Test Messages

[lsander]

I've composed a message and sent it as a test message. I'm done with it, and don't want to send it later, to any list, etc.

What do I do? (Is it just sitting there waiting to bite me the next time I send a message, or ???)

[Dragonrider]

Nope, it's still in stasis, but unless you specifically go to find it (Messages>Draft or Queued) and hit resend it won't go anywhere. Even then, you need to specify which list(s) it should go to, as at present, it's does not have a list selected.

At least that's how things are set on my installation.

[lsander]

Thanks!

I never noticed the Draft or Queued tabs. Very useful, IMHO.

How does a message get into the Draft pile? (I might like to use that later on.)

[Dragonrider]

How does a message get into the Draft pile? (I might like to use that later on.)

When you click the Save Message button before changing tabs or selecting which lists the message will be sent to, each time you do that, it saves a draft message.

I hadn't realised that myself, hence I've a dozen messages saved that were saved each time I visited the different tabs!

[lsander]

I'm starting to figure this stuff out, and getting more and more impressed with phplist's capabilities. (Now if we only had a proper users manual!)

What determines which message(s) are sent when you select the lists? I'm guessing that it's only the current message on the screen.

[Dragonrider]

What determines which message(s) are sent when you select the lists? I'm guessing that it's only the current message on the screen.

From what I understand, and I'm quite new to phplist myself, it's gonna be the currently active message, after all, you wouldn't want your old, out of date messages being sent everytime you sent a new message now would you.

[lsander]

Yes, but there's talk of a "message queue." What I'm wondering is whether that queue is only one message long. I'm thinking that it IS, but I'm new, too.

[lsander]

I think I've figured it out. You create a message and tell phplist to send it to a list. It doesn't go out until you send all the messages in the queue.

You can create another message and send it to a list, then another and another, etc.

When they're all ready to go, you tell phplist to send the messages in the queue. (I don't remember the exact dialog, but it's there.)