Mailings 1.9.77 - Batch emailer with personalization features. (Demo)
Mailings facilitates the task of delivering regular bulk email with such features as logging, progress monitoring, scheduling, error recovery, throttling, personalization and much more. Integrates with your mail client, browser and Address Book to simplify its functionality. The one window user interface makes the program a breeze to learn and fun to use.
The fully functional demo you download now runs for at least ten days.
Key Features:
- Simple intuitive interface
- New Batch mode for speed
- Send HTML or plain text
- Handles thousands of recipients
- \"Throttling\" to control message rate
- Scheduling
- Personalization (including subject line)
- Imports CSV or TSV text files
- Full Address Book support for groups & distribution lists
- Imports Entourage groups directly
- Import Daylite 3 contacts using the Mailings Daylite plugin
- Templates for adding Address Book or import file data to message content
- Templates support AppleScript content generation
- Subject line can be a template
- Plain text alternatives
- Supports all character sets
- Mail priority, return receipt, X-Mailer headers
- Add attachments of any type
- Detailed progress monitoring
- Spotlight searchable documents
- Embedded Image attachments (multi-part related)
- Option to image HTML documents as JPEG
- Much more!
Mailings initially runs as a fully functional trial.
Check the website for bundles and promos.
Free updates on all the software!
Improved Other Options panel: "people picker" and "address type" popup buttons have been added so that you can set the CC, BCC, Reply-To and Return Address fields from Address Book cards. Click the people picker button. Drag cards out of the people picker into the edit field you want to set. The email address chosen from the card is based on the value of the address type chosen (work, home, primary or other.)
Improved Add Recipient panel: an "address type" popup button has been placed inside the window adjacent to the people picker button. This button will determine what address type - work, home, primary or other - will be used when a recipient is dragged into one of the text fields : first name, last name or email address.
Fixed: a recent update inadvertently caused the message ID to lose its closing "greater than" (>) bracket.
Improved: the "Simulate to Self" feature was using the "Reply To" value of "Other Options", which means it didn't work if that entry was empty. Now it simulates to the person sending the mailing, namely the "From" setting of the Mailer window, which is addressed using the Address Book "Me" card or entered on the "Manual" tab. (This feature is useful for previewing a subset of the mailing - use the "Select Recipients" button to set the "Send?" flags for testing on just those recipients. Mail is not sent to them in the mailing, but to you, if you are who the mail is from. All template tags will be evaluated using the true recipient however, so you get a true preview of the mail.)
Feature fix: HTML web page imaging (to JPEG or TIFF image files) was inadvertently broken as a result of the added support in a recent update for including template tags in attachment pathnames and filenames (useful for creating "personalized" attachments per recipient.)
HTML web page imaging has been extended to include the PDF format, as well as JPEG and LZW TIFF from previous versions. This format is useful because it makes a self contained email message, composed of a PDF file, with images and preserving links. It is best if the recipients are using email clients that can display inline PDF documents so they don't have to download them to their computer to open them in another program. (File formats for HTML web page imaging is specified in Preferences on the "Message" pane.)
Added a new option to the "Behavior" pane of program preferences named "Split PDFs" for PDF attachments (adjacent to the "Zip Folders" option.) When a PDF file is added, either using the "Add" button or dragging a PDF into the attachments list, the PDF is split into multiple PDF files, one for each page. Then each single page PDF file is added to the attachments list (in the proper order.) The single page PDF's are stored in a "temporary" folder in the cache folder of your computer. This feature is useful for clients who have email readers, like Mail, that can display single page PDF's inline, or allowing recipients to only load pages they are interested in, rather than the whole PDF file.
The raw source of a preview of the mailing can be saved to disk for archiving or previewing purposes. The type of the file is determined by the extension "eml" (the same used by Apple Mail) and it can be opened for viewing in Apple Mail.
Generate the raw source file with the new "Raw Source" button in every Mailer window. When this button is clicked a preview is generated and then you are prompted for a location to save its raw source.