I don't know that I really need three features; I think I'd settle for one:
better (easier) management of the lists.
As I just pointed out to someone else, we don't expect IMail to compete with
stand-alone products. It would just be nice to see some improvements since
V4 (which is when I started).
The one feature most lack is to make it easier to manage a list. Most
often, our lists are not changed by subscribe/unsubscribe emails, but we
someone (say in a club) who manages the entire list. It would be good for
someone to be able to pull an entire list up, edit the list, then update the
listserver. Or to upload an entire list at once.
What we've had for a while is a hack I put together some while back. The
list manager browses to a list server manager page on a web server (which is
not the mail server, since we can't run IIS concurrently with IMail on the
older versions of IMail). On this web page, you enter the domain name, the
list name, and a password. At the click of a button, it will download the
current list into a text box. You can edit the text in the box, including
just replacing it with text you copied from another document (such as Word
or Excel), and then there is an update button that pushes the data back to
the mail server. The web page actually has the option to display the list
in either a single box (name and email combined) or in two boxes (name and
email separated).
Behind the scenes, the web page uses MS SMTP and ASP to send a message to
the list server to either get or set the list. On the mail server, there
are program aliases for custom programs that I wrote in VB that update or
retrieve the list files directly. It's all a hack, but it works mostly.
The only problem is that at the web server, it has to wait on the mail
server sending get or set commands, and that can be a long wait (and
sometimes it times out and nothing happens).
So give me an easy web-based, password protected tool to access and update
the entire list at once.
Thanks,
Ben
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Gillis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 5:14 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] 2006 Listserver
Hello Ben,
thanks for your feedback.
would it be possible to provide a top 3 lists of features you are looking
for in the listserver?
bye for now,
kg
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Imail Admin
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] 2006 Listserver
Amazing. It's like buying a new Lexus hybrid and then discovering it only
has an AM radio with one in-dash speaker.
Ben
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Shanbrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 5:57 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] 2006 Listserver
still the same.
Eric S
----- Original Message -----
From: "IMail Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:40 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] 2006 Listserver
> Hi,
>
> It just struck me: can someone tell me how the list server is IMail
> 2006
> compares to the list server in prior versions?
>
> Are needs for a list server have always been modest, so it was never
worth
> it for us to invest in a separate, more powerful program. On the other
> hand, IMail's list server has always primitive, and we're always wished
> they would upgrade it. Hence my question.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
> BC Web
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