Trados Business Manager – End of Life Announcement

Trados Business Manager (TBM) has reached end of life. Following the discontinuation of TBM sales on 31 October 2023, all maintenance and support services will conclude on 31 October 2024.
What Does This Mean for TBM Users?

  • End of Services: RWS will no longer provide any services related to the installation or updating of TBM.
  • Existing Installations: TBM will remain functional where already installed, but the RWS support team will not offer assistance in troubleshooting issues, addressing reported problems, or providing further development for TBM.
  • Documentation: The TBM documentation has been removed from docs.rws.com.
  • Community Support: The community forum for TBM will remain accessible in a read-only format for users to reference if needed.

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Mail sender

Trados Business Manager allows to sent e-mails right from with the program. Mail sender supports messages templates, which allows to compose messages much faster.

This feature is used in many cases, for example::

  • to send generated invoices to your clients
  • to send payment reminders to your clients
  • to send job offers or confirmations to vendors
  • to deliver projects to clients
  • etc.

To be able to send e-mails, it is needed to setup mailbox properties. You may use a many mailboxes as needed, while one e-mail account can be selected as default.

  1. Go to Reference data > E-mail accounts.
  2. Create new account by clicking New.
  3. Fill-in the opened form with your e-mail settings.
    Here you provide sender name (what recipient will see in the From field), e-mail address, login (which is usually the same as e-mail address, password, SMTP server and port).
  4. Optionally, mark Require SSL check-box.

You may get detailed information about these settings from your e-mail provider. Also, e-mail account editing form contains a hint with default settings for the most famous providers.