Simple Maillist

About Simple Maillist Android App

Send e-mail newsletters to multiple recipients.
This is a free app without limitations and without advertisements.
The content of the e-mail is generated from a Word-document, so this includes markup and images.
Inside the Word-document, merge-fields can be used to include specific information from the user you are sending the e-mail to.

So for example you can do the following:
- add multiple people to your mailing list with their names, e-mailaddresses and extra information
- make a nice document in Microsoft Word including markup and pictures
- upload the Word-document in the app
- send an e-mail to everyone by selecting your document
- every person will then receive their personal e-mail

You can also send an e-mail to one specific person.
It is advised to send an example e-mail to yourself to test how your e-mail shows up on various e-mail programs.
Since the Word-document is converted to an e-mail, this sometimes might have strange effects. Best not to make the Word-document too difficult.

This app is a beta-version, please contact me with suggestions or complaints about the app.


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Instructions for first time users of the app.
Since the app requires some technical knowledge of your e-mail settings, it is suggested that you use the demo-account for trying out this app.

Follow these instructions:
- open the app for the first time, hopefully your Internet-connection is active
- you get a question about using the demo-account, confirm to use this
- the app will already show a few example users
- create a new user or select a user and change it to your own name and fill in your own e-mailaddress
- inside the user-screen you can select settings (probably the three dots in the upper-right corner)
- select the 'Send e-mail' setting
- select an example document
- the server will convert the document into an e-mail and send it to you
- after about a minute, the e-mail should appear in your e-mailclient

When the app is what you expected from it, see instructions below to set up your own account.


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Instructions for more professional users, this however requires some technical knowledge of your e-mail settings.

Follow these instructions:
- if you are stuck with the demo-account, then reset all the settings for this app
- open the app, choose not to use the demo-account
- fill in your e-mail settings, save them and your account is created
- in the settings-screen you can upload a new Word-document
- you can add users and send e-mails
- contact me if you ever wish to remove your account, or just change your password to an invalid one

E-mail settings for Microsoft-accounts (like hotmail.com) are:
- SMTP-server: smtp.live.com
- SMTP-port: 25
- secure connection: on

E-mail settings for Google-accounts (like gmail.com) are:
- SMTP-server: smtp.gmail.com
- SMTP-port: 465
- secure connection: on


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API-information is available for integration with your website.
With this you can add functionalities to your website to allow your users to subscribe and unsubscribe to your newsletter.
Contact me to request this information.


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Contact me as well if you wish to run the actual software on your own server.
This would not be free, but it allows you to:
- keep your data on your own private servers
- add extra security like HTTPS
- manage your own backups