Content Editor

The content editor allows you to edit the message content of your mail job.

The editor consists of the main panel that displays the actual editor and an additional panel with various sections on the right.

In this panel on the right, each section can be opened and closed separately, so that you only need to see the content of those sections that are currently of interest to you. Simply click on a section header to open/close this section.

The text editor for a plain text message is a standard text editor. Use the icons in the editor toolbar for access to various editor functions.

For a plain text message, the panel on the right contains the following sections:

Merge Fields

This panel section shows all available merge fields. Click on a merge field name to insert it into the editor at the current cursor position.

Drop-Ins

This panel section is available if drop-in content is currently enabled. It lists all user-defined and system drop-ins. (Except for the social media sharing system drop-ins, see "Social Media" section below).

Click on a drop-in name to insert it into the editor at the current cursor position. Hover the mouse pointer over a drop-in name to see a short description of what this drop-in will do. See also here.

Attachments

This panel section shows all attachments that are part of the message. You can add any number of file attachments to your message, or none at all.

To edit the current attachments, click the Change link in that section. This opens a dialog where you can upload new attachments or download or remove attachments that were added previously.

Note: The LISTSERV Maestro Administrator may limit the size of uploaded files, or limit the size of email messages. Exceeding these limits by including large or multiple attachments will cause a delivery error.

Social Media

This panel section allows you to integrate social media sharing and publishing into your email. See here for more details.

Social Media Sharing

By embedding the social media sharing icons (or similar links) into your message, you enable the recipients to easily share your message with other people, on various social media.

You can either include the full {{*SocialMedia}} system drop-in or one of the specific ShareURL drop-ins.

Click on a drop-in name to insert it into the editor at the current cursor position. Hover the mouse pointer over a drop-in name to see a short description of what this drop-in will do.

Twitter Publishing

If you have given LISTSERV Maestro access to your Twitter account, then LISTSERV Maestro can automatically publish a message for you on Twitter, at the same time as the mail job is being delivered to its normal recipients. To enable this Twitter access, go to the Social Media Settings page.

With Twitter access enabled, you can click the corresponding Change link here in the panel section in the content editor to enter the message you want to publish on Twitter. The message must contain the {{MessageURL}} placeholder. This placeholder will be replaced with a URL that points to a version of your email that can be viewed in a browser. The currently configured Twitter account is also shown. This account will be used to publish the message, unless a different account is configured before the delivery time of the mail job. LISTSERV Maestro will always use the Twitter account which is configured at the moment of delivery to publish the message. If no Twitter account is configured at the moment of delivery, then the job will still be delivered, but the Twitter message will not be published.

Content Options

On this panel section you can define various options for the content

Language

Define the character encoding to be used to encode the email message.

If LISTSERV Maestro is being used in a single language environment, either with plain English or with one of the common (West) European languages, then the safest choice is always the ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) encoding. It contains all 26 common characters (both in upper and lower case), numerals 0 - 9, all the common punctuation characters and the more common special characters such as '@', '+', '*', and others. In addition, it contains many of the uncommon characters required for most West European languages, such as 'ö', 'å', 'ç' and others.
See here for more information.

Drop-Ins

Enable or disable drop-in content for the given job.

If drop-in content is enabled, then you must define non-empty opening and closing tags.
See here for more information.