General Features

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. See http://www.lyris.com/guide/ for more information.

* 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

*Assist your members to 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 all web browsers. We test with Netscape and Internet Explorer.
* 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.
* Multi-language document support. A document can exist in multiple languages, and ListManager picks the right one.
* Automatically identifies the preferred language of users by their Internet domain (.de, .fr, etc)
 

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.