What Is This?
This is a utility that lets you easily test and verify if your email settings are working properly.
Who Wrote This App?
Dean @ The Computer Peeps wrote this. 🙂 It took about a day, much of that spent watching tutorials, reading, understanding, and practicing. This app is written in Visual Basic using Visual Studio 2010. It is compatible with Windows XP on up.
Why Did You Make This App?
One of the most common issues store owners encounter, is whether or not their email settings are correct. Many of the major consignment programs have had and continue to have problems sending emails. We frequently help store owners who have been told it’s them, it’s their settings, it’s their email provider, etc. Basically, everything but the consignment software.
So this utility lets a store owner easily prove if their email settings work properly and if they can send email from their current location.
Also, two of the major consignment software vendors avoided adding support for secure email servers for years. It took one line of code to enable SSL:
Now, the vendors might cry and moan about a variety of things – e.g. “You just copied and pasted this code!” or “You don’t know what it’s like to have to update existing code!” This application was written from scratch, by hand — not copied and pasted. Did I have to watch a few videos and practice a few times to grasp everything? Yep, but guess what — I’m not a programmer who you paid $1,200 to for professional software. I’m just a person who knows how lazy cheap programmers the consignment software vendors can be. Their customers should know that no, it doesn’t take days or weeks to write code that can send email using SSL/TLS. The people in a position to know this — i.e. the vendors — have a responsibility to know about these things ahead of time and to be proactive vs. ignoring things until finally, hundreds of users are affected.
How Much Does It Cost?
It’s free! Nada, nunca, nothing. 🙂 To obtain a copy of this utility, give us a buzz @ (888) 374-5422 or send us a message through our Contact Us form. This utility requires no installation and runs from wherever you download it to.
Notable Mentions
- This utility utilizes SSL/TLS, when a secure port is specified.
- This utility requires no installation – i.e. it’s portable.
Dean
I am a Software Developer, System Administrator, and consignment software specialist. I currently manage hundreds of consignment workstations, point of sale systems, and database servers all across North America and I am the developer of Peeps' Software, Peeps2Go, and Peeps' Consignor Login for iOS and Android. I've been helping consignment & resale store-owners since 2003. I started The Computer Peeps in February of 2010. Peeps' Software launched in 2016 and is now on hundreds of systems all across North America. I have successfully converted dozens of stores from all of the major consignment software systems. After 20 years of working with consignment stores, I understand the unique challenges consignment & resale store-owners face. From electrical issues in old buildings or strip malls, to advocating for them when their old consignment software keeps crashing.