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DESCRIPTION

Mailings is a full featured application for batch emailing that delivers any web page or plain text document with attachments to multiple recipients for marketing, news announcements, product updates etc.

Mailings facilitates the task of delivering regular bulk email distributions 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
  • 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!

Updates are always free!

WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.9.36:
  • The attached files list can now be rearranged using drag and drop. An index column has been added to the attachments list so that you can se the effect of rearranging rows using drag and drop. (Note that attachments are added to the message in the order you specify.)
  • The sort order of attachments is now initially set to the index column, rather than the filename column.
  • The character set for the message editors now defaults to Unicode, and should probably be the best selection for most users.
  •  Bug fix: the initialization of the character set saved in a Mailings document was taking place after the messages editors were initialized. In some cases that caused the text to appear garbled.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Limit Point Software
Downloads:14,532
  - Version d/l:213
Internet:Email
License:Demo
Date:28 Mar 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$25.00
Mailings User Reviews (19 posts)Write A Review
Jan 11 2008

GLOBETROTTERDK  Have your problems disapeared with the latest version? I am considering purchasing the software. What alternatives are available?  (Version 1.9.27)

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Dec 10 2007

JIMW  I have received a very courteous replay back from the developer, after posting my review, indicating he was indisposed for a period of time and indicting that he intends to improve the support of the product in the future. I would welcome any comments in regards to the support experiences of the product from other users for review. If the developed does what he says and the evidence appears here, I would be happy to rewrite my review or provide an update which would reflect the improved support. In regards to functionality: I look forward to re-reviewing the product should the functionality significantly change.   (Version 1.9.26)

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Dec 7 2007
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JIMW  Unfortunately, while the product has some unique and useful features, support for the product (e-mail only) has generally been abysmal. Here is why:

After researching a number of products for someone to whom I provide free support to for their organization, I suggest this product as a bulk mailer for simple text messages and attachments. We paid our shareware fee and started using the product. Unfortunately the documentation leaves much to be desired, so getting it to work involved a lot of trial and error. In the process we ran into a number of bugs, which eventually got fixed. Support for the product seems to be a mixed bag at best. Sometimes we get a helpful response, sometimes we don't. Our most recent experience is that we initially got a acceptable response but then when the initial suggestions failed to work we were abandoned. Finally after several frustrating days of continual failures to get the product to work properly, we finally figured out what was wrong and got it to work - without any help from the developer as a continual stream of emails were never responded to or acknowledged. Troubleshooting this product requires sophisticated experience as errors messages are encoded as cryptic codes that have no reference. Again, the developer ignored a request as to what the error codes mean. Only by going through the Mac console log were we able to get a clue as to what the problem was and figure out a solution on our own.

When the product works, it works well, but it can be very finicky, In my opinion, especially given its level of support and limited documentation, it is not a product suitable for the inexperienced user.

For these reasons, I cannot recommend this product for a general audience. If you are looking for a bulk mailer, I would research its alternatives and only choose this one if you can't find a better one that meets your requirements.

This product has promise, but right now, I do not believe it is ready for 'Prime Time."  (Version 1.9.26)

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Aug 26 2007

HOODENKIY  oh if you could only imagine how hard it was to send html emails to my friends. since i work with orphan kids there are always so many pics and stories hind those. so i really like to make a nice-looking layout and simply send it to my friends. the great thing that i like about Mailings is that it supports HTML code. so i always hear back from my friends how excited they are and happy for the work that i do. thank you Mailings.  (Version 1.9.20)

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