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| Administration |
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Ability to set tighter administration restrictions per Administration Group. Ability to disable/enable access to create a new subscription list, Create a New Administrators, Import Subscribers, Export Subscribers, Create Message Schedules, and more. Ideal for ISP’s wishing to give very simple user access to create and send message broadcasts only |
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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 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 resources) |
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Global/System Administrator can set the maximum number of subscribers allowed per subscription list |
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Global/System Administrator can set the maximum number of subscription lists allowed for a specific administration group |
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One global Administrator can administer all lists |
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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 (optimized email sending for CF Server 6.1) |
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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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12 months free updates and upgrades as they are released |
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Application updates/fixes/new features added continuously with product update releases scheduled 1 every quarter |
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Forum available monitored by developers providing help/feedback |
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| Website Integration |
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Custom Tag provided to include in any of your sites to unsubscribe/subscribe a customer in 1 line of code |
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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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