Announcing Lyris ListManager 1.0

• February 12, 1998

Announcing Lyris ListManager 1.0

Oakland, CA - 6 January 1997 - Lyris Technologies has released what is being described as the "next generation" Internet email list server.

Lyris ListManager is a program for running email mailing lists on the Internet. A mailing list is a group of people who receive electronic mail as a group. These lists are frequently used for making announcements, having open discussions, moderating forums, auto-responders, and more.

Overview

What makes Lyris ListManager innovative is its simplicity of use, especially through its web interface and automatic error-mail handling.

For years the major complaint about email list servers has been the difficulty of running and administering lists. Lyris ListManager approaches all of these tasks differently, with the user in mind.

John Buckman, a senior developer at Lyris Technologies, explains, "There is no reason everyone running a list should have to become a technical expert in the intricacies of email. That's what a good program should do for you. We designed Lyris ListManager for anyone to use."

While ListManager provides ease-of-use for the novice, it also offers a wide range of powerful tools for experienced and/or technical users.

Features

Everything you can do with Lyris ListManager, you can do with your web browser using ListManager's extensive Web interface. Members can choose to receive messages by email, or read them on the Web.

ListManager is secure: all administrative functions are password protected. Different security roles (list admin, site admin, server admin) to allow you to delegate rights and responsibilities. Also, members can password-protect their accounts.

ListManager also has an extremely fast built-in mail engine that can deliver hundreds of messages per minute. The built-in ultra-high-performance database engine provides thousands of transactions per second.

ListManager's C++ based multi-threaded design was built with performance as the top priority. One of ListManager's strengths is automatic email error detection; members and administrators are completely protected from "error mail". A built in mailer provides unprecedented error detection.

Every message to a mailing list is saved and indexed in the mailing list archives and can be quickly text searched.

The Lyris ListManager web interface works with all web browsers. All files are fully cross platform and all features are available on all supported platforms. ListManager supports all major email command syntaxes (eg: subscribing & unsubscribing) so that your users do not have to learn new commands. ListManager also accepts list server email at all the major email addresses.

The Lyris MultiView server allows access to lists as private newsgroups, including reading messages, searching, posting and is completely secure.

Lyris ListManager is currently available for Windows95, Windows NT, Solaris/SPARC, Solaris/Intel, and AIX. Linux and BSDI versions are planned.