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Gammadyne Mailer is a Windows application that automates email operations. It can send personalized email to a mailing list, as well as process incoming email in an automated fashion.

Gammadyne Mailer is Gammadyne Corporation's flagship product.

Author

Gammadyne Mailer was written by Greg Wittmeyer, who is also the owner of Gammadyne Corporation. Graphic arts credits go to Tom Zeller and Greg Wittmeyer.

History

Gammadyne Mailer 1.0 was released to the public on May 12, 1999. Its core ability was sending email personalized with data from a database. Since then, it has been updated regularly. Following are some milestones taken from the official revision history.

Version	Date	New features
1.1	5/12/1999	Direct Delivery
2.0	6/10/1999	Remove Recipients tool, Exclusions
2.1	7/9/1999	Name changed from Manifold Mail to Gammadyne Mailer
3.0	7/26/1999	HTML HTML HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
4.0	8/26/1999	BCC Send Mode
5.0	9/11/1999	Preview Window, Command Line control
9.0	1/24/2000	Processing Opt-Outs, Address Verification
10.0	6/22/2000	Tree view interface introduced, Auto-Responding
11.0	9/18/2000	Toolbar, Preview Recipients tool, Troubleshoot HTML tool, Throttling
12.0	11/10/2000	Success/Failure Script
13.0	2/23/2001	Automatic detection of embedded images
14.0	7/17/2001	Multithreaded Send, Forwarding, Add Recipients tool
15.0	9/11/2001	List-Serving
15.1	10/3/2001	Wizards
15.3	10/23/2001	Change Address tool
16.0	11/20/2001	Welcome Wizard, Check PTR Record tool
18.0	4/17/2001	Import data from system Address Book
19.0	5/15/2002	Domain Throttles
19.1	8/27/2002	New help file system
20.0	12/20/2002	The mailing engine is now encapsulated in a DLL that can be used by third-party programs. Interface skins. Pulsing.
20.5	6/3/2003	View Result Set tool
22.0	12/2/2003	Fast Removal, Ignore Soft Bounces
22.1	2/9/2004	Lookup Recipient tool
22.2	4/6/2004	Spell Checking, Lookup Illegal Addresses tool
23.0	5/12/2004	Delayed Retries
24.0	7/19/2004	WYSIWYG WYSIWYG WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product... HTML editing
24.1	8/3/2004	Send Script
24.2	9/9/2004	Check Blacklisting tool
24.3	10/20/2004	Write emails to files
26.0	2/24/2006	New product activation system. User-defined functions.
27.0	6/6/2006	Zip Attachments, Censor Forwards
29.0	1/29/2007	SSL
30.0	5/2/2007	IMAP4, POP3 CRAM-MD5 authentication
31.0	8/23/2007	DomainKeys DomainKeys DomainKeys is an e-mail authentication system designed to verify the DNS domain of an e-mail sender and the message integrity. The DomainKeys specification has adopted aspects of Identified Internet Mail to create an enhanced protocol called DomainKeys Identified Mail...
32.0	1/22/2008	MAPI send and receive
33.0	8/20/2008	Unicode in HTML, HTML images are now completely automatically handled
34.0	1/26/2009	Multiple networking adapters, database connection strings, Universal Domain Throttle
35.0	6/15/2009	Streamlined interface
35.5	9/14/2009	Email Tracking
36.0	1/19/2010	DKIM, all new icons
37.0	8/4/2010	Success/failure graph
38.0	5/31/2011	Major interface redesign. Added the "Follow-up" system.
38.1	7/11/2011	Added the ability to deliver preprepared email files.
39.0	11/21/2011	Now tracks the time that a recipient viewed the email.

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