When you login to Email Autoresponder, you are shown a list of your autoresponders and broadcasts. At any time, you can get to this list by either clicking Campaigns on the menu bar or hovering over Campaigns on the menu bar and clicking Show in the drop-down list.
| • | Menu Bar - a drop-down menu giving single-click access to most areas of Email Autoresponder. |
| • | Sub-Menu Bar - a clickable list of further options relevant to the current screen. |
| • | Current Action - your current location or screen in Email Autoresponder. |
| • | News Banner - a clickable banner that we update with news on Email Autoresponder. |
| • | Last Cron Run Time - the date and time that Email Autoresponder ran its automated processes. |
| • | Action Links - clickable links to work with the information on that row of the table. |
| • | Your Email Autoresponder Version - the version of software you are running. |
Technical Sidenote - Cron Tasks and Background Activity
Email Autoresponder performs many of its resource intensive tasks as background processes. These processes continue to run regardless of whether you have Email Autoresponder open in your browser or are even connected to the Internet.
A cron task is a UNIX/Linux background process that is set to run at certain times. In Email Autoresponder the main cron task (auto.php) has several functions - for example, sending out due follow-up messages, sending scheduled broadcast messages and de-duplicating your subscriber database.
