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See When Emails Have Gone Unread

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Actively monitoring your email account reading in eMail Manager is a MUST. There may not always be up-to-date communication between your IT department and the departments using eMail Manager. Active accounts will turn RED, in the “Last Read” column, that have read times older than 1 hour. Administrators and Super Administrators in the program, have access to the Maintenance Account area, and can make the appropriate updates to begin the email account readings again.

These are just a few of the reasons why an account may stop reading:

A change is made to the POP or IMAP account, such as username or password
Changes made to the mail servers on which the email account resides
New firewalls being installed on customer servers

Be sure to call 877-848-1310 or email us at support@ifmodules.com with any questions!

Tags: Admin, Features, QuickTip, v5.5
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Organize Emails – One at a Time or All At Once

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

You can perform a number of call to actions in eMail Manager, one at a time or all at once. Simply mark the checkbox next to the appropriate email (or click the Select All button) and select the Call To Action.

Select All: Selects all emails.
Clear All: Unchecks all checked (selected) checkboxes
Invert Selection: Inverts checked email. For example, if you have 2 of 20 emails checked and you click on Invert Selection, the other 18 will be selected and the original 2 will uncheck.
Delete Selected: This will delete all emails that are marked by the checkbox. To select all emails showing click on the Select All button.
Print: Prints selected emails, including all associated threads.
Add Note: Add the same note to all selected emails.
Move to a New Folder: Select a folder from the drop-down menu and click on the Change button to its right. This will move all checked email to that folder.
Change Status: Select a status from the drop-down menu and click on the Change button to its right. This will change the status of those selected emails.
Set to a New Category: Select a category from the drop-down menu and click on the Change button to its right. This will move all checked email to that category.
Set Reference To: Enter text into the Reference field and click Set Reference. This will populate the reference field with the reference for all checked emails. References must be activated by a Super Administrator.
Move to a Different Section: Select a section from the drop-down menu and click on the Move button to its right. This will move all checked email to that section into the designated catch-all folder. Users will only see sections they have access to.
Send Standard Reply: You can also send a standard reply in bulk. Choose the standard reply and add an Optional Subject (if applicable) in the blank field. The Optional Subject overwrites the original subject line for these emails only.

You can perform more than one call to action at the same time from the Folder View or one at time when viewing the email.

Tags: Admin, QuickTip
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Keeping Email Secure with Password Protection

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

eMail Manager now provides further security to password protected email accounts by providing an automated account lock-out. If a user tries to access their account with the incorrect password more than 5 times, their account will be locked (just for that person) for 5 minutes. After that, they will be able to try again. If a user is unable to remember a password, they should contact an administrator of their account to have it reset.

Tags: Admin, Security
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Setting Up Time Specific Auto-Responders for Email

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Our company wants to set up an auto-responder to go out every Friday afternoon at 5pm. We’ve set up rules for auto responders, but we’ve always manually activated them. Is there a way to automate certain replies to go out weekly like that?

Yes. Auto-responders can be set up to be sent on certain days or times. By configuring a specific rule for a folder, you can identify times or days of the week and include an auto-responder. For example, you would set up a rule called Friday 5pm Auto-responder to send an auto-responder to customers requesting End of Week Discounts. You would select Match All Conditions and the Rule should have 3 parts to each condition. For this example, we would create 2 conditions as follows:

Condition 1 – Noun would be “Day Of Week”, the verb would be “equals”, and the predicate would be “5”

Condition 2 – Noun would be “Time”, the verb would be “between”, and the predicate would be “17:00:00 23:59:59”

For further details, please visit our help Wiki at:
http://help.ifmods.com/v4/help:maintenance#conditions

Tags: Admin, QuickTip, Support
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Managing Troubled Email with eMail Manager

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Every business is sometimes faced with customer care issues, complaints or negative feedback of some kind or another. It can be frustrating, and often difficult to manage. However, handling these issues promptly and judiciously can turn an angry customer into a loyal customer. To help eMail Manager customers identify, respond to and track these types of emails, we’ve listed some suggestions to help keep these emails from slipping between the cracks.

Create a rule that forwards email with specific keyword triggers (e.g. “complaint” “return” “negative feedback”) into an Urgent folder. If an email gets by the rule, make sure support staff knows to move it to the Urgent folder.
Create several standard replies that allows support staff to send a quick response while reviewing the issue (e.g. “We’ve received your complaint and want to assure you that we are giving the matter serious attention…”).
Depending on the issue, use categories and priorities to escalate the email. If necessary, forward the email to a manager or appropriate department for resolution.
Use Notes to set reminders for follow-up and to document exactly what has transpired (e.g. “Sent email to shipping to inquire about the delay… waiting for response”).
Never let an email go more than 24 hours before the first response or more than 48-72 hours before the second response (if necessary).
Once an issue is resolved, change the category or add references to identify recurring issues, so managers can run a report to quickly identify them.

In order for this to work, support staff trained in dealing with these issues should be assigned to Urgent folders and know to give them priority.

Tags: Admin, Support
Posted in Customer Service, How To, Organizing Email | No Comments »

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