Email Commands
You can create email commands to forward email coming into your PostUp site, such as newsletter replies, to a different email address.
Email commands may also be leveraged for integration purposes to import data and trigger a message. However, the PostUp team recommends using our API library to process automated imports and triggered messaging.
A user’s account settings determine the user’s level of system access. Therefore, several of the options and/ or processes outlined in this document may not be available to all users. Please contact your site administrator for additional information.
Create Email Command
- Once logged in, click on the Settings tab.
- Click on the Email Commands link.
- The Events page will appear. Click Create Email Command.
- The General Settings page will appear. Enter the name of the email command into the Command Title field.
- Enter the address match criteria into the To Address Starts With field , e.g. reply@.
- [Optional] Enter a password into the Subject Line Password field. If a value is entered, only emails with a matching subject line will be processed by this email command.
- Scroll down to the Actions section.
- Click the checkbox next to Forward Message To in order to forward the messages to a designated email address.
- Enter the email address into the Forward Message To field, e.g. monitor@postup.com
- Click one of the following radio buttons to determine how PostUp should handle emails with attachments:
- Remove attachments that contain specific file extensions, such as .exe
- Remove all attachments
- Allow all attachments
- [Optional] Click the Notify on Error checkbox to receive a notification if the email command fails unexpectedly.
- [Optional] Enter the email address that should receive the failure notification into the Send Error Messages To field.
- [Optional] Click the Reply checkbox to send an automated reply to any addresses captured by this email command.
- [Optional] Select the reply content from the Send Reply with Content dropdown menu. Users may create reply content through the Response Content link, on the Settings tab.
- [Optional] Click the Subscribe “From” Address To List checkbox to add the senders of the emails captured by the email command into a specific list.
- [Optional] Select the mailing list(s) from the Recipient Lists menu.
- [Optional] Enter a Source Description to be imported with the recipient. The Source Description should indicate how or where this email address was acquired.
- [Optional] Click the Send Welcome Messages checkbox if you want to automatically send a welcome message to these recipients. Users may configure Welcome messages by using a Send Template and associating it with a specific list.
- Click Save
Importing and Sending with Email Commands
When creating a new email command, you can use the command to import data and trigger a message. Please refer to the steps outlined below.
The PostUp team recommends leveraging the PostUp API library to setup automated imports and send triggered messages.
- Complete the first seven steps outlined in the previous section of this document and then scroll down to the Import & Send section.
- Click the Import Emailed Data checkbox to import the data included within the email message, captured by the email command.
- Select the Import Template to import the data into, or Create an Import Template.
- Click the Send to Successfully Imported Members checkbox to send a triggered message once PostUp imports the new recipient data.
- Select the Send Template from the dropdown menu or Create a New Send Template.
- Click on Save.