Subscription Manager

This add-in was moved to the MAPILab Toolbox and can not be offered as separated product. You could find more information here.

The Subscription Manager add-in (SUM) is designed for automatic add/delete subscribers to/from Microsoft® Outlook® 2000/XP distribution lists based on special e-mail messages from them (requests). A request is a standard e-mail message that contains a command for SUM in its "Subject" field. Subscription Manager is the first mailing list management software for Microsoft Outlook.

SUM is capable of processing "subscribe", "unsubscribe" and "help" requests. When subscribe or unsubscribe request is received, the user is added to or deleted from the distribution list specified in the request. Upon receipt of a help request, a message with information about current subscription status and request sending rules is sent to the user. The adding to the distribution list can be made both with obtaining confirmation from the user and without it.

Once a request is processed, SUM sends auto-reply with information about processing result.Auto-replies are created based on Outlook templates using special macros (expressions that are automatically replaced when sending a message). You can make any desired changes to appearance of SUM auto-replies by changing the auto-reply templates. SUM uses the following templates:

• "You have been successfully subscribed" - used to create subscription confirmation message;
• "You have been removed from the subscriber list" - used to create unsubscription confirmation message;
• "Help" - used to create messages with information about how to create the subscribe/unsubscribe requests;
• "Error message" - used to create message with information about an error occurred while processing a request (to subscribe or unsubscribe).
• "Confirmation for subscribe" - used for automatic generation of a message that user's confirmation is needed to subscribe to particular distribution list.

Since 1.1 version, Subscription Manager also support mailing lists with subscription confirmation to exclude subscriptions from fake and another's emails. And now Subscription Manager support almost features of standalone products for mailing list management.

SUM doesn't send regular messages to distribution list subscribers. Use Microsoft Outlook common features to perform that task or other our add-in - Send Personally. Send Personally offers an alternative method of sending messages from Outlook, separate message being created for each recipient.

Features

• SUM can work with subscription requests in your personal mail as well as with assigned special email address (like [email protected]).
• You can place HTML hyperlinks to subscribe/unsubscribe at web pages, in HTML and plain text emails.
• You can allow to SUM work only with distribution lists marked with a flag or containing the word "subscribe" in the "Notes" field (not with all distribution lists in the folder).