History of MailList King Email Mailing List Management Software

Complete Change History

• Added: Field selectors now display values when relevant (e.g. list of countries, languages, groups, etc)
• Added: Warning about lack of a To Address can now be disabled
• Changed: Updated some glyphs that are not consistent with UI
• Added: MLK will now retrieve your SMTP account details directly from Outlook
• Added: Member dialog now displays how long a member has been on Vacation
• Added: Preview dialog now shows whether members are on vacation
• Added: Send status for database members is updated even if paste a send list or choose a sub-selection
• Added: Vacation status for database members is honored even if paste a send list or choose a sub-selection
• Added: Much more control over how MLK handles no group or an unknown group when subscribing and unsubscribing
• Added: Now can edit recipients in the Double Opt-In list
• Changed: Improved formatting of date in Next Sending column
• Changed: Next send column does not show a date if the sending is paused
• Added: Can now enable/disable vacation status using a web form
• Added: Main Graph now shows bars as gradients
• Added: Email sending summary now includes the task creation date
• Added: Now displays progress percentage text in Status bar when searching
• New Fields: Language, Title, Vacation Date, Birthday, Mobile, Gender
• Added: Now guesses the member's language based on their country
• Added: New filter: "Members who have been on vacation since..."
• Added: Can now disable the warning about having specified no groups
• Added: Now can click status items in information tab for more detail
• Added: Now includes an example mailing list member
• Added: New dialog for deletion of groups to make it clearer what will happen to members of the group
• Changed: No longer shows decimal values in main graph left axis
• Added: Now can add, edit and delete groups in the main window
• Added: When registering the software MLK automatically monitors the clipboard and pastes registration details
• Added: Now can choose country from drop down list in the member editor
• Added: Recipients can now be excluded directly from the Preview message window
• Added: Members can be edited directly from the Preview message window
• Added: Now prevents duplicate items from being added to the Removed addresses list
• Added: Help pane now includes a link to the web forum
• Fixed: If cancel changing of message format from HTML to plain text, the selection box shows Plain Text
• Fixed: Slow filtering/searching of the Removed addresses table
• Added: Now printing of messages honors the unsubscribed blocking and excluded list
• Added: Double clicking a message or subscribe entry in the Member history now displays the relevant item
• Changed: Now always reformats large numbers in sending tasks grid according to localization settings
• Added: Now can save processing summary messages directly to file
• Fixed: May not update group selection boxes with new group if it is created in the edit member dialog
• Changed: Now always sets the HTML title
• Fixed: May be unable to navigate Exchange Public folders
• Added: Time sensitive message field to ensure important messages are sent before the app closes (daily backups and birthday greetings)
• Removed: Irrelevant Filter "Display Users from the following countries" (already handled by search filter)
• Fixed: Now correctly returns a null result for unset date fields
• Added: Optimized method for handling column sorting
• Added: Improved performance of Country guessing
• Added: Member dialog now shows how long they have been on vacation (message delivery disabled)
• Changed: No longer shows seconds in time pick controls
• Added: Now always checks for punctuation characters after command words (e.g. UNSUBSCRIBE!)
• Fixed: Some issues related to using localized charsets when sending (header may not be encoded)
• Changed: Letter navigation now searches by the sorted field, rather than email
• Removed: Exit button from main toolbar (unless using minimize to tray option)
• Changed: Improved formatting of next delivery display
• Changed: No longer sends another acknowledgement message for unsubscribing if we have already sent one to the user that day (to handle duplicate unsubscribe requests)
• Changed: Removed many glyphs from main menu to make it less complex
• Added: Now displays a warning message when too many consecutive timeouts are encountered
• Fixed: Not saving default char set
• Fixed: When printing HTML messages MLK may not use your desired printer
• Added: Some improvements to layout of user information message
• Added: Ctrl+A to select all in HTML source and Plain text body editor
• Fixed: Problem for Outlook processing addresses with SMTP name same as the email address
• Fixed: May not get popup menu when plain text editing
• Fixed: Live Spellchecking and manual spell checking configuration may be out of sync
• Added: Now digitally signs the Outlook toolbar DLL
• Fixed: If web form contains Email field, but has been specified incorrectly as E-mail then the email is not found correctly
• Fixed: May not start up in info mode when the "Always start in Info mode" option is set
• Fixed: Bounces may display in History without the time stamp
• Fixed: If some custom fields have a lot of data then values may not display in custom fields columns of the main grid
• Added: Select Outlook Dialog is now sizeable
• Fixed: May not remember setting for delayed auto-responder messages
• Changed: Under Vista it now saves the debug log to Xequte's settings folder
• Added: Added Office style shortcuts to message editor
• Changed: Now uses ISO 8601 compliant week numbers
• Changed: Improved internal handling of sub-forms
• Removed: CDO sending support
• Added: Now copes with Outlook returning invalid dates
• Added: Now includes default auto-correction library
• Fixed: If cancel out of HTML to Plain Text conversion, still shows Plain Text in selector
• Added: Now can paste directly from Microsoft Word even if images are embedded
• Changed: Now when modifying an Outlook folder it always shows the current folder as initially selected
• Fixed: May display spelling completed messages when sending if there are no errors found
• Fixed: May not convert MSX addresses that contain embedded SMTP addresses
• Added: Vacation Status and Fix Name Capitalization items to the Edit menu
• Added: Now always ensures an extension is specified when saving a file
• Fixed: Shift-selecting items in the Sending tasks dialog may not update the button status
• Fixed: CRLF chars may not be stripped when displaying errors in the Sending tasks dialog
• Added: Rename Mailing List item to File menu
• Added: Now updates the name of a contact when updating the email address if details are available
• Added: Flushes send status table to disk much more frequently when sending
• Removed: Optimized Folder processing tasks which involve message forwarding or web form processing
• Fixed: CSV sending log, may contain line breaks in unquoted fields
• Added: Now strips illegal characters from group (Outlook category) names when importing contacts
• Added: Now strips single quotes from names found in email addresses
• Added: When retrieving addresses from email software it no longer adds a full SMTP and email only address
• Fixed: Some dialogs may not have hover hints
• Fixed: Some spelling mistakes
• Added: Now can group columns in sending tasks grid
• Added: Now can sort and order columns in the sending tasks grid from the main menu
• Added: Library of optimized routines
• Changed: Unregistered version no longer expires
• Fixed: When change link type it clears irrelevant link text (e.g. email address for a web link)
• Fixed: MLK makes it hard to remove the link of an item
• Fixed: MLK may create allow specification of a link that only includes a prefix, e.g. http://
• Changed: Now always uses MLK's Link editor rather than MSHTML's built-in one
• Added: Always blocks the specification of custom field names that match existing table fields
• Removed: Deprecated "Strip PRE Tags" option
• Removed: Deprecated "Update Fields of Old Entry" option
• Removed: Option for Where to search for mailing list commands has been deprecated
• Removed: New Member option from Edit Member dialog
• Changed: Now can disable grayed group display when changing the membership of large selections
• Removed: Killed dialog that displays the current Outlook sender retrieval method and allows changing to another method (no longer relevant)
• Added: Exposed the option, "Minutes Delay Between Resend Attempts"
• Fixed: Enabling the option not to send messages while Outbox contains messages may cause tasks not to restart
• Fixed: Custom fields used in acknowledgement messages may not be normalized
• Changed: Now if the option is enabled to read personalization fields from the database they will be used in preference to the live (message) value
• Changed: Now prevents sending of messages using restricted sender addresses
• Changed: No longer displays an error if you delete an Outlook message while MLK is processing the folder
• Changed: Default recipient count for messages is 99
• Changed: Modal forms now always use WS_Popup style
• Added: Delivery status text now also shows any reasons for message delay (such as the Outlook Outbox containing items)
• Fixed: May be unable to restart a members message forwarding if a send error was encountered
• Fixed: May not correctly show the total number of recipients for a members forwarded message
• Fixed: Key presses in pop up dialogs may cause grid to lose its position
• Fixed: Escape key may close parent window
• Fixed: May lose position when deleting sending tasks
• Fixed: Searching within results may not return correct records
• Added: Searching within results is now faster
• Removed: Match case search option
• Removed: Inverted search option
• Changed: Uses Reply-To address of a message in preference to Sender
• Fixed: If back up database to email by selecting from menu, it may not send immediately
• Fixed: Exporting contact to Outlook may fail in certain situations when duplicate checking is enabled
• Added: Improved the error message that is displayed when MSHTML chokes on an invalid DocType tag
• Added: Hidden option to hide "All Members" mode
• Added: Can now block addresses with unknown Top-Level Domains
• Added: Now the status bar is themed
• Added: Improved Windows Vista support (Vista style dialogs and other native enhancements)
• Added: Much faster and reliable validation method (checking only domain against DNS server)
• Added: Now can batch process a list of email addresses to update
• Added: Can now export an Outlook folder of web form messages to CSV (automatically or manually)
• Added: Can now send a greeting on a member's Birthday
• Added: New folder tree navigation in main window
• Added: Now can view/edit sending tasks in the main window
• Added: Can now edit groups directly under the groups tab in the Main window
• Added: Now can show a print preview of graphs
• Added: Main membership graph can now be printed
• Changed: Much improved layout of message sending menu
• Changed: Numerous changes and improvements to the Options dialogs to make them less confusing
• Added: New Sending Summary dialog shown on completion of a sending task and offers instant access to common functions (such as view the log)
• Added: The content of the Help mode can now be changed allowing you to optionally display the discussion forum or support page
• Added: History can now be filtered by a history type (e.g. all Subscribe failures due to an invalid group)
• Added: Send dialog now has a status bar that shows total message size, format and recipient count
• Fixed: May not detect image path when using stationey files
• Changed: No longer sets subject to HTML title when using stationery files

MailList King v7.01

• Added: Can now export the mailing list to an HTML file
• Added: New printing option to output as contact sheets
• Added: Select Message Folders dialog is now resizable
• Added: Select Message Folders dialog now automatically adjusts height for the content
• Changed: Improved styling of Select Message Folders dialog when not using Outlook
• Added: Now natively supports Vista Windows Mail
• Added: Save and Save as commands to Send Message dialog (in favour of "Save As File" function)
• Fixed: Open/Save keyboard shortcuts may not function in Send Message dialog
• Fixed: May always display start up wizard if email software is not specified
• Fixed: Third sending method is not used even if specified
• Fixed: No longer checks legacy path locations
• Fixed: Database path may be forgotten
• Changed: DB save errors only verbose on closure
• Fixed: Member's message footer may appear at the start of the message
• Fixed: May reduce size of the group selection box more than is required (when there is no search button)
• Fixed: Trailing line break on sending progress hint
• Fixed: MLK message type not included in save file list
• Added: 8bit support to alternate smtp engine
• Changed: Renamed some sending task column names
• Added: Link editor now detects current link selection
• Changed: Now always encodes spaces in subject specified for mailto: links
• Fixed: Better at handling entries pasted from Excel
• Changed: Always pastes as plain text in the Process Address dialog
• Fixed: When editing the schedule of a sending task the send date/time may be reset
• Fixed: Correct status bar text not displayed when in a task mode
• Fixed: Progress may not show in status bar for some search types
• Added: Recent databases menu now hides the active database
• Fixed: Duplicates may appear in the database when importing/pasting items containing trailing tabs and automatic address fixing is enabled
• Fixed: In some locales you are unable to specify a PM time
• Fixed: Name may not be updated when modifying the full smtp address of a data record
• Fixed: When using ISP delivery limiting, it may not automatically restart tasks that have been delayed
• Added: Double-click shortcuts to Specify Recipients dialog
• Fixed: May not commence send task when the send summary dialog is displayed
• Changed: When exporting the language and sex fields are now output in a readable format
• Fixed: A null birthday is now not exported
• Fixed: Progress dialog does not reduce in height when there is no animation
• Changed: Updated Outlook Express glyph
• Changed: Now always uses in-memory data storage objects for faster access
• Added: Now detects encoded ampersands in filenames
• Fixed: Export dialog does not display an error if no filename is specified
• Fixed: May get erroneous non-processing error for Ignored addresses *
• Fixed: Some HTML functions are not disabled when creating plain text acknowledgement messages *
• Fixed: MLK may crash when you insert a link *
• Added: Now automatically recovers from a invalid class error *

MailList King v7.02

• Added: Can now specify a heading for HTML exports
• Added: Table format HTML export
• Added: Now automatically adjusts the date in saved headings for printing/exporting
• Fixed: May export birthday column twice
• Fixed: May not export group membership of first exported record
• Added: HTML exporting now uses CSS for improved styling
• Fixed: When exporting history a header row is not included
• Added: Can now add extra recipients to an existing sending task
• Added: Size and position of View Recipients dialog is now remembered
• Fixed: Display of sending recipient progress in tasks grid may not be updated if manually change sent status for recipients
• Added: "Find Next" to View Recipients dialog
• Changed: Specifying an asterisk for a wild card search in the View Recipients dialog is now optional
• Fixed: Embedded images may prompt a warning about missing files
• Fixed: May not decode some messages when downloading them via POP
• Fixed: May not save settings if closed on Windows shutdown
• Changed: Made custom filter text less prolix
• Added: Custom member sender reply name can now contain the following variables: %GROUP%, %FULLNAME%, %FIRSTNAME% and %LASTNAME%
• Fixed: Message processing window may obscure other windows
• Changed: Always includes the contact name in the email address when using MAPI
• Added: If From field is displayed in the message editor it defaults to your last sender address rather than the Admin address
• Fixed: Internal SMTP Server may not include a valid message-id tag
• Added: Now strips encoded spaces in command lines
• Fixed: MLK may crash when sending via Outlook 2007 under Vista (Build 403)
• Changed: Now when sending via Outlook it always sends from the Outbox, rather than Drafts as is the Extended MAPI default (Build 407)

MailList King v7.10

• Added: Can now directly open Microsoft Word files into the Send Message dialog
• Added: Can now resize images in the editor using Ctrl+Plus/Ctrl+Minus (on Numeric keypad). Or hold the Shift key down too for bigger resizes
• Added: Now always warns when opening a large database if entire database is being cached
• Added: Can now rename folder processing tasks
• Fixed: If select an entire hyperlink it may not display the URL when clicking the Hyperlink button
• Fixed: Edit menu may be disabled in Send Message dialog
• Changed: No longer avoids creating databases in paths containing single quote chars
• Added: Extra logging for subscription failures
• Changed: Now displays different logging/error messages if the multiple group membership option is disabled
• Fixed: May not delete the messages it sends in Outlook even if the option is specified
• Fixed: When ISP blocking dates wrap around midnight then it might not use the expected ignore day
• Fixed: May add a winmail.dat extension to message when sending via Outlook (meaning that images may not embed)
• Fixed: May get an error if send via Outlook and Extended MAPI is disabled
• Changed: Fix rare 13060 table creation error
• Changed: Now when retrieving addresses from Outlook messages it parses both the HTML and plain text body
• Changed: Mime boundary definitions for main SMTP engine
• Added: Paste in Edit Recipient list now strips any rich text formatting
• Added: Can now have a blank X-mailer
• Fixed: When clicking "Send To Unsent" it waited until you closed the Task properties dialog
• Added: Can now insert and edit tables
• Added: Reduce/Enlarge Image buttons on the send message toolbar
• Changed: Updated Outlook integration library
• Fixed: May get A/V error when display the sort menu
• Fixed: Columns and View menu may show the field name rather than display name
• Added: Now remembers your selected search evaluator
• Changed: Now resets your selected search evaluator when changing search field types
• Fixed: A malformatted message can cause a weird non-functional state
• Added: Now maintains a record of the speed at which messages are sent
• Added: Preview dialog now displays statistics regarding size and delivery time
• Changed: In certain situations a web based background image file could be mistaken for a local file

MailList King v7.12

• Added: New option to automatically to use the most appropriate character encoding when sending (addresses an encoding problem that can occur with Exchange 2007 recipients)
• Changed: When you load an HTML file it always uses its charset
• Fixed: Encoding popup now displays the charset that will be used rather than the editor charset
• Fixed: HTML editor may not process tab control correctly
• Changed: More logical control of maximum bounce count
• Changed: No longer use the words "Bounce" or "increment"
• Changed: If no database path specified in the registry it uses the last good database path
• Changed: Improved performance of the live spell checking
• Fixed: May save incorrect database path if minimized to tray when windows is shutdown
• Changed: Group names containing spaces are disabled by default and only enabled if you create a group name with a space
• Added: Now better at coping with email addresses where spaces have been mistyped (only enabled if AllowGroupsContainingSpaces is False)
• Fixed: Text in sending summary is not truncated with ellipses if it is too wide
• Fixed: May not remember database sharing settings
• Fixed: Pop server settings dialog may always ask for username/password
• Fixed: May give error about no database on initial install
• Fixed: Now determines running Outlook version to optimize settings for that release
• Fixed: In some situations a plain text message may be sent in HTML when using OLE
• Added: Updated color selector
• Fixed: Improved width of text in status bar
• Changed: Some improvements to layout of advanced options
• Changed: SubscribeInfo function no longer includes address details
• Fixed: Status bar hints may not display
• Fixed: Odd buttons in Create New Member dialog
• Fixed: May not retrieve MSX address for message senders
• Fixed: Unable to use Custom Fields as conditions when setting user fields en masse
• Changed: Wider Company field in Edit Member dialog
• Fixed: Vacation message may be malformatted
• Changed: If a member subscribes to a group and vacation mode is enabled, then it will be disabled
• Fixed: Vacation since date may not be set correctly
• Added: Can now clone users using Ctrl+Alt+N

MailList King v7.14

• Fixed: Rare issue where Automatic encoding may not function
• Changed: Updated Help file and PDF documentation
• Fixed: Member sending option in Group edit dialog is not disabled if member sending is not in use
• Changed: Displays name, not path, in title bar
• Added: Can now load a recipients list from File > Open on message sending toolbar
• Fixed: May not detect blank entries when sending to entries in a recipient list
• Added: Shortcut to show task properties: Ctrl+Return
• Changed: Backup shortcut is now Ctrl+B
• Added: Shortcut to start sending of current task: Ctrl+S
• Added: Shortcut to start sending of current task (ignoring your ISP limiting settings): Ctrl+Shift+S
• Fixed: Rare internal "Table name missing" error
• Changed: No longer loads web form mapping dialog on start up
• Changed: Various improvements to Example web form HTML page
• Added: In Preview and Sending Options dialogs it displays the maximum throughput due to your ISP Limit settings

v7.30 Top Five New Features
 

Complete Change History

• Fixed: Web Forms now support non-email address processing
• Fixed: Encoding may not be saved if changed when editing an Outbox item
• Fixed: May not be able to change the editor encoding for HTML messages
• Added: Web forms that change group membership now support delivery of welcome messages
• Added: When changing group membership for members you can specify whether to send group Welcome Messages
• Added: Scheduled and on-demand scheduling of mailing list with Outlook Contacts
• Changed: Improved wording of many history items
• Changed: Improved layout of menu
• Added: New hidden option (ShowAdvancedMenuItems) that removes some seldom used menu items
• Added: Add addresses dialog now supports retrieval of addresses from unformatted files
• Changed: Process Addresses window is now resizable
• Changed: Improved the error message displayed when Excel has locked an import file
• Added: Now uses a local file name when inserting images from the same folder as the HTML source file
• Fixed: Warns about invalid emails even when reprocessing unsubscribes in the Errors dialog
• Fixed: MLK may change the send status when viewing recipients of a task
• Changed: Improved the unregistered message footer
• Changed: Improved setup wizard with new graphics and supporting extra options
• Added: Better handling of specifying of a To display address
• Fixed: Outlook style mode selection may not function in non-mailing list modes
• Fixed: Can't scroll the Help pane with the mouse wheel
• Added: Can now change modes with the mouse wheel
• Added: Group boxes now display glyphs indicating whether they are growing in size and show different icons depending on the status
• Added: Can now hover over group items to do see a breakdown of recent statistics
• Changed: Always defaults to Help mode for new user
• Fixed: Does not check current status when selecting a different message format
• Changed: Major rewrite of the Help file
• Removed: Seldom used options to disable Extended MAPI and sender retrieval method
• Added: Link to Editor option in Send Message dialog
• Changed: Moved signature and stationery options to sub-dialogs
• Changed: No longer expose options: AddImportedEntriesToStatistics, CheckForInternetConnection, CheckAddressesAreValid, ForwardInPlainText
• Removed: Unrequired options: UseDBTransactions
• Removed: Don't send acknowledgements when manually processing option
• Added: When Reprocessing multiple Errors/Removals you can now choose whether to send acknowledgements and Double Opt-Ins
• Added: When Importing you can now choose whether to send acknowledgements and Double Opt-Ins
• Changed: Exposed Vacation message option
• Added: Now shows gray icons for Options tabs that are not in use
• Added: Can now back up to file and email
• Changed: Now always uses a date based filename when backing up the database to file
• Fixed: Cancelling staggering may not cancel the current sending
• Added: Many improvements to the start up experience
• Fixed: Removed superfluous countries filter from custom filters drop down
• Added: List>Send Email to File
• Changed: List>Send Email to Mailing List changes text based on current selection
• Added: Add to Outlook Contacts option in Edit Member dialog
• Fixed: Copes with embedded double quotes when exporting to CSV
• Changed: No longer changes the cases of group names, other than capitilizing the first letter
• Added: Can insert links in the sending task editor *
• Added: "Find All" in the Find dialog *
• Added: Remembers the default field in the Find dialog *
• Changed: Easier to resize groups panel + larger default size *
• Added: Easier to disable POP connection errors *
• Changed: Improved layout of Sending Error dialog *

MailList King v7.31

• Fixed: Can't clear default field values
• Added: Can now use multiple servers even if they have different logins
• Added: Remote Admin Command messages now support personalization fields
• Added: Admin sending confirmation message (Hidden Option) now displays sender email and destination recipients
• Fixed: Problems moving to default position in History dialog, particularly in the Send Log

MailList King v7.32

• Fixed: Attachments may not be sent when using Remote Admin Commands and POP retrieval
• Added: Full address details displayed in removal record
• Changed: More conservative about removing commas from names if we are confident of the source
• Fixed: Slow display of history dialog
• Changed: Now supports specification of Remote Admin password after the subject line (for safety)
• Added: Better error message if no MAPI software is located by Windows