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MaxBulk Mailer⌐ v3.3.2
[M A X P R O G] - July 2004 - Copyright ⌐ 2000 - 2004
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 July 2004
Keys: [New] = New Feature
[Opt] = Optimization
[Fix] = Bug Fix
[Chg] = Changes Previous Functionality
[Upg] = Enhancement
[3.3.2] [New] New KEEP keyword for addresses batch process for retaining addresses from a file.
[Upg] ISO-8859-15 encoding with █ sign support added.
[Upg] DOS/Windows Thai encoding added.
[Upg] New intervals and groups added.
[Opt] SMTP protocol implementation optimizations.
[Fix] Error dialog added to mySQL import.
[Fix] ISO encoding failure on given Japanese headers.
[Fix] Full document resizing reactivated on Mac OS 9.
[Fix] Scheduled delivery is cancelable again.
[Fix] Styled Text Undo UTF-8 support.
[3.3.1] [Fix] Styles not properly restored when loading document in given situations.
[Fix] Preview panel reseted when deactivating/activating document window.
[Fix] Miscellaneous interfaces fixes.
[3.3] [New] Pro version has now 20 custom fields/tags rather than 10.
[New] Tags are now supported in custom headers as well.
[Upg] New pref. entry allowing to set the app. to create a new doc. at startup.
[Upg] New pref. entry allowing to preview messages during delivery.
[Upg] Tags are now processed in the signature as well.
[Upg] Interface enhancements.
[Chg] Message and Preview Philip bar placed depending on font type and size.
[Opt] csv format file import fully rewritten.
[Fix] Encoding problem when saving and reloading lists with ISO-8859-1 characters.
[Fix] File Import presets wrongly saved and restored.
[Fix] Attachment panel vertically oversized when initiated from a document.
[Fix] Recipients drag'n'drop vCards properly parsed back.
[Fix] Preview Philip bar doesn't disapear anymore when previewing.
[Fix] Entry edit fields contents no longer disapear when loosing focus.
[Fix] Text wrapping functions don't change/add/remove trailing and heading line breaks.
[Fix] Text now remains selected after rewrapping or justifying.
[Fix] Style palette controls properly reseted when switching message format.
[Fix] List entries Checked status saved to list file.
[Fix] Possible crash when checking an entry before selection.
[Fix] Preview breaking words rather than lines.
[Fix] Line breaks added on single lines conditionals.
[3.2] [Upg] List import now supports encodings.
[Upg] Delivery is now 10% faster.
[Upg] Multiple reset on selection.
[Chg] Time-Out changed to 60 seconds from 30 seconds on SMTP connections.
[Chg] Lists are again inline editable in Mac OS 9 as with v2.x.
[Fix] Bullet list broken on Mac OS 9.
[Fix] vcard import now parse all e-mail addresses on drops.
[Fix] Message scroll bar disapearing when switching from preview on Mac OS 9.
[Fix] ISO encoder problem on subject when given characters.
[Fix] Panther Full keyboard access compatibility.
[3.1] [New] Mac OS X standard toolbar with most used functions.
[New] 7 new headers added to the preference custom header editor.
[Opt] mySQL import now supports encodings.
[Opt] mySQL import now let you add or not duplicate entries.
[Chg] It is now possible to tab thru recipient fields on list.
[Fix] Recipient list wrongly formatted, no horizontal scrollbar and fields pushed to the right.
[Fix] Import from Address Book script merging e-mails when several.
[Fix] Import from Address Book script creating "missing value" entries when empty field.
[Fix] Mac OS 9.x version not showing check boxes on recipient list.
[Fix] Recent documents menu getting duplicated entries when saving.
[Fix] Entourage groups drops broken.
[Fix] Problem loading styled text from files.
[Fix] Mail parser too strict on given conditions.
[Fix] mySQL import not updating properly the imported recipients count.
[Fix] Single character E-mail addresses now accepted (a@domain.tld).
[Fix] '.@' pair now accepted for e-mail adresses (a.@doamin.tld).
[Fix] AppleScript now activated for import on standard.
[3.0] [New] Full SSL v1, v2, v3 and TLS v1 support for both POP and SMTP connection. (Pro only)
[New] Settings now include an Interval entry that force MaxBulk to wait between sessions.
[New] Mouse wheel support on message, log and lists.
[New] POP server port support in the form [pop.domain.com:port]
[New] New APOP authentication support (MD5 authentication with timestamp).
[New] Message encoding is now document wide rather than application wide.
[New] HTML compresor - All HTML code is now sent compressed and optimized for speed.
[New] ESMTP Login, Plain and CRAM-MD5 support.
[New] Full mySQL support for recipients import. (Pro only)
[New] Recipient list, message preview and connection log printing.
[New] Preferences entries to set new documents default account and recipient list.
[New] Direct recipients import from Apple Mail.
[New] Direct recipients import from Microsoft Entourage.
[New] Direct recipients import from Address Book.
[New] Direct recipients import from Now Contact.
[Upg] Delivery report contains more information.
[Upg] Numbered delivery reports.
[Upg] Support for double-byte strings everywhere including list and account names.
[Upg] Unicode UTF-8 support both for interface and files.
[Upg] New UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings format support.
[Upg] All Windows encodings format support.
[Upg] Safari added to preview browser pull-down menu.
[Upg] Lists - Multiple selection, remove and checking now possible.
[Opt] Delivery performed 5 times faster thanks to SMTP handler enhancements.
[Opt] Faster QuotedPrintable encoding.
[Opt] Faster Base64 encoding.
[Opt] List loading/import twice as fast.
[Chg] All files and preferences are now saved as Unicode UTF-8 allowing 2-bytes strings.
[Chg] Lists and logs are now saved to ~/Documents.
[Chg] Send button accepts command+. and ESC when converted to 'Cancel' button.
[Chg] More information added to connection log.
[Chg] '20', '30' and '60' added to group pull-down menu.
[Chg] SMTP HELO and EHLO commands changes (domain of sender address used).
[Chg] Recent documents menu now use alias rather than paths. (more compatible)
[Chg] Attachments now use alias rather than paths. (more compatible)
[Chg] Document window can be freely resized if pressing Command and Option Keys.
[Chg] New Precedence 'list' entry.
[Chg] Precedence is no longer disable for non bulk mails.
[Fix] Sockets seem to try to reconnect after a cancel because of no disposed timeout.
[Fix] ASCII 202 not properly handled when importing recipients.
[Fix] Messages with lines >1024 characters long not properly handled.
[Fix] Recent items menu can now use 2-bytes file names.
[Fix] List editing error when on second line.
[Fix] Few Panther interface cosmetic fixes.
[Fix] Applescript ADDO and DELE events not activating list Save button.
[Fix] FileMaker 'Add recipients' script not activating list Save button.
[Fix] Applescript handler not performing duplicate checking in some cases.
[2.9] [Upg] New 7-bits US-ASCII encoding format support. Faster for English text.
[Upg] New double byte SHIFT-JIS Japanese encoding.
[Opt] Bulk mode delivery status faster refresh.
[Upg] More information added to delivery report (encoding and attachments size)
[Upg] Attachment total size added to message panel.
[Chg] No extra lines added before of after conditional statements.
[Chg] Alert added when closing a document and recipient list has been modified.
[Chg] Alert added when delivery is done but not all recipients has been sent.
[Chg] Visible delivery reset progress dialog.
[Chg] Recipient's list column width saved and restored with document contents.
[Chg] Localized version fixes.
[Chg] 'X-Confirm-Reading-To' optional header added to header pull-down menu.
[Chg] New ISO encoder for header fields.
[Chg] Sender name field now accepts double-bytes characters.
[Fix] Heading CSS code dots removed by relaying SMTP server broking style sheets specs.
[Fix] 2 bytes char. text was not properly restored from saved files. (e.g. Japanese, Chinese...)
[Fix] 2 bytes char. text was not properly sent - partial messages and/or wrong chars.
[Fix] Test mail sent twice with empty delivery report in bulk mode.
[Fix] Null characters automatically removed before sending. (Body/sig)
[Fix] Heading dots modified before sending. (sig)
[Fix] Problem when using import dialog with duplicate checking deactivated.
[2.8] [New] New POP UserID entry for authentication.
[New] Recipient edition dialog is now displayed when double-clicking entry icon.
[New] Detailed Delivery report including successful and unsucessful e-mail adresses.
[New] Hyperlink manager. Allows you to add preformatted hyperlinks to your documents. (Pro only)
[New] Applescript support with Examples. (Pro only)
[Upg] Recipient list resizable columns.
[Upg] Opera, Mozilla and iCab added to preview browser pull-down menu.
[Chg] Localized pref menu entry.
[Chg] Import dialog supports drag re-order of cells.
[Chg] Preview field number updated during delivery.
[Chg] 'Paste Special' now supports Unix and DOS line breaks.
[Chg] Shift+S shortcut for 'Save As..." menu
[Chg] Window menu now includes shortcuts.
[Chg] ESMTP password is now hidden during connection.
[Chg] Test mail tags replaced with tag names.
[Chg] Custom headers no longer duplicated with standard ones.
[Chg] More data added to Delivery Report. (Bulk mode, rate, groups, retries...)
[Chg] Account pull-down now save all account data, not only user and server data.
[Chg] Delivery status [x/x] displayed inside document title bar.
[Chg] Test mode status displayed inside document title bar.
[Chg] 'Connection log' files accepted as batch removing files. (intended to crash recovery)
[Chg] Recipient list can be ordered by activated entries.
[Chg] Conditional statements allowed in a single line <if [[tag]] = "value"> stuff here</if>
[Chg] Copy/Paste/Cut/Clear/Select All allowed in list.
[Opt] Message Preview links and quotes formatting (color and underline)
[Opt] More filters added to mail parser.
[Fix] Main dialog no longer remain deactivated after closing X sheet windows.
[Fix] 'Text/HTML' format preview no longer shows HTML part.
[Fix] Edit fields Unicode BOM fixed.
[Fix] Recipient list selector fails to load lists labeled with foreign characters.
[Fix] Recipient list selector fails to show list names with foreign characters.
[Fix] 'Paste Special' fails to import and parse the clipboard when no tab delimited.
[Fix] German MIME alert localization typo fix.
[Fix] Delivery report sending doesn't loop on error anymore.
[Fix] Multiple Mac OS X Address Book entries drops broken.
[Fix] Dropped Mac OS X Address Book entries was not properly encoded.
[Fix] Conditional statements not handled properly when using Styled text format.
[Fix] Online address list editing was not checking for duplicates properly.
[Fix] AppleDouble attachment encoding fix.
[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.
[Fix] 'To' header encoding format fix.
[Fix] Delivery report total sent mail sometimes not accurate.
[Fix] 'To' header, Name not correctly quoted when surname exists.
[Fix] 'To' header, extra quotes when no name nor surname.
[Fix] 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.
[Fix] Cancelling file saving show a wrong file locked dialog.
[Fix] 'Errors-To' header typo fixed.
[Fix] Conditional statement button always enable.
[Fix] Recipient replace function reviewed.
[Fix] HTML Preview now diplays accentuated characters properly.
[Fix] All localized tags has been rewrote without accentuated characters.
[Fix] Connection loop on sending report with error 10x.
[Fix] Styled text uselessly encoded when sending report delivery.
[Fix] Quoted 'To' header for Claris Emailer compatibility with ISO characters.
[Fix] Company field always uppercased despite titlecase pref. setting unchecked.
[Fix] E-mail address tag not removed when tag processing unchecked.
[Fix] 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.
[Fix] Connection log memory leak causing MaxBulk to crash on big mailings under Classic.
[Fix] Duplicate custom headers created when importing lists.
[Fix] 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".
[Fix] Quick selections over 'Company' field did not work properly.
[Fix] Quick selection field popup was not updated with new opt field names.
[Fix] 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.
[Fix] Surname edit field not accepting spaces.
[Fix] 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.
[Fix] Saving text style sometimes freezed on MacOS X.
[Fix] 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.
[Fix] 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.
[Fix] Leading and trailing spaces removed from email address.
[Fix] Windows menu didn't change its text when document renamed.
[Fix] Attachment files icons did not show up anymore in MacOS X.
[Fix] Send/Cancel menu wasn't updated properly when multiple documents.
[Fix] 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.
[Fix] 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.