Newsletters made on a Mac in the blink of an eye, now integrated with MailChimp for sending

equinux releases Mail Designer 1.1 with integrated MailChimp interface
Munich, Germany / San Francisco, USA - 13th July 2011: Attractive emails and newsletters are not only easy to create, they are now just as easy to distribute to subscriber bases. Mail Designer 1.1, our latest Mac App designed to create attractive newsletters, now adds export options geared for mass email campaigns. Through a new interface, Mail Designer 1.1 can now leverage the popular email technology platform, MailChimp, for sending email campaigns of any size.

"Mail Designer 1.1 is an important step on the roadmap for professional users. With the help of an plug-in API, Mail Designer can now create attractive newsletters for large campaigns,” says Till Schadde. "By integrating MailChimp with Mail Designer 1.1, we are able to leverage the creative ability of Mail Designer with one of the world's largest email marketing services."

"At MailChimp we work hard to make it as easy as possible for businesses to manage their lists and send out email newsletters," says Neil Bainton, COO at MailChimp. "We've been impressed by the ease of use of Mail Designer and how nicely it integrates with our service. We are happy to recommend Mail Designer as a Mac desktop solution allowing users to easily create professional-looking email campaigns."

Any Mail Designer newsletter can be easily transferred to MailChimp. A new interface has been created allowing MailChimp users to log in directly from Mail Designer. Once logged in, Mail Designer will transfer the selected design to the MailChimp newsletter system where it can be used with all of MailChimp's innovative features for email campaigns. Mail Designer 1.1 allows to personalize newsletters by adding placeholders for names, addresses, and email. Users just have to organize the placeholders the way they want them in Mail Designer and MailChimp will take care of the contents.

Price and Availability
Registered users can update to Mail Designer 1.1 free of charge using the built-in automatic update feature. Mail Designer is available from $69.95 US (€59.95) in the equinux Online Store.

About Mail Designer

Mail Designer is the perfect Mac App to create customized mail templates and newsletters. With Mail Designer, you can easily and intuitively create stunning Mail Designs. Charming invitations, insightful newsletters and irresistible offers - Mac Users, agencies and businesses can choose from a variety of pre-defined templates and fine tune the design based on their target groups and ideas. Editable text elements combined with dynamic text and image drop zones, offer limitless creative freedom. A slew of intuitive tools and features have been designed to make your mailings pop. Each layout you make is saved as a template and can be sent and used again and again as often as you like.

www.equinux.com/maildesigner

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 875,000 subscribers worldwide, sending 1.75 billion emails per month. The MailChimp platform improves the user experience by providing seamless, yet powerful email marketing and publishing features that are easy and affordable enough for a small business to get started, but powerful enough for a large company looking for an enterprise level solution. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, SurveyGizmo, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

About equinux

equinux designs and develops leading Mac, iPad, and iPhone solutions for professional and private environments. equinux' enterprise solutions include the market leading VPN client for Mac, VPN Tracker, as well as the iPhone and iPad provisioning and management solution, TARMAC. Private users benefit from a full range of mail, media and lifestyle focused products. With the mobile TV-hotspot tizi, equinux offers innovative accessories for iPad and iPhone. Our products are well regarded and have been honored by multiple Apple Design Awards over the years. equinux is headquartered in Munich, Germany and has an office in South San Francisco, California.