The ListManager Web Interface
* Everything you can do with ListManager, you can do with your web browser using its extensive World-Wide-Web interface.
* You can read, contribute, search, join and leave using the web.
* Members can choose to receive messages by email, or read them on the web.
Security
* All administrative functions are password protected.
* Different security roles (list admin, site admin, and server admin) allow you to delegate rights
and responsibilities.
* Members can password-protect their accounts, or not, if they wish.
Speed
* A fast built-in mail engine can deliver mail extremely quickly.
* Modern, C++ based multi-threaded design was built with performance as the top priority.
Automatic email error detection
* Built in mailer provides unprecedented error detection.
* Every outgoing message is uniquely tagged, allowing very accurate, automated processing of bad
email addresses.
* All email errors are processed automatically by ListManager.
* Members and administrators are completely protected from "error mail."
Ease
* Web interface makes learning and using ListManager easy.
* Automated, wizard-based installation.
* Fully documented and supported.
Programmability
* Java and Tcl API and Toolkits provided free
* Programmer's Toolkit provided free.
* Online Programmer's Manual provided free.
* Source code to Web interface provided and can be customized to suit your needs.
* Secure TCP/IP communications protocol facilitates programming from any language, any platform.
* C/C++ API and documentation provided free.
Database access
* SQL Server makes importing and exporting of data easy. For example, easily import lists of email addresses.
* Complete documentation of database tables and fields.
* Data in SQL Server can be queried at any time and may be modified directly, if done carefully.
Personalize Messages
* Mail merge member information into your message.
* Conditional text and extended mail merge make your messages fully customizable (ListManager Pro or Enterprise only).
* Tcl scripting allows advanced customization of messages (ListManager Pro or Enterprise only).
Targeted Mailings
*Target your message to subsets of your larger list (ListManager Pro or Enterprise only).
*Purge recipients of earlier messages. Test your message on a part of your list, then send to the entire list—minus your test recipients.
Tracking
*Track clickthroughs, opens, clickstreams, and HTML capability.
Referrals
*Help your members invite their friends to join your list.
Multiple sites
* Supports "virtual hosts" so that many organizations can share one ListManager server, but
each appears to outsiders as separate, dedicated servers.
* Security roles and partitioning allow each site to operate independently.
Archives and searching
* Every message to a mailing list may be saved to the mailing list archives.
* Fast text searching of archives (full text indices are automatically built).
Compatibility
* Web interface works with commonly used web browsers.
* Supports all major email command syntaxes (e.g.: subscribing and unsubscribing) so that your users
do not have to learn new commands.
* Accepts list server email at all the major email addresses.
International
* Supports mailing lists using International characters.
Scalable
* Multithreaded architecture scales well on more powerful computers.
* Speed can be increased by separating SQL Server and client ListManager processes onto different computers.
* ListManager Web Interface can be run on a separate Web Server.