The Portal aims to provide an efficient and tailored service that is cost effective and simple to use. Guests are informed of event information and can respond quickly to R.S.V.P. requests online. As event details are not sent by mail guests can respond quickly regardless of their location. An online R.S.V.P. service was developed which ultimately reduce costs, saves the customer time by tracking responses.

The need is to provide a Mail System with a rich, server based, email campaign management features. The system is required to allow list management, personalized & customized email generation and detailed reporting facilities.The system is required to run as a service on a dedicated server. The server is capable to select remote connections to instigate a mail operation. Configuration of the server is required to be done remotely. The service should not use its own SMTP server but must be able to connect to any existing SMTP service including ones requiring authentication. The system's main role is to take mail processing away from the web servers as well as delivering a great range of additional functionality.The system should be able to accept five different types of requests, and this access needs to be platform independent.

• Configuration Requests - to configure the system remotely
• Administration Requests - to real-time modify what the server is doing
• Management Requests - to manage mailing lists.
• Mail-out Requests - to perform mail-outs.
• Status Requests - to retrieve the status of the requests at any given time.

1. The Server component, which is the central processing unit for the system, is managed as a windows service. It is also named as the Mail Engine, as it is capable to manage multi threaded mail-out processing using any networked SMTP servers. It is also capable to manage the POP checking and processing the lists based on the match made in the POP mail fields.
2. A set of Web Services to configure, control, analyze, and monitor the processes (or requests) under execution in the Server. These web services expose multiple web methods or APIs that can be used by any application to provide the required functionality through this system.
3. A Windows based configuration utility that can be used by the Administrators to manage the configuration at different levels, viz., System, Resellers, Accounts and Campaigns. The solution stores the configurations at each level in XML format with secured information like passwords stored in strong encrypted manner.
4. The Web Administration Module, which is a Web based application that provide the administration functionality for the system. This includes managing Resellers, Accounts, Campaigns, their users, as well as system level administration tasks including logs management, errors, processing monitor, pausing request, changing priorities, and reporting.