SerialMailer Lite App Reviews

When I started using SerilMailer (lite) I was very (very) happy. - The interface made it very easey to use. - I immediatley uploaded xls file/datasets - Drafted a simple, but good looking email (with graphics) - Reviewed the email - Input my SMTP settings for my business email account and then - Hit send - and then it happened… SerialMailer appears to not work with Office365 SMTP settings. My research indicates it works with Gmail (etc.), but that is not acceptable for my professional life. I worked for almost two hours to make sure I had not messed a setting up; but that is not what happened. It doesn’t matter how easy a tool like this is to use if it won’t actually send your emails through your current email system. If they can fix this issues - not a work around - (as I have not had any formal response from my support request), I will be very happy to try this again (and update this review).

A little bit rough interface, a little bit unintuitive, have some bugs: if you copy html e-mail text from app with inserted special fields (e-mail, first name, second name) to some other text editor and then copy them back - youll lose activation of this fields (but will still have code in text). But it really worth trying, because with some work you can get what you want.

It does exactly what I needed to reach my customers. Ill be upgrading to the paid version.

SerialMailer seems exactly perfect for what I wanted to do. I tried mail merge in Word, but it requires I use Entourage (Word 2008) or Outlook (Word 2011) as my default mail app, and I wanted to use Apple Mail. I tried the mail merge in FileMaker, but it only supports plain text, you have to awkwardly compose mails as "calculated fields," there is no preview and no watching the progress of sent emails. Basically, FileMaker is awkward to use for mail merge. But with SerialMailer I can compose emails in a normal looking, if simple, editor, I can preview each message before it goes out, I can choose to use formatted emails (works fine), there are "smart fields" which depend on the values of the fields I import from FMP, I can easily save and re-use templates, and I can even track the progress as the mails are sent out. And all my test emails arrived just fine. Its really everything I was looking for in a mail merge. I will be purchasing the paid version.

Does exactly what is is supposed to do. Also love the variable attachment feature, looking to use that soon.

I needed this tool for smaller email blast when I didn’t want the unsubscribe footer included, like to my LinkedIn network or existing clients. (I’m a CMO in a startup) Use MailChimp and various marketing automation tools for bigger sendouts. Downloaded and tried Serial Mailer and really liked it. Had some problems with the xls imports and addressed the dev team behind SerialMailer regarding this problem. They were super reponsive and helpful, and now they fixed the few bugs I complained about. If you are looking for a “serial mailer”, SerialMailer is the app you need. Cheers Mattias

I figured everything out, but it wouldnt work with the current Mail application in Yosemite: it doesnt send emails through Mail.app (fail), doesnt pull in the mail.app email accounts (blank), and it doesnt support SMTP with MD5 challenge-response (not in the choices when setting up SMTP manually). So I have all my emails ready to go out, but will have to send them manually anyway unless I either set up my mail server with less secure SMTP, or use another service such as GMail to send my emails, which I dont want to do (I want the emails to be sent using my authentic business account through my own mail server). It was otherwise pretty straightforward to work with if you have any database/mail merge experience you should be OK.