What's new in evoMailer v.1.5

 
New options for Opt-in forms,
  • Google reCAPTCHA v3
  • Redesigned the built-in captcha method to use partitioned cookies. Useful when the form is used in a different website.
  • Rate limiter with IP block in form submissions and hidden spam trap field.
  • Form submissions log.
  • Pop-up forms: code ready to copy-paste with instructions.
  • Disable an opt-in form.
  • Easily add a background image to your forms when creating / editing the form.
New in reporting,
  • Email clients chart was updated. It reports separately Mozilla/5.0 user agent which is due to Apple's Mail Privacy Protection (but not only).
  • Improved the calculation of total views and total clicks ratios. Multiple clicks or views exactly at the same second are counted as single.
  • Improved the Recent subscriber activity report in your Welcome page which now depicts better the different types of opt-out (global, by list, suppression).
  • Added complaints & bounces in the Total activity (trend) chart that you have in your Welcome page.
New opt-out links and methods,
  • Update list preferences. The subscriber is sent to page to choose which lists to subscribe to. Only the lists that you set as Public will appear in this page.
    So setting a list as Public or Hidden is a new option in your UI.
  • New opt-out link: suppress subscriber. Suppression ensures that you will never email this subscriber again but his full record and history is kept.
Advanced search new options,
  • Find subscribers who belong to some lists but not in others.
  • Find subscribers who clicked (or not) one or more specific links.
  • Added AND/OR operators for mailing lists, subscriber tags and campaigns.
  • Extended the search in subscriber tags for both having and not having a tag.
  • Added also a new option to tag/un-tag the whole subscriber segment found in the search results.
Campaign & Autoresponders improvements,
  • Filter newsletters by tag (reloads instantly) when creating a campaign or an autoresponder.
  • A new option when creating a campaign or an autoresponder: subscribers not having specific tags.
  • Maximum error threshold. Email sending may generate smtp or similar protocol errors. You can use this setting to automatically pause a campaign when this threshold is exceeded (like 5%).
  • Autoresponders based on X days after are sent once a day in batches and exactly at the activation hour/minute you define. For example always at 9:30 am. No changes for autoresponders based on X minutes/hours after.
  • New autoresponders based on last click/open.
  • Preheader also when sending a page using the URL.
  • Embedded images also when sending a page by URL. Images should be in your assets folder.
Various other improvements,
  • Updated List-Unsubscribe header using List-Unsubscribe-Post: List-Unsubscribe=One-Click according to rfc8058. Besides being a soon must-have requirement by some ESPs, it solves a problem where email scanners follow every link in a newsletter including the list-unsubscribe-header link which would cause an unintentional opt-out.
  • Improved the extraction of zipped newsletter templates.
  • In CSV exports you can now choose which subscriber fields you want to include.
  • SMTP2GO webhook endpoint.
  • Fallback text when the countdown timer expires.
  • Quick search: search also by subscriber ID and campaign ID.
  • Increase/decrease UI font size.
Which plugins should be updated to v.1.5?
  • Multi-threaded sending plugin
  • Synchronize with external databases
  • No changes in Feedback loop processing & Opt-in by email from v.1.3 to v.1.5.
 

New features added in v.1.4

  • New sending methods (api/smtp) and webhook endpoints (to record deliveries, bounces and complaints) for Mandrill, Postmark, Mailjet, Mailersend, Brevo, smtp.com.
  • Sending domains and built-in DKIM-signing.
  • New rate limiting / throttling mechanism (for non smtp methods).
  • Sender profiles hourly and daily quotas and a Total sent counter.
  • For the Amazon SES api you have a utility that retrieves your sending history and other related data provided by Amazon (delivery attempts, bounces, complaints, rejects).
  • For sender profiles that use an api sending method you have an email test utility (similar to the one you have for smtp servers).
  • Countdown timer fully configurable. You can set your own default styling and quickly insert it in your newsletter through the templates button of the WYSIWYG html editor.
  • New field for mailing lists, Short description to be used in opt-in forms (instead of the extensive larger description where you can keep your own notes).
  • Added a Quick edit pop-up for newsletter subject, tags, memo, preheader.
  • Changed to px (from pt) the WYSIWYG html editor font sizes list.
  • A new option to add subscribers from the advanced search results to an existing list.
  • Quick search also extended to opt-outs.
  • Added the ID in subscriber quick search results.
  • The latest activity chart in your welcome page will only show the time for today’s activity.
  • New api parameters when doing a subscriber POST: check_optouts & remove_tags. Until now you could only add Tags. Using check_optouts you can control if the subscriber will be added to lists that he opted-out in the past or added at all (in case he did a global opt-out in the past).
  • The Campaign completed email that is sent to the administrator includes a link to shared summary report and the html newsletter attached.
  • You can edit an smtp server from the sender profiles page and edit a sender profile from the smtp servers page. So no need to switch pages.
  • Choose the subscriber fields you want to see in your reports directly from your subscribers page.
  • Moved all hardcoded settings to the database. This simplifies future upgrades. Opt-in form default styles can be set in your admin panel configuration settings.
  • PHP 8.1 or later is required.
 

New features added in v.1.3

  • A/B split test report shows also opt-outs by newsletter.
  • New assets/images file browser with improved functionality.
  • Improved the Quick search by adding search in mailing lists.
  • Improved the Advanced search with a new filter on clicks and views: with/without clicks/views in the last X days.
  • Redirection URLs (welcome, goodbye etc) in Sender profile settings can be personalized with subscriber data. Example:. ...?email=[sub_email].
  • When creating/editing a campaign, you see the total number of recipients when changing lists, tags, filters and other options (no need to click 'Count').
  • Opt-in city & country show in subscriber profile page.
  • Added from-until dates in atimeline chart. Helpful for autoresponders since the time frame is quite extensive.
  • Updated Amazon SNS bounces processing: added option to ignore "transient" bounces that have sub-type "general". By default it ignores them. You can change this in /inc/classUtil.php.
  • Updated Sendgrid webhook to capture events of type “dropped”.
  • The + sign in emails is now allowed when using opt-in forms.
  • Enhanced click/open report to show location or else IP if you are not recording location data.
  • Added country & city in csv exports of clicks & opens.
  • Cloning a newsletter also clones the preheader.
  • Added "Clone a data source".
  • Improved the creation of text versions from html newsletters.
 

New features added in v.1.2

  • The opt-in form builder was improved so you can style your forms the way you like. Choose background, label, input and text colors and fonts for each form.
  • You can add a Preheader in your Html newsletters without editing the code. Like this.
  • Hard bounces & complaints threshold to automatically pause a campaign when it is reached. The administrator is notified by email.
  • When using the "Send web page method" to create a campaign you can open the templates manager to upload a new or select an html file from your templates.
  • When creating a campaign or an autoresponder you have a new option to exclude subscribers that were bulk-imported. This is very handy particularly with autoresponders.
  • Extended newsletter "Quick Search" also to body (besides subject and tags). Also added a case sensitive option.
  • Advanced Search greatly improved,
    • Single click CSV export for all search results.
    • Option to choose campaigns. Using this you can view and csv-export the subscribers that were included in a campaign.
    • Added Starts with & Ends with in the search operators (besides contains / does not contain).
  • New option to exclude suppressed subscribers when you CSV-export them. Also added opt-out city and country fields in the exported file.
  • An improvement regarding Public vs Private/Hidden newsletters. Although you may have a newsletter as hidden so it does not show in the newsletter archive, it can be seen when clicking the smart link to Read this in your browser in a campaign context.
  • Added two new merge-tags for dates in newsletters: [M_d,_YYYY] (August 11, 2022) & [YYYY] (current year)
  • New setting to automatically show a link to read the Html newsletter in the browser when the email client blocks html content and shows only the text part.
  • For stricter GDPR compliance you have a new optional setting. You may erase all emails from Opt-outs, Complaints and the Send-log using a cron job to _reset.php that are older than the period you define.
  • Several libraries were updated.
  • How to upgrade.
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