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MailList King v9.0 is a major upgrade incorporating numerous enhancements with particular focus on features requested in our recent customer survey.
For information on upgrading, please visit our upgrade page.
v9.0 Top Fifteen New Features
| 1 | Organize your groups by nesting them within other groups |
| 2 | New "Print Letters" feature with full mail merge functionality |
| 3 | New "Print labels" feature to output postal labels for your members |
| 4 | Many Outlook Synchronization improvements including increased speed and synchronizing of sub-folders |
| 5 | Many improvements to SMS sending including full preview, delivery to recipients in an import file and estimation of delivery time |
| 6 | Display all recipients of a sending task that unsubscribed |
| 7 | Windows 7 support including display of progress in the Windows task bar |
| 8 | Member selection dialog now allows you to choose groups and mobile phone numbers |
| 9 | Improved processing summary dialog with tree view for easy navigation of failures |
| 10 | Various enhancements for sharing of databases over a network |
| 11 | Instantly filter the mailing list to only show members that you have checked/selected |
| 12 | "Postal Address" personalization field that automatically inserts a fully formatted address (with options) |
| 13 | New custom filters: Have email address, have mobile phone number and have postal address |
| 14 | Automatically checks for common misspellings and synonyms of country names |
| 15 | Improved start up time |
Complete Change History
- Changed: Increased maximum size of database tables from 4GB to 128GB (Note: No longer compatible with Windows 95, 98, or ME)
- Added: Unsubscribes are not added to the error list if the failure occurred because the member is already unsubscribed
- Changed: Improved display of available option in Edit Group dialog
- Added: Improved menu text in main window
- Changed: Now does not send a subscribe double opt-in unless a user passes all subscription rules
- Added: When importing multiple address columns can be amalgamated into MLK's address field
- Added: Now includes validation result in the history log
- Added: RAC Command List processing functions now include the email list in the acknowledgement email
- Changed: If you allow members without email addresses then only contacts with email addresses are shown in the select members dialog
- Added: More detail in log particular related to Outlook syncing
- Added: Now looks for County as alternative for State or Province
- Added: Now uses the selected group if none has been checked
- Removed: Demoted option: WebFormSubjectsPartialMatching. Now always enabled
- Added: Installer no longer prompts for program files folder or start menu folder when updating an existing install
- Added: Improved installer compression for smaller download
- Added: Installation progress now displays on task bar in Windows 7
- Added: New graphics in selectors in Statistics dialog
- Changed: Improved error message for modifies that do not have an update address
- Added: Delete key prompts to remove the current group, Ctrl+Enter edits the current group, Ctrl+A selects, then unselects all
- Changed: Group box in Options dialog uses checkboxes (for deletion)
- Changed: Improved group hover hints
- Fixed: May not remember member sending rights
- Fixed: Mixed column types may cause ignored records when importing from Excel
- Added: Now starts an Outlook Send/Receive if sending is delayed due to the Outbox containing items
- Added: Now performs HTTP retrieval in background thread
- Added: Automatically triggers an Outlook Send/Receive when sending a test message
- Added: Improved wording for functions to create new items
- Removed: Mail merge printing in Send Message dialog
- Removed: No longer displays warning message if enter Personalization Options with a message that does not contain personalization fields
- Removed: Print button in preview dialog
- Added: If you allow members without email addresses it now performs an accurate count of recipients in Message Editor
- Fixed: Changes to live spelling in Message Editor may not stick
- Added: Improved error messages for bad selections in the Options dialog
- Changed: Invert currently displayed members is now hidden unless using ShowAdvancedMenuItems
- Added: Can now nest groups within other groups
- Added: Outlook Sync now also synchronizes sub-folders
- Added: Some improvements to Outlook sync speed
- Added: Improved hints for Outlook Sync wizard
- Added: New "Print Letters" function with full mail merge functionality
- Added: New "Print labels" function to output postal labels for your members
- Added: Can now send personalized SMS messages to recipients in import file
- Added: Previewing of SMS sending tasks
- Added: Now provides estimate of SMS task delivery times
- Added: Can display all recipients of a sending task that unsubscribed
- Added: New Postal Address field that returns a fully formatted postal address with options
- Added: Member selector now allows you to choose groups
- Added: New custom filters: Have email address, Have mobile phone number and Have postal address
- Added: Can now instantly filter (show only) checked members with right-click function
- Added: Now defaults to optimistic locking when sharing a database for better performance
- Added: Improved error handling for locked record situations
- Added: Automatic checking for common misspelling and synonyms of country names
- Added: Under Windows 7 shows progress in the task bar
- Added: Processing summary dialog now uses a tree view for easy navigation of failures
- Added: Can now select mobile phone numbers in the select members dialog
V9.01 Change History
- Fixed: Need to change from recipient tab in Task properties before can click "Send Now" if recipients have been changed
- Fixed: Sending task ID may not be unique
- Added: Use unique filename for pasted images
- Added: Uncheck all in right-click menu
- Added: Checkbox column is now themed
- Added: Checkbox custom fields can be created by adding the "_TF" suffix, e.g. MyCheckbox_TF
- Added: New Custom Filter to display all checked custom fields (and counts of each)
- Added: Can now have up to six custom field columns visible
- Added: Can now automatically reset the vacation status for members after x number of days
- Fixed: Vacation date not set when manually enabling vacation mode
- Changed: Less aggressive at autochecking groups when no groups are checked
- Added: No longer re-performs a group search if the selection is the same and no membership changes have been made (even if MLK is restarted)
- Added: New hidden option: Optimistic Record Locking
- Changed: Custom filter box only display warnings when making changes with the mouse
V9.02 Change History
- Fixed: When automatically subscribing members MLK may not abort due to an unknown group and add the member to a null group
- Fixed: No longer counts ghost items in the MLK Outbox
- Added: Some improvements to the Help file
- Added: Optimize function now deletes ghost sending tasks
- Added: Labels added to sending history
- Added: Print button in Letter preview dialog
- Fixed: If unique database settings is enabled group nesting may not be enabled when changing databases
- Added: Printing and saving of previews now available in right-click menu
V9.03 Change History
- Added: New "Checked Members" recipient option for messages to make it easier to make custom selections for a sending task
- Added: MailList King now differentiates between soft (temporary failure) and hard (permanent failure) bounces and increases users bounce counts by three in the case of a hard bounce
- Added: Now when creating a new member and the specified contact already exists you are asked if you want to overwrite it
- Added: Now always shows all member's groups in hover hints
- Added: Updated help file to improved readability
- Fixed: Ctrl+V does not reformat before pasting in the message insertion dialog
- Added: Now permits you to manually create group names that are not capitalized
- Fixed: Progress caption may not update in multiple-thread send progress dialog
- Added: Reprocess dialog includes an All Domain item in the drop down list
- Fixed: May not enclose fields in quotes when backing up
- Added: Better debug logging for history items
- Added: When processing [un]subscribes with multiple groups it is considered a success if any one of the groups process correctly
- Changed: Email Software settings are now in advanced options
- Fixed: May get ghost sending tasks listed as errors
- Added: Can use /OwnSettings to force loading of settings from the database sub-folder
- Added: Also locates contact by email address when allowing duplicate addresses even if name is different
- Fixed: When using multiple databases with unique settings, the wrong configuration may be used
- Fixed: Option to prompt when an no/unknown group is specified for unsubscribe may cause the unsubscribe to fail
- Fixed: When updating an email address it may not update destination address of scheduled messages for that contact
- Added: When searching by Member ID, the "UID" prefix is optional
- Added: Copes better with embedded images that use non-ANSI characters
- Removed: Deprecated option: Block undeliverable addresses from being re-added to the mailing list
- Added: Internal SMTP Server does not assign local connection failures to recipients
- Added: Personalization fields are available even when right-clicking a member to send them an SMS
- Fixed: Database open dialog shows hidden fodlers *
- Fixed: May not remember "Check Spelling before Sending" option *