Small Farm Central makes sending mailing list emails easy. Instead of sending lists of email addresses separated by commas, which can easily be marked as spam and gives your whole email list to each member which is bad form. Small Farm Central sends each email individually and includes a self-unsubscribe functionality which follows the anti-spam laws.

To find the mailing list functionality in the control panel, navigate to:
Connect / mailing list / send mail

1. Subject: The subject for your mailing list email
2. Text: The text for your mailing list email. This uses the Small Farm Central rich text editor to allow you to insert photos, links, and other formatting to your email.
3. Use this checkbox to automatically add the email to your blog. Then people can leave comments and this makes the text available for search engines.
4. Before you send your email, you should test it to make sure links, photos, and formatting works.
5. Use groups to segment your mailing list. Your site will start out with a "General mailing list" and all self-subscribers from your public site will be added to that list. You can create new groups in Administrate / users / manage groups and join members to the groups using the User functionality (Administrate / users / manage users). You must choose at least one group to send your email to or no emails will be sent.

Tips:

• Add a "mailing list widget" to your site by using a pre-made widget in:
  Display / widgets / add pre-built
• Add yourself to your mailing list so that you can make sure everything is working correctly.
• Managing successful farm email lists