Changes 4.0.2

Dada Bridge: "Allow Open Discussion List" option always viewable
Dada Bridge: New Plugin Config Param: Check_Multiple_From_Addresses
Mail Sending - "broken pipe" catch removed

Bug Fixes 4.0.2

confirmation pins with '/' as the first character break the confirmation process
Dada Bridge: "Deliver a Copy" isn't working
pop3_username paramater not passed to sending_preferences.tmpl
Dada Bridge: From: header validation can be spoofed
Use One SMTP Connection per Batch (Experimental) unsaveable?

4.0.1

Changes 4.0.1

New Documentation
New MySQL 4 Specific Schema
DB Backup to SQL List Settings import script added
Misc. Changes

Bug Fixes 4.0.1

Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) cannot be checked in the Sending
"List Password Reset" email message cannot be over-rided
MySQL schema isn't compatible with MySQL 4
Bounce Message reports that put email addresses in brackets <> can't be parsed?
Wrong version numbers in 3.x to 4.x migration assistant
parse_for_windows_live suboutine is broken
SQL Backend Clickthrough Tracker still requires a DBM package

4.0.0

Changes 4.0.0
4.0.0 Features

CPAN Perl Libraries
API

Dada Mail Changelog for version 4.x.x

4.0.2

Changes 4.0.2

Dada Bridge: "Allow Open Discussion List" option always viewable

For whatever reason, the, "Allow Open Discussion List" option wasn't viewable, until you first enabled discussion lists. It will now *always* be viewable, as long as the Plugin Config Param, Allow_Open_Discussion_List is set to, 1

Dada Bridge: New Plugin Config Param: Check_Multiple_From_Addresses

A new Plugin Config Paramater called, Check_Multiple_From_Addresses has been added and has a default value of, 1. When enabled, messages that have more than one sender aren't supported by Dada Bridge and these messages will be ignored.

Set this paramater to, 0 to revert to the previous behavior.

Mail Sending - "broken pipe" catch removed

Dada Mail had a very simple test to make sure mail using the sendmail command was successful, by looking at any error messages created from sending mail this way. If a, "broken pipe" message was found while sending a mass mailing, a mass mailing would be stopped, and would be picked up and sending would be attempted starting at the same address that gave the error. The complete logged error may look like this:

        [Mon Jan  4 16:40:08 2010] mail.cgi: Pro Dada 4.0.1 Warning: 
        [Mon Jan  4 16:40:08 2010] mail.cgi:                          didn't close pipe to '|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -fbounces@example.com' while 
        [Mon Jan  4 16:40:08 2010] mail.cgi:                          attempting to send a message to: '"My Mailing List" <me@example.com> because:' Broken pipe at ..//DADA/MailingList/Schedules.pm line 808
        [Mon Jan  4 16:40:08 2010] mail.cgi: Broken Pipe error! returning -1 - Mass Mailing should be exit()ed! at ..//DADA/MailingList/Schedules.pm line 808
        [Mon Jan  4 16:40:08 2010] mail.cgi: [listshortname]  Mailout:<20100104164007.54315974@nicky510.com> Bailing out of Mailing for now - last message was unable to be sent! exit()ing! at ..//DADA/MailingList/Schedules.pm line 808

This behavior is problematic, since the, "broken pipe" error can happen, even if a message (or part of a message) is actually sent. Sometimes this happens if you have a message that contains a dot by itself on one line, like this:

If this is problematic to you (messages being cut off because of a lone dot on one line) and you're using the sendmail command to send messages, consider changing the $MAIL_SETTINGS and, $MASS_MAIL_SETTINGS Config variables to include the, -i flag, like this:

 $MAIL_SETTINGS      = "|$MAILPROG -t -i";
 $MASS_MAIL_SETTINGS = "|$MAILPROG -t -i";

Bug Fixes 4.0.2

confirmation pins with '/' as the first character break the confirmation process

http://github.com/justingit/dada-mail/issues/closed/#issue/6

4.0.1

Changes 4.0.1

New Documentation

The following topics were added to the documentation:

New MySQL 4 Specific Schema

A MySQL Schema specifically for MySQL 4 is now shipped with Dada Mail at:

dada/extras/SQL/mysql4_schema.sql

DB Backup to SQL List Settings import script added

Although not heavily documented (yet), a DB Backup to SQL script has been added to the distribution at:

dada/extras/scripts/dada_settings_backup_to_sql.pl

Misc. Changes

New List Screen
The, New List Screen has been giving minor formatting tweaks.
Caching for DADA::ProfileFieldsManager
Some work has been done to speed up DADA::ProfileFieldsManager by caching.

Bug Fixes 4.0.1

Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) cannot be checked in the Sending

http://github.com/justingit/dada-mail/issues/closed#issue/1

"List Password Reset" email message cannot be over-rided

http://github.com/justingit/dada-mail/issues/closed#issue/2

MySQL schema isn't compatible with MySQL 4

http://github.com/justingit/dada-mail/issues/closed#issue/4

Bounce Message reports that put email addresses in brackets <> can't be parsed?

http://github.com/justingit/dada-mail/issues/closed#issue/5

Wrong version numbers in 3.x to 4.x migration assistant

http://github.com/justingit/dada-mail/issues/closed#issue/7

parse_for_windows_live suboutine is broken

http://github.com/justingit/dada-mail/issues/closed#issue/8

SQL Backend Clickthrough Tracker still requires a DBM package

http://github.com/justingit/dada-mail/issues/closed#issue/9

4.0.0

Changes 4.0.0

4.0.0 Features

Multiple List Sending
Support has be re-introduced to allow Multiple List Sending. See the separate docs on this feature:

feature-multiple_list_sending.pod.html
Subscriber Profiles
Please see the docs specifically about Dada Mail Subscriber Profiles:

feature-profiles.pod.html
Subscriber Profile Field Labels
You can now have a, "Label" to your Subscriber Profile Field. A label is what's visibly shown and is not now created from the field's name.
Subscription Approval System (Experimental)
You can now have an, "open to all to subscribe" mailing list, that still requires approval from the list owner.

Please see the docs specifically about this new feature:

features-subscription_approval.pod.html
Slightly better UTF-8 support.
This version of Dada Mail is currently shipped with all charsets and encodings to, "UTF-8", but Dada Mail itself is far from support this character set completely.

This is because it is hard.

Please see the docs specifically about this new feature:

features-UTF-8.pod.html
Twitter Support
Yup. Dada Mail can Tweet. More information:

features-twitter_support.pod
CKeditor Support (Experimental)
We're experimenting with bringing CKeditor support to Dada Mail. Please see the embedded Config.pm docs about this:

Config.pm.html#ckeditor_integration____ckeditor_url__experimental__
Mass Mailings keep their own log
This means, that anything about the mass mailing is logged for that specific mass mailing - this should hopefully make debugging a little bit easier.
View the Mass Mailing Log from the Mailing Monitor
There's a new link entitled, "Open Mass Mailing Log in a New Window -> "

This functionality is currently extremely rough, but is a pretty easy way to see what, in fact, is going on.
Slightly Smarter Error Handling for failing sendmail mailings
We've started catching sendmail errors and, if we find an error, we'll exit out of the sending process, for the message to be automatically picked up and the last email that had a problem, to be tried again. It's currently not perfect, but it's a very small step forward.
Clone Settings
You can now clone the settings from one list, to another list, in the, "Create a New List" screen.
Remove All Subscribers
You can now Remove all subscribers at once in the, Manage List - View Subscribers screen.
prototype.js/Scriptalicious Support
For the most part, AJAX stuff in Dada Mail has been replaced by the prototype.js and Scriptalicious Javascript Libraries.
Black List Matching
If it wasn't clear or official before, it should be now:

The black list matching does not work with matching strings, but will only work to match the user or domain of an email address or the entire email address. These are valid black list entries:
- matchthis@
- @matchthis
- matchthis
- matchthis@example.com
Plugins Beatitude - Fetch message from URL has same options as, "Send a Webpage"
Mostly meaning, you can embed images within the email message itself.
Plugins Mystery Girl
You can now specify the Port Number of the POP3 mail server
Plugins - Dada Bridge
Simple moderation support is included, to Authorized to moderate messages.
Plugins - Clickthrough Tracker
The Clickthrough Tracker now has a new SQL backend option for the URL redirect list.

The log is still in PlainText.
Extensions - Update Subscriptions - REMOVED
The update_subscriptions.cgi extension has been removed, as its features have been superceded by the Dada Profiles feature. And then some.

CPAN Perl Libraries

The CPAN Perl Libraries needed for Dada Mail are now being saved within the Git Repository of Dada Mail. We don't know if this is the greatest idea, since we don't really plan on making changes to this modules. But, we're doing it. If any problems occur, please report!

API

There are many new modules in Dada Mail's backend, including:

DADA::Profile
DADA::Profile::Fields
DADA::Profile::Session
DADA::ProfileFieldsManager
DADA::MailingList::Subscriber
DADA::MailingList::Subscriber::Validate