General Features

Aurea List Manager has a lot of features and the main features are discussed below:

The Aurea List Manager web interface

• Everything you can do with Aurea List Manager, you can do with your web browser using its extensive World-Wide-Web (WWW) interface.
• You can read, contribute, search, join and leave using the web.
• Members can choose to receive messages by email, or read them on the web.

Security

• All administrative functions are password protected.
• There are different security roles (list admin, site admin, and server admin) which allows you to delegate rights and responsibilities.
• The members can password-protect their accounts, or not if they wish.

Speed

• Aurea List Manager fast built-in mail engine can deliver mail extremely quickly.
• The modern C++ based multi-threaded design was built with performance as the top priority.

Automatic email error detection

• The in-built mailer provides unprecedented error detection.
• Every outgoing message is uniquely tagged, allowing very accurate, automated processing of bad email addresses.
• All email errors are processed automatically by Aurea List Manager.
• The members and administrators are completely protected from error emails.

Ease

• The web interface makes learning and using Aurea List Manager easy.
• It incorporates an automated, wizard-based installation.
• Aurea List Manager has in-built web-based support.

Programmability

• The Java and TCL API and toolkits are provided free.
• The programmer's toolkit is provided free.
• The online programmer's manual is provided free.
• The source code to web interface is provided and can be customized to suit your needs.
• The secure TCP/IP communications protocol facilitates programming from any language and platform.
• The C/C++ API and documentation is provided free.

Database access

• The SQL server makes importing and exporting of data easily. For example, easy importation of email addresses into lists.
• There is a complete documentation of database tables and fields.
• The data in SQL server can be queried at any time and may be modified directly if done carefully.

Personalize messages

• You can mail merge member information into your message.
• The conditional text and extended mail merge, makes your messages fully customizable (Aurea List Manager Pro or Enterprise only).
• The Tcl scripting allows advanced customization of messages (Aurea List Manager Pro or Enterprise only).

Targeted mailings

• You can target your message to subsets of your larger list (Aurea List ManagerPro or Enterprise only).
• You can purge recipients of earlier messages. This allows you to test your message by sending it to a segment of your list, then send to the entire list minus your segmented recipients.

Tracking

• Aurea List Manager has clickthroughs, opens, clickstreams, and HTML tracking capability.

Referrals

• Aurea List Manager helps your members invite their friends to join your list.

Multiple sites

• Aurea List Manager supports virtual hosts so that many organizations can share one Aurea List Manager server, but each appears to outsiders as separate and dedicated servers.
• Aurea List Manager has security roles and partitioning which allows each site to operate independently.

Archives and searching

• Every message to a mailing list may be saved to the mailing list archives.
• Aurea List Manager allows fast text searching of archives (full-text indexes are automatically built).

Compatibility

• The Web interface works with commonly used web browsers.
• Aurea List Manager accepts list server emails from all the major email addresses.

International

• Aurea List Manager supports mailing lists using International characters.

Scalable

• The Aurea List Manager multi-threaded architecture scales well on the most powerful computers.
• Aurea List Manager speed can be increased by separating the SQL Server and client ListManager processes onto different computers.
• Aurea List Managerr Web Interface can be run on a separate Web Server.