Software
A good tool to manage e-mail
A few weeks ago I wrote about the free, Web-based, open source image gallery called Coppermine. Many of you wrote asking to see the gallery we put online using this software (if you want to see it, drop us a note with the subject "Photos"), and we've had many favorable comments.
Reader David Hekimian wrote in to suggest we look at Gallery, another free, open source photo gallery system. We played with Release 1.0 long ago and forgot about it until David reminded us.
Of course, a good open source project isn't going to stand still and Gallery is no exception. Now at Version 2.0, Gallery is really impressive. We'll be taking a look at it soon.
<digression>In the Coppermine column, we offered our recipe for soy-brined turkey and scores of you wrote in requesting a copy (you can still get one by sending us a message with the subject "Turkey"). If you have tried this recipe, drop us a note and tell us what you thought. Maybe we should create a Gearhead Cookbook . . . </digression>
Now-Back-to-Our-Regular-Programming Department: With all of these messages flooding in asking for links to the gallery and copies of recipes, as well as voting for Backspin's Golden Turkey Awards (if you haven't voted yet, check out the poll in the online article or stir it up on Gibbsblog in the Golden Turkey forum, the issue of e-mail management once again raises its ugly head.
There used to be a sensational product for managing e-mail called Emailrobot that was published by GFI, but the company sold it to another company that must have buried it in soft peat to recycle it as firelighters (if you don't get that last bon mot, send us a message with the subject "THHGTTG").
Using the product's GUI, you could define workflows to parse incoming SMTP message content and conditionally route e-mail and generate sophisticated replies with embedded tracking.
Emailrobot was a great product; we have yet to come across anything quite as good. If you know of something you'd recommend, we would love to hear about it.
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