FTPZIP is a MailUp application that allows to send an email message to a defined list of recipients by simply uploading a ZIP archive to an FTP location.
This features is typically used by advanced users that have a need for configuring and sending a campaign without accessing the MailUp admin console, and without using the MailUp APIs.
FTPZIP presents different operations mode. Depending on what you are trying to accomplish, you can enclose in the ZIP archive different kinds of files such as:
- An xml file, called settings.xml (it will be used to described desired behavior of FTPZIP).
- A CSV file containing recipients for the campaign.
- An email message in HTML format.
- Images that the HTML refers to.
- Attachments to be sent with the campaign, if any.
Based on the information enclosed in settings.xml, it is possible to drive the behavior of FTPZIP application and manage the following use cases:
- Send an already defined email message to a list of recipients.
- Send a copy of an already defined email message to a list of recipients.
- Create and send an email message to a list of recipients.
- Create an email message.
Send of email message to a list of recipients. can be executed in two different ways:
- Using MailUp Massive Send (details here)
- Using MailUp Transactional Send (details here)