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.
v7.3 [Oct 1, 2016]
General
The memory consumption and loading speed of the sections "Recipient Lists", "Preview", and "Sending" has been markedly improved.
When using large amounts of Quickparts, the loading speed has been drastically improved. (Enterprise Edition only)
The self-repair of the internal database has been improved, problems with old installations or damaged databases have been solved.
If an MS Access database is used as internal database, the "Compress and Repair" function can now be triggered manually.
The Quick Navigation is now disabled by default.
The scaling of the user interface has been improved for high monitor resolutions.
Other minor errors have been fixed, several improvements have been incorporated.
Please note: This version is going to be the last version supporting Windows XP.
Profile
New SMTP Sending Profiles are now created with TLS Security by default.
Some errors during the manually triggered connection test have been fixed.
An error occurring when displaying the statistics in the "Profile" section has been fixed. (Enterprise Edition only)
Recipient List
The speed and the memory usage when working with large recipient lists has been improved drastically.
The column "Last Sent" is now sorted according to dates.
Importing Access Files with Office 2016 is now possible.
The "Search in all Lists" features now has a "Delete" Button to reset the search results.
The speed of Excel exports has been increased.
When sorting a list, SmartSerialMail will now keep entry selections.
The recipient list does not scroll anymore when changing the sending status of some entries.
Exporting a list does not change the position in the recipient list anymore.
The "Sending Status" statistic now also works for external tables. (Enterprise Edition only)
The import summary now always shows the correct amount of imported entries.
Importing a corrupted Access database does not result in a software error anymore.
Excel export now also contains the "Status" information.
The Filter "not equals" is now working correctly. (Enterprise Edition only)
Content
The functions "Redo" and "Undo" are now available in the HTML editor.
The text floating property for images can now be set via HTML editor (float).
Problems with German umlauts have been fixed.
Links containing placeholders are now shown correctly in the link overview.
The function "Delete" in the context menu now always deletes the selected content.
The placeholder-function "printIfNotEmpty" now also works for attachments. (Enterprise Edition only)
The hint dialog when pasting content from MS Word via Clipboard has been improved.
Preview
The loading time of the preview when using large recipient lists has been decreased.
The profile’s "From" address is now used as the default value for the "Test Email Address".
Under special circumstances SmartSerialMail was not responding anymore when loading the preview. This has been fixed.
Sending
The "Sending" section is now loaded much faster when using large lists.
Resynching the sending status while a sending task is running is now supported by a failsafe mechanism. This prevents data loss, even when the computer crashes sending.
Cc and Bcc recipients of the sender profile are now also used when sending via EWS. (Enterprise Edition only)
Use the profile option "set all to unsent, before starting a sending task" to use recipient lists not containing any email addresses with the status "unsent". (Enterprise Edition only)
An error occurring while resyncing the sending status (internal and external tables) has been fixed. (Enterprise Edition only)
The display of the amount of unsent elements for filtered lists has been corrected. (Enterprise Edition only)
The link to the tracking statistic for finished sending tasks with activated tracking is now working. (Enterprise Edition only)
List Management
When collecting bounces, cancellations or subscriptions, new lists are only created when needed. (Enterprise Edition only)
Bounce emails with the error code "5.2.2 (mailbox full)" are no longer handled as permanent bounces, but as temporary bounces. (Enterprise Edition only)
The correctly selected recipient list is now available in the "list management" actions. (Enterprise Edition only)
In general settings a "reply to" address can now be entered. (Enterprise Edition only)
"Collect from Outlook" now works correctly for emails in online mode (not cached). (Enterprise Edition only)
Possible error messages from the POP3 or IMAP servers are now written to the protocol. (Enterprise Edition only)
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