March 01, 2010 -- Two-way Mobile Text Messaging is now fully supported.
Rapid growth in the text messaging market has provided an additional channel for
company to consumer communication. SMS is useful for time-sensitive and two-way
communication because it is typically read within an
average of 15 minutes and responded to within 60 minutes. Using a
Common Short Code,
our clients may now send and receive text messages via ePriority®.
Feb 15, 2010 -- ePriority® is now a Return Path Certified Sender
Return Path Certification is uniquely designed to help legitimate senders achieve maximum
inbox delivery. Our service is built on a network of trust between senders and receivers that
provides senders privileged access to the largest, broadest and most respected whitelist in the
email universe. Receivers value our whitelist because it provides them with an easier way to
separate the good senders from the spammers.
March 03, 2009 -- Mobile alerts via SMS email
SMS text message mobile alerts are now supported for email batches.
Normal batch reporting functionality is provided. The phone number as well as mobile carrier
must be provided to use this service.
June 13, 2008 -- Added full reporting functionality for Relay Email
Relay email reporting has been expanded and now has all the functionality of batch email reporting.
Februaury 08, 2008 -- Added DomainKeys digital signature to all emails
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a method for email authentication that allows
an organization to take responsibility for a message in a way that can be validated by a recipient.
Receivers who successfully validate a signature can use information about the signer
as part of a program to limit spam, spoofing, phishing, or other undesirable behavior.
November 08, 2007 -- Batch generation now supported via Mailing Lists FTP upload
For batches with fixed content and delivery Profiles, the FTP upload of a CSV mailing list
can now trigger the generation and delivery of an ePriority batch. All reporting options
are available for batches submitted as mailing lists.
Oct 30, 2007 -- Reporting Enhancements
ePriority reports now provide all email specific delivery information in multiple formats
than can be emailed, downloaded via HTTS or FTP, or accessed by applications through the
Report Web Service.
Reports can be triggered based on dates (eg. monthly, weekly) or batch events such as Delivery Completion.
Reports are customizable and can be set up through the ePriority website's Reporting->Mgmt menu.
July 24, 2007 -- Fully automated Postal Mailgrams
In order to support an increasing volume of postal mailgrams, ePriority has automated all aspects
of our Postal Mailgram Service. The Postal Mailgram Service
is used to send postal mail notifications to a recipient when email delivery to that recipient fails.
April 12, 2006 -- Migration to EComm Core
ePriority has migrated its web service to DST Systems EComm Core service
architecture. This migration includes a complete redesign of epriority.com
website tools and features to follow the latest Ecomm Core standards.
Back-end web services (APIs) will move to EComm in a later phase.
Many improvements have also been made to the ad hoc batch mailer service -
including better error control and a multi-stepped submission process.
March 11, 2006 -- RSA Encryption Support (Release 21)
ePriority now supports RSA encrypted batches. Clients who need to transfer
data securely to ePriority can do so by RSA encrypting batches and then
transmitting in the clear via ePriority's FTP service. ePriority will also
RSA encrypt all tracking and log data returned to the client for RSA
desiginated accounts.
November 20, 2005 -- XML Transaction Service (Release 20)
Following the same XML instructions format as the batch service, ePriority
now offers an HTTPS/XML API for transactional mailing. Instructions for a
single email or a small batch of email can be defined by XML instructions and
passed via HTTPS post to ePriority's web service. Messages are then
immediately delivered as transactional messages.
October 23, 2005 -- Auto-Reply Processing (Release 19)
ePriority has added support for auto-reply message detection and tracking.
If the feature is turned on (from an ePriority Delivery Profile), ePriority
will examine return mail and make its best effort to identify auto-reply
messages -- thereby preventing a message to be marked as a bounce when it
may in fact be a vacation or out-of-office automated response.
August 21, 2005 -- Scomp Processing (Release 18)
ePriority has made significant design improvements and ported its inbound
SMTP server to Java. With these changes comes the addition of Sender
Complaint (Scomp) message processing. ISPs such as AOL offer customers the
option of marking a message as unwanted. ePriority will now receive this
information and prevent further client mailings to such addresses.
July 10, 2005 -- Static IP Routing (Release 17)
Clients who have private network connections with DST or non-publicly
routable mail servers can now have ePriority configure static network
routes for email delivery to their private domain. With static routes,
DNS records are not necessary.
March 20, 2005 -- Postal Mailgrams (Release 16)
Email that cannot be delivered can now result in a letter mailed via
United States Postal Service to inform the recipient their email address
is invalid. This paper notification is called a "mailgram". ePriority
provides mailgram functionality through its existing batch processing
instructions.
February 13, 2005 -- PGP Support (Release 15)
ePriority now supports PGP encrypted batches. Clients who need to transfer
data securely to ePriority can do so by PGP encrypting batches and then
transmitting in the clear via ePriority's FTP service. ePriority will also
PGP encrypt all tracking and log data returned to the client for PGP
designated accounts.
February 6, 2005 -- Service Release 14
With this release, ePriority has extended its reporting functionality to
include Email level detail. Clients can now search across all batches for
specific email messages delivered by ePriority. Each email detail report
provides specific dates of delivery (or delivery failure) as well as
extended tracking such as view, link click, or delivery receipt. To
compliment this capability clients can now provide up to three distinct
tracking IDs for each email. Also in this release -- Phase 2 of Direct
Access integration -- end users of the Direct Access product can now access
ePriority without logging in at ePriority's website.
December 19, 2004 -- Service Release 13
ePriority's alliance with Habeas and its Sender Warranted Email program is
implemented this release. All clients sending business mail to existing
customers will now have their mail marked with the Habeas seal. Other
enhancements in the release include the addition of PostX Open Online
backup viewing functionality as well as client customization of the
secure envelope HTML.
October 1, 2004 -- Service Release 12
Among other features, this release includes a complete overhaul of our website
(epriority.com) and first phase of integration
with DST Output's Direct AccessTM product.
August 12, 2004 -- Service Release 11
After months of focused design sessions and benchmarking various approaches, our
core batch processing service has been entirely redesigned and ported to Java. The
result is a solid six fold (6x) speed increase and far greater expandability.
A number of new features were added in the process, including support for ZIP as
an alternative to TAR. Support for XML Instruction Files has also been formally
integrated into the service model.
April 10, 2004 -- Service Release 10
ePriority Service Release 10 is now in production. This release includes
blackout scheduling, secure email delivery, secure FTP service,
custom XSLT reporting and many other improvements.
July 14, 2003 -- Service Release 9.5
This maintenance release brings with it an entirely new web
tutorials and screen snapshots to accompany instructions. Other items in
this release: dynamic content specification for the Batch
Mailer, zip-compressed archives, and architectural improvements to our
outbound delivery service.
April 7, 2003 -- Service Release 9
This release presents a host of new capabilities including web hosting and XML
batch submission. Message forwarding, inline images, failed address listing,
opt-out address listing, batch control, custom domains, batch status service,
and batch re-submission were also added.
November 04, 2002 -- Service Release 8.5
Clients can now view or re-deliver archived mail from the ePriority website.
Archival retention dates are now configurable.
July 25, 2002 -- Service Release 8
Many features this release. Most notable is our new SMTP Relay Mail Service
for delivery of individual or transactional emails. This allows clients to
add triggers to their website or other automated process to send email based
on real-time events.
March 11, 2002 -- Service Release 7
Additional tracking capabilities have been added to our core service.
View tracking (when an email has been opened), return receipt tracking
(many mail clients will automatically return a receipt of delivery),
and link tracking (any HTML links provided within the email content).
logs.
January 15, 2002 -- Service Release 6
Our online web service now provides batch and account level delivery reports
as well as basic ad hoc mailing capabilities.
November 12, 2001 -- Service Release 5
Personal Data Center (PDC), ePriority's online, secure mail client,
now has its own website. This free service allows you to access email
conveniently through the web at www.personaldatacenter.com.
With the Personal Data Center, you can receive and view confidential
documents from the financial institutions which you deal with in complete
privacy.
October 23, 2001 -- Service Release 4
ePriority has recently installed Release 6 with support for MIME Multi-part
Alternative mailings. Using Multi-part Alternative, clients can send HTML
messages with a text version as backup in the event that one of the recipient
mail clients does not support HTML.
May 15, 2001 -- Service Release 3
ePriority has recently released a new feature for applying package generation and
delivery instructions. Clients can shape their scheduling, routing, and appearance
of messages by establishing a "Profile" for their account at ePriority. Batches
uploaded by the client would then target one of the established profiles and all
packages generated from the batch would acquire the settings defined by the profile.
With this feature comes a number of new client delivery options.
March 1, 2001 -- Service Release 2
Great news from ePriority development!
ePriority will be installing its second major software release and hardware
upgrade early next week. This release is a product of many months of hard work
and brings with it a number of noteworthy improvements.
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