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) and have full-fledged discussion lists using the included Bridge plugin
• Save as Draft support, and messages auto-saved every minute
• Stationery: keep persistant messages that you may then create new draft messages from
• Schedules: schedule single or recurring mass mailing to be sent in the future

Email Analytics

• Every Mass Mailing sent can track the following:
  • Message Opens
  • # Message Recipients
  • Clickthroughs
  • Unsubscribes
  • Bounces (soft/hard)
  • Sending Errors
  • Archive Views
  • Forwards
• Optionally, you may track the email address of your mailing list memeber
• Clickthrough links can be automatically tracked, or manually tracked (pick which links you would like to track)
• Data is presented in a variety of ways: circle graphs, line graphs and tabular data
• Data can be exported in .csv format, in many different ways: by email message, analytic type, email address, etc

Mass 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
  
• View Mass Mailing logs, and save logs to be studied later

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
• Mass update members, based on advanced queries
• View membership history of individual subscribers (subscription confirmations, subscriptions, removals, etc)

Mailing List Options

• Make your mailing list Invite-Only, Closed, Private, 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

• Edit and customize a mailing list's user-facing layout and design, as well as customize a globaly used template.
• Magic User Templates: base your user-facing template on an existing webpage
• 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 and if the field is required or not
• Change order of Profile Fields

Plugins/Extensions

• 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, complete with digest messages
• Change the Program Root Password - change the main password to Dada Mail
• Change Your List Short Name
• 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

Deployment Environment

• Run under CGI or FastCGI - easy to setup, works on inexpensive hosting environments
• Run under PSGI/Plack - high performance, perfect for very busy mailing lists