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MaxBulk Mailer© v2.7 [M A X P R O G] - September 2002 - Copyright © 2000 - 2002 Please read the enclosed License Agreement for further legal information. Max Programming, LLC - All rights reserved worldwide. Email: support@maxprog.com - Web: http://www.maxprog.com Version History September 2002 Keys: [New] = New Feature [Opt] = Optimization [Bug] = Bug Fix [Chg] = Changes Previous Functionality [Upg] = Enhancement [2.7] [New] SMTP server port support in the form [smtp.domain.com:port] [Chg] Whole interface enhancements. [Chg] Default new document size changed depending on screen size. [Chg] Delivery report now also shows selected entries number. [Chg] Recipients list no longer disapears during batch removing. [Upg] New error 503 'Bad sequence of commands' handler. [Bug] 'To' header encoding format fix. [Bug] Delivery report total sent mail sometimes not accurate. [Bug] 'To' header, Name not correctly quoted when surname exists. [Bug] 'To' header, extra quotes when no name nor surname. [Bug] Subject font type and size do not always match preferences. [2.6.2] [New] Mac OS X doc about using MaxBulk with built-in SMTP server. [Upg] Threaded messages delivery and attachments sending. (More compatible and faster) [Upg] Socket buffer control when sending data to prevent overflows. [Upg] File opening shows a progress dialog. [Upg] Sockets time-out control with auto re-connection. [Upg] Delivery report can be sent to a custom address (instead of sender default one) [Upg] New pref. entry to extract recipient's name from address or not. [Upg] Some little enhancements to the delivery report. [Chg] All fields are now protected when pasting multiple text lines. [Chg] 'Reply-To' and 'X-Priority' headers added to mail preview. [Chg] Tabs are now replaced by a fixed amount of spaces in preview. [Chg] Delivery report now always output to the console. [Bug] Cancelling file saving show a wrong file locked dialog. [Bug] 'Errors-To' header typo fixed. [Bug] Conditional statement button always enable. [Bug] Recipient replace function reviewed. [Bug] HTML Preview now diplays accentuated characters properly. [Bug] All localized tags has been rewrote without accentuated characters. [Bug] Connection loop on sending report with error 10x. [Bug] Styled text uselessly encoded when sending report delivery. [Bug] Quoted 'To' header for Claris Emailer compatibility with ISO characters. [Bug] Company field always uppercased despite titlecase pref. setting unchecked. [Bug] E-mail address tag not removed when tag processing unchecked. [Bug] Recipient data properly updated when editing directly on list. [2.6.1] [Chg] Delivery report included inside connection log. [Opt] Delivery speed enhanced on MacOS X. [Bug] Connection log memory leak causing MaxBulk to crash on big mailings under Classic. [Bug] Duplicate custom headers created when importing lists. [Bug] Preference menu disabled when preference dialog closed under X. [v2.6] [New] MacOS X and Entourage recipient drop support. [New] Custom headers editor. Now you can add custom headers to your mails. like 'Error-To', 'Organization', 'Comments', 'Cc' or whatever you need. [Upg] Unix and DOS line breaks enhanced support for recipients imports. [Opt] Faster mail delivery when using multiple connections. [Chg] MBM document type changed to "MaxBulk Mailer document" instead of meaningless "DataFile". [Bug] Quick selections over 'Company' field did not work properly. [Bug] Quick selection field popup was not updated with new opt field names. [Bug] Select all now enables alignment buttons (Plain Text only). [v2.5] [New] Customizable from 1 to 25 multithreaded SMTP stream connections Increase delivery performance up to 7 times. [Upg] Report Delivery sent also for bulk deliveries. [Upg] Report Delivery can be deactivated from Preferences. [Upg] Connection Log saving can be deactivated to speed up whole document saving. [Upg] Address list saving can be deactivated to speed up whole document saving. [Upg] Notification when sending done and app in background. [Upg] Balloon and help tips. [Chg] MaxBulk now add the standard Message-ID header. [Chg] POP auth password hidden on log panel and file. [Bug] Surname edit field not accepting spaces. [Bug] Preview jumping to message footer when displaying large messages. [v2.3] [New] Test button now allows user to send a test mail to himself. [New] MBM now send a detailed delivery report to user email once done. [New] Import presets. Allows user to save import settings. [New] New binary styled text to HTML parser now 500% faster. [Opt] Faster interface, tab panel and lists under MacOS X. [Upg] MacOS X sliding dialogs. [Upg] MacOS X cosmetic changes to meet standards. [Bug] Saving text style sometimes freezed on MacOS X. [Bug] Scheduled mails stopped when re-editing needed. [v2.2] [New] Partial sending. Allow user to set starting recipient. [New] Recent documents menu. [Upg] Read only files better management. [Upg] Titlecase recipients data when importing setting. [Upg] Duplicate checking when importing can be activated/deactivated. [Upg] New chinese CN, BIG5 and Taiwan text encodings. [Upg] New 'Factory Settings' button in settings panel. [Upg] New document icon. [Upg] Sample text in setting panel can be changed. [Chg] Signature added to styled text messages. [Bug] Duplicate checking when opening documents. (was deactivated) [v2.1] [New] Conditional message contents depending on optional tags value. [New] Pro version optional tags can be renamed for each document/campaign. [New] Default Maxbulk optional tags can be renamed. [New] Mail delivery now can be scheduled. (Delayed mail delivery). [Upg] The send button is back on MacOS X (Log pan). [Upg] Styled text: FTP, HTTP and mailto URLs HTML encoding support. [Opt] Opening and importing recipients list is now 75% faster. (3x faster) [Opt] Duplicate checking when importing is now 70% faster. (3x faster) [Opt] Styled Text to HTML conversion is now 40% faster. [Upg] Opening and importing recipients now with an accurate progress bar. [Chg] 'Send Anyway' button in line length checking dialog. [Chg] Mail dialog font size increased to meet MacOS X requirements. [Upg] Text size for message and preview can be set from preferences dialog. [Chg] Firstname and Surname titleCased when importing. [Chg] Company uppercased when importing. [Chg] Internet config checkbox replaced by accounts entry. [Chg] 72 chars line length checking can be set during preview. [Upg] New delete account confirmation dialog. [Upg] Preview now shows standard 'Date', 'From' and 'To' headers. [Upg] Preview always works however no recipients found. [Upg] Better list management popup with duplicate checking. [Upg] Recipients status reset menu always available. [Upg] Many cosmetic changes made for MacOS X version. [Chg] Preview and settings tab swapped to follow logical order. [Bug] Leading and trailing spaces removed from email address. [Bug] Windows menu didn't change its text when document renamed. [Bug] Attachment files icons did not show up anymore in MacOS X. [Bug] Send/Cancel menu wasn't updated properly when multiple documents. [Bug] Wrong Text size generated from Styled text to HTML. [v2.0] [New] New "Styled text" document format allows sending of full styled text, bold, italic, underline, color, font, size, bullet list, definition and background color all supported. MaxBulk creates HTML code on the fly when sending, always as multipart MIME with a plain text version too. (This feature is for Pro users only!) [New] BinHex, AppleSingle and AppleDouble attachment encoding. Learn more about encoding and which is the best for you with MaxBulk Quickstart. [New] More date format tags. (Pro users only!) - Long date (Wednesday, December 31, 1997) - Short date (12/31/97) - Abbreviated date (Wed, Dec. 31, 1997) - Long time (2:32:40 PM) - Short time (2:32 PM) - Day of week (Sunday to Saturday) - Day - Month (January to December) - Year - Week of year - Day of year - Hour - Minute - Second [Upg] Preview window has been removed. Now you can preview your document directly selecting "Preview tab". [Upg] Better Undo support. [New] Dinamic Preview when sending. [Upg] Low memory logging. [Bug] X-Mailer header now does'nt contain word 'bulk' which could cause spam filter to reject mails as spam. [Upg] Cosmetic changes related to documents when opening from files. [v1.7.4] [Upg] Better content transfer encoding for HTML documents. [Bug] Connection Log doesn't show up over whole dialog when resizing. [Upg] Several improvements to mail parser. [Bug] Better attachment handling when file is removed or renamed. [Upg] 500 and 501 SMTP errors improved handlers. [Upg] New "Email address" tag in order to add custom Unsubscribes. [Upg] Attachment list now shows each file size. [New] Ability to send HTML only. [Upg] Undo capability. [Bug] ISO quoted printable encoding for subject (more compatible). [v1.7.3] [New] Full ESMTP Authentication support. (To be used when needed) [New] ISO-8859-1 Europe/America/Africa text encoding support ISO-8859-2 Eastern Europe text encoding support ISO-8859-3 SE Europe/miscellaneous text encoding support ISO-8859-4 Scandinavia/Baltic text encoding support ISO-8859-5 Cyrillic text encoding support ISO-8859-6 Arabic text encoding support ISO-8859-7 Greek text encoding support ISO-8859-8 Hebrew text encoding support ISO-8859-9 Turkish text encoding support ISO-8859-10 Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo text encoding support ISO-8859-13 Baltic text encoding support ISO-8859-14 Celtic text encoding support ISO-2022-JP Japanese text encoding support ISO-2022-CN Chinese text encoding support ISO-2022-KR Korean text encoding support [Upg] Importation of multiple entries from Netscape address books. [Upg] Adaptation of MacOX X and Classic interfaces. [Upg] Send menu now behave according to "Send" Button. [Bug] Message sometimes shrinked due to text converter buffer when some special characters used. [Bug] Error handler can cause exception in special conditions. [Upg] Error 571 now supported. (Relaying denied) [Upg] Better error handling for fatal errors. [v1.7.2] [Upg] Connection Logs are now stored in "Connection Logs" Folder... [Upg] New documents now labeled untitled, untitled 1, untitled 2... [Upg] New Windows menu. [Upg] Recipients exportation now includes headers. [Upg] New Tag menu in order to insert tags also in subject. [Bug] ASCII 0 no longer allowed in mail address. [Bug] Fullname tag wrong format. [v1.7.1] [New] Paste Special menu allows user to import address from clipboard. [Upg] Importation with tab, comma, colon and semicolon delimiters. [Bug] Several fixes in SMTP error handler. [Bug] Find/Find Next commands did not process all columns. [v1.7] [New] POP Authentication: Sometimes SMTP server require an authenticated POP connection in order to allow access. [Upg] Advanced Open Transport error handler. [Upg] New connection Log handler. [Upg] Setup tab now labeled "Settings" [Bug] Crash when deleting expanded entries and selecting remaining line. [Upg] Maxbulk now doesn't stop on errors but flag failed recipients and continues delivery. [Bug] When dropping text to recipient list, disclosure triangle missing. [New] "Group mail" option now has two functions and can be used with custom option checked in order to force Maxbulk to close a connection and open a new one every x recipients. With Custom recipient unchecked, it uses x recipients in BCC as before but also close and open a connection for every mail sent. This feature is for user which ISP has an amount mails limit by session. [v1.6.1] [Bug] Surname added to 'To' header : Name Surname <name@domain.com> [Bug] Preview works even though no recipients available. [Upg] Duplicate checking when adding recipients from FileMaker. [Upg] Import/export menus. [v1.6] [New] Editable subject prefix. [New] Recipient selector. Quick recipients selection depending on fields values. (Pro version only - irrelevant in standard) [Upg] "Undisclosed-Recipients:;" 'TO' header when sending bulk. [New] Firstname, Surname and company now can be imported in 3 separated fields. [Upg] "Custom recipient" checked by default in new documents. [New] Precedence header popup. Can be set to "None, Bulk or Junk". [New] Editable 'To' header to change default "Undisclosed-Recipients:;" to a custom name. [Upg] When saving a new list file is always created in "Lists" folder. [New] Importation fields selector. [New] Direct creation of recipients from FileMaker scripts. (Pro only) [Bug] When removing empty list. [v1.5.1] [New] Pro version now allows Tags in subject. [Upg] Document files now include "Send" status for each entry so if you open a previous saved document, what you get is exactly what you saved keeping track of which mails has been sent or not. (With new "Reset Status" menu). [Upg] Recipient list is now directly editable. [Bug] Opt10 is now available in tag popup menu. [v1.5] [New] Mail documents are now fully resizable. [New] Since v1.5, Maxbulk Mailer can be registered as Standard version or as Pro Version. The Pro version add 10 optional Tags for mailmerge using the new 10 columns in address list allowing to import specific information from your database and send it to your recipients using this new optional tags very handy for software developer who need to send serials, schools who need to send scores to their alumni and so on... [Bug] When droping folders as attachment. [New] Maxbulk is available in French and Spanish (German soon). [v1.4.4] [Upg] New [News] and [PR] prefixes. [Upg] Text encoding init error dialog. [Upg] Use of ISOLatin1 instead of WindowsLatin1 for encoding. [Upg] Better Attachment File not found checking. [Upg] Changes to SMTP protocol for compatibility. [Upg] Connection Log includes SMTP commands. [Bug] ESMTP compatibility troubles solved. [Bug] Eudora Internet Mail Server compatibility troubles solved. [Bug] Webstar Internet Mail Server compatibility troubles solved. [Bug] Unexpected body end bug fixed. [Upg] Unchecking recips "Send" mark remove "Sent" status. [Bug] Bulk Group amount was not saved properly. [v1.4.3] [New] Group mails by 5, 10, 15, 25, 50...etc...feature [Upg] Mark mails as sent depending on server response. [Upg] Cosmetic changes. [v1.4.2] [New] Each recipients in list can be enabled or disabled easily without the need of deleting. [New] Recipient address list Find/Find next functions. [Upg] Del key allows log text deleting. [Upg] Zapping of gremlins chars in recip list. [Upg] 72 chars wide signature field. [Bug] Several bugs related to mail edition (Duplicate and empty entry). [Upg] Mail address import text file is now format independent. [Upg] DELETE text file is now format independent. [Upg] Recipient address list multiple file drop support. [v1.4.1] [Upg] List selected from popup now load 500% faster. [Upg] Progressbar now is shown also when dropping text. [Upg] Deleting mails is faster and shows current recipients in list. [Upg] When custom send, if some recipient gave an error due to bad format or syntax error, when editing entry it resets sent status. [Bug] Deleting and looking for duplicates now works better. [Upg] Better list display when entering mails manually. [Upg] Enter and return has the same effect when adding new mails manually. [Upg] Popup list is now updated after any change in List folder. [Bug] Created lists from Pupup now appears automatically. [Upg] Do not accept explicit spam address. [Bug] No encoding was done for tags. [Upg] Delete key can be used to remove recipient entries. [Upg] Pushing Command key and "Send" at the same time avoid line length checking. [v1.4] [New] Mail attachments. [New] Return Recept option. [Bug] Dropped DELETE address files did not activate update button. [v0.13d] [New] HTML support. [New] Aladdin installer. [Upg] Connection log is now saved with mailing file. [Upg] Save progress Dialog. [Bug] CR added to sig and log when saving. [New] Lists can be selected with a popup control which point to Lists dir. [v0.12d] [Upg] Preview window now shows converted tags and navigation buttons in order to check with several addresses. [Upg] Several cosmetic changes. [Upg] New [FIRSTNAME],[SURNAME] and [COMPANY] tags. [NAME] tag is now [FULLNAME] [Upg] MaxBulk now prevent sending mails with no subject. [New] Tag menu. [Upg] Justify buttons. Left, right, center and Justify. [New] Help system. [v0.11d] [New] Multiple customizable mail accounts. [v0.10d] [Upg] Recipient list shows recipient state when sending mail. [Upg] Preview now includes signature. [Upg] Signature length checking. [v0.09d] [Upg] New Preview menu. [Upg] Body containing lines greater tah 72 chars. long alert. [New] Internet Config autofill. [New] Internet Config menu in order to open Internet Control Panel. [Bug] Empty entries in DELETE file cause delete all. [v0.08d] [Bug] Option+W now close Preview window. [Bug] Wrong file menu order, according to Apple Human Interface. [Upg] Better address entry system. [Upg] <<Remove All>> confirm dialog. [Bug] Recipient list count is now accurate. [v0.07d] [Upg] Mails Drag and drop support to the list. [New] New Justify Text option. [New] Custom send mail feature (Send mail one by one) [New] Custom Tags [Name] and [Date] in mail body. [v0.06d] [Upg] Drag and drop file with "DELETE" name remove addresses. [Upg] New Export button for exporting address list. [New] Preview window in order to see what email looks like. [v0.05d] [Upg] Add, Edit and remove button in address list. [Upg] Select All support in all edit fields [v0.04d] [Upg] From Header now contains sender name. [Upg] Better subject encoding. [New] Signature field. [Bug] Header charset did not include quotes. [Upg] Now you can add/edit users manually. [Upg] Drop file and data support for Address list. [Upg] List only accept entries when "@" char present in second field. [Upg] List filter duplicates when importing and dropping [v0.03d] [New] Multi files system. [Upg] Better SMTP Log. [v0.02d] [New] Addresses import. [v0.01d] [New] Beginning program design.