MailList King Change History

MailList King, Email Mailing List Management Software

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

V8.01 Change History

Fixed: Some issues with Outlook Toolbar
Changed: In Outlook 2007 Inspector MLK integrates with main tab, not own tab
Fixed: May get Ghost button on Vista Taskbar
Fixed: Message sending graph shows average sending per day rather than total sending for week
Added: Shift + F5 resets all caches in MLK and reloads fresh database data
Fixed: Hard to select hyperlinks in editor
Fixed: Signature may not appear when creating HTML messages
Added: When hovering over a contact it displays full details
Added: New hidden option: SourceCodePreservationInHtmlEditor
Added: When a single contact is selected the Ctrl+C copies all address details of contact to clipboard
Changed: Backup filenames now include the day of the month in the filename
Added: Automatically recovers from transitory access failures for sending tables
Changed: Now when a member unsubscribes from all groups, they are only recorded once in removals table as an ALL unsubscribe
Added: Quick access to ISP Limits options available by right-clicking sending graph
Removed: Option to automatically delete Delivery Delayed warnings is now handled by the undeliverable message processing option
Added: Custom member sending name/email now has example entries
Fixed: Weird output when exporting to CSV
Fixed: Can't cancel out of select field dialog after selecting a multi-column file

V8.02 Change History

Added: Now when using alphabet keys it searches the email field if not sorted by an indexed field
Added: No longer displays warnings when changing names in the member edit dialog if the fields are currently blank
Added: Now preserves source code but encodes all HTML entities
Added: Preview message dialog now shows all reasons for exclusion
Added: Message Editor now lists recently opened files too
Added: Now when pasting HTML from Microsoft Word it tidies it up
Fixed: HTML may get messed up if select Edit HTML source and then cancel it
Added: Member sent messages now adhere to ISP Limits too
Added: Can now delay the generation of recipient lists for scheduled messages
Added: When forwarding message from Outlook can now choose all groups excluding selected
Added: When editing destination groups for a forwarded message in the Outbox you can now select multiple groups
Fixed: When trying to send in All Members mode may get warning message about no recipients
Fixed: Recipient counts in send log not formatted
Changed: Combined two recipient columns in Sending Log
Added: Log message now remembers position and size
Added: Improved display of selected members description throughout the UI
Added: Advanced option to allow duplicate addresses in the list
Fixed: May get an Orphaned member error when optimizing the database (Update Database Counts)
Added: Now includes ten newsletter templates
Fixed: May get warning when loading a file containing a local embedded message
Fixed: Signature may not appear
Added: Can now open a CSS file in the editor to use the style in your message
Added: Stationery dialog now also offers "Themes" (CSS style files)
Changed: Increased member limit in unregistered version to 50,000

V8.03 Change History

Fixed: MLK may disable main inspector toolbar in Outlook
Fixed: Stagger delay may be slightly longer than specified
Added: Country selection dialog is now sizable
Added: Group Membership selection dialog is now sizable
Changed: Various minor improvements to styling and layout

V8.04 Change History

Fixed: No longer displays Unknown for uncalculated recipient counts
Changed: By default no groups are selected when clicking "Forward to Groups"
Added: Now uses internal dialog to show failed addresses
Added: Now shows failures when sending to recipient list in Excel file
Fixed: May use alternate sending method for admin sending tasks
Changed: Disabled incompatible Stagger option when using multiple sending connections

V8.05 Change History

Fixed: Now better supports extended character sets (e.g. Greek)
Fixed: MailList King may create unnecessary birthday events when synchronizing with Outlook
Fixed: Under Vista Image Open dialog may appear as save dialog
Changed: Updated Splash Screen

V8.10 Change History

Added: Can now import and send directly to contacts in Access databases, OpenOffice spreadsheets, Advantage Databases and columnar data in HTML and Word documents
Added: Now supports Office 2007 XLSX format
Added: When importing/sending to contacts in an Excel file you can choose the worksheet
Changed: Improved layout of Import dialog to make it simpler
Changed: Now automatically checks for groups specified with spaces instead of underlines
Added: Can now group results in main graphs by week, month, year, etc.
Changed: Now includes database name in backup filename
Changed: Now specify folder for backup rather than the filename
Added: Can choose the number of days activity to show
Added: New personalization fields: Sender Email (%SenderEmail%) and Sender Full Name (%SenderName%)
Added: /AUTOCLOSE parameter to shutdown MailList King after it has checked for new mailing list messages and cleared its Outbox
Fixed: In certain situations bad email addresses are allowed to be imported
Added: Can now dynamically read plain and HTML formatted text from files using "Read_From_File" field
Added: Can now type the first few characters of the sorted field to display an item
Added: Now all grids support auto positioning by typing the first few letters of an item
Fixed: If load a second file into the import dialog it may not correctly remap the fields
Added: Much improved method of guessing import field mapping
Added: Now always remembers your last used import field mapping

V8.11 Change History

Fixed: Birthday column not showing data
Fixed: Issue importing XLSX files
Added: Can now export to Microsoft Access, XML, Word, RTF and Adobe Acrobat
Added: New Add History dialog to add a custom history item to the current member(s)
Added: Can now dial member's phone numbers from within MLK
Added: Added extra history items for better Customer Relationship Management support
Added: Can now specify recipient groups in the message sending dialog
Added: Now prevents sorting of Group Membership column which for reason of performance cannot be sorted in a meaningful way
Added: Now saves log files when doing a test sending
Added: Email Support menu option when also attaches all relevant log files
Fixed: When sending test message the test address may be duplicated
Added: Can now make personalization text URL safe by using the .ENC suffix, e.g. %FullName.ENC%
Added: Can now specify whether web form messages generate acknowledgements or double opt-ins by using the Verbosity field
Removed: No longer expose option to compress database indexes
Added: When creating a new database you can specify whether to use unique settings
Fixed: Create database dialog does not show hover hints
Changed: Improved layout of auto-responder dialog
Added: Can now add recipients to an existing auto-responder task

V8.12 Change History

Fixed: Custom fields used for personalization in automated messages may not be set
Fixed: Cannot use CSV files in the custom send recipients dialog
Changed: When HtmlSourceCodePreservation is disabled it no longer adds an nbsp to blank paragraphs and divisions
Added: Can now load settings for various SMS Host Providers
Changed: Much more reluctant to automatically disable HtmlSourceCodePreservation
Fixed: Birthday enabled by default when creating new members
Fixed: TLD searching may perform inclusive rather than strict text search
Fixed: Issue importing email columns without header fields
Fixed: Imported now copes with files that have duplicate field names
Fixed: Can get error when sending automated messages about invalid sender address
Changed: Now all sub forms appear centered in the main form rather than the default monitor

v8.50 Top Fifteen New Features

1	Complete redo of the "History and Errors" dialog including a toolbar and print support
2	Many improvements to "View Recipients" dialog including faster updating, improved filtering and a separate search function
3	Complete redo of the "Statistics" dialog including a toolbar and improved styling of graphs
4	Toolbars added to the Edit Member and View Sent Message dialogs
5	Numerous improvements to styling, wording and layout in the 90 most used dialogs
6	You can select which Outlook account to use for sending (Outlook 2007 only)
7	You can view all recipients that were returned as undeliverable for a sending task
8	Database optimization can be performed automatically each day
9	The time for all daily automated actions can now be specified
10	Now more than 97% accurate when extracting the exact bad address in a bounced message report
11	Member history displays the reason a message was returned as undeliverable (as reported by the SMTP server)
12	Sending Task Properties includes a graph showing percentages of successful, failed and undeliverable recipients
13	Hidden option to specify a separate email address for delivery of undeliverable message reports
14	When processing messages via MAPI it only marks mailing list messages as read
15	Many new keyboard shortcuts for quicker access to key functions

Complete Change History

Added: Secure sites support for SMS sending
Fixed: Small issue with formatting of dates and current year text
Added: More logical display of status and timing details in the Send Tasks grid and Task Properties
Added: Improved styling of Membership and Sending graphs in the main window
Added: Some optimization of send list generation
Added: Can now specify the time when all daily automated actions take place
Added: Database optimization can now be automatically performed daily
Added: Progress column of sending tasks grid now shows progress bar
Added: You can select which Outlook account to use for sending (Under Outlook 2007)
Changed: Manually started tasks show as Paused status
Added: Many improvements to View Recipients dialog including faster updating, improved filtering, separate search function and marking of selected addresses
Fixed: Send to All is shown in menu when not relevant
Added: ISP Limits shortcut available on mode right-click menu
Changed: Scheduled task name default to subject
Changed: Multi-threaded Email Sending dialog is now sizable
Added: Edit Text dialog offers a load button
Changed: SMS Sending dialog is now sizable
Changed: Hides Outlook/Mapi sending option depending on email software
Added: When printing in columnar format it now includes a heading
Added: Sent counts in Group sending footer of Statistics dialog
Added: Open database dialog is sizable
Changed: Less complex way of handling web form message fields
Changed: Improved hover hints throughout the application
Changed: "Bounce Days" option is no longer exposed in UI
Added: Toolbars added to View Log message, History, Statistics and Edit Member dialogs
Added: Now only prompts to display a member's subscribe message if one exists
Added: Can now print grids in the History and Errors dialog
Changed: Significant re-do of Statistics and History dialogs
Changed: Now when processing messages via MAPI it only marks processed messages as read
Added: Undeliverable failures now report the reason the message was returned as undeliverable
Added: MLK now correctly reads of 97% of all undeliverable message reports
Fixed: MLK may remove a member one off reaching the maximum undeliverable message count
Fixed: May get a save error when exporting History
Added: Hidden option to specify a separate email address for delivery of undeliverable message reports
Added: Can now view all undeliverable recipients of a sending task
Changed: Sending Task Properties now shows the percentage of tasks returned as undeliverable
Added: Can copy recipients to clipboard in View Recipients dialog
Added: Improved keyboard support in many dialogs
Added: Can navigate in Task Properties dialog using Ctrl+, and Ctrl+.
Fixed: Outlook sync may fail when database is stored in non-standard path
Added: Faster status counting when synchronizing with Outlook
Added: Faster display of select membership dialog
Changed: No longer surface the option: Gray Groups for Large Selections
Fixed: Smoother display when processing many addresses in the main window
Changed: Next Send column now handled by Status column in Sending Tasks grid
Fixed: Don't need to re-show the send dialog to enable one-click sending
Added: HTML Source tab in Preview message dialog
Added: Ctrl + D in main window to delete task/member
Added: Alt + S in message editor to send message
Added: Key failure submission includes version
Changed: Task Next send column hidden by default
Changed: Task Status column includes next send data
Added: Now checks for first name being guessed as "The"
Fixed: From address specified in message sending dialog may not be used
Fixed: Web Form creation wizard does not show custom fields
Added: Better detection of undeliverable message reports
Fixed: Some issues tidying Word HTML Source
Added: Improved styling, layout and wording in the 90 most used dialogs:
• Add History
• Address Failure Display
• Address Update
• Advanced Options
• Batch/Scheduled Sending
• Check for New Progress
• Confirm Outlook Synchronization Actions
• Create Database
• Create Delayed Message
• Create Responding Rule
• Create Retrieval Task
• Create SMS
• Delete Group
• Dial Phone
• Edit Acknowledgement Message
• Edit Countries
• Edit Entries
• Edit Fields of Table
• Edit Group
• Edit Member
• Edit Plain Text
• Edit Profile
• Edit Signature
• Edit Task List
• Email Software Options
• Enter Serial Number
• Export
• Export Contacts to Outlook
• Export Distribution Lists to Outlook
• Export Messages To CSV
• Find Member
• Get Addresses from Folder
• Get Stationery
• Getting Started
• Graph Settings
• Group Membership
• Import
• Insert Link
• Insert Table
• Internal Server Settings
• Internal SMTP Server Progress
• Load Recipients from File
• MailList King Info Box
• Member Sending Options
• Message Attachments
• Open Database
• Optimize Database
• Options
• Outlook Options
• Outlook Synchronization Wizard
• Personalization Options
• Pop Server Settings
• Preview Message
• Print Mailing List
• Print Message
• Process Addresses
• Process Outlook Folder
• Processing Summary
• Progress
• Registration Information
• Remote Admin. Settings
• Reprocess Error
• Reprocessing Confirmation
• Save Stationery
• Select Group
• Select Members
• Select Multiple Groups
• Select Outlook Folder
• Select Send Method
• Send Message
• Sending Error
• Sending Log
• Sending Options
• Sending Progress
• Sending Summary
• Sending Task Properties
• Set Member Field
• Setup Wizard
• Show Sending Log Message
• SMS Options
• SMS Sending Progress
• SMTP Server Settings
• Specify Conditional Text
• Specify Email Address
• Specify Email Address List
• Specify Sending Recipients
• Specify SMS Recipients
• Stagger Sending
• Validate Addresses
• Web Form Creation Wizard
• Web Form Options

V8.51 Change History

Added: Automatically detects separators with space prefixes in Web Forms
Added: Some improvements to bounce message checking
Added: Sub-forms center within their parent form
Fixed: When importing from CSV it may truncates wide fields
Added: Improvements to sending log output dialog
Added: Improvements to internal data handling

V8.53 Change History

Added: Improved checking for valid formatting in SMS Host files
Fixed: Does not try to resend when a major SMTP error occurs
Added: Can have all lower case sender names
Fixed: May not restart sending after performing daily tasks
Fixed: Member ID not exported
Added: MLK does not lose the location of responder messages even if your settings folder is moved
Added: Understands format of Gmail delivery failure messages
Added: Further improvements to undeliverable message processing
Fixed: May not send with specified account under Outlook 2007
Fixed: In rare situation a local file could be removed while downloading mail via POP
Added: Transient Outlook connection errors can be disabled

V8.55 Change History

Fixed: May not import correctly if an Excel column has an invalid name
Added: verbose warning about invalid fields in import files
Added: Now copes with common alternatives and misspellings of countries names, e.g. US, USA, United States
Added: Saved message files are added to the Windows recent list
Added: Processing Failure dialog is now sizable
Added: Processing Failure dialog now displays errors as categorized
Added: Can now select addresses in Processing Failure dialog and copy them to the clipboard
Added: Improved some wording and layout of some dialogs
Added: Overhauled "Please Purchase" dialog

V8.56 Change History

Added: Refresh button in File Recipients dialog
Fixed: Error when importing date time column values
Fixed: Processing summary untidy for unsubscribed addresses
Added: Recipients dialog automatically pops up relevant dialog when changing address source
Added: More informative messages when importing from defective import file
Added: When sending to a recipient list in a file it automatically checks whether the file has been edited
Added: Automatically creates unknown groups when processing web forms and Outlook contacts
Added: More improvements to sending properties dialog
Fixed: May fail to use Categories when syncing with outlook
Changed: Clicking Log file link in send summary may fail
Fixed: Can get sending error in rare situation due to characters in the plain text body of an HTML message
Fixed: May get blank results when importing data with the same name as the column
Added: SMTP Settings dialog is now tabbed
Fixed: Color popup dialog now copes with multiple screens
Added: Improved styling and wording on many dialogs

v8.60 Top Ten New Features

1	New "Sending Task Properties" with all details (message, recipients, log, etc.) available in one dialog
2	New "Select Personalization Field" dialog to make it easier to personalize your messages
3	New dialogs to display Removal and History records
4	Full editing functionality is available when editing messages of existing sending tasks
5	New editing toolbar when creating Acknowledgement and Welcome messages
6	When using date fields in personalized messages you can shift them (e.g. one week ago, 30 days after purchase)
7	You can quickly send a message in your Delayed Messages list to recipients
8	You can quickly run an Outlook Folder Retrieval task on any Outlook folder
9	SMS sending tasks now display with unique graphics
10	Fields can now be mapped to any custom field when importing

Complete Change History

Added: Undeliverable recipient checking in the "View Recipients" dialog supports recipients that aren't members of the mailing list
Added: Shifting of date personalization fields (%DATE% and any column or custom field ending in the name "Date")
Added: Can quickly send a message in your delayed messages list to recipients
Added: Search boxes now has "Has Text" and "Has no text" search comparisons
Fixed: Can get leading underscores as group names when synchronizing with Outlook and using categories
Fixed: Stagger sending dialog may cause Sending Progress to require repainting
Fixed: Failure when clicking "View Record" in History and Errors dialog, Removal tab
Added: Member ID searching in main window
Added: Full editing toolbar in acknowledgement editing dialogs
Added: Personalization drop down now much better at only showing relevant fields
Added: Conditional Field Creation dialog now only shows relevant fields
Added: Conditional Field Creation dialog has improved search comparison selector
Added: Sending tasks grid now differentiates SMS tasks with alternate status graphics
Removed: Support for legacy personalization Fields: First_Name, Last_Name, Full_Name
Added: New dialog to make it easier to insert personalization fields
Fixed: "Resending" an SMS text may bring up the message editor
Added: Can now edit messages of existing sending tasks with full editing functionality
Added: Now checks for unregistered text even if message is edited after creation
Fixed: Now will strip group names from forwarded messages even if spaces are intermingled
Added: Improved navigation in History dialog (grid not db based and maintains position after deletion)
Fixed: Right-click menu may not function in History, Removals tab
Fixed: "View Recipients" appears in History right-click menu when not relevant
Added: Status buttons in message editor now better support message subject selection
Added: When importing fields can be mapped to any custom fields, even if the column name is different or there is no header row
Added: Some improvements to start up speed
Changed: Last Site visit date is now stored for the user, not the database
Fixed: Status column may not show send date for future automated tasks
Added: Can now run an Outlook Folder Retrieval task on a selected folder
Added: Hidden option, "MachineSendingRights", to allow disabling of sending by particular machines when sharing an MLK database over a network
Added: Improved method of checking for duplicate mapping fields when importing
Added: Space key can be used to popup mapping field selector
Added: Sending task properties (detail, message, recipients, log) are all available in one dialog
Added: Sending tasks dialog can navigate tasks
Fixed: May get an AV when sending email to support if no sending has been performed
Added: Log files are now displayed within PixPlay rather than launched
Added: Sending status graph can be printed
Added: Sending task recipients can be printed
Fixed: May check for bounced recipients for SMS tasks
Added: When printing messages the subject is included
Added: Sending log message now includes a log file tab and a "View Recipients" button
Fixed: SMTP server settings dialog may have "Override default server" checked unexpectedly
Added: Improved formatting of saved and copied content in the "Processing Failures" dialog
Added: Removal records dialog that includes custom fields and supports saving and copying
Added: History records dialog that supports navigation
Removed: "Active Sending Tasks" from List menu
Added: "Active Sending Tasks" to Info mode menu
Added: Improved styling of Help display

V8.62 Change History

Fixed: Some antivirus certificates can break POP downloads
Added: Can now also update an email address using web form UpdateUserDetails field
Changed: UpdateEmail "New Email field is now the normal email field with a "New" prefix
Added: Messages forwarded from POP accounts include date and name in the header
Added: Now delays commencement of automated tasks for 30 seconds after start up
Fixed: Modify web forms may capitalize the new email address
Fixed: Embedded images may not be included in sending
Added: Copes better when loading HTML from Unicode encoded files
Added: Better message when prompted to choose a group if none has been specified

Changes in MailList King v7.*