Create an email

Change to "Text of message" to change the text of your email.

Editing email contents in WYSIWYG HTML editor

Similar like a word processor you create contents of email, texts can be formatted, tables used or images can be inserted. In WYSIWYG editor you can create your own HTML design in accordance of HTML standards.

Please note that you often need the context menu to change HTML specific properties.

Editing email contents with wizard (inplace editor)

For using wizard you must load an email template with special HTML tags, so the content of HTML file will be editable. In wizard you can click on items or icons to change content. With wizard you can't change HTML layout itself or modify HTML source code directly.

Editing email contents with plain HTML Editor

This editor is for HTML professionals only.

Mode	While creating plain text emails you can't change editing mode. Select editing mode "WYSIWYG-Editor" to edit HTML email in WYSIWYG editor directly. With variant "Wizard" you can activate the wizard, you must load than a HTML template with specific HTML tags.
save/load text	This saves or loads your email text as text file or html file, this depends on the current email type.
email templates	With this button you can load email templates and change the style of your HTML mail. If you use this option for the first time SuperMailer tries to read your Outlook Express templates in following directory c:\program files\common files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery. At the same time your SuperMailer directory will be searched. hints for email templates
Download and show tracking statistics	Opens dialog for showing tracking statistics.
Google Analytics	You can specify texts so Google analytics scripts on your own website will recognize clicks on hyperlinks in newsletter pointed to your own website.
Query functions	Opens a dialog to create queries.
serialmail preview	Click on this button and SuperMailer shows a preview of your email.
SWM Upload	This function is for german speaking users only. Content of editor can be uploaded to PHP Newsletter Software SuperWebMailer.

Insert field	This inserts a placeholder in your email text. The placeholder will be replaced with data specified in your list of recipients during the delivery. You can choose default field identifiers, text blocks, queries or default fields such as the current date.
Spell checking	This helps you to check your spelling. This function is only available if you have Word 2000 or 2002 installed on your pc.
Link checker	This function validates all hyperlinks in your mail. more info Link checker
Table	Adds a table to your mail.
Link	This will add a hyperlink to your email.
Image	There you can add an image to your email, this picture can be stored local or on a web server. Hint: All files stored on your hard disk and linked to an email will be sent with your email. SuperMailer embeds this files into your email. If you don't want to transfer your files, so you have to upload these files before sending your mails. file upload function
Facebook Like Link	You can add a Facebook Like link with a specified URL.
Social network buttons	Inserts icons to social networks. You must setup newsletter archive to use this function.
QR Code	You can insert a QR code with a text. QR Code uses Google Code, correct QR Code image will be shown in sent emails or in serialmail preview. In SuperMailer itself ever a placeholder image with URL to http://www.supermailer.de will be shown.

Subject

Specify subject of your email. This is a required field and must be filled in. You can also place a placeholder in subject line.

Right click on "Subject" to

remove all saved subjects,
specify Pre-header/Preview text,
enter more variants of subject that will be used randomly while sending the emails

Email text

Write your email text in this field, using the context menu or the button "insert field" you can insert placeholders which will be replaced with correct data, while the email is sent. Also use the context menu to change HTML elements, hyperlinks or tables.

With this toolbar (only HTML emails) you can change all font properties, add lists enumerations or lines.

line breaks in HTML emails

To create an paragraph simply press <RETURN>, to create a line break hold <Shift> and press <RETURN>.

HTML email and text email

Every mail will be send as multipart mail, except you have deactivated this setting under menu Project Send settings "Create multipart emails". Multipart means every mail contains the following parts:

Header

Text part

HTML part

embedded pictures of the HTML-part

Attachments

This structure ensures that every recipient can read the content of your email. If an email application doesn't support HTML it will show the text part.
It is recommended that you first create the HTML part and then switch to "Email as plaintext" to create the text part. If you leave the text part clear, SuperMailer tries to convert your html mail to text for filling this gap. Your can generate the text part out of your HTML part by clicking on .

Background image, color, Stylesheets

Choose under menu item email - Page / Body properties the desired options.

Change the HTML source

Right click in the email text and choose "Source" from the context menu. Now you can change the HTML source manually. Please note:

don't change anything within the <header> tag
Mind the HTML rules and write correct code, if you use incorrect tags, your mail may not be shown properly or recognized as spam.

External files, for example pictures or videos

files is stored on a web server: http:// necessary, example http://int.supermailer.de/picture.gif
file is stored on local hard disk: file:///<directory unix-format>/filename, example file:///C:/Program files/SuperMailer/supermailer.gif.
All filename strings have to be enclosed in quotation marks ("<filename>"), especially if they contain blanks.
You can only use GIF, JPG, PNG as picture file format, these are supported everywhere. Don't use bitmap file or other formats!