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Since SPIP 1.7, following the editorial activity is simplified: You can provide a mailing list email address to SPIP in the site configuration. SPIP will then automatically send a notification of new editorial activities to every member of that list.
Creating a mailing-list
SPIP does not manage mailing list by default as it is not its main purpose. You can either extend SPIP with spip-liste or use a dedicated software/Web sites to manage such functionality.
However, SPIP is able to use an external mailing list. Therfore, you must have already created a mailing list [1] and simply provide its address to your SPIP site.
Once the list has been created, you should get:
- the email address of the mailing list, where to send a message that will be forwarded to all the subscribers,
- an address (URL) of a Web page providing information about the list and where your visitors will be able to register to the mailing list.
Configuring SPIP
SPIP can be configured to send updates to a mailing list in the private area page “Site Configuration” > “Interactivity” > “Automated mailing”:
- in the section “Follow-up of editorial activity”, select “Send announcements to the address:”, more configuration options will be displayed,
- provide the email address of the mailing list. SPIP will then automatically send email notification of events (article submission, publications, etc.) to that mailing list,
- you can also provide the Web address (URL) of this mailing list. This URL will then be displayed to every redactors in the page “Follow-up the site’s activity” so they can register to the list.
If the mailing list does not provide a Web page, you can still provide the email address to use for subscribing to the mailing list (often in a format similar to: spip@rezo.net?subject=subscribe).