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Public and Private E-Mail
Provide your own private member to member community email or link it directly into Internet email. E-mail is one of the widest growing areas of the Internet, and probably the most popular Internet feature available.
| Feature | Benefit |
| Distribution Lists List types include Personal, Mass Mailing (to users in and outside the community), and system defined (DEVTEAM, SALES, etc.) |
You can store important user information to enhance knowledge about your customer base. |
| Private E-mail Option Email stays an is only available within the community. |
Increase site retention as users come back to the site for their community email. |
| Spam-Free Restrict any mail coming from outside the community and Internet proper. |
By using the private email option
you can guarantee a spam-free email service. Perfect for schools, family systems,
or businesses. If you wish to open up your system for external public mail, you can use our Spam Filtering services to reduce the spam your users receive. you could also use our Spam Mail-back verification service to completely eliminate spam forever! |
| Anonymity Let people keep their community & site email separate from their real e-mail address. |
A lot of people probably don't
want to give out their 'real' email address for various communities they are involved in.
Perhaps they don't want people to know they are a member of the 'Alcoholics Anonymous' community, or a business trading exchange might wish to keep identities of vendors secret. |
| File Attachments Restrict any mail coming from outside the community and Internet proper. |
Allow users to communicate with all media. |
| SMTP & POP3 Mail Services |
Put mail services under your control. You’ll have your own private mail server, not a shared system with other customers, typical of ISPs/ASPs, that puts YOU at risk should they crash your host’s mail server. Give yourself that extra protection you deserve. |
| Auto Forward A member can automatically forward email coming to his address here to any valid e-mail address. |
Member Convenience |
| Locks and Keys Access control Allows you to prohibit access to email services and features: Reading, writing, attaching files, return receipts, carbon copies, using distribution lists |
Offer premium "pay" services, or reverse it to pay/reward user for using the service. |
| HTML and Java based
interface Frames / No-Frames Interface |
Members with advanced browsers can take advantage of the latest browser technology, while you still provide support for all others with HTML based protocols. |
| Profanity Filtering Restricts members from writing profane email. |
Provide a safe, professional atmosphere. |
| Optional Credit Based
Accounting Charge/reward users for:
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Offer premium "pay"
services. All our applications can be tied into our user management security and e-commerce ‘credits’ systems. A user can maintain an electronic wallet (in the form of 'credits' applied to his account) and use this currency across all community services. In addition to providing the customer the convenience of not having to pull out a credit card for every transaction, it provides a powerful mechanism by which For-Profit systems can charge for additional or premium services. Click here for details... |
| Forum Integration Users can optionally receive replies to public discussion groups via e-mail or private messages. |
Engagement by drawing discussions into email. Eliminates need to check multiple message areas. Integration with email makes the community an extension of the user's everyday work tools. |
| UseNet News Integration You can provide the ability of users to post mesages to Usenet newsgroups via e-mail. |
You can surcharge users for this service per message, attachment, and/or size. |
| Mail Reminder When members get mail on the community, a notification is also sent to their outside e-mail address. |
This is a very, very powerful way to engage members and draw them back to your community. |
To take a tour of the email application, click here.