# virtuNewsletter setup

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**Created:** [November 28, 2022, 2:08am UTC](https://community.modx.com/t/virtunewsletter-setup/6088 "2022-11-28T02:08:23Z")\
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I never used _virtuNewsletter_ myself, so take this answer with a grain of salt.

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> [@mark537](#):
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> I am not sure exactly what resource id and subject will be here.

“Subject” seems to be the _subject_ of the newsletter-email. The _content_ of the newsletter-email is defined in the resource you set with “Resource’s ID”.

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> [@mark537](#):
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> I have created these three resources with the template that contains `[[!virtuNewsletter.subscribe]] [[!virtuNewsletter.confirm]] [[!virtuNewsletter.reader]]`

I think you are mixing things up here:

These 3 resources are needed to handle subscriptions, confirmations and reading the newsletter via web.

For the _email texts_ you can either create entries in the CMP under “Templates” or alternatively create new resources. If you use resources, you have to set the system settings `virtunewsletter.subscribe_confirmation_tpl`, `virtunewsletter.subscribe_succeeded_tpl`, etc. so the program knows where to read the _email texts_ from.

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> [@mark537](#):
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> … also changed the id in core/components/virtunewsletter/elements/emails/activation-email.tpl

I don’t think “activation-email.tpl” is used in the code. You probably have to copy the content to “Templates” in the CMP or into a new resource.

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In general, the [documentation](https://docs.modx.com/current/en/extras/virtunewsletter) doesn’t seem to be up to date. I don’t know how well maintained this extra is, but maybe you want to look at alternatives.

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