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data field

It is a short text that has the following form: $(xxxx) that you can include in bodies and header fields of messages sent or forwarded by MailXpert. The data fields will be expanded to the text they represent before sending the messages. Here's a list of built-in data fields you can use in every message (note that names are not case sensitive):

  • $(List-Name) - name of the email service as entered on the Email Service Properties dialog box;
  • $(List-Usage) - usage instructions for the email service (Email Service Properties dialog box);
  • $(From) - full sender's address;
  • $(To) - full recipient address;
  • $(Reply-To) - contents of the Reply-To: field;
  • $(Subject) - message subject;
  • $(CC) - contents of the CC: field;
  • $(From-Name) - pretty part of the sender's address;
  • $(From-First-Name) - sender's first name or, if there was no pretty name, the email address;
  • $(From-Middle-Name) - sender's middle name;
  • $(From-Last-Name) - sender's last name;
  • $(From-Email) - sender's email address without the pretty part;
  • $(To-Name) - pretty part of the recipient's address;
  • $(To-First-Name) - recipient's first name extracted from the pretty part of the email or email address if there is no pretty part;
  • $(To-Middle-Name) - recipient's middle name;
  • $(To-Last-Name) - recipient's last name;
  • $(To-Email) - recipient's email address.
And here's a list of data fields you can use in replies:
  • $(Original-Header) - entire header of the original message;
  • $(Original-To) - contents of the To: field of the original message;
  • $(Original-From) - contents of the From: field of the original message;
  • $(Original-Subject) - subject of the original message;
  • $(Original-Date) - date the original message had been sent;
  • $(Original-From-Name) - name of the sender of the original message;
  • $(Original-From-First-Name) - first name of the sender of the original message;
  • $(Original-From-Middle-Name) - middle name of the sender of the original message;
  • $(Original-From-Last-Name) - last name of the sender of the original message;
  • $(Original-From-Email) - email address of the sender of the original message.
You can also define custom fields for each email service. Click here to find out more. If you use wizards to create new mailing list, they will create one or more of the data fields below depending on the type of email service:
  • $(List-Display-Name) - display name of the email service;
  • $(List-Email) - service's email address;
  • $(Command-Email) - email address used to handle command messages;
  • $(Post-Email) - email address used to broadcast messages by updates/news board kind of service;
  • $(Authorized-Email) - email address of the person authorized to broadcast messages.

If you are using the Professional Edition you can define a number of custom fields per each subscriber record. You can then reference the fields by their names, e.g. $(City).

digest Usually, each message sent to a mailing list is forwarded to all the subscribers. With a digest, messages are saved and then sent as a single mail message. Only subscribers that requested to receive digests will receive digest messages. To send a digest, select an email service icon and click on the Digest toolbar button. Click here to learn more about MailXpert's main window.




E


error report Error report is a message sent by an SMTP server usually to notify that an email couldn't be delivered.
expired message It is a message that MailXpert no longer attempts to send. You can set up the time after a message expires using the Mail Delivery tab of Global Options dialog box. To access the dialog box, click on the Options toolbar button on the main window. To learn more about the main window click here.




S


signed message A message that has been assigned a unique number stored by MailXpert along with other information allowing to identify the message as having been signed and replies to this message as replies to a signed message. A signed message has a number enclosed in square brackets (for instance, "[12345]") appended to its subject. This feature is used to secure the subscription process; in response to a subscription request a signed message is sent to the originator of the request. Then MailXpert waits for a reply to this signed message and only then adds the sender of the message to the subscribers database. The numbers used to sign the messages expire after 48 hours.


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