Dada Mail 6.3.0 - Changelog

What's new in Dada Mail 6.3.0:

April 11th, 2013

· More Security Safeguards in the Subscription Confirmation Process
· Keep your subscribers safe and happy with the new confirmation system
· Tracker: now track email addresses for Opens/Clickthroughs!
· Gain more insight on how well your campaigns are working
· Amazon SES Third Party Email Service: setup now vastly simplified!
· Turbo charge your mass mailing speed rates and size
· Extended Gravatar Support
· Add more personal touches to your archives
· Geo IP databases Updated
· Keep your message analytics data current
· Cascading Stylesheet Block to Inline Converter (experimental)
· Ensure that your HTML message formatting looks the best in as many places as possible

What's new in Dada Mail 6.2.2:

March 30th, 2013

· This version fixes bugs found in the 6.2.1 version of Dada Mail.
· It's a suggested upgrade for anyone running 6.2.1 or lower.

What's new in Dada Mail 6.2.0:

March 12th, 2013

· This version features more work on detecting automated link fetching, in regards to sub/unsub confirmation links.
· This automated link fetching can change the status of a subscription, without the subscriber's actual input or knowledge.
· A simple system is in place to detect if subscription requests and confirmations are coming from differing IP addresses, and a simple safeguard has been put in place to halt the automated system from changing the status of the subscriber.

What's new in Dada Mail 6.1.1:

February 28th, 2013

· This version includes important security enhancements to the link confirmation system, which is used for confirming subscriptions and unsubscriptions to mailings lists.
· A totally random token/session system was adopted, replacing the ageing two-way string hash system (symmetric) - the latter having theoretically a very weak defense over any real attempt at cracking it.
· Upgrading is recommended.

What's new in Dada Mail 6.0.0:

January 3rd, 2013

· This version features better email analytics, allowing you to discover information by campaign and IP address, as well as more interactive charts and graphs.
· There's better handling of bounced messages, with new, clearer rules; a complete migration from Protototype to jQuery; a more sophisticated Web-based installer that can move over commonly set global configurations from previous installations; and the ability to easily create discussion mailing lists using email forwarding instead of using a POP3 address, making performance and email delivery of discussion lists much quicker.

What's new in Dada Mail 5.2.1 / 6.0.0 Beta 1:

November 22nd, 2012

· This major release features a more intelligent installer, better message analytics (including breakdown of subscriber events (link clicks, opens, bounces, etc.) by country, State, City, and IP address), and an updated UI powered by jQuery.

What's new in Dada Mail 5.2.1:

August 18th, 2012

· This version primarily contains fixes for problems with the bundled KCFinder's ability to browser and upload files.

What's new in Dada Mail 5.2.0:

August 1st, 2012

· This version focuses on WYSIWYG editors, which allow you to author your HTML email messages in rich text from within the List Control Panel.
· It comes bundled with three different WYSIWYG editors: CKEditor, Tiny MCE, and FCKeditor. KCfinder, an image/file browser/uploader, is also bundled.
· Dragging and dropping images to be used in your email messages is also supported.
· All these utilities can be installed easily using the included Dada Mail Installer.

What's new in Dada Mail 5.1.0:

June 1st, 2012

· This version features three new plugins: a plugin to change a Mailing List's short name, a plugin to help manage Apache-style password protected directories, and a plugin to set default text/copy when sending out mass mailings.
· It also has major enhancements to Dada Mail's Profiles, giving you the ability to enable/disable major features of Profiles to suite your taste.
· Auto-Adjusting sending speeds for Amazon SES mail sending have been added.
· Finally, Dada Mail's invitation feature now allows you to see who you've already invited, and gives you a choice to not re-invite these addresses.

What's new in Dada Mail 5.0.3:

May 8th, 2012

· This version contains primarily bugfixes found in the v5.0.2 release of Dada Mail.
· Many of the issues fixed deal with Discussion Mailing Lists.

What's new in Dada Mail 5.0.2:

April 24th, 2012

· This version primarily contains fixes for bugs found in 5.0.1.

What's new in Dada Mail 5.0.0:

March 20th, 2012

· This version features a redesigned and improved layout/design and a completely redesigned UI for the Membership: View screen of Dada Mail, allowing you to more easily manage your complete mailing list.

What's new in Dada Mail 5.0.0 RC3:

March 8th, 2012

· This is a continued polishing of Dada Mail to get ready for the imminent stable release.

What's new in Dada Mail 5.0.0 Beta 1:

February 16th, 2012

· This version features a complete redesign of the UI to bring it up to date and make it easier and more enjoyable to use.

What's new in Dada Mail 4.8.4:

November 22nd, 2011

· This version fixed a number of issues, including a big memory leak that happened whenever you mass mail an HTML email message, regardless of how it was first created.
· This memory leak could grow from many 100s of megabytes to gigabytes of memory within a few thousand messages, potentially kill off the sending process, and more likely than not, slow down mass mailing by over 10%.

What's new in Dada Mail 4.8.3:

October 25th, 2011

· This version fixed a number of issues, including a problem with stripping Cc: and Bcc: headers from messages in discussion mailing lists.

What's new in Dada Mail 4.8.0:

September 29th, 2011

· This version has around two dozen bug fixes.
· Email messages dealing with discussion lists and moderation can now be edited on a per-list basis within the list control panel of the Dada Bridge Plugin.

What's new in Dada Mail 4.6.0:

August 8th, 2011

Features 4.6.0:
· Amazon SES Mail Sending Support
See Also:
· Forward to a Friend
More Information:

Unsubscribe Tag/Link Flexibility:
· New Plugin: Mailing Monitor
See Also:
· Install Plugins/Extensions with the Dada Mail Installer
· See Also

Changes 4.6.0:
· Better-Written Mailing List Message Templates
· Social Bookmarking Links Updated
· GeoIP data updated

Bug Fixes 4.6.0:
· POP3 Login Paramaters not getting passed correctly?

What's new in Dada Mail 4.6.0 Alpha 2:

July 29th, 2011

· This version features support for sending messages with Amazon SES, as well as support for installing included plugins and extensions with the Dada Mail installer.

What's new in Dada Mail 4.5.2:

July 14th, 2011

Features:

· New Plugin! Tracker
· More Information

Changes:

· clickthrough_tracker.cgi plugin removed
· Subscriber and # Mailing Lists Quotas changes

Bug Fixes:

· Bounce Handler: link to view individual email address's bounce information goes to screen w/server error
· Link to Add Authorized Senders not available if they're aren't any, yet
· Advanced Sending Preferences: Unable to change three settings
· Dadaized FormMail.pl - syntax errors?

What's new in Dada Mail 4.5.0:

May 13th, 2011

· A new plugin called Tracker was added.
· Tracker helps you understand what happens after you've sent a mass mailing out, allowing you to view trends in mass mailing campaign opens, clickthroughs, and bounces, even while the mailing is being sent out.
· Charts, visual graphs, and .csv exports of the data collected are available.

What's new in Dada Mail 4.4.3:

March 23rd, 2011

· Closed-Loop Opt-In Subscription Not Enforced by Default, Anymore
· Dada Bridge: Reply and Reply-All Behavior
· View List: "Open List in New Window" button renamed to, "Download List"
· View List: Email Your List Button is Gone
· Log View: Download the Raw Log
· Installer: Old Screen Cache Files Removed
· Template System: initial "tmpl_set support", template wrapping
· AJAX: internal changes
· Mailing Monitor: AJAX
· Subscription/Unsubscription Custom URL Redirect API Change
· Web Services Examples
· Test Mass Mailings, Mail Merging
· blank "Verify" screen when adding/removing addresses in the list control panel
· Email Address submitted with mixed cases can break the unsubscription mechanism
· Sending Test Messages does not pick up on any profile fields of the test recipients email address
· Beatitude: Yearly repeating schedules repeat in less than a year
· Multiple use of parameters in redirect to URL
· Discussion List Reply/Reply-All behaviour is broken

What's new in Dada Mail 4.4.2:

March 1st, 2011

Bug Fixes:

· Saving archive options -> Can't locate object method "save_w_meta"
· "Download List (CSV)" doesn't work
· "what_is_dada_mail" screen returns back Server Error
· DADA::MailingList::Subscribers::add_subscriber() "-dupe_check" option not documented, tested
· Duplicate email addresses can be subscribed in list control panel in last step -
· "Delete List" screen will show Server Error, once you delete a list
· Screen after you fill out the form to create a new list is completely blank
· Beatitude/List Backup/Restore: Attempting to restore a blank scheduled mailing will result in an error
· Beatitude: Schedules backed up at each schedule run
· Restore Lists: Popup menus can have the wrong information
· redirect tags not looked for validity in the URL
· "I know these tables already exist." label doesn't toggle checkbox in installer
· grammar error in Mailing List Options screen s/subscription/unsubscription/

What's new in Dada Mail 4.4.1:

February 22nd, 2011

Changes:

· Dada Bridge SpamAssassin 3 Support Added

Bug Fixes:

· Subscriber Search screen does not ever show the, "Subscription Requests" link/button
· Can't locate object method "cache_dir" via package "self" - error
· signing into a single list (via f=sign_in) produces an error.
· Editing an Archive screen sometimes returns back a, "Method Not Allowed" error

What's new in Dada Mail 4.4.0:

February 16th, 2011

Changes 4.4.0:

· Closed-Loop Opt-In Subscription Not Enforced by Default, Anymore
· Code Cleanup

· Mass Mailing: Better Error Reporting

· Dada Bridge: Reply and Reply-All Behavior
· View List: "Open List in New Window" button renamed to, "Download List"
· View List: Email Your List Button is Gone
· Log View: Download the Raw Log
· Installer: Old Screen Cache Files Removed
· Template System: initial "tmpl_set support", template wrapping

· AJAX: internal changes
· Mailing Monitor: AJAX
· Subscription/Unsubscription Custom URL Redirect API Change
· Web Services Examples
· Test Mass Mailings, Mail Merging

Bug Fixes 4.4.0:

· blank "Verify" screen when adding/removing addresses in the list control panel
· Email Address submitted with mixed cases can break the unsubscription mechanism
· Sending Test Messages does not pick up on any profile fields of the test recipients email address
· Beatitude: Yearly repeating schedules repeat in less than a year
· Multiple use of parameters in redirect to URL
· Discussion List Reply/Reply-All behaviour is broken

What's new in Dada Mail 4.3.2:

January 18th, 2011

· This version includes minor bugfixes and new documentation on upgrading from a Simple Scripts installation.

What's new in Dada Mail 4.3.0:

November 29th, 2010

· This version presents a more tightly integrated and streamlined system to allow people to manage a mailing list and follow best practices, making running the Closed-Loop Opt In mailing list a whole lot easier.

What's new in Dada Mail 4.2.1:

October 5th, 2010

· This version includes minor bugfixes.

What's new in Dada Mail 4.2.0:

August 25th, 2010

Dada Mail Installer:

· Installation Terminology Changes

Setup Info Screen:

· $ADMIN_MENU Changes
· MySQL 4-specific schema REMOVED

Bug Fixes:

· Profile Email Addresses aren't normalized for case sensitivity
· PlainText Backend - subscribed addresses with a, ' (single quote) will disrupt subscriptions

What's new in Dada Mail 4.1.0:

June 10th, 2010

Changes:

· Screen Cache Working Again, Enabled by Default
· Enabled by Default
· Changes to the $ADMIN_MENU
More information:
· Optimizations in Mass Mailing Speeds
· Social Bookmarking/Link Sharing Buttons for archive screens Enabled by Default

Bug Fixes:

· Missing closing, "" HTML tag in profile_update_email_confirm.tmpl
· Profile email updates cannot happen on closed lists
· Unpaired divs in list_page_screen.tmpl
· Can't view archived attachments
· Slashes in pin for subscribe/unsubsribe links invaidates pin
· "Send Subscribers to List Owner" function not very friendly to use

What's new in Dada Mail 4.0.3:

March 8th, 2010

· Unicode/UTF-8 Work
· SQL table schema changes!
See Also:
· Changes to Default List Settings
· Activate Black List
· Print List-Specific Headers option Removed
· Send Unsubscription Confirmation Emails (Closed-Loop Opt-Out) - disabled by default

· Subscription and Unsubscription links now include an Email Address
· Unsubscription Links Now Mandatory for Mass Mailing Messages

Bug Fixes:

· Send newest archived message may have outdated header information
· pop3 username/password not saved when "Save, Then Test..." button pressed in Sending Preferences
· Beatitude: Months are listed out of order
· profile field names can contain more than just ascii letters, numbers and underscores
· list short names can contain more than just ascii letters, numbers and underscores
· Beatitude: Scheduled List Not in Any Useable Order?
· Dada Bridge: Spam Assassin Level Picker isn't available
· Sending Preferences don't correctly state if you can use Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for POP-before-SMTP
· Double Subscriptions when using List Invitation
· Archived messages not templated out in publicly displayed archives
· Link to edit subscriber information broken when using the search
· Unsubsciption Notice to List Owner doesn't have subscriber (profile) fields
· Disabled Menu items return server error when using the, "Classic" session type

What's new in Dada Mail 3.0.1:

November 26th, 2008

· This release fixes over 20 bugs since the 3.0.0 release, and is meant to be as easy to upgrade from 3.0.0 as possible.

What's new in Dada Mail 3.0.1 Beta 1:

November 11th, 2008

· This release features over 20 bugfixes.