The Message Editor:
You may use Mailfire to create your newsletter/message in one of two ways:
Using the Mailfire WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) Editor, or the HTML Text Editor.

The WYSIWYG Editor:
This editor works in a similar way to word processing software, such as Microsoft’s Microsoft Word application. You can enter text, images, and links, edit text colours and fonts, and set backgrounds.

The HTML Editor:
Mailfire has an HTML editor, for newsletters/messages that are in HTML format.
On the messages page, you will see an “Html Paste Editor” button. Click here to enter your HTML coding.

Mailfire contains predefined templates that the Mailfire user may use as a guideline for creating their newsletter/message.

This can be loaded by clicking on the “Insert predefined template content” icon on the toolbar.
You may choose a template from the dropdown list to load into the message editor, where you will be able to edit the template to your own specifications.

To insert images into your newsletter/message, click on the “insert images” icon on the toolbar. A pop-up box appears where you will be able to upload images from your local machine into your Mailfire image gallery.



Using custom datasets within the message editor:
The Mailfire user may enter custom datasets by clicking on the “Custom Datasets” icon on the toolbar.

A pop-up box appears, with a drop-down list for the data type that should be selected, e.g. “Subscriber Information”, and in the Dynamic Data field you can select what value should be used, e.g. Name.

After clicking on “insert”, you should see the data set entered on your newsletter, which looks similar to: ??WSU::Name::Name??.

This would personalise the newsletter/message, e.g.: Hi ??WSU::Name::Name??, would then display on the side of the subscriber receiving the mail as Hi John, or Mary,
as per the name that was in the Name field of your .CSV file for that specific email address.



Attachments
Attachments can be added to your message by clicking on the attachments icon on the toolbar. The pop-up box should then give the option to browse your local machine and upload the attachment. The attachment should appear on the top of the message screen, beneath the “Subject” field.



Anchors
Anchors may be added to the message by clicking on the “anchor” icon on the toolbar. A link would then be created to jump to a certain point further on in the message as per where it was specified to link to when clicked.



Once you have successfully created your newsletter/message, click on the Save and Proceed button to go to the ‘Sending Status’ page.

This is where you would link your newsletter/message to the Mailing list that the mail should be sent out to.

On the right-hand side there is an Add Recipient Lists button. Click on this button to go to the next menu, where you would be able to link the Message to a mailing list by simply selecting the mailing list on the right-hand side of the screen. Click on the arrow pointing to the left to move the mailing list over to the Message side, which then links the message to the selected/moved mailing list.

Click on the Save and Proceed button to go back to the previous menu. You should see the message information below the Add Recipient Lists button, showing the amount of subscribers that are linked to the Message.

There is a ‘Report Name’ that has to be added in order for a report to be generated and displayed. The Schedule button allows a user to set a specific date/time for
the message to be sent out.

You may now click on the Send button to start sending out your newsletter/message.