After a major feature upgrade in 1and1Mail 3.2, 1and1Soft has received hundreds of feedbacks from our customers. In the past few weeks, we have been working very hard resolving bugs and usability issues. Here are the major updates in 1and1Mail 3.3:

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.

Based on CAN-SPAM laws, it is required that email marketers should provide recipients an option to opt out or unsubscribe from the list. It is not only a matter of etiquette but also a matter of the law that you make this opt-out process as easy as possible.

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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Download 1and1Mail 3.2 to start automating your email marketing campaigns!

1and1Mail 3.1 is released on Mar. 5, 2011. Here are the updates and bug fixes to the new version.

• Added support of import/export Excel files (.xlsx, xls)
• Added support of local pictures in email newsletters
• Enhanced system tray feature
• Enhanced email template management
• Added support of multi-national character sets (UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, windows-1250, IBM852, GB2312, HZ-GB-2312, Big5, EUC-KR, ISO-2022-KR, EUC-JP, ISO-2022-JP, cp866, ISO-8859-5, KOI8-U, KOI8-R, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-8-I, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-9, ASMO-708, ISO-8859-6, windows-1256, ISO-8859-4, windows-1257, ISO-8859-3, windows-1258, IBM775)
• Enhanced email settings (reply-to address, request read receipt, priority, sender, etc.)
• Improved HTML email support
• Some bug fixing

Please download it here.