Version 5.0

Major New Features

1. Greater speed & scalability

    Supports much larger member lists, mailing histories, and site sizes (no more file size limit)

    Much faster imports of member data

2. Increased reliability & reduced risk

    Greatly reduced downtime: no need to shut server down to repack ("dbfastpack," or "dbupgrade") database

    Higher system stability due to SQL database, minimizing corruption risk

3. Fast Subset Creation

    Create list subsets fast using our easy query builders.

    "Quick Subsets" with our point-and-click menu

    "Advanced Subsets" to build your own SQL queries

    Query and segment your lists using customer demographic data, or any other fields stored in your member table.

    Define and save highly refined customer subsets using actual SQL queries, including ANDs, ORs, and NOTs.

    Improve targeting by joining your member table to data stored in external databases.

4. Extensive Message Personalization

    Personalize your message by merging in data from any field ListManager can access.

    Use conditional text to change the message sent to each member based on the criteria you select.

    Use advanced scripting to customize your messages.

5. Use an External Database

    Use your own customer database, instead of using ListManager's internal member table.

    Set ListManager to automatically update your external member table with subscription, confirmation, and bounce information.

6. Special Messaging Features

    Easily create HTML and Multipart MIME messages.

    Choose the order in which customers receive mailings.

    Exclude all recipients of a previous message from a new mailing.

7. Shortcut Wizards

8. New shortcut wizards help you create new messages, lists, and sites quickly and easily.

9. List wizard helps you quickly set up new announcement or discussion groups, automatically providing the most appropriate list settings.

Significant New Features

1.   The ability to specify the TCP/IP address ListManager uses to send out mail. Useful when installing on a machine with multiple network cards.

2.   Spanish- and Portuguese-language web interfaces now available.

3.   Enhanced documents (e.g., Hello, Confirm, etc.) that use double-byte characters, accents and HTML.

Minor New Features

1.   Retry timing now may be modified through the Server Config page of the web interface.

2.   LCP timeout now configurable.

3.   Create many members and Copy Member to Many buttons now may be removed from the ListManager web interface by modifying lyris.plc.

4.   More statistics displayed in the Server Statistics page, giving a fuller picture of what the server is doing at any time.