Dada Mail makes it easy to take information that you want to communicate and have it reach your audience - whoever they are and however they want to. Although first and foremost a mailing list manager, Dada Mail's interoperability between different web-based formats is impressive. Consider the following walk through:
We will be taking a highly formatted message, written in a WYSIWYG HTML editor, (In this case, Dreamweaver) and send it to our email list subscribers. This message will also be available to view in your web browser in the list's archives - easily searched and resent to interested parties. The message will also be available for online syndication.
Here we go! - click on any of the below images for a full-sized version of the screen shot:
For this example, we are going to use Dada Mail's, Send a Webpage capabilities. This allows us to craft a professional looking email message in an editor we feel comfortable with - be it a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver, an online Content Management System, a simple text editor, or anything that can export HTML - like Microsoft Word.
Below is our message: (View it yourself)
Above: Original Message, viewed in the Mozilla Web Browser (large version)
Sending a webpage is as easy as giving Dada Mail the correct URL to where the message resides.
Above: The, "Send a Webpage Screen" in Dada Mail (large version)
Note: You don't have to send messages using this method - you can write the message from Dada Mail's Admin control panel in Plain Text, HTML - or both, with/without attachments. Send from your favorite mail reader using the dada_bridge.pl plugin.Dada Mail includes support for the browser based HTML Editor, HTMLArea, to allow you to author HTML messages without having to know HTML. Have Dada Mail fit within your workflow, instead of the other way around.
Advanced email readers today support sophisticated HTML rendering, allowing you to view the message you designed intact. Dada Mail's default templates are xHTML compatible - perfect for gracefully degrading in cellphones and ancient software. If you have a subscriber that doesn't have a mail reader that supports HTML - not to worry. By default, all messages sent with Dada Mail include a PlainText version - generated automatically.
Above: Receiving the Mailing List Manage in Apple's Mail.app program (large version)
Notice that unsubscription instructions are added to the beginning (and also the end) of the email message - automatically. You can edit this to your hearts delight. Don't want it? Remove it completely.
Messages created by Dada Mail are clean and well formatted. No messy code from Dada Mail means mail filters don't flag your message as suspicious just because you use complex formatting. Let your Designer off her leash.
Each message you send to your subscribers should enhance your site by adding content to it. Dada Mail's archiving abilities are impressive, allowing you to show the complex email messages you're also able to send:
Above: Viewing a publicly available message within Dada Mail (large version)
Don't want archiving? Dada Mail respects the concerns of private lists. Archives are 100% optional.
What's the point of having archives available if you can't find what you're looking for? All messages sent by Dada Mail can be searched easily from within Dada Mail:
Above: Search results for, "Fancy" brings up the message we just sent. (large version)
Provide a search for yourself and allow search engines, like Google, to search your archives too - Dada Mail's URL to your email messages doesn't contain a query string - making all your archived messages search-engine-friendly.
Breadcrumb-styled links at the top of all screens that deal with your mailing lists benifit your visitors that would rather browse.
Have your archived messages available to be sent from your visitors, to their friends! Dada Mail's plasticity of its content knows no bounds.
Send:
Above: Sending a friend an archived message from within Dada Mail. (large version)
and Receive:
Above: Receiving the archived message from a friend. (large version)
Why stop at just emailing your message? Dada Mail has support for both the popular RSS (.91) and Atom (.3) Content Syndication Feed formats.
Think we didn't notice what webblogs were doing - or syndication for that matter? Think again. Mailing List Managers have evolved -
ours, anyways...
Above: The Raw Atom Syndication Feed created by Dada Mail (large version)
Your messages can now become content on another person's site, search results in a site like, Technorati and can be viewed using a RSS News Reader. Cover all the bases. Get your message out. Not only that, but Dada Mail has support for Pinging Update Services - actively notifing people about your message.
Above: The Raw Atom Syndication
Feed created by Dada Mail
viewed in NetNewsWire - an RSS
News Reader (large
version)
Have your story make the biggest impact by having it shown to your audience in as many ways as possible - simply. Have your star content by its own best supporting actor.
Dada Mail works for you. Focus on writing your message. Allow Dada Mail to get that message out. Allow your users to focus on themselves by allowing them to receive your message in every way they want.
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Dada Mail is Free Software and is released under the Gnu
Public License.
Dada Mail is written in Perl because we love Perl.