Category Archives: News of AMSBE

Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v3.1 Is Available

Hello everyone,

Now Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v3.1 is available, you can feel free to upgrade your copy.

Please refer the following links to know more detail:
Official page:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/
Direct download URL:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/auto-mail-sender-birthday-edition.zip

This version is a major upgrade, the updates as below:

>> New Features
* Important: importing contacts/employees feature is now compatible with any valid [Birthday] formats for non-Excel files (csv, txt, etc.), such as MM/dd/yyyy, M/d/YYYY, not must be yyyy-MM-dd format.
* Important: optimized the startup speed (put the network related tasks in the background).
* Added “the values can be ignored, but still need place holders.” remark to “The explanation of importing contacts/employees” interface.
* Adjusted [Birthday] explanation of “Required fields” on importing wizard interface: supports any valid date formats, not must be yyyy-MM-dd format.
* Optimized the prompt of imported contacts/employees, let it more readable.
* Optimized an English text.

>> Bug Fixes
* Important: if the background image, background sound or embedded images do not exist, the whole email will send unsuccessfully.
* Important: the [Department] column of employees list may display unreadable “_my_com_” string.

Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v3.0 Is Available

Hello everyone,

Now Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v3.0 is available, you can feel free to upgrade your copy.

Please refer the following links to know more detail:
Official page:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/
Direct download URL:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/auto-mail-sender-birthday-edition.zip

This version is a major upgrade, the updates as below:

>> New Features
* Important: supports multi-language.
* Important: supports Windows 10.
* Important: fully supports native 简体中文 & 繁體中文.
* Important: uses Golden Ratio for the start position of the main and splash interfaces.
* Important: changed all “Personal contacts” strings to “Contacts”, because you may have the business contacts (for your organization, not for yourself only).
* Important: compacted the identifications for many predefined macros and macro categories, such as changed “Full name of the recipient” to “Full name of recipient”, changed “Sending date and time” to “Sending date time”.
* Important: do not delete the old database file (amsbe.db) after upgrade software version from 2.10- to 2.20+, but back up the old database as amsbe-yyyyMMdd.db. Else, if you downgrade your software after upgraded, you will lose the old data.
* Important: changed the default value of “AHEAD_DAYS” parameter from “Sends greetings ahead 1 days” to “Sends greetings on birthdays/festivals”, in order to avoid the misunderstanding.
* Important: Optimized the performance for all operations of data list (add, delete, modify, search).
* Important: designed more subdivision licenses.
* Important: optimized the appearance for all [Age] input boxes (removed underline and leading/trailing spaces).
* Supports to use <Del> key to delete data on “Macro manager” and “Queue and log manager” interfaces.
* Now the installer supports multi-language also, and let you choose when install. Even, it can directly use the language that selected during installing.
* Optimized the prompts for testing proxy server or SMTP account successfully (not only connected, and also logged in).
* Shows prompt if there is no data or no selected data when you do some operations on the “Queue and log manager” interface.
* Optimized the location of the drop-down menus on all interfaces, more friendly.
* Open translation interface for multi-language version.
* Removed the context menu of the HTML email editor’ preview page (useless and may cause misuse).
* Optimized the filter of background picture/sound chooser for HTML email editor (the old one is too long).
* Changed the text color of date format preview to green on the “Preferences” interface, more eye-catching.
* Optimized the English texts of software (interfaces and message boxes) , especially, standardized the initial capital.
* Optimized web pages and documentation.
* Optimized the definition of some icons.
* Added the shortcut keys to the tooltips of the attachments related buttons on the “eMail templates manager”.
* Optimized the root node label of enterprise structure (changed it from “Please input your company name” to “My company”).
* Supports to directly open the database location (for technical support), in order get better support.
* Optimized the “Select department” dialog box, avoid no any prompt if have not selected any department and then press &lgt;OK> button.
* Changed “Microsoft Internet Explorer” string to “Microsoft Web Browser”, because Windows 10 uses Microsoft Edge, for consistency, now calls them as “Microsoft Web Browser”.
* Uses more accurate and stringent method to determine database file is lost or broken.
* Optimized the format of self-recommended words in HTML email, more beautiful and readable.
* eMail templates manager: selected all text for [Subject] field when it got the focus.

>> Bug Fixes
* Important: if the default festival template is not built-in festival template, when preview the default festival template on “Festivals manager” interface, the opened template is not right one.
* The output files of contacts/employees may contain the unreadable system string “BUILTIN_BIRTHDAY_TEMPLATE”.
* The shortcut key of [User] field on “View/upgrade license” interface is invisible.
* The “Middle name” label is not fully displayed on the “Employee editor” interface.
* No shortcut keys for [Gender] field on the “Search employees” interface.
* The interface may flicker if do the batch/frequent operation for the big data list.
* A little disordered <Tab> sequence on “Options -> Preferences” interface.
* Search contacts/employees interfaces: shows improper prompts if selected age condition but have not inputted age.

Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v2.22 Is Available

Hello everyone,

Now Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v2.22 is available, you can feel free to upgrade your copy.

Please refer the following links to know more detail:
Official Page:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/
Direct download URL:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/auto-mail-sender-birthday-edition.zip

This version is a major upgrade, the updates as below:

>> New Features
* Uses the new hand-painted (by colored pencil) logo.
* Fully supports shortcut keys in “eMail Templates Manager” interface, even the focus in the HTML editor.
* Optimized the splash interface.
* Friendlier to open the online or local resources (the container of opened resources (Windows Explorer or a Web Browser) can get focus automatically).

>> Bug Fixes
* Important: if the names (contacts, employees, departments, festivals, templates, etc.) contain the non-ASCII uppercase characters (such as Č, Ć, Đ, Š, Ž, И, Я, Ч, Ы, etc.), this record cannot be modified or deleted!
* There are a few surplus spaces in the upgrading prompt.

Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v2.21 Is Available

Hello everyone,

Now Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v2.21 is available, you can feel free to upgrade your copy.

Please refer the following links to know more detail:
Official Page:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/
Direct download URL:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/auto-mail-sender-birthday-edition.zip

This version is a major upgrade, the updates as below:

>> New Features
* Displays the progress during testing Proxy Server or SMTP Account.
* For the paid users: do not need to input the license key again after upgraded product version.
* Changed the Free license offer as 6 contacts and 6 employees.
* Shows the upgrading to higher license prompt if you reached the maximum license offer of your current license and try to create / import more contacts or employees.

>> Bug Fixes
* The automatic generated [Full Name] may contain redundancy space characters.

Now Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v2.20 Is Available

Hello everyone,

Now Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v2.20 is available, you can feel free to upgrade your copy.

Please refer the following links to know more detail:
Official Page:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/
Direct download URL:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/auto-mail-sender-birthday-edition.zip

This version is a major upgrade, the updates as below:

>> New Features:
* Important: supports the namesake personal contacts and employees (for [Full Name] field).
* Supports to display the [CC] and [BCC] fields in multiline on the Contact and Employee Editor interfaces, and adds the vertical scroll bars to these 4 fields.
* Allows you to modify the case of the festival name.
* Sets the focus to [Template Name] field after prompted “Please input [Template Name].” or “This [Template Name] already exists, please input another.”
* Added the progress prompts for importing / exporting contacts or employees and other time-consuming operations.
* Optimized the email editor: added the vertical scroll bar to the plain email body editor.
* Shows the appropriate prompt if you chose a nonstandard file (not csv/txt/xls/xlsx) for importing / exporting contacts or employees.
* Can copy the content of the “View Receivers” dialog box on the Queue and Log Manager interface.
* Added the blank line separator between each type of receivers on the “View Receivers” dialog box.
* Festivals Manager: set the background color of contacts and employees boxes as 3D control’s foreground, because they are not editable.

>> Bug Fixes
* Important: the importing contacts wizard says that the [Category] field is optional, but if you have not specified the [Category] value, your contacts cannot be imported.
* Cannot display the accelerator key of [eMail Address] field on the Employee Editor interface.
* The <Choose Employees…> button cannot be displayed completely in the “Windows Classic” theme.

Now Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v2.10 Is Available

Hello everyone,

Now Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v2.10 is available, you can feel free to upgrade your copy.

Please refer the following links to know more detail:
Official Page:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/
Direct download URL:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/auto-mail-sender-birthday-edition.zip

This version is a major upgrade, the updates as below:

>> New Features:
* Important: uses the random “Message-ID” in the SMTP layer to avoid some email servers and / or ISPs treating your emails as junk or spam. Now, the delivery success rate is increased substantially.
* Important: supports the embedded images with “file:///…” format that generated by a few operating systems. Now, any embedded image will be shown in the receiver’s email client / webmail.
* Important: outlook.com webmail can display the local embedded images.
* Optimized the “License Agreement” in the installer.
* Changed “no available proxy server for sending them” prompt to “no available proxy server for connecting your SMTP server” to make it to be more accurate.
* Changed “represented as {…} automatically” to “formatted as {macro name} automatically” in the online help to make it to be more accurate.
* Optimized and beautified the program, website, documentation and installer (text, fonts, images and their definition, colors and layout).

>> Bug Fixes
* Important: if the email has not attachment, but has the embedded images, some webmail systems will display the attachment icon in their messages listing, such as Outlook.com, Gmail.
* Fixed the tooltips of the attachments listing on “Email Templates Manager” interface.
* Fixed the “Optional Fields” explanation (the duplicate [Last Name]) on “The Explanation of Importing Employees” interface.

Now Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v2.02 Is Available

Hello everyone,

Now Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v2.02 is available, you can feel free to upgrade your copy.

Please refer the following links to know more detail:
Official Page:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/
Direct download URL:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/auto-mail-sender-birthday-edition.zip

This version is a major upgrade, the updates as below:

>> New Features:
* Important: optimized the Internet connection checking and license key verifying techniques. The previous version may cannot get your license information and offer if AMSBE is started but the Internet connection is not available.
* Added “Easier way: Make a copy of the sample files (click <Example> button to view them), and then edit them for importing” explanation to the Importing Contacts / Employees Wizards.
* Added the number / order of the fields explanation to the Importing Contacts / Employees Wizards.
* Optimized and beautified the program, website, documentation and installer (text, fonts, images and their definition, colors and layout).

>> Bug Fixes
* Important: if the email address of the employee has capital letters, the recipient related macros will not work, such as Age, First Name, etc.
* Important: the Nothing values will cause importing failed when import employees/contacts from Excel file.

Now Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v2.01 Is Available

Hello everyone,

Now Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v2.01 is available, you can feel free to upgrade your copy.

Please refer the following links to know more detail:
Official Page:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/
Direct download URL:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/auto-mail-sender-birthday-edition.zip

This version is a major upgrade, the updates as below:

>> New Features:
* Important: optimized the employees/contacts importing feature – now, AMSBE can identify any valid date format (birthday), before this version, the birthday must be formatted as yyyy-MM-dd. Specially, this is friendlier for Excel data source.
* Optimized and beautified the program, website, documentation and installer (text, fonts, images and their definition, colors and layout).
* Moved all actions which need to run the default email client to the online webpages, in order to avoid the confusion if who has not a default email client.

>> Bug Fixes
* Important: if the email address of the employee has capital letters, the recipient related macros will not work, such as Age, First Name, etc.
* Important: the Nothing values will cause importing failed when import employees/contacts from Excel file.

Now Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v2.0 Is Available

Hello everyone,

Now Auto Mail Sender™ Birthday Edition v2.0 is available, you can feel free to upgrade your copy.

Please refer the following links to know more detail:
Official Page:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/
Direct download URL:
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/auto-mail-sender-birthday-edition.zip

This version is a major upgrade, the updates as below:

>> New Features:
* Important: the [Subject] supports macro (before versions only the [Content] supports macro).
* Important: optimized the algorithm of importing contacts/employees from the Excel documents, and the importing speed increases a hundredfold.
* Optimized the speed of one by one sending mode and adjusted the sending interval scope to 0~60 seconds, default value to 0 second (no pause).
* The attachments list supports drag-and-drop operation.
* The attachments list supports new shortcut keys: <Enter> – opens file, <Del> – removes file.
* The passwords of SMTP accounts and proxy servers support the leading and trailing spaces.
* Uses the thousands separator to display the size of attachment.
* If there is no any available macro under a category, then hides this category under the “Insert” menu (Templates Manager) and the “Macro ->” menu (Signatures Manager).
* Reduces the size of installer.
* Optimized the display text of the setting/removing background things menu items in HTML email editor to make them easier to understand.
* Checks the signature file is existing or not before preview it, if does not exist, AMSBE will give you a prompt.
* Asks you to create the first SMTP account on the main interface (before versions ask this on the splash interface) when first use.
* Requires your confirmation before restoring data, because it will cover current data.
* Optimized the data restoring functionality.
* Adds visiting mail solution/company homepage menu items to the main interface.
* Adds 3 menu items: “Find Us on facebook/Twitter/Google+” under the “Other Help and Support ->” drop-down menu on the main interface.
* Optimized and beautified the program, website, documentation and installer (text, fonts, images and their definition, colors and layout).

>> Bug Fixes
* Important: the outputted contacts/employees files cannot be imported to AMSBE directly.
* Maybe cannot fully see the content of the attachments list if it is not maximized.
* A few drop-down/context menu items cannot be hidden after clicked them.

Now, the RegNow purchase links are available for AMSBE

Hello everyone,

Now, the RegNow “Buy Now” links are available for AMS Birthday Edition.

Please note that we only provide the RegNow payment method for a few lower licenses.

Please see its order page at
https://www.AutoMailSender.com/birthday-edition/order.htm
to know more detail.

If you have any questions about this, please let us know.