[DBTech] DragonByte Mail 4.7.0

Update highlights

Welcome to the third beta version of DragonByte Mail v4.3.0

This version contains mostly feature improvements and changes to address feedback from Beta 1. The most notable change is that it is now possible to disable BBCode from being included in the Digest preview. In certain cases, BBCode could display incorrectly in email, so if that is a problem for you, you can turn BBCode off.

An incompatibility with Amazon SES with the notification for unsubscribe feedback has also been addressed, among other bugs.

The registration defaults have also been changed, no longer requiring an entirely separate setting. The toggles can be found inside XF's own registrationDefaults setting.


Complete Change Log

Feature: Added a setting to control whether BBCode is parsed in the digest
Feature: Ability to only include threads posted since the last time the user received the digest
Feature: A date stamp showing the last time the user was reminded of inactivity has been added to the inactive users list
Feature: Ability to override certain email-related registration defaults only if the user opts in to receiving site emails during registration
Feature: The snippet length can now be controlled per content type
Change: Merged registration defaults into the core setting
Change: Inactivity emails will now default to off
Change: Category checkboxes will now be readonly in the digest settings for threads
Fix: Work around race condition where a subscription entry would be wrongly inserted
Fix: Fixed an issue where new digest content or user settings would not correctly take on the default value
Fix: Fixed Amazon SES compatibility with the unsubscribe feedback notification email

Update highlights

Welcome to the second version of DragonByte Mail v4.3.0

A few major bugs were discovered in Beta 1 that necessitated Beta 2 to be released quite quickly.

People upgrading from v4.2 would have discovered that the upgrade did not port the old "Excluded forums" setting correctly. The upgrade step has been corrected, but people already using Beta 1 will need to re-configure that setting in the AdminCP.

Furthermore, a small copy-paste error meant that the digest settings in users' control panel was, in fact, only accessible to administrators. Whoops

Lastly, the digest settings would not save correctly on the Privacy or Account Details pages, this has now also been corrected.


Complete Change Log

Fix: Fix issue where excluded forums would not port correctly from the old Digest settings
Fix: The "Receive digest" setting would not save correctly on Privacy or Account Details pages
Fix: The digest settings would only work for administrators

Update highlights

Welcome to the first version of DragonByte Mail v4.3.0

This version is focused on improving the Digest feature, adding rich previews for the content being included as well as setting it up to allow more content types in the future.

You can see a preview of how the threads will look here:


Users will be able to choose which forums their personal digest should pull from, within their access permissions of course.

Furthermore, various bugs reported since the previous version have also been fixed.


Complete Change Log

Feature: Threads now display a rich preview of the first post, along with other metadata
Feature: Users can now choose which forums should be included in their personal digest
Feature: "User has been inactive for at least X days" user searcher criteria
Feature: "User has been inactive for less than X days" user searcher criteria
Change: Changed the way digest settings are stored to allow for other content types to be included in the digest in the future
Fix: Fix pagination of the mailing list users in the AdminCP
Fix: The Manage Keyword Subscriptions page in the front-end would only work for administrators
Fix: Fixed an issue where Branding Free copies could produce a server error when sending a Mailing List email
Fix: Fix a race condition where a duplicate key error could be generated from the mail tracking
Fix: Fix an issue where certain digest criteria would not save correctly

Update highlights

This version refines the navbar integration by adding FontAwesome icons for menu entries when positioned in the right-side menu, as well as adding the ability to disable the text. Lastly, the HTML has been updated to better blend in with other right-side navbar items.

This has been tested on a limited number of custom skins. If you encounter any problems with the right-side menu after installing this update, please report it to the developer of your custom skin and ask them to get in touch with us to notify us of any changes we need to make.


Complete Change Log

Feature: Added FontAwesome icons for right-side menu entries
Feature: Added ability to disable the navbar text for right-side menu entries
Change: Updated the style of right-side menu entries to better fit into the surrounding entries

Update highlights

This update adds the ability to override the forum default "From name" and "From email" to emails sent via the Digest feature, and each individual mailing list.

Additionally, it fixes an issue with detecting the maximum length of an email subject, which could lead to server errors when sending a new email.


Complete Change Log

Feature: Override default "From name" and "From email" for mailing lists
Feature: Override default "From name" and "From email" for the digest
Fix: Fixed a template error when sending a new email

Update highlights

This update adds the ability to override the email transport to the Digest feature. Previously, you could only override the email transport for Newsletters, but it was rightly pointed out that Digests are bulk emails too, and it might be wise to allow it to be overridden as well.


Complete Change Log

Feature: Ability to override email transport parameters for the Digest

Update highlights

This update fixes a reported issue with the "Mail tracking" feature where it would produce a server error.

The issue did not impact the functionality of the mod or delivery of the emails, it only affected read tracking statistics.


Complete Change Log

Fix: Fix an issue with the "Mail tracking" feature as a result of the GuzzleHttp change in XF 2.1

Update highlights

This update features mostly back-end only changes, updating the Composer autoload method to take advantage of a new feature in XF 2.1 for improved performance and reliability.

Furthermore, a reported bug when deleting mailing lists has been resolved.


Complete Change Log

Change: Now utilises new composer autoload method in XF 2.1 for improved performance and reliability
Fix: Fixed a server error that could occur when deleting a mailing list that had sent one or more mail

Update highlights

After a lengthy Beta period, this product has gone Gold

This version contains no changes from the previous version. Future updates will require XenForo 2.1.

If you want the full details on the v4.1.0 release, you can check it out here: https://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/store/dragonbyte-mail.342/release/1731/


Complete Change Log

No changes.

Because I will be taking advantage of features that only exist in XenForo 2.1, the next version will require XenForo 2.1.

In the meantime, I will release a "Gold" version of the current beta or RC version. This "Gold" version should work fine with XenForo 2.1. There are no known blocking issues with the planned "Gold" version of this mod preventing it from running on XenForo 2.1.