Let me add some addition list server features: 1. Automatic generation of web-based message archive with the option to de-HTMLize such messages and strip off attachments. Selectable number of messages or date range for archive. Right now, I use Mhonarc, and it's a pain.
2. Ability to inject trailers even in HTML messages sent to the list (e.g., "this list sponsored by ..."). 3. Ability to inject X headers to assist with sorting by recipients (e.g., X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Jeff Hitchcock - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Gillis Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] 2006 Listserver hello ben, thanks - makes perfect sense, and nice workaround. we've received requests related to double opt-in/out as well as making it MUCH easier to delete multiple users from a list or to, in general, manage an entire list in a single view (as you noted below). i've incremented the feature backlog with a few of these. bye for now, kg -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of IMail Admin Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 2:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] 2006 Listserver 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 >> > >> > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >> > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >> > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ >> > >> >> To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >> List Archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >> Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ >> > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
