Self Service Mailing List Subscriptions
- Ben Weaver
Empower your patrons to subscribe to your mailing lists without the need for staff to manually add them. Follow the steps below to guide patrons through subscribing or include a link on your website to simplify the process.
Instructions
Subscribe by Email
Mailing lists can be subscribed to by sending a specifically crafted email:
From the account you’d like to subscribe, create a new email to stServ@librarydomainname.org.
In the body of the message put Subscribe listname, where listname is the name of the mailing list. The subject can be anything, even blank.
e.g For a mailing list named newsletter the message would look like this:
Website Signups
Use the HTML “mailto:” parameter to add a signup link to your website. This will open a new message with all of the above steps prefilled:
<a href="mailto:stServ@librarydomainname.org?body=Subscribe%20newsletter">Subscribe to our Newsletter!</a>
You could also use a form on your website to have patrons enter their email address and then use the info above to have the form submission send the subscription email.