Target Group Definition - Send to a LISTSERV List

To create a new target group, select New Recipient Target Group... from the menu (or go via the right-click menu of the Target Groups node or a target group folder in the subscriber warehouse).

Note: If the new target group has not the desired type "Send to a LISTSERV List", you can change the target group type on the source page.

This Target Group Definition wizard lets you define a target group of the "Send to a LISTSERV List" type that can then be used in the recipients wizard to define the recipients of a job.

The wizard for a target group of the "Send to a LISTSERV List" type has multiple pages:
General, Source, Source Details, Parameters, Input Layout, Input Preview, Recipients Details, and Summary.

The top row of the wizard displays links to each of these pages. The page that is currently open is marked with a highlighted background color. Depending on the choices made on some of the wizard pages, other pages may become disabled or may be shown in different versions. If a wizard page is disabled, then it means that this page is not necessary with the current choices and can safely be ignored.

Recipients Details Page: Customize Merge Header Names

This screen allows viewing and, in some cases, defining additional details about the recipients data.

If mail merging is allowed according to the list header keywords, additional data may have to be provided manually. If the list contains additional recipient data (only possible for "DBMS-backed" lists), then the names of the recipient data columns as additional mail merge columns may be provided (this is optional). Enter the names of the additional recipient data columns desired to be used as mail merge values into the text box, one name per row. Any non-empty row will be interpreted as a merge name (leading and trailing spaces are removed).

Only enter merge names that actually exist as recipient data in the LISTSERV list.

The merge names entered here become the names of the available mail merge text placeholders. For example, if a merge name is used (enclosed in "&" and ";") in the message body or subject, then this field will be replaced with the corresponding value for the given subscriber. (For more information on mail merge text placeholders, please see the LISTSERV Maestro User's Guide.)