TALLIS I'm in two minds about this app. I have been using it for about 5 months now and it has replaced mailings in my personal workflow. It does a better job than mailings in making sure that plain-text and rich text mails look the way you created them on every machine, every client and every platform. It is also more powerful and gives you more flexibility in tailoring address groups, while with mailings you have to use the groups as they are set up in your address book. There's tons of import possibilities for address lists for 1 st mac mailer. So far the good news. On the other hand the program forces you to a certain workflow and handling that for the most part is not very intuitive and certainly not very Mac-like. It feels (and almost certainly is) like a windows-port. Since version 2.7 it is at least possible to drag and drop an adress into a new group but there is no multiple selection - not even 'select' all. When you close a file it shuts down the program - very You cannot save within the text editing window - you have to leave editing mode to be able to save. THere is still a conspicious "Purchase" button omnipresent in the tool bar (after having bougt and registered) I cannot see any change or improvement in version 2.8. compared to 2.7. What I find very strange is that both "Bulk Mail"and "Mac Mass Mailer" evidently are the same program published under a different name. Same price, same version number. What's the deal? Well, to sum up: The program does what it promises to do and it does it well if you can live with being dictated to do things in the way and the order the program wants you to. Or if you don't mind windows behaviour and routines ... All in all, I find 70 Dollars too much money for what you get. (very slim report features) (Version 2.8) |