Max wrote:Looks like you did not try Tools-> Newsletter before posting in this thread.
I also checked Help-> Help Contents and searched "mass mail", and this feature perfectly comes up.
Yes it does.
I never ever equated a Newsletter as being something that would be associated with email that I want to send to a group of people that had absolutely nothing to do with sending out a Newsletter.
But, from what I can see, all the information that is put into the "form" for the email addresses at creation time is discarded after the message is created. This means that the email list has to be created every time a message is to be sent to the group. I created several different names to send to and for each one the created list is not there when I bring up Tools>Newsletter. The name is there on the drop down list but nothing happens when it is selected.
How do I get the email addresses back into the form for the name that was created originally?
And, I see no way to cc or bcc people using the Newsletter tool.
And there is no functionality for changing text (Bold/Italic, etc.,etc.) or for formatting the text (left justified, centered, etc., etc.).
What am I missing and/or doing wrong?
Bottom line, from what I have seen so far, the Newsletter function does NOT have functionality equal to the New Message function. This makes it a very poor tool. Sorry.
For what it is worth, I spent a lot of time going through the Help function but could find nothing associated with what I was looking for. Mass mailing has a much different meaning for me; it implies sending out mail one time to large numbers of recipients. Mass mailing sounds like spam to me. Sorry.
I want to be able to create lists of email recipients that can be used on an ongoing basis.
Yes, this is a semantic issue and helps explain why writing documentation is not the easiest task. Different words mean different things to different people. Unfortunately.
Max wrote:And we also get at least one message every day that suggests "one feature that will make EPIM best forever". Unfortunately those features are different all the time and authors do not look into help file nor study the program.
Yes.
From what I have read of reviews of EPim on the web what I have stated about the need for the EMail portion of EPim being in need of updating and/or having additional functionality is well documented. It is not just me who has said these things.
I am not asking for something that is specific to one thing. I am asking for the EMail tool to be updated such that it offers a minimum set of functions that are available with EMail tools that are pervasive in the marketplace; for example, MS Outlook (Ugh!) and others. As you know, I have suggested this in other threads, as have others.
While you are to be praised for doing the poll and asking input from the few customers who frequent the forums the number of participants in the forum is to few in relation to the total number of EPim customers to be statistically relevant and, more importantly it does not address the issues of people who have looked at EPim and chosen NOT to purchase the software; I have mentioned this in another thread as well.
Jim