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MailDrop 1.3.3

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MailDrop - Email Marketing Software

MailDrop - Email Marketing Software

Heinz Tschabitscher
The Bottom Line
MailDrop is a particularly elegant and simple tool for sending flexibly personalized emails in bulk. It's a bit short on advanced features, though.
Unfortunately, MailDrop is no longer available.
Pros
  • MailDrop offers flexible and powerful mail merging
  • Easy to use, elegant, and simple interface
  • MailDrop offers a preview of individual messages including rich HTML formatting
Cons
  • MailDrop lacks conditional text or scripting for further message personalization
  • MailDrop doesn't come with an internal SMTP sending engine
  • Can't process incoming mail or bounces to subscribe/unsubscribe automatically
Description
  • MailDrop lets you send emails in bulk through an external SMTP server.
  • Flexible mail merging including up to ten custom fields lets you send customized mail in MailDrop.
  • MailDrop import and export formats include XML and plain text.
  • Supports both plain text and HTML messages with full Unicode compliance.
  • MailDrop lets you preview individual messages (with support for HTML).
  • Includes tools to eliminate duplicate and invalid email addresses from lists.
  • MailDrop supports Mac OS X.
Guide Review - MailDrop 1.3.3
MailDrop looks great, and it is a joy to use. That's not something you find often in a bulk email application. MailDrop combines this ease of use with a solid set of features.

Most importantly, MailDrop lets you personalize messages using a great number of database fields including custom ones. Getting data into MailDrop is easy, too, with flexible importing options.

Unfortunately, MailDrop can't connect to a database server directly. This could further enhance the personalization with segmenting and write-back. Support for conditional text is another possibility.

If you can do without these power features and can deal with lacking support for multipart/alternative messages, MailDrop is a nice tool for sending personalized bulk email.

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