This version features major feature additions and enhancements, with the main highlights being the return of tracking features, as well as the SMTP Validation feature.
You're now able to enable "clicktracking" for mailing list emails, where the links in your email will be converted into a trackable format. When the user clicks links in your email, they'll get redirected to where the links originally pointed to, be they on-site links or external links.
In future updates, we'll expose these statistics to you via logs and statistics.
You're also able to track when an email is opened, along with an estimation of the read time per email.
In future updates, we'll expose these statistics to you via logs and statistics.
Both of these features can be disabled or enabled per mailing list.
The other major feature is, as mentioned previously,
SMTP Validation. While this feature isn't as robust as 3rd party services you have to pay for, it is
completely free.
If you use the "bounced email" setting in XF2, your server can use this email to essentially pretend to send an email to the remote email server, but cancel the connection before an email is actually sent.
This means if the email server reports that no such user exists, or the remote server doesn't exist any more, your forum will already know this user's email address is invalid.
Your forum will automatically verify
25 email addresses every
3 hours. These values cannot be changed, as increasing them would have a negative impact on the performance of your site. If you wish to manually verify more emails, you can use a command-line tool:
php cmd.php dbtech-mail:validate-emails <numEmails>
This feature does come with some requirements regarding your server and your environment, and these are explained in the settings page for this product. Because of these requirements, this feature is disabled by default.
Discovered bugs have also been fixed.
Lastly, we've added an
install-upgrade.json
file in preparation for compatibility with the [TH] Install & Upgrade add-on.
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/