Clicking the second link ( http://lists.knowmad.com/mail.cgi/archive/ shift/newest/#sender_email ) from my mail reader seems to work - I actually don't understand how it works at all, since there's no real anchor tag to target. I guess it's just targeting the tag with an id of, "sender_email"? I didn't know that was possible. Does clicking the link in your mail reader in the message you just sent work for you or not? If not, perhaps it's a mail reader problem. Which still would be weird. ...Continue Reading

Hi Justin, I seem to be blessed with uncovering issues in the operation of the Forward to a Friend feature this month :). Here's the latest: One of my clients told me the Forward link I added to their newsletter[1] wasn't working. I tested it and sure enough the link[2] doesn't work. However, if you don't use the link and instead scroll to the bottom of the page to fill out the form, it works fine. Rather interesting that adding an anchor to that link causes the form to fail. I'd debug but am just not familiar enoug ...Continue Reading

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:45:08AM -0000, Dada Mail (Justin Simoni) wrote: > I cobbled together CAPTCHA support for this feature - the CAPTCHA > stuff in Dada Mail is actually fairly encapsulated, so it wasn't the > biggest of deals. I'll put the changes in CVS soon and release a dev. > version of Dada Mail, if you'd like to give it a shot. Awesome! Yes, I'd be glad to try it when the dev version is ready. > The only rub with the CAPTCHA stuff, is that you have to have both > the GD image lib ...Continue Reading

On Jan 3, 2007, at 9:59 AM, William McKee wrote: > > Hi Justin, > > I'm glad to hear that you're aware of the situation. The system > doesn't > seem to be getting terribly abused yet but I will turn it off if it > becomes a bigger issue. I mostly wanted you and others to be aware of > this spam vector that's now being used. I cobbled together CAPTCHA support for this feature - the CAPTCHA stuff in Dada Mail is actually fairly encapsulated, so it wasn't the biggest of deals. I'll put the c ...Continue Reading

Hi Justin, I'm glad to hear that you're aware of the situation. The system doesn't seem to be getting terribly abused yet but I will turn it off if it becomes a bigger issue. I mostly wanted you and others to be aware of this spam vector that's now being used. I think CAPTCHA is about the only suggestion I'd have as well. I agree that it's not very friendly. Even I have a hard time reading those skewed images sometimes! Having sound would be a nice touch. Thanks, William ...Continue Reading

This is sort of silly and yet, at the same time stupid, but Beatitude currently won't allow you to set any schedules for any 2007 or later. The quick fix is simple enough - find these lines in the program itself (scheduled_mailings.pl: my %mail_year_values = ( 103 => 2003, 104 => 2004, 105 => 2005, 106 => 2006, ); and just append them like this: my %mail_year_values = ( 103 => 2003, 104 => 2004, 105 => 2005, 106 => 2006, 107 => 2007, 108 => 2008, 109 => 2009, 110 => ...Continue Reading

On Jan 2, 2007, at 1:12 PM, William McKee wrote: > > Has anyone seen spammers using the Send Archive feature? I'm > starting to > see this happen for one of my lists. They'll use the comments box to > insert some advertisments then send the mail through my server. I think someone else reported this as well. I don't think I've personally seen it, but it seems to be possible. * Short term solution is to simply turn off the feature. * The long-term solution may be to use some sort of challenge- re ...Continue Reading

Has anyone seen spammers using the Send Archive feature? I'm starting to see this happen for one of my lists. They'll use the comments box to insert some advertisments then send the mail through my server. Has anyone found a way to thwart this activity? Thanks, William ...Continue Reading

Hello All,�Just to let everyone know, I'll be gone the rest of the week. There may be another blizzard in Denver on Thursday, so I may actually miss my flight because of cancellation be... not here for a little longer. So if anyone's looking for me, let 'em know I'm in New Mexico :)�Anyways, I've been working on a little the, "Add Email" admin screen. There's a bit of a problem, if you try to add too many addresses at once, the thing will just sort of konk out - no good. This process will worsen, once all the ...Continue Reading

I added a small feature in dada_bridge.pl, to allow you make the cronjob call to a URL, instead of directly running the script. I know that dada_bridge.pl isn't the simplest script to configure, and one of the harder things to do is to find all the absolute perl paths, both the system-wide perl libraries and Dada Mail's own Perl libraries. Getting these wrong makes the script not work when called as a cronjob and sometimes mysteriously. There's also the problem of setting the cronjob incorrectly, if you s ...Continue Reading