Am I using the right tool?

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Am a newbie in phplist. Just finished setting it up on the server.

What I want to do:

  1. Add a subscriber (who joined a specific program).
  2. Automatically send a series of prewritten information messages to this subscriber a given time after the subscriber has been added (immediate, 1 week, 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 8 weeks…).
  3. When the subscriber leaves program the messages should stop.

I read the manual but am overwhelmed with information and didn’t get it how to do the scheduling part.

Is phplist the right tool for this? Any pointers how to set it up for a simple and reliable work flow?

Thanks!

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@silverplate phplist doesn’t directly do this but the Autoresponder plugin will probably do what you want. See the documentation plugin:autoresponder [phpList Resources]

You might want to become familiar with the basic usage of phplist first - subscribers, lists, campaigns. Some of what the plugin does might not make sense otherwise.

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Hi, just wondering if you had success with the autoresponder plugin as I’m considering phpList to do email sequences too!

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Hi Mike,

I didn’t end up going down the autoresponder route in phpList. To be honest, I ran out of patience working through the setup and decided to build my own mailer scripts instead. That way I could reuse my existing database and have very fine-grained control over personalization, attachments, and sending schedules exactly as I needed.

phpList is still a solid tool, but for my use case a custom solution felt simpler and more flexible in the end.

Hope that helps a bit — and wishing you a peaceful holiday season and happy experimenting! :christmas_tree: