Smart Serial Mail is a multitasking editing program, which enables the user to create, edit and personalize mails and newsletters, as well as to perform high profile HTML editing. Built on the Microsoft platform, Smart Serial Mail is a versatile editing and mailing tool, as it runs on every generation of Microsoft OS, both on 32 and 64 bits, starting with Windows XP and ending with Windows 7. In terms of capabilities, both marketed versions of Smart Serial Mail, the Enterprise and the Small Business Edition, surpass the classic Microsoft Outlook by having numerous features helping in personalizing and sending mails and newsletters like: designing of the emails with the sophisticated built-in HTML editor, the possibility of scheduling the emails or the capability of easily performing the return management of your emails, thus keeping the user up to date. The thing I found most interesting when I tested Smart Serial Mail was the presence of an integrated database - a feature which made my work a lot easier by simplifying the handling of my large recipient lists, which, ultimately, turned this feature into a time saver. Apart from these various technical features, there is a feeling of easiness in working with Smart Serial Mail, as this piece of software has an intuitive Microsoft Outlook-like interface, and by the ability of importing Microsoft Excel or Outlook databases the user doesn’t feel the pressure of the transitioning from Outlook to Smart Serial Mail.
v6.0 [Nov 6, 2011]
More Speed
· Performance-Improvements: Faster loading of recipient lists saves time while working with very large lists.
· Much faster fetch of the mail preview and accelerated switching between selected sending tasks.
Fresh Look
· SmartSerialMail with updated visual appearance - using the latest Office 2010 style - All functions stay at their well-known places.
· Different color schemes for an individual look of the user interface - whether light or dark, you decide how SmartSerialMail shall appear.
Enhanced Workflow
· An optional "first-step-wizard" guides you step by step through the program.
· More intelligent assistance: SmartSerialMail asks to start a sending task or recommends unblocking sent elements for a second dispatch.
· Enhanced warnings and hints in the mailing preview lead directly to the right context. Hints help to avoid mistakes - for instance when using large email content or when using potentially inappropriate language.
HTML comfort
· The helpful HTML preview mode allows an easy check of your design. This enables you to create your contents much more efficiently.
· Automatically upload your pictures directly to your webserver- with one click you may upload images from your content to your webserver. This reduces the size of your mail and allows you the creation of usage statistics. (only available in the Enterprise Edition)
· Keep track of used images with the useful overview of all images in your content. This also helps you to easily replace images and graphics.
· An overview of all hyperlinks in your mail helps you to manage different tracking goals and enables you to edit the links in your content in a comfortable way.
· HTML compatibility test - Your HTML mail gets automatically tested for compatibility with all common email clients. This allows you to take care of the optimal layout of your content at each of your recipients systems. (only available in the Enterprise Edition)
· The HTML editor can be disabled if it is required to ensure that the imported HTML content is not altered. So, it will be sent unchanged to your recipients.
· Designing tables becomes much easier: Table-based layouts are required when designing HTML emails. The table gridlines will help you to realize even the most complex layouts (does not work with installed Internet Explorer 8).
More enhancements and fixed problems
· Settings for newsletter subscriptions and cancellation (opt-in and opt-out) are now available at the profile page, too.
· Fixed: The setting of the email charset is now taken into account at sending.
· Fixed: Flawless import of "Quickparts".
· Fixed: Under some circumstances the sending application showed variational quantities of running transmission tasks.
· Fixed: Under some circumstances an error appeared when using parallel sending (more than one sending task at a time).
· Fixed: The program library "Redemption.dll" (used for interaction with MS Outlook) does no longer need to be registered. This avoids problems with other software which requires this library.
· Fixed: Proper database initialization on first usage of SmartSerialMail.
· Fixed: Loading of database backups from read-only media (CD-ROM).
· Fixed: Proper error handling when using a network based database and the network connection got lost.
· Fixed: The export of a “Send Mail” task now contains the column names of the exported recipients list.
· Fixed: Improved return mail detection (bounce): bounce mails created by MailEnable server are now correctly processed.
· Context-sensitive help (depending on the currently used function) assists you more efficiently now.
· Some minor improvements have been incorporated.
