| When you send an email message to many people | | | | your add-in has these features will guarantee that your |
| (multiple recipients) in Outlook, Outlook shows the | | | | newfangled ability to mass email is not ironically |
| names and email addresses of all recipients in the | | | | impeded upon by restrictions on what that email can |
| heading of every email. Frequently, most of SPAM | | | | look like and include. It's similarly worth verifying in |
| filters will block the email message with multiple | | | | advance that the add-in supports addressing an |
| recipients' email addresses. And anyone of the | | | | unlimited number of recipients, regardless of how large |
| recipients will see other recipients' information, all of | | | | or small your expected audience is. Again, this |
| your recipients' names and email addresses will be | | | | prevents you from being held back and, more |
| leaked out without any protections. Will you have to | | | | importantly, demonstrates a commitment by the |
| manually send the email to the different recipients | | | | software's developers to high standards and the latest |
| again and again?!!! | | | | developments. |
| Bulk email programs (since they're usually just add-ins) | | | | It's also common courtesy for the Outlook email add-in |
| work directly in Outlook so you don't need to open up | | | | to be able to create a follow-up report after the |
| any additional programs. Such resourcefulness is a | | | | completion of any task, large or small. This report |
| treat to your computer's memory and means not only | | | | should inform you of whom the email was and was |
| an easier time for you, but better overall performance. | | | | not successfully sent to. As a follow-up, the add-in |
| These mail sender programs also offer a high speed in | | | | should be capable of permanently deleting the sent |
| terms of performance; it's a feature that is easy to | | | | emails so there aren't duplicates clogging up your mail |
| appreciate when you're emailing, for example, the | | | | folder. It's equally courteous for the program to be |
| personnel of an entire company or everyone in the | | | | equipped with a feature that alerts you, before email is |
| Pacific Northwest with an interest in birdhouses. | | | | officially sent, whether any field has been left blank. |
| Although a good mail merger will also present you with | | | | This way, if you accidentally forget to enter in a |
| the option to sending only so many emails per minute in | | | | subject, you will not look foolish in front of your clients, |
| order to avoid overloading your ISP. | | | | subscribers, or friends. |
| Keep in mind as well that good bulk email add-ins for | | | | On the subject of courtesy, it's also worth noting that |
| Outlook will offer a high level of versatility. Multiple | | | | these bulk email programs, because of the fact that |
| formats of email messages should be supported; the | | | | they're really sending every addressee a personalized |
| three most common are html, rtf, and plain text. | | | | copy, aren't privy to the leak of information that most |
| Attachments should also be supported. Making sure | | | | mailing list emails are. |