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PSAR most important feature — you can define as many auto responders as you want. Each of these auto responders can be triggered depending on certain keywords (with wildcard support) in various regions of the received email but you can also use advanced formulas where you can decide to act on a message depending on more complex criteria. These advanced formulas support VBScript.

HTML capabilities

PSAR allows the user to reply using the HTML format and also to send group mailings in the HTML format without leaving PSAR using the built in wysiwyg HTML editor.

Act as mail server

PSAR can act as a mail server whereby it will directly send outgoing mail to the SMTP server of the recipients.

Group mailings with Follow up

Create of as many group mailing setups as you want with as many follow up letters as you want. Send out a series of different emails on a predefined interval.

Scheduler

using the scheduler you can schedule your mailings and newsletters to go out whenever you want. This includes scheduling options for the follow up threads.

Web Form handling

Run your automated user surveys with this option. Replies to your survey can come from your website using a form mailer or even manual replies from your target audience. Create as many survey databases as you want and use these to perform mail merged mailings. Export to other database applications, excel, word and others…

Dial-up Support

Now you can use PSAR in automatic mode using your normal dial-up connection. You no longer need full-time access to the internet. PSAR will automatically connect, retrieve your mail, reply to it and disconnect at predefined intervals.

Attachments

The possibility to use as many attachments as you want in the group mailings and follow-up letters.

Dual Addressing

You can specify a specific return address per defined filter. This allows you to employ PSAR for different persons in your organization as if you would run multiple copies of PSAR.

Reply to different sources

you can have PSAR reply to either the from, return-path or reply-to headers of incoming email or to the 1st or 2nd email ID in the body of the email.

Forwarding

forwarding to multiple recipients instead of only one. Forwarding to one of your mailing lists enabling to run your own own list server. Forwarding to a log file.

Foreign Character Support

PSAR supports receiving and sending mail with foreign characters. An often disregarded option.

Advanced message matching

you can create filters using complicated rules containing Boolean operators like AND, OR, NOT plus the use of wildcards and VBScript functions.

Supports wildcard characters

use wildcard characters in the matching criteria fields.

List sources

use your form databases as source for mailings making the loop from web form to end user completely automatic.

Multiple Accounts

PromaSoft Autoresponder is able to handle an unlimited amount of your POP accounts. Each of these POP accounts can have as many aliases as you want.

Mail Merging

Create your mail merging files with as many fields as you want and use them to do your personalized scheduled group mailings and/or newsletters. Use mail merge files from virtually any other database or office application using the popular CSV format. You could even create them manually. Also use the database files created by the PS Autoresponder form handler.

Extensive forwarding options

Forward your received email to any address you like. Every filter can have a different forwarding address. Forward left over email (not trapped by any of your other filters) to a low traffic email address so you can read what is important.

User definable keywords

Define your own keywords to be used in your mailings, newsletters and filter definitions. These keywords are replaced with the text you specified before at the time they leave PS Autoresponder. For instance put $signature$ in all you mailing definitions. Any time you change the keyword definition all your mailings will have the new signature. These keywords can even hold complete texts.

Statistics

Everyone knows that it is important to know which target audience you are reaching. To help you to do this PS Autoresponder will include even more statistics.

Totally Automatic

PS Autoresponder will perform ALL operations totally automatic. These operations include: auto responding, sending out mailings and sending out newsletters. You could leave PS Autoresponder to run for days. 24 by 24 and 7 by 7.

Spamming preventive options

In the functional design stage of PS Autoresponder utmost care was taken to ensure that you are protected as good as possible from being liable of spamming. This does not mean that the program will hide your identity but it does mean that all tools are available to give your target audience the options to be removed from your auto responder, mailings or newsletters. PS Autoresponder can also be configured to prevent you from sending multiple emails to the same person in a short period of time. And more…

Note: PromaSoft condemns all use of of the application as a means to Spam.

Filters

Create as many filters as you like. These filters are used to recognize certain types of email that come in and give an appropriate reply to them or simply trash them.

Delays

You might want to choose not to respond immediately to an incoming mail but wait for 1 hour or even 2 or 3 days. You can specify this setting on each filter separately.

Unattended

PS Autoresponder can run totally unattended and independent from you normal email application. If you make use of the forwarding functions you can for instance pass left over mail to another email account read by a human. This way you don't need to worry about filtered out email.

Statistics

Daily statistics are kept so you can see how many message are being received, replied to and deleted from your mail server. You will even see who has sent how many messages to you and how many times your have replied to that person. You can see how many times a certain filter has matched a message.

Email lists

PS Autoresponder will maintain a list of all email ID's you have ever received mail from or replied to. This list is used to keep track of the people you have communicated with and also flags them if they want to be excluded from further replies and mailings. Next to this there are import and export functions.

News Letters

This will allow you to send newsletters at predefined times to predefined email lists. This also includes methods for people to subscribe to your newsletters via normal email or via your website. PS Autoresponder also enables you to send out a series of newsletters newsletter when people subscribe to it.

Remove me option

You can offer the people you reply to an option to remove themselves from you responder. That way they will not receive any more messages from you. Next to this global remove option there are of course also options to let people remove them selves to a specified email list.

POP Server Friendly

The program is friendly to your POP server meaning that it has the option to delete messages when they have been replied to. You never worry about a full inbox anymore.

Substitution

Several keywords are defined to include parts of the original message in your reply, such as subject, name, body etc. Next to the reserved keywords you also can create your own.

Cut Off Parameter

this parameters allows to specify how much of the original message needs to be included in the reply.

Name, To and Hits Keyword

the $name$ keyword is replaced with the name of the sender when sending replies. The $to$ keyword is replaced with the recipients email address. The $hits$ keyword is replaced with the number of times a certain filter has been hit.

Execute external programs

PSAR offers the possibility to execute an external program on reception of a matched email. PSAR can feed information out of the email into the external program and merge the output of the external program into your replies. This is very usefull for automatic code generation and more.

Sound support

PSAR can be instructed to play a sound file (wav,mid,rmi) uppon reception of an email. Never let that important email go unnoticed. Each filter can have it's own sounds.

Fast Mailing Engine

use the FME or fast mailing engine to deliver your emails at the highest possible rate. On a normal cable connection about 20.000 normal emails can be sent out per hour