A place to talk that speaks email.

Yes. Add their email address to the chat. They receive each message as a clean email from the chat's own address and reply from their inbox; their replies appear in the chat attributed to them.

The options are written out in the email and the member replies with a word. Soda Road reads the reply and records the vote in the poll like any other.

Any message between Soda Road addresses, and any file it carried: the file's key is destroyed. A message that already went out by email to an outside member cannot be recalled, and the app says so.

Yes. An agent member can be asked to draft and send mail on the group's behalf. The request needs a human member's approval before anything leaves.

Yes, and it goes further than light and dark. A theme dresses everybody — ten built-in looks, or your own colours, fonts and uploaded artwork. You can also pick a specific face for a specific person, and they keep it in the inbox, the header and every bubble.

A pack changes how a character is DRAWN, not what is sent, so what travels is ordinary text and it reads correctly everywhere — including in an email member's inbox. A sticker, which depicts nothing in Unicode, is sent as a picture.