The Bottom Line
Rapid Mailer is a simple bulk email application with strong support for the basics: mail merging and message delivery. Rapid Mailer is no longer available.
Pros
- Rapid Mailer offers flexible mail merging
- HTML message editor
- Internal SMTP engine
Cons
- Rapid Mailer lacks message preview
- No incoming mail processing
- Weak list management
Description
- Rapid Mailer sends bulk emails through a fast internal SMTP engine.
- Flexible mail merging including two custom fields.
- WYSIWYG HTML message editor, which also allows direct editing of the HTML source.
- Rapid Mailer also supports plain text messages.
- Rapid Mailer supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Guide Review - Rapid Mailer - Email Marketing Software
Can a bulk email program be easy to use and useful?
Rapid Mailer emphasizes the ease of use a bit more, but still maintains a pretty decent feature set. The core functionality of a bulk email application is fulfilled nicely with a fast internal SMTP sending engine and relatively flexible mail merging.
Rapid Mailer even includes an easy to use HTML editor that allows editing of the source, too. When it comes to the details and peripheral functionality, Rapid Mailer pales a bit. There's no preview function, for example, you can't filter the list or include conditional text in the message, and Rapid Mailer cannot deal with incoming emails to automate list management.
