Pros
We used Groupmail 5 for more than 4 years with no issues.
Cons
Groupmail 6 crashes dozens of times a day and TECH SUPPORT HAS NO INTEREST in helping anyone. As a long time customer, you'd think they'd make some minimal effort. Forget this company and find one that at least tries. We're dumping them.
Summary
Sad to see what used to be good software turn into the Titanic due to lazy tech support.
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Reply by groiupmail on December 17, 2015
Oh no! We are so sorry to hear that you had a bad experience TerryTheTechGuy. Is there anything we can do to help?
Pros
The free version now allows up to 500 emails at a time
Free for personal use
Free of ads (except for one small link at the bottom of the email)
Free .html templates with holiday and other themes
Cons
This is a powerful, free group email program that works exceptionally well. What's not to like?
Summary
I have used this program for over a year without any problems whatsoever to announce news and meetings to our volunteer and interest groups and membership. A typical monthly message consists of about 550 addresses which I send in two batches due to my ISP's limitation. Great program, great price, highly recommended!
Updated on Jun 14, 2015
The current version limits emails to 100 at a time. This limitation degrades the usefulness of this program so much that we will look for alternatives because the upgrade price is too steep for our little volunteer group.
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Pros
What pro? As soon as I was highjacked, I aborted the program.
Cons
And it took me a while to get rid of the conduit search engine (Bing). In addition this program only has 30 something templates. Not much variety.
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Pros
--Sends individualized emails up to 500 addresses at a time with only a one-line footer stating the message was sent using GroupMail. Sends up to 100 messages at a time if you opt out of the footer.
--Other group mail programs restrict you to one group, but this one allows many groups.
--Allows import of comma- and tab-delimited address files.
--Can use message templates (some provided) or plain text.
--These and many other features in a free program! Can't beat that!
Cons
The only (minor) irritation is that there is no way to adjust the spacing between paragraphs when using rich text format without editing the html source text.
Summary
A great program for a small volunteer organization to stay in touch with its members and to advertise our activities and events, and to make each message personal. Thank you, Infacta, for making it available for free!
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Pros
I thought it was easy to set up and intuitive
Cons
None so far.
Summary
I love this product so far. I have a weekly newsletter that I send out to 2 groups of about 250 people. My email provider only lets me send an email to 25 recipients at one time. This worked great for me. My needs are fairly basic and this filled those needs perfectly.
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Pros
I'm not at all tech savvy but this was easy to set up. I had to go go online for GroupMail's SMTP configuration instructions (whatever they are) but they were easy to find, simple to follow, and worked 1st time. I don't normally sign up just to comment on these sort of things, but I thought GroupMail deserved the effort. its free after all.
Cons
None so far.
Summary
If you find downloading and configuring software a bit daunting like me, don't worry, go for it, this is OK.
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Pros
- Sends email to large mailing lists really fast.
- You can personalize your email for each recipient.
- You can do partial sending, bulk sending and set pauses to control the speed of delivery.
- You can import recipients from practically any data source because it supports comma separated value (.csv), .txt and Windows Clipboard imports.
- You can use filters to target segments of your mailing list (i.e. Send Where [city] equals [New York], etc.)
- Easy "Resend" or "Resume" option.
- No product branding or ads in email footer.
- Includes 12 free HTML email template designs to use.
- You can import your own HTML templates that were designed externally.
- Easy, built in WYSIWYG message editor.
- Includes mailing list management tools such as merge, purge, copy, move, modify, etc.
- You can create any number of email groups/mailing lists.
- Very responsive email support.
- No annoying pop-ups or time limits normally associated with free versions.
Cons
With the Free Edition, it stops sending after 100 recipients. So you either have to create multiple groups of 100 recipients or resume sending to your list after each send.
The Free Edition doesn't include the Subscriber Add-on that allows you to automatically add opt-in email addresses or remove unsubscribes or bounces from your mailing list. That feature only comes installed with the Personal and Business Editions.
Also, Free Edition users don't have access to GroupMail Forms, which is a drag-and-drop form builder. You have to be a full version customer to access that form builder service.
Summary
Normally, Free versions of software are full of annoying pop-ups, have expiration periods or so lacking in features that they don't serve any real, practical purpose.
GroupMail Free Edition is very different.
GroupMail Free Edition is a fully functional, use-able version of GroupMail newsletter and email marketing software that is ideal for someone just getting started in email marketing. It will make your group email life so much easier and save you so much time!
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Pros
Haven't found em yet.
Cons
Once, again, download.com does its users a disservice by failing to mention anywhere in the program description the fact that what you are obtaining for "free" will only permit emailing to 100 recipients. You don't even find this out until you have spent an hour setting the program up and importing data to create your mailing list, only to find at the last that this software will not help you.
Summary
Crippleware is not freeware.
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Pros
its free and works great just what i needed
Cons
was a bit of a pain on getting it to work,but once you get your head around it, on the set up your flying
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Pros
It is easy to use. It saves old emails and email lists.
Cons
Mailing list max is 100 email address. You have to set up multiple email groups for one real group.
Summary
It does the job. It works great sending notices to the 110 homes in our Homeowners Association without getting spammed out.
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