This really works!

I used to send regular mass "personalized" emails using the email merge function of Word with Entourage. I transitioned to Apple Mail and therefore cannot merge to Mail. This program was mentioned on the Apple forum, so I thought I would try it. The most important criterion that I needed was to be able to personalize the Dear "FirstName" field in the salution of the email, and to pepper some other fields in the email. Sending a formatted text email as opposed to plain text was also important to me.

Serial Mailer does all this and more. I couldnt believe how easy it was to import my email settings from Apple Mail. I actually tried to manually enter the settings and failed a couple of times before I checked the instructions (yes, always the last instead of the first thing I do!!) and found out how easy it was.

Once you get your handle around the settings, formatting text with fonts, colors, bold, etc are very easy. You can add attachments, and have as many data files of recipients and email accounts as you like.

Downers - not many. But if something goes wrong whilst you are sending a batch, the program either stops or hangs. Try and remember to save the "New Email" that you set up each time, otherwise all is lost and you have to start again. When you send a batch and it hangs, remember the last recipient that you sent it to, and when you re-open (usually after a "forced quit") delete the recipients that have already been emailed, and start from the first of the balance.

ALWAYS send yourself a test email first - check formatting, fields, etc - before you send your batch.

Enjoy!

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