Section 4 What’s New in the LISTSERV Maestro 3.3-4 User Interface

Version 3.3-4 of LISTSERV Maestro has several new features in the User Interface. This section gives you detailed information about the following new features:

•	The ability to produce and display results from several spam checkers. For details, see Section 3.1 Spam Checking Your Email Jobs.

•	For specific recipient types, there is a new option on the Summary screen that lists how many recipients would receive this job if it were delivered immediately. For details, see Section 3.2 Previewing the Recipient Count.

•	The ability to hide the CSV “just before sending” recipient option when defining recipients for an email job. For details, see Section 3.3 Hiding the CSV “Just Before Sending” Option in the Define Recipients Wizard.

4.1 Spam Checking Your Email Jobs

Important: Spam checking your email jobs is an advanced feature. In order to get the L-Soft-provided SpamAssassin check, you must be running LISTSERV 15.6 (which will be released in the near future) and you must have a current maintenance.

Spam checking your email forwards the currently defined email content, augmented with the sender settings such as the From: address and name, to the spam filter that is configured at your LISTSERV host. The spam filter creates a report that includes a decision whether or not the message is classified as spam. The report contains valuable information about what aspects of the message might cause it to be classified as spam.

Email messages of a large email job will almost certainly pass through a spam filter on their way to the intended recipients. Therefore, we recommend that you check the spam rating of your message from such spam filters, to evaluate if your message may be classified as spam (which would impede the deliverability of your message).

For a message that has not yet been checked (since it was last edited), click the Check message for spam link to initiate the spam check.

Figure 4-1 Spam Checker Link at the Delivery Test Screen

For a message that has already been checked, the spam classification (classified as spam or not) will be displayed. Click View results to view the detailed results of this spam check, or click Repeat spam check to initiate a new spam check.

Figure 4-2 Spam Checked on Delivery Test Screen

Notes: The exact contents of the spam report and, most importantly, the performed spam tests and how they are rated, depend strongly on the configuration of the spam filters that are being used. If the report classifies the message as spam and this decision appears to be in error, please contact the administrator to review the configuration of the spam filters.

In addition, the spam rating given by your spam filters can only be used as a general guideline when trying to evaluate if your message may be classified as spam. The actual spam filters of your recipients may be configured differently than your spam filters which are used by LISTSERV Maestro to determine this rating. Therefore, a message that passes your tests may still be classified as spam by a recipient's filter, or vice versa. For additional details, see the online help.

Figure 4-3 Example of a Spam Rating Result

Click [OK] to return to the Delivery Test screen. Click [Download Spam Check Results] to review the settings of the mailing before returning to the Delivery Test screen.

Important: The exact contents of the spam report and, most importantly, the performed spam tests and the assigned penalty points depend strongly on the configuration of the spam filter that is being used. If the report classifies the message as spam and this decision appears to be in error, please contact the administrator to review the configuration of the spam filter.

In order to get the Local tabs shown in the figure above, you need to set up your own scripts to do the spam processing. What goes into those tabs and what those tabs are named are completely up to the person who writes the scripts. Details for writing your own scripts will be available in the LISTSERV 15.6 documentation when released.

4.2 Previewing the Recipient Count

If you use certain recipient types when defining an email job, then you can preview how many recipients would receive the email job if it were delivered now.

The following recipient types can be previewed:

•	CSV “just before sending”

•	Maestro database select “just before sending”

•	Target group based on “just before sending”

•	Target group based on “Maestro database select just before sending”

•	Target group based on “HRL”

If one of these recipient types is selected, then the Click Here link is available on the Summary screen so you can preview your recipient count.

Figure 4-4 Define Recipients Summary Screen with New Link

Once you click this link, the Summary screen will display how many recipients would have received the job and a sample of the first 10 recipients so you can make sure you are sending the job to the correct recipients.

Figure 4-5 Previewing Recipient Count

4.3 Hiding the CSV “Just Before Sending” Option in the Define Recipients Wizard

For the Define Recipients wizard, the option to load recipients just before sending is only visible if the administrator has defined at least one folder in the Recipients Upload Restrictions section on the Recipients Restrictions screen in the HUB.

Figure 4-6 The Recipients Restrictions Screen in the HUB

Once this option is defined, the Load recipients just before sending from a server file option is available on the Source screen of the Define Recipients wizard.

Figure 4-7 The Source Screen with the Load Recipients Just Before Sending Option Enabled