How To Manage Anonymous Subscriptions Module
Anonymous Subscriptions is the name of the module that takes care of sending email notifications of newly published site content to users who are subscribed to site updates.
Email sending is automatic but not instant. It takes place at the next system cron job (which runs every hour, or depending on the interval settings set on the site by the Site Administrator).
1. Two ways a user or a set of users can be subscribed
I. By user sign-up
- A user can submit his email on the Sign Up for Updates form found at the site footer
- Upon entering his email and clicking submit, the system sends him an email that allows him to verify the email account
- Email contains a link that they need to click, to verify the email is legit (and not something generated by spam bots)
- Once clicked, the user becomes subscribed to site updates. He will receive email notification whenever there is new content published on the site.
- Users have the option to unsubscribe at any time, by clicking the unsubscribe link included in every email notification they receive.
- The Site Administrator can also unsubscribe any user at any time in the system if he needs to.
II. By the site administrator importing a set of emails
- Go to admin > configuration > content authoring > anonymous subscriptons > import
- In the box labeled List of email addresses, enter or paste the emails on individual lines
- Save configuration when done
2. Customising the module settings
Go to admin > configuration > content authoring > anonymous subscriptons
In the settings page you can customise the following:
- Subscription settings
For this, we just leave the settings at the their defaults.
- Email settings
You can edit the subject text and the email body text, as you wish. REplacement tokens are available to use.
- Node types (or type os posts) you want enabled for subscription notification
Right now, only Global Express and Webcasts are enabled
