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Releasing today MailPress 7.0 RC

Requirements :
PHP: 7.x (prerequisite of swiftmailer 6.x branch).
PHP extensions simplexml AND intl (prerequisite of swiftmailer 6.x branch).

Major changes :
Contextual help available for each admin screen.
Admin ajax calls comply with WP standards now.
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Oh oh oh ! Look what we have under the tree …
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If you have never heard of GDPR, may be it is time to wake up.
All informations are available hereunder … but all this legal stuff might be a bit boring to read before May 25th.

• What does the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) govern?
• Legal text available here

However, some are doing it the coolest way, such as this mail i got today : Continue reading →

This is a release candidate of MailPress 6.0

It should work on last wordpress release and php >=5.3.3 (swiftmailer last php5 release requirement).

Tested under php 7.2.3 and wordpress trunk.

Major changes are :

• fixing the security exploit (i asked for a review by wp plugin team)
• help in admin screens now available and contextual depending of which add-ons and/or tabs (settings) or field (form) are activated.
• code cleaning (php & html)
• some admin pages are now sticking to the wp layout (theme, revision)
• some classes renamed
• some add-ons integrated and/or suppressed
• html to text conversion completely reviewed
• mailpress/mp-includes/action.php is not supported anymore, this means that the links in your old mails will point to a file that may not work. You may have to code a little bit to make it work on your site.
• …

and last but not least, if you are using an external scheduler for one or all your batches (Settings > MailPress > Batches), the former url pointing to mailpress/mp-includes/action.php has changed for security reasons and must be modified in your external scheduler (url(s) provided in Settings > MailPress > Batches).

For tests only ! Thank you for your feedback.

I have been working (hard) on MailPress these days, and reviewing most of the code …

Here are samples of twitter embedded in mails (which was broken)

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Here is the current dev version of MailPress

One month ago, i received a mail from Mika (plugin referee at wordpress.org) telling me that MailPress was temporarily withdrawn from the WordPress plugin repository due to an exploit/vulnerability. Continue reading →

I am currently working on MailPress 5.4.3

This version will introduce a new add on called “Batch spool send”.
It implements a feature (spool) introduced in Swiftmailer more than a year ago. Continue reading →

Just released MailPress 5.4.2

This version fixes a bug in mailinglist dropdown lists introduced by changes in WordPress 4.2 (latest version of WorPress is 4.2.1, upgrade due to a vulnerability in comments) .

This version also brings a new feature when using the Embed add-on. Youtube videos are now inserted with a thumbnail where a “play” button has been inserted (requires php extension ‘GD‘).

embedding youtube (before)

embedding youtube (after)

4 days ago, WordPress introduced a new version : 4.2 .

A tiny change in the taxonomy toolbox (support of parameter ‘name’ in get_terms() function) changed the behavior of MailPress when using Mailinglist add-on .

This impacts mostly dropdown lists where mailinglists are involved.

A fix currently under test is available in the WP plugin repository as the Development version.

It can also be downloaded at this link.

MailPress 5.4.2 should be available in a few days – as the current MailPress version – if no other bugs are reported.

Thank you for your support.