Gammadyne Mailer
Gammadyne Mailer is a Windows application that automates email operations. It can send personalized email to a mailing list, as well as process incoming email in an automated fashion.[1]
Gammadyne Mailer is Gammadyne Corporation's flagship product.[2]
Author
Gammadyne Mailer was written by Greg Wittmeyer, who is also the owner of Gammadyne Corporation. Graphic arts credits go to Tom Zeller and Greg Wittmeyer.[3]
History
Gammadyne Mailer 1.0 was released to the public on May 12, 1999. Its core ability was sending email personalized with data from a database. Since then, it has been updated regularly. Following are some milestones taken from the official revision history.[4]
| Version | Date | New features |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | 5/12/1999 | Direct Delivery |
| 2.0 | 6/10/1999 | Remove Recipients tool, Exclusions |
| 2.1 | 7/9/1999 | Name changed from Manifold Mail to Gammadyne Mailer |
| 3.0 | 7/26/1999 | HTML |
| 4.0 | 8/26/1999 | BCC Send Mode |
| 5.0 | 9/11/1999 | Preview Window, Command Line control |
| 9.0 | 1/24/2000 | Processing Opt-Outs, Address Verification |
| 10.0 | 6/22/2000 | Tree view interface introduced, Auto-Responding |
| 11.0 | 9/18/2000 | Toolbar, Preview Recipients tool, Troubleshoot HTML tool, Throttling |
| 12.0 | 11/10/2000 | Success/Failure Script |
| 13.0 | 2/23/2001 | Automatic detection of embedded images |
| 14.0 | 7/17/2001 | Multithreaded Send, Forwarding, Add Recipients tool |
| 15.0 | 9/11/2001 | List-Serving |
| 15.1 | 10/3/2001 | Wizards |
| 15.3 | 10/23/2001 | Change Address tool |
| 16.0 | 11/20/2001 | Welcome Wizard, Check PTR Record tool |
| 18.0 | 4/17/2001 | Import data from system Address Book |
| 19.0 | 5/15/2002 | Domain Throttles |
| 19.1 | 8/27/2002 | New help file system |
| 20.0 | 12/20/2002 | The mailing engine is now encapsulated in a DLL that can be used by third-party programs. Interface skins. Pulsing. |
| 20.5 | 6/3/2003 | View Result Set tool |
| 22.0 | 12/2/2003 | Fast Removal, Ignore Soft Bounces |
| 22.1 | 2/9/2004 | Lookup Recipient tool |
| 22.2 | 4/6/2004 | Spell Checking, Lookup Illegal Addresses tool |
| 23.0 | 5/12/2004 | Delayed Retries |
| 24.0 | 7/19/2004 | WYSIWYG HTML editing |
| 24.1 | 8/3/2004 | Send Script |
| 24.2 | 9/9/2004 | Check Blacklisting tool |
| 24.3 | 10/20/2004 | Write emails to files |
| 26.0 | 2/24/2006 | New product activation system. User-defined functions. |
| 27.0 | 6/6/2006 | Zip Attachments, Censor Forwards |
| 29.0 | 1/29/2007 | SSL |
| 30.0 | 5/2/2007 | IMAP4, POP3 CRAM-MD5 authentication |
| 31.0 | 8/23/2007 | DomainKeys |
| 32.0 | 1/22/2008 | MAPI send and receive |
| 33.0 | 8/20/2008 | Unicode in HTML, HTML images are now completely automatically handled |
| 34.0 | 1/26/2009 | Multiple networking adapters, database connection strings, Universal Domain Throttle |
| 35.0 | 6/15/2009 | Streamlined interface |
| 35.5 | 9/14/2009 | Email Tracking |
| 36.0 | 1/19/2010 | DKIM, all new icons |
| 37.0 | 8/4/2010 | Success/failure graph |
| 38.0 | 5/31/2011 | Major interface redesign. Added the "Follow-up" system. |
| 38.1 | 7/11/2011 | Added the ability to deliver preprepared email files. |
| 39.0 | 11/21/2011 | Now tracks the time that a recipient viewed the email. |
| 40.0 | 6/4/2012 | Redesigned the Send Summary window. Added the "Add Record" tool |
| 41.0 | 11/5/2012 | Added support for unicode characters in headers and the Text Body. Added support for MD5/SHA256 suppression lists. Added the "Check Spam Score" tool. Redesigned the Welcome Wizard. |
| 43.0 | 10/30/2013 | Added a built-in task scheduler. |
| 44.0 | 4/14/2014 | Template Designer. Auto Image Dimensions. CSS validation tool. |
| 45.0 | 10/21/2013 | SOCKS5 proxy servers. |
| 46.0 | 4/13/2015 | A/B comparisons of tracking data. Side-Help. NTLM authentication. |
| 47.0 | 10/6/2015 | Shrink Images. APOP authentication. |
| 48.0 | 3/7/2016 | DIGEST-MD5 authentication. |
References
- ↑ "Gammadyne Mailer Home Page".
- ↑ "Gammadyne Corporation: About Us".
- ↑ Gammadyne Mailer Help File, Credits
- ↑ "Gammadyne Mailer Revision History".
External links
- Gammadyne Corporation Website
- Gammadyne Mailer Review: CNet
- Gammadyne Mailer Review: Network World
- Gammadyne Mailer Review: James S. Huggins
- Gammadyne Mailer Review: SharewareJunkies.com
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