[DBTech] DragonByte Mail 5.3.0b1

Update highlights​

This version brings significant improvements to the Amazon SES integration, as well as more fine-grained outbound email limitations.

The Daily Stats feature in XenForo will now collect additional stats from your Amazon SES account, if you have configured API credentials in a new setting.

The Outbound Mail limiter now lets you set the number of mails per X minutes/hours/days rather than just a flat X mail per hour. If you have previously configured this setting, please double-check it after upgrading to ensure it's configured correctly for you.

The Inactivity Reminders system now uses the same Criteria system as email validation, and can be configured via a new button in the settings in much the same way.

The last major notable change is the fact that Digests are now sent no earlier than 12 noon and no later than 19 server time. This is to prevent issues where people would receive the digest at midnight and then be buried under other emails received while they were asleep. It is not possible to set this per-user.

For a full list of changes, please see the below change log.

Complete Change Log​

Feature: Amazon SES Bounce Rate, Bounces and Complaint Rate integration with Daily Stats
Feature: Reworked maximum outbound email to include configurable unit and multiplier
Feature: Rework inactivity reminders to use Criteria system
Feature: Is/Is Not Subscribed user criteria
Feature: Validate user email address via action drop-down
Feature: Add "mailbox is disabled" to the list of XenForo's "invalid mailbox strings"
Feature: Add more flexibility to the inactivity input fields for the user searcher
Change: Add additional logging when pinging back to Amazon's server via the API
Change: Digest is now sent no earlier than 12 noon and no later than 19 (server time)
Change: Improve ability to print email validation results in certain contexts
Change: Improve error logging for Amazon SNS when "Raw message delivery" is enabled
Change: Improve exception handling in SNS message parsing
Fix: Remove dependency on bounceEmailAddress in the AdminCP
Fix: Reclassify SNS complaint notifications as a hard bounce

Update highlights​

This version brings improvements to the email validation feature in DragonByte Mail. You can now configure the criteria used for finding users who should have their emails validated.

By default, it only searches for users with "Valid" user state and users who are not banned. This was the old functionality, ported into the new settings UI. Furthermore, the "No empty email" and "Last validation cut-off" cannot be customised as these are too important to be changed.

Furthermore, when the forum sends an email to a specific user, that user's last validation record will be updated. This can mean a significant cost reduction if you are validating tens of thousands of users that may have been actively receiving emails already, such as watched thread notifications.

Complete Change Log​

Feature: Update last validation date when an email is sent to a user
Feature: Configurable email validation criteria
Change: Implement additional checks for the Reoon email validator

Update highlights​

This version updates some of the validation APIs to log "Inbox full" as a soft bounce rather than a hard bounce.

Furthermore, this version updates the various log pages to allow search criteria to persist when clicking back into the search form.

Complete Change Log​

Change: CaptainVerify, Emailable, Reoon and UseBouncer can now log "inbox full" as a soft bounce
Change: Criteria are now carried over when clicking the Search button in log pages

Update highlights​

This version makes a minor change to the "Maintenance" page's admin permission checks, as well as preparing for the upcoming XenForo v2.3.8.

Previous v5.1.0 Beta builds contained an important fix for sites using the "Max mails per hour" setting!

See previous change logs for more information.

Complete Change Log​

Change: Apply the correct admin permission to the "Maintenance" page
Change: Move database query calls from templates to PHP files

Update highlights​

This version fixes an issue where certain email validation APIs were missing from the export, causing them to be unavailable.

Complete Change Log​

Fix: Fix missing email validation APIs in the exported data

Update highlights​

This version replaces the previous SMTP validation feature with a new API validation system, which can interface with a variety of 3rd party email validation services. Please do be aware that these services are paid. Unfortunately, the old SMTP validation feature has been disabled by remote mail servers like Google and Yahoo.

Furthermore, a bug has been resolved in which enabling both the "max emails per hour" global setting AND disabling the per-mailing list "send instantly" function could cause the mail queue to grow out of control. To fix this in earlier versions, simply either disable max emails per hour or enable "Send instantly" in the mailing list.

Complete Change Log​

Feature: Million Verifier API integration
Feature: Emailable API integration
Feature: MailboxLayer API integration
Feature: UseBouncer API integration
Feature: EmailListVerify API integration
Feature: CaptainVerify API integration
Feature: MyEmailVerifier API integration
Feature: ZeroBounce API integration
Feature: Reoon API integration
Feature: Bouncify API integration
Change: Removed SMTP Validation and replaced it with API
Fix: Fix a potential server error if the SNS notification did not contain a diagnostic code
Fix: Fix a race condition where the mail queue could fill up unexpectedly

Update highlights​

This version adds the ability to specify a separate email to use as "From" email when using CLI to validate users' email addresses.

Furthermore, the Amazon SES/SNS bounce and complaint handling should now be much improved. This reworked handling has been in use here @ DBTech for the past 1-2 weeks, so I'm confident it's now working optimally.

Complete Change Log​

Feature: CLI email validation can now specify a separate email to test against
Change: Improve Amazon SES bounce/complaint handling

Update highlights​

This version fixes an issue when editing the user group permissions for mailing lists.

Complete Change Log​

Fix: Fix server errors when editing permissions

Update highlights​

This version corrects an issue where the Mailing List and Digest email transport overrides would not work if "SMTP" was chosen.

Complete Change Log​

Fix: The SMTP overrides for Mailing Lists and Digests are now compatible with the new XF 2.3 format

Update highlights​

This version is now considered stable. No issues were discovered during the testing phase.

Complete Change Log​

Version bump