Hello Everyone,

v6 7 0 is out the door! Download and Install:

http://dadamailproject
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Changelog:

Mass Mailing: Save as Draft

In past versions of Dada Mail, it was always awkward to keep an unfinished copy of your message: You would either have to keep a browser window always open with this message, save your message in a different place (in a text file on your computer), or use another, hand-rolled solution

Now, Dada Mail supports saving unfinished messages, called Drafts Rejoice!

Dada Mail can now save a Draft message right in the "Send a Message" or "Send a Wepage" control panel screens Messages are also auto-saved every minute, in case your browser window is inadvertently closed by accident Draft messages will also be saved whenever you send out a test mass mailing, and waiting for you, whenever you come back to send out the message to your subscribers

An unlimited number of draft messages may also be saved, viewed and edited If you want to start over, you also may cancel the message and delete the draft

All form fields and widgets available to you in the "Send a Message" and "Send a Webpage" screen are saved when a draft is saved, including: message headers, your message bodies (both PlainText and HTML), and all the other Options available: Archive Options Partial Mailing List Sending Options, File Attachments, and Testing Options

Mass Mailing: File Attachments

File Attachment uploading is now handled by the included KCFinder web file manager This allows you to easily upload attachments before sending a message out, as well as attach files already uploaded

Attachments can now also be removed from your messages easily

This is a marked improvement over the previous system of just providing a file upload widget, which allowed you to only select a file on your desktop to upload A new system for file attachments was sorely needed, if we ever wanted to get the Save as Draft feature in Dada Mail

Installer

Dada Mail's included installer allows you to install, reconfigure, and upgrade Dada Mail, without having to touch a single (often confusing to users) config file

This installer features support for a large subset of the global configuration variables supported by Dada Mail itself, and we're constantly working on supporting more and more of the global variables an features

CAPTCHA Options

Dada Mail has shipped with support for its own CAPTCHA system, as well as support for the reCAPTCHA service (http://www google com/recaptcha) Dada Mail also has support for the related reCAPTCHA Mailhide system (http://www google com/recaptcha/mailhide/), to protect email addresses in its public message archives

The included Dada Mail Installer now allows you to configure the CAPTCHA system that comes with Dada Mail These options are located under the, Advanced Configuration (Optional) heading, and is available in our Pro Dada distribution

We're shipping Basic Dada Mail with only Amazon SES configuration available in, Advanced Configuration We're really hoping you love Dada Mail enough to go and get a copy of Pro Dada:

http://dadamailproject com/purchase/pro html

jQuery Dada Mail Subscription plugin

Dada Mail now ships with its own jQuery plugin, to easily create subscription forms, as well as handling the requests inside a modal window, rather than being redirected away from your main website to Dada Mail

Dada Mail uses the jQuery plugin itself - you'll notice it in action on subscription forms handled by Dada Mail, in the app itself

The jQuery plugin has 100% support for graceful degredation: if a user uses Dada Mail without having JavaScript enabled, the subscription process will work very similary to how it worked before the jQuery plugin enhancements were put in place

See the Subscription Cookbook docs for more information about this plugin:

http://dadamailproject com/d/COOKBOOK-subscriptions pod html

Changes 6 7 0

Send Mass Mailing Buttons: Always on Top

In previous versions of Dada Mail, buttons used to Test, or Send out Mass Mailing were located at the bottom of the screen, after what could be a very long form, forcing you to scroll down, to submit your message

Now, the group of buttons in the, Send a Message and Send a Webpage screens always float on top of the form itself, making it easier to always have Draft Saving/Canceling and Mass Mailing Testing/Sending available to you

Subscription Requests Approving/Denying Options

Dada Mail's Subscriptoion Request system allows you to approve subscriptions to your mailing list

Options for Subscription Requests Approving/Denying have now been expanded:

You may now set a custom Rediect (with, or without a query string) for Subscription request approvals, or denials

You may now also set custom HTML to be shown to let your users know their request must be approved by the List Owner

Expanded RESTful API

The RESTful API for mailing list subscriptions has been expanded to include support for custom URL redirects, as well as working with situations where additional information is required from a user, to successfully complete a request

A Javascript/jQuery example is also provided, that supports all these new fancy bells and whistles