Revision History
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your purchase. If you would like to use a version released after 1 year
you may upgrade at a reduced rate. To find
your purchase date look under "Help / About...". The release dates for
each version are shown below. You can download an older version by
clicking on the links below.
- Files being used by AutoMSW can now be open for edit in other
applications at the same time AutoMSW is using them. This makes
it possible to have files like your mailing list open in Excel at the
same time you are using them to send in AutoMSW. Previously the
files being used by AutoMSW had to be closed by all other applications
for AutoMSW to be able to read them.
- Changed product name from "Auto Mailer" to "AutoMSW" due to
trademark issues. Everything about the program is the same,
except the name has changed.
- Updated for Windows 7 compatibility
- Added recipient specific
message capability
- Added option to specify system name
used when sending direct
- Main window "Browse..." buttons initialize selection dialog to
folder of currently selected file. Makes it easier when
switching files.
- Added ability to Cc or Bcc one or more e-mail addresses on all
sent e-mails. See "File / Options... / Advanced Options...".
- Expanded capabilities of the command line interface. Sending
method, options, and 'From' e-mail address can now be specified in the
arguments file. See the command line
documentation for more details.
- Updated for Windows Vista compatibility
- Log files stored in
user's application data area
- Manifested to run with current
user permission level
- Input files checked for ANSI encoding when starting a job.
If any files are not ANSI encoded (UTF-8 or Unicode) a warning will be
shown. Checks mailing list, text message, and HTML message
files.
- Added support for relaying through SMTP mail servers requiring a
secure (SSL) connection.
- Added support for selecting a Web Archive (*.MHT) file for the
HTML message. This feature makes it possible to included
embedded graphics within the email, so they don't have to be
referenced and downloaded off of an external web site.
September 24, 2007 version 2.10
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version 2.10]
(For license purposes, this release date
is September 10, 2007)
- Bug fix: Program could crash under
some circumstances
- Significantly improved (> 100X) the encoding speed for attachments
- Improved reliability by checking for
and removing leading or trailing white space in both mail server name
and "from" email address.
April 3, 2007 version 2.8
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version 2.8]
(For license purposes, this release date
is March 23, 2007)
- Bug fix: Saving profiles was not
always saving the current settings
- Bug fix: Direct sending method was not
working under older Windows versions in some cases
- Added support for "Profiles".
Easily store and recall multiple profiles. Profiles memorize and
recall all program settings. See "File / Profiles".
- Utilizes modern common controls when
available for improved User Interface appearance
- Improved mailing list parsing, so an
un-matched double quote does not consume the rest of the mailing list
- Added support for wildcards in the "AddAttachment"
statement for the command line interface
February 9, 2007 version 2.5
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version 2.5]
(For license purposes, this release date
is July 31, 2006)
- Bug fix: In some cases the
program could crash when using the "Browse..." dialogs
- Minor improvement in SMTP module to
improve compatibility with more mail servers.
- Command
line interface added.
- Mail merge fields are now case
insensitive.
- Improved robustness of SMTP sending.
- Bug fix: Daylight savings time was not
always properly accounted for when setting message time.
- Added option to specify the character
set for encoding the message and subject. See "File / Options...
/ Advanced Options...".
October 28, 2004 version 1.9
- Added a "Message-ID" field to SMTP
headers. Helps prevent email from being rejected by some
servers.
- Fixed a bug in the SMTP
communications. Corrected the HELO/EHLO command to use the
source server name instead of the destination server name. This
was causing some servers to reject email.
September 13, 2004 version 1.8
- Mail merge works in subject as well as
message body now.
- Bug fix: When using MAPI send method
the message body was being sent in quoted printable format.
August 25, 2004 version 1.7
- Bug fix: Mail merge fields were not
always substituted properly.
July 12, 2004 version 1.6
- Removed all email addresses from
documentation, replaced with contact form at
www.automsw.com/contact.html. Attempting to address spam
problems...
- Improved display of remaining time by
preventing too rapid of updates.
- Bug fix: Message lines beginning with
a period were not being properly encoded.
June 7, 2004 version 1.5
- Added "Subject" encoding when
appropriate.
- Bug fix: The header field "Date" is
always formatted in English as documented in RFC2822. This was
previously causing problems under non-English versions of Windows.
May 27, 2004 version 1.4
- Bug fix: Date in the message header
was not always displayed properly when running Windows 95, 98, or ME.
May 25, 2004 version 1.3
- Switched character encoding to
ISO-8859-1 for improved display of special characters, like ä, é,
etc...
May 18, 2004 version 1.2
- Bug fix: Attachments were not always
formatted properly.
May 17, 2004 version 1.1
- Attachment support. You can now
have any number of attachments added to your emails, no matter which
sending method you're using.
- Support for a "Display Name" in the
"From" email address. Example:
"Acme Inc."
<username@acmeinc.com>
- Improved status messages when in
"Verify" mode.
- Added "Remaining Time" to the status
when running.
- Automatic delimiter detection in
mailing lists. Detects whether a comma or tab is being used as
the delimiter based on the mailing list file's content. Filename
extension (*.csv or *.txt) now only used as a backup for determination
of delimiter.
- Added some color to the Play, Stop,
and Pause buttons.
- Miscellaneous improvements in the
online help.
- Bug Fix: Direct send mode
running under Win2K sometimes did not resolve the correct mail server.
May 3, 2004 version 1.0 Initial Release
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