Date: September 7th 2005

Testing out 2.10 rc 1

Version 2.10.0 beta 2 is the latest development release of Dada Mail. It is not meant for production environments, but please test out the program.

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If you have bugs to report, please use the Bugtraq Changes from 2.10 Beta 2 and 2.10 rc1

The only changes have been bug fixes and code cleanup to beta 2. Changes from 2.10 Beta 1 and 2.10 Beta 2 Main Changes:

Send a List Message and Send a Webpage

Send a List Message and Send a Webpage screens now have a new widget to allow you to, Archive but DO NOT Send a message. This is a stop gap for the missing feature of adding/editing an archive. Messages can also be backdated, so this should provide a way to add in old messages.

Send a Webpage

The Send a Webpage screen now also has an option to just write an HTML document, instead of having to point a URL of where a document may live. The web-based WYSIWYG editor is hooked up to this as well.

Admin: View Archive

The Archive Index screen has been templated out, finally. It's been slightly redesigned - using a table instead of a ordered list to show all the archives available. There's also a new function to, "purge all archive messages". If you have the DB File backend, this will actually delete the archive's db file, which may help if the archive file is completely corrupted.

The individual archive screens now has a link to the publically available version of the archive message and a note saying that the admin view may be different than the view you're seeing there.

There's also a small new feature to allow you to see the source of the message itself (works only with the SQL backend)

Ongoing CSS/Layout Changes

• default CSS file has been simplified and reorganized into meaningful categories, making things easier to find and change
• improved XHTML compliance
• improved structural markup (many things out of table-based layouts for greater CSS-based design control)
• added structural groupings to the templates, following in the footsteps of the CSS Zen Garden <http://csszengarden.com>, for greatly enhanced CSS customization and control. (All new id's and classes are listed in the default CSS file.) Changes from 2.10 Alpha 1 and 2.10 Beta 1

General code cleanup - getting ready for a solid release! New Features

New Discussion List Option:

Send message posters a copy of the message they've sent the discussion list. Bug Fixes for Dada Mail 2.10 Alpha 1

For an up-to-date list, please see the BugTraq New Features
Sending Options

Time between batches can now be less than a second. Archiving

Viewing Attachments supported.

Inline Images support.

Security - Archived messages are pruned of javascript exploits before being viewed.

Discussion messages will show a link to the message being replied to.

The Iframe that holds the HTML version of the archived message can now be turned on/off by a per-list setting.

Previous/Next Links corrected.

Styled quoted text (for plaintext messages)

Email addresses in archives are encoded to stop email harvestors. dada_bridge.pl

CC, Bcc Infinite Loop Bug Solved.

Initial moderation supported -

Moderators in Dada Mail: a sublist of email addresses that can also send to an announce-only or discussion list without having to be on the subscription list itself. dada_bounce_handler.pl

unsubscribed message sent to list owner and former subscriber Message Sending

"I'm sure" and "Open in a New Window" checkbox options now available in the, "Send a Webpage" and "Send a List Invitation" screens. List Messages

[list_confirm* tags are, "Correct" HTML Templates

Furious combed through for syntactic correctness and neatness. Should be almost 100% XHTML compliant. Deprecated Items Removed

The %STYLE hash in Config.pm has been completely removed.

checklist() javascript function removed.