Configuration - Basic Settings

With the values entered here the fields Sender's name, Sender's email or Reply to email of each newsletter will be preallocated. They may be overwritten in each newsletter individually. At a new installation they are predefined with the values of your Joomla!^® configuration.

If the fields Sender's name, Sender's email or Reply to email remain empty they will be filled automatically with the data of your Joomla!^® configuration. But I suggest to enter these data to become independent form changes in Joomla!^® core.

Here you can set the Infos that are required by law.

This text appears directly above the links to edit or cancel the subscription.

Here You may enter a language string. Then it will be translated automatically to the correct language.

Here You can define, that selected categories of articles are not available for selection for the newsletters. If nothing is selected, all articles of all categories may be used for newsletters.

Next you can enter how many newsletters will be sent at once. Some providers don't like it, if you want to send too many mails at once. Thus BwPostman never sends all newsletters at once, but in blocks except the entered value is higher than the number of recipients for this newsletter/mailing list. The default value is 100.

Below you set the time, that shall BwPostman wait, until the next block will be sent. BwPostman only accepts positive integers. All other values will be interpreted as 0.

You can select whether the entered value means minutes or seconds.

Before version 2.10 of BwPostman all newsletters were unpublished after sending. Per default this is still the same. Since version 2.1.0 of BwPostman here You can set, that a newsletter is published after sending and visible at front end, once it is sent.

The file created at backup tables as a XML file, which may reach remarkable size easily. This may cause problems at restoring, because providers only allow upload of files until a specified limit. Because of this, since version 2.1.0 of BwPostman there is this option, which is set to on at a new installation.

May I do some commercial for me? If not, then select no.

To find errors related to BwPostman more simply, BwPostman has an own logging system, which writes the messages to an own log file. This file resides at the log folder of Joomla!^® at the sub folder bwpostman and is named BwPostman.log. Since version 3.0.0 the Log Level is selectable at the options of BwPostman, defaults to Error and should not be changed to prevent a log file, which increases too largely. Further settings are Warnings, Info, Debug and Development. Especially the last both settings are very verbose, write a lot of data to the log file and should be used carefully!