Discover our latest releases for Yet Another Mail Merge (YAMM)!

Release Notes for 2024

Sept 23, 2024

Improvement

YAMM now tracks URLs containing @, which were previously ignored.

Aug 14, 2024

Bug fix

YAMM now better detects certain types of responses and bounces, especially email messages with complex structures, like digitally signed messages or emails from rare email clients. This also resolves issues with drafts created using such clients.

Aug 12, 2024

Improvement

In the Start Mail Merge window, when the Cancel button is clicked after selecting change for the recipient column, it now returns to the main dialog instead of closing the entire window. Additionally, when you reselect the same column, redundant prompts about skipping unsubscribed or bounced emails are no longer displayed.

July 29, 2024

Bug fix

We've fixed an issue where the mail merge status incorrectly showed "ERROR," requiring a restart. You can now complete the mail merge process without encountering this error.

July 18, 2024

Bug fix

We fixed an issue where the <a href=""> tag was added to email subjects if a cell contained a link and the column name was used as a marker in the email draft.

July 9, 2024

Bug fix

We’ve fixed an issue when launching another mail merge from a new sheet within a copied spreadsheet. The Tracking Report sidebar now displays correct counts for responses and bounces, even when switching between sheets.

July 4, 2024

Improvement

You can now also use the Ctrl+K (Windows) or Command+K (Apple) keyboard shortcut to insert links in your spreadsheets and have these links tracked in your mail merges. The list of supported formats is extended to include:

• www.example.com
• http://example.com
• http://www.example.com
• https://example.com
• https://www.example.com
• example.com
• https://www.example

June 17, 2024

Bug fix

YAMM now preserves the merge statuses of previously sent emails instead of overwriting them when you extend an existing mail merge that skips newly unsubscribed or bounced addresses.

June 3, 2024

Bug fix

We've fixed an issue where restarting a mail merge on sheets containing NO_RECIPIENT rows in the Merge status column incorrectly displayed the Email column selection dialog repeatedly.<

May 16, 2024

Bug fix

Fixed an issue where YAMM displayed the misleading "You have already used the same sheet to send emails in the past" message when starting a mail merge with no valid email addresses in the email column. Now, YAMM checks for empty cells in the Merge status column and prompts you to choose another email column if necessary.

March 14, 2024

Announcement

We are gradually introducing a per-user pricing and billing system, to make managing your subscription a lot easier: YAMM spaces.

Spaces allow you too:

• Invite users to your space (currently limited to users in your domain)
• Manage the subscriptions and roles of your space members
• Benefit from new features included in the Pro plan, such as ownership transfer

Release Notes for 2023

November 29, 2023

Improvement

For large mail merges (around 20K emails), tracking updates are now quicker, typically loading within just 5-7 seconds.

June 22, 2023

Bug fix

Drafting a reply to an email from the Sent inbox no longer causes the corresponding row to be marked as “Responded” in YAMM tracking report.

May 1, 2023

Improvement

You can view the date and time of the last modification for each email draft to help you select the right draft for mail merges and notifications.

March 28, 2023

Bug fix

We have fixed an issue causing the settings screen to flicker in certain cases related to screen resolution.

March 27, 2023

Announcement

A set of AI-powered tools to save time and effort when drafting emails are available from YAMM website footer:

• Subject Line Generator
• Email Writer
• Sentiment Analyser
• Grammar Fixer
• Tone Rewriter

Watch our video tutorials to discover how to use these tools and how to write email drafts in bulk.

Use Google Sheets Extensions menu to access these videos again and vote for the integration of these tools in YAMM if you feel they can improve your productivity.

Mar 9, 2023

Bug fix

YAMM loads properly even if your Google account email address contains an apostrophe.

Feb 21, 2023

Improvement

YAMM’s tracking report is now updated even when your Internet connection is unstable.

Feb 6, 2023

Bug fix

YAMM Sheets add-on now correctly detects your YAMM quota even if you use other add-ons that use AppsScript quota.

Release Notes for 2022

Dec 6, 2022

Improvement

YAMM improved its bounce tracking system to detect more types of bounces.

Dec 1, 2022

Announcement

We have decided to offer our click tracking feature to YAMM users on a free plan. With this feature, every time you open the tracking report, you can check if your recipients have clicked on the links from your emails.

Nov 29, 2022

Bug fix

The erroneous warning indicating that tracking is deactivated for unsubscribe links, even when tracking is enabled, is no longer displayed.

Nov 17, 2022

Improvement

If Plain Text mode is activated in Gmail and the tracking option is selected in YAMM, you will get a blocking message if you try to send your mail merge. This will help you avoid a buggy configuration.

Bug fix

The compatibility with HTML templates has been expanded to more variations of html code.

Nov 15, 2022

Improvement

YAMM now better recognizes email address columns, so they are automatically suggested during configuration.

Nov 14, 2022

Improvement

In the YAMM web app, we changed the metric label "Emails sent the last 30 days" to "Emails sent this month". This metric indeed provides the number of emails sent during the current month.

Nov 9, 2022

Improvement

We have improved the HTTP headers security of our corporate website, talarian.io. Thanks to Faizan Ahmed for reporting it!

Bug fix

We have fixed a few issues:

• Users with an active individual paid plan will no longer encounter an infinite loading loop when checking their quota in the YAMM add-on.
• In the YAMM add-on, we now display the correct the Last used time in the Quota screen.
  
  

Oct 17, 2022

Announcement

Great news for our users from India: YAMM now supports recurring payments in rupees (INR). 

From now on, when you select India as your country on the billing information page, you are charged in Indian Rupees.

Oct 11, 2022

Improvement

With this release, we detect more types of bounces.

Sept 13, 2022

Improvement

You can now leave feedback about YAMM at any time.

Sept 8, 2022

Bug fix

You can now use spaces, semicolons, slashes or commas to separate multiple emails in a cell.

Sept 5, 2022

Announcement

YAMM works with the new Gmail Layout feature. You can now send beautiful branded personalized emails with YAMM.

June 23, 2022

Bug fix

We fixed an issue with the unsubscription feature being counted as opened in the follow-up feature.

June 15, 2022

Announcement

We are happy to say that YAMM is officially part of the Recommended for Workspace list of apps! 🎉

June 9, 2022

Bug fix

The issue where the opened tracking sidebar loads infinitely if the Google sheet is empty is now solved.

May 25, 2022

Improvement

Same us, brand new look: We've refreshed our logo and visuals on the Google Workspace Marketplace.

March 30, 2022

New prices

We have updated YAMM prices for new USD subscriptions to Personal and Professional individual plans. The new prices are:

• Personal plan: $25 per year (22,95€ per year)
• Professional plan: $50 per year (45,90€ per year).
  

March 28, 2022

Web app

In this release, we added a button that gives you access to a quick tutorial from the YAMM web app.

March 14, 2022

Add-on

Click-tracking (or the tracking of whether a recipient clicked a link in your mail merge) is now a paid feature in YAMM.

This only affects mail merges made after this update.

March 9, 2022

Add-on

We have released a new version of the YAMM Google Sheets add-on which includes the following:

• The new Delivered metric is now part of the Tracking Report and shows the percent of delivered emails (which exclude bounced and undelivered emails)
  
• All calculated metrics now use the same formulas across all interfaces (Google Sheets, Gmail and YAMM web app)
• All metrics now use Delivered as the denominator (except for Bounced and Delivered)
• In the Tracking Report, in addition to the metrics now being based on the Delivered metric, you can also hover over the info icon of the Clicked, Responded, and Unsubscribed metrics and review the legacy calculations that are based on the Opened metric.
  

March 8, 2022

Bug fix

We have made an improvement in YAMM to resolve the vast majority of false positive opens due to the Mail Privacy Protection being turned on in Apple Mail clients or because of Gmail pre-loading email content.

Feb 28, 2022

Bug fix

If you experienced a rare issue related to the tracking report statuses in Google Sheets where EMAIL_OPENED was overwriting BOUNCED and RESPONDED was overwriting UNSUBSCRIBED, this is now fixed.

Feb 15, 2022

Announcement

We are happy to announce that we merged the Google Sheets and Gmail YAMM listings! 🎉

The YAMM marketplace listing now appears in the Gmail section in the first row.

 

Feb 14, 2022

Bug fix

We fixed an issue related to scheduling mail merges where the Merge status column was overwriting another existing column.

Feb 9, 2022

Announcement

We now provide an ISO certificate that is accessible at the bottom page of the YAMM website.

Feb 7, 2022

Improvement

In this release, we added a message to clarify that the Tracking report might not work correctly if your selected Gmail draft template has the option Plain text mode enabled.

Jan 24, 2022

Web app

If you try to access the YAMM web app with a browser not supported by YAMM, you will now receive a message asking you to use another browser.

Release notes for 2021

Dec 21, 2021

Improvement

From the YAMM web app Billing page, you can now access more information about the conditions required related to the email quota.

Oct 25, 2021

Improvement

With YAMM team plans, you can now Manage your users from the Billing page in your dashboard. For example, if you have a Team plan limited to 5 users, you can invite up to 5 users from your dashboard that are under the same domain name.

Oct 18, 2021

Bug fix

On rare occasions, YAMM might show errors, such as "Service spreadsheets failed" or "Document … is missing", which are caused by random service unavailability. We have updated the retry mechanisms in YAMM to make sure that you do not encounter such issues in the future.

Sept 9, 2021

Bug fix

When importing personalized attachments with the feature Import from Drive folder and one or more of the files was a shortcut to another file, YAMM was not processing shortcuts properly. This resulted in the files to shortcuts not being sent. This issue is now resolved.

Sept 7, 2021

Announcement

The new Talarian website has been launched. 🎉

As the company behind YAMM, Form Publisher, Awesome Table, and Invoice to Sheet, Talarian is now also featured in the YAMM website.

Bug fix

We fixed an issue where the Schedule mail merge option was not running under specific circumstances.

YAMM was duplicating recipients' email addresses in your Google sheet which resulted in the same email being sent 2 or 3 times to the same recipient. This issue happened in very rare cases due to prolonged faulty connection between users and Gmail / YAMM services.

Aug 31, 2021

Improvement

Thanks to a new improvement, the email open rate is now tracked more accurately, as we have considerably reduced the possibility of false positives.

Aug 16, 2021

Improvement

YAMM dashboard now displays the correct number of emails sent when tracking is not enabled for a mail merge.

Aug 10, 2021

Improvement

The Billing page in the YAMM dashboard now displays the subscription price in the format applicable for your country.

Aug 9, 2021

Bug fix

The counter displaying the amount of emails sent the last 30 days in the YAMM dashboard would reset to 0 every time you sent a mail merge. This issue is now resolved and the counter updates correctly.

Aug 5, 2021

Improvement

We made several UI text improvement in the YAMM dashboard text to improve clarity and user experience.

July 29, 2021

Improvement

The new version of YAMM for Google Sheets add-on comes with a number of user interface and user experience improvements.

• The window inviting free users to upgrade their subscription now has a better user experience.

• For clients who paid via PayPal, the link to cancel the auto-renewal of your YAMM subscription is now a visible button in the add-on window.

• When you send a mail merge with attachments and your recipients quota with attachments is exceeded, the error message now indicates why the mail merge is not being sent.

• The notification for scheduled mail merges now shows that emails might be sent up to 30 minutes after the scheduled time, instead of 1 hour.

July 21, 2021

Improvement

• We improved the error message in the Google Sheets add-on for the cases when a mail merge cannot be sent.

 

July 14, 2021

Bug fix

• Tel: hyperlinks for phone numbers did not work properly in mail merges. This has now been fixed.

July 8, 2021

Announcement

• We are happy to announce that we have migrated YAMM to V8 - the new high-performance Google Apps Script engine. This migration was a big refactoring task given our scale and paves the way towards better and future-proof performance, as well as new features.

Improvement

• To display the recipient’s email address in the email, users can now add a marker with the title of the column containing the email addresses. Users can also continue using the {{email address}} marker, which always matches the column containing the email addresses, regardless of what the actual column title is.

Bug fix

• We fixed a rare bug that would prevent tracking of the mail merge status in some cases.

 

July 5, 2021

Bug fix

• Some elements on the YAMM Web App did not work properly when using Google Translate. This has now been fixed.

July 1, 2021

Bug fix

• YAMM Gmail add-on experienced an outage during several hours this week due to unforeseen changes in the Google infrastructure. We have released a hotfix and the Gmail add-on is now accessible. YAMM Sheets Add-on, including campaign tracking and scheduled merges, were not affected.

June 16, 2021

Bug fix

• YAMM Sheets Add-on now correctly detects the Attachment column when a user has German as a default language for Google products.

June 8, 2021

Website

• The YAMM website was updated and you can now check our corporate and legal information in the new Impressum page.

Bug fix

• We resolved a very rare issue with links not working in Google Form submission notifications in the cases when YAMM was installed from the Marketplace and form notifications were set up right after installation.

May 31, 2021

New prices

• We have updated YAMM prices for new USD subscriptions to Personal and Professional individual plans. The new prices are:
  • Personal plan: $24 per year
  • Professional plan: $48 per year.
    

Improvements

• We have improved error handling for scheduled merges so that users can easily understand the issue and the next steps required. For example, YAMM now notifies when a Google Sheet or an email draft was deleted before the scheduled merge runs.
• We have improved the logic to calculate the remaining quota.

Users can now enjoy a refreshed design of the header and footer of the YAMM website and YAMM Support page.

 

Bug fix

When importing from Google Contacts, the Company column is now properly populated.

May 21, 2021

Improvement

• YAMM users now can import their Google Contacts from additional default contact groups, specifically: All contacts, Blocked, Starred and Chat.

Certification

• At YAMM, we are fully committed to data protection and we are very happy to announce that YAMM is now officially certified under The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The certification ensures that YAMM follows proper practices with regards to collection, use, maintenance and disclosure of personal information from children and of student data.  
  

May 14, 2021

Blog

• We are happy to announce the launch of the YAMM blog where our readers can find tips and tricks to email more productively. You can access the blog through the link on the YAMM page.
  

Bug fix

• We resolved the issue with full- and half-width Asian characters. In some cases, these characters were not correctly detected in Gmail labels causing error messages when sending a mail merge.

May 7, 2021

Bug fix

• All bounced emails are now correctly detected when you send particularly large mail merges (for example, with over 100 recipients).
• We resolved the issue which in some rare cases prevented links with special characters (like accented characters or Chinese ideograms) to work in Gmail drafts.

April 21, 2021

Add-on

• For the careful organizers out there who want to keep all Gmail drafts from previous mail merges: YAMM now lists up to 75 Gmail drafts in the Email Template drop-down.
  

Bug fix

We resolved the error which appeared when you attempted to send a new mail merge with a subject that differs only by several characters from the subject of a previous mail merge.

April 19, 2021

YAMM dashboard

• The details under Your current plans now include information about:
  • whether you purchased via PayPal or Stripe
  • date of renewal for plans with active auto-renewal
  • date of subscription end for active plans with cancelled auto-renewal
  • subscriber email address now appears under the plan name
    
    
    
• If you have an expiring YAMM plan which you purchased via PayPal, we have now enabled the option to renew or upgrade your plan via Stripe. For more information, see Upgrade a PayPal purchased plan via Stripe.

April 14, 2021

Bug fix

We resolved the issue which prevented users with expiring YAMM plans purchased via PayPal to now purchase via the billing service Stripe.

April 13, 2021

Improvement

Waiting for up to 1 hour after the scheduled hour for your mail merge is not the best. With our recent improvements, mail merges now take only up to 30 minutes to be sent after the specified time configured for your scheduled mail merge.

Bug fix

We fixed an issue that was preventing YAMM from using the timezone configured in your Google sheet. Moreover, we added the timezone information in the tooltip under the Merge Status column.

April 12, 2021

Improvement

After several technical improvements on our side, the tracking of bounces and responses will become faster for large mail merges.

April 8, 2021

Bug fix

We resolved an issue with the purchase of team plans in the YAMM billing system.

March 30, 2021

Improvement

After several improvements, we now make sure that regardless of your web browser, the YAMM dashboard opens successfully.

March 29, 2021

In the Mail merges tab of your YAMM dashboard, there is now a tooltip specifying that form submission notifications are not included in the displayed counts.

March 17, 2021

Improvement

Billing in YAMM just received a significant update!

• The new Billing page makes it easier to purchase and upgrade subscription plans. Just click your account menu in the YAMM web app and select Billing.
• From the Billing page, you can access your billing information on Stripe and check your subscription status, review payment history, download your bills, cancel or restart automatic renewal, and update your payment information. If you paid via PayPal, you can review your YAMM subscription status and payment information from your PayPal account. For more information, see Manage your subscription plan (paid via PayPal).
• Purchasing a YAMM subscription plan now requires that you have a YAMM account and are authenticated.

Feb 16, 2021

• Did you forget to add recipients in the To list in your form submission notifications draft? Not to worry. We are now gently reminding you about that with a warning message.
• In addition, if you receive a form submission and your draft notification has no recipients in the To list, YAMM will send the response to the user who configured the form.

Feb 8, 2021

Add-on

The Template Gallery is available on the YAMM web app under the Templates section. You can now choose one of our templates and create a Gmail draft.

 

Release notes for 2020

Dec, 2020

Announcement

• The new marketing website has been launched on a new domain (yamm.com) 🎉 

• The new YAMM web app has been launched 🎉 

- This new version is more stable and exhibits better performance

- The data can be filtered (by search bar and period of time), sorted, and exported to .csv

- The new web app is responsive

Nov, 2020

Google Sheets add-on

Oct, 2020

Bug fix

• New version of the add-on that includes a fix for users with free accounts who previously could unexpectedly see their quota go down by 15
• Fix bounce detection mechanism: YAMM helps you preserve your mail merge from bounces

July, 2020

Gmail add-on

YAMM Dashboard for Gmail add-on has been released. You can now track your mail merges right from your Gmail inbox.

Release notes for 2018

June, 2018

• YAMM now automatically detects and warns you about past bounces (see documentation)

May, 2018

• New loading screen, which helped us to massively reduce 'frozen/spinning logo' issues (see documentation). Users get now clearer information (either the loading completes and you can start your mail merge right away, or the YAMM UI invites you to try again):

April, 2018

• It is now possible to combine =HYPERLINK() and =IMAGE() formulas to easily insert clickable images in your mail merge!

March, 2018

• Follow-up on same email threads is now available in YAMM! (see documentation)

Feb, 2018

• Fix to better handle multiple accounts login within the same browser session when using YAMM

Jan, 2018

• We now detect better the different types of bounces ('Address not found', 'Message not delivered' etc.) and indicate it in the 'Merge status' cell notes:

Release notes for 2017

Dec, 2017

• We handle unsubscriptions better. All unsubscribes will now be added to your list of unsubscriptions from your web app, where you can easily update it (see documentation):

• Mail merge with personalized attachments has improved! We now automatically list your attachments next to the right recipients if there's a matching element (like the ID) between your file title and a column from your Google Sheet (see documentation).

Nov, 2017

• YAMM now supports scheduled mail merge on the same spreadsheet with multiple accounts (see documentation)

Sept, 2017

• We improved our follow-up feature. You can now choose to send a follow-up campaign in a new sheet (to keep tracking stats of former campaigns), or in the same sheet (see documentation)
• When you set filters in your Google Sheets while there are still emails to be sent, YAMM automatically removes the filters and sends your email to all recipients who don't have any status under 'Merge status'

Aug, 2017

• Now if we detect many bounces, the campaign will stop or will be scheduled to avoid blocked accounts

June, 2017

• We better handle license transfers to another account
• The documentation has been improved
• New UI for the tracking tool:

May, 2017

• New UI in YAMM for the referral program:

• Response rate tracking is now available (see documentation)

April, 2017

• YAMM Polls now available to send short surveys (see documentation and G+ post)

• Real-time response rate tracking now available (see documentation)

March, 2017

• New Gmail labels on your emails sent to easily retrieve your campaigns (see documentation)
• We better handle Google Sheets filters

Feb, 2017

• Tracking report email sent 2 hours after completing a mail merge (see documentation)
• We better handle bounce tracking on multiple sheets
• Set-up of new auto-renew emails to inform customers about the renewal of their license

Jan, 2017

• When using our scheduling option, you can now ask YAMM to leave some quota to continue being able to send emails:

• Improvement of the real-time tracking: Your merge statuses are now automatically updated without the need to reopen the tracking sidebar
• We better handle valid email addresses: If you have entered several email addresses on one cell and if one is invalid, YAMM will now send your email to the all valid accounts
• Fix for the email address syntax Name <name@domain.com>
• Display information on the execution time of your mail merge delivery if it exceeds 10 min (see documentation)

Release notes for 2016

Dec, 2016

• Integration of a new pie chart in the tracking report (see documentation and G+ post):

• Many unknown errors occurred, and the messages displayed to users were unclear. Most of them are now fixed, and instead we have replaced them with a more understandable explanation.
• Data from the tracking report are now displayed in your dashboard:

Nov, 2016

• Similarly to Google Sheets filters, hidden rows from your spreadsheet are now skipped by YAMM (see documentation).

Oct, 2016

• New logo
• The Tracking Report update itself based on the active sheet so you can quickly check the status of your different campaigns (useful if you use the same spreadsheet to send multiple campaigns from multiple tabs /sheets):

Sept, 2016

• Easily add 'unsubscribe' links in emails sent
• Set a different reply-to email address
• New 'advanced features' panel

July, 2016

• Use Google Sheets filters to segment your list and send different campaigns to different targets.
  https://support.yet-another-mail-merge.com/hc/en-us/articles/211755085
  
  

June, 2016

• We are now using Google Sheets Named Ranges for both the recipient & the merge status column. This means that we do not rename the recipient's column to "Email address" anymore and people can rename their columns at any time without breaking the Tracking Report.

May, 2016

• Bounced / rejected emails are now recorded and we correctly update the Tracking report with this info.
• The Tracking Report now displays the Open rate, Click-through rate & Bounce rate for your campaign (see our blog post).

• People can now share drafts with other users (see documentation).

April, 2016

• Click tracking is now available in the Tracking Report (see our blog post).

• You can now import contacts from Salesforce in addition to Google Contacts (see documentation).
• The logic to track emails opened & clicked have been improved to respect spam filters rules and avoid being blacklisted.

March, 2016

• A Domain Activity Report is now available in YAMM web app to see the overall usage of YAMM on your Google Apps domain (see documentation).
• If you are launching YAMM from an empty spreadsheet we better guide you to list recipients so you can start your campaign.

Feb, 2016

• The list of recipients is now cleaned-up to avoid delivery failures because of bad email addresses (e.g. if it contains accented letters).
• Campaign scheduling is now available (see our blog post).

• If we don't process a specific row because there's no recipient, we correctly add a status in the Merge status column (NO_RECIPIENT).
• If you don't have a column named "Email address", we try to pre-select the best match (the column most likely containing your recipients).
• A Campaign tab is now available in YAMM web app to help you track the list of all spreadsheets from which you have sent an email campaign. If you have a campaign scheduled, it will be listed there too (see documentation).

Jan, 2016

• 3 formats are now supported for markers:
• $%Column Header%
• <<Column Header>>
• {{Column Header}}

Curly brackets {} are now the most commonly used punctuation marks to build markers and we recommend people to use this format.

• If user has previously sent another campaign from the same spreadsheet (and thus has a "Merge status" column), we ask if he would like to do a follow-up.
• Internet Explorer is no longer supported due to some web features we have recently added to YAMM (it is working on Microsoft Edge though).
• Many improvements to correctly retry without showing any error message to the user when something goes wrong on Google backend.
• CC & BCC are now better handled (when added in sheet and / or in Gmail draft). Here's all you should know about usage of CC & BCC in YAMM.

Release notes for 2015

Dec, 2015

• When checking remaining quota we now let you know when your quota will be reset and when was the last time you used the add-on.
• Read receipts: when someone opens a new email, we let you know the corresponding row in your spreadsheet.
• New feature: Follow-ups (Segment your list of recipients to send follow-up emails)
• New feature: Many new email templates are available - directly in our web app
• A progress bar is now displayed when sending emails

• All spreadsheet formats (dates, numbers, currencies) are now correctly handled
• Adding more than one personalized attachment for each email sent is now supported

Nov, 2015

• A "Welcome" email is sent when user install the add-on, with some tips to help him get started.
• A "Congrats" email is sent after first campaign / merge with tips to do more with the add-on / present advanced features.
• Referral program is now directly available in our web app.

Oct, 2015

• Dropped free quota from 100 to 50 recipients / day but released a referral program to let users get more quota for free (see announcement).
• New loading screen
• Better / more helpful error messages and full list of known issues in the documentation
• Added CC / BCC support when sending emails on Form Submit
• Switched to the new version of the Gmail API for stability and performance improvements
• Translations: YAMM is now available in Norwegian, Basque, Czech & Catalan for a total of 23 supported languages

Sept, 2015

• We have deployed a new support tool to help users quickly report issues and get help (see announcement)
• Date formats are now better handled in foreign languages

Aug, 2015

• The add-on loads now faster and if you reuse it on the same spreadsheet multiple times, we pre-select the Gmail draft you have previously used in that spreadsheet.
• We check for duplicated headers in the sheet (if you have duplicated headers and you reuse one of those headers as marker in your draft, we might not retrieve the info from the right column)
• The UI to set up Form Submission notifications has been improved. You can now track emails opened, change sender name and wait until a specific column is filled before sending the email.
• Formulas =HYPERLINK() and =IMAGE() are now supported so you don't have to insert HTML tags to add different links & images to each email sent. See: Add different images to each email sent - Different links / URL for each recipient

July, 2015

• Improvements for the Read Receipts dashboard: You can now see in real time which email has been opened and if you select a specific row, you can see more insights such as the number of times a specific email have been opened and first and last time it was opened.

 

• Send different attachments to each recipient: You can upload your attachments (eg. PDFs) to Google Drive and add the URL of each attachment in a column of your sheet. YAMM will get the files from your Google Drive and send a copy as attachment of the email sent (see documentation).

June, 2015

• Released a new plan to let gmail.com users send emails to up to 400 recipients per 24 hours (instead of 100).
• Starred drafts will appear first in the list when you want to start a mail merge with YAMM

May, 2015

• Added real time reports of emails opened

April, 2015

• Added some checks to avoid being blacklisted by spam filters

Release notes for 2014

Dec, 2014

• Added templates to help people write beautiful emails.

Nov, 2014

• Added better processing of big batch of emails + real time notification of emails sent.

Oct, 2014

• Added the ability to send emails upon form submission as part of the release of installable triggers in add-ons by Google (see documentation)

Sept, 2014

• Added read receipts / email tracking (see documentation)

Aug, 2014

• Added paying plans to support the development of the add-on.

July, 2014

• The formatting you choose in your spreadsheet is now kept in the emails you send.

April, 2014

• The add-on has been translated in 19 languages.

March, 2014

• New release as a Google Sheet add-on (as part as the official launch of add-ons by Google)

Release notes for 2011

Oct, 2011

• The script is featured in a blog post on the Google Apps Developer blog: 4 ways to do Mail Merge using Google Apps Script

Sep, 2011

• First release in the Apps Script gallery