Email Sender Deluxe

Version History

• Recipient List Preview will now show the amount of checked emails and the total amount.
• Fixed issue when importing HTML with special character encoding.
• Email Templates now also saves the last used "From Email Account" and "To email groups".
• Minor updates.

• Re-named previous Encoding option as Character Set.
• Added Encoding option for the email.
• Added Encoding option for subject.
• Added default value on 'Insert Fields': <#[customer name],default value#>. If no field exists for a recipient, it will use the default value.
• Fixed issue with pausing/re-connecting connections. On some SMTP servers it would have problems re-connecting after pausing.
• Improved the Send Log text field. When sending to thousands of recipients, it would get slower and slower to update.
• Made the Recipient Importer not import rows that were completely empty.
• Minor updates.

• Speed improvements. Checking for duplicate emails is a lot faster now. The Recipient Group wizard is also a lot faster with previewing the recipients in the group. There are also other speed improvements.
• Added "Merge all recipients and just send 1 email" option to the Options page. This will instead of sending 1 email to each recipient, just send 1 email with multiple To values for each recipient.
• Added "Keep First of all Duplicates" button on the "Remove Duplicates" window, which will automatically check the first email of all duplicates it finds.
• Minor updates.

• Added support for sending email using Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES).
• Fixed a bug where if using extended logging could cause a crash.
• Fixed an bug with the CSV/TXT exporter.
• Minor updates.

• It will now give a warning if you are attaching files totalling over 10 MB to your email, as many recipients are not able to receive such files.
• Improved the CSV/TXT importer.
• Minor updates.

• Added 'Pause' button to the 'Send Email' window.
• Added counter to the 'Send Email' window, which lists how many emails you have sent so far.
• Added 'Append HTML Code' option to Options screen, which is code that is untouched by Email Sender Deluxe and appended to the end of the HTML. This is useful for adding e.g. analytics, tracking code and similar which uses special img tags or other variations.
• Minor updates.

• Added possibility to use 'Data URL' img HTML tags, which are inline images using img.
• Application is now code signed.
• Updated the core email sending code.
• Minor updates.

• Fixed issue with the HTML Designer splitting up 'Insert Fields' HTML code, it would not insert the fields.
• Minor updates.

• Export will now only export the recipients you've checked.
• Minor updates.

• Added tag for specifying the letter case of the fields you can insert from Recipient Groups: <#capitalize,words,[THE FIELD]#>. You can choose between 'upper', 'lower' and 'words' as the capitalizing type. This is useful if all your fields are e.g. in upper case in your recipient group, and you want to turn e.g. JOHN DOE into John Doe when inserting those fields.
• Minor updates.

• On 'Create Recipient Group', you can now also choose where to send 'Cc' and 'Bcc', in addition to 'To'.
• Added 'Ignore Recipient Errors' options value.
• Minor updates.

• Anchor/internal links in HTML emails now work.
• You can now also use [, ] and . characters in the SMTP HELO name.
• You can now import from databases on 64 bit operating systems.
• Minor updates.

• It will now check if you are Online before sending emails, and let you know if you aren't.
• Fixed a bug when having many "To email groups", and it would sometimes not remember which you had checked when you closed the "To email groups" list in certain ways.
• Minor updates.

• Switched from Xenocode protection to a new protection application, solving false positives on some AV applications.
• Added "prefix" parameter to insert-field tags. Example: <#[Address],"<br/>"#>, <#[Address],"\n"#>. To use it, put text in the second parameter, after the field name. It will only insert the prefix text if the inserted field is not an empty field. For text emails, you can use these tags as well: \n - Newline, \t - Tab.
• Improved the HTML Designer. Before, some designed HTML emails would have an increased chance of being marked as spam by some spam filters.
• Removed the X-Mailer header from emails sent.
• Minor updates.

• If you imported from a database with an SQL query producing no results, it would before give an error message saying the SQL query was incorrect. It will now allow you to do this, and instead show an empty recipient list.
• Minor updates.

• Fixed a problem with setting the HTML message background to an image, then to a color, it would keep the background tag as empty which sometimes could create a problem on certain email clients.
• Minor updates.

• Fixed some UTF8 issues on certain links in the HTML message.
• Minor updates.

• Fixed an issue with some SMTP servers not accepting having special characters in the SMTP Helo name.
• Minor updates.

• Fixed some UTF8 issues when storing/loading a manually created recipients list.
• Minor updates.

• Added "SSL Method" option to the Options window.

• Minor updates.

• Made the Recipient Wizard window resizable, so that its easier to see more recipients at once.
• Fixed a bug regarding the first line is header function when importing recipients from a text file.

• Minor updates.

• Improved the Regular Expression for checking if the recipient emails are valid, allowing domains such as .jobs and .travel.
• Updated the core email sending code.
• Minor updates.

• Minor updates.

• Improved the send email log.
• Added possibility to set the "Retry Connections" option to 0.
• Minor updates.

• Fixed some issues regarding special characters in HTML messages.
• Minor updates.

• Added "Export Recipients" feature, which will save the chosen recipients to a tab separated text file.
• Minor updates.

• Fixed a bug with the "Insert Image (URL)" function.
• Added "Set SMTP Helo" feature.
• Minor updates.

• Minor updates.

• Added "Send 1 email per open connection" feature. This will close the connection to the SMTP server between each sent email. Some SMTP servers doesn't accept sending multiple emails per open connection. This feature will work with those kind of SMTP servers.
• Added possibility to select which recipients you wish to check and uncheck on the Recipient List by right-clicking and choosing "Check Selected" and "Uncheck Selected".
• Minor updates.

• Added option for setting up a proxy server when using SMTP send method.
• Added SMTP authentication mode settings.
• Minor updates.

• It will now automatically parse all special characters used on HTML messages, e.g. é, å etc. into the correct HTML ascii variant.
• It now uses an improved connection code that will better attempt to re-connect to lost email connections.
• Fixed a serious issue regarding attaching certain files.
• Changed the logging code so it won't clean the log on emails that are re-tried.
• Minor updates.

• Improved email sending, it should now be faster than before, especially on HTML emails with embedded files.
• Added a Backup and Restore feature, that backups and restores your email accounts, recipient groups, email templates and configuration files easily using a ZIP file.
• Improved email address validation, it now allows characters such as apostrophes which are valid in emails.
• Fixed a serious issue regarding Direct Send (DNS) sending, we recommend users of DNS sending to upgrade.
• Fixed some issues regarding HTML and embedding images.
• Added Simple Logging feature, which will log an overview of each email sendings sent automatically to a file, which emails that were sent successfully and which failed.
• Added Extended Logging feature, which will log detailed information about every aspect of the email sending. Recommended for analyzing why an email sending fails.
• Added more information on the send email log.
• Minor updates.

• Added 'Create from HTML' function on the Plain Text page, which allows you to automatically create the Plain Text version of the email out of your HTML version.
• The Preview window will now disable the Plain Text Version or HTML Version of the email, depending on if you've chosen to send these versions. This allows you to see exactly which versions that will be sent.
• Better support for importing from MySQL databases.
• Fixed a bug when the Welcome screen failed to retrieve the recipients, it would continue even though it didn't retrieve the recipients.
• Fixed a bug when importing recipients from a file that was already in use and blocked by another program.
• Fixed an issue regarding the setup program. If Microsoft Installer 3.0 wasn't installed the Microsoft .NET Framework could not be installed. The setup file now checks for this.
• Minor updates.

• Completely new and improved email sending engine. It now supports far more SMTP servers and internal SSL/TLS options, and sending from free email accounts such as AOL.
• Changed config file system to XML file. This will unfortunately reset your options and registration name and key. Simply re-enter your registration information to set it up again.
• Added Direct Send (DNS) sending method. This requires your port 25 to be open for outgoing traffic.
• Much better support for embedding files and images in HTML. It will now also embedd all images and files referred in CSS stylesheets.
• Added 'Check Emails' function on the Recipients List, to pre-check the email addresses for invalid and duplicate emails before sending.
• Added some more information about the email being sent on the email send log.
• Added option to choose whether to embed all files and images into the email, or embed nothing.
• Added better invalid URL referring and checking before sending an email.
• Better CSV import support.
• Minor updates.

• Added "Return receipt" option, so you can receive an email when the recipients you send to open the email.
• Added "Test connection" feauture on the Email Account window, so you can easily test if your SMTP server settings are working.
• It will now store the size and position of the main window, and load the previously used values when you start the program.
• Added support for embedding images used in background parameters on <table>, <tr>, <th> and <td> tags.
• Minor updates.

• Added "Use HTML from file" option, which will send the HTML exactly as it is, without opening it in the HTML designer. This is recommended if the HTML designer formats the HTML invalid or the email is wrongly formatted for the receipients.
• It will now also embed <link> files, and the background image in <body> tags into your emails.
• When importing HTML files, it will now scan <img> and other tags, and if they don't contain any absolute paths, it will try to use the path of the HTML file and see if appending that will reveal the correct absolute path. This help the issue of receiving "Cannot find the file ..." message when importing HTML.
• Added possibility to change the background color and background image used on HTML emails.
• Fixed a serious issue of embedded images not being shown properly in some email clients such as Mozilla Thunderbird.
• Minor updates.

• Added a recipient counter on the "Recipient List" that shows how many recipients there are in the chosen list.
• Added more information to the email sending log on the "Send Email" window. It now also outputs which email you sent and if it attached any files.
• Made the "Save Template" button on the main window put the Subject as default name if its a new template.
• Made the "Save Log" button on the "Send Email" window always put todays date and time in the filename.
• Fixed a problem that might occur after choosing a recipient group and quickly switching between the different tabs.
• Minor updates.

• Changed the columns on all recipient lists in the program, they are now automatically made to fit its contents to make it easier to use.
• Added possibility to check which of the recipients in a recipient group you want to send to. Check the ones you want to send to on the "Recipient List" tab.
• Fixed a problem that might occur if there's no ODBC sources or drivers installed and one tries to import from a database.
• Fixed a problem that might occur after choosing a recipient group and quickly opening the "Preview" tab.
• Fixed a problem where the HTML designer would not allow any input.
• Fixed a problem when importing recipients from CSV and text files.
• Minor updates.

• Added a new HTML designer. Now you can use a WYSIWYG editor (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) that will make it much more easier to create the HTML version of your email. This means you can easily add images (both embedded and linked to from remote locations) to your emails as well.
• Added an Embedded Images window, where you can check and confirm which <img> tag images that will be embedded (attached) to your email.
• Fixed an issue that happened if the emails were sent so fast that the progress-bar and the log window would say that 0 emails were sent out (even though they were sent out).
• Minor updates.

• Added a 'Import HTML' button to more easily add html code.
• Minor updates.

• Initial release.