I hosted a 1-hour MaxBulk Mailer Q&A webinar a few months ago. As a result our support page now has a new link labeled Live Events. Click on that link to visit the Maxprog’s Live Sessions page. We can send you a notification when new events are scheduled, just click on Subscribe. In addition, you can also see a list of Upcoming Events (if any) 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 …
Category: MaxBulk Mailer
How do I Avoid My Emails being Marked as Spam?
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 …
MaxBulk Mailer 8.7.3 new features and fixes
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 …
MaxBulk Mailer recipient lists no longer sorted alphabetically
All of a sudden, right after updating your system to macOS High Sierra you probably found out that all the recipient lists throughout the software were no longer sorted alphabetically. Well, I believe we were the first to find out and it took more than two weeks to actually receive the first complaints from MaxBulk Mailer users. We even received screenshots like this: So what happened? We believe it all has to do with the new APFS hard disk format that comes with the macOS 10.13 High Sierra operating system. It is a format exclusively used on SSD drives, for …
Using your own SMTP server, advantages and drawbacks
When sending e-mail you have the choice between using your ISP, your web host or your own dedicated SMTP server (An SMTP server is a mailserver that you use to send email. It stores your messages and ensures that your messages are either delivered or returned to you with a failure message). Your ISP usually will provide an SMTP mail server but most ISPs will not want you to send bulk email through their mailservers. Many have restrictions on the number of messages you can send per hour. Your web host should provide you with a dedicated SMTP server. Particularly …
Avoiding having your legitimate e-mails being flagged as SPAM
If your messages look like regular private e-mails and you use tags to make them different and customized with recipient data, you will get much better results. You can also use ‘Bonded Sender’ https://www.bondedsender.com or ‘Habeas’ https://www.habeas.com so your messages will be recognized as legitimate. Furthermore you can run your email through some of the spam filters available online, or install some end-user antispam applications on your own computer, and send an email to yourself before attempting to email end users. There are some services you can use to test the spam quotient of your e-zines and e-mail offers before …
Subscription and unsubscription handling thru regular e-mails
You just need to gather all those subscribe and unsubscribe messages to a couple of folders applying some rules and using the scripts we wrote for adding or deleting addresses from a Mac OS X Mail (or Entourage folder). They are called ‘Adding recipients from Mac OS X Mail’ and ‘Deleting recipients from Mac OS X Mail’ (we also include Entourage and Powermail scripts). Those scripts come with MaxBulk distribution, inside the example/AppleScript/Mac OS X Mail import folder and are also accessible from both the import menu and import button. They are very easy to modify if you need to …