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Wednesday November 04 2026
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Lesson 3.1: The subscribe form and double opt-in Updated Markdown page
Learners subscribe a test address at example.invalid on the public form, find the confirmation mail as a file, confirm through its link, and watch the subscription change from pending to confirmed. 60 minutes.
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Module 4: Sending Updated Markdown page
Previews and test sends, scheduling and sending an edition, the cronjobs and console commands, aborting a send, the archive and statistics - all on a training installation that writes every mail to a file. 3 hours 15…
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Lesson 4.4: Aborting a send, the archive and statistics Updated Markdown page
Learners abort a scheduled send before the queue runs, find what was sent in the archive, and read a send's statistics, knowing that tracking is off unless switched on and needs consent per person. 45 minutes.
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Lesson 4.3: Cronjobs and console commands Updated Markdown page
Administrators run the newsletter queue by hand with a dry run first, read the status command, and write the crontab lines for the newsletter parts on a training installation. 45 minutes.
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Lesson 4.1: Previews and test sends Updated Markdown page
Learners check an edition with the preview tabs and the preview as a subscriber, send a test to addresses at example.invalid through the file transport, and read the test mail file. 45 minutes.
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Lesson 4.2: Scheduling and sending an edition Updated Markdown page
Learners schedule an edition on the send page (date, skin, tracking), let the queue run, and find one mail file per subscriber in the outbox of the training installation. 60 minutes.
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Module 5: Bounces and transports Updated Markdown page
For administrators - how bounces come back and are handled, how a real site switches from the file transport to real sending, and the deliverability tools (rate limits, test groups, suppression). 2 hours 15 minutes.
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Lesson 5.1: Mail accounts and bounces Updated Markdown page
Administrators explain how returned mail reaches the newsletter, read the mail account form without connecting a real mailbox, follow the bounce pages and the mailbox command, and explain hard and soft bounces and the…
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Lesson 5.2: Mail transports and going live Updated Markdown page
Administrators plan the switch of a real site from the file transport to SMTP or sendmail, write the override as a paper plan, and list the sender domain records and checks needed before the first real send. 45 minutes.
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Lesson 5.3: Rate limits, test groups and the suppression list Updated Markdown page
Administrators read the rate limit settings and page, create a test group of example.invalid addresses for their list, and explain the suppression import and soft bounce retries. 45 minutes.
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Module 6: Templates and skins Updated Markdown page
The look of a newsletter - the shipped skins, HTML and text parts, placeholders, and writing a skin of your own in a design. 1 hour 45 minutes.
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Lesson 6.1: Skins and output formats Updated Markdown page
Learners compare the four shipped skins in the skin preview, explain the HTML and text parts of a newsletter mail, and use placeholders such as the subscriber's name and the unsubscribe link correctly. 45 minutes.
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Lesson 6.2: Writing your own skin Updated Markdown page
Designers and developers create a skin in their own design (html.tpl and text.tpl), register it in AvailableSkinArray, clear the caches, and check it in the skin preview and a test send written to a file. 60 minutes.
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Search: course overview Updated Markdown page
The course for administrators and developers who run search on an Exponential site, how search works, indexing, searching in practice, Solr through ezfind, tuning and troubleshooting. Five modules, 20 lessons, about 10…
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Module 1: How search works Updated Markdown page
The first module of the Search course, where people search, the built-in engine and its limits, Solr through ezfind at a glance, and choosing a backend. Four lessons, 1 hour 45 minutes.
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Lesson 1.4: Choosing a search backend Updated Markdown page
Learners weigh the built-in engine against Solr for a given site, using its size, its needs and the cost of running a second server, and write a short recommendation. 25 minutes.
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Lesson 1.3: Solr and ezfind at a glance Updated Markdown page
Learners describe what the optional ezfind extension and a Solr server add to an installation, which parts are involved, and how an installation shows which engine it uses. 25 minutes.
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Lesson 1.2: The built-in search engine Updated Markdown page
Learners explain how the built-in engine eZSearchEngine stores words in the database, how it matches words and phrases, and which shipped limits shape every search. 30 minutes.
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Lesson 1.1: Where people search in Exponential Updated Markdown page
Learners name every place an Exponential installation offers a search, who uses each one, and which rules decide what a search may return. 25 minutes.
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Module 2: Indexing Updated Markdown page
The second module of the Search course, indexing at publish, delayed indexing with the indexcontent cronjob, rebuilding the whole index, and choosing searchable attributes. Four lessons, 2 hours.