Moving into a New Home!

At last the RoseBouquet has a new home! It is moving in this very morning. I worked the last few weeks to meet the required settings for the domain for this sending email, and finally I wrote to support. Over the weekend I got some very polite and kindly worded emails explaining that I had to do the domain verification differently. It was not coming through.

Then Sunday I got another email saying that my domain was just not "live" or authenticating as if it were there.

It is definitely there when I go online to see a webpage. Then the support person pointed out that too much time had passed so the authentication had failed. That was why the sending email was not passing either.

I sighed and gave up but was too busy most of the weekend to make a decision. Then... Sunday afternoon, when I was trying to have a nap I got to mulling it over while lying very still in the recliner, hoping for sleep. Gradually, it came to me that I had fussed and tried again and again, for many weeks, and maybe it was time to stop struggling there, and to go find a new place from which to send out the RoseBouquet.

So today (Labor Day) after I came in from my weeding hour in the garden I decided to sit down and find a new email or a newsletter sending service. I know there are quite a few and I've tried a few and found them not quite right.

So I did a search and near the end liked what I read about one called Sender. I had not seen that one before. I went to explore their site and decided that yes, this one should do. It had many good features and it even had a video course to teach how to use a mailing list for promoting various business ventures. Also, I'd have several options for styles of my ezines or newsletters.

I had no problem setting up an account but when I wanted to watch the training videos, my browser Chromium stayed mute; it would not play the narration part. (It hasn't played any videos for several weeks!) I switched the link to a tab in Windows, but there it kept wanting me to login over and over again.

Again I went to search for why my Chromium browser does not play the audio part of a video and I find no controls to adjust the settings for sound.

I tried another browser, Opera. It could play sounds, but if I transferred the Sender link to that browser, I could not login to Sender to hear that training video.

It is nearly midnight, and I'm too tired to struggle with this any more. But it seemed that a head-start writing this issue would give me more margin for setting it up in a new launch site, and reduce the tension.

I'll save a detailed review of how Sender works until another time. It does allow one to start with a free account until one has 2,500 subscribers. Photos of the people who work in that company make it seem like a great, friendly place!

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