(Ed.'s note: this is where we "sell" you to a free program. It's really more of a feature overview, so take it as such.)
Check out the new new amazingly new features in version 3.0...
Check out the new features in version 2.10...
Check out the features introduced in version 2.9...
Dada Mail's philosophy is simple - Be easy to setup, easy to administrate and easy for your visitors to interact with. Dada Mail itself is a sophisticated program, but time and effort has been put in to make it usable, something other programs forget to bother with and for good reason - its hard to make something easy. We put just as much time designing what Dada Mail looks like as we did developing the actual code. What's the worth of a Mailing List Manager you can't understand? Probably not the hundreds of dollars you might have paid for something similar or the hours you spent trying to make it work .Even through its development, as new features have been added, we've taken the time to step back and ask ourselves, "does this make sense?"
The feature set for Dada Mail doesn't stop with the prolific core program. Extension scripts add even more variety on what can be done with the program -
Multiple List
Subscriptions at Once
Update Subscriptions
Backup Your Lists
Subscription List Statistics
Dada
Digest Script
Discussion Lists
Mystery
Girl - Dada Mail's Bounce Handler
Administrative Plug ins add more power when using and maintaining your subscription lists:
Mail
All the list Owners at Once
View
Error and Usage Logs
Email
Message Click through Tracker
Dada Mail is a Web-Based System. You don't need to remember cryptic commands to send to a special address just to have the program e-mail you back telling you you're wrong. You administrate your lists using a control panel you view through your web browser - like Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.
Dada Mail Supports an Unlimited Number of Mailing Lists. Dada Mail was made from the start to be expandable. Each list can be managed separately with a different password for protection. Setting up a list can take as little as a minute to make! All list information can be changed at any time.
Dada Mail Is Customizable. Most pages generated by Dada Mail can be wrapped in a template - a look and design that you want your list to have. Dada Mail can look exactly like the rest of your web site, making less of a separate CGI script and more a part of your web site that comes alive to your visitors. Messages Dada Mail sends can also be customized, you get to word exactly how you want your messages sent. Even the signup form that you can put on any page of your web site can be changed for your taste - automatically.
Dada Mail Archives List Messages. Dada Mail keeps an archive of every mass mailing message it sends and also provides a simple way to view them. Archiving can be paused and archives can be hidden from your visitors but not from you the list owner.
Dada Mail Supports Announce-Only and Group Lists. You can extend Dada Mail with a script that's included with Dada Mail to send list messages from your own e-mail client, like Eudora or Outlook. Group Lists can be setup easily from your control panel and you can set up a thriving group discussion list.
Dada Mail Is Free! We don't try to have you make a decision on picking a mailing list manager by giving you a crippled "version" and then only give you the real version after you pay money for a piece of software that may not do what you really need. We give you the entire program.
Dada Mail is Supported! This entire site is provided to answer any questions you have and help you even when your Dada is installed. We've gained a great following of people that love our program and we plan to keep them happy for a long time.
Dada Mail is Easy To Use. Hard things are easy in Dada Mail. They should be. Features you don't need can be turned off if wanted. All error messages give you precise information on what went wrong and how to use it. Its more advice on how to do what your doing better than telling you you're wrong.
Dada Mail is Powerful. In minutes you can set up your entire list system, with announce-only lists for special e-mailings and group lists for discussion. Dada Mail can even be enhanced with the help of other programs like Majordomo - another list manager and Mhonarch, an e-mail archiver.
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We were going to make feature-comparrisons with other programs and make a nice table with it, but we'd be leaving way to many blank entries for other programs. So here we go:
Support for an unlimited amount of mailing lists.
Messages can be PlainText, HTML, multipart/alternative and include attachments. Messages can be sent via the list control panel, or (with the dada_bridge.pl plugin) via your email reader. Messages can be sent via specifying a URL - messages sent this way can have embedded and inline images.
Announce Only List Support
Discussion List Support (with the dada_bridge.pl plugin)
Discussion List Features:
Can be enabled/disabled per list
Discussion list email addresses are just a POP3 account - no need to set up complicated email aliases/redirects
Moderators supported - can send messages without having to actually be on the list
Support for, "hidden" lists
Support for, "closed" lists
Full Opt-in, Closed-loop, Confirmed Opt-in (and out!) Support.
"mx lookup" support
Send via the sendmail command or SMTP
POP-before-SMTP authentication support
SASL authentication support (AUTH PLAIN only)
Batch Sending - send messages in small batches with a period of time in between
VERP support
Customizable Precedence, Priority, Character Set and email message encoding.
Ability to add/edit/delete/search/view all subscribers
Black List support with above features
Moderator List support
Limit the amount of subscribers a given list can have.
All messages sent can be archived.
Messages can be plain text, HTML, and everything in between.
add/edit/view/remove archives
Archives are publically available for viewing with full navigation, including breadcrumbs links, archive indexes, previous/next links, powerful search.
Archives can have RSS/Atom feeds
auto-ping for RSS/Atom feeds
Archives are fully editable, no matter how complex (with archive_editor.cgi plugin)
"Send this Archive to a Friend" feature.
Archived messages can be shown inline, or in an <iframe>
Archived Message attachments can be available for download
Most email messages sent via Dada Mail can be customized
Most HTML screens are templated out and can be customized
Fully XHTML compliant default templates
And more!
Dada Mail is Free Software and is released under the Gnu
Public License.
Dada Mail is written in Perl because we love Perl.