Earlier this month, we introduced TrulyMail 3.0. Accordingly, we thought it best to use this opportunity to write a little about it.
There were many bugs fixed, which will result in a more stable experience for you. But, more excitingly, we have introduced many new features and improvements.
One new feature is a new reminder system. Think of this as a to-do list with dates. You will see your current (and past due) reminders in the section directly under the folder tree. By default, it will only show reminders due on or before today. If you want to see your future reminders as well, check the Show All Reminders box and you will see the future reminders with their dates highlighted in yellow.
Adding, editing, and deleting reminders is easy. Just right-click in the reminder area and choose what you want to do. You can even create reminders when sending messages. We don't know why nobody else does this (at least nobody else that we know of).
One thing that is special about TrulyMail reminders is that they can be related to one or more contacts or even to one or more messages. Then, when you open the reminder, you can click the message (or contact) and open it directly. This makes referring back to something fast and easy.
We've created a new automatic email account configuration utility within TrulyMail. It will lookup and verify (by actually connecting to your email server) all of your settings. Of course, you can still manually enter everything but now you don't have to.
We've always blocked scripts embedded in messages and now we also block iframes (a way of hosting a web page inside another web page). We believe there is no reason to use either scripts or iframes within messages, except for doing something bad. If one of our readers out there knows of a good reason to allow scripts or iframes, we would love to hear it.
TrulyMail also now keeps much more information about your interactions with your contacts (of course, this information never leaves your computer, unless you back up to TrulyMail servers and even then it is encrypted so nobody can read it). You can quickly see the last time you sent or received a message from a contact. You can also configure it so that reminders will be automatically generated for you based on how often you should contact your contacts.
TrulyMail also now includes an importance column in the message list. You can flag one contact as more (or less) important than others. Then, in your inbox, you can sort by importance, dealing with the most critical messages first, while delaying the less important ones for later.
TrulyMail also now has a message processing rule system. Let's say that every time you receive a message from 'JohnQ@Public.org' that you want that message to be moved to a specific folder. That is now very easy to do. Want to automatically increase the importance of any message that includes 'Project Alpha' in the subject? This is also very easy to do.
Have you ever wanted to have a little window to popup down by your system clock to tell you when new messages arrive? Just check a box in the options window and you'll have it. Would you like a sound played instead of (or in addition to) that notice? Easy. And, yes, you can add your own sounds.
We've also added a built-in audio player so you can play your voice messages without leaving TrulyMail.
Do you often send pictures? If you do, you likely have to resize your pictures (a picture from a common camera can take 5MB per image) to something more reasonable for your recipients. Now, TrulyMail can resize your pictures for you. Just attach your pictures and TrulyMail will ask you want you want to do. Want to turn off this feature? That's easy to do as well.
We've also added a new method of communication: The Encrypted Web Message. TrulyMail has always made it easy to send and receive encrypted messages. However, both parties have needed to use TrulyMail (this is true for both TrulyMail messages and encrypted email packages). Now, there is an alternative. You can send an encrypted web message to someone and they will receive an email from TrulyMail with a link so they can view that message in their browser. The message will be completely encrypted on your computer and only decrypted on their computer, in their browser (no external java applets needed) once they enter your password. They can even reply to you and it will also be completely encrypted (and delivered right into your TrulyMail inbox). Not even TrulyMail will be able to read your message contents.
This feature of encrypted web messaging is a paid feature. However, we've given all existing TrulyMail users the feature for free until the end of July. You can use it as much as you want. If you want to use this feature after the feature expires in your account, you can always renew for another year for only $10. See our store (or contact us) on our website for more information.
There are actually more than 150 improvements that we've made so we certainly cannot list all of them here. The best way to learn about TrulyMail is by using it.
If you would like to watch some training videos, you can see them here: http://TrulyMail.com/videos. There are more added all the time, so check back often.
We hope you like using the new TrulyMail as much as we've enjoyed making it for you.
As always, we would love to hear from you.
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