E-mailing

Lightpost allows your congregation to email groups for easy communication.

How to send an email

1. First, enable e-mail messaging in the Group "Messaging" tab.

2. Next, add users to the Authorized Senders list on the group.

   1. Authorized Senders are people who are allowed to send an e-mail to this group.

3. View the Overview tab of the group to see the special "group email address" that is generated for this group. (See screenshot below as an example)

4. Send an e-mail to this special e-mail address, just like you normally would send any e-mail, from any e-mail address that belongs to an Authorized Sender.

   1. The e-mail will be sent to the entire group!

Example special e-mail address for sending an email to a group.

The intent to sending e-mails this way is that there is no need to login to Lightpost to e-mail a group. It's as simple as just sending an e-mail to get communication out to a whole group.

You can add this special e-mail address to your address book in your client for quick and easy access to e-mail the group.

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How to view email history

1. In the Admin, find the group you wish to message, and click on the group.

2. Go to the "Message History" section.

3. Click on any past message to view details about who received the emails and any errors or failures.

How are emails counted?

• Lightpost counts an email as every email sent to an individual in a group.

• If you sent an email to a group of 100 people with e-mails, that counts as 100 email messages.