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3.1.12 - Mailer
In this session you can send and receive inbox contacts, edit messages and control the mass mailer of GPTEngine™.
Mails sent
This field shows the number of sent e-mail messages in the last minute, hour and 24 hours period.
Inbox contacts
From this field you can view and delete the inbox messages you receive from the "contact us" interface of your site.
Messages at database
Use this field to create/delete, edit and manage e-mail and inbox messages sent from your program.
The messages table shows some messages info like Id (#), recipient , mails sent and the operations from which you can start/pause/resume the mass mailer edit and delete the messages.
Please, note that the mass mailer runs in background, so after you click start/pause/resume no changes will occur in the current screen.
Create/edit a message
Use this to compose/edit a message to be sent from your site.
You can also choose a specific user or advertiser, all users or advertisers or a group of users as the recipient of the message.
Select if the message will be sent to users/advertisers e-mail addresses, inbox or both.
You can add dynamic fields to the body of message by the use of the `<!--^ ^-->` tags.
To insert, for example, the username and the current number of points of the user in the message, just place the tags `<!--^Username^-->` and `<!--^Points^-->` at any part of the body.
In order to know what fields can be used in a message sent to users, access the MySQL® admin and in the query field enter the query describe GPTE_Members. To know what fields can be used in a message sent to advertisers, enter the query describe GPTE_Advertisers.
Please, note that field names are case sensitive.
Refresh
Click this to refresh the screen and the information about mails sent.
Reset couter
Use this to reset the counter (#) of the messages.
Send a fixed number of mails
In this field you can start the mailer to send a specific number of mails of a certain message.
Send a mail now
Use this to quick send a e-mail message.

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