Before you can use a text file of email addresses it has to be in a format that Mailloop accepts.
To open the text file that you have imported from an address book you must use a text editor such as Notepad.
1. Open Notepad from Start>Programs>Accessories>Notepad.
2. Open the csv file of addresses that you saved.
The names and addresses will look something like this:
First Name,Last
Name,Email Address
Jane,McDonald,jane123@yahoo.com
John,Smith,jsmith@emailcity.com
Scott,Green,greens@infofinders.com
The most important part is to get the column headers into the format that Mailloop will recognize. The header row must look like this:
"[firstname]","[lastname]","[email]"
It must look exactly like that!
Notice:
§ the quotations marks,
§ the square brackets,
§ the commas, and
§ no spaces anywhere in the row—no spaces or hyphens in the words either.
If you just want a list of email addresses, you do not need the quotes. For example:
"[email]"
tony@yahoo.com
Jim@hotmail.com
jessica@microsoft.com
3. Change the header row into the correct format.
Remember that each word in brackets and quotation marks represents a column. So if you have an address with no first name you have to represent that column with double quotation marks: “”.
They have to look like this:
"[firstname]","[lastname]","[email]"
Jane,McDonald,jane123@yahoo.com
John,Smith,jsmith@emailcity.com
Scott,Green,greens@infofinders.com
4. Save your file again, this time as a text file (with a .txt extension). If you opened this file with Notepad then it will automatically save the file as a .txt file.
5. Open Mailloop, click List Processor and Single List Operations.
6. Open the text file by clicking the Input List folder icon.
7. Select whether you want to sort by FIRSTNAME or by EMAIL.
8. Click Clean.
9. Click Save Results To, and name the file and location where you want to save it.
10. Click Run.
If the process has been successful, the following dialog box will be displayed.
11. Click OK.
When you have “cleaned”
the text file, your list will look like this: "[firstname]","[lastname]","[email]"
"Jane","McDonald","jane123@yahoo.com"
"John","Smith","jsmith@emailcity.com"
"Scott","Green","greens@infofinders.com"
Now the file can be used in Mailloop as a mailing list file.