Official Launch of JangoSMTP.com, Our Stand-Alone SMTP Relay Service

We have just launched JangoSMTP.com, a new stand-alone SMTP relay service and the first designed for email marketers.

Why use it?
JangoSMTP is the first SMTP relay service to offer open and click tracking. It also comes with a variety of features that contribute to its extreme deliverability: 

• DomainKeys/DKIM Signing
• SPF/SenderID Authentication
• Sender Score Certification
• Feedback Loops with ISPs

Visit our site for JangoSMTP's Full Features List.

Who is it for?
JangoSMTP can be utilized by users of desktop email clients (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.),  Gmail users, and web programmers who send transactional emails through their own corporate servers.

Where can I learn more?
Go to http://www.jangosmtp.com/ for more information or Contact Us directly.

New API Method: AddTransactionalGroup

We just released a new API method for the JangoMail API which allows you to add a Transactional Group to your account:

*AddTransactionalGroup
  Adds a new Transactional Group to your account. Returns a string.

We also recently released 3 other transactional email API methods. These methods allow you to retrieve opens, clicks, unsubscribes, bounces, and complaint statistics for a single transactional email in your account.

Visit api.jangomail.com for a full list of our API methods.

New Design: Features Page

JangoMail has a very comprehensive feature list and we've been working on a way to organize it so that it's easy to navigate. We want to make sure that our current and prospective customers are able to identify all of our capabilities and can easily find all of the information and tutorials we have on each feature.

We are excited to announce that we just relaunched our Email Features page, which now has an improved navigation system. You can expand each feature set and feature for more information. 

*Use the Table of Contents to find the feature category you are interested in.

*To navigate to a certain feature's description, video, tutorial or blog entry, simply click the arrow next to that feature.

  Then click on the link for the information you would like to see.

*To see a visual description of a certain feature, click on the name of that feature.

  A window will pop up with a visual description of the feature.

Browse through our new page yourself at: http://www.jangomail.com/features_overview.asp. Let us know what you think!

Two SMTP Service Bug Fixes

Tonight we've deployed two bug fixes to the SMTP relay service:

1. Previously, emails sent with very long Subject lines, such that the Subject line folded onto the next line, were improperly processed, and this could result in headers being visible in the email body. This is now fixed.
2. Previously, emails sent with very long From lines, such that the From line folded onto the next line, were improperly processed, and this could result in the email not being transmitted to the final recipient at all. This is now fixed.
3. Previously, encoded subject lines, such as:
   
   =?utf-8?Q?You've_received_=E2=82=A8229.64_($2.00_USD)_in_your_Surveyhead_?= =?utf-8?Q?account?=
   
   would not have their encoding preserved. This is also now fixed.
   

Technical Resources:

Those wishing to read about the allowance of folded lines as stated in the SMTP specification can do so here: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html. Specifically, read section:

3.1.1. LONG HEADER FIELDS

New Transactional Email API Methods

We have just released 3 new Transactional Email API Methods for the JangoMail Email Marketing API.

These new methods allow you to retrieve opens, clicks, unsubscribes, bounces, and complaint statistics for a single transactional email in your account:

*Reports_Transactional_GetSingleEmailStats_Dataset
  Retrieves statistics for a transactional email. Returns a .NET DataSet.

*Reports_Transactional_GetSingleEmailStats_String
  Retrieves statistics for a transactional email. Returns a string.

*Reports_Transactional_GetSingleEmailStats_XML
  Retrieves statistics for a transactional email. Returns an XML document.