings page 2\ configure service provider the newsletter plugin currently supports multiple email service providers, of which one can be selected each of them requires its own credentials to configure inxmail professional select inxmail professional from the service provider dropdown enter the following required credentials base url the endpoint where the inxmail professional api can be found client id your inxmail client identifier client secret your inxmail client secret key these credentials enable the newsletter module to interact with the inxmail professional api for sending newsletters to configure maileon select maileon from the service provider dropdown enter the following required credentials account name your maileon client identifier base url the endpoint where the maileon api can be found api key your maileon client secret key these credentials enable the newsletter module to interact with the maileon api for sending newsletters also configurable mailchimp activecampaign constant contact 3\ continue reading label this setting moved to the page post inserter block customization docid\ r3il7z av9dcvfg01mpyl 4\ save configuration after entering all required information, save your settings the system is now ready to create and send newsletters 5\ usage without configuring a service provider please note if you want to try out the newsletter plugin without selecting a service provider, please change the dropdown from ' select service provider ' to 'manual / other ' otherwise the layouts will not be displayed and certain functionality will not behave correctly inxmail unsubscribe link inxmail requires unsubscribe links to use a special link code (a so called doo link), for example \[%url\ verify opt out;https //your site com/unsubscribe successful;;;"unsubscribe newsletter"] this code cannot be entered as a link target in the editor directly instead, configure it once and use a placeholder in your newsletter content in the newsletter settings, paste the link code provided by inxmail into the inxmail unsubscribe link field and save in your newsletter (typically in the footer of your layout), select the text or button that should act as the unsubscribe link and set its link target to exactly \#newspack unsubscribe when the newsletter is sent to inxmail, this placeholder link is automatically replaced with the configured link code the preview and test emails already show the replaced link, so you can verify it before sending link management make sure to also set up frontend links in purple hub docid\ wz7w 0fokon0mlpxupgvv , so that the newsletter can use the correct links to published articles when sending an e mail that contains links