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Using free HTML email templates with MaxBulk Mailer is an excelent way of catching your customer attention. Indeed, MaxBulk Mailer supports the HTML format. Let's see how we can use HTML email templates with MaxBulk Mailer. The HTML language HTML is a very simple programming language that was originally created to allow anyone to design web pages. A web page is usually rendered by a web browser. The web browser reads the page, interprets its contents and shows you the result. A web page is a plain text file that contains HTML code. The HTML code is made of two parts, the header, and the body. You insert contents by writing text into the body part. The header part contains the page settings. The web browser uses that information to render the page. You use tags to set the text format, to insert pictures, videos, and links. Tags are text enclosed into brackets that tell the web browser what to show and how. All the HTML tags have a specific format and a set of parameters. You always...

eMail Verifier , as its name indicates, is a tool for checking single e-mail addresses or lists of e-mail addresses. E-mail validation speed with eMail Verifier may vary. Let's see how we can go faster. The software performs a series of checks to validate every e-mail address including, a syntax check, an e-mail address domain check and finally an e-mail address validity check with the server. All those checks take time to perform and sometimes a user may wonder how much time he will have to spend on this, especially when testing big lists. They can dramatically affect the overall validation speed when verifying a list of e-mail addresses depending on its size. Let's imagine you have a list of e-mail addresses containing 72'000 entries and you need to test every single address with eMail Verifier. So, you load the list and click on the 'Verify' button... E-mail validation speed with eMail Verifier 10 minutes, one hour, a day? Well, there is no way to get an exact ...

As you may know MaxBulk Mailer is one of the products we develop and market. It is a Bulk Email Software (and email merge tool) for both macOS and Microsoft Windows that allows anyone to send out customized offers, press releases, price lists or any text or HTML message to a list of subscribers, friends or customers. Basically you can create, manage and send your own powerful, personalized marketing message to small to medium lists. The good thing is that MaxBulk Mailer is a software tool that you purchase once, no need to pay on a per-email basis to submission services. You know that Email Marketing is spreading around the whole world because of its high effectiveness, speed and low cost. If you want to introduce and sell your product or service, the best way is to use e-mail to contact your targeted customer. We created MaxBulk Mailer with that in mind. Email Marketing Email marketing is indeed one of the best marketing technique mostly because it is the cheapest form of advertisin...

As you probably know I am in charge of answering support requests here at Maxprog. As a result, MaxBulk Mailer users asked me about e-mail delivery issues quite often, especially problems related to spam filtering software flagging and blocking their legitimate messages. This is called 'false positives'. This particular issue is quite frustrating because most of the time you have no idea where the problem comes from. In other words, you have no clue about what is happening and even what to do to fix it. It is even more frustrating for me when people think maxprog bulk mailer software is the culprit. There is no relation actually, MaxBulk Mailer is an e-mail client like any other. So, how do I Avoid My Emails being Marked as Spam? In this post, I will try to gather all my knowledge about how to prevent running into this kind of problem. Let's see the typical story: Writing and sending a message You composed your newsletter, as usual, you selected your subscriber list and t...

MaxBulk Mailer already allows you to unsubscribe people from a list but what happens if some recipients are subscribed to more than one list and they explicitly asked not to receive anything else from you, in other words, how to unsubscribe emails in bulk? Well, you have the choice between processing each list separately and unsubscribe the recipient from each of them or use the MaxBulk Mailer Global Blacklist feature. In fact, the Global Blacklist prevents you from sending messages to given addresses whichever the list you have selected. In other words, you just need to add the address once to the blacklist to get it automatically blocked everywhere else! Furthermore, you can even block a whole domain or a name independently from its domain! As unsubscribed addresses, blacklisted recipients are automatically discarded by MaxBulk Mailer when sending messages. Blacklisting an email address is very simple. Let's see... How to unsubscribe emails in bulk, blacklisting Al Capone Se...

You probably found out that since MaxBulk Mailer 8.7, the 'Preview' panel no longer displays pictures referenced by addresses starting with 'http://' like before. You may wonder why MaxBulk Mailer now only supports 'https://' links? Apple Security requirements It turns out that Apple announced a new security requirement for iOS and OS X apps: App Transport Security . From Apple’s docs : Starting in iOS 9.0 and OS X v10.11, a new security feature called App Transport Security (ATS) is available to apps and is enabled by default. It improves the privacy and data integrity of connections between an app and web services by enforcing additional security requirements for HTTP-based networking requests. Specifically, with ATS enabled, HTTP connections must use HTTPS (RFC 2818). Attempts to connect using insecure HTTP fail. Furthermore, HTTPS requests must use best practices for secure communications. MaxBulk Mailer now only supports https links Starting wi...

All Maxprog 's products include a 'hidden' menu with some interesting tools you may need at some time. That menu is inside the 'About' window, you know, the 'About MaxBulk Mailer ...', 'About iCash ...' and so on. On the top right you will see a menu button with a cog icon. That is it! What do you get there? Well, it actually depends on whether your application copy has been registered or not. If you haven't registered the application yet you will be able to 'Purchase', 'Register', have a look at the 'License Agreement' or even 'Restore Factory Settings'. Now, if you did purchase and you already registered the application you will be able to 'Get Info', 'Copy the activation code' and 'Unregister'. In addition if your Update Plan has expired you will see a 'Update Plan ? Renew...' menu. Most of the menus are quite self explanatory. You can purchase a license, register it and check the...

As you probably know I am in charge of answering support request here at Maxprog. Quite often I am being asked about email delivery issues, specially problems regarding apparently legitimate messages being flagged and blocked by spam filtering software. This particular issue is quite frustrating because most of the time you have no idea where the problem come from. It is even more frustrating for me when people think the culprit is MaxBulk Mailer , maxprog bulk mailer software. There is no relation actually, MaxBulk Mailer is an email client like any other. In this post I will try to gather all my knowledge about how to prevent running into this kind of problem. Let's see the typical story: You composed your newsletter as usual, you selected your subscriber list and then sent the message with a copy to yourself. You later found out that your copy never arrived and then, asking to a few subscribers it turns out some of them did not receive anything either. Does this story looks fa...