16 June 2009 -- Dacons LLP announces the immediate availability of Mailit 4 for FileMaker 7-10. Mailit is the ultimate email plug-in for FileMaker.

This major update adds 28 new functions that bring several new features such as IMAP support, sending of multi-pages FileMaker layouts and attaching any container field content to emails. Beside this, Mailit 4 has important new functions for rich text phrasing, previews and much more...

For information about Mailit 4 see:
http://www.dacons.net/fmplugins/mailit4/

What is new in Mailit 4

IMAP
Mailit 4 for FileMaker enables retrieving of email messages using the IMAP protocol. With this, users can access and retrieve messages from any IMAP server folder.

Attachments
Beside binary objects, Mailit 4 will now accept any kind of container field data types such as images and video, as attachments for emails. This also includes the clipboard content.

Sending FileMaker Layouts
Mailit 4 allows sending of multi-pages FileMaker Layouts directly as email messages.

View inline images
With Mailit 4 HTML messages can now be previewed, including attached inline images using the FileMaker Web Viewer (for FileMaker 8.5 and later) or the default web browser.

Rich Text
Additional functions allow conversion of FileMaker Rich Text into HTML code. This allows alteration of the HTML code generated by Mailit 4 directly within FileMaker.
Most common links (such as http, ftp, mailto, and callto) in email messages will be automatically converted to active URLs when using Rich Text messages.

Download History
The download history for POP3 accounts can now be stored in a FileMaker field. This allows a workgroup to share the download history over the network and avoid duplicate messages download.

Instant use of Mailit 4 in exchange for mail.it 3 in FileMaker solutions
The transition from mail.it 3 to Mailit 4 is very easy as in most cases no change of code is required. Please refer to a list of non-critical, but recommended changes here: http://www.dacons.net/fmplugins/mailit4/upgrade/

Additional Improvements
For a full list of more features and improvements to Mailit see
http://www.dacons.net/fmplugins/mailit4/upgrade/

Availability of Mailit 4
Mailit 4 is available at:
http://www.dacons.net/fmplugins/mailit4/

A fully working trial version is available for download at:
http://www.dacons.net/fmplugins/downloads/

License packages start at 59.00 USD (single user). A full line of very affordable developer and network licenses is available as well.

Upgrade Pricing and Upgrade Special
All owners of mail.it 3 can take advantage of a 40% discount while buying Mailit 4 by upgrading their mail.it 3 license to an equal Mailit 4 license. Upgrades start at 35 USD for a single user license and at 239 USD for a medium developer license.

Upgrades can be purchased immediately at http://www.dacons.net/fmplugins/mailit4/pricing/

All owners of mail.it 3 who buy the upgrade until June 30, 2009 will receive an additional discount of 10% by using the Coupon Code "Upgrade_in_June". The discount will be granted on the second checkout page.

About Mailit
Mailit 4 integrates full email capability into your FileMaker 7-10 solutions with ease! No external email application is needed!

The Mailit 4 package comes with a great set of ready- to- use FileMaker files for mass-mailing and personal mail management. These are open source files that can be adapted quickly to specific needs.

Special attention has been given to ease-of-use and flexibility. Previous versions of Mailit are at work for thousands of FileMaker users and developers in over 40 countries.

With FileMaker 10 you can send simple text emails. Only Mailit 4 brings full email functionality to FileMaker including essential email client features, rich content sending of messages and integration of POP and IMAP email.
For more information on Mailit 4 and FileMaker 10 see:
http://www.dacons.net/fmplugins/mailit4/

About Dacons LLP
Dacons LLP (Data Consultants) is focused on designing quality FileMaker plug-ins and software extensions. For our customer this means: quality ideas and software concepts, quality program code and quality user interface as well as quality documentation and support. The results are exciting software components, which are easy to use, and that work. Dacons started research and development of software extensions in 1997 and is member of the FileMaker Solutions Alliance.