Recipient lists and segmetnation

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Hi, 

I'm looking to understand what features and functionality are provided around list management, but am struggiling to get a clear picture from the available documentation.

Can I segment these lists from within the EPiServer environment - or is this limited to importing 'finished' and storing 'finished' lists?

Many thanks,

Mark

#55414
Dec 01, 2011 15:15
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There can be different sources for recipient lists - it is possible to build your own to store/retrieve recipients from any data store. The internal source stores recipients in the EPiMail database and can only export and import complete lists, not edit them in place.

The only type of segmentation that you can do then within a list is to use categories. It is not the list but rather the mail sent that is categorized. Categories comes in to play when the user unsubscribes - if you send a mail categorized with X, the user can select to unsubscribe from further mails categorized with X (but not other categories) or to unsubscribe completely. Say the user chooses to unsubscribe from X, and you send a new mail with category Y, the user still gets that mail. Probably not what you are looking for, but I thought I'd try to explain it at least.

#55420
Dec 01, 2011 16:10
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Thanks for the info Magnus, much appreciated. It all helps me build a picture of what capabilities the EPiMail feature provides.

 

#55483
Dec 05, 2011 14:10
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