1and1Mail Free Edition

If you want to send an email to your friend Bob, for example, things could not be easier. Just fire up your browser, go to Gmail or Yahoo! Mail, type in your message, and hit the “Send” button. In no time at all your friend will receive your email.

Things are not so simple if you want to send email messages in bulk – like when you have a newsletter you want to send out or when you have a marketing campaign to run. In these situations specialized software applications come in and lend a helping hand. One such software is 1and1Mail Free Edition. This is basically an email marketing software that allows you to send an email to numerous recipients at once using various settings and options.

1and1Mail Free Edition is very easy to install and completes this process in matter of seconds without much intervention from the user. A couple of clicks are enough to complete the process. Regarding the operating system supported, any Windows version can be used for running the program, including XP and Windows 7.

When running the software for the first time, the user is presented with a window, asking him to fill in some information regarding his email account. This information includes the email address, the password and the SMTP server. Without entering this information, the program cannot be used. After completing this step, the user has the possibility to test the email account, making sure that every information entered is correct. Email accounts can be imported from various email clients like MS Outlook.

After configuring the email account, the actual interface of 1and1Mail Free Edition will be displayed. One can populate the program's address book with contacts from various email clients, like Microsoft Outlook or Thunderbird or he can manually add email addresses. After completing this tasks, all that's left to do is click on the New Task button, for creating a new email.

The software doesn't feature text editing tools, but the body of the email can be pasted from various text editors, like MS Word, together with images and text. For making it easier to create a new email, 1and1Mail Free Edition allows creating email templates that can be used over and over again.

After creating the email body, all that's left do to is select the desired recipients from the address book. The software allows sending the email to all the contacts or only to some of them. After having selected the desired recipients, the program is ready to send the email. At the end of the sending process, 1and1Mail Free Edition will display a report regarding the process, allowing the user to see if there were any errors in sending the message.

In case the user is not sure about sending the email, he can save it as draft. Besides that, the software allows setting a schedule for automatically sending the message at a certain hour. 1and1Mail Free Edition features a lot of options for customizing its functionality and also the look and feel of the interface.