MailList King v8.0 is a major upgrade incorporating numerous enhancements with a particular focus on the top features requested in our recent customer survey.

For information on upgrading, please visit our upgrade page.
 

v8.0 Top Twenty New Features
 

1	Web Form Creation Wizard to make it easy to create subscribe, unsubscribe and other forms for your web site
2	Send SMS messages to mobile phones via a SMS Web Service
3	Import Windows Vista Contacts
4	Many Outlook Toolbar improvements: Outlook 2007 ribbon toolbar, Contacts synchronization button, etc.
5	Search for all recipients of any message you have sent
6	In the Custom Recipients or Exclusions dialog you can select members from your mailing list
7	Alphabetical toolbar in All Members mode for quick navigation
8	Message Center now shows a graph of recent sending history
9	Statistics dialog now offers a detailed sending history graph
10	SMTP, SMTP Server and Outlook dialog now offers a "Send Test Message" function and the POP Settings dialog has a "Test Connection" button
11	Import Contacts dialog is now a wizard
12	Preview Message dialog now allows you to search for a particular recipient
13	Now always "automagically" fixes the casing of contact names
14	When personalizing messages with date fields (including custom date fields) you can choose the formatting of the date
15	Improved styling of all acknowledgement messages and HTML export files
16	Outlook messages can be dragged onto MLK to open them in the Message Sending dialog
17	Open file function in address selection dialogs now supports columnar files such as Excel or CSV and undefined format files such as XML and HTML
18	Now automatically sends messages individually for tasks with a small number of recipients
19	Updated French, Spanish, German and Dutch processing strings
20	Can now confirm member sending rights the first time a member attempts to send to your list

 

Complete Change History

• Added: Now adds a log item for every automated message that is sent, even scheduled messages
• Added: Now defaults to "Automatic" character encoding, rather than default/none
• Changed: Now when right-click to send to selection uses MLK to send
• Changed: When clicking send now it always displays the reason messages cannot be sent or are delayed
• Added: In Sending History dialog can now select a sent message and view all the recipients of it
• Added: When importing a file without a header row, MLK will always guess the email field correctly
• Added: Much more particular about honoring the specified mail checking update frequency
• Added: Now when trying to use unavailable features it offers to display the order/upgrade page
• Added: Better handling of situation where admin specifies nothing as a group
• Changed: Improved error message when older serial number is detected
• Added: Now checks that a POP server is not specified for a SMTP server and vice versa
• Added: Now when unknown messages are added to the Errors dialog the attachments are included
• Added: Acknowledgement messages now insert the users signature by default
• Changed: Now ensures Acknowledgement messages include an embedded title
• Fixed: Subscribe failures may not be CC'ed to failure address
• Added: Now Modify Email Address acknowledgments always adds Old Email address as CC
• Added: Now messages sent to your mailing list by members that fail can be automatically deleted with an acknowledgment sent to the member
• Changed: Faster acknowledgment string handling
• Added: Can now modify Localize.txt by copying it your settings folder
• Changed: Now correctly shows "View Message" button as relevant in error dialog
• Added: If require moderation of member messages and an unknown member sends to the list they are automatically added to the mailing list
• Added: Various improvements to the Optimize Database dialog
• Added: Now combines email and full name in Email column if no name columns are showing
• Added: Better at detecting embedded images that resemble email addresses
• Fixed: Messages with identical subjects and senders may not be added to the error list even if the content has changed
• Fixed: Language field not showing in web form preview
• Changed: Outlook synchronization only automated in Business and Corporate version
• Added: Many improvements to sending of test messages (now always displays error)
• Added: Now checks for an active internet connection before sending a test message
• Added: Now checks for an active internet connection before attempting home server connection
• Changed: Improved layout of Sending Error dialog
• Fixed: In some situations Internal Mail Server will try to terminate a timed out sending thread more than once
• Fixed: Does not delay automated task if we have specified not to retry
• Fixed: Retry delay controls are not disabled even if we have specified not to retry
• Added: Pending or erroneous automated tasks are now shown in Outbox
• Added: Better descriptions displayed in Name field for all automated messages
• Added: Now checks that SSL is not in use before using the alternate SMTP engine
• Fixed: Splash screen may not hide during display of some warnings on start up
• Changed: No longer displays UserID in caption of Member Editing dialog
• Fixed: Partial addresses (such as only a state field) may not get set correctly
• Added: Chevron on main graph to access graph settings
• Removed: Graph settings menu item
• Added: More efficient reading of Personalization field defaults
• Changed: Much better handling of the situation where we attempt to send to just one recipient
• Changed: Now defaults to SSL v3 for SSL POP and SMTP Servers
• Changed: Now when enabling SSL it automatically changes the port
• Added: Vacation status included in Subscribe Info message
• Added: Better display of Vacation in Edit Member dialog
• Added: Much faster handling of records in the History dialog (History and Removals grids)
• Added: Now differentiates between Admin and member sent messages in History
• Added: Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End support in History dialog
• Added: Now SMTP Settings dialog, SMTP Server Settings dialog, Outlook Settings dialog and Sending Method dialog offer a "Send Test Message" function
• Added: POP Settings dialog has a "Test Connection" button
• Added: Setup dialog now includes functions to test your POP account or Outlook connection
• Added: Open file function in Address selection dialogs now supports undefined format files such as XML and HTML
• Added: Open file function in Address selection dialogs now supports column files such as Excel or CSV
• Changed: Improved styling of HTML export files
• Changed: Improved styling of all default acknowledgement messages
• Fixed: Some display issues that occurred with non-standard font sizes
• Added: Can now confirm member sending rights the first time they attempt to send to your list
• Added: Better at coming with some weird format email addresses
• Changed: Now always uses character entities for special HTML characters such as ©
• Added: Much smoother update of example in web forms formatting dialog
• Added: Vacation mode now follows rules for sending of acknowledgment (as per Subscribes, etc)
• Added: Now all subscribe and unsubscribe failures result in an acknowledgement message
• Added: Hovering over links in the editor shows the destination as a hint
• Changed: Larger default HTML editing dialog