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Here is a good tutorial for getting DirectMail to work. Good Luck!

http://www.mcuniverse.com/DirectMail-Tutorial-Start.616.0.html

I have not used Direct Mail and briefly tried TC Direct Mail before giving up and using a commercial solution. The best I can offer is some TypoScript and templates given to me by Jens at http://www.optimon.dk for Zen Wireframe. I simply have not had the time to integrate his work but it may help you with yours.

http://www.mediatech.net/fileadmin/files/zwire.dmail.zip

Greg
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Mediatech Consulting, Inc.
Phone : +1 (760) 525-1770 . Fax: +1 (760) 542-1990 . Skype: gremington

This is the first time trying to get Direct Mail to work. I have set up direct mail and can send "quick mail" as well as "external mail" but not "internal mail". Under my root page is a sysfolder with the directmail plugin on it. Inside this sysfolder I have some addresses and addresslists, and it is also directly under this sysfolder that pages are created when I try and create new newsletters.

I go to the Direct Mail module in the backend. Then, I select internal mail and click Click here to create a new page that you can later send as a direct mail. I create a standard simple page and make it visible. It then appears under the "internal mail" header and i have the possibility to view the text-only version, view the html version or just click to select this page as the one I would like to send. When I click it, the browser just thinks for 30sec and then give me an error message that say that the HTML content could not be fetched. If I earlier chose to view the HTML content, the page rendered fine in my browser but for some reason DirectMail doesn´t find it.

the URL I see when I try to select the page is http://www.mycompany.se/typo3conf/ext/direct_mail/mod2/index.php?id=
151&createMailFrom_UID=155&fetchAtOnce=1&CMD=info

I would really really like to get this up and running before Monday so I would greatly appreciate if someone could help me out or at least point me to some other forum where I can find people who know this particual extension.

The error message is below.

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An error was encountered.

The HTML content could not be fetched.


Information on direct mail record: The new newsletter
Subject: The new newsletter
Sender name: Newsletter
Sender email: newsletter@mycompany.se
Reply name:
Reply email:
Organization: Mycompany
Return Path:
Priority: Normal
Attachments:
Type: TYPO3 Page
Mail page: 155
Format of mail content: HTML
Include images and other media in HTML content:
Use flowing text format in plain text content:
Parameters, Plain text: &type=99
Parameters, HTML:
Content transfer encoding: quoted-printable
Message text character set: iso-8859-1
Is sent:
Compiled size:
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After this, when I go into the list view and take a look at my Direct Mail sysfolder.. all the newsletters that timed out are lying there under the cathegory "Direct mails" but the fields that are supposed to come later in the guide, like what date/time to send the mail, are set to some standard values.