General Features
The Lyris List Manager Web Interface
* Everything you can do with Lyris List Manager, 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.
* TCP/IP address mapping can restrict functions to a specific TCP/IP address.
For instance, only people on computers within your organization can access Lyris List Manager.
Speed
* A fast built-in mail engine can deliver mail extremely quickly.
* Built-in ultra-high-performance database engine provides thousands of transactions per
second.
* 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 Lyris List Manager.
* Members and administrators are completely protected
from "error mail".
Ease
* Web interface makes learning and using Lyris List Manager easy.
* Automated, wizard-based installation.
* Fully documented and supported.
Programmability
* Extensive Perl API and sample source code 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.
* Java Toolkit being developed.
Database access
* Uses a FoxPro/dBase compatible database format which can be read from/written to using many Database and Desktop programs.
* ODBC driver
available.
* Easy database importing and exporting of data. For example, easily import lists of email addresses.
* Complete documentation of database tables and fields.
See http://www.lyris.com/guide/ for more information.
Multiple sites
* Supports "virtual hosts" so that many organizations can share one Lyris List Manager 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 is saved to the mailing list archives.
* Fast text searching of archives (full text indices are
automatically built).
Compatibility
* Web interface works with all web browsers. We test with Netscape, Internet Explorer, Mosaic and Lynx.
* All files are fully cross platform. All
features are available on all supported platforms.
* Supports all major email command syntaxes (e.g.: subscribing and unsubscribing) so that your users do not have to learn new
commands.
* Accepts list manager email at all the major email addresses.
International
* Supports mailing lists using International characters.
* Multi-language document support. A document can exist in multiple languages, and Lyris
List Manager picks the right one.
* Automatically identifies the preferred language of users by their Internet domain (.de, .fr, etc)
* Web interface currently being
translated into foreign languages. We plan to support English, French, German, and Spanish.
Scaleable
* Runs on a wide variety of computer platforms.
* Multithreaded architecture scales well to multiple CPUs.
* Lyris List Manager Web
Interface can be run on a separate Web Server.
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