Hey everyone,

I finally got a new alpha out - 2 11 Alpha 8 This development version
indeed includes support for arbitrary subscriber fields Hazzah! A
version of Dada Mail with this feature enabled has been vaporware
forever, until today, so give it a try and let me know how it works
If you wanna see it, "in the wild", I'm using it for my artsy site at:

http://justinsimoni
com/cgi-bin/dada/mail
cgi

I like sending things like postcards through the post, so having both
my email and snail mail subscription stuff in one place is really
really a nice thing I'm also using the new alpha for the Dada Mail
support site, to give you an idea how usable the new alpha is

Here are the direct download links:

tar gz

http://downloads
sourceforge
net/mojomail/dada-2_11_alpha_8
tar
gz

zip http://downloads sourceforge net/mojomail/dada-2_11_alpha_8 zip

Full documentation can be found at: (Sorry actual site is over quota):

http://mojomail
sourceforge
net/support/documentation-dada-2_11-alpha_8/

Specifically, here's some info and overview on the Subscriber Fields
feature:

http://mojomail
sourceforge
net/support/documentation-dada-2_11-alpha_8/subscriber_fields_in_2_11
pod
html

And here's the changelog for this specific release:

http://mojomail
sourceforge
net/support/documentation-dada-2_11-alpha_8/changes
pod
html#2_11_alpha_8__released

And here it is, for convenience:

2 11 Alpha 8 - Released 11/26/07 Download 2 11 Alpha 8 2 11 Alpha 8 tar gz Distribution

2
11 Alpha 8 zip Distribution
 <http://downloads
sourceforge
net/mojomail/dada-2_11_alpha_8
zip?use_mir
 ror=osdn>

2 11 Alpha 8 Notes Subscriber Fields This release sports a very large new feature: Multiple subscriber fields For an overview of this feature, do see:

 "support/documentation-dada-2_11-alpha_8/ 

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2 11 Alpha 8 New Features Multiple Subscriber Fields No, really - it's in there Check it out You'll need the SQL
backend For a large list of improvements, do see:

 "support/documentation-dada-2_11-alpha_8/ 

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 Of note, this feature also has the below features that relate to  

it:

 *   Mail Merging of subscriber fields

 *   Partial Sending based on subscriber fields

Dada Bridge
 *   Dada Bridge name change


     The dada_bridge
pl plugin name has been modified to, Dada  

Bridge, lest we figure out a more clever name We're still going
through the documentation and changin' stuff

 *   New Option: Rewrite the From: header on announce-only  

messages to the List Owner address

 *   Authorized Senders

     If you were fond of the original Dada Mail, "moderation"  

sytem, this is basically it again, relabled, "Authorized Senders"

     The Authorized Senders is a sublist in Dada Mail
 It contains  

a list of email addresses that are allowed to post a message to a
Dada Mail list

     This is most extremely useful for announce-only lists, where  

you'd like to give posting access to someone other than the list
owner

White List Support
 White List support is back after a little break
 The white list  

is a sublist of Dada Mail list that allows you to specify a list of
addresses that are allowed to subscribe It's basically the opposite of the blacklist

More SQLite support
 SQLite is now completely up to par with the other backends
 I  

doubt I'd suggest it as a backend, but it's an option and is used for
testing

Gravatar Support
 This support is very spotty and probably is broken at the moment
  

Go go alpha code More information:

 <http://site
gravatar
com/>

Batch Sending ETA Calculator
 Added a silly calculator to tell you how long a sending will  

probably be It's in AJAX

Mail Monitor Enhancements
 *   There are now simple buttons for Pause, Resume, Stop and  

Pickup a mailing

 *   If a mailing seems to need to be reloaded, a countdown will  

tell you when that mailout will be reloaded, instead of letting you
guess

 *   Mailout reloading should be a bit more stable

     "Stuck" Mailouts shouldn't really happen anymore


Trace Debugging
 The Config variable, $DEBUG_TRACE is now populated with a few  

module names, example: DADA_Mail_Send Setting this name to a value of,
1 will print many lines in your error log for things pertaining to the DADA::Mail::Send module

 A word of warning about using the $DEBUG_TRACE stuff - the
 implementation isn't very complete for any module and what's  

implemented may not make sense to anyone but me Be aware: Thar be dragons

 (partial) Support is current there for the DADA::Mail:Send,
 DADA::Mail::Mailout and DADA::App::Subscriptions modules

2 11 Alpha 8 Changes CSS Font sizes have been changed from px to em's

Templates
 Removed the following templates:

 *   list_subscribe_form
tmpl

 *   list_popup_subscription_form
tmpl

 *   feed_subscription_form_widget
tmpl

 Added:

 *   subscriber_fields
tmpl

 *   subscription_form_widget
tmpl

 *   partial_sending_options_widget
tmpl

 *   subscriber_field_tags_listing_widget
tmpl

Don't say I don't love you,