History of MailList King Email Mailing List Management Software

Complete Change History

• Added: When setting multiple retries with the SMTP server, you can now choose to send via Outlook on the final attempt
• Added: In View Recipients of Task dialog a function is now available to toggle the sent status of an address or entire domain
• Added: Better support for guessing surnames that use common European prefixes such as del, von, etc.
• Added: Now when optimizing the database is checks for orphaned members
• Added: Now can specify multiple addresses and domains that are permitted to send to your mailing list
• Added: New Option: Always show preview of message before sending
• Changed: Styling of progress dialog (more windows like)
• Added: Much faster when deleting large numbers of members
• Added: New progress animations for processing tasks
• Added: Much faster when updating user counts
• Changed: Much faster processing when changing the group membership of a lot of users or a lot of groups
• Changed: Faster method for updating the membership counts for groups
• Changed: Now uses a new History table rather than the separate member history field and Log table. This make processing much quicker and provides easier access to all information
• Added: New right-click function to send just to the selected addresses
• Added: Now supports grouping of group memberships by 3, 6 and 12 months
• Added: Can now specify Custom HTML format message signatures and headers and footers for messages forwarded from members
• Added: New From field in message sending dialog so can quickly change the sending address
• Added: Drop down lists for To, CC, BCC fields in sending dialog so can quickly select recently used addresses
• Changed: Closing MLK and display and closure of the Options dialog is now significantly faster due to buffering (20x as fast)
• Added: Now includes native spell checking
• Added: Can now also search by group on the Filter groups tab (so you can perform sub-query searches that include group membership)
• Added: Faster when changing tabs
• Added: Can now specify domains that MLK should ignore when processing mailing list messages (such as your own domain)
• Added: New special web form actions to explicitly set the group membership and/or address details of members
• Added: Can now modify/update email addresses using web forms
• Added: All web form actions support specification of a Member ID in place of an email address
• Added: Special index to group table for faster iteration
• Added: New indexes to stats table for faster display of data
• Added: Now optionally saves a copy of the message that was used to subscribe a user (may be required by data retention policy)
• Added: Enhanced memory manager
• Added: Now when filtering you can specify multiple items to search for, e.g. Country: France,Germany,Spain
• Added: Vacation Mode: Members can now temporarily disable message delivery
• Added: Three new columns: Activity Count, Last Activity Date and Vacation mode
• Added: New custom filters, members e-mailed since..., members active since..., members not active since... and members on vacation
• Added: Much faster display of all mailing list, group membership and activity graphs
• Added: Now send log is more informative about the recipients of a message (e.g. listing the groups)
• Added: Now can group data in the group membership statistics by week, month, quarter or year
• Added: Now supports embedded images even if they contain spaces
• Added: Can now specify custom text in your message based on database values (e.g. if Country=USA then... otherwise...)
• Added: Now always fixes background images that are not enclosed in quotations
• Added: Faster at calculating the next sending time
• Added: Now batch sends all automated messages
• Added: Now when automated messages fail they are automatically retried
• Added: Now supports background images used in table cells (<TD> tags)
• Changed: Improved many of the button images used in the application
• Added: Now the active sending tasks is a separate window that can be left open
• Added: Can now print group and membership activity details from the Statistics dialog
• Added: Can now export, copy and print member records
• Added: Sending tasks grid now supports multiple selections
• Added: Can now specify the columns that are displayed in the sending tasks window
• Added: Can now review and resend acknowledgments and member's messages that encountered sending errors
• Added: Sending task dialog now supports the following keyboard shortcuts, Delete, Ctrl+A and Ctrl+Enter
• Added: Acknowledgement messages can now be disabled for specific groups
• Added: Double Opt-In confirmations can now be disabled for specific groups
• Added: Can now schedule welcome and auto responses to be sent after a certain number of hours, days or weeks
• Added: When restarting sending tasks it resends to all recipients that have not been successfully sent to
• Added: Now accurately counts the successful sends, even when sending to multiple recipients per message
• Added: Much easier to send to remaining recipients when some messages fail to send
• Added: Sending summary now displays the percentage of successful deliveries
• Added: Summary columns to sending tasks grid: Success Rate and Sending Progress
• Added: Right click menu to the sending task dialog
• Added: New dialog displays all properties of the current sending task
• Added: Movable toolbars to the Sending tasks dialog
• Added: A Pause Sending button on the send progress dialog lets you leave delivery of a task till later
• Added: More information now output in the sending log sent by email
• Added: MLK will now automatically retry to send failed automated messages a specified number of times
• Added: Sending progress dialogs always show the success rate (and number of failures)
• Added: If there are failed recipients when the send summary is displayed it confirms whether to try to resend to the failures
• Added: Sending tasks dialog now displays the last error that was encountered
• Added: When setting multiple retires with the SMTP server, you can now choose to send via Outlook on the final attempt
• Added: Now supports use of personalization fields when unsubscribing
• Added: Arabic and Turkish acknowledgement result strings
• Added: Now can block undeliverable addresses from being added back to the database
• Changed: Now encodes all strings added to the log table details field to significantly reduce the size of the table
• Changed: Now encodes all strings added to the log table insertion info field to significantly reduce the size of the table
• Changed: Now when trying to open a database in a folder where none exists it prompts if you want to open your last used database
• Added: New dialog for creation of databases allows a name to be specified and whether the database indexes are compressed or not
• Added: Now supports addresses with mailto: prefixes, e.g. John Smith
• Changed: Now even when load or paste a custom list of recipients it will look up their personalization fields in the database
• Added: Now can copy addresses, log entries, etc from the Logs and Errors dialog using Ctrl+C
• Added: Optimize dialog now also deletes old error records
• Added: Can now send acknowledgements when reprocessing erroneous entries
• Added: Can now send double opt-in confirmations when reprocessing erroneous entries
• Added: Now remembers your last selection for sending of acknowledgements and opt-in confirmations in all dialogs
• Added: When using the find function to locate a user, if the user has been removed, all removal details for the user are displayed
• Added: Can now search for specific addresses in the removed list
• Added: Now remembers setting for Exclude unsubscribed addresses from sending
• Added: Spell checking option available when creating acknowledgements and welcome messages
• Changed: Now if the unsubscriber blocking option is enabled it also blocks members deleted by the administrator
• Added: Now show search progress in the status bar
• Added: Now stores the character set encoding for each message individually
• Added: Now MLK message files save the character set encoding for the message
• Added: Now records the number of times a user has tried to subscribe to each group
• Added: Can now use %GROUP% in messages to specify the selected groups
• Added: Can now exclude entire domains from sending of messages
• Added: Can now disable the single click sending button when sending messages (better if you always schedule send)
• Added: Now records the last time and the number of times the user has been active
• Added: Can now double click items in the user history to display them
• Added: Can now launch the message used to subscribe a user in the User history
• Added: History items for sending of subscription information, group information and vacation mode
• Changed: When date fields are not wide enough it does not output the time
• Added: Acknowledgement messages can now display different text if the action was successful
• Added: Now displays next sending time on information tab
• Added: Send to remaining recipients button in view recipients dialog
• Added: Hidden option to output a CSV detailing the success/failure for every recipient
• Added: Success rate displayed during validation of address progress
• Added: Now resizes the multithreaded SMTP progress based on the number of threads and recipients
• Added: Can now disable auto-resizing of columns to fit
• Fixed: May get errors while optimizing table if group tab is visible
• Fixed: Not correctly reading default field values
• Fixed: When editing a folder processing task, group defaults to ALL
• Fixed: In some weird situations can create group names with leading or trailing spaces
• Added: In Group membership dialog now has links for select all, deselect all, etc
• Fixed: Sometimes does not remember your default font when you display the message editor
• Changed: Signature now displayed in your default font
• Fixed: When deleting old sending tasks using the Optimize function it doesn't clear the temporary database file
• Fixed: May get an error if try to filter by certain countries
• Fixed: May get overlapping controls in the log display window
• Changed: Folder selector no longer shows hierarchy lines
• Changed: Now loads all animations from a resource DLL
• Changed: Progress dialog now more informative
• Added: Internal blocking of Xequte addresses
• Added: Gender as a default custom field
• Fixed: Theoretical issue on certain windows versions where a trailing space on setting string could cause settings to be lost
• Added: When change option blocking multiple group membership it advises that existing membership is not affected
• Changed: Default display for membership groups is weekly
• Fixed: When combining display in group membership activity chart it may not add all values for each period
• Fixed: When use navigation buttons when display group charts it may not change dates correctly
• Added: When double clicking a removed user it shows details on all removals for that user
• Fixed: Some options display an error if specifying an SMTP formatted address with a full name
• Added: No longer remembers search from previous session
• Changed: Now auto group searching option also controls whether MLK automatically displays your last search when changing tabs
• Added: Now always disables the Current selection option when there are no records
• Added: Now when editing list items in Options it always displays an informative heading
• Removed: TCP transmission data from debug log
• Added: Now maintains the original charset when forwarding Member's message (POP only)
• Fixed: Spaces not trimmed from custom field names
• Fixed: When adding an Outlook contacts with multiple addresses the address and categories are only applied to the first address
• Changed: Increased maximum time out value to 1200 seconds
• Changed: Now automatically adjusts the history columns widths to avoid a horizontal scrollbar
• Added: Better default widths for all columns
• Added: Now toggle items in right-click menu show current value if a single user is selected
• Fixed: Right-click items may not disable even if there are no selected entries
• Fixed: May calculate the main graph twice on start up
• Fixed: If set minimum graph value to zero it won't take affect till restarting
• Fixed: May prefix group name with spaces in the Group Membership chart
• Added: Now supports up to three passed parameters
• Added: Now always checks the structure of the database when upgrading a database
• Fixed: When reviewing a message it may not display the background image
• Changed: Changed structure of some database indexes
• Added: Now sorts retrieval and folder processing tasks for display
• Added: Preview message dialog now displays the sending address
• Added: Stripping of word tags from pasted HTML is now optional
• Changed: Now no longer prompted to confirm deletions of completed sending tasks
• Fixed: Clicking Sort by this column may not have any effect when the entire database is cached
• Fixed: Noon-scheduled tasks always show as having a 1 minute frequency
• Added: Can now double-click items in the sending tasks dialog to edit them
• Fixed: Doesn't add time stamp to sending log
• Changed: Now disables the edit button for welcome tasks that are not enabled
• Added: Mobile field (not yet exposed)
• Added: Better registration system
• Fixed: Does not display the Specify Web Form Fields button when creating auto-responder tasks
• Fixed: May not show the next sending time when hovering over the schedule delivery icon in the status bar
• Changed: Next delivery time does not show date if delivery is for today
• Changed: Now the mailing list name is specified in Options
• Added: Now adds meta data to MLK message files
• Added: Hidden field in MLK message files to disable them (e.g. so only delayed messages are delivered)
• Added: Warning on closure of active sending tasks now displays the time of the next sending
• Changed: Only shows warning on closure of active sending tasks if it due within the next 48 hours
• Changed: Double clicking a group in the main window searches for that group
• Changed: Delivery failure processing is now enabled by default
• Fixed: Log file may not be appended to the email sending summary
• Fixed: Log data from automated sending tasks may sometimes be appended to other log files
• Added: New Hidden Option: Minutes Delay Between Automated Resend Attempts
• Added: New Hidden Option: Can Join Locked Group When Manually Inserting
• Added: Documentation on all hidden options
• Added: Better enabling of controls in Sending Tasks dialog based on current selection
• Added: Many minor improvements to layout and styling
• Added: Now defaults to the Outlook Inbox for mailing list message processing
• Added: Outlook folder navigation now gets the default Inbox if the destination Inbox is specified
• Changed: Now when using the archive function it deletes old sending tasks in error state (as well as completed ones)
• Fixed: Fatal error that can occur in certain situations when the multithreaded SMTP server times out a thread
• Added: Immediate retrying of failed connections for the SMTP Server is now optional (and disabled by default)
• Added: "Email Member" link in Edit Member dialog
• Added: Always uses State/Province and ZIP/Postcode rather than US-centric terms
• Added: Can now export multiple groups by comma separating them
• Added: Can now set a condition when setting fields for many records
• Added: Can now set Boolean fields with the Set Field dialog (e.g. Vacation, New User)
• Added: Hidden option to change the file format for archived history to CSV
• Added: Hidden option, "Disable History"
• Added: Hidden option, "Disable Statistics"
• Added: In History and Errors dialog it now only shows the date if the column is not wide enough
• Added: In history dialog when opening displaying relevant history items it prompts if you want to view the associated message or subscription
• Added: In View Recipients of Task dialog it now re-calculates and displays the send status and success rate
• Added: Many new history items
• Added: MLK now automatically capitalizes group names
• Added: Much faster when batch processing addresses due to optimized transactions
• Added: Much improved at deleting temporary attachments of messages
• Added: New dialog to quickly generate Conditional Text strings
• Added: New option allows you to automatically add or remove the group name to/from subjects in member's messages
• Added: Now all spin controls are themed
• Added: Now displays a warning when importing a file with multiple addresses on each line
• Added: Now outputs the DNS server to the sending log (Internal Server sending)
• Added: Now remembers the group you last specified when subscribing/unsubscribing or tries to guess the best selection
• Added: Now shows group counts in the Distribution List Export dialog
• Added: Now when displaying the View Recipients of Task dialog it re-calculates the send counts for all the task and updates the database
• Added: Now when forwarding member's messages it displays filtering progress in the progress dialog
• Added: Shortcut: Alt+O to Display Options
• Added: Shortcut: Ctrl+Enter Set field
• Added: Shortcut: F5 check update time and refresh display (Ctrl to force refresh)
• Changed: Improved styling of the Distribution List Export dialog
• Changed: Increased size of transaction when building send list for faster processing
• Changed: No longer asks if you want to reopen a recent database if there are none
• Changed: No longer block use of Extended MAPI when POP is being used
• Changed: No longer confirms creation of database the first time MLK is run
• Changed: No longer pre-fills update email address field if an item is not selected
• Changed: Now always checks the formatting of groups even if the automatically add option is enabled
• Changed: Now always uses a unique filename when processing attachments
• Changed: Now does not display an error when canceling a back up
• Changed: Now does not repeat the daily back up even if restart MLK
• Changed: Now doesn't disable the 'Add as custom field' import option if there is no header row, just displays a warning
• Changed: Now hides the import legacy database option unless old databases are encountered
• Changed: Now positions progress dialog in the center of the screen
• Changed: Now saves all attachments to a dated temporary folder
• Changed: Some formatting of the Group Information e-mail
• Changed: Storage of member sending settings
• Changed: Updated splash and about box graphic
• Changed: Various improvements to internal infrastructure
• Changed: View message dialog is now resizable
• Changed: When auto-processing web forms the sender email address can be used in place of a form field
• Added: Now dynamically updates the search status when changing the membership of a member
• Added: Now caches last used acknowledgement message string
• Changed: Longer display time for hints
• Changed: Last message date now updates when remote sending is performed or for messages forwarded by an admin
• Added: New dialog allows you to choose which key folder to display (Ctrl+Shift+I)
• Added: History item when creating or deleting a group
• Added: Domain searching in History dialog
• Added: Now gives more helpful message if try to send to groups without having made a group selection
• Changed: Some button wording
• Removed: No longer remembers the default tab in Edit Member dialog between sessions
• Added: New hidden option: DisableSendingLogs
• Added: Help button to Advanced Member Sending Options
• Added: Help button to all message editing windows
• Added: Can now resize the acknowledgement editing dialog
• Fixed: Doesn't use fixed width font in the Edit Plain Text body dialog
• Fixed: Can't change the casing of a group name
• Fixed: Doesn't delete .blb files when deleting old sending tasks
• Fixed: Drop down list in the Field Mapping dialog when importing does not align with the specify button
• Fixed: Duplicate messages when showing/hiding the Outlook toolbar
• Fixed: In Double Opt-In Grid of View>Logs and Errors sorting by Group is not alphabetical
• Fixed: In Removed Grid of View>Logs and Errors sorting by Group is not alphabetical
• Fixed: May be able to have spaces around custom fields
• Fixed: May prompt for sending address when sending, even if none is required for the sending method
• Fixed: MLK may optimize and repair the database even if only one of the options is selected
• Fixed: MLK updates group list even if only clicking a group without checking it
• Fixed: No longer get security warning when exporting to Outlook distribution lists
• Fixed: On some POP servers can get blank messages
• Fixed: Plain text messages forwarded from Outlook may be converted to HTML
• Fixed: processing error that can occur when using the internal server
• Fixed: Set field shows old date in date selector
• Fixed: Some incorrect data in XP manifest resource
• Fixed: Some issues caused by non-standard Word tags when pasting/loading text
• Fixed: Some spin labels look odd with large fonts
• Fixed: Status bar text may not be aligned in the Send Message dialog
• Fixed: Tab key not functioning when creating HTML messages
• Fixed: Theoretical situation where sending position could be lost when displaying the recipient list while sending
• Fixed: Weird application initialization loop if use Outlook toolbar while MLK is already running

MailList King v6.01

• Fixed: Default character set not remembered
• Fixed: Not processing web forms that have a blank first line
• Added: New shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+S) to send to selected recipients
• Added: "Field has/does not have text" option on conditional text dialog
• Added: Allows initial selection of internal SMTP server even when unregistered
• Added: Now disables the UI while building the send list
• Changed: Much faster displaying member records
• Added: New shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+P) to require confirmation of all automated actions (safe mode)
• Fixed: If select a group then click send to quickly it will show as have no recipients for message
• Fixed: Some issues with prompting to specify a subject or body when it is already specified
• Fixed: A/V error that can occur in rare situation when cancelling searches
• Added: Now always strips leading and trailing spaces when filtering databases
• Fixed: Inverted Group searching in Filter Mailing list tab may not work
• Fixed: Pending sending tasks not displayed from drop down in main toolbar
• Fixed: Font color may be shown as yellow if selecting text in message containing a URL
• Fixed: Does not clear selection when unchecking all groups
• Fixed: Some column headers display field name rather than caption
• Fixed: Does not fix names in web forms in the format "Smith, John"
• Added: Can now specify %USE_MESSAGE_SENDER% as the email address of web form message to use the message sender address
• Added: Now properly formats large numbers in Task Properties dialog
• Added: New hidden option: AddFailedUnsubscribesToRemovedList
• Added: Some improvements to styling of Task Properties dialog
• Fixed: MLK does not support Outlook categories delimited by semi-colons
• Fixed: Invalid argument error sending delivery summary for messages that contain personalization fields
• Added: Preview button now has caption
• Added: Now when sending a test message it uses filler text for all personalization fields of the message
• Added: Now always creates a log file for validation tasks
• Fixed: Bounds error when modify commands do not include emails to modify

MailList King v6.02

• Added: When using the multi-threaded SMTP server you can now specify multiple SMTP servers (Corporate Version)
• Added: Can now limit Remote Administrators to certain groups
• Added: Can now specify an address to receive a CC of all Remote Admin Commands
• Added: Can now require a password to be specified for Remote Admin Commands
• Added: Now supports read receipt processing in French, German and Spanish
• Added: Two new Remote Admin Commands: AddGroupAdmin and RemoveGroupAdmin
• Changed: Now warns if Unread is not supported for a folder being processed
• Fixed: Some problems with hints
• Fixed: When toggling send method using Ctrl+Shift+S may skip some sending options
• Fixed: Now better at coping with specification of embedded images with mixed windows and HTML file paths
• Fixed: May not recycle deleted groups
• Fixed: Deleted groups show without name in history
• Added: Now sent message count is updated for admins too
• Fixed: May not correctly remember your default scheduled delivery settings
• Fixed: Can get a sending error when sending HTML messages with blank plain text body parts
• Changed: Improved layout of Advanced Options
• Added: Can now permit unlimited access (*@*) to remote admin commands
• Changed: Briefer send log for SMTP and multi-threaded server
• Fixed: Group display box may not refresh member count if you add/remove members
• Added: Hidden option: AllowGroupsContainingSpaces
• Fixed: Hidden option, AddFailedUnsubscribesToRemovedList, may not be used
• Added: Better hints displayed over tray icon or task bar button (current database, current task progress, etc)
• Changed: ServerNoSendDomains and ServerNoValidateDomains now require domains in format *@abc.com,*@def.com
• Added: Two new hidden options NeverSendDomains_List and NeverSendDomains_Automated allowing delivery to specific domains to be blocked (without blocking the subscription)
• Added: Better at pluralizing group descriptor when confirming Remote Admin Commands
• Changed: Improved handling of bounce report messages

MailList King v6.03

• Changed: Improved various wording in the application
• Added: Icon for running MLK in Safe Mode (no automated sending or checking)
• Changed: Removed some unnecessary detail from the sending logs
• Fixed: Title may not be displayed on task bar icon
• Added: When optimizing the database orphaned references are removed
• Added: Now confirms removal of orphaned members
• Added: Now optimization feature updates the membership count for all members
• Added: Group selection box in Options now supports multiple selection (allowing deletion of many groups at once)
• Fixed: Issue parsing some MIME encoded messages with non-conforming structure
• Fixed: Was not fixing Word HTML if pasting using the right-click menu
• Fixed: May refresh the current group search even if the membership has not changed
• Added: Hidden option to mark processed messages as read before deleting them

MailList King v6.04

• Fixed: When selecting all groups it may show as no recipients selected
• Fixed: Spell checking and attachments functions may not work when editing acknowledgement messages
• Fixed: Members may be able to send to groups they do not belong to
• Fixed: Attached messages of member's messages may be forwarded as a temp file
• Fixed: When retrieving messages via POP it may not add all irrelevant messages to the Errors log
• Added: Process Addresses in Files/Folders functions now supports web form messages that have been saved to a file
• Added: New hidden option (TreatMultipleSpacesAsDelimitersInWebForms) to allow a web form message with data in multiple columns to be processed
• Added: Can now drop CSV and XLS files onto MLK to import them
• Fixed: Function to update a field of all selected entries may not work
• Fixed: May process bad addresses as bounces when sending via the SMTP server even if the option is disabled
• Changed: Now when turning off the column grouping option it clears any existing grouping

MailList King v6.05

• Added: Now displays progress in the task bar hover hint even when sending and retrieving messages
• Added: Improved all text that is displayed while processing
• Added: Can now cancel addition of Contacts to Outlook
• Added: Explain in auto-responder rules dialog that all selected rules will apply
• Added: Can now import a list of undeliverable addresses into the Removed addresses list
• Fixed: All message body parts may not be processed in AOL bounce reports when using POP
• Fixed: Some malformatted messages (typically Spam) could cause an error when downloading messages via POP
• Fixed: May not add attachments for messages forwarded from AOL recipients when using POP
• Changed: Now even messages forwarded by the admin obey rules regarding stripping or adding of group name to subject
• Added: Can now filter mailing lists by domain or TLD (without needing to use the email field)
• Added: Now can disable checking whether email addresses are valid
• Changed: Now blocking rules are always enabled even if address validation checking is not enabled
• Added: Can now reload the last ten sent messages directly from the send dialog
• Added: Now delayed sending tasks can be set to automatically recur (every month, year, etc)
• Added: New menu item to quickly block the entire domain of a selected contact
• Changed: Renamed the Corporate version the Business Edition
• Added: Now displays error when viewing a recipient list or resending if the recipient list table has been deleted
• Changed: Now displays correct error when trying to send to a task that has already been sent to all recipients
• Added: Can now mark all recipients as sent/unsent using the wildcard *@*
• Added: Now permits some non-standard email address chars that are used (such as = and &)
• Added: Now when loading welcome messages you can load HTML files directly
• Fixed: Invalid filter may remain on SQL processing object when the object is reused
• Added: Default option for orphaned members is to add them to a group named "Orphaned_Members"
• Optimized: Ensure Subscribe Double Opt-In Confirmations are not sent if a member already exists in the group
• Optimized: Ensure Unsubscribe Double Opt-In Confirmations are not sent if a member does not exists in the group
• Fixed: May not send double opt-in confirmation when a user subscribes from ALL groups
• Fixed: Index in Help file not alphabetical
• Added: Advice in Help file that Inbox is an acceptable mail folder even with Outlook
• Added: New hidden option, AlwaysReadPersonalizationFieldsFromDB, which allows you to specify any database field for personalization of your Welcome, Acknowledgement and automatic response messages
• Added: New advanced option to make MLK beep when it completes a slow task

MailList King v6.06

• Fixed: Slow importing of addresses into removed addresses list
• Fixed: Slow loading of addresses into Add Custom Recipients dialog
• Fixed: When reloading a message from history it may display the wrong message
• Added: Search button in View Recipients dialog
• Added: function to search/mark sent/mark unsent failed recipients in View Recipients dialog
• Added: function to mark sent/mark unsent all recipients in View Recipients dialog
• Added: Faster marking of records in View Recipients dialog
• Fixed: Right click paste may not function identically to paste on the toolbar (in send message dialog)
• Fixed: May encounter "Index page buffers corrupt" errors (#8965)

MailList King v6.10

• Added: Now can specify an email address to which all messages in a folder are forwarded to (using automated folder processing tasks)
• Added: New hidden option: ThirdSendMethod
• Added: Now if cancel checking of the subject spelling it no longer checks the body spelling
• Added: New option: Always check spelling before sending
• Added: Now ensures specified stationery names do not include illegal characters
• Added: Now always returns the SMTP address when processing messages on a Microsoft Exchange network
• Fixed: May export Fax instead of Phone field
• Changed: Now defaults to HTML format messages
• Fixed: May skip checking for user messages when using POP
• Removed: "Clear Registration" button from the about box (some functionality is now available using the Enter Reg button)
• Added: In History dialog, Errors tab, removal errors can be added to the removed list
• Fixed: %USE_MESSAGE_SENDER% used as the sender address in a web form message, may not be correctly substituted
• Fixed: When resending to failed recipients it may report that the recipient list table is not specified
• Added: Right-click menu to all grids in the history dialog
• Fixed: May not support /TRAY parameter if two other parameters are specified
• Added: Send message to member in right-click menu
• Changed: Edit member is not displayed in right-click menu if there is a multiple selection
• Fixed: When processing web form messages it may not process all lines of the body
• Changed: Renamed the option UseFromAddress because of misuse
• Changed: Improved start up code for loading data from settings files

MailList King v6.11

• Added: Now Install and Application EXE are both digitally signed
• Fixed: Error if restart automated task: "Unexpected Error: The selected task (-1) does not have a recipient list table"
• Added: Can now specify gradient color for the main graph
• Changed: Now uses Tahoma throughout the UI
• Changed: Revamped application with Office style group boxes and unbeveled windows
• Changed: No longer uses Windows animations that are unsupported by Vista

MailList King v6.12

• Fixed: Content Encoding option may not be available with plain text messages
• Fixed: Attachment box does not display when dragging and dropping an attachment
• Fixed: When drag and drop an image to embed it may not display
• Added: Various fixes required for HTML editing under Windows Vista
• Added: Printing in the View Logged Message dialog

MailList King v6.13

• Added: Now all fields used in a message can be specified in Welcome and Acknowledgement messages
• Fixed: Cut/Copy/Paste failing with Internet Explorer v7
• Fixed: May not clear attachments when reloading log messages
• Fixed: May not detect embedded images when reloading log messages
• Fixed: Copes better with embedded images with / prefixes
• Changed: No longer need to register old DHTML libraries
• Fixed: Some fields may duplicate in the drop down field selector
• Added: Now remembers the default setting for Allow Partial Matches in Find dialog
• Added: Now when all other search methods fail to locate a record using the Find dialog it performs an iterative search
• Added: Glyphs to drop down boxes in Find dialog
• Changed: New, simpler-to-use Find dialog
• Added: Can now specify the Helo name for the SMTP Server (that is announced to destination mail servers when connecting)

MailList King v6.15

• Added: New SMTP authentication option: Log into POP account to allow sending
• Added: Can now specify that sending summaries only be displayed if an error is encountered
• Added: Sending error messages can now be suppressed in Advanced Options
• Fixed: May get error when saving messages in the Message Log
• Fixed: May get problems if Internet Explorer v7 is installed
• Changed: No longer displays encoding in send message caption if it is not possible with that sending method
• Fixed: Slow time-out when try to resend a message from the log
• Changed: A carriage returns inserts a single line into the HTML editor instead of a double
• Changed: Now removes leading and trailing spaces from values when importing from a CSV file
• Fixed: When importing entries from a file, new custom fields may not be added to the global custom fields list
• Changed: No longer processes Vacation commands unless an enable/disable value is explicitly stated (to minimize false positives)
• Changed: Styling of control group boxes
• Fixed: With Auto-responding rules it may ignore the request not to add a user to a group
• Fixed: May warn about Outlook Base classes on certain systems if Outlook is not installed
• Added: Button to MLK toolbar in Outlook to disable/enable display
• Changed: Partial searching is now much faster
• Added: Now history items are recorded when a user updates their details or groups via web form
• Added: Now recognises Professor as Title in full names
• Fixed: Some issues related to changing tasks settings in the View Task dialog
• Fixed: Issue launching messages to external editor

MailList King v6.20

• Added: Can now mail merge directly from Excel, CSV and Text files to email
• Added: Now can mail merge letters/messages to printer
• Added: Automatic correction of your message as you type (to fix common typos such as "teh")
• Added: Now when finding records and it searches the removals list, partial searching is fully supported
• Added: Now always displays a member's Removal Record sorted in descending date order
• Added: Now when a member unsubscribes but is not found in the mailing list, the acknowledgement message shows the date that they were unsubscribed (if they are listed in the removals lists)
• Added: When attempting to manually unsubscribe a member who has already been removed, it now shows the removal date in the error message
• Fixed: Messages sent without a body (e.g. just containing an image) may come through as code
• Fixed: When using wizard to create conditional text it may not correctly remove spaces from custom field names
• Added: Now always displays important buttons on the send toolbar even when shrunk
• Fixed: All controls may be disabled in the POP settings dialog
• Fixed: If paste/select a custom set of recipients it may not set their custom fields when previewing
• Fixed: Subject not automatically set when pasting an HTML body
• Added: Now supports field names that contain underscore characters
• Changed: When printing messages it no longer adds a header
• Fixed: Odd auto-fill behaviour in group selection boxes
• Added: New menu item File > Import > Send to Addresses in List
• Fixed: Images with spaces in their filenames may not be sent with message
• Changed: Improved Print Mailing List dialog
• Fixed: Error when exporting from the History dialog
• Fixed: May not disable debug logging when you cancel the conformation
• Added: Type/paste recipients dialog is now resizable

MailList King v6.21

• Added: If specify "E-mail" as a form field. It also checks "Email"
• Added: Live Spell checking of your message (i.e. showing spelling errors as you type them)
• Added: Now displays spelling options in drop down spelling menu of Send Message dialog
• Added: Link in spelling options dialog to foreign language dictionaries
• Fixed: When loading a message from file it might not detect embedded images
• Fixed: Rules that use the To address of a message may not be triggered with SMTP formatted addresses
• Added: Faster versions of common program functions
• Changed: If group names for forwarding of member messages are read from the email stem, ALL can now be specified
• Added: New reply address option for forwarded member messages: %GROUP%@mycompany.com
• Fixed: In History list, it may not display the correct subscribe message for the selected member log
• Changed: In Optimize database setting can now set zero to clear all old records
• Fixed: "Does not have text" conditional statement may not function correctly
• Changed: In unregistered version can now retrieve addresses from message body
• Changed: Batch and scheduled sending now supported in unregistered version
• Added: The following fields are now supported in acknowledgement messages and headers and footers of member's messages: %FIRSTNAME%', %LASTNAME%, %Field:Country%
• Changed: Promoted hidden option: AlwaysReadPersonalizationFieldsFromDB
• Added: Now displays the default value for all settings in Hidden_Options.txt

MailList King v6.22

• Added: Formatting toolbar to acknowledgement editing dialog
• Added: Can now embed images into acknowledgement messages
• Added: Improved Hyperlink dialog to make it easier to insert web and mailto links in your message
• Changed: Now when exporting it only outputs a single record per member, rather than one per group of member
• Added: Now displays Outbox (pending delivery) status in the Information tab
• Changed: Improved styling of settings grids
• Added: Now web form messages used to change group membership are stored in the database (if message retention is enabled)
• Added: Now checks spelling before closing acknowledgment message editor
• Added: Can now view the sending log from within the View Message dialog
• Added: More overt null membership text when opening an empty mailing list
• Fixed: Setting for resending delayed messages after x days may be modified when editing the Edit Delayed message dialog
• Fixed: Bad addresses may not be validated when using web forms
• Fixed: When uninstalling it may remove settings and other files without confirmation
• Fixed: May get an error if try to edit an acknowledgement message after sending a message to your group
• Fixed: Can get lock-up when editing acknowledgement messages

MailList King v6.23

• Fixed: Sending Tasks index may get out of alignment (and thus wrong message may be sent)
• Fixed: No longer marks the current message as a spelling error (while typing it)
• Fixed: May not warn if HTML editor is in busy state *

MailList King v6.24

• Changed: Optimized various routines (including exporting) to make it much faster
• Removed: MLK is busy message that is displayed when clicking through from Outlook
• Fixed: If you use Update Email Address and choose the same old and new address it may remove their group membership

MailList King v6.25

• Fixed: No longer counts null sending task records as pending messages
• Fixed: CID references to filenames containing spaces may not be fixed
• Added: Now ignores "Already connected" error
• Fixed: Sending error dialog may go behind progress dialogs if tab to different application
• Added: Automatically repairs sending table if index corruption is detected
• Fixed: UI may freeze when loading HTML files into the message editor

MailList King v6.26

• Added: Support for sending and retrieving messages with SSL (e.g. using Gmail)
• Added: Can now exclude any recipients that were sent in the last x days from delivery
• Added: Now can delay sending whenever there are pending items in the Outlook Outbox
• Added: Now changes the Tray Icon while it is processing
• Added: Now supports web form messages where the group entries appear separately on multiple lines
• Added: Underlining of misspelt words now does not change the word color
• Added: Live spell checking is now disabled by default
• Fixed: If add a hyperlink to an image the image may be removed
• Fixed: MLK fails to write the version number to the registry
• Changed: Removed vertical line from grids
• Fixed: Create Delayed Message dialog is sizeable
• Added: Now double-clicking attachments always opens the associated file
• Added: Now uses some default stationery if none is found on the system
• Changed: Improved layout of Specify Recipients dialog
• Added: Can now specify %USE_MESSAGE_SENDER% in web form fields dialog to always use the sender addresses as the web form email field
• Fixed: May not save POP settings for POP Before SMTP option
• Added: More informative error for: "A remote procedure call failed"
• Added: History now shows subject for automated message delivery
• Added: Now displays warning when trying to install an evaluation version over a registered one

MailList King v6.28

• Added: Better display of attachments in all dialogs
• Added: Attachment boxes now show files as icons, have a right-click menu, support common key commands and automatically resize
• Fixed: Improved dialog not displayed when adding hyperlink to an image
• Fixed: Messages sent from Outlook 2007 may not be deleted after delivery
• Added: Can now automatically delete messages from Outlook after they are sent
• Fixed: Spell checker may consider personalization fields to be spelling errors
• Fixed: "Skip All Delays" may only skip current delay
• Fixed: When creating new members it doesn't show all custom fields
• Changed: No longer processes timeouts as bounces with the Internal Server
• Changed: Now always checks the default settings if custom settings are not found for a database
• Added: Sending Error dialog now allows disabling of all future errors