The Security Settings in Mailster allow you to safeguard your campaigns and signups by adding various layers of protection. Below is an overview of the available options and how to configure them. General Checks General checks help validate and verify email addresses and domains before allowing them to sign up. Antiflood Sets a time limit […]
Whenever you send a newsletter campaign with Mailster, it will contain a List Unsubscribe Header. This is a mandatory header for bulk mailers to make unsubscribing from your emails a standard process. You can modify the exact behavior in the settings.
Mailster offers a huge set of capabilities you can use to limit the access to your WordPress users. This is useful if you like to have one person create your campaigns but prevent them from actually sending them.
Mailster uses static image maps of various places like the subscriber’s detail page or the new subscriber notification. Head over to Settings => General to choose which one you like to use.
If you just started with email marketing or switched your delivery provider or even your domain or IP address it’s a good practice to not start blasting your provider with too many emails at once.
Mailster sends you emails in batches. While this is a technical limitation it also prevents sending too many emails at once which causes server timeouts and even gets banned from your email delivery provider.
Some email spam filters can open and click through the links in your emails to check for malicious content. This can cause false open rates and may also unsubscribe users (if you have single-opt-out enabled). To prevent this Mailster has the option to prevent this behavior.
If you send marketing emails you often like to send them as fast as possible. While this is great in theory it’s often not recommended for your general email marketing strategy.
Mailster can handle subscriptions in two different ways.
We no longer track this info since Mailster 4.0. If you still use an older version you should consider updating! On installing or updating the plugin, Mailster will ask if you would like to opt into usage tracking. By doing this, you are helping us with better planning of new features, fixing bugs, and prioritizing […]
If you are using SendGrid with Mailster you can also automatically progress bounces. You only need On the delivery tab, you can find two options for handling bounces Select SendGrid and future bounced email addresses will automatically get marked as hard bounced. If you select Mailster you have to contact SendGrid Support and request to enable […]
Depending on your delivery method Mailster needs some time to send your campaigns.
Many contact forms or membership plugins use the wp_mail method. With Mailster you can hijack the function and use the Mailster delivery options to send third-party mail.
Mailster requires a cron to send its campaign. If you know how to set up a cron you have to check if the cron is running correctly.
Although it’s not recommended to use GoDaddy’s own email servers, you can do it, but you have to follow some rules: GoDaddy has a limit of 500 emails sent via SMTP from a certain account so make sure you set up the sending limits correctly. You have to make sure the from and reply-to address […]