A while back we reviewed a great utility called Advanced Mail Verify
(AMV) from Elcom. Advanced Direct Remailer
(ADR) is another in their series of incredibly powerful and easy-to-use communications
tools.
ADR is a powerful remailer and mass mailer which sends your message straight to the
recipient's mail server (without your ISP's SMTP server). ADR realizes multi-threaded
direct delivery, and so works several times quicker than your usual email client. The
program has its own internal SMTP server, and can be easily integrated into any email
client (Outlook, Outlook Express, Edudora etc) or any other mail server or mass mailer
(e.g. Eserv, GroupMail etc.).
ADR supports simple mailing lists in varying formats including TXT, .LST, .CSV and
mailing lists which are formed by database SQL-requests on-the-fly, user's programs for
message processing (plug-ins), merging mailing lists with databases from Excel document to
powerful Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle. In this regard it is extremely flexible.
ADR can determine up to 90% of "dead" e-mails in an address list before
sending; this is invaluable and can save you a great deal of time and money. We've begun
using it to deliver newsletters to our users groups across our 30 domains, and it is has
helped us immeasurably.
For fellow developers, there is an open API and samples source code. The program
supports Socks5 proxy protocol, so you can use it within a Local Area Network (LAN), too.
ADR ensures faster, safer, and more easy-to-control mail sending, and thus it helps to
save your time and money!
If you send out lots of email to long lists of users on a regular basis, then you know
how time-consuming it can be, especially when you receive a high percentage of email
address failures. In addition, you are totally dependent upon your ISP. So if their email
system gets bogged down by you and others, you're system is tied up and hosed for hours.
ADR responds to these two major problems by first identifying invalid email addresses
before mailing, and then sending on your message to the valid email addresses bypassing
your ISP.
ADR uses direct multi-thread delivery, so it sends several messages directly to your
correspondents' mail servers simultaneously. ADR ensures 100% usage of your modem
capabilities, or whatever percentage you want. Elcom informs us that ADR will send the
same thousand messages through 33.6 K modem in as little as 5 to 15 minutes. By way of
example, to send 1600 K, including overhead, such a modem (33.6k is about 4 K/sec) needs
about 400 seconds, or less than 7 minutes!
To check it out yourself, click here to visit their
web site.
Advanced Direct Remailer
