1.- Getting StartedThe Maxbulk Mailer document window is made of five tab panels labeled:Message,Recipients,Settings,PreviewandDelivery.In the process of creating a new email campaign you will very likely go through those panels in this same order:

1.- You start a new campaign by setting a subject and composing amessage.2.- You select a recipient list, create a new one or importrecipientsfrom a file.3.- You select a mail account or create a new one by entering all the necessarysettings.4.- Youpreviewyour message to make sure it will show up properly to your recipients.5.- You send out your message to your recipients and make sure everything is going well looking at thedeliverypanel.2.- Composing your messageLaunch MaxBulk Mailer- On launching MaxBulk Mailer, you are up in the Message panel, where you can start typing your message.Type the subject- Use the subject field to place a brief summary of what your message is about. It is recommended that you keep the subject to 40 characters or less. MaxBulk Mailer also supplies a number of predefined prefixes ( 'News', 'Announce', 'Information' and 'Press Release') that you can insert to your subject to help your recipients identify the type of message you are sending. You can create new ones and store them for later use.

Compose your message- You can drop text files or paste text from any other text editor to the message field. If you want to, you can also spice up your message by sending it as styled text or using HTML code, with styles like Bold, Underline, larger font size, or a different font color. Note that styles and HTML increase the size of the actual email and perhaps not every one will be able to read it.

Set the priority(Optional) - Priority doesn't make your mail reach the recipient faster but only produces some effects on recipient side: subject will show itself with a different color for example.

Add attachments(Optional) - Maxbulk Mailer also supports the inclusion of attachments or enclosures, so you can add pictures, a Microsoft Word document, an Acrobat PDF or any type of document to your email out. To add an attachment just drag and drop the corresponding file to the clip icon, to the attachment list or directly onto the message. Set the encoding if necessary. Please read carefully the Attachments chapter to learn more on attachments and encodings. Inline attachments and pictures are allowed.

Ask for a Return Receipt(Optional) - Some email readers include an option that forces recipients to send a receipt back to the sender when opening incoming mails. It works properly with Netscape mail client for example and likely will be implemented in most mail readers in a near future. Use this feature carefully when sending mass mailings to avoid being flooded by thousands of receipts!

Set the message format- Depending on the type of message you are about to send you should select the format that best suits your needs from Plain Text, Text/HTML, HTML only, Web Page and Styled Text.

- Select Plain text for plain text messages.- Select Text/HTML for a combination of a plain text version and an HTML version of your message.- Select HTML only for an HTML message with no plain text alternative.- Select Web Page to send a copy of an online Web page to your recipients.- Select Styled Text if you want to use styles like Bold, Italic, Underline, Color, Font, Size, Bullet lists...

Note that MaxBulk Mailer also supports:

- Plain Text with attached or inline attachments.- HTML and Text/HTML messages with online or inline pictures.- Styled Text with online or inline pictures.- Web Page (by URL)

An inline attachment in a Plain Text email can be placed anywhere in your message when an attached attachment will be placed depending on the recipient email software. An inline picture (HTML, Text/HTML and Styled Text) is embedded directly into the message when an online picture will be fetched from the internet when the recipient open the message. Read the 'Message formats' and the 'Attachments' chapters for more information.3.- Message formatsDepending on the type of message you are composing select the format that best suits your needs fromPlain Text,Text/HTML,HTML only,Web PageandStyled Text. Each format is explained in details below.

Note: A comment header can be added to your message, whichever the format you have selected, by using the '' marker. Everything above that marker will be ignored.

Plain TextThe Plain Text format is the most used, the most compatible and the fastest way for creating and sending emails. It is very simple to use as only row text is allowed without styles. The only thing you have to take care of is the number of characters per line when you insert line breaks. You can just write sentences with no line breaks at all, the final result will actually depend on the recipient email reader. Modern software like Mac OS X Mail, Entourage or Windows Outlook use to display the lines the same way without rewrapping but older software may rewrap your text to 72 characters per line following the 'Philip Bar' formatting. This is the reason why it is usually recommended to keep lines shorter than 72 characters long to avoid unexpected results on the recipient side, when the email reader is set to rewrap the message contents to 72 characters. MaxBulk Mailer doesn't insert line breaks on its own so you are free to send long lines if you prefer and let the recipient mail reader to freely display the message. MaxBulk Mailer inserts a 'format=flowed' parameter to the Content-type header of your message to force the recipient mail reader to keep the original text format.

The Philip bar is a visual marker which indicates the limit of the window's visible area when the window is zoomed to fill a classic (512-pixel-wide) Macintosh screen. It's named for Philip Borenstein, former tech-writer at Symantec, who requested some indication of this width limit, so that he could write "read me" files that all users would be able to read without scrolling.

Text/HTMLThe Text/HTML format is a combination of an HTML message and a Plain Text alternative. The HTML message is made of standard HTML code. The Plain Text part follow the Plain Text format explained above.

Actually the Text/HTML format is a MIME format that means HTML with a text alternative, the HTML code will be rendered by the recipient email reader if supported else the Text alternative will be displayed. To use that format you have to create a text alternative of your message, usually a plain text copy of your HTML message and then paste the HTML code below. At delivery time the Text/HTML will be made of 3 parts:

1.- An error message created automatically by MaxBulk Mailer to warn the recipient in case its email reader doesn't understand the MIME format. It says:

This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understandthis format, some or all of this message may not be legible.

2.- The plain text version of your HTML message that will be used in case the recipient email reader understand the MIME format but is not able to render HTML.

3.- The HTML code to be rendered if the recipient email reader application understand the MIME format and is able to render HTML.

Note: MIME stands for 'MultipurposeInternetMailExtensions'. It is a standard that describes how internet messages have to be formated. (RFC2045)

To create a Text/HTML message just choose the Text/HTML format from the format pull-down menu, write the Text version and paste the HTML version code below. Your document should be formatted this way:

Hello world!

Hello world!

Note: If you select the "Text/HTML" format but you don't provide a text version it will be created on the fly using the HTML code. You may get very poor results on complex documents though.

The HTML code can be created with your favorite HTML editor software. We recommend WYSIWYG tools like Adobe Golive, Macromedia Dreamweaver or a specialized text editor like BBEdit from Barebones. HTML documents are always saved as text. and tags are required and are always included in the HTML code.

HTML only'HTML only' messages are made of HTML code only. They don't have any 'Plain Text' alternative nor a MIME alert. As a result we always assume that all recipient's email software will be able to render the HTML code. To create an 'HTML only' message just paste your HTML code to the MaxBulk Mailer message field and select the 'HTML only' format from the format pull-down menu. Note that your HTML code has to begin with the tag and end with the tag. Your document should be formatted this way:

Hello world!

Note: It's recommended to use the Text/HTML format, which includes a text alternative version of your message when sending HTML as perhaps some of your recipient's software may not support HTML.

HTML code can be created with your favorite HTML editor software. We recommend WYSIWYG tools like Adobe Golive or Macromedia Dreamweaver or a specialized text editor like BBEdit from Barebones. HTML documents are always saved as text. and tags are required and are always included in the HTML code.

Web PageYou can send a message containing a copy of a web page simply by using its URL. Just select the 'Web Page' format from the format pull-down menu and paste the URL in the message field. MaxBulk Mailer will get the code located at that address and will send it to your recipients. It is extremely simple and easy to use. You can provide a BASE HREF tag to the HTML code on the second line if necessary. The BASE HREF parameter converts all the relative URLs into absolute ones. To add an alternative plain text version as with Text/HTML format, add two line-breaks and the text right below.

Styled Text(Pro only)The Styled Text format allows you to enhance your text messages with styles such as bold, italic, underline, colors, fonts and sizes. Select the 'Styled Text' format from the format pull-down menu and use the formatting options accessible from both the formatting toolbar located right above the message field and the 'Format' top menu. Read the 'Formatting text' chapter for more information on styles.

When sending a "Styled Text" message, MaxBulk Mailer converts your text into HTML code and also creates a text alternative version on the fly automatically so all recipients will be able to read your message even though they use a text-only email reader.4.- AttachmentsMaxbulk Mailer allows you to send emails with attachments. You can add pictures, PDFs or any kind of file to your message. To add an attachment just drag and drop the file to the clip icon, to the attachment list or directly onto the message.Click on the disclosure triangle to expand the attachment panel. You can then use the 'Add' and 'Delete' buttons to modify the list and double-click any attachment to open it with its associated viewer application. Command-Click or Control-Click an attachment to replace it. The attachment panel also lets you change the encoding if necessary.

EncodingDefault encoding is Base64. Base64 is fine for the vast majority of attachments. MacBinary, BinHex, AppleSingle and AppleDouble are old legacy formats used by Apple in the past. You can also use UUEncode instead of Base64 but this format is less popular nowadays.

Inline attachmentsMaxBulk Mailer gives full support for inline attachments allowing you to display pictures or files right in your message. In fact, inline attachments are files such as pictures you drag and drop directly to your message rather than to the attachment panel. As a result, if you have selected the 'Plain Text' or the 'Styled Text' format, the inline attachments will be displayed in the place they have been dropped. In the case of the HTML format, inline pictures will be embedded inside the HTML code and will be displayed where they are referenced. Note that the attachment tags or picture references should always correspond to the files you have attached to your document.

You have to be very careful about the total size of your attachments when sending individual messages because you will send as many times that size during the delivery. That means sending 10Kb to 1,000 recipients will generate 10Mb traffic! With a 2Kb/s bandwidth it will take 1 hour and 25 minutes.5.- RecipientsThe Recipients panel is the area where you can create and edit your recipient lists. You can either enter new addresses manually, or import them from a file or another application like FileMaker Pro or Excel.The list is made of columns, labeled by default Firstname, Surname, Company and Email Address followed by 20 optional columns (Pro only). On the very first column starting from the left, a check box lets you activate or deactivate each entry individually. In addition, that column also displays the recipient number and an icon indicating its delivery status.

Adding, deactivating and deleting recordsYou can add a new recipient by clicking on the '+' button. First field will be made editable allowing you to type the text directly. You can move back and forth between fields/columns by pressing the tab or the shift-tab keys. To remove recipients from a list, select them and click on the '-' button. Note that deleting recipients that have unsubscribed from your newsletter is almost never a good strategy for maintaining your lists because you may add them again later accidentally. MaxBulk Mailer lets you deactivate unsubscribed recipients by highlighting one or several recipients and selecting the list contextual menu 'Subscribe' or 'Unsubscribe'. Unsubscribed recipients are deactivated but remain on your list thus you can't add them again accidently. You can re-subscribe them at anytime though. If a recipient is present in several lists you can also add it to the blacklist. You can add addresses to the Blacklist simply by highlighting them and selecting the 'Add to Blacklist' menu from both the list contextual menu (right-clicking on the list) and from the 'Recipients' main menu. The Blacklist is somehow like a global un-subscription mechanism.

Editing a recordYou can edit a recipient in a separate window by double-clicking on a its icon or directly in the list by double-clicking a cell. With the separate editor window you can navigate back and forth through all the records using the 'Previous' and 'Next' buttons. Press the Command or Control keys at the same time to increment or decrement by 10 and Shift + Command or Control for even bigger steps (list count / 25). In addition, you can use your mouse wheel to navigate back and forth through the list and edit several entries at once, as you already do with songs in iTunes. That allows you to set the common data of a group of recipients or to clear columns. Just highlight several entries from your list and select 'Edit' from the list contextual menu. You will get displayed a new multiple edit window very similar to the one in iTunes, actually it works mostly the same way. Only checked fields/columns will be finally updated throughout the selection. A field get checked as soon as you modify it.

Temporal record deactivationIn order to get control over each recipient for a particular delivery, MaxBulk Mailer lets you enable or disable each recipient individually. By default all recipients are checked/activated. Uncheck the recipients you don't want to send your message to by highlighting one or several recipients and clicking on any of the check boxes on the left. This feature is intended to be used for specific deliveries. To deactivate a recipient as a result of an un-subcription request, use the 'Unsubscribe' feature instead.

Selecting or changing recipient statusesYou can change each recipient status by using the tool menu located above the list, the 'Recipients | Mark' menu or the list contextual menu. For example a recipient can be marked as 'Sent' or as 'Unsent'. You may also select recipients depending on their status ('Select Sent', 'Select Unsent', 'Select Failed'...) and remove them from the list or export them to a file.

List managementAll the list management is done by using the list manager pull-down menu right above the list field and the 'Save' button on the right. After adding recipients for the first time you may save the new list by clicking on that 'Save' button or by selecting the 'Save current list as...' menu from the list manager pull-down menu. You can add recipients to any existing list by selecting it first. Just remember to click on the 'Save' button when you are done. Each time you want to send a message to a list, just select it from the list manager pull-down menu. You can have as many lists as you need and all of them will be available through this same pull-down menu. You can delete a list by selecting it and choosing the 'Remove Current List' menu from the list manager pull-down menu. Note that deleted lists are moved to the '~/Library/Application Support/Maxprog/MaxBulk Mailer/Trash' folder thus they can be recovered in case or an accidental deletion.

Merging listsYou have the possibility to temporally merge two or more lists together by selecting the 'Multiple Lists' menu from the list manager pull-down menu. This option offers by far the best way to send a message to several lists at once as it takes care of possible duplicates for you. It lets you create clean new lists as the combination of others. All you need is at least two lists. After selecting the 'Multiple Lists' menu from the list manager pull-down menu you can start with the merging by checking the lists you want to merge from the top list. You can see the merging on the recipient list right below. If you uncheck a list, all recipients from that list are also removed from the merging. If you highlight one or several lists their recipients will be highlighted as well. Once you are done you can simply perform a delivery or save the new list.

Remote List ManagementYou can let people both subscribe to or unsubscribe from your mailing lists at any time by using the Mailing List manager. The Mailing List Manager (MLM for short) is a double opt-in list subscription PHP script you might install on your site for maintaining your lists online. Your clients and contacts can then subscribe to or unsubscribe from any of your lists at any time through a link on your message or through a web page on your site. It supports a full set of commands you can use either directly with your web browser to maintain your lists or by placing them on your web pages or on your outgoing messages. Unlike other products and depending on your possibilities and knowledge, MLM is prepared to work with either a mySQL database or simple raw text files. MLM has no limitations, you can create as many lists as you wish with as many subscribers as you need. MLM works with MaxBulk Mailer through the 'Remote Lists' menu allowing you to use your remote lists directly as if they were local, without needing to go through the tedious import/export steps. You just need to edit the script settings, upload it to your site, open MaxBulk Mailer preferences and enter the script URL and the administrator password. You can then access your lists from the 'Remote Lists' menu on the Lists manager pull-down menu. You can get more information on MLM here:http://www.maxprog.com/scripts/list_manager/

Global BlacklistThe Global Blacklist prevents you from sending messages to given addresses whichever the list you have selected. You just need to add the addresses once to the blacklist to get them automatically blacklisted everywhere else. The Blacklist is accessible from the List manager pull-down menu like a regular list. You can add new addresses to the blacklist as you do with a regular list or by using the 'Add to Blacklist' menu from both the list contextual menu (right-clicking on the list) and from the 'Recipients' main menu. Blacklisted addresses appear in red with a different icon so you can easily tell them apart. To remove an address from the Blacklist you just have to go to the Blacklist, select the address(es), click on the delete button '-' and then on the 'Save' button. As with unsubscribed addresses, blacklisted recipients are automatically discarded by MaxBulk Mailer when sending messages. If you add an address that is currently Blacklisted, it will automatically appear in red with its specific icon so you can find out instantly about its status.

Quick Selector(Pro Only)Click on the disclosure triangle on the left of the Lists selector pull-down menu to expand the Quick Selector panel. The Quick Selector lets you select, unselect, activate or deactivate entries matching a given rule. For example you may activate recipients from a given state or select recipients from a given domain.

SortingAs with any other application, you can sort any column by pressing on its header. Besides, you can sort email addresses by domain pressing the ALT or the Command key while clicking on the email column header or you can sort recipients by status pressing the ALT or the Command key while clicking on the Delivery column header.

MaxBulk Mailer supports several types of imports taking care of bad emails and duplicates for you. Note that duplicate checking can be deactivated from the preferences. A report is displayed right after the import when errors or duplicates have been detected.

Importing from a Text file

You can import recipients from other applications quite easily. The very first step is to save or export your list in a format MaxBulk Mailer understand. That includes Tab-delimited or Comma-delimited text among others. Once your file has been created you just need to click on the Import button, select the 'From a Text File' menu and open the file. You will then enter the import screen. After selecting the field delimiter from the field delimiters pull-down menu you will be able to preview records and navigate back and forth through the file by clicking on the left and right arrow buttons. Note that what you see on screen is what you will get after importing the recipients thus it is important to set the encoding properly.

Maxbulk Mailer assists you during the importation process by giving you the possibility to import the fields you really need in the order you want. In fact, the fields on your file are likely organized differently and won't correspond with the field order required by Maxbulk Mailer by default. You can alter that order by highlighting any field and by using the up and down arrows on the right hand side of the screen until it matches the correct field and repeat the operation as many times as needed. You can again preview the result in real time and check whether each field will be transfered into the right places. Once all the fields have been aligned and are properly checked, click the 'Import' button.

Note that the email field is mandatory and must contain an email address. If no email address is detected, the entry will be discarded. MaxBulk Mailer lets you save your current import settings for later use. Just use the 'Import Presets' pull-down menu to create, load or remove your presets.

Drag'n'drop

You can add recipients directly by dragging and dropping a file to the recipient list. You have to make sure the file is a Tab-delimited plain text file and the fields it contains are organized in the right order, namely, the First name, the Surname, the Company, the Email address followed by the optional fields if any (Pro version only):

FirstName1Surname1Company1Email1Opt1....Opt20FirstName2Surname2Company2Email2Opt1....Opt20FirstName3Surname3Company3Email3Opt1....Opt20

If you don't follow that format a parser will be activated and will extract the email addresses from the text.

Pasting from the clipboard

You can also import recipients from the clipboard. Just copy your the text from any aplication and then select the 'Edit | Paste Special' menu. The format to follow is the same as above. You can for example copy an Excel sheet columns and paste them to the recipient list. First column should be Firstname, then Surname, Company followed by email address.

From Plain Text

This option lets you import recipients by copying and pasting any kind of text. MaxBulk Mailer will extract the email addresses from the text using the built-in parser. You don't have to follow any specific format. It can be a bunch of email addresses separated by commas such as:

address1@domain.com,address2@domain.com,address3@domain.com,address4@domain.com,address5@domain.com,address6@domain.com,address7@domain.com,address8@domain.com,address9@domain.com,address10@domain.com

From Apple Mail, Microsoft Entourage, Eudora and PowerMail

You can extract email addresses from messages stored in a given folder or mailbox inside Apple Mail, Microsoft Entourage, Eudora and PowerMail. Just select the corresponding menu from the Import button or the 'File | Import Recipients' menu. Note that the folder has to be a root folder, a folder inside another folder.

Look at theFAQfor more information about importing addresses from Entourage Address Book.

From Mac OS X Address Book and Now Contact

You can import recipients from the Mac OS X Address Book and Now Contact. Note that MaxBulk Mailer also supports VCARD imports so you can easily add recipients from Mac OS X Address Book to MaxBulk simply dragging and dropping one or many entries at the same time (note that you may have to drag the entries to your desktop first and then from your desktop to MaxBulk Mailer). In addition you can use the 'Import from the Address Book' menu to import by group and with extended fields choosing to limit the number of email addresses per entry and the possibility to overwrite the current list with the new values.

From a remote Database(Pro only)

You can import records from a remote mySQL or postgreSQL database. In both cases you need to provide the host name, the port if different from the default one (mySQL:3303, postgreSQL:5432), your account ID and your password, the database name, the number of columns your query is supposed to return, and the query itself. You have to line-up the expected cursor columns with MaxBulk's in order for the data to get inserted in the right places. Feel free to select an encoding if the response is not ASCII and activate or not the duplicate checking.

Note that a remote server can be configured to only accept requests from a script running on this same server. Contact your provider if you can't manage to get access from MaxBulk Mailer.

From a Web page

You can import email addresses from a web page. You just need to drag and drop the URL of the page from your browser to the recipient list or select the 'File | Import Recipients | From a Web page' menu. The page is then downloaded, processed in the background and all the email addresses added to your list. You can drag and drop or select as many URLs as you wish to get them processed and results added to the same list.

Batch processes:

To remove several addresses from a list at once create a plain text file named 'DELETE', add all the addresses to remove to it, save it and drop it onto the list to process inside MaxBulk Mailer.

To unsubscribe several addresses from a list at once create a plain text file named 'UNSUBSCRIBE', add all the addresses to unsubscribe to it, save it and drop it onto the list to process inside MaxBulk Mailer.

To keep addresses from a list create a plain text file named 'KEEP', add all the addresses to keep, save it and drop it onto the list to process inside MaxBulk Mailer. All other e-mails will be removed.

To deactivate addresses from a list create a plain text file named 'DEACTIVATE', add all the addresses to deactivate, save it and drop it onto the list to process inside MaxBulk Mailer.

Exporting a list:

To export a list select the 'File | Export Recipients' menu. You can select the columns you want to export by dragging them from one list to the other and set their order. You can also set the separator between Tab, Comma, Colon and Semicolon, the text encoding and the type of recipients depending on their statuses. As a result you can fully tailor the output file depending on your needs.

Cc and Bcc(Pro only)

Cc stands for 'Carbon Copy'. It allows you to send a copy of each message to one or several addresses. Bcc stands for 'Blind Carbon Copy', it is the same as Cc but the addresses remain hidden to the recipients. A copy of each message means that for a delivery of 2,500 recipients and the Cc or the Bcc set to yourself you would receive 2,500 copies. In case of messages personalized with tags you would receive them as the real recipient will. This feature is embedded with the Quick Selector so click on the disclosure triangle on the left of the Lists selector pull-down menu to get it displayed. The Cc and the Bcc fields both support tags.6.- SettingsBefore being able to send a message you need to create at least one email account. The 'Settings' panel allows you to create as many accounts as you need and lets you choose from a wide range of delivery options. Typing the settings is actually the hardest part since you have to know several server related data such as the SMTP address, your user ID, your password and the authentication scheme you have to use. This information was given to you by your ISP or your web hosting company at some time and you are very likely using those settings already with your other email software. You will find below a detailed description of each field.-SMTPhost:Your SMTP host address and port if different from default (address:port).-SSL:To establish a SSL v2, SSL v2/3, SSL v3 or a TLS v1 secure connection (Pro Only).-From:Your email address in the formmyname@domain.tld-Name:The name that will appear in the 'From' header.-Reply-To:Optional header you can use to get replies sent to a different email address.-Errors:Optional header you can use to get the errors sent to a different email address.-Signature:Your signature. It will be appended to your message. (Plain text format only)

Select an authentication scheme. Possible choices are None, POP, ESMTP and APOP. Authentication schemes are mechanisms to verify your identity prior being granted to send a message through a server. It is usually done by providing a user ID, a password and by selecting an authentication method.

POP and APOP Authentication:-POPServer:The POP server address and port if different from default.-Account ID:Your account ID.-Password:The password to access this POP account.-SSL:To establish a SSL v2, SSL v2/3, SSL v3 or a TLS v1 secure connection (Pro Only).

ESMTP Authentication:-Account ID:Your account ID.-Password:The password to access this ESMTP account.-Authentication type:From Login (Default), Plain, MD5 Challenge-Response

Note that the Port parameter is optional on both the SMTP and the POP server address. Provide a port number only in the case you are not using the SMTP default port 25 or the POP default port 110 (Secure SSMTP 465 and SPOP3 995 respectively).

The Authentication setting is almost always required and some server-side anti-spam software may look for an Authentication header to determine whether your message is legitimate.

Connections:MaxBulk Mailer lets you open several simultaneous connections to your SMTP server. With a fast internet connection this can speed up email delivery quite significantly, but with a modem connection, you should keep it to one or two connections only. You should also double-check your agreement with your ISP as to how many SMTP connections you are allowed to use at once. Note that using 20 connections is not necessarily faster than with 5 connections because of your system resources and your connection bandwidth.

Burst Mode:MaxBulk Mailer offers the possibility to open several simultaneous connections to as many different servers as you wish. Burst Mode is simply the possibility to use more than one server at once. All you need is at least two servers. You can activate this option by selecting the 'Burst Mode' menu from the Server pull-down menu and by checking the servers you want to use from the list. MaxBulk Mailer will then use the servers you have selected with their corresponding settings. Note that this feature is closely related to the 'Connections' setting thus using 10 connections with 2 servers will open 5 connections per server.

Group Mails:Your server may limit the number of messages that can be sent during a session. You can easily match your server requirements by using the Group Mails option to specify how many messages have to be sent on each session and by setting an Interval between each batch. The bigger is your group setting and the smaller is you interval, the faster you will finish but the more likely you're ISP will flag your message as spam.

Bulk Preferences:If you don't use the personalization options of MaxBulk Mailer, you are missing out on one of its' most powerful features. However, you can speed up the processing and the delivery of your messages that aren't personalized by deactivating the 'Singly' option. If the 'Singly' option is activated messages are sent one by one, showing the recipient "To:" header and allowing the email-merge tags to be replaced by their corresponding values depending on each entry. If the 'Singly' option is deactivated messages are sent to all recipients at once. It is called the Bulk mode. Note that in both cases your list is never sent to the recipients. In bulk mode the Default 'To' header is automatically set to 'Undisclosed-Recipients'. You can change that text to whatever you prefer. In bulk mode it is highly recommended to use small groups rather than 'All at once' to avoid 'Insufficient storage' SMTP errors. The precedence option can slightly impact the delivery priority by informing the server about the nature of the message.

Signature:The signature is a piece of text that will be appended to your message. We recommend you to consider using it to indicate how your recipients can unsubscribe from your list. It is also worth considering reminding people of why they are on your list and/or how they subscribed to it, particularly if you only use it once a month or less. Note that the signature only applies to messages in the Plain Text format.

Once you are finished with your settings you can save your account by selecting the "Save new account as..." menu from the account pull-down menu or by clicking on the 'Save' button.7.- PreviewMaxBulk Mailer 'Preview' panel allows you to easily check how your final message looks like, once tags have been processed, all the pictures have been placed and the signature has been appended. It also allows you to check all the message headers and, in the case they contain tags, whether they include the intended data. You can check each individual record by using the left and right arrows on the top left.Built-in preview is able to display all the message formats supported by MaxBulk Mailer from 'Plain Text' to 'Web Page'. However, if your message contains styles or HTML code, you may want to preview it using a standard browser as well. You can do that by using the 'Preview in Browser' (eye icon) pull-down menu and by selecting a browser from the list (Default Browser, Safari, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Opera, Mozilla or iCab). That list also contains a 'View Source' menu to display the HTML source behind a given rendered HTML message.

Old email software may rewrap incoming messages to 72 characters per line following the 'Philip Bar' formatting. This has historical reasons dating back to days when all email was plain text and expected to fit on a 80 column by 24 (or 25) line screen. To make email that had been forwarded easy to read when the quoting character, usually a ', '', '