Dada Mail is a Contemporary Mailing List Manager,

enabling you to easily run a verified mailing list that your subscribers can trust, right on your own website.

Easily View, Search and Sort members of your Mailing List

Add, Move and Remove an address's membership from various sublists, view an address's membership history and edit an address's profile fields

Review a bouncing addresses bounce history and reinstate their subscription or permanently unsubscribe.

Track Number of Subscribers, URL Clickthroughs, Message Opens, Archive Views, Forwards and Bounces for each Mass Mailing

See a breakdown of your subscribers by domain and change Tracking preferences to find-tune your reports

Create custom profile fields and use this information in personalized mass mailings

Send messages via sendmail, SMTP or Amazon SES

Easily test and check your sending preferences to make sure mailing sending works

Send a mass mailing to all, or part of your mailing list

Customize your batch sending preferences to send as fast or as slow as your hosting setup allows

Easily monitor mass mailings, pause or stop a mass mailing and view advanced mass mailing logs

Easily Install Dada Mail

Pro Dada Subscription - $24.95/year, or $64.95 FOREVER

Pro Dada Installed - $24.95

Dada Mail helps you with managing an email mailing list, offering complete support for safe, closed-loop opt-in subscriptions, sending out mass mailings, keeping message archives and allowing you to share your messages in lots of neat ways.

You run Dada Mail on your own web hosting account, giving you complete control over your valuable mailing lists. Do It Yourself - Dada Mail is designed for small businesses in mind, to provide an economical and extremely flexible solution to reach out to your customers, fans, friends, business partners and clients. There's no monthly fee to use Dada Mail, based on sending amount or otherwise.

Interact with Dada Mail through your web browser, making Dada Mail available anywhere you have a connection to the Internet, your business computer, your smart phone, your iPad, or any other computer, while on the go.

Dada Mail is rich with features, but tries to Keep It Simple. Dada Mail is designed to favor flexibility, extensibility and ease-of-use over core speed or extremely flashy but hard-to-use features. We ship Dada Mail with sane default mailing list preferences, so you can start using Dada Mail, without causing a faux pas and keeping your subscribers happy.

Dada Mail is designed to be installed, setup and understood by regular people who have websites, but packs enough advanced features to entice more proficient users. If you've installed a bulletin board or web blog software, you can install Dada Mail.

Dada Mail can scale. Install Dada Mail on most any basic hosting account and start sending out messages right away. Mailing List growing? Switch to sending with a more powerful third-party system, like Amazon SES, where there's potentially no limit on the number of emails you may send - all without having to change mailing list mangement systems or your hosting.

Dada Mail is free software that you're able to use, modify, share and enhance under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Dada Mail is written in Perl because we love Perl. Open Source software is easier to keep current, bug free and working great and our development is open for anyone to check out or even help out.

Dada Mail is named after the Dada Art Movement, comprised of in part of an incredibly creative pocket of free thinkers that expressed themselves without boundaries during the horrific time of WWI. Dada defies actual definition (by design!) and we'd like to be surprised and delighted to learn how you use Dada Mail!

Installer

Get up and running just by filling out a few items on a form - Here's a screencast to show you the ropes. The installer can install Dada Mail along with its most popular plugins and extensions!

Web-Based

Administrate everything through your web browser. Available anywhere you have an Internet connection.

Closed-Loop Opt-In

Allow subscribers to subscribe themselves to your mailing lists securely and unsubscribe themselves at any time. Dada Mail is not for Unsolicited Bulk Email (ie: SPAM). Be a Hero, not a Zero!

Why is Closed-Loop Opt In so important?

Mass Mailing

Send out messages to your mailing list, only part of your mailing list, multiple lists at one time and from your favorite email program. Discussion lists are also supported using the Dada Bridge plugin (included with Dada Mail).

Message Archiving

Save your mailing list messages for later viewing.

Sharing

Share your messages using email (obviously) rss/atom feeds, and publicly accessible archives and via forward-to-a-friend.

Profiles

Subscribers can view/edit/update their various mailing list subscriptions. Easily.

Plugins!

Bounce Handler, Discussion Lists, Tracking, Scheduled Mailings - Dada Mail is extended by its simple plugin system.

Here's a small feature overview

Mass Mailing

Send both HTML, or PlainText Messages, using the supplied rich text editor (CKEditor, Tiny MCE)
Support for Attachments
Optionally convert PlainText messages to HTML (all HTML messages are sent as multipart/alternative)
Send an HTML message, by supplying a URL to the message (Send a Webpage). Embedded Images, and Javascript removal supported
Optionally convert CSS blocks in the head of HTML messages to Inline styles, automatically (requires CSS::Inliner, installed seperately)
Partial List Sending: send to only part of your mailing list, based on a search of subscriber's email address, and Profile Fields (First Name, Last Name, Custom Field #3, etc)
Send via any mail reader (Outlook, Apple's Mail.app, Gmail, etc) using the included Bridge plugin

Mailing Monitor

Monitor all your current Mass Mailings
View which mailing are active, queued, paused or stale
View % done of each mass mailing, speed of mass mailing, and current mass mailing send time
Pause, Pickup, and Delete Mass Mailings
Set how many mass mailings can go out at once

Membership

View and Search through (paginated) all your Subscribers, Black Listed, Authorized Senders, etc. Sort asc/desc by email address, or any Profile field.
Remove specific subscribers, as well as all subscribers at once
View individual subscribers, and update their email address, profile fields, and sublists they're a member of
View membership history of individual subscribers (subscription confirmations, subscriptions, removals, etc)

Mailing List Options

Make your mailing list Invite-Only, Closed, and/or hidden
Subscription Confirmation Options: enable/disable Closed Loop Opt-In, subscription request abuse protection, custom redirects after confirmation, subscriptions
optionally approve/deny any subscription made
subscription notices to list owner/entire mailing list
send the newest archive to new subscribers
subscribe addresses en mass via the list control panel (optional)
Send, "Welcome" and, "Farewell" messages
MX Lookup support for email validation
Unsubscription system fully conforms with CAN SPAM 2008: all messages sent in a mass mailing are required to have a working unsubscription link, that when clicked, goes to a screen with a simple one-field form, for the subscriber to type in their email address, to be removed (w/an optional email hint supplied)

Mail Sending

Send email via sendmail, SMTP or Amazon SES
SMTP sending supports SASL + POP-before-SMTP authentication, secure connections (SSL)
Set charset, content-type, message header encoding (UTF-8 is fully supported)
Mass Mailing supports batch sending: send # messages per hour, auto batch settings are supported for Amazon SES, which dynamically adjust according to your current SES sending limits.
SMTP sending supports multiple messages sent per SMTP connection; SES supports multiple messages sent per API call

Archiving

Archive your mass mail messages,
Editing support
Publically display archives, w/search
Email protection options (Spam-Me-Not ReCaptcha Mailhide)
Forward to a Friend support
Gravatar support
rss/atom feeds of messages
embed HTML feed of messages in any webpage using a simple Javascript call.

Appearance and Templates

Edit and customize a mailing list's user-facing layout and design, as well as customize a globaly used template.
Edit and customize the mailing list message template, to apply a custom header and footer to all outgoing mailing list messages.
Edit and customize various transactional email messages Dada Mail sends, including subscription confirmation, subscription successful, unsubscription successful, and forward to a friend messages
Copy the subscription form HTML needed to place a subscription form for your mailing list, on any page of your website

Profiles Fields

Add, Edit and Remove custom Subscriber Profile Fields (First Name, Last Name, Favorite Color, etc)
Set default values
Change order of Profile Fields

Plugins/Extensions

Mailing Monitor - Easily monitor outgoing mass mailings automatically and in the background, restart messages that may have stopped sending out
Tracker - View and export mass mailing analytics
Bounce Handler - Handle bouncing email addresses intelligently
Bridge - send messages from any mail reader, set up discussion mailing lists
Scheduled Mailings - send mass mailings in a time in the future, set up recurring mass mailings
Change the Program Root Password - change the main password to Dada Mail
Change Your List Short Name
Default Mass Mailing Messages - set a default mass mailing message, that can then be editing in Dada Mail's, Send a Message screen
Password Protect Directories - Password protect a directory using Apache's .htpasswd/.htaccess system, allow only mailing list subscribers access.
Log Viewer - View the various raw logs Dada Mail creates, including usage and error logs
Screen Cache - View the various cached HTML screens Dada Mail creates, and remove them individual, or en-mass.
Multiple Subscribe - allow users to subscribe to more than one mailing list at a time
Archive Blog Index - show archive messages on any HTML page using Javascript

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