I've recently bought the Parabots.com auto-responder. Unlike Aweber and the like you actually buy this software and stick it on your own server.
It costs $50 (that's to buy it outright rather than paying $20 a month) and it's pretty good. I've yet to really use it anger as the product I'm developing it totally finished but it's performed flawlessly in all the testing that I've done (and it's a lot).
You can create multiple auto-responders and multiple (infinite actually) messages for each auto-responder. You can set the time delay after each messages from anything from 1 day upwards.
It can handle the normal first name, email address type signups but you can also add custom fields as well.
It's written in Perl which is not a lanuage that I'm that familiar with (I'm more a PHP kind of a guy) and I did have a problem getting it to install but a quick email to the developer sorted out the problem - in fact he installed it for me for no extra cost.
Highly recommended and, at just $50, a steal.
You can find out more about the script and see a demo of the backend from the Parabots.com website. I'll be writing a review for my blog in the next few weeks, if you want to drop me a PM I'll email you when the full review is up on-line. |
