From: Justin J ...@dadamailproject.com>
Subject: [dadadev] Proposed Changes for Dada Mail 4.0.3
Date: February 26th 2010

Other than the Unicode/UTF-8 stuff, I'm going to make the following changes, unless someone has a Major problem with it, and perhaps, even if someone does (but I'd like to have comments made, before I put out the release)

Changes 4.0.3

Changes to Default List Settings

We've changed a few of the default list settings, hopefully so that everyone has a more pleasant experience, right off the bat:

Activate Black List

We've enabled the setting to active the Black List, by default.

We're also enabling the below settings:

• Move Unsubscribed Subscribers Automatically to the Black List
• Continue to Allow Subscriptions From Subscribers of Black Listed Addresses

You still have the option to change new lists to the previous behavior and already created lists will have their previous behavior, if Black List Settings have already been edited.

Print List-Specific Headers option Removed

The option, Print List-Specific Headers has been removed from, Mail Sending -Advanced Sending Preferences has been removed, but the functionality has not. All mailing list messages will have these headers.

• Send Unsubscription Confirmation Emails (Closed-Loop Opt-Out) - disabled by default
• Send Unsubscription Confirmation Emails (Closed-Loop Opt-Out) has been disabled by default (you can still enable it)

This option, when enabled, requires that when someone wants to unsubscribe, they have to confirm this unsubscription by clicking on the unsubscription confirmation link in a URL sent their subscribed address.

When disabled (the new default), they simply have to fill out the subscribe/unsubscribe form.

Subscription and Unsubscription links now include an Email Address

When available, both the Subscription and Unsubscription links will have the potential subscriber's (or unsubscriber's) email address in the link itself, so that the user does not have to do the two-step of first following the link and then typing in their email address.

These links are created per-subscriber (or potential sub/unsub), when you use the:

<!-- tmpl_var list_subscribe_link -->

or,

<!-- tmpl_var list_unsubscribe_link -->

tags. Previously, these tags only provided a link to the subscription/unsubscription form, without the email address embedded within the link itself. There is no way to revert this behaviour, but you can still roll your own links, like this:

Subscription Link:

<!-- tmpl_var PROGRAM_URL -->/s/<!-- tmpl_var list_settings.list -->

Unsubscription Link:

<!-- tmpl_var PROGRAM_URL -->/u/<!-- tmpl_var list_settings.list -->

Unsubscription Links Now Mandatory for Mass Mailing Messages

Dada Mail will now do a quick check to make sure that there is a Dada Mail Unsubscription link in your mass mailing messages, before sending them out.

If one is not found, one will be automatically appended to the end of your message.

It will not be very fancy.

We suggest that you make sure that you have a real, valid, Dada Mail unsubscription link in your Mailing List Messages.

That's about it. These changes are basically to help out subscribers who are having trouble getting unsubscribed and clueless list owners who don't know what they're doing.

Whatcha think?