Scheduling a Direct Mail Campaign

You use the Mail Schedule section of the Campaign Manager screen to schedule the start times and end times for a direct mail campaign, and to specify how often the direct mail is to be sent.

To schedule a Direct Mail campaign

1. In Campaigns, click Campaign Manager.
   
   
2. In the Campaign Manager screen, select the direct mail campaign you want to schedule and click on the toolbar.
   
   
3. In the Campaign Manager <Customer> <Campaign> <Direct Mail Item> (direct mail ID: <number>) screen, in the Mail Schedule section, do the following:

   Use this	To do this
   Start date	Type or select the start date for the campaign from the drop-down calendar.
   End date	Type or select the end date for the campaign from the drop-down calendar. The End Date box will be unavailable if the direct mailing interval is set to one time only.
   Start time	Select a starting time from the drop-down list for the campaign.
   Mailing interval	Select how often you want to send the mail from the drop-down list.

   
   

   Note

   • Several options are available for the mailing interval. Depending on the option you select, boxes are displayed that you use to select the recurrence pattern for the campaign.
4. To save the schedule with the direct mail campaign and return to the Campaign Manager screen, click on the toolbar.

The schedule is saved with the direct mail campaign.

Note

• If SQL Server Agent is stopped while a scheduled Direct Mailer job is running, the Direct Mailer job will stop running and cannot be restarted. When a scheduled job is stopped in this way, there is no indication that the job has failed. You must restart SQL Server Agent, and then restart the Direct Mailer job.

See Also

Creating a Direct Mail Campaign