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New: Mailit 10 compatible with Claris FileMaker 2024 and enhanced security functions. Upgrade here.

Mailit 10.

FileMaker® email plug-in.

 Full email capability for your FileMaker apps. 

An amazing user experience.


Mailit 10 places a distinct emphasis on the security aspects for both sending and receiving emails.

Mailit now adds 171 email functions to FileMaker®. 

Mailit easy to implement
Easy

kickstart email integration with 

26 free FileMaker® email apps

Mailit easy to implement
Reliable

used by 1000s of FileMaker® developers worldwide for 25 years

Mailit easy to implement
Up-to-date
regularly updated to new FileMaker® versions & email standards

Mailit: The leader of email for FileMaker® takes the next leap forward.

Mailit is the most advanced email plug-in for your FileMaker® 18-21 custom apps. Mailit supports POP3, SMTP and IMAP and AWS SES. Mailit supports OAuth 2.0, the authentication standard for Gmail, Outlook. Mailit 10 includes  email encryption and digital signature functions, ensuring privacy and authenticity with PGP and S/MIME standards.  Mailit 10  supports full background and server-side processing. Compose HTML emails including images and layout tools using full-fledged editors that integrate into your layouts.. See the list of features here.

Easy Implementation

Implement Mailit quickly and easily. 

 26 free FileMaker® email apps can be adapted quickly to implement mailing functionality into your own custom apps with ease. 

Professional HTML editing

Leverage a powerful HTML email editor that integrates with your FileMaker® layouts via Web Viewer. Mailit enhances the way incoming HTML emails are displayed including proper rendering of images and layout.

  • Mailit offers open custom apps to kickstart your email implementation, including sending and receiving emails, HTML support, AWS SES integration, encryption and more.

    ENHANCED: Simple Sending/Receiving

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    HTML Sending

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    Simple Mass Mail with HTML Templates

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    Simple Mass Mail with HTML Templates and AWS

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    Simple Receiving Single-Threaded

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    Simple Receiving Multi-Threaded 

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    Layout Sending 

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    Get Started with Mailit and FileMaker Server 

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    See the Mailit Customer Apps page for details


    Mailit ST: get all required email marketing features in one adaptable app.


New: Email signing and encrypting

Encrypting emails and digitally signing them help prevent interception, tampering, and spoofing.


With Mailit 10, you can use widely adopted standards like PGP and S/MIME to encrypt emails and attachments using the recipient's public key.


You also have the option to digitally sign your messages, ensuring only the intended recipient can decrypt them with their private key. Your digital signature guarantees the authenticity of the message, providing an extra layer of security.


Mailit 10 lets you implements these encrypting  and  signing of email with just a view new functions:

  • Emai_SmimeMessageEncrypt
  • Emai_SmimeMessageDecrypt
  • Emai_SmimeMessageVerifySign
  • Emai_SmimeMessageConvertToDetached
  • Emai_PGPMessageEncrypt
  • Emai_PGPMessageDecrypt
  • Emai_PGPMessageVerifySign

PGP public and private keys can be generated using online tools like PGPTool.

For S/MIME, certificates can be purchased from a certification authority.


Note: A message can be encrypted or signed for only one recipient at a time.

ENHANCED: IMAP functions

 Mailit 10 adds functions to create, delete, and rename IMAP folders. Additionally, the example files are now compatible with FileMaker® Server-side use and support of multiple IMAP/SMTP accounts.


Mailit includes additional advanced IMAP folder management functions—search folders by criteria like "from," "since," and "unread" for more professional email solutions.


Background sending & receiving


 Mailit has threaded receiving and sending features. Only Mailit allows full email processing in the background including feeding received data to FileMaker® or picking up outgoing email data both without running scripts.


This leaves your FileMaker® apps responsive at any time for an amazing user experience.

Best-in-class mailings with FileMaker® and Mailit.

Mailit lets you integrate professional mass email features into your FileMaker® custom app.


Send rich HTML emails from FileMaker® and use the new powerful email editors that integrate via FileMaker® Web Viewer. 


With Mailit you send well-designed and personalized mailings including formatted text and professional layouts (e.g. multi-column layout) with embedded images directly from FileMaker®.


Mailit also lets you perform online address checks so you can exclude falsified email addresses before sending.

With FileMaker® and Mailit  you can also manage response to your mailings as Mailit receives email directly into FileMaker®.


Send mass mailings in the background or leverage sending via FileMaker Server (including TLS 1.3) to keep your FileMaker® custom app responsive.


As an additional option, Mailit lets you relay personalized emails via Amazon SES (Simple Email Service). Processing happens ultra fast even for larger amounts of messages. Mailit leverages SES features such as multiple delivery attempts and supports SES delivery statistics.

More secure: OAuth 2.0, SSL, TLS 1.3

In addition to the new email encryption and signing features, Mailit 10 supports OAuth 2.0, encrypted connections with TLS 1.3, advanced SMTP authentication and SSL.

Direct support
Ready-to-use FileMaker® email apps can be integrated with FileMaker® projects or scripts and layouts can be imported selectively. Detailed documentation is available and Dacons support team is there to assist. 

Mailit 10

Email features and functions

Discover powerful features and 171 functions of Mailit for IMAP, POP3, SMTP and AWS SES.

  • NEW: Latest Security

    With Mailit 10, you can use widely adopted standards like PGP and S/MIME to encrypt emails and attachments using the recipient's public key. You also have the option to digitally sign your messages, ensuring only the intended recipient can decrypt them with their private key


    In addition to the new email encryption and signing features, Mailit supports OAuth 2.0, encrypted connections with TLS 1.3, advanced SMTP authentication and SSL.

  • ENHANCED: Advanced IMAP

    Mailit supports IMAP folder search (e.g. by criteria "from", "since" or "unread“) and lets you create remote IMAP folders and provides a functionality to upload messages to remote IMAP folders

  • ENHANCED: Send and Receive Email

    Mailit  lets you send (SMTP) and receive (POP, IMAP) emails including attachments with FileMaker®.


    Use all common email formats: Plain Text, or formatted FileMaker® rich text, HTML (converted from FileMaker rich text or from HTML template) with inline images. Email processing happens in the background providing an amazing user experience.

  • HTML Editing and Viewing

    Leverage a powerful HTML email editor that integrates with your FileMaker® layouts via Web Viewer. Mailit refers incoming HMTL emails and displays them using Web Viewer including images

  • Mass Mailings

    Integrate professional mass email editing features including HTML templates and layout tools (e.g. multi column layout) via Mailit and FileMaker®️ Web Viewer


    Send mass mailings in the background or leverage sending via FileMaker Server to keep your FileMaker®️ app responsive. 


    As an alternative option to SMTP, Mailit 9 lets you relay personalized emails via Amazon SES. Processing happens ultra fast even for larger amounts of messages. Mailit leverages SES features such as multiple delivery attempts and supports SES delivery statistics.

  • Layout Sending

    Invoices and reports can be sent directly from within FileMaker® (WYSIWYG) as PDF, JPEG or PND

  • Base64 Encoding and Rendering

    Mailit enables images to be embedded Base64-encoded inline in HTML. Enhanced display of HTML emails with FileMaker® Web Viewer

  • Sending and Receiving in the Background

    Mailit threaded sending and receiving lets you send and receive messages in the background leaving FileMaker® responsive for other operations. 


    Mailit can feed received email data to FileMaker without script.

  • Script Timer

    Integrated script timer lets you check for new messages in a custom interval


  • Status Dialog

    Customize a status dialog that provides a Cancel button

  • Platform support

    Mailit supports Filemaker Server on Linux Ubuntu and Ubuntu Linux.

    Running FileMaker on a virtualized operating system using Docker? Mailit will run just fine here as well.


  • Ready-to-use FileMaker® email apps

    Take advantage of ready-to-use FileMaker®  for personal or mass-mailing. 

    Mailit comes with custom email apps for FileMaker®. These apps can be downloaded for free. Personal Mail or Mass Mailing apps can be used or use these apps to understand how Mailit work with FileMaker®. Feel free to adapt the Mailit apps to your needs or integrate them into your own FileMaker® custom apps royalty free. All Mailit apps have been enhanced to support OAuth 2.0.



  • Documentation and Support

    Mailit comes with full documentation. 


    Mailit provides Script Steps description and a direct links with full function and parameter description right from within the FileMaker® Script Workspace.


    The documentation  is also part of  the Mailit download package. Download Mailit free trial with full documentation and starters solutions here.


    Dacons support is here to help with your plug-in questions. 


  • Advanced Features

    Add multiple attachments via drop zones



    Manage plug-in installation and updates 


    including additional files from within FileMaker®



    Import Raw message (as text) into FileMaker®



    Get registration status from plug-in



    Outgoing attachments and rich content


    PNG support enhances the image quality of layouts being sent as emails (in addition to JPEG)


    Reuse an encoded attachment for multiple messages


    Convert FileMaker® Rich Text into HTML and back, alter the HTML code directly within FileMaker®



    Incoming messages and attachments


    Share POP download history via a FileMaker® field with a workgroup


    Exclude large emails from download if needed


    Check for sender or subject before downloading a message


    Open attachments from container fields directly of out FileMaker®


    Most common links (such as http, ftp, mailto, and callto) in e-mail messages will be automatically converted to active URL when using Rich Text messages


    Accelerate message processing by decoding incoming attachments only when they are actually opened



    Even more advanced features


    Check email addresses online before sending a message and identify invalid addresses


    Request email read-receipt notification for outgoing messages


    Access full email headers of incoming and outgoing emails


    Set custom message IDs


    Specify custom timeout for all connections


    Pull the last SMTP/POP3/IMAP session transcript in to a field


    Set plug-in preferences from script

Use of Mailit with FileMaker®

in different scenarios

Mailit is a true cross platform plug-in for FileMaker® Pro 18-21 (FileMaker® 2024) running on Windows and macOS.

Mailit is also designed for FileMaker® Server 15-20.2 Windows and macOS including macOS Ventura, and available for FileMaker® Server on Linux Ubuntu. Mailit 9 also runs on the virtualization platform Docker.

Create & Use
Mailit Single User 


Mailit Single User 
license

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    Create email apps with Mailit and use these apps on a single FileMaker® Pro

Network

Mailit Network



Mailit Network 
license

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    Host apps on FileMaker® Server or FileMaker® Pro and run Mailit on FileMaker® Pro clients

Server
Mailit Network / Server


Mailit Network / Server 
license

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    Host apps on FileMaker® Server or FileMaker® Pro additionally with Mailit to run certain email tasks server side and run Mailit on FileMaker® Pro clients

Web & iOS
Mailit Server 


Mailit Network / Server 
license

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    Host apps on FileMaker® Server with Mailit 

    for FileMaker® Go or FileMaker® WebDirect access

  Developer 

Mailit unlimited developer license

For distribution of email apps to 3rd party for any of the above scenarios. 

Purchase your Mailit 10 license now

System requirements

Mailit 10 runs with FileMaker® Pro 15 -21 (FileMaker® 2024) and FileMaker®Server on the following 

operating systems:

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    System Requirements for Windows (64-bit only):

    FileMaker® Pro 15-18 Pro/Advanced/Runtime/Server (64-bit only)

    FileMaker® Pro 19-21 (including FileMaker® 2024) Pro/Server (64-bit only)

    on the following Windows platforms: Windows 7/8/10/11, Win­dows Server 2008/2012/2016/2019/2022.



    System Requirements for macOS:

    FileMaker® Pro 15-18 Pro/Advanced/Runtime/Server (64-bit only)

    FileMaker® Pro 19-21 (including FileMaker® 2024) Pro/Server 

    on the following: macOS High Sierra (10.13) or later including macOS Sonoma (14) including Apple® silicon support.



    System Requirements for Linux:

    FileMaker® Server 19.5-21.02 on  Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 (Long Term Support) Server/Desktop AMD64

               Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Long Term Support) Server/Desktop  ARM64

Mailit requires an email account that can be accessed via IMAP/POP3/SMTP/AWS SES.

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