If Java is the mantra of Sockem Software, e-mail is the mantra of SockMail. Sign Me Up Web sites commonly have a text box in which people can sign up to be included on or dropped from a mailing list. It is difficult to automate this process with scripts and clumsy to paste names into a mail program in the blind copy field. SockMail's primary goal is to make the whole process of creating, maintaining and sending out information to lists of e-mail addresses as efficient as possible. It's a very simple and focused application that doesn't do much more than that.
Users do a lot of the work by adding and deleting themselves from mailing lists.
This is its big selling point for companies wanting to automate their web site subscription lists. Listserv and Majordomo Unlike Listserv and Majordomo mail programs where users send commands within an e-mail to add or delete themselves from mailing lists, SockMail's lists are maintained through Java applets. Additionally, SockMail doesn't allow posting to people on a list. It is specifically designed for sending out mail to lists, not to facilitate communication between people on a list. A Listserv or Majordomo system could be configured to have much the same functionality as SockMail, but these systems are more difficult to set up and maintain.