Direct Mail is a program designed for Mac users who wish to create and send professional-looking emails to their clients, co-workers or friends. This application might prove to be of good use to people who are involved in marketing campaigns for their companies and wish to deliver emails containing event invitations, information regarding a certain product, and many others.
The utility provides you with a great deal of beautiful templates for creating party invitations, wedding announcements, new address notices, formal invites or Thank You letters. After you select the preferred template, you can start personalizing it by adding your own text content, images if necessary, and recipient's email address.
I like the fact that you can preview the email before sending it to the selected recipient. Furthermore, the application features two tests: Design (you can check how the email will be seen in various email clients, like Outlook, Gmail, etc.) and Spam (lets you know if your message will run into any spam filter).
Another good aspect about this program is that it allows you to import contacts from various sources, such as CSV files, Microsoft Excel documents, Mac's default address book app (called Contacts), etc.
Other than that, not much more can be said about Direct Mail. This application is very simple to handle, offers you numerous features, and brings you dozens of nicely-designed templates to use in your emails.
v3.2 [Sep 2, 2012]
- New Feature: Use Design Tests to preview what your email will look like when viewed in a variety of email clients
- Retina ready! Direct Mail now looks great on the new MacBook Pro with Retina display
- OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion ready! Direct Mail works great on the brand new OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
- User interface enhancements
- Performance enhancements
- Redesigned spam tests to be more descriptive and helpful
- Improved template compatibility with a variety of email clients
- Added feature to preview messages without images
- Added feature to automatically convert embedded TIFF images to PNGs for compatibility with Windows email clients
- Fixed various bugs related to keyboard navigation
- Enabling dragging and dropping of vCard files into the Addresses tab
- Fixed a bug preventing user interface interaction under some circumstances
- Fixed a bug preventing the dragging of images from one project to another
- Fixed ". mpr" file extension incompatibility with FileMaker Pro
- Direct Mail no longer strips <style> elements or stylesheet <link> elements when sending your message
- Added support for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Quick Look gesture
- Preview window and History tabs now support viewing attachments with Quick Look
- Fixed a bug causing hangs under certain circumstances in Snow Leopard
- Fixed various problems pasting HTML content from Microsoft Word
- Fixed a bug that could cause addresses to disappear when dragging and dropping
- Fixed a bug that could cause hangs while opening projects on unmounted network volumes
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