Press the Send button, MaxBulk Mailer will now commence sending your message displaying a log of the transactions with the server. Depending on your settings, it will send one at a time or a batch of them. Either way, you'll get to see it communicate with your SMTP server and the responses it gets back.

If you are in Test Mode , MaxBulk will send the message to yourself only. In order to toggle between 'Test Mode' and regular delivery mode use the 'Message | Test Mode' menu. Once you receive your test mail and if all is as expected, you can deactivate 'Test Mode' and push send button again to get your message delivered to all your recipients. Depending on if you check "Activate tag processing" or not, MaxBulk Mailer will send the mail once to all list members or one message per entry in the list (required to replace tags with corresponding data).

You can perform a partial delivery setting the starting e-mail on your list. Use Message | Partial Sending menu and type the e-mail address from which you want MaxBulk to start. All recipients prior to this e-mail address will be marked as sent.

During the delivery MaxBulk updates each recipient status. Delivered and undelivered recipients can be distinguished easily, looking at their icon. A Card icon means message has not been delivered yet, a Paper plane icon means message has been delivered and a Stop icon means an error occurs when processing the recipient. This allows you to cancel and resume a delivery without sending duplicates, already delivered recipients are automatically discarded. This information is saved with your document so if you decide to cancel and resume later, just open it back and press the Send button again, already delivered recipients are also automatically discarded.

A delivery report is automatically sent to you by e-mail showing how many messages have been sent, how many were successful and how many failed. The failures are based on those that the SMTP rejected immediately, often because the recipient's domain name didn't exist. It doesn't include bounces - those where the user didn't exist or had a full mail box. You'll get this back as separate e-mail over the period of a few days.

The Delivery Report looks like this:
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MaxBulk Mailer Delivery Report [#740] - 12/7/04
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Mailer version: 4.1-US

Status: Pro - Registered

Machine OS/speed: 10.3.6/2Ghz

SMTP server address: 69.57.166.166 [Port: Default] SSL Off

Authentication: ESMTP (Login)

Streams: 5 [5 Used]

Delivery mode: Singly (Tag processing ON)

Groups: All at once

Interval: None

Delivery start date: 12/7/04 at 1:01:55 PM

end date: 12/7/04 at 1:03:24 PM

Total duration: 1 minutes and 29 seconds - Retries:0/10

Rate: 1.72 recipient(s)/second

to a total of: 152 recipient(s) [152 of 152]

where: 152 sent successfully

and: 0 failed. (Bounces not included!)

Mail subject: [PR] MaxBulk Mailer 4.0

Mail priority: Low

Return receipt: no

Mail format: Plain text [ISO-8859-1]

Mail size: 10.89 KB (Doesn't include attachments)

Attachments: none
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Scheduling Mail delivery

MaxBulk includes a mail scheduling system in order to program e-mail deliveries. It is very simple to use. Once your e-mail is ready to be sent, select the 'Schedule' menu and select the date and time you want your e-mail to be sent.

Scheduling can be useful if you want to have the e-mail go out during a quite time for your network, like at 2 am, so it doesn't impact on your other internet tasks like web browsing and e-mail, but your machine will need to be on, running Maxbulk Mailer and connected to the internet at the scheduled time in order for this to work.

When you click Send (or OK from the Scheduler) you'll probably get a dialogue box warning you that your text is greater than 72 characters wide and to re-warp your text - this is due to the Philips Bar discussed above. Just click Send Anyway.