Download Mailer from the iTunes App Store.

NOTE: You can try out all features of Mailer with the (free) lite version of Mailer. It is fully functional, however it will show a message at the bottom of each generated email. This full version will not show this message! Download Mailer Lite from the iTunes App Store.

About Mailer

Mailer is the power tool for sending mail.

• Create and organize rich text (HTML) email templates.
• Send emails to groups.
• Send attachments (e.g. your vCard (business card)).
• Manage and add attachments directly on your device (e.g., downloading it from your DropBox (requires the free DropBox app).
• Create a template which sends the contents of the clipboard to predefined recipients by two taps.
• Create professional mailings.

Mailer allows to create and organize rich text (HTML) email templates. Templates can contain placeholders which are then merged with the corresponding address book data creating personalized mails.

Use Cases

Some use cases for this app are:

• Sending emails to a group of people (cannot be done with the build in mail).
• Sending personalized newsletters.
• Sending personalized greetings at Christmas or new year.
• Sending personalized information to group participating in an event, e.g., a seminar, etc.
• You can use the 'Notes' part of the recipients address book entry to maintain info (e.g., point achieved in a test) and automatically include these notes in the generated email.
• Mailer is useful even without using the personalization: it allows to maintain and organize a set of HTML email templates.

Demo Videos

1. Simple Personalized Mailing (here: New Year Greetings)
2. Sending the Clipboard (here: quickly to yourself)
3. Using HTML Styles (setting up a styled newsletter)

Detailed Description

With Mailer you can create an email template containing certain placeholders (e.g., for the name of the recipient). You then create a list of recipients. Then, for each recipient Mailer replaces the placeholder by the corresponding value from the recipients address book entry and generate a personalized mail for each recipient.

Mailer does not replace Apple Mail. It does not send the emails. Instead each generated email is showed for review and optional editing. If accepted the generated mail is then placed in your Apple Mail's outbox. In other words, Mailer takes your template, merges it with your Address Book data and puts the generated email in your Apple Mail outbox.

Features

Placeholders for Recipient's Address Book Data

For each recipient, Mailer takes the template and replaces any of the Mailer placeholders by the corresponding value from the recipients Address Book entry. Note: You do not have to enter these placeholders by hand, you can pick them from a list.

Currently the following placeholders are supported:

<ab:first_name/>

The first name of the recipient.

<ab:last_name/>

The last name of the recipient.

<ab:email/>

The email address of the recipient. If there are multiple email addresses, this placeholder refers to the email address used for sending this template.

<ab:middle_name/>

The middle name of the recipient.

<ab:prefix/>

The prefix of the name of the recipient.

<ab:suffix/>

The suffix of the name of the recipient.

<ab:nickname/>

The nickname of the recipient.

<ab:organization/>

The organization of the recipient.

<ab:job_title/>

The job title of the recipient.

<ab:first_name_phonetic/>

The phonetic version of the first name of the recipient.

<ab:last_name_phonetic/>

The phonetic version of the last name of the recipient.

<ab:middle_name_phonetic/>

The phonetic version of the middle name of the recipient.

<ab:note/>

The notes you have entered for this recipient.

The list of supported placeholders will be extended in future version.

Styled Text (HTML) Templates with CSS Style Sheets

Templates can be HTML and the generated mail can be sent as HTML mail. The template editor provides a picker list for easy entry of the most common HTML tags, like <b> for bold text, <i> for italic text, etc.

CSS Style Sheets

You can create CSS style sheets independently from the templates and assign a style sheet to a template. Thus, the style of your templates can be changed or improved quickly.

Interpretation of HTML

An email generated from the template will be sent as HTML if and only if you specified this in the template properties.

If the HTML mail option is set, then then the template is interpreted as HTML source, with one exception: new line characters in the template as interpreted as (i.e., converted to) HTML <br> tags. This ensures that an email containing no HTML elements looks the same in HTML mode and in plain text mode.

If the HTML mail option is not set, then HTML tags contained in the generated emails are not stripped. If your templates contains HTML tags, then you should always set the HTML option.

Organizing Templates

You can organize your templates in groups. To create a group or edit names or order of group tap the 'Group' button in the template list. Note: A group can be deleted only if it is empty.

Recipient Lists

The list of recipients can contain individual recipients (added by tapping '+') and address book groups (added by tapping 'Add Group').

• If you add an individual recipient, then you can specifically choose the email address used for sending the email.
• If you add an address book group, then you can choose the type of email adress which should be used for sending the email. Spported type are "Standard" (the first email adress listed in the address book), "Work", "Home" and "Other".

Using an address book group has a significant advantage: The final recipient list is build at a later time, when you tap 'Send Emails'. If you change or add the members of an address book group in Mailer's recipient list, this change will be reflected the next time when tapping 'Send Emails'. In other words: Using address book groups, the recipient list is build dynamically at "run time".

Notes

Keywords

Mail, Address Book, Email, Merge Mail, Email Templates, HTML

Feedback

Please send feedback, error reports or feature requests to email@christian-fries.de.