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Get Started with G-Lock EasyMail v6

This tutorial is for G-Lock EasyMail v6.xx.

You can see the startup guide for G-Lock EasyMail7 here


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Creating Account

Click on the Accounts menu on G-Lock EasyMail toolbar.

Click on Add New Account.

Enter an account name and your user information.

Click on the Delivery Options tab.

Select a delivery option from the menu.  G-Lock EasyMail supports the following delivery modes:

– Send via SMTP server

– Direct Send

– IIS SMTP Service Pickup

– Save email message to the folder

Fill in the fields required for the selected delivery mode and click Test to test your account. If the test passes, click OK to save the account settings.


Creating Group in the Address Book

To create a group in G-Lock EasyMail address book:

  • Click on the Home menu in the Address Book
  • Click on New Group
  • Enter a group name
  • Type a group description (not required)
  • Click Create

You'll see the group you've just created in My Groups section at the left pane of the Address Book.


Adding Contacts to the Group

You can either manually add the contacts to the group in G-Lock EasyMail address book, or load/import a list of contacts at one go.

To add a contact to the group:

  • Select the group in My Groups section to which you want to add the contact
  • Click on the Home menu
  • Click on Add New Contact
  • Type the contact information. Email field is required. Other fields are optional.
  • Click OK.
Tip: To add multiple recipients to the group, type the contact information and click on Add New button. The program will save the contact you've just added and clear the form where you can type a new contact information. When all the recipients are added, click OK. The recipients will be added to the group. If you click Cancel, the last addition will be canceled.

To quickly load a list of email addresses into a group in G-Lock EasyMail Address Book, you can use Load List option under the Home menu. The Load List option allows you load an email list from a .txt or.csv file. The file can contain only the contacts' email addresses:

em@glocksoft.com
aaa@glocksoft.com
bbb@glocksoft.com

or the contacts' names with the email addresses in the following formats: 

Example 1:

Alex Markov <markov@glocksoft.com>
Julia Gulevich <julia@glocksoft.com>
Maris Purinsh <maris@glocksoft.com>
 
Example 2:

"Support Service" <support@glocksoft.com>
"Sales Service" <sales@glocksoft.com>
 
Example 3:

"Support Service" support@glocksoft.com
"Sales Service" sales@glocksoft.com

You can also use the Import Wizard under the Home menu to import the contact information into a group. Using the Import Wizard you can import the contact information from Paradox, DBase, Text, HTML, MS Excel, MS Word, Lotus 1-2-3, QuattroPro, XML, MS Access Database, ADO connection, DBISAM table, and Clarion table files.


Creating Email Message

You can either create your email message directly in G-Lock EasyMail, or load a ready email message from a file.

To create an email message directly in G-Lock EasyMail:

  • Click on the New Message under the Home menu on the toolbar
  • Click a black down arrow in the From field and select your account
  • Click a black down arrow in the Group field and select your group
  • Type the message subject
  • Type the message content

To load a message from a file:

  • Click on the Home menu
  • Click on New Message
  • Click G-Lock EasyMail icon at the left top corner and select Load HTML File from the menu.

To load a message from a web page, select Load Web Page from the menu.

To import a message from .eml file, select Import E-mail File from the menu.


Sending Email Message

When your email message is ready, you can send it out to your recipients.

Tip: Before sending the email to the whole list, it's highly recommended that you send a test copy of your email to a few email addresses to ensure everything is OK. You can create test email accounts on major email services like Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL and send a test email to those accounts to ensure the message arrives to the Inbox (but not the Junk or Bulk email folder) and everything is correct (images are displayed, links are working, format is not broken).

To send an email:

  • Click Send on the Edit Message window. Send Message screen will open.
  • Check the "Send message manually" box and click OK. The Delivery Monitor will open.
  • Check the box next to your message and click Start button.

You'll see that the program is sending the message. When the process is complete, your message is moved to the Finished Task(s) pane in the Delivery Monitor.


>> Download Startup Guide for G-Lock EasyMail v6 as PDF