The mass mailer module is used to manage email mailing lists. Through the mass mailer administration menu, you can

• Create multiple lists.
• Send messages.
• Schedule messages to be sent at a specific time.
• Check on the status of sent messages.
• Browse and delete messages maintained in an archive.
• Update subscriber information or delete subscribers.

Once a mailing list has been created and made public, users can subscribe to mailing lists via the list subscriptions link in the navigation menu.

The node_import feature available in the content configuration section provides a way to import nodes and contacts for the site using comma separated values (CSV) files. It can be useful for uploading lists of contacts that were created in an Excel spreadsheet file. Since this feature allows the loading of a large amount of content into your CivicSpace database, the permissions for this feature are best configured for administrators only.

Importing Contacts

1. Create a spreadsheet with data and columns with the following headings:
• Email
• First name
• Last name
• Zip code
• City
• State
• Phone number
2. Save your file as a CSV file with elements separated by commas and data enclosed in double quotes. For example,
   

   "Email","First name","Last name","Zip code","City","State","Phone number"
   "test@none.com","Test","Test","00000","Wherever","CA","000-000-000"
   

3. Under import in the content administration section, upload your csv file and select contact from the pull down menu.
4. CivicSpace will then ask you to match your fields to the fields in the database.
5. Once you have done this, preview your results and then select import.

Importing Nodes

The process for importing nodes is the same as for importing contacts, except you will want to create a spreasheet with columns

The Drupal module uses XML-RPC to connect your site with a Drupal server which maintains a directory of Drupal sites on drupal.org. Enabling this module will also allow members on all sites using it to login to your site without registering using their Drupal distributed ID and vice versa: your members can login to any other Drupal site using a login name which looks much like an email address for your site: username@example.com.

To setup this module:

• Enable it on the modules page.
• On the Drupal module settings page,:
  • Make sure that the Drupal XML-RPC server field is set to http://www.drupal.org/xmlrpc.php.
  • Check the Enabled button
  • And save the configuration

NOTE: If you want your site listed in the directory of Drupal sites, you'll also need to provide a slogan and mission on the main configuration page.