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We have released a new version of our popular Bulk Email Software, MaxBulk Mailer version 8.7.3 . This new version adds several interesting features that I will review in detail in this post with the help of the video that was shot live right after the release. Gmail OAuth2 authentication scheme support You can now use the OAuth2 authentication scheme with Gmail. Here is how: So, in conclusion, in order to use OAuth2: - Select your current Gmail account (or create a new one) - Select the OAuth2 scheme - Go through the Gmail authentication process - You are ready to send messages! MaxBulk Mailer now supports the Markdown format The Markdown format, 0.29 specification , is now fully supported by MaxBulk Mailer. Here is how you can take advantage of it: In summary: - The Markdown format is a plain text format for writing emails, based on conventions for indicating formatting. - The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. - As a ...

2nd July live event shows 10 great tips for editing recipient's email addresses with MaxBulk Mailer . Editing a selection of recipients It is very easy to edit a selection of recipients. Here is how: So, in conclusion, to edit recipients: - Select several recipients (SHIFT or CMD/ALT click to select several). - Select the 'Recipients > Edit' menu OR the contextual 'Edit' menu. - Enter the new text into the field and click on OK. - In order to delete data/clear cells, just check the field to delete any data from. Editing a single recipient and navigate through the whole list Using a similar aproach we can start by editing one single recipient? Here is how: So, in order to navigate through a list with a single selected recipient: - Select one recipient. - Select the 'Recipients > Edit' menu or the Contextual 'Edit' menu. - Enter some data. - You can go up (Up key) and down (Down key) in the list or with the mouse wheel/trackpad gesture. - Change...

July live event shows 5 great tips for composing emails with MaxBulk Mailer . How to use Emojis in your messages It is very easy to add Emojis to both the subject and the body of your messages. Here is how: So, in conclusion, to add Emojis: - macOS: Control + Command + Space - (Drag to convert into a window) - Windows: Windows + ; OR Windows + . How to add hyperlinks with MaxBulk Mailer You are using the styled text format and you need to insert hyperlinks? Here is how: So, in order to use the hyperlink manager to insert a link: 'Edit > Insert Hyperlink' menu (or button). And to add hyperlinks: 'Edit > Insert Hyperlink > Edit' menu (or button). How to insert random word Did you know you can add random words in your messages? Remember, to insert random words: 'Edit > Insert Random Words' and how to edit or create lists How to use Tags with an alternative value When composing emails sometimes you need to insert data but your list is missing key valu...

I hosted a 1-hour MaxBulk Mailer Q&A webinar a few days ago. As a result our support page now has a new link labeled Online Events . Click on that link to visit the Maxprog's webinar page . We can send you a notification when new events are scheduled, just click on Follow . In addition, you can also see a list of Upcoming Events and Past Events. You can register for any upcoming event and you can replay any past event as well. For instance, you can see the list of answered questions and watch the replay of each answer. You will see below the list of the most voted questions that were answered. Please register for any of the events, it is free! Not getting caught by SPAM filters Can you share a list of best practices to not get caught in SPAM filters? Specifically, how do we avoid getting our emails identified as "Sent from a list." List Batch processing Is there a way to import a list into an extant MaxBulk list that causes MaxBulk to then remove those imported e-a...

Email server blocking is an unexpected stressful situation you will soon or later go thru. In this article, I will try to explain how to fix this annoying problem. Email server blocking causes and solutions There are times your email service just blocks you when using MaxBulk Mailer (or any other bulk email software), even though you are not sending spam but a legitimate message to an opt-in email list. They say they don't allow bulk mail, only through their own proprietary service. Let me share some valuable information with you about my very last experience with MaxBulk Mailer. I just finished sending a message to a 52k list successfully! Our last MaxBulk Mailer campaign I programmed MaxBulk Mailer to deliver to 5 recipients every 3 minutes. The overall delivery rate has been 100 deliveries per hour. That is only 2'400 deliveries every 24 hours. It took 22 days to finish! MaxBulk Mailer has been running and sending to my list during all that time, day and night, unattended a...

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...

With MaxBulk Mailer 8.6.7 we added support for DKIM. DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is a method for validating the authenticity of email messages. When an email is sent with DKIM activated, it is signed using a private key and then validated on the receiving mail server (or ISP) using a public key on your domain DNS record. Using DKIM is opcional but quite recommended since having emails that are signed with DKIM appear more legitimate to your recipients and are less likely to go to Junk or Spam folders. In addition to verifying the authenticity of an email message, DKIM also provides a way for ISPs to track and build a reputation on your domain's sending history. So, in order to use DKIM first you need a domain and you have to use an email address from that domain as the sender of your emails. For example our domain is 'maxprog.com' and our address 'support' belongs to that domain. If you don't have a domain and/or use a gmail/hotmail/yahoo address for examp...

I already posted about this topic a month ago, this is just a reminder with some updated info. As you very likely know, every year the Maxprog company closes its doors for a month or so. It is the time for enjoying life a bit, far from the internet and all the technologies alike. Last year we were closed almost during all March. This year it will be from June 6 to July 10 both inclusive, please take note! During that time I will do support as usual BUT I will connect to the internet from time to time, maybe twice a week. You can't really enjoy holidays if you are working as the rest of the year. The ideal would be not connecting at all. Each time I go for holidays I have to prepare everything months in advance, usually optimizing things, publishing tutorials and releasing very stable versions of all the software. The idea is to reduce support as much as possible because it may take some time for the customers to get a response. This year is not an exception, Maxprog has released 64...

The European Union (EU) introduced a landmark regulation called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR in short) on the 25th of May. The goal of GDPR is to give EU residents drastic improvements to their privacy rights and control over their personal data, and to protect them from privacy breaches and leaks. Every organisation that handles, markets or tracks the personal data of EU residents is concerned, even if they are not based in Europe. In the case of software companies which typically sell their products globally, this means that this new regulation will apply to everyone, no matter where they are based. There are strong penalties in place for non-compliance: up to €20m or 4% of global annual turnover, whichever is higher. Making sure we were compliant, and that the personal data of the customers buying our products was treated correctly, whilst continuing to provide a great customer experience has been an important focus for us over the past few months. Here are the ...