History of MailList King Email Mailing List Management Software

Complete Change History

• Added: Enhanced Excel exporting method
• Added: You can now pause sending for a specified number of minutes
• Added: In message recipients dialog you can now export just sent or unsent recipients
• Added: Processing summary shown after batch processing update of email addresses
• Added: If errors are discovered while adding email addresses you can cancel out and edit them
• Added: If errors are discovered while updating email addresses you can cancel out and edit them
• Added: When exporting and printing you can opt to only output the selected members
• Added: Can now export the Notes and Member ID fields
• Added: Can now import contact notes
• Added: In History dialog can now export email only lists (i.e. without names)
• Added: Optimized generation of group membership lists for members
• Added: When exporting group membership is always sorted alphabetically
• Added: Faster designation of mime types for files
• Added: Much more accurate prediction of remaining times for all send methods
• Added: No longer shows stagger dialog for very short pauses
• Removed: No longer inherits some member sending option when upgrading from v5 or older
• Added: Keyboard control in Message Preview dialog
• Fixed: In a rare situation multithread SMTP engine may send via BCC field rather than To field
• Removed: No longer provide access to some options: AlwaysSendMultipartHTML, ShowProfileInSender
• Added: New options: AddMemberMessagesToMembersHistory, ExcludeUndeliverableWhenBlockingUnsubscribers
• Removed: No longer checks v3 and v4 settings paths
• Added: Much improved internal data handling for faster start up and lower memory footprint
• Fixed: Cannot specify full name column when importing from xls file with only two columns
• Fixed: Message editor bold, italics, underline buttons may not match current selection
• Fixed: When creating a new contact and overwriting an existing one the history may be inherited
• Added: More rigorous blocking of export of example members
• Fixed: Some problems overwriting members with the same email address
• Added: Ctrl+S to save changes in property panel in main window and member edit dialog
• Added: Personalization field defaults can have line breaks
• Fixed: May get duplicate entries in Removed Members table
• Added: Can click one group node to make it the selected node even if it is already part of a multiple selection
• Added: When "All Groups" is selected in a drop-down group node it no longer selects all nodes
• Added: In group combos clicking Ctrl+A will toggle the selection of all groups
• Added: Ctrl+E or Alt+Enter to show the multiline editor for custom fields
• Changed: If unsubscriber blocking is enabled for a group then they are blocked from subscribing to this group even if they are subscribed to other groups
• Fixed: Log file may not scroll to cursor position when searching for text
• Added: Now lists all groups that are recipients of a sending task (if there are not too many)
• Added: Improved layout of edit text dialog
• Changed: Comments field is now named "Notes"
• Fixed: All windows now display adequate hover hints
• Added: Now processes undeliverable in preference to out-of-office ones
• Fixed: In rare situation MLK may start up and not be in a mode
• Added: Debug log includes date header
• Added: Improved logging of undeliverable message processing
• Fixed: Country may not be imported correctly for some domains
• Fixed: In some situations when performing compound find queries it does not honour the "Match Whole Field" option
• Fixed: In some situations exported files do not include a header row
• Added: Improved Help documentation
• Fixed: May fail to export all members
• Fixed: Replace dialog may not save all settings
• Added: Can now perform contains/doesn't contain /after/before searches on custom fields
• Added: Complete overhaul of Custom Field handling. Now much faster, more accurate searching and more control over field types and editing
• Added: Date editor for editing date type custom fields
• Added: Member detail graph now supports custom fields
• Added: More accurate find with custom fields
• Added: Sending via Amazon's SES mailing service
• Added: Now when overwriting a contact you can view the details of the other user and can also merge details of both contacts
• Added: Can now archive completed sending tasks
• Added: Format painting
• Added: Can now filter recipients when sending to Excel or other recipient file
• Added: Get Addresses from Email Software is now a wizard
• Added: Member grid columns are now sizeable
• Added: Member grid has maximum width imposed on name columns
• Added: Member grid hints support multiline text
• Added: Multiline editor for custom fields
• Added: Can now display multiline editor for Address and Comments fields in main window member properties toolbar
• Added: Can now access an extra 70 mailing list options via the new "Extra Advanced Options" dialog
• Added: Improvements to layout of settings in Options dialogs
• Added: New Database tab in Options to centralize all mailing list settings
• Added: Now optimization settings are located in Options

V11.01 Change History

• Added: Faster export/backup where members only exist in one group
• Added: Optimized general group retrieval code for even faster backup/export
• Added: Now deletes opt-in confirmation that have been previously processed
• Added: Batch deleting now 40% faster
• Added: Optimized subscribing/importing of addresses
• Added: Database table now used for blocked addresses to make it much faster
• Added: New Blocked Addresses dialog for improved management of unwanted addresses and domains

  

• Added: Blocked addresses now display statistics about how often they have been encountered
• Added: "Find" function now available in blocked addresses list
• Added: Improved the toolbar in the History and Errors dialog
• Added: More cautious in retrieving SSL details from Outlook accounts
• Fixed: May be unable to specify the specify the email address for Amazon SES accounts
• Fixed: Sending profile editor may ask for an email address even when it is not required
• Added: Back up code to handle edge case where profile filename is invalid
• Changed: Outlook sending options are not disabled if Outlook is not a default sending method
• Added: New advanced option: DontGuessCountryForDomains
• Added: Faster Country and TLD lookup
• Added: When removing blocked addresses they are treated as deleted rather than unsubscribed
• Fixed: Domain unsubscribe history items may display oddly
• Added: Advanced function to copy database to another folder
• Added: Optimize dialog shows total database size
• Added: Before upgrading database it makes a copy of it
• Added: New Database Properties dialog with quick access to database tasks and statistics

  

• Changed: Performs full upgrade of mailing list (instead of quick upgrade)

V11.02 Change History

• Added: Now uses lookup table for much faster access to some common country data
• Added: New statistics information shown in DB Properties dialog
• Added: Can force re-import of v10 custom fields
• Added: Logging for sending profile errors
• Added: MLK message files now record the Profile ID and sender address if they have been changed from the default. These details are then assigned when loading the files into the editor
• Fixed: Error when displaying statistics dialog
• Fixed: Show processing summary may not disable
• Fixed: Add addresses from Outlook using toolbar may not add selected item
• Added: In TLD list it skips XN--* items

V11.03 Change History

• Added: Progress during database backup
• Fixed: Difficulty cancelling out of upgrade
• Added: Function to toggle checkbox selection of all members
• Added: Advanced option to ensure MLK can still connect to Outlook even if the Outlook base application class has not been defined
• Added: Automatically uses versioned Outlook application classes if the base class has not been defined
• Added: "Send to Addresses" in Responder Delayed Messages dialog now uses the custom reply address for that responder
• Added: Each group can now have its own reply address (for automated message delivery)

V11.04 Change History

• Fixed: MLK toolbar in Outlook may not show when in Contacts folder
• Changed: All columns are now left-aligned
• Fixed: When exporting group names may show as ID's
• Added: Falls back to standard deletion when permanent delete fails
• Changed: Always uses lowercase emails for Amazon SES delivery

V11.20 Change History

• Fixed: List index error when adding a sending profile
• Added: Can now specify a reminder message that is sent every x months to group members
• Added: Can now specify a folder that MLK will regularly check for compatible files and automatically import them
• Added: Can now specify a folder that MLK will regularly check for message files and send them to your mailing list
• Added: Now periodically clears the database lock file to prevent overage errors
• Added: New personalization field to insert a coded date which is not easily readable/modifiable by end-users but can be decoded by a web server
• Added: Can now disable delayed sending tasks when member activity has been detected
• Added: Much more accurate timing when using date shifting options for personalization fields
• Fixed: Date shifting is now supported for any custom fields if their type is specified as "Date"
• Added: MLK now lets you specify SMS recipients in SMTP format, e.g. "John Smith <012-345-678>"
• Fixed: Cannot use lowercase date shift parameters
• Added: Conditional text can now use date shifting, e.g. If more than 12 months since joining...
• Added: Third star status criterion: Length of membership
• Added: "Super Star" status
• Added: Star status displayed in member edit dialog
• Added: Revamped Other Filters mode to provide quick access to common and date based searches
• Fixed: Searches may not initialize correctly
• Fixed: In some situations unregistered text may appear in a message
• Added: Improvements to help file

V11.21 Change History

• Fixed: Personalization field selector may insert invalid dates
• Added: Now guesses first/last name even if unspecified in the database
• Added: Faster processing of personalization fields
• Fixed: May not read first/last name from the database if a full name has been supplied
• Fixed: Cannot have spaces when using SetMemberField command
• Added: New personalization fields: Current Day, Current Month and Current Year (all support date shifting)
• Added: Now and custom formatting for personalized date is saved with each send task and message
• Changed: Now prompts regarding database upgrade before making a back-up copy
• Changed: No longer shows progress for each command in an xscript unless there are many
• Fixed: Screen refreshing while processing many files during an auto-import
• Added: Advanced function in mode right-click menu to process daily tasks immediately
• Added: Options to auto-individualize batch sending is now in the "Sending" tab
• Fixed: Custom drawn combo boxes may not draw correctly if windows font scaling is used
• Added: No longer reads database personalization fields for member headers and footers as they will related to the sender
• Added: Attachments paths in automated messages can also use personalization fields
• Added: Now always checks that the date time format has not changed
• Added: Uses the categories assigned to a distribution list as the group equivalent, otherwise uses the distribution name
• Added: When updating an email address in the Edit Member dialog you can optionally send an acknowledgement
• Fixed: Missing mlk_cust file error when upgrading
• Fixed: Failed.txt error on new start up
• Fixed: Integer conversion error on start up