CVMail mail is developed specifically for the purpose of promoting VMail. It is currently the only free mailer for download, loads of books in the library though.

The idea of CVMail is to format the different sections of a CV into HTML pages to produce a multi-paged EMail as the CV.

It is freeware (not shareware, not a trial version and has no expiry date).

If interested, you can DOWNLOAD CVMail (77K).

After downloading, unzip the file to an empty directory. Type 'VMail -extract' to extract the data files, follow the 'Setting Up For The First Time' instructions in 'VMailHelp.html'.

A VMail contains active script component that can get picked up by spam filter, it could get blocked. The safest way is actually not to send a VMail, disable the VMail component and just send a regular HTML EMail, put link(s) in you EMail to the web pages on your website.

Using VMail to send a CV is an over kill, VMail is generally far more sophisticated than normal commercial EMail. CVMail can take a web page and send it straight, normal mailer don't do things this way because the normal user is not expected to know how to code HTML so they are restricted the formats provided. You code the HTML yourself and you have more control.

If you have a web server and know what you are doing, you can rig up the CVMail to send EMail on demand. It makes people think you are smart.

CVMail is a Windows console application, it does not have the normal graphic user interface that most application have, it is just a single executable program.

It is easy enough to provide a graphical front end for CVMail but this just causes problems when it is in use. Normal EMail does not access data on a website, these need to be set up by hand and the sender has to know where everything is. This is the difference and the price you pay for the flexibility.

Everything is controlled by a default configuration file, an optional configuration file that overrides the default and configuration information for individual CVMail sent within a mailing list.

CVMail can be driven by a web server, very easy to set up a web page that allows people to 'request' an EMail to be sent to them automatically.

CVMail is used to send its own promotional EMail, a batch is divided into ten that is sent concurrently. The typical throughput is 200 EMail per ten minute on a 56K modem, 20 thousand per day capability on a single dial-up modem.

I use Excel spread sheet to manage the mailing list, generally managing a batch of several hundred thousand is something most people can do easily. Sending out that many job application probably isn't a very good idea, CVMail can be used as a normal mailer for sending EMails in plain text or HTML format.