Lyris

General Features

The Lyris Web Interface
* Everything you can do with Lyris, you can do with your web browser using Lyris's extensive World-Wide-Web interface.
* You can read, contribute, search, join and leave using the web.
* Members can choose to receive messages by email, or read them on the web.

Security
* All administrative functions are password protected.
* Different security roles (list admin, site admin, server admin) allow you to delegate rights and responsibilities.
* Members can password-protect their accounts.
* TCP/IP address mapping: can restrict functions to specific TCP/IP address . For instance, so that only people on computers within your organization can access Lyris.

Speed
* Extremely fast built-in mail engine can deliver mail extremely quickly.
* Built-in ultra-high-performance database engine provides thousands of transactions per second.
* Modern, C++ based multi-threaded design was built with performance as the top priority.

Automatic email error detection
* Built in mailer provides unprecedented error detection.
* Every outgoing message is uniquely tagged, allowing very accurate, automated processing of bad email addresses.
* All email errors are processed automatically by Lyris.
* Members and administrators are completely protected from "error mail".

Ease
* Web interface makes learning and using Lyris easy.
* Automated, wizard-based installation.
* Fully documented and supported.

Programmability
* Extensive Perl API and sample source code provided free.
* Programmer's toolkit provided free.
* Online programmer's manual provided free.
* Source code to Web interface provided and can be customized to suit your needs.
* Secure TCP/IP communications protocol facilitates programming from any language, any platform.
* C/C++ API and documentation provided free.
* Java toolkit being developed.

Database access
* Uses a FoxPro/dBase compatible database format which can be read from/written to using many Database and Desktop programs.
* ODBC driver available.
* Easy database importing & exporting of data. For example, easily import lists of email addresses.
* Complete documentation of database tables and fields. See http://www.lyris.com/guide/ for more information.

Multiple sites
* Supports "virtual hosts" so that many organizations can share one Lyris server, but each appears to outsiders as separate, dedicated servers.
* Security roles and partitioning allow each site to operate independently.

Archives and searching
* Every message to a mailing list is saved to the mailing list archives.
* Fast text searching of archives (full text indices are automatically built).

Compatibility
* Web interface works with all web browsers. We test with Netscape, Internet Explorer, Mosaic and Lynx.
* All files are fully cross platform. All features are available on all supported platforms.
* Supports all major email command syntaxes (eg: subscribing & unsubscribing) so that your users do not have to learn new commands.
* Accepts list server email at all the major email addresses.

International
* Supports mailing lists using International characters.
* Multi-language document support. A document can exist in multiple languages, and Lyris picks the right one.
* Automatically identifies the preferred language of users by their Internet domain (.de, .fr, etc)
* Web interface currently being translated into foreign languages. We plan to support English, French, German, and Spanish.

Scaleable
* Runs on a wide variety of computer platforms.
* Multithreaded architecture scales well to multiple CPUs.
* Lyris Web Interface can be run on a separate Web Server.

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