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Creating administrators and test distribution lists

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A recipient can be one of three types: Normal recipient, Administrator, Test recipient. All subscribers who will only receive mailings are Normal recipients. The other recipient types are used for testing and managing mailings (see chapter "Sending out test mails").

The creator of a mailing is the administrator. You should create a recipient profile for yourself (if you have not already done so), enter your own email address and assign yourself the status of Administrator for that mailing list. Later, you can use the Administrator as recipient to test a mailing. You will then be sure that only you will receive that test mailing.

A test distribution list is similar. You create several test recipients with different settings, for instance different mailing formats (text, HTML and Offline-HTML). They are not real recipients but email addresses only you have access to. You could also assign that status to someone who has to check a mailing prior to sending it to the final recipients on the list.

Fig. 4.6: Using the search function to display only the test recipients in the database.

Fig. 4.6: Using the search function to display only the test recipients in the database.