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| Administration |
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Global
Administrator can create Admin Groups and Users within these groups.
This allows a system administrator to control/administer all lists
setup in system and also allow an individual user to only access and
administer those lists/subscribers/messages/etc that are part of his
administration group/level. |
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Global Administrator can set site defaults for number of records displayed for subscribers, lists and messages |
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Global/System
Administrator can set the maximum number of broadcasts per day allowed
per subscription list (useful for controlling over usage of system
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Global/System Administrator can set the maximum number of subscribers allowed per subscription list |
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| Auto Responders |
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Create subscribe and unsubscribe auto responders for your subscription lists |
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| Bounce/Undeliverable Mail Management |
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Ability to delete all bounced emails with 1 click |
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Ability
to set unlimited sets of bounce exceptions or phrases that will cause a
bounced message to be ignored per subscription list |
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Automatic handling and flagging of email addresses that have bounced due to exceeding mail box quota |
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Automatic handling of bounced E-Mail addresses |
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Bounce Management Control Panel - ability to selectively delete bounced email addresses based on selection criteria |
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Log of bounced Email Addresses (date of bounce and number of times bounce recorded) |
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| Campaign Tracking/Click Thru Stats |
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Ability
to enable drill down click through link tracking to log email click
through by actual subscriber email address. Click count and click
date/time are logged and fully accessible from click through admin
screen |
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Full link tracking for HTML messages built in, logs total click count for a link and date |
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View click through statistics graph as either pie chart or bar chart |
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| Email Messages/Campaigns |
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Ability to broadcast to a single email address (great for sending a test before broadcast to entire list) |
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Ability to disable Unsubscribe link from all broadcast email messages |
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Ability to preview how your HTML message will look when broadcast |
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Add
and Update one of more attachments with your email messages/campaigns
allowing for broadcasting of full HTML messages including attachments. |
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Built in WYSIWYG HTML editor for creating HTML messages visually (IE 5.5 or above on Windows platform required) |
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Create
an unlimited number of schedules per message! Allowing scheduled
broadcasting of any individual message to any group of subscribers on
your list |
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Create Message Templates Easily |
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Create Multi-Part Messages (HTML and Text) or just HTML or Text Messages |
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Easily transfer Messages between different Subscription Lists |
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Import
a web page directly into your HTML message, now with ability to disable
browser based editor to effectively import entire web pages and not
have Internet Explorer remove opening and closing tags and select
header tags |
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Include Personalization variables enabling creation of personalized email messages
[First name] [Last Name] [Email] [List] and more |
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Sent
Count Log (every time a broadcast is sent it is recorded and logged).
This now features recording of actual start date/time of broadcast and
completion date/time of broadcast and if broadcast was completed
successfully. |
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WYSIWYG
Editor now features "Microsoft Word HTML cleanup" functionality, paste
in your HTML message created in Word and instantly have it cleaned of
all the non-standard HTML tags. |
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Your
email messages/campaigns are sent from the address you establish as
your from address and are created as individual messages to the
recipients address (no cc or bcc used) |
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| Installation/Setup |
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Full
support for either Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL as your database
server, Access database is also provided for testing purposes
(production use of Access database is neither suggested nor supported) |
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Super
easy setup procedure, copy the maillist directory to your web server,
create an empty database in your preferred database server (MSSQL or
MySQL currently supported) run the supplied setup page - all tables
will be created in your database including default and test data -
login to the administration pages and start working! |
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Very
easy to use setup page that enables quick creation of your MSSQL or
MySQL tables required for installation, also creation of your main
administrator username and password and global setting of your DSN. |
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| Subscribers |
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Added
Custom Fields for storage of additional data per subscriber, powerful
new feature for storage of extra demographic data (5 custom fields
available). |
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Administrative access to enable and disable Double Opt-In functionality |
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Double-Opt
In Subscribe functionality (sends a confirmation email to subscriber
with a verification ID and link for subscriber to confirm their
subscription request) |
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Easy
import form for importing an entire list of subscribers into your list
(all duplicates and malformed addresses auto removed!) |
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Once click easy export of entire subscriber list to a Comma Separated Value file (CSV) |
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Search for an E-Mail address within subscription list |
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Subscribers can subscribe/unsubscribe via email or HTML form |
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Subscribers who unsubscribe are stored in a removed table (for deletion or easy re-activation) |
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| Subscribers (Sub Groups) |
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Create subsets or subgroups of your subscriber list for easy broadcasting to a sub group of your subscribers or the entire list |
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Create
subsets or subgroups of your subscriber list quickly based on simple
search criteria based on any field in the subscriber table including
Custom Fields. |
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Save, update, delete and re-seed unlimited number of subscriber groups |
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| Subscription Lists |
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Create and administer an UNLIMITED number of subscription lists from one administration interface |
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Each List can have global HTML and Text Header and Footer |
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Each List can have UNIQUE set of Administrators |
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| System Information/Performance |
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Ability
to send broadcast in email batches you specify and at an interval you
specify (e.g batches of 100 messages at a time at an interval of 30
secs). Eliminates page timeouts and other issues due to busy/slow web
servers or mail servers. |
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Pop-up
window with real-time progress bar displays number of messages sent /
number of messages remaining to be sent. (*Note - this indicates the
number of messages prepared by ColdFusion Server and readied to be sent
to SMTP Server not the actual progress of these messages being sent on
the SMTP Server, this will vary greatly depending on the speed of your
SMTP server) |
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Setup
files supplied for creation of Microsoft SQL Server database tables as
well as MySQL database tables (Access mdb file also provided for
testing purposes only - not suggested for production use) |
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Tested
and developed on MSSQL Server / MySQL and Coldfusion 4.5/5/MX/6.1 on
Windows and Linux |
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Tested extensively with mail lists in excess of 10,000 subscribers |
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| Updates/Upgrades/Support |
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Free customer email support |
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Application updates/fixes/new features added continuously with product update releases scheduled 1 every quarter |
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| Website Integration |
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Example
subscription form and response form also provided to incorporate a
subscribe/unsubscribe form into any page on your web site |
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