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MailList King, Email Mailing List Management Software
MailList King v11.0 is a major upgrade incorporating numerous enhancements with particular focus on increased speed and usability.

For information on upgrading, please visit our upgrade page.
 

v11.0 Top Ten New Features

1 Major Custom Field Improvements

Support for your own custom fields has been significantly improved;Now you can specify the type of your field (Text, Date, Number, etc) and the appropriate editor is displayed. Custom field searching is now much faster and more powerful with support for "Contains", "Before", "After", etc.

Editing a custom field
 

You can now also perform statistical grouping by custom fields:

Statistical grouping by custom field
 

2 Sending via Amazon SES

MLK can now integrate with Amazon's SES mail service for inexpensive bulk emailing (Amazon SES Pricing)
3 Replace Member Confirmation

When overwriting a contact details are displayed all their details are displayed and you can also elect to merge details of both contacts

Replace Member Confirmation
 

4 Archive Message Tasks

Maintain a copy of your old sending tasks with the new "Archived Tasks" folder:

Archive Message Tasks
 
5 Format Painting

Instantly copy the formatting of the selection to other text in the message editor
6 Import and Send List Filtering

When importing contacts or sending to recipients in an import file you can filter the list by any field in the file (e.g. only sending to recipients from a certain country)

Import and Send List Filtering
 
7 Improved Property Editing Grids

All member property grids have been improved to support column resizing, multi-line hints and an editor that is available when double-clicking (or Alt+Enter)

Member Properties Toolbar
 
8 Enhanced Options Dialog

The Options dialog has been improved with a new "Database" tab to handle all mailing list and member settings. Optimization is now an automatic option rather than a separate dialog:

Database Settings Tab
 
9 Access to 70 More Options

Seventy advanced options are now available for editing in the new "Extra Advanced Options" dialog

Extra Advanced Options
10 Get Addresses from Email Software Wizard

Retrieval of addresses from contacts and messages in your email software has been made much easier with the conversion of "Get Addresses from Email Software" to a wizard
 

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 Complete 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

    Blocked addresses dialog

  • 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

    Database Properties dialog

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

 

V11.02 Complete 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 Complete 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)
 

 

Changes in MailList King v10