Bulk emailing is the process of sending large amounts of email to recipients for example with our software, MaxBulk Mailer. It is usually used by businesses and organizations as a marketing tool to promote their products or services. However, it can also be used for other purposes such as sending out newsletters, announcements, or event invitations. What is bulk email? Bulk email is a term used to describe the process of sending emails to a large number of recipients. It can be used for a variety of purposes, such as marketing or announcements. There are a few things to keep …
How to Send Bulk Emails Without Spamming
How to Send Bulk Emails Without Spamming Email marketing can be a great way to reach out to potential customers and promote your product or service. But if you’re not careful, it can also end up in the spam folder. In this article, we’ll show you how to send bulk emails without spamming, so that you can get your message across without being blocked by spam filters. What is spamming? Spamming is the act of sending unsolicited emails, often in large numbers. This can be done for commercial purposes, such as promoting a product or service, or for other purposes …
Using free HTML email templates with MaxBulk Mailer
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 …
How to take advantage of Budgets in iCash
Budgets – One great feature of iCash is the ability to create a budget. A budget is basically a kind of projection of how much money you will spend or earn during a period of time in the future. I believe it is highly probable you already have created budgets in some way or another. Indeed, anytime you figure out how much money you will have left at the end of the month after paying your bills, you are creating a budget. You use budgets to estimate future income and expenses and create “what if?” scenarios. As time goes by, …
How to enter your mail server settings into MaxBulk Mailer
How to enter your mail server settings into MaxBulk Mailer – Server settings are an important part of successful email delivery. Among other things you have to make sure you are not abusing your mail service and similarly you are not annoying your audience. Therefore you need to understand well the meaning of each setting and above all, you have to make sure you are using the best delivery options. So, indeed, in order to send messages with MaxBulk Mailer you have to enter your mail server settings correctly into the software. You will find all the mail server settings …
How to send a cold email with MaxBulk Mailer
How to send a cold email with MaxBulk Mailer. Introduction If you’ve been in business for any length of time, you know that one of the best ways to get new clients is through word-of-mouth referrals. But what do you do when you’re just starting out and don’t have any clients yet? One option is to send cold emails. In this article, we’ll show you how to use MaxBulk Mailer to send cold emails that actually get results. How to send a cold email with MaxBulk Mailer When you’re ready to start sending cold emails, MaxBulk Mailer is the perfect …
E-mail validation speed with eMail Verifier
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 …
Tips for composing emails with MaxBulk Mailer
This post 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 …
Port 25 blocking effects on email validation
Port 25 blocking fully prevents email validation to be possible! eMail Verifier requires full access to port 25 in order to work. Don’t even waste your time trying with other “alternative” ports, it doesn’t work! eMail Verifier is not an email client, it never connects to your mail server. eMail Verifier actually connects to other’s mail servers through the port 25. Why this? Port 25 blocking effects Port 25 is just a network connection channel. Some Internet Service Providers (ISP) intercept port 25 so it is not possible to use eMail Verifier nor any software using port 25. Some independent …
Comparing eMail Verifier to online solutions
Comparing eMail Verifier to online solutions – I created eMail Verifier, an E-mail Verification Software for macOS and MS Windows. I have been using and developing the tool for years. As a developer and also a user I was very worried about deleting valid emails. So I created a system that only flags bad emails, I mean when there are absolutely no doubts. If the tool is not 100% sure then the address is marked as ‘Looks Good’ or ‘Looks Bad’ and the user decides what to do. The software tries to clean the list its best but without taking …
How to create good-looking emails with MaxBulk Mailer
How to create good-looking emails with MaxBulk Mailer? If your email messages are ugly and look unprofessional, it is not MaxBulk Mailer’s fault. I have heard people complaining about bulk email messages looking ugly and unprofessional because they used MaxBulk Mailer to send them. In other words, as if the software were the problem. MaxBulk Mailer is just a bulk email marketing software that delivers messages. MaxBulk Mailer sends what you write in the message field just as is! Of course, if you send ugly stuff it will be ugly for your receivers as well. However, if you send complex …
Email server blocking causes and solutions
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 …
How to send appealing eye-catching advertising emails
How to send appealing eye-catching advertising emails? This is a question you asked yourself for sure. Well, welcome to the world of email marketing. When launching MaxBulk Mailer you have seen that all you get is a blank document created automatically for you by the application, the place where your message is supposed to be composed. I guess that at this very early stage you may feel a bit lost or overcome, especially when it comes to filling up that blank document and creating an e-mail marketing message for the very first time. In this short tutorial, I will try …
Money lending with iCash – How to handle that
Money lending is actually quite simple to handle with iCash. Just a matter of adding the right transactions in the right order, mostly as they happen in real life. Let’s have a look. Let’s imagine you have to lend some money to a friend and now you are interested in adding the transactions in iCash. It is easy but it requires several steps you need to understand well. Let’s see. Money lending account First, you have to create your lending account. Since it is considered an investment you have to create it as a ‘portfolio’ account. Once you are done …
The history of iCash and Peggy Première
I projected the development of iCash in the late eighties but I actually started coding the software for real in the early nineties. I released the very first version by the end of 1991. At the time, I built it for Microsoft Windows 3.1 and IBM OS/2. I coded the project using the Pascal language. The development of the application continued up to the release of version 2.0 in May 1995. Peggy Première The application wasn’t known as iCash but as ‘Peggy Première’. Peggy because of the Muppet Show character and the analogy with a piggy bank. And ‘Première’ refers …
How to download web images sequentially by name
How to download web images sequentially by name? Well, this is very easy to achieve with Web Dumper actually. In fact, you can download entire Websites of the Internet, and save them on your hard drive for later offline browsing. The downloaded web sites are saved on your hard drive with their directory structure intact by default. Indeed, Web Dumper automatically downloads HTML documents along with their embedded pictures, sounds, movies, and so on while it screens them to look for any enclosed links to other documents. But what if you want to download sequences of documents, pictures, or directories? …
Software doesn’t start, runs slowly or crashes often
Your software doesn’t start, crashes often, or is not performing as expected in terms of speed? That may be a sign of a system issue, either Hardware or Software. Software doesn’t start Before spending time looking for the source of the problem and if your computer has not been rebooted recently, make sure to reboot it before following. You will very likely save time since a simple reboot uses to fix most problems. If it is not the case, continue reading. Below are steps for macOS and MS Windows users that can help fix problems and speed up the software …
Is Maxprog selling user-friendly software?
Is our software user-friendly? What does that mean? I spend a lot of time doing support, mostly helping people to overcome problems using Maxprog software. This task is interesting as it allows us to gauge the usability of our software. Why don’t you take our survey? In software engineering, usability is ‘the degree to which a software can be used by specified consumers to achieve quantified objectives with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction’. Usability goals must address those three components but what about ‘Ease of use’? Ease of use Ease of use is the most talked about and least-understood aspect of …
How to synchronize a website with local files
How to synchronize a website with local files as fast as possible? It turns out that a few days ago I posted a quick update on maxprog site HTML5 upgrade, Updating an old HTML site to HTML5 and CSS3 about how I managed to perform the task quite successfully during the last months. After reading it again today I forgot an important part of the process, file synchronization! How to synchronize a website with local files Each time you touch a file you have to upload it to your web server in order to publish it. Usually, if I modify …
How to import transactions from a Bank statement
How to import transactions from a Bank statement into iCash? It turns out that iCash offers the possibility to import transactions from bank statement files directly into your personal finance. This is a great time-saving feature since you no longer have to type what you can already download from your online bank account. You just need to connect to your Bank, download the statement, or the transactions as a text file and then import that file to iCash. The magic is made thru a special window that includes a rule editor and a live preview. All you have to do …
Why MaxBulk Mailer now only supports https links
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 …
Update plans versus subscriptions
Update plans versus subscriptions Update plans are not subscriptions. Regularly Maxprog software users ask me about if our update plans are subscriptions, about how they work, how long a user can use the software once he has purchased one and how it can be extended. Well, we do not sell subscriptions at all, none of our software needs a subscription to operate. Actually what we sell are Update Plans. This is a whole different thing. Let me explain. Software licensing When you purchase a software from us, what you actually purchase is a software user license. Actually you purchase the …
How to send custom attachments with MaxBulk Mailer
How to send custom attachments with MaxBulk Mailer? Well, it turns out that one of the little known features of MaxBulk Mailer is the possibility to send custom attachments. For instance, let’s imagine we have a list of 100 student’s father’s email addresses and we need to send their kid’s report cards. We have the 100 PDF documents in a folder, each with a unique title. We need to send each one to the corresponding email address! How to send custom attachments With old MaxBulk Mailer versions, the only way to send custom attachments was by adding the 100 files …
Unusual but frustrating support requests
Sometimes I receive unusual but frustrating support requests. I help people using maxprog products mainly by responding to support tickets. That use to be a routine task I do every day with enthusiasm. It is almost the only contact I have with maxprog customers. However, sometimes I get unusual and frustrating requests. Unusual because hopefully, they are rare and frustrating because I really can’t do anything to help because of the nature of the problem. Unauthorized Purchases First of those problems is fraud, somebody, somewhere with someone’s credit card buying something on the maxprog store. Imagine who the victim will …
MaxBulk Mailer Q&A webinar summary
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 …
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 …
How to create an Account Set in iCash
How to create an Account Set in iCash? It turns out that when you create a new iCash document you have the choice between creating either a blank document or a document with a predetermined set of categories and accounts. You can even import the categories and the accounts from another document. Two sets are available by default, the Home and the Office sets. Actually, those sets were created and added to iCash to save you time and to get you started. I believe it is a good idea to create your own sets of accounts if you plan to …
Xojo xDev Magazine Marc Zeedar interview
Xojo xDev Magazine Marc Zeedar interview for the xDev Magazine Tell us a little about your background. Where did you grow up? Where did you go to school? Despite my name sounds English I was born and grew up in France. Actually, my great grandfather was American so my parents decided to name me after him. Perhaps it was premonitory as nowadays most of my customers are American. I left France when I finished studying electronic engineering and moved to Spain where I reside since then. How did you get interested in computers and programming? My first contact with programming …
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 …
What is the GDPR and why does it concern us?
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 …
Entitlements and SandBoxing
This week we have finished porting all our products to 64-bits. We also updated the App Store versions accordingly following Apple new requirements regarding Entitlements and SandBoxing. But do you actually know what Entitlements and SandBoxing are? Even if you are not a programmer it is always interesting to have a small idea about security concepts since we are talking about security. macOS has supported Sandboxing since OS X Lion, which was released in 2011. The Mac App Store has required apps to be sandboxed since March 2012. Windows does not natively provide app sandboxing, but some apps (such as …
macOS 64-bits versions of maxprog products available
Most modern operating systems like Apple macOS, Microsoft Windows and Linux are all 64-bits operating systems. For that reason we have been working on 64-bit versions of all our products for months. At WWDC 2017, Apple announced new apps submitted to the Mac App Store must support 64-bit starting January 2018, and Mac app updates and existing apps must support 64-bit starting June 2018. macOS High Sierra will be the last macOS release to support 32-bit apps without compromise. The next release of macOS after High Sierra will begin to restrict 32-bit apps and will feature “aggressive” warnings about the …
All Maxprog products have been updated
Maxprog has released new versions of all its products. Those versions work on macOS 10.9 and higher and MS Windows 7 and higher. If you need a version for a previous operating system you can download it here. You will find below the release note of each product: MaxBulk Mailer 8.6.2 MaxBulk Mailer is a bulk mailer software and an e-mailmerge tool for Macintosh and Windows that allows anyone to send out customized offers, press releases, price lists or any kind of text or HTML message to a list of subscribers, friends or customers. What’s new in this release: – …
The customer is always right, oh… really?
You have heard that sentence often for sure but did you know that there are people that blindly believe in this idea? Actually this sentence is about respect and politeness, nothing more and nothing else. And yes, by default, a customer deserves respect, no doubt about that but what if a customer doesn’t respect you, do you really have to maintain that respect? In my opinion, there is a limit nobody should cross. I have been working doing support uninterruptedly for 27 years, mostly by phone and by email. I have been doing support worldwide in English, French and Spanish. …
Paypal, why not?
Regularly I get asked about the maxprog store, specially about how to buy without creating an account. By default we use the Paypal checkout system in order to process cards. There is a wrong assumption that Paypal requires the buyer to open an account in order to make a payment. That’s not true at all! Opening a Paypal account is completely optional however, in my opinion, it is better to get a Paypal account and use it as often as posible. Paypal is accepted almost everywhere on the internet and it is much better and secure to share your card …
That’s the last straw…
Last week I talked about the Apple Stores and not only what I think about them but what they really are, everything but stores selling computers. Today was the last straw! Apple has made there new iMac Pro available for orders thru the internet with prices starting at $6’000 and up to $15’000 for full equipped configs. Uh? Really? Sorry all but I am flipping out. What can that be possible? An iMac for $5’500! Wow, I hope you will become an Apple VIP member with such a price. I have been using Macs for 3 decades, they have always …