mail.it 2.5 for FileMaker 6
Solutions Page
This page gives you details about some powerful open source FileMaker example solutions that utilize the cross-platform plug-in mail.it 2. These solutions can be downloaded for free with the mail.it 2 trial package. Please feel free to adapt them to your needs or to integrate them into your own FileMaker solution.
Personal Mail
Personal Mail is a personal email client application based on FileMaker Pro and mail.it 2. It offers a multi account management and scriptable preferences including a scriptable download timer which has been introduced as a new feature of mail.it 2. Personal Mail demonstrates how to manage email the powerful FileMaker Pro way.
Simple Mass Mail
This solution gives you an idea of what's possible with mail.it 2 in terms of highly personalized service emails. Import contacts from your existing database and send rich content HTML newsletters and announcements including inline images which show up directly in the email when it is opened on the recipient's computer. Extend Simple Mass Mail or integrate it into your existing database solution and let mail.it 2 help you to improve your customer relation ship management!
Simple Receiving
The Simple Receiving example solution demonstrates how easy it is to retrieve emails directly into FileMaker using the mail.it 2 plug-in. The simple structure and in detail script comments of this template help you to get started with mail.it in minutes. Read the tutorial which is also part of the mail.it 2 download package to learn more.
Simple Sending
Use this sample template together with the mail.it 2 tutorial to learn sending emails with your existing FileMaker solution. Like the Simple Receiving example this one provides in detail script comments and a structure that lets you understand the functionality very quickly.
Dacons will add more free powerful sample solutions to this page and the mail.it 2 package soon. Let us know what you plan to use mail.it 2 for! We like to hear from you!
Further Interesting Inspirations
Apart from the templates mentioned above there are many more interesting solutions which can be created with FileMaker and mail.it 2. Just think of how easy and flexible the following could be achieved with FileMaker:
Enable multiple users to download certain messages from the same email account. Let every user download messages with certain subjects or emails sent by certain senders only. Reduce your email traffic and focus on important messages!
Check email information such as sender, subject and size before you download the actual message. Implement SPAM rules to delete certain messages directly on the server without downloading them and keep your email traffic to an optimum!
Connect your FileMaker online solution or your database driven web site to mail.it to send highly customized and personalized newsletters and notifications.
Create your own business communication system based on the email standard. mail.it 2 lets you read and write custom header fields for calender solutions or contact management modules.
Create email discussion list solutions with the database and administration power of FileMaker. Implement subscribe and unsubscribe engines and delete the addresses of bounced messages from the subscribers database automatically.
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