Changelog

1.2.4 - Bugfix Release (08.04.2016)

Features

Fixes

Workaround to backward compatibility breaking changes to addReplyTo method introduced in Joomla 3.0
Readiness for most recent JMail/PHPMailer version in Joomla 3.5.1 by handling exceptions
Fix PHP 7.0 deprecated warnings
Language fixes

Features

Compatibility with Joomla 3.5
Joomla 1.5 is not supported anymore, new required minimum version is Joomla 2.5
Server settings can be re-used in other mailing lists
Bounced and blocked emails are automatically removed from the email archive after 30 days (time period can be adjusted)
New setting for FROM name: "Sender Name via List Name"

Improvements

Maintenance tasks triggered by cronjob and/or plugin are now time bound to avoid execution timeouts

Fixes

Database collation issues are recognized and fixed during installation
Detect auto- and self-generated emails more reliable to prevent email loops
Database entries for mail queue, digest queue, send reports and attachments are removed when a corresponding email is deleted
Emails without subject lines are accessible from the mail queue and mail archive views
Show inbox status also when mailbox could not be accessed

Features

Fixes

Deal with text editors that put the site URL in front of the unsubscribe placeholder automatically so that the unsubscribe URL still works
Do not produce email loop with "email not forwarded"-notifications when email is blocked because of globally blacklisted sender
List email address placeholder replacement works in header/footer
List administrator email placeholder replacement works in header/footer
Manage to recover original thread subject
Business and Ultimate Edition: CB Plugin's initial synchronization for user group mode works as expected when syncing from Mailster to CB

Fixes

Features

Compatibility with Joomla 3.4 - this version of Mailster is still Joomla 1.5 compatible
Business and Ultimate Edition: CB Plugin becomes compatible with Community Builder 2.0
Business and Ultimate Edition: Frontend access to the emails of certain mailing lists can be forbidden with the new "Nobody" choice in the "Allowed to access emails in frontend" mailing list setting
New global configuration setting to block certain email addresses such as typical bounce email addresses which can not be recognized automatically based on their email headers
Insert sender's description (Mailster field) into email by using new placeholder {description}
Possibility to turn off the filtering of messages with "Precedence: bulk" header

Improvements

Increased maximum email text size (not including attachments) that can be stored from 64kB to 16MB to avoid truncation of long and HTML-rich newsletters
Relative images/link URLs in custom email/footer are automatically converted to absolute URLs
Additions to French and Danish language file and various other language/translation corrections
Do not allow to downgrade Mailster from a later release to a previous release to avoid unforeseen events
Profile Plugin propagates group member changes done through Joomla's user manager to update mailing lists recipient cache if necessary
Business and Ultimate Edition: CB Plugin propagates email address changes to update mailing lists recipient cache if necessary

Fixes

Recipient lists are built correctly from Joomla user group members
Digest emails do not delay sending of regular list emails
Fixed digest email sending error causing white screen
Search plugin adheres to "Allowed to access emails in frontend" mailing list setting
Admin can remove individual recipients from mailing lists
Admin can remove individual members from Mailster groups
Fixed error caused by non standard conform email structures with strange attachment filename headers
Business and Ultimate Edition: CB Plugin does not inadvertently unsubscribe list members when user edits profile in frontend
Non-compatible plugins & modules are uninstalled automatically when upgrading the component
Plugins and modules are uninstalled when component is uninstalled
Database tables are removed when component is uninstalled