Updated Articles

  1. How To Control Who Can Send to a Distribution Group

    To handle large Distribution Lists: You could hide these lists from the Global Address Lists, but synchronize them using Syncronym, and just the PoliteMail users would have access to these lists (and be able to create their own targeted lists), us...
  2. My Mailing List Name Won’t Validate in the To: Field

    When sending to PoliteMail Mailings lists, or local Outlook distribution groups, Outlook utilizes it’s Address Book service to validate the list and access members of the list. When a list goes into the Outlook To: field, it should appear like: [+...
  3. Mailing List not listed in menu

    Due to a limitation within Outlook, the Mailing list pull-down menu can only display 999 results. If there are 1000 lists loaded into the content library, the Mailing List pull-down menu will appear blank. Clearing some lesser used items out of your...
  4. Import Contacts Field Empty When Importing Lists

    First, make sure you are importing a .CSV file and not an Excel file (.xls). This error pops up when PoliteMail can not find any data in the headers. When you create the CSV file, or import from Exchange, you are required to have a header that ha...
  5. Not everyone on a distribution list received my message

    You've sent a measured message and not all the recipients on the distribution list have received it. You may also notice contacts missing in the metrics report. This usually requires a Support ticket so we can expand your list and see where the disc...
  6. Adding to your Outlook Whitelist

    If an email message you want ends up in your spam folder by mistake, you can prevent that from happening again by adding the sender's email address or email domain to your Outlook whitelist. In Outlook 2010+ , from the Home tab click Junk, the Ju...
  7. Creating Filtered Lists with Syncronym

    For Syncronym users, you can create a mailing list based off of the custom fields your Administrator has designated. Go to PoliteMail > Lists > Mailing Lists Select the list you want to filter. Then go to New > Filtered List .  A window app...
  8. Using Bulk Update to Change Multiple Fields in a List

    The Bulk Update feature in PoliteMail allows you to choose multiple columns within a List and add or change them to one common value. This allows for quick editing within Lists. 1.  Go to  POLITEMAIL > Lists >  Mailing Lists 2.  Click on the...
  9. Manually Opting-Out Contacts from Mailing Lists

    You can choose to manually opt-out Contacts. Once you have changed their status to Opt-Out, they will be opted-out of all mailing lists within PoliteMail. This is useful if you have a Contact that is a member of several mailing lists that you don’t ...
  10. List Operations

    PoliteMail provides you with several tools to organize your lists. Please be advised that these only apply to PoliteMail lists . Click Lists > Mailing Lists from the PoliteMail toolbar. Select/check the list name(s) you want to work with. Us...