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What's DynamicMailer ? |
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DynamicMailer(DM)
is a powerful Bulk E-mail Software for sending customized
email by using mailing lists. DynamicMailer enable you
to send personalized messages to your customers, subscribers
and friends.
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How
to Buy ?
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Is
your online order form secure ? |
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How
much is it ? |
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DynamicMailer Personal Edition 1.0 ($49.95)
DynamicMailer Business Edition 1.0 ($149.95)
DynamicMailer Enterprise Edition 1.0 ($249.95) |
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Can
you tell me what i need to do with a mailing list that
is a simple.txt file with 1 email address on each line?
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A:Yes,Simple
text file, where each line contains one e-mail address,
Click 
button to Load list of addresses from file.
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Can I edit the mailing
list inside DynamicMailer? |
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| Yes.
You can add, delete, and edit mailing list rows and columns,
append other mailing lists (if they have the same number
of columns), and start new mailing lists from scratch. |
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What is the easiest way
to create a mailing list? |
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| Creating
your mailing list inside DynamicMailer is the quickest
solution. However, a spreadsheet such as Microsoft
Excel is an effective tool for maintaining and manipulating
mailing lists (see " Mailing List Files and Databases
"). A database such as Microsoft Access is useful
for more sophisticated customer database needs, including
network shared access and complex query commands |
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Can
I export the mailing list back to my database? |
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| No,
the component we are using for reading the database is
read-only. You'll need to export the mailing list to a
file and import from the file into your database using
your database program. |
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How do I import my address
book from Eudora? |
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Eudora can export your address box as CSV. Under the
"File" menu, choose "Save as".In the next window, select
"CSV Files(*.csv)" which is the last item. In DynamicMailer,To
create a mailing list file just click the "Edit" menu,
and then click "New Email List..." .The first select
"Eudora.txt" and you should do then is give the Mailing
List a name, This name must be unique .The Second ,
you should do then is give the Mailing List field name.
You should select the "Email Address" filed for Email
Column (DynamicMailer will not send email if the Email
Column does not contain a standard Internet address
like user@domain.com).The Third,Click "import" button
to import data to your Address Book from the comma separated
(CSV) file. If you have different groups of e-mail addresses
in your Eudora address books, you should export each
group into the dedicated CSV file. When you importing
your CSVs, you may specify the name of the group in
which you want the appropriate CSV file to be imported.
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How do I import my address
book from Netscape Communicator? |
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Netscape
Communicator can export your address box as tab-delimited
text. Under the "Communicator" menu, choose "Address
Book". Then under the "File" menu, choose "Export".
Change "Save as type" to "Tab-delimited (*.txt)", provide
a file name ending in .txt, and hit "Save". In DynamicMailer,
under "Settings" menu, choose "Preferences". Go to the
"Mailing List" tab, make sure the field delimiter is
set to "tab". Communicator doesn't export the column
headings, so uncheck the box for "Use first line as
column names" . Or you can edit your exported address
book .txt file and add the following new first line:
DisplayName*LastName*FirstName*Notes*City*State*Email*Title*Address*Zip
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be all on one line with a tab in place of each "*".
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How do I import my address
book from Microsoft Outlook? |
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| Microsoft
Outline can export your address box as tab-delimited text.
Under the "File" menu, choose "Import and Export" which
brings up a Wizard. Choose "Export to a File" and hit
"Next". In the next window, select "Contacts" and hit
"Next". In the next window, select "Tab Separated Values
(Windows)" which is the last item. In the next window,
specify a file name ending in .txt, then hit "Next" and
"Finish". In DynamicMailer, under "Settings" menu, choose
"Preferences". Go to the "Mailing List" tab, make sure
the field delimiter is set to "tab". Microsoft Outlook
does automatically export the column headings (81 in all!),
so leave the "Use first line as column names" checked.
However, Microsoft Outlook inserts 5 extra lines after
the first column headings line. You can either delete
these 5 rows in DynamicMailer or delete them in Notepad
or Wordpad in advance of running DynamicMailer. |
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What happens if I have
an incorrect email address? |
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the email address does not contain an address in the form
user@domain.type, DynamicMailer will canel the address.
If the email address is well-formed, then DynamicMailer
will send the message to your SMTP mail server. If SMTP
is unhappy with the email address (e.g., unrecognized
host, bad characters in host name, etc.), the message
will not be sent |
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Can I send file attachments?
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| Yes,
this is a feature of DynamicMailer (requires the DynamicMailer
Business Edition or Enterprise Edition). You can send
any number of attachments consisting of files of any type.
See ManageAttachments
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What will my recipients
see when I send them HTML mail? |
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depends. Recipients with Netscape, Microsoft, or Eudora
mail readers will see the body of the message in their
mail reader in HTML, just like a web page. This includes
people who read their mail in web-based mail readers like
Yahoo. Most will see this inline, but others (such as
Netscape users with View Attachments Inline turned off)
will see it after clicking on a link in the message. Some
of these will also receive the HTML message as an attachment
(or possibily in second mail message, or rarely, as HTML
source appended to the Alternate Text message). A very
few recipients with old mail readers or odd operating
systems might be unable to read the email altogether |
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When
I send HTML mail, the images, links, and/or applets don't
show up or work, why?
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Unlike web
pages that can refer locally to these extra files in
the same directory, DynamicMailer HTML Mail files must
provide all their HTML external references as full URLs.
This means that all IMG, HREF, and APPLET references
must be of the form http://www.somewhere.com/directories/file
in your HTML source code, and all these references must
be on-line and accessible (typically on a public web
server) when your email message is read by the recipient.
See the "HTML Mail" section on this topic.
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What are the limitations
of the Trial Version of DynamicMailer? |
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the Trial Version of DynamicMailer, all features are initially
enabled (include large mailing lists and database access)
so you can test out whether everything really works the
way you'd like. However, after a total of 50 messages
are sent the Trial Version of DynamicMailer will say thank
you and exit. |
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Can I run DynamicMailer
from a browser? |
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| No.
DynamicMailer is a Java application not an applet. The
Java environments inside most web browsers are currently
not accessible for running Java applications. |
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Can I run DynamicMailer
on other platforms? |
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How small can my monitor
be for running DynamicMailer? |
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is recommended that you use DynamicMailer on a 800x600
screen resolution or higher to display all dialog boxes
properly. On smaller screens you may need to drag some
dialog windows by their title bars to view them in their
entirety. |
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Can I use DynamicMailer
to send "spam"? |
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| yes,
DynamicMailer support multi-threads and multi-smtp servers.
If Customized Msg is unselected And Salutation is unselected,
With only a 28.8k modem, DynamicMailer will send 20 threads,
10 bcc size, at the rate of over 20000 e-mails per hour.
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What web browser does DynamicMailer
use to display the DynamicMailer Help file? |
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| DynamicMailer
opens the DynamicMailerHelp.html file in your system's
default web browser, just as if you had double-clicked
the DynamicMailerHelp.html icon or selected it from the
DynamicMailer section in the Windows Start menu. You must
have a web browser (e.g. Netscape Communicator or Microsoft
Internet Explorer) installed on your system to read the
DynamicMailer Help file. The DynamicMailer Help file uses
frames, so older or more primitive browsers will not display
it correctly. |
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Why does DynamicMailer
leave the browser running when I exit DynamicMailer? |
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| If
your browser was running when you select Help, DynamicMailer
simply redirects your browser to the DynamicMailerHelp.html
page. Since you may have been doing something else in
your browser, DynamicMailer does not quit the browser
when you exit DynamicMailer. You can click "Back" to go
back to the page you were viewing. In the case that your
browser wasn't running when you requested Help, DynamicMailer
will launch your default browser, and if you don't close
the browser when you are done reading the Help file, it
will stay open since DynamicMailer will not close it when
it exits. |
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Is there a limit to the
size of a message that can be sent? |
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| Yes,
on Windows (95, 98, and NT) there is currently a 32K character
limit on the size of the body of a DynamicMailer message,
imposed by Sun's Java TextArea component implementation
on Windows (similar to the limitation in Notepad).
A new feature of DynamicMailer 1.0 is that it will detect
if you've exceeded this limit and provide you a warning.
If you really need to send very long messages, consider
sending one or more file attachments instead which have
no such limitations |
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