1. Are all the links working and linking to the correct webpages?
    
2. Do you provide a plain text version of your email?
    
3. Do all the images have alt tags?
    
4. Do all your pictures have links and are they linked correctly?
    
5. Do you personalize each email?
    
6. Do you provide an unsubscribe option in your email?
    
7. Do you explain who you are and why your customer should trust you at the beginning of the email?
    
8. Are you tracking the clicks in your email using tools like Google Analytics and bit.ly?
    
9. Have you cleaned up your list (bounce-backs and unsubscribers from your last email campaign?
    
10. Have you tested how your email look in different web email platforms and email clients?

New Improvements:

• Detect and show duplicate accounts in Multi Account Manager
• Add option to validate email addresses during import
• Add option to check duplicate emails during import
• Add window management to easily switch between existing tasks
• Support downloading webpages that are redirected to other URLs
• Show real-time past 24-hour send volume in task management window
• Automatically reset send volume after 24 hours

Bug Fixes:

• Crash fix on multi-thread tasks
• Bug fix: original email template is duplicated after saving as another file
• Bug fix: some local image files cannot be loaded
• Bug fix: image cannot be displayed correctly after broken links
• Bug fix: lost multi-threads status information
• Bug fix: fail to show Excel file header during import
• Bug fix: draft cannot be sent

1and1Mail Free Edition 3.3 can be downloaded here: http://www.1and1soft.com/download/. For customers who have purchased 1and1Mail Ultimate Edition will enjoy our lifetime free upgrade service and will receive the new version within 7 business days.

The answer is: it depends.

Even though, officially, most email service providers have announced the daily quota, or sending limit of their SMTP server, the actual number may still vary by each email account's reputation score.

The reputation score is usually calculated by the bounce-back rate, spam rate imposed by the recipients and keywords filtering. If you send out too many emails within a short period of time that contains a lot of spam sensitive keywords, your reputation score is at risk. Next time, your ESP will limit your sending quota and lower your email deliverability.

In 1and1Mail, you can easily control how many emails you can send out per day. When you reach the limit, 1and1Mail will automatically stop sending, and resume after 24 hours. Try to send fewer emails per day at the beginning. When you gradually build up your reputation with your ESP, you can increase the number later.

Therefore, it is important for every email marketer to know the basic spam filtering rules of Gmail and how to avoid them. By following some best practices can significantly increase your email deliverability.

Gmail Market Share

Here are four types of emails that Gmail would very likely consider as spams:

1. Phishing scams

Some spammers try to get your bank account password or credit card information through emails.

What you should do: Email marketers usually won't fall into this trap, as long as you are sending legitimate marketing or sales related emails.

2. Unknown sender

Some spammers can fake messages as if they were from a trustful website or company. But these messages do not have correct authentication information. Gmail may put these mails into junk mail box.

What you should do: If you send mass emails through a third-party email marketing software, make sure you set up SPF record or DKIM correctly.

3. Messages previously considered as spams

If your recipients consider your emails as spam for several times, very likely, all your future emails will fall into their spam folders forever. It may also affect your domain reputation.

What you should do: Always provide an easy channel for your recipients to unsubscribe from your list if they do not like your emails. An alternative method is to get your recipients to add you into their contact list. This way, even if you made a mistake in using too many spam sensitive keywords or invalid authentication info, your emails would still arrive safely in your recipients' inbox.

4. Similar to other spams

Gmail learns from user behaviors about the characteristics of spams. So Gmail is always updating its own algorithm in detecting spams.

What you should do: Subscribe various email newsletters from well-known companies. Learn from those emails that you see in your inbox. Those companies are always updating themselves and follow the email marketing best practices. They will teach you what a healthy and professional email should look like.

Feel free to read the original post from Google and share your thoughts below: http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=1366858

Cause:

Your OS does not have the library to decode .xslx file.

Solution:

1. Install the new Microsoft library (Data Connectivity Components) from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=23734

2. Save your .xlsx file as .xls file (Excel 97 – 2003 format) and then import the .xls file.

3. Save your .xlsx file as .csv file, and then import the .csv file.

There are usually three types of email SMTP servers you can choose:

1. Partner Email SMTP Servers

These email service providers (e.g. Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, AOL Mail, etc.) sign agreements that emails from each other's server will never be blocked and there is no limitation on the number of emails sent per day. The only limitation imposed is on the content of the email. Therefore, as long as you avoid using those spam keywords in your email, and do not send mass emails too fast, most of your emails will be delivered safely and accurately. By utilizing professional email marketing software, like 1and1Mail, you can get your job done very easily.

2. Email SMTP servers with healthy records

To ensure a SMTP server has a healthy record, there are three things to check. (1) The servers have fixed IPs and they are not in the blacklist of international anti-spam association. (2) The Reverse PTR Records are set correctly. (3) The settings on the SMTP servers are correct. Again, as long as you write good contents and control the speed of sending well with 1and1Mail, your IPs will not be blocked.

3. Unknown Email SMTP servers

These servers usually use dynamic IPs, do not have a correct DNS records or reverse PTR records, or are blacklisted by many well-known email service providers. Emails sent from these servers would be easily blocked or go into junk mail box.

To conclude, do some research on the email SMTP servers you are using. Moreover, do not be too aggressive when sending mass emails. Use them properly with professional email blasters to build up reputation of your domain and email account.

Therefore, here we would like to propose a few things that would facilitate the communication:

1. 1and1Mail FAQ page is a good resource to find the quick solution. Customers are very welcome to check the page first.

2. 1and1Mail QuickStart Guide and Video Demo vividly demonstrate the important steps to set up accounts and start the first email campaign step by step. These instructions are very helpful for non-tech people to get started with the software.

3. When there is a need to send an email enquiry, it is highly recommended a screenshot of the situation you encounter can be included in the email. It can help 1and1Soft software team to identify the problem much faster.

4. If possible, also include the screenshot of the "Task Log" (right click the task and choose "Task Log", and capture the "Recipient" tab).

5. Tell us what type of email accounts you are using. Free email accounts (e.g. Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, etc.), paid email accounts (e.g. GoDaddy) and company email accounts do vary a lot in the capabilities in sending mass emails.

6. Tell us your settings in 1and1Mail. What is the time lag / time interval? How many emails have you sent out per day?

Following the above instructions can help both of us solve the problem as quickly as possible and make your email marketing more efficient.

Here are the steps:

1. 1and1Mail -> Select "Tools" menu -> Click "Install email auto-fetching tool"

2. 1and1Mail -> Open "Address Book -> Select an address group -> Click "New Address" -> Select the "Multiple Entries" tab -> Check "Get addresses from IE" (You must keep this window open for the whole email auto-fetching function to work properly!)

3. Open IE, Firefox or Chrome -> Browse webpages that contain email addresses -> Right click the email address -> Select "Copy Email Address"

4. You will see a pop-up window from 1and1Mail indicating the the email address has been copied to 1and1Mail Address Book successfully.

PS: According to the CAN-SPAM Act, you should strictly observe the email opt-in procedure. 1and1Mail email auto-fetching tool can make your email marketing work more efficient, but it doesn't mean you can ignore the CAN-SPAM rules when sending mass emails.

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1. In Go Daddy "My Account" Panel, click “Email”

2. Find the the email account you want to send mass emails with. Click “Manage Account”.

3. In the new window, click the Info Center icon of the email account you want to do mass mailing with.

4. In the next pop-up window, find the correct SMTP settings and port number of this email address. (Note: you can also find the daily sending quota of your email account on this page.)

5. Input the settings above into your email marketing software. Here we use 1and1Mail screen as an example.

6. Click "Test Account" in 1and1Mail to see if the setting is correct.

Now, you are ready to send out your first email marketing campaigns through GoDaddy email account with professional email marketing software.

If you are using email marketing software like 1and1Mail, there are 2 ways to automate this opt-out or unsubscribe process:

I. Insert an unsubscribe email link in each email. e.g. “To unsubscribe, please send an email to unsubscribe@yourdomain.com”. Check this unsubscribe email regularly and batch remove the unsubscribers from your address book.

In 1and1Mail Email Template Editor,

1. Click “Insert” menu and select “Link”.
2. Select “(other)” in Type.
3. Type “mailto:youremail@yourdomain.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=Please unsubscribe me from your mailing list.” in URL.

II. Insert an unsubscribe link in each email that direct the recipient to your website to complete the opt-out process. e.g. “To unsubscribe, please click http://www.1and1soft.com/newsletter/?unsubscribe=email@gmail.com.” The landing page should be able to capture the link parameter and save the email address for further process.

In 1and1Mail Email Template Editor,

1. Click “Insert” menu and select “Link”.
2. Select “http:” in Type.
3. Type something like “http://www.1and1soft.com/newsletter/?unsubscribe=[%Email]” in URL. ([%Email] is the Macro text that will be replaced by the real recipient’s email when the mass emails are sent out through 1and1Mail. When the recipient click this link, the landing page should be able to capture the “?unsubscribe=[%Email]” parameter.)

It does take some effort to build the unsubscribe process at the beginning, but once it is set up, it saves you a lot of time in managing your email marketing campaigns.

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