Release Notes

CustomMailer 4.0g release date: February 27, 2006

Known problems in CustomMailer 4.0f:

1. BACKGROUND= subtags need Content ID support so that background images can be used in self-contained email. Fixed in 4.0g
2. NullPointerException when parsing error messages returned by some SMTP servers. Fixed in 4.0g
3. Erroneous "Don't know how to handle card 6" message in SMTP Setup Wizard after communication error with SMTP Server. Fixed in 4.0g
4. Authentication fails (resulting in "relaying denied" send error) when using SMTP port other than 25. Fixed in 4.0g
5. Intermittent "IllegalArgumentException: improper width" error when substituting mailing list values into message template. Fixed in 4.0g
6. Possible OutOfMemoryError when printing very large SMTP log files. Fixed in 4.0g

CustomMailer 4.0f release date: March 21, 2005

Known problems in CustomMailer 4.0e:

1. Provide smptLocalHostName in CustomMailerPreferences.txt for users getting "invalid EHLO" error. Fixed in 4.0f
2. Allow delay between message groups to be in fractional seconds. Fixed in 4.0f
3. Upgrade to JavaMail 1.3.2 from 1.3 to track latest SMTP standard and other improvements. Fixed in 4.0f
4. Need to ignore SMTP authentication and POP before SMTP authentication settings if using direct send. Fixed in 4.0f
5. StringIndexOutOfBounds exception if "Remove extra Excel/Access quotes" enabled and mailing list field has a single quotation mark. Fixed in 4.0f
6. Add Opt-Out List processing (see Mailing List Tools). Added in 4.0f
7. Default SMTP time-out increased to 45 seconds. Fixed in 4.0f
8. Ignore leading and trailing spaces in tag and macro names. Fixed in 4.0f

CustomMailer 4.0e release date: August 17, 2004

Known problems in CustomMailer 4.0d:

1. URLs containing "src=" wrongly processed as Content IDs "img src=", resulting in Send Error. Fixed in 4.0e
2. HTML message with empty HTML Source should send Alternate Text as plain text email. Fixed in 4.0e

CustomMailer 4.0d release date: June 8, 2004

Known problems in CustomMailer 4.0c:

1. Insert Tags and Insert Macros don't work in message headers (body OK). Fixed in 4.0d
2. Triple-click of empty message fields causes ArrayOutOfBoundsException. Fixed in 4.0d
3. SendLog.txt and SMTPLog.txt won't display if files already open in another program. Fixed in 4.0d
4. Adjust background colors to improve legibility. Fixed in 4.0d
5. Should be able to delete rows in mailing list with Delete key. Fixed in 4.0d
6. Need "View HTML Page in Browser" menu item. Fixed in 4.0d
7. Support Tab and Shift-Tab to jump forward and backward between message fields. Fixed in 4.0d

CustomMailer 4.0c release date: September 11, 2003

Known problems in CustomMailer 4.0b:

1. Relax syntax checking to allow ' (apostrophe) character in email addresses. Fixed in 4.0c

CustomMailer 4.0b release date: August 7, 2003

Known problems in CustomMailer 4.0a:

1. Need support for non-Unicode international character encodings (e.g. Big5, GB2312, Shift-JIS, etc.). Fixed in 4.0b
2. Need support for display of Asian languages (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, etc.). Fixed in 4.0b

CustomMailer 4.0a release date: July 15, 2003

Known problems in CustomMailer 4.0:

1. Line wrap in message body breaks on " | " instead of white space. Third-party component bug, doesn't affect mailing
2. Truncates some complex HTML message templates because of JavaScript "comments". Fixed in 4.0a
3. Macros read & write dialogs should remember most recenly used folder location. Fixed in 4.0a
4. Send button UI reenables in the middle of multiple recipient sending. Fixed in 4.0a

CustomMailer 4.0 Final release date: June 23, 2003

Known problems in CustomMailer 4.0 beta 3:

1. Pasting into message header fields also pastes a copy into alternate text area. Fixed in 4.0 Final
2. SMTP status lines written into SMTPLog.txt even if SMTP logging is turned off. Fixed in 4.0 Final
3. After New Mailing List, double-clicking on mailing list results in NullPointerException. Fixed in 4.0 Final
4. Direct send checkbox state not being saved in Preferences. Fixed in 4.0 Final

CustomMailer 4.0 beta 3 release date: June 4, 2003

Known problems in CustomMailer 4.0 beta 2:

1. Cursor displays as an I-beam instead of arrow over message body scroll bars. Fixed in beta 3
2. Special characters (128 thru 159) display as little box in message body. Fixed in beta 3
3. Support Find and Undo menu and keyboard commands in message body. Fixed in beta 3
4. Drag autoscroll of message body with cursor to right throws "assertion failed" Exception. Fixed in beta 3
5. Fix cursor keyboard shortcuts in message body (Shift/Ctrl+arrows+PageUp/Down+Home/End+Del/BS). Fixed in beta 3
6. Need to allow commas in proper name part of address (eg. "Last, First" <user@domain.com>). Fixed in beta 3
7. Provide way to enter tabs and CR's in macros (use optional |Tab| and |NewLine| macros). Fixed in beta 3
8. Allow control of number of spaces per tab stop (and whether to send tabs themselves). Fixed in beta 3
9. Add option to remove extra Excel/Access quotes when reading mailing list. Fixed in beta 3
10. Header lines stored in HTML message should conform to single-line-comment syntax. Fixed in beta 3
11. Including non-printing characters in HTML messages causes problems for some recipients. Fixed in beta 3
12. Always assume "'Send' sends to all selected recipients" in automated send mode. Fixed in beta 3
13. Insert Tag and Macro menu items don't change if new tag indicator read from message template file. Fixed in beta 3
14. Fix problems with character sets not being recognized by some mail readers. Fixed in beta 3
15. Support Unicode-based message templates, mailing lists, and mail sending. Fixed in beta 3
16. After Send completes, watch cursor doesn't change back to normal cursor until mouse moves. Fixed in beta 3

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