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Which is the best practice to calculate a negative match with a second list (Black-List, Robinson list)?
FuzzyDupes offers several approaches. Create a new project to your database. Perform a search for duplicates in order to find favorable parameters and thresholds for your data. Then select menu Duplicate search->Fuzzy Import with the output option Duplicates only. This result is in a grouped view and allows you to manually review the found matches. […]
During the duplicate search I get the error “Not enough memory” (Out Of Memory)
FuzzyDupes requires quite a lot of memory to do the duplicate search. The maximum size of the the data that can be searched is limited by the free memory available. A 32-bit system can have a maximum of approximately 2.5 GB of memory to be addressed, even if more physical RAM has been installed. FuzzyDupes […]
Can the recipient see to whom else the email was sent?
This question is also often asked in conjunction with the BCC option. No, no matter what you do with the program, the recipients can not see to whom else the mail was sent. You should normally not use the BCC option (in step generate mailing).
How can I best create an attractive Newsletter? The functions that BulkMailer offers are not enough to me.
Formatted emails consist of HTML code. Therefore, the creation of formatted (HTML) emails is the same as the creation of web pages. If you do not have overly high expectations, the built-in editor of BulkMailer should be good to create your emails. This editor offers all the features that are typical to mail clients. For […]
I have created an email in MS Word and copied/pasted it into BulkMailer. The images are not displayed.
The images can not be transferred by Copy & Paste. Save the Word document instead as Filtered HTML and load this file via the menu Email->Load website from file … . Some Office documents can contain images as VML (Vector Markup Language). VML has not been standardized and will not be displayed at many recipients. […]
I copied a text from MS-Word into BulkMailer. The email looks different and there are problems when editing.
MS Word creates a HTML that is very inappropriate for further processing and for sending by email. Such problems occur not only in conjunction with BulkMailer. Better use a real HTML editor. If you absolutely want to use MS Word to create HTML, you should save the Word document as filtered HTML. Import this file […]
I have inserted database fields, but these are not replaced by the contents of the database.
Check that the fields are entered just as in your currently open data source available. (A list of the Database Fields is shon in the tab “message”). In the step generate mailing do not choose the option BCC. When using the BCC option, database fields are not replaced, as each email goes to multiple recipients. […]
How powerful is BulkMailer, how many mails can be sent?
BulkMailer was successfully tested with 1 million emails. In practice, this value is rather limited by the number of mails that your mail server can send in a reasonable time.