Basic settings for sending newsletters using Mailtrain

Software Mailtrain

Here we show you which basic settings you have to set for sending mails and we give you a short overview of the most important additional functions.

To tell Mailtrain how to send out e-mails you need to provide basic information about your mailserver. All information you need to provide should be in your hands already, if you ordered a Mailtrain instance from servus.

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If you would like to change the user email address and/or password please do so here: https://newsletter.domain.at/users/account (where newsletter.domain.at should be replaced with the actual domain under which your Mailtrain was set up).

Please also make sure to update Allgemeine Einstellungen, Kampagnenvorgaben and Mailer-Einstellungen with the correct information here: https://newsletter.domain.at/settings

Settings page for Allgemeine Einstellungen, Kampagnenvorgaben and Mailer-Einstellungen

Section “Allgemeine Einstellungen”

Set Service Adresse (URL) to the URL your instance is running at, for example newsletter.domain.at
It is the same URL that you are on while configuring Mailtrain. Check out your browsers URL bar.
Provide an Admin E-Mail address, that is the same as the Standard "von" E-Mail-Adresse (see below).

Section “Kampagnenvorgaben”

Please add a Standard "von" E-Mail-Adresse – the e-mail address that should be the sender of the e-mail (can be changed later on each campaign)

The following are optional:

Absender Name – your name or that of your organization
Standardadresse – your address
Standard "von" Namen – the name that should appear in the e-mail as the sender (can be changed later for each campaign)
Standard "Betreffzeile" – the subject line that should be in the e-mail (can be changed later on each campaign)
Standard-Homepage (URL) – your website URL

Section “Mailer-Einstellungen”

Hostname – smtp1.servus.at
Port – 587
Verschlüsselung – STARTTLS
Benutzername – your servus e-mail user name for your Standard "von" E-Mail-Adresse provided above (usually m_yourname)
Passwort – the password corresponding to your servus e-mail account

Optionally you can now add your private GPG key. Users with deposited GPG key receive encrypted messages and if you have also set the signing key here, the messages are signed with this key.
If you do not provide a key here, the mails will still be sncrypted, but not signed.

As is already stated: Do not use sensitive keys here. The private key is not encrypted in the database.

That’s it, now you can start creating lists of newsletter subscribers.