Frequently Asked Questions
To do so, simply sign in to your account to use your plan on your Macs (or your iOS device where applicable) using just your equinux ID and password.
You may use the software in parallel on one computer per license.
If you want to use the software on multiple devices in parallel, or other family members or colleagues also want to use the software on their computers, you will need a separate license for each person or each parallel use.
A VPN Tracker 10, VPN Tracker 9 or Spot Maps license can be active on one Mac at the same time. If you want to use the Software on multiple devices, you will need an separate license per device.
In our online store we accept a variety of payment methods:
- Visa
- Mastercard
- American Express
- PayPal*
- Personal/Business Checks* (US Orders Only)
- Bank Transfers* (European Union Only)
* License will be emailed to you once your payment has cleared.
When paying my check or bank transfer, you will receive an email with additional payment details once you have placed your order. Bank Transfer and Check orders are currently not available for Mail Designer Purchases
You can view a copy of all your invoices in our Online Store:
You will find the invoices for your VPN Tracker 365 purchases in the section "Invoices", here:
http://my.vpntracker.com
You work in accounting and need access to the VPN Tracker invoices for your company? Please ask your VPN Tracker Team manager to invite you to you company's team with the role "Accounting". Afterwards you will receive emails as soon as a new invoice is available and you can dowload this from the web portal
You will find the invoices for your Mail Designer 365 purchases in the section "Orders", here:
https://my.maildesigner365.com
You will find the invoices for your tizi products in the section "Orders", here:
http://my.tizi.tv
Other invoices can be found at http://www.equinux.com/goto/invoice
‣ If you would like to save a PDF copy of your invoice, then do the following: Press "Command + P" Choose "PDF" > "Save as PDF"
It sure does! And it does it brilliantly too!
Mail Designer can export an HTML file containing your entire design. This opens up a whole host of great options for you, as the user, to explore:
- Upload your design to third-party newsletter services
- Offer recipients, with email client programs that don’t support rich HTML content, the option to view your message as a webpage in their browser
- Create a link to your newsletter directly from your website: A great option for people that would like to see a newsletter before they subscribe
The best thing is: It's so easy to export your design as an HTML document
- Open your design
- Choose “Share > HTML...” from the menu bar
- Choose a location to save your design
By the way: If you plan on uploading your images to a separate web server, you can enter an absolute URL prefix for images.
MailChimp has free and paid plans. Please visit the MailChimp website for more details and exact pricing information.
In order to upload templates to your MailChimp account on your behalf, Mail Designer needs your MailChimp API key (a special kind of password).
You can find your API key on your MailChimp. The MailChimp support pages have more information.

MailChimp offers visual "WYSIWYG" and code-based template editing.
However, as every HTML engine works a little bit differently, we recommend that you stick to Mail Designer for editing, as changes made with MailChimp may cause issues with the look or layout of your designs.
If you need to make any changes, simply re-upload a new version of your design and select it for your MailChimp campaign.
On the other hand if you are a HTML code pro, just edit the HTML code with the MailChimp editor untill it fits your needs. We ask for you understanding that we can't offer support for this.
The Mail Designer manual has information on how to create your design and export it to MailChimp. Once you have sent your design to the big monkey in the sky, you can create campaigns, manage subscribers, track clicks and more with MailChimp's tools.
There are so many different MailChimp features, that we can't describe them all in the Mail Designer manual. But don't worry: the MailChimp team have created webinars, how-to manuals, guides and tips to help you get started.
Mail Designer 365 supports the export of the template including MailChimp placeholders. Once uploaded to MailChimp almost all features offered by the website can be used. To make sure the layout stays intact we recommend not to use the "Edit" view of MailChimp for layout editing. Use Mail Designer 365 to make the necessary changes and export the new version to MailChimp.
You can find your original template files in the Finder by following these steps:
‣ Right click the template in the Design Chooser ‣ Choose "Show in Finder"

How to find your designs in a Time Machine backup
If you've had a hardware failure and need to find your templates in a backup of your Mac, you can find your templates in this location:
/user/Library/Group Containers/C3HCD5RMD7.net.tower-one.MailDesigner
Note: there will be multiple "Library" folders on your harddrive, but you need the hidden one inside your Home folder.
Here is one way to get there:
- Navigate to your user's home folder in the Time Machine backup (e.g. "John")
- Right-click on your user's home folder ("John"), hold down the Alt/Option key (⌥) and select "Copy “john” as Pathname"
- Select the menu item "Go > Go to Folder…" and a dialog will open
- Press Cmd+V to paste the path you've just copied and add "/Library" to the end of the path and press enter
Now here on, go to "Group Containers/C3HCD5RMD7.Mail Designer/Documents/MD365" to find your documents. You'll find folders corresponding to your categories and each will have subfolders "Contents/Resources" that have the actual documents.
You can drag & drop them onto your Mail Designer 365 icon in the dock to copy them to your Mail Designer 365 library.
If you're sure that your time with us is at an end then we've made it nice and easy to remove all your info from our database so that you don't need to wait for us to do it.
Just log in at your Privacy Manager, click 'Delete your Account' near the bottom of the page.
Please note that this action is irreversible and you will loose access to any previously bought products and service!
All templates you want to upload to Campaign Monitor have to contain an unsubscribe link.
To add an unsubscribe link to your template, please follow these steps:‣ Choose the text area you want to insert the unsubscribe link to. ‣ Please choose "Insert" > "Campaign Monitor" > "Unsubscribe Link" from the top menu bar.
You can now upload your design to Campaign Monitor.

Text blocks, for example, which are arranged side by side in the desktop version will appear one below the other when viewed on an iPhone.

With Mail Designer 365, you can create responsive newsletters. By editing images, graphics and text objects for the mobile version you can optimize your template for mobile devices.
With Mail Designer 365 you can create responsive newsletters which look different depending on which device your recipient opens your email.
On an iPhone your recipient will see the mobile version of your newsletter.
As an iPad has a much bigger screen than an iPhone, an iPad will display the desktop version of your newsletter.
iOS recognizes phone numbers and other information like addresses and dates automatically, as these information can be used in different Apps.
You can for example tap a phone numer in order to call it or tap an address to add it to your address book.
Because of this, these information get highlighted in emails.
Mail Designer 365 allows you to send emails directly from within the application using the SMTP procotol.
In order to add your email account, please open the "Mail Accounts" tab in the preferences of Mail Designer, click "+" and enter the information for the account you want to configure. After you have entered all the required information, save the changes and choose this account in the send window.
Follow this step-by-step guide for more information.Add a MailChimp unsubscribe link
To add an unsubscribe link to your template, please follow these steps:
Add a MailChimp Rewards badge
You have a free MailChimp account and want to send a MailChimp campaign without the grey MailChimp Footer?
Simply add the additional "Rewards" placeholder to your design together with the unsubscribe link and your campaign will be send without the MailChimp footer.
You can add the "Rewards" placeholder by choosing "Insert" > "MailChimp" > "Rewards" from the top menu bar.
Do you have a paid MailChimp account?
In this case you don't have to add a MailChimp Rewards badge to your Mail Designer Pro document.
Yes, it's possible to print your template by going to "File > Print…" from within the Mail Designer 365 app. Exporting to PDF can either by done in the lower left corner of the "Print" window or by selecting "File > Export as PDF…".
This points to an error while authenticating your email account. Try checking the following:
- The username is wrong/incomplete. For example, iCloud accounts sometimes work with "username" but most times need the whole email address as a log in.
- The password is wrong.
- If you're trying TLS, try STARTTLS instead.
- Maybe your server is using a custom port - though this is unlikely.
If you have a Mail program you use (e.g. Apple Mail) try comparing the outgoing mail settings there and use the same settings in Mail Designer.

- In general, try to reduce the number of layout blocks used. Each layout block has a HTML structure that adds to the total size of your newsletter and by reducing the number of blocks you reduce the amount of space needed for these structures.
- Avoid repeating blocks and try to find solutions for “merging” blocks. For example, don't add two or more consecutive spacer blocks. Instead, use just one spacer block and change its height accordingly.
- Sometimes you can avoid using spacer blocks altogether, for example by adding the space to a nearby image block instead, using the “spacing before/after” feature in “Styles” or simply adding blank lines.
- Instead of using several consecutive text blocks, use just one and style the paragraphs using the “Styles” feature.
- Avoid detaching blocks (that is, avoid doing modifications that only affect the mobile or desktop version). A detached block results in two blocks in the document: one for desktop and another one for mobile, which uses more space than if the same block can be used for both mobile and desktop.

Email-safe fonts are the basic fonts installed on everyone's devices. If you have selected a font that is available on macOS but not on iOS, there will be a visible difference on the corresponding devices. If both devices have the font installed, then the email template will look the same on both platforms. You can use Web Fonts which the recipient's e-mail client can downloaded on demand. Most e-mail clients except Outlook support Web Fonts.
This means that it's only possible to have a newsletter render correctly in either Windows 10 Mail or Outlook 2013, not both. Due to Outlook 2013 being in more widespread use, we decided to provide correct rendering in Outlook 2013.
‣ Open "System Preferences."
‣ Click "Language & Region."
‣ Change to your preferred language by dragging your selected language to the top of the list.
‣ Close your software. For example, with VPN Tracker, you can do so by choosing "VPN Tracker" > "Quit VPN Tracker."
‣ Reopen the software.
‣ Go to "File" > "Design Options."
‣ Remove the check mark from the "Force hyphenation."
‣ Click "Ok."
Please refer to the following page for further information on how to turn on and off text hyphenation:
What happens when you use the normal forwarding button is that the mail client will need to modify the email newsletter, so you, the user, will be able to add your own content. This typical whenever you forward a message - the forward action will prompt the mail client to give you space to write an additional message to the person you are forwarding the email to. Unfortunately, with this process, most mail clients can break the email layout and there is nothing we can do to prevent that from happening. So when you want to forward your email template to someone, our best email design practice is to use your mail client's "Forward as Attachment" or "Redirect" feature.
‣ Click on the appropriate icon within the "Contents" tab to identify the location of your custom content.
‣ Choose this icon if you added custom content to your graphics section:
‣ Choose this icon if you added custom content to your GIF/animated graphics section:
‣ Choose this icon if you added custom content to your backgrounds and photos section:
‣ Choose this icon if you added a custom folder with images and graphics:
‣ Once you have chosen, scroll down to the "Custom" section:
‣ Right-click on the image or graphic that you want to delete.
‣ Choose "Move to Trash" from the drop-down menu.
‣ To remove a folder, you will need to right-click on the folder and choose "Remove."
To work around this, we recommend the following:
‣ In Apple Pages, double the size of your graphic. For example, if you had a shape that has the dimensions 100x100, please increase that to 200x200.
‣ Copy and paste it into an image area in Mail Designer.
‣ Then, select the image.
‣ Right-click (or Ctrl+click) on the image.
‣ Choose "Original Size (Retina)" from the drop-down menu. This automatically shrinks the image but becomes retina quality.
‣ If you use Time Machine on the Mac, the designs are also included in the backup by default.
‣ If you are manually backing up your Mac, you'll need to back up the following folder on your external hard drive:
~/Library/Group Containers/C3HCD5RMD7.net.tower-one.MailDesigner
You can access this folder by opening Finder, going to "Go" > "Go to folder" and copying and pasting in the above path.
‣ You can do a complete manual backup by going to "My Designs." Then, press ⌘ + a to select all the designs and then drag them to a folder on your desktop. You can then also save this folder on an external hard drive.
In Mail Designer 365, select "Custom" as link type. Then, insert the MailChimp subscribe tag. Remember, you must insert a link and not the login form for web pages. Forms can not be embedded in mails.
Creating an email link in Mail Designer is really straightforward. Simply follow the instructions below to get started:
- Type your desired text in a text layout block e.g. "Email me."
- From the sidebar select "Add link" and choose "Email mailto" as the type of link from the drop down menu.
- Add your email address.



Now your chosen text will appear as a link and when a customer clicks the link it will open a new email to you.
Yes there is! Mail Designer 365 is our brand new and updated version of Mail Designer - only available on an annual subscription basis. Subscribers have access to our best new features and benefit from regular updates.
Most importantly, Mail Designer 365 will always be optimized for the latest mac OS version, so as long as you are subscribed, you will never have to worry about paying for an upgrade again!
Visit our website today to purchase Mail Designer 365.
We don’t offer partial refunds. All of our 365 plans are valid for one year and you can cancel up to 10 days before the end of your term; however, if you do cancel, you will be able to continue using the software the expiration date of your plan.
Renewals can be canceled up until 10 days before their renewal date. The cancelation will take effect on the next possible renewal date. You can continue to use the software until the end of your term, at which point your subscription will end.
Please bear in mind that the full subscription version of Mail Designer 365 is required to export your designs as HTML.
You can download the free trial version here.
‣ Go to your downloads folder and find the app.
‣ Drag the app that you downloaded and drop it into the Applications folder.
This link will directly take you to your profile administration:
https://apple.co/2Th4vqI
You will find all running subscriptions under "Subscriptions." You can also disable the automatic extension of your subscriptions.
‣ Choose "File" > "Save"
‣ A pop up will appear.
‣ Give your email design a name.
‣ Choose a category or create a new category by choosing "Custom" from the drop-down menu. Then, type in the name of your new category.
Once you save your email design, it will be saved in Mail Designer app. You can access it from the Design Chooser. You can click on "My Designs" or search for it in "My Library."

Note: In the demo version of Mail Designer Pro 3, saving of designs is only possible after your purchase.
Many newsletter services take care of image hosting for you. You just upload the HTML file and images and they manage the rest.
If you newsletter tool or service doesn't offer image hosting, you will want to upload images to your own web server. Mail Designer 365 has an option to enter your web server's URL during HTML export that lets you reference images that way.
Can I hotlink to images from my website?
No: Mail Designer 365 needs to adjust the dimensions of images precisely to work correctly with all email clients, so hotlinking to images on your website isn't supported. However you can export the images in your design and host them on your website's server as described above.
‣ Select a text area.
‣ Choose "Edit" > "Spelling and Grammar" > "Show Spelling and Grammar" from the menu bar.
‣ A pop up will appear that will let you choose a language.
‣ Just click on the "Automatic by Language."
‣ You can choose your preferred language from the different options from the drop down menu.
Please refer to the following page for more information on how to choose your spell check language:
We try to ensure that a newsletter looks and works as expected on the widest range of readers possible and will revisit anchor links, if a majority of popular email apps add support for them.
Templates, which has been created with Mail Designer standard are perfect for custom layouts such as synopses and templates with your CI. Because of this, it is not possible to open Mail Designer standard documents in Mail Designer 365 and get the same results.
Since Mail Designer Standard templates are not responsive, it's not possible to open them through Mail Designer 365 and get the same results. You can manually import Mail Designer 2 templates into Mail Designer 365 by dragging a template (or several templates) out onto your desktop. Then, drag them into the Design Chooser in Mail Designer 365. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that your design will remain intact.
Your Mac allows you to activate the auto save feature directly via the System Preferences of your Mac:
‣ Open your Mac's System Preferences
‣ Open the "General" tab
‣ Untick the option "Ask to keep changes when closing documents"
‣ Afterwards, you need to restart your Mail Designer 365 app
Text blocks, for example, which are arranged side by side in the desktop version will appear one below the other when viewed on an iPhone.

With Mail Designer 365, you can create responsive newsletters. By editing images; graphics; and text objects for the mobile version, you can optimize your template for mobile devices.

This should give you a better and more accurate view of how great your design will actually look!
Please refer to the following page for further information on how to accurately view your Mail Designer 365's email design once uploaded on MailChimp:
Simply copy Mail Designer 365's plain text version and paste it into your newsletter service's plain text section.

Please refer to the following page for further information on plain text:
To do so...
‣ Please go to the MailChimp website and log in. When you are ready, upload your design to MailChimp by creating a new campaign.
‣ Select the email design you just uploaded and click "Preview and Test."
‣ Next, click "Enter preview mode."
‣ Click the button for "Enable live merge tag info". You will now see your information for the placeholder you have entered.
To do so, please follow these steps:
‣ Open one of your Mail Designer 365 email design
‣ Choose "File" > "Revert To"
‣ Select a version or click "Browse all versions"
To use a placeholder, please try the following:
‣ Select a text area
‣ Please choose "Insert" > "MailChimp" or "Campaign Monitor"
‣ Choose a placeholder
Note: A placeholder cannot be used on text within an image area, you'll need to place your cursor in a text area to use placeholders.