Technical Documentation geared toward the installer or administrator of Interspire Email Marketer
If you have determined that a self-hosted solution might be a good fit for your needs, what are the components needed to successfully run a self-hosted marketing automation platform? The four main components are: the software, a server, an SMTP provider, and a mailbox to collect the bounces. Self-hosting is not complicated. Let’s go over … Read more
cPanel is a popular Graphical User Interface (GUI) provided by many hosting companies to help their customers manage their servers and websites. This guide walks you through installing Interspire Email Marketer (IEM) using cPanel. The focus is on installing Interspire and does not cover the creation of email boxes for example. Please review the Interspire … Read more
This step-by-step guide will walk you through installing Interspire Email Marketer (IEM) on Ubuntu using a VULTR One-Click App Virtual Private Server (VPS). Interspire needs a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) or LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL and PHP) stack to run. Please review Interspire’s Server Requirements for more details. We will be using VULTR’s … Read more
Introduction You can configure Interspire Email Marketer to use one of the most affordable email sending services, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). This guide walks you through the steps to use Amazon SES to send email with Interspire Email Marketer (IEM). The setup consists of three main parts: The initial setup of SES in your … Read more
Version: 8.7.4 Released: May 17, 2026- Added: Column sorting to the Scheduled Email Queue so campaigns can be sorted.- Added: Optional token-based links for outbound email link workflows.- Enhanced: Autoresponder queue timing to ensure subscriber custom fields are fully saved before being queued.- Enhanced: BuilderJS isolation so editor CSS does not conflict with the main … Read more
Cron jobs are schedule based services that run on just about every UNIX and Linux server. A cron job allows you to run commands and scripts on a recurring schedule at certain times and dates that you can set in a “crontab”. It can be set to run any PHP script or any command that … Read more
The easiest way to let people signup to your contact list is to create a subscription form. Using the IEM form wizard it’s a simple matter of a few clicks to generate the HTML code for a subscription widget or form that you can add to any page on your web site. The example widget … Read more
What is Automatic Bounce Processing Automatic bounce processing allows the application to periodically login to your bounce email account, download your bounced emails, analyze them and categorize them accordingly depending on the severity of the bounce, then set your contact’s status accordingly. What are Email Bounces Bounces are emails that are not delivered to the … Read more
Server Requirements Ensure your hosting environment meets the application requirements below: Please download and run check_iem.php to help verify that the system requirements are met before starting the installation. Once you have verified the requirements, follow the simple instructions outlined in the Installation Guide. We also provide step-by-step installation guides for VPS environments running Ubuntu … Read more
Introduction The Interspire Email Marketer XML API is a remotely accessible service API to allow Interspire Email Marketer users to run many of the Interspire Email Marketer API functions using XML requests. The Interspire Email Marketer XML API makes it possible to programmatically update and use your system without needing to physically access it. As … Read more