Version 7.0

Important Upgrade Notes for Linux/PostgreSQL

Do not attempt to upgrade ListManager from a version of PostgreSQL other than 7.1.3. Because of a behavior change in Postgres, attempting to upgrade ListManager when using versions of PostgreSQL other than 7.1.3 will fail. See Technical Requirements for more information about supported operating systems and databases.

http://www.lyris.com/products/listmanager/software/tech_requirements.html

Important DNS Information

You may need to change your firewall configuration to allow ListManager to resolve DNS queries. See Ports ListManager Needs Open for more information.

New Enterprise Feature Set

ListManager 7.0 introduces the Enterprise feature set. The Enterprise feature set includes all of the Standard and Pro features, but also features new purchase, interest, and web traffic analysis tools. To obtain an evaluation serial code, contact your account representative.

Major New Features

Enterprise Features - The Enterprise feature set includes Enterprise, Pro and Standard features.

1. Purchase Tracking and Reporting - Monitor your members' online purchases to determine how much revenue a particular mailing generated, or to see which mailing or offer generated the most revenue. ListManager's Purchase Tags let you track individual item price, quantity sold, specific product SKUs, or any other relevant information.

2. Customer Interest and Sales Cycle Analysis - Use ListManager's Interest Tags to track how much interest list members show in your mailings, Web site, and product/service offerings. Learn exactly where your members are in the sales cycle and identify "hot leads" ready for personal sales calls.

3. Web site Traffic Analysis - Discover when and how often list members visit your Web site, identify which pages are most popular, and see how member demographics affect your site traffic.

4. Over 200 New Reports - Get a clear, visual picture of your results with ListManager's pre-built reports on mailings, members, Interest and Purchase Tracking, Web site traffic, and server performance. Use this intelligence to optimize mailings, forecast future sales, and take advantage of new business opportunities.

5. Mailing Summary View - See all of your mailing's vital statistics - sends, opens, clicks, purchases, and other information - in a single, one-page view, with convenient hyperlinks to detailed charts and reports.

6. Automated Member Update - Trigger permanent changes to a member's record when they visit certain pages on your Web site.

Pro Features -The Pro feature set includes Pro and Standard features.

1. Over 90 New Reports - Learn even more about your list members and mailing success with ListManager's pre-built charts and graphs. New reports cover delivery statistics, opens and clickthroughs, membership statistics, confirmation rates, and server performance.

2. Custom Chart Builder - Create, edit, and save customized line or bar graphs using any metrics available to you. Display averages, trend lines, high/low ranges, standard deviations, or other statistical analyses.

3. Spam Content Analysis - Test your content in advance to avoid words, expressions, and formatting likely to trigger spam blockers. ListManager's built-in checker indicates exactly which elements of your message are most likely to cause filtering, letting you fix or remove those elements and maximize your delivery rate. You can access this feature within the interface itself, as part of your usual testing procedure.

4. Database Table Manager - As a server administrator, you can now edit the members table and add or remove demographic fields within the ListManager interface itself. This feature allows you to expand and modify the member database to capture any demographic information you desire without any knowledge of SQL. You can also view any internal table, add records directly to the members table, and use segments to filter a view of the members table.

5. Ad or Text Rotation - Easy wizard inserts rotated text or HTML content in your message text. Specify the exact percentage of time each content unit appears.

6. Unique Open and Clickthrough Tracking - In addition to tracking aggregate opens and clickthroughs, ListManager now also measures opens and clickthroughs by unique recipient.

7. Track all URLs Wizard - Enable clickthrough tracking on all hyperlinks in your message with a single click.

8. Rich Media Support - Add audio and video to your email content, and track its usage from each mailing.

9. SSL Support - Be assured of secure access to the ListManager web interface using the industry standard "https" protocol.

Standard Features - Available at all license levels.

1. Template Builder Create your own fill-in-the-blank content templates that let editors without any HTML knowledge quickly and easily create text, HTML, and multipart-MIME content. Several prebuilt fill-in templates will be included in the release version of ListManager 7.0.

2. Web Unsubscribe - Increase list member trust and confidence by inserting one-click unsubscribe links or buttons into your messages. You can also give members the option of local vs. global unsubscription, request a web-based confirmation before they are officially removed, and customize the removal-completed email or web pages that they will see.

3. Content Conversion and Validation - Convert your email content to and from text, HTML, and AOL format. You can also use ListManager's content validators to detect broken links, or to strip out HTML code that may cause problems for AOL, Yahoo, or Hotmail users.

4. Over 20 New Reports - Learn more about your mailing delivery success and server performance.

5. Improved Approval Workflow - Administrators of mailing lists with many postings needing approval can now easily mass approve or reject messages, reject messages with specific feedback to the contributor, and rapidly moderate messages sequentially in order of submission.

6. Import Webpage Content - Easily build HTML messages by pulling web pages or other HTML content directly into your message, straight from the Internet. "Webfetch" can also be used to create highly effective, personalized messages containing unique customer information or targeted banner ads.

7. In-Progress Mailing Reprioritization - Change the priority or status of a message in mid-send. Completed mailings may be set to retry again, and mailings in retry may be set to done.

8. Enhanced Member Searching - Find a member anywhere in your database, on any list, using all or part of a name or email address. ListManager also includes a number of new, built-in filters for viewing different types of members.

9. Web Interface TCP/IP Security - Increase the security of ListManager by restricting web interface access for any administrator level to a limited range of IP addresses.

Minor New Features and Improvements

1. Action phrases now may search for multiple text strings.

2. ListManager will not send mail if relay server(s) are specified but unresponsive at startup.

3. The ability to save list mailings is now a separate setting for each list. The Keep Mailing and Clickthrough Data for How Many Days setting allows mailing information to be kept for reporting purposes. This setting is in addition to the universal server setting that determines how long outgoing mail should be kept,