Email Opt-in Process
This confirmation process is known as the double opt-in process. For anyone to receive emails out of this system their address must go through these two steps:
- Be entered into the management system
- Confirmed by clicking on a link in an email sent to their email account
If they then choose to click on the link then they will be added to your list of active email addresses. However, if they don’t do anything, or opt-out they won’t get your messages.
What happens when a user is added to your group:
- If they have previously confirmed their email address they will be sent an email announcing their addition to your group. At anytime they can opt-out of your messages through their subscription management page.
- If they have not yet confirmed their email address they are queued up to receive your messages once their email is confirmed.
How do members manage their subscriptions
On every email (most often at the bottom) there is a link that will allow the recipient to manage their subscriptions. By clicking on this link they can see every subscription they have access to (your whole church email, and each group they are in), choose those they desire, or unsubscribe from all emails.
Opt out of Everything
On the subscription management page there is an option to opt out of all future emails from your organization. If they check this box and opt out of all emails, only they can re-opt in. Nothing you can do will resend a confirmation message to them. This is to protect our servers from becoming black listed by the spam blocking companies out there.
This will not affect personal emails to a person (you can still personally message them, just not through the group email system).
