E-List Distributor 5.2

E-List Distributor 5.2 offers a quite good supporting tool for dealing with problems with customers. This is a software that gives you a compact and fast solution to all those and other problems that can arise when you are actively communicating with your customers.

Whether you have a small business or large enterprise, there is always a problem of communicating quickly and reliably with your customer base and your subscribers. When you need to let them know you have a new product or a special promotion, it is very tiresome to email each and everyone of them individually. And when your customer database is large, even such an obvious task as sending the invoices or tracking the packages sent by regular mail, could become a major problem.

You are supported with all possible SMTP Servers and protocols like SMTP, ESMTP, SSL, TLS and  multiple types of authentication to choose from. Subscribe, unsubscribe and bounceback processing have been built using flat file or email directly from your POP3 mailbox. This way, you can be CAN-SPAM act compliant without too much hassle. Outsourcing your emailing is expensive and makes sense only in a few, select cases.

Major Features:

1. Multithreading: E-List Distributor utilizes a windows multithreading technology so whenever a new email message is generated, one of the available threads (user can specify the number of threads standing by) will grab the message and send it.
   
2. Multiple SMTP Servers:
   
   • When you send mail messages, they usually go through an SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) Server, that is located on your Internet Provider.
   • If you are like most regular users, your Internet Provider gives you just one SMTP server. This should be more than enough for most uses, but in cases where you need to send large amounts of emails out fast, for example, when you need to deliver financial information bulletin to your users, you might want to consider sending it through more than one Server. This way you will reduce the load on each individual server and cut your send time proportionally.
   • E-List Distributor allows you to specify any number of connections and manages an even distribution of load automatically.
   • It will drop some connections as necessary, if part of the servers are not responding or busy.
3. Standard Message formats: E-List Distributor allows you to create a message in all popular formats used today. You can create a plain text, HTML or even use Microsoft Outlook Express, to generate a rich media content message, or to cut and paste a web page.
   
4. Macro substitution: This feature will help you create customized and personalized messages for your users. each individual message sent out will be created and packaged from the database, so that you can address your users by name, or even create an invoice to the user specifying their balance.
5. Filtering:
   
   • Not all customers are equal, some want to get certain promotions and newsletters, others want to receive something else. How will you manage who gets what?
   • E-List Distributor comes with a set of filters that allow you to enable or disable particular users in the list just before you do the actual sending.
   • Using this feature, you can temporarily disable some users that decided not to get that particular type of correspondence, and then re-enable them at a later time.
   • This way you don't need to create a separate list for each mailing thus avoiding a maintenance nightmare, that would have otherwise been created.
6. Removing duplicates:
   
   •  Sometimes you will get the same email address more than once for one customer. To avoid sending multiple messages to that customer, you will need to scan your lists regularly for the duplicate emails. E-List Distributor automates that feature and lets you do it with one push of a button.
   • It will even check if all the rest of the information for that customer is different in two places, and merge them into one complete record.
7. Scheduled send:
   
   • When you need to send your postings at certain predefined times (for example a daily newsletter). You can use E-List Distributor's schedule facility.
   • It allows you to set multiple time intervals for sending mailings so you can fully control the times when it happens.
   • Moreover, when the schedule turns sending off, you can manually override it to continue the sending or stop it completely.

Enhancements: Missing disconnect problem is fixed for the pipline mode.

Requirements: Windows 98/ME/XP/2003/Vista.