Dada Mail 2 10 9 alpha 2 is out the door

Here are the links to the download:

http://prdownloads
sourceforge
net/mojomail/dada-2_10_9_alpha2
tar
gz?download

http://prdownloads
sourceforge
net/mojomail/dada-2_10_9_alpha2
zip?download

Please refer to the 2 10 9 alpha 1 changelog while digesting the
changelog for this release:

http://mojo
skazat
com/cgi-bin/dada/mail
cgi/archive/dadadev/20060516235502/

Changelog for: 2 10 9 alpha2

New Features * White List! What is the White List?

     * A white list is a list of email addresses that are  

allowed to subscribe to your mailing list * It's sort of the opposite of the current, "black list"
which hilds a list of email addresses that are not allowed to
subscribe to your mailing list * Currently, the white list does not do patternmatching meaning, if you add, "mydomain com" to the white list,
you won't be able to allow everyone with an email address with, "mydomain com" to your mailing list

     How is this useful?

     Right now, it's not very useful, except for it's obvious  

purpose - you can preselect email addresses that are allowed to
subscribe to your list but this is just another step in allowing you
to hook an outside database to a Dada Mail list - more on this as
it gets a little more mature - but this is the feature I'm trying to
work towards, as another stepping stone to Dada Mail's own multiple fields

     Things to watch out for:

     The White List has been minimally tested - it's most likely  

broken in very inconcevable ways in many places The complete
Subscriber List and Mailing List confirmation system is also, most likely, broken in interesting ways You are warned :)

     The new whitelist is also fairly unoptimized, so it'll choke on
     extremely large white lists
 I think


     Also - since there's all these crazy list types now, here's the
     precendence when you add a whole bunch of addresses to your  

list via the list control panel's, "Manage Subscribers: Add" routine:

     * Invalid messages are the first things to be sorted out
 After
     that:
     * duplicates
     * blacklisted
     * not white listed

     So, the white list presently has the lowest precedence of  

anything Remember that for Trivial Pursuit

 * Discussion List Enhancements:

     * Minor organization housekeeping of the dada_bridge
pl admin
     control panel screen - nothing revolutionary

     * New Option! "Set the To: header of discussion list  

messages to the List Address, rather than the subscribers address " Does basically what it says - when checked, your
discussion list will work similar to how most traditional discussion
lists work Unchecking this option will make your discussion list
work like how Dada Mail discussion lists have worked before

         This option currently is only available if you use  

either the sendmail command, or the Net::SMTP SMTP engine - this
leaves out the Mail::Bulkmail SMTP engine, which I haven't yet
figured out how to hack to make it work well with this option

     * SpamAssassin Integration! "Ignore messages labeled as,  

"SPAM" by SpamAssassin filters " Does basically what it says You can also set the what
status you deam is, "Spam" - I think the default is a very
liberal, "10"

         This feature is pretty un-optimized - to the point where  

I can't use it myself, since it's calling SpamAssassin directly,
instead of using SpamAssassin's spmac/spamd system (thanks for
all the pointers to those!) YMMV, but it may be handy in its
current state to you When I do figure out how to use the
alternative system, it should be pretty easy to reuse what I've already made, so it's not the end of the world

Bugs Fixes (pending): * 1495336 2 10 8 - Redirect URL for subscription failures not http://sourceforge net/tracker/index php?func=detail&aid=1495336&group_id=13002&atid=113002

 * 1488538 2
10
8 - open message HTML code not being applied?
     http://sourceforge
net/tracker/index
php?func=detail&aid=1488538&group_id=13002&atid=113002

I'm still also looking for feedback of the new Net::SMTP engine -
right now, I don't have much, and none regarding the SSL/TLS
support So, if this feature is important to you, please give a hand
if you can and test it out :)

That's about it - thanks for everyone's feedback - I've been
extremely happy of the discussions that are happening on this list,

Cheers,