I've gotten interested in this little project: http://recaptcha.net It may prove an interesting alternative to the present CAPTCHA system in Dada Mail. One of the nice things that it does have is the ability to use *sound* instead of just images - which will help people who have difficulty seeing. I'll let everyone know how well I fare in hacking it into Dada Mail :) Cheers, ...Continue Reading

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:43:34AM -0600, Dada Mail (Justin Simoni) wrote: > > I added a new backend type to DadaMail: SQLite. Awesome! SQLite is a great, small database. We've used it on production websites that have small datasets in lieu of bringing a big SQL engine online to do minimal lifting. William ...Continue Reading

I added a new backend type to DadaMail: SQLite. It's a *very* simple, small and fast SQL flavor and the entire database is one file. Kinda neat. I decided to play around with it, since it would be a good tool to use for automated testing purposes, but hey, it may also seem interesting for actual live usage. There's wasn't any new code I had to write, since the SQL stuff for MySQL and/or Postgres was already compatible. That was neat as well. Cheers, ...Continue Reading

On May 30, 2007, at 4:28 AM, Bruce Scherzinger wrote: ...Continue Reading

Hmmm...I am wondering if the bounce handler is smart enough to look at the score and decide at some point to put addresses that bounce regularly into an 'off_list', keeping the addresses in the list but making them inactive. That would be a great thing. Regarding Test::Files, based on the write-up it seems to be little more than a file/directory comparison program. I mean, that's probably a good thing for a distro that has lots of files. But for a small application like the typical Joomla extension, it's probably not ...Continue Reading

On May 29, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Bruce Scherzinger wrote: > I haven't had much luck (and haven't really tried either) at > getting the bounce handler to do anything for me. So i don't really > know what it's capabilities are in terms of managing bouncing > addresses. Is it possible that it sets (or could set) this > list_type DB field such that it stops trying to send messages to > addresses that bounce? Or does it just send the bounce messages to > a special email address? Bounced messag ...Continue Reading

Hey Justin, I haven't had much luck (and haven't really tried either) at getting the bounce handler to do anything for me. So i don't really know what it's capabilities are in terms of managing bouncing addresses. Is it possible that it sets (or could set) this list_type DB field such that it stops trying to send messages to addresses that bounce? Or does it just send the bounce messages to a special email address? I believe you told me that 'black_list' is one obvious alternative the normal 'list' value in the ...Continue Reading

Heya everyone, I've made some changes to the bounce handler. Along with the other changes I've mentioned, I've made the score cards list-specific, instead of global. In fact, all the rules are now (again) list- specific and the good thing is, you still have to only set up one bounce handler address for the entire installation. Right now, the score card is saved in a DB file - I may have the option to also have the scorecard us an SQL backend, since the SQL backends seem to be easier for people from other ...Continue Reading

Hey everyone, I've been playing around with how to speed up the, "Add Subscribers" screen in Dada Mail. At the moment, it's glacial. I was under the impression that it's this way simply because the validation process is resource intensive and if you do something like the validation process for, say, 10,000 subscribers, it's just gonna take some time. Well, there is some room for improvement and have some fun and try this out: In the dada/DADA/MailingList/Subscribers.pm file, find these lines: [ ...Continue Reading

On May 20, 2007, at 7:36 AM, Bruce Scherzinger wrote: > On the remove-after-bounce thing...why not just add an attribute > that disables the address instead of removing it? This attribute > could also indicate WHY the address was removed. Mailman has a > feature like this. It shows whether bouncing, user, or admin action > was the cause. I found that feature extremely useful. That's fine and I like the idea, but, Dada Mail only supports an email address in its subscription list. When it suppo ...Continue Reading