Defining an action-based mailing is done in the corresponding section of the navigation bar, just like for any other mailing. Detailed information can be found in chapter "Creating a new mailing". The following section will only explain the differences.
1. | Call up the entry dialog for a new mailing and give your project a meaningful name, for instance Double: Confirmation. |
2. | From the Mailing list drop-down list, select the mailing list to which the subscriber wants to subscribe when he uses the registration form. This is important, because OpenEMM cannot process the confirmation mail correctly if the information is faulty. |
3. | Specify Action-based mailing as the Mailing type. |
4. | The remaining fields – Subject, Sender e-mail etc. are used in the same way as for a normal mailing. Click on Save to store your entries. |

Fig. 8.12: The action-based mailing for confirming a subscription.
5. | Open the Content tab of the new mailing by clicking on it. Create a new text module in both text and HTML format with an explanation that the e-mail is a registration confirmation and that the subscriber should confirm his or her subscription by double-clicking on the link. The link structure corresponds to the usual syntax for calling up a form:
http://rdir.de/form.do?agnCI=88&agnFN=DoubleConfirm&agnUID=##AGNUID##
For agnCI= enter your own company ID. In OpenEMM it is always 1. |
6. | For agnFN= enter the name of the third form which asks the subscriber to confirm registration. In our example, the name is DoubleConfirm. This is the exact name the form must be given. |
7. | To conclude your entries, open the Send mailing tab and click on the Activate mailing link.
If an actionbased mailing is not included in the list while creating a new action, you may have forgotten to click on Activate mailing when creating the mailing. |