The installation was very easy, it gave me the
option of where to put it, then once I had chosen the location it
offered to put it in an AY Mail folder in that location, nice
touch.
The Interface is really intuitive. In other words if you want
ease of operation for your mailing list, this program may be what
the Doctor ordered. There are though, lots of options that can be
used with this versatile program. You can specify exactly what
the recipient will see in their email programs in the Subject
field, From field and To Field.
This versatile program can also send attachments in MIME,
UUENCODE, XXENCODE, and BINHEX. It is pretty hard to screw up in
this program, like I said it is intuitive, plus the Help file
really explains things thoroughly, but brief enough that you
don't get confused or bored. There are Help files written
specifically for reach section, so that if you have a question,
in say the Headers Tab, (Everything, by the way is set up with a
Tab system), just hit the question mark and up pops a help for
that specific area. If you do screw up, when you hit the send
button, up will pop an error message, telling you what you have
done wrong and how to fix it.
I am not though too sure how fast the program is, since as you
will find out when you try to send a message, that the Shareware
version will only let you mail to 3 addresses.
Here are some of the features, with AY Mail you can send a
message to about 2000 recipients per minute having been connected
to the Internet with 28.8K modem Or you can make AY Mail to
customize each message to include recipient name and/or address
You can increase connection reliability by establishing limit of
messages per session. You can customize headers for the messages
you are sending You can attach up to 20 files to your message
(choose MIME, UU, XX or BinHex encoding) Reformat feature allows
you to reformat nearly any text file to match AY Mail
requirements. If different recipients in your list need different
encoding this is not a problem for AY Mail, Color highlighting
through out helps to avoid mistakes. Project management commands
allow saving settings for different tasks in different project
files.
So, all in all if you need to send out mailings this program
probably is for you, it's ease of operation, make it easy enough
for the novice user, yet, the amount of options available makes
it ideal for the advanced user.
Oh, I forgot the truly amazing thing. The download is 135k, the
installed program takes up 124k!!