RoboMail Feature List

Latest Release Version 7.6 & Added Features

• Email Cleaning, verify if emails exist before sending.
• New reporting pages
• Compression of body file traffic to tunnel machines reducing bandwith usage by 50% or more.
• Beta version of centralized DNS command and control to all clones.
• Improved View,Click and Unsubscribed tracking numbers with faster interface response.
• Single email tracking system with greylist support and php/mysql API for integrating opt in applications.

Standard Listed Features:

Version 7.2

• IP connectivity reports
  Per campaign, see how well your ips are doing with your reporting domains with success, deferral, and failures per ip.
• MD5 Suppression Support
  We now support MD5 suppression lists, when you load a suppression list.
• Redirect HASH strings
  New fancy redirect links.
• AOL / YAHOO / COMCAST
  Feedback and SCOMP reporting now supported for all of these ISP
• Honeypot Spamtrap Crawler
  Coming soon, will be able to search for known domain problems.
• PHP redirects & unsub
  PHP pages you can now insert your own php code into the redirect for pop-unders, google analytics, and more creative stuff.
• Start Mailing Domain Restriction
  New option to the start mailing page which enables you to cut/paste up to 15 domains to mail TO or DO NOT mail TO.
• DNS Over Ride
  Allows you to tell robomail exactly what IP to send TO from your list of receiving domains.
• DKIM and DomainKeys
  We now support 100% DKIM instead of DomainKeys (same authority different method)
• rbpurge on load
  Coming soon, when you load a list you'll have the option of running a scrub against the list you just loaded
• ip prediction
  Algorithm for maintaining optimal ip health. Can predict when you are getting deferred and act accordingly. Uses large db structure per campaign.
• mvision
  Improved tracking conditions. Can tell per campaign per email if it's gone into inbox, spam/junk folder, trash folder, forwarded to someone, or a personal folder. Evalutes at per email address recipient level. Can sometimes determine if "inbox" without the person opening up the email. Can tell email delivery method. ie Mobile Device (and which one: iPhone/Blackberry), MUA (Thunderbird/Outlook/Mozilla), Web Mail, and more

Campaign Scheduling Priority
This feature lets you start a new campaign and have it jump the line of currently scheduled mailings. This can save time if you want to send out a test mailing in front of an already scheduled campaign.

Database Optimization - DbOpto 7.2
After a complete system review of all database transactions we've found several bottle necks and corrected them. The result is version 7.2 DbOpto. The end result is clicks, views, unsubscribes respond faster to the user and bounces are processed faster. A new daemon program runs on the database server to handle updating campaign information from clicks/views/unsubs/bounces.

Users also get a complete and centralized log of all view/click/unsub/bounce activity from all machines in the database tables clickthru_log, viewed_log, unsub_log and bounce_log. The Optimizations also expand the number of active machines in a cluster.

Tunnelers - RbTun
Full production tested tunnelers are here. We completed the final stage of testing by successfully mailing across packet fragmenting and bandwidth saturated networks. Click For Prices.

robo-it
Take a peak behind the curtain on our development teams while they work on one of the coolest features that every RoboMailer has been waiting for! Code named robo-it, is a brand new utility tool that is going to be added to all the new licensed copies of RoboMail. That means no additional costs to current customers who are up to date with their licensing of RoboMail. Cool so far, eh?

• what does robo-it do?
  • Whether you have a stand alone machine or a large array of machines this feature will be for you. In short, robo-it will allow you to modify ip allocation and dns for each and every one of your server(s) from a center command [roboadmin]. The goal of this feature, when completed, will give robomailers: a user friendly, web based interface (probably in the section where you edit your current clone configurations) to allow even the most non-technical people to change dns settings on the fly without logging into a single machine. A simple control panel for a complex configuration. Robomailers will have an easy and automated way of adding domains, modifying hostnames, changing ips, and more.

    The implications to our CFO are profound, inter7 will loose money. We currently have plenty of clients who contact us daily to perform this service for them, and we don't do it for free. If you are one of those folks who currently contact us to add domains or ips to your robomail machines you're going to be even more excited because it is probably going to save you time and a ton of money, because you'll be able to simply "do it yourself". This is great news because it will gives robomailers the control and power for either setting up new RoboMail machine(s) or configuring your current RoboMail machine(s). Awesome so far?

  • so when is IT going to be ready?
  • Not soon enough for most, we are being told by those who have heard about it through the grapevine. Keep your pants on. IT is not going to be ready tomorrow. Here is the status of IT and where we are in the development of IT, DO keep your eyes and ears peeled when IT gets release because you are most definitely, most surely going to want it. Firstly, we have already started. Secondly, the chief development guru in charge of this feature has informed us last week that the main core code is done. Oh man sweet, awesome, totally hot! This means his team now has the task of writing the specific modules needed by our beloved robomailers... They of course need to test, and finally, put all the modules on top of the core code. Yes, it's really happening. Sure, it's still under development but we are really excited about the progress already made and even more excited about the capabilities of empowering our customers to have. The impact for a robomailer to have more automation is priceless, saving money does hurt neither wink, wink. Each and every morning we have a mandatory company wide status meeting that includes amongst a lot of other things, the update on robo-it. For those of us involved with robomail at inter7 but not working on the development side of this feature, it is a hot-hot topic for us to hear about all the news of how robo-it is moving right along.We are so stoked and we hope you will be too.
• RoboGEO
  • Supports tracking for Country, State, City, Zip
  • Tracking links activate redirects for urls, are passed to be GEO decoded.
  • Pull, extract, send data from lists based of GEO codes.
  • Very accurate geoip data to cross reference co-registration data.
• RoboMail (ASP) Multiple Mailers
  • Support for ASP usage. Mailing users can be added to the system and access to various lists and machines can be managed by the Administrator user.
  • RoboMail customer can now, "lease" or "rent" their machines out to multiple Mailers.
  • Mailers can be granted "rights" to use ip_groups and or clones
  • Mailers can also have the ability to share "lists" or create and manage their own.
  • Seperate body/from/subject folders for Mailers
  • Seperate log-in access to view their own campaigns, and start mailings
  • Become an ESP (Email Service Provider) for your Mailer customers
• RoboAdmin Interface
  • Support for starting a new mailing by using the same settings as a prior mailing.
  • Primary url for RoboAdmin can be configured to be any name. For example the old version had to have the URL like https://IP/roboadmin/. Now it could have a URL name like https://IP/speedracer/
  • Extended reporting information including click/view/unsub reports for a configurable list of major ISPs
• Mailing Daemons
  • Optimized support for massively parallel processing systems.
  • New Inter7 DirectConnnect technology increases delivery speed more than 30% compared to prior versions.
  • New Extreme version has measured sustained production throughput of over two million emails per hour on standard server hardware.
  • New IP management module.
    • Balanced IP usage to major ISPs
    • New IP management architecture supports future throttling module.
  • Support for outgoing email gateway
• Administration Programs
  • Full support for AOL new bounce message format for SCOMP emails.
  • Updated rbpurge program to automatically remove any email address or domains from all of your mailing lists.
  • Roboclean program can optionally skip updating deferral, no attempt and success values. Busy MySQL servers can save time by skipping some or all of these updates.
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• Database
  • New blacklist domains and blacklist email address tables. Any domain or email address in these tables are automatically filtered out of any list load. So the email addresses never get loaded into the database.
  • New csv_dom_stat table to keep track of clicks/views/unsubs on a per domain basis using the reporting domains list.

• RoboMail Home pages
  • Website template for your robomail server and domains.
  • Easily editable text, and images in PHP.
  • Unsubscribe and Contact page with CAPTCHA
  • Fault tolerant for abuse of functions
  • Real time info for users who request unsubscribe, completely automated.
• DKIM
  • DKIM signatures to Yahoo and other selected domain names
  • Editable list table of DKIM domains, add any recieving domain to send them DKIM info too.
• Notify Email
  • Sends email to person when a specific campaign is completed.
• List Randomize
  • Load lists via randomization
  • Send lists in randomized patterns
  • Send sections of lists in randomized format
• Feedback Loops
  • AOL SCOMP reporting per campaign
  • Accepts any feedback loop from any ISP
  • Automic removal and unsubscribes from all feedback loops
  • Support for future SCOMP ISP's
• Customer Access to See Campaigns
  • You can now grant access to your customers to log in to view just "their" campaigns
  • You can now Create / Edit / Delete "Customers" who can have access to see the results of their mailings
  • Each mailing has a new drop down menu to specify "which" Customer can have access to see the mailing results
  • Support for Logging out of the interface.
• Ability to Personalize the "URL redirects"
  • Without putting the personalization in the email body you can now personalize redirects.
  • This can be used to pre-populate forms with, say email addresses. This pre-populated url redirect should improve conversion rates tremendously, we'll let you know some of our customers results when we hear back from them.
• Some Database Improvements
  • Speed up post processing when server has large number of lists.
  • On post mail processing, support for removing failures from all lists or, for increased processing speed, support for removing the failures from just the list used on the mailing. We found some sites with large numbers of large lists would see very slow processing of failures since each failure email was checked against all lists. This new feature vastly increases post processing speed with little impact on list cleaning.

RoboMail Standard Features

ENGINE
High volume, mail management software for opt-in mailing lists.

• personalizes each e-mail (ex. "TO" field is addressed to recipient)
• multiple, simultaneous mailings
• detailed logging and traffic reports
• custom scripting interaction: command line programs for integration to existing mail management and CRM software
• insertion variables for rotation, randomization, and personalization of each e-mail
• logical, best route path synchronization
• DNS and list checking to increase list load speeds
• hashcash configuration support
• variable header insertion: personalize, rotate, and/or reorder email headers
• support for domain keys and SPF
• dynamic scheduling: based on calendar, campaign results, or timed by previous campaign completion
• optimization for simultaneous, multiple mailings
• multi threading technology; throttle controls to send to desired capacity
• local or remote list storage
• complete bounce processing and deferral manager for logging, results, and updates based on type of bounce
  • light SMTP server designed for efficiency
  • collection for bounced and deferred messages
  • load tolerant to prevent degradation in performance of outgoing messages
  • parses email for further management handling and pruning lists

• web interface tools: administration, statistics, graphs, history, and more
• sends from multiple IPs

WEB TOOLS
Web interface administration for list and address management.

• graphs
• current status
• campaign scheduling and configurations to start new mailing
• show current schedule
• configuration parameters
• data parameters such as view and click throughs and false positive, hard bounces to recipient tracking details: send more, send less, unsubscribe, unique follow-up, etc
• server settings including IP and domain administration
• rotation and delivery throttles
• system status: statistics and graphs of campaign results, server performance, upload progress, and blocked Ips
• view seed lists, creative's, rotation parameters, and export data
• view logs
• configure DoNotMail options
  • Top Level Domains
  • general domains
  • blocked Ips

ANTI-SPAM
Unsubscribe cgi included.

• subscribe and unsubscribe cgi to encourage/make available/support a true opt-in and out mailing list
• auto filled landing page
• support for closed-loop data
• real time remove processing

DATABASE (MYSQL) LIST MANAGER
Management and storage of lists with a database back end

• automated list management options
• schedule, edit and cancel email campaigns in real time
• custom variable substitution for personalization and unique sending
  • personalize: use recipient's name in greeting
  • target email to consumer: content based on residence
  • unique content: vary email size depending on recipient

Additional Features in Clustered Environment

CENTRAL CONTROL PANEL
For management of multiple RoboMail DLM Clone servers to send lists out on multiple servers.

• web interface, single point of access for centralized control
• increase speeds up to hundreds of millions per hour
• multiple farms of RoboMail clone servers handling
• dynamic list sharing
• multiple web portals
• fault tolerant solution
• clustering capacity
• real time, collective results
• monitoring across entire RoboMail clones
• security lock down for enterprise control

RoboMail's newest feature will have a trigger events program. This program can call any program when someone clicks on a link. Sounds pretty straight forward but what can you do with a triggered event? Take one example, for the customer we wrote the code for. Phone Call Triggering This customer wanted a mechanism to enable a link in the body of the message to pass along information to a PBX system that would phone the person who clicked on the link. Obviously the customer needed that personalized data in their list, and with the link - send a message to the PBX the person's name and phone number to call. The PBX system then called the person with a pre-recorded message about their product. Now I know what you are thinking, why didn't the link just go to an audio file (mp3/flash) that played the intended message? Well, it's the novelty of the idea, image how many people thought to themselves, " Can this computer link really call me? " Sure enough, the response was good. You too can now send engaging emails with trigger events.