Dada Mail 7.3.0
14 October 2014
Dada Mail version 7.3.0 is now available (major release).
Upgrading to Dada Mail 7.3.0
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What's New in Dada Mail 7.3.0
Features
- Experimental Web Services API: In a nutshell, these new webservices give you administrative power to validate and subscribe addresses, unsubscribe addresses get and set list settings and send out mass mailings from another application easily and securely. Here's the full docs on our new Experimental Web Services API: http://dadamailproject.com/d/features-restful_web_services.pod.html
- Amazon SES Abuse Reports Handled Automatically: Dada Mail has had support for submitting and logging abuse complaints, but up to now, it's something the subscriber would have to do manually. If you're using Amazon SES for sending, abuse complaints received through this service will be sent to Dada Mail as a bounced message. Dada Mail is now able to read this complaint reports correctly, and automatically log the complaint. (Before, these complaints were simply ignored - yikes!) When a complaint is received to the Bounce Handler as a bounce message, Bounce Handler will log it and this complaint will be viewable from within the Tracker plugin's message reports. An email will also be sent to the List Owner, giving details about the complaint and allowing the List Owner to easily remove the Subscriber's email address from the mailing list, by simply clicking a link. To take full advantage of all this, you will need to be sending with Amazon SE and have both the Bounce Handler and Tracker plugins installed. Dealing with complaints is important, especially when using a third party email service provider, like Amazon SES. We hope this enhancement will help make running a mailing list with Amazon SES a little smoother sailing.
- Amazon SES Warnings about Unverified Senders: If you're using Amazon SES with Dada Mail, you know that you need to verify the List Owner and List Administror of your mailing list, or your messages won't be sent out, properly. This is sometimes an easy thing to forget to do. If you do forget to this, whole mass mailings can fail. Dada Mail now does a much better job alerting the List Owner about such problems, showing warnings about such misconfigurations in the list control panel, as well as given them an easy way to verify these addresses. Here's an overview on using Dada Mail with Amazon SES: http://dadamailproject.com/d/features-amazon_ses_support.pod.html
- Rich Text Editor Upgrades: The Rich Text Editor upgrades make sure Dada Mail is running the latest versions of these third-party add-ons, with the latest features, bugfixes and resolved security issues. CKeditor upgraded to v4.4.5. TinyMCE upgraded to v4.1.5.
- File Browser/Uploader Upgrades: The File Browser/Uploader upgrades make sure Dada Mail is running the latest versions of these third-party add-ons, with the latest features, bugfixes and resolved security issues. KCFinder upgraded to v3.12. Core5 Filemanger upgraded to v1.4.0.
- Installer: Support for Secure Program URL
- CAPTCHA support for List Password Reset: Many users have told us that the List Password reset form is being used to send List Owner's an email message to reset the List Password. Although useful for the List Owner, it's not so useful is someone or something happens to use the form. Now, a CAPTCHA is in place, to help stop automated bots from submitting the form.
Changes
- Bridge: On Behalf Of (p.p. mode)
- Bridge's default From: header phrase is now vastly simplified, and no header comment is added anymore.
- The From: header is now set to the List Email, rather than the List Owner
- The List Owner's address will also undergo the header rewriting (before it did not).
- Update Geo IP Databases: Dada Mail uses Geo IP databases to bring you wonderful maps, plotting the data culled by the Tracker plugin. This release has updated Dada Mail's included databases to the most up to date version. This product includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com.
Bugfixes
- Advanced Search and Partial Sending shows incorrect results with non-Latin characters - https://github.com/justingit/dada-mail/issues/463
- CGI.pm (version 4.04) latest - https://github.com/justingit/dada-mail/issues/461