Friday, January 12, 2007

New Feature: Dynamically Inserting Subject into Message

At the request of a JangoMail client, we have developed a feature which allows for the insertion of an e-mail message's Subject into the message Body dynamically. This feature uses regular personalization syntax. To insert the Subject into the Body, use %%Subject%%.

For example, if the Subject of your e-mail message is "Hello %%FirstName%%, here is a special offer for you" and you wish for this same text to appear in the Body of your e-mail message, simply insert "%%Subject%%" into the Body of your message.

A couple notes:
  • If the Subject contains its own personalization parameters, the personalization on the Subject will be done before the "%%Subject%%" in the message's Body is replaced.
  • If "Subject" is already a field name in your Group or in your database table, then that Subject's value will take precedence over the e-mail message's Subject. So if the Group you are sending to has a field called "Subject", and then you use "%%Subject%%" in your message's Body to personalize, the Group field's value, and not the messages's Subject, will be used to replace occurences of "%%Subject%%".

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

"Set Plain Text Automatically" feature now converts HTML lists

We've improved the "Set Plain Text Automatically" feature, which automatically generates a plain text version of your email based on the HTML version of your email. Now, HTML lists, both bulleted and numbered, with "ul", "ol", and "li" tags will properly be converted to a plain-text list with each item beginning with an asterik (*).

For example, the following HTML list would be converted as follows.

HTML List:

  • Embedded URL feature now supports personalization (read more)
  • Autoresponder response times have been decreased for "immediate" autoresponders (read more)
  • Our farm of distributed SMTP e-mail sending servers has expanded from 8 to over 30.
  • Mass e-mail initiations, those email broadcasts triggered from your own e-mail client, are now processed much faster with a dedicated domain (@init.jangomail.com) for processing these e-mail messages. (read more)
After being converted to plain text:

* Embedded URL feature now supports personalization (read more)

* Autoresponder response times have been decreased for "immediate"
autoresponders (read more)

* Our farm of distributed SMTP e-mail sending servers has expanded from
8 to over 30.

* Mass e-mail initiations, those email broadcasts triggered from your
own e-mail client, are now processed much faster with a dedicated
domain (@init.jangomail.com) for processing these e-mail messages.
(read more)