New in release version v3.0
Here is a summary of the most noteworthy improvements in this version.
Major features:
* Site admin can disable a mailing list.
* Site admin can limit the number of members on a list.
* Progress reports can also now report
full SMTP delivery summary.
* Ability to have parent/child lists.
New features:
* Mail merge codes for list and sites now enabled in most documents.
* Option added to allow messages with blank subjects.
* Admin is
notified when a mail loop is detected.
* New pw= option when subscribing.
* Server Cookie commands added to Perl Toolkit.
* Option to disable Message-Id
rewriting.
* Option to disable [email] address rewriting.
* List settings now have a comment field.
* Thread-priority commands added to Perl Toolkit.
Changes:
* Speed improvements on Lyris List Manager Platinum Plus.
* Security vulnerability fix.
* Improvements to transaction logging.
*
Improved mail loop detection.
* Ctrl-Break toggles debugging info.
* Received: line now Internet standards compliant.
* SMTP Thread-tracking option.
Site admin can disable a mailing list: The site administrator now has the ability to disable a mailing list. This is very helpful for sites doing list hosting, which
want to disable a mailing list due to lack of payment. You must edit the mailing list through the site admin menu in order to have access to this feature. See Disable.
Site admin can limit the number of members on a list: The site administrator can limit the number of members that are allowed on a mailing list. This is useful for sites doing list
hosting, where the cost being charges is based on a maximum number of members. You must edit the mailing list through the site admin menu in order to have access to this feature. See
Maximum Members.
Progress reports can also now report full SMTP delivery summary: The "progress reports" feature in the List Info page can now full delivery progress information for every member who
was attempted in a mailing. This way, if you are having some sort of delivery problem, you can enable these reports, and you will immediately receive a message that details the reason why each
message attempt was unsuccessful. This can be very helpful in finding the cause of problems. See Delivery Reports.
Ability to have parent/child lists: One mailing list can now be a member of another mailing list. For example, you might want to have a "sports-announcements" parent list, two
child lists, such as "soccer-announcements" and "tennis-announcements". See Child List.
Mail merge codes for list and sites now enabled in most documents: You can now use the Site and List mail merge codes in most documents, include Hello and Goodbye documents. This makes it easy to
create a template "Hello" document that can be reused in many lists that automatically adapts to the use in question. See Hello.
Option added to allow messages with blank subjects: You can now choose to allow messages to be posted which have a blank subject. Previously, Lyris List Manager would not allow
them. Related to this, some email programs place a carriage return in the Subject, which is highly non-standard and caused Lyris List Manager to sometimes think the subject was blank. Lyris List
Manager now removes the carriage return in the Subject line, to make the message conform better to standards. See Allow Blank Subject
Admin is notified when a mail loop is detected: Lyris List Manager now sends a note to the server admin when a mail loop has been detected and automatically halted, using
the new loop detection threshold feature. See Admin Email Address.
New pw= option when subscribing: When subscribing by sending to lyris@servername or listname-request@servername, you can now specify the password you want to use for your membership
on the subscribe line. Simply add the "pw=XYZ" command to your subscribe request, substituting your password for "XYZ". For example: "subscribe jazztalk pw=sesame". See Set your Password
.
Added Server Cookie commands to Perl Toolkit: Several new commands, dealing with cookies, were added to the Perl/Lyris List Manager Toolkit. These all server-side cookies to be set
and maintained across distinct LCP sessions. The new commands are: CookiePut(key, value); $value = CookieGet(key); CookieClear(value or "*"). See the Programmer's Guide at www.lyris.com/guide for
more information.
Added Thread-priority commands to Perl toolkit: A SetPriority(level) command was added to the Perl/Lyris List Manager Toolkit. This controls the thread priority of the commands run
on the Lyris List Manager server, as requested by the controlling Perl program. This feature is especially useful if you are writing long-running Perl programs and do not want them to interfere with
the operation of more-important tasks. The priorities settings are 1: lowest, 2: below normal, 3: normal, 4: above normal, 5: highest. See the Programmer's Guide at www.lyris.com/guide for more
information.
Security vulnerability fix: A potential security vulnerability was found in the web interface and fixed. All versions after v3.0b1 have this fix.
Option to disable Message-Id rewriting: Added option to leave the Message-id header alone, and instead use X-Lyris-Message-Id for that purpose. Some users object to Lyris
List Manager rewriting the Message-Id to be unique for each member, so this allows them to disable this feature. This option is the in the list settings. The Message-Id syntax was also rewritten to
put the recipient email address in it, for easier human reading of bounces. See Rewrite Message-Id Header.
Speed improvements: Dramatic speed improvement for mail sending on Lyris List Manager Platinum Plus for Windows and Unix. A typical machine can easily achieve 60,000
messages/hour with a plain Pentium 200 on a T1.
Improvements to the transaction logging: Now logs the weeding out of cross-posted members, logs mail jobs interrupted by a shutdown and other events.
List settings now have a comment field: Added a "comment" field to the list settings, which end-users can use to put whatever information you like.
Improved loop detection: If the MAIL FROM of an incoming message is blank, then the message is always understood as error mail. This is conformance with the RFC standards.
Ctrl-Break toggles debugging info: Added the ability to turn debug mode on/off without turning off the server with ctrl-break, when running Lyris List Manager as a foreground
application on Windows. On Unix, sending "kill -usr1 `cat /etc/lyris.pid`" will do this as well. You must be running Lyris in the foreground to see the debug messages. See
Starting Lyris List Manager.
Option to disable [email] address rewriting: Added the option to disable [email] address rewriting, as a server config level setting. See Rewrite Purge-Id Tag
.
Received: line now Internet standards compliant: The Received: header line now conforms to Internet standards. Previously, the Time Zone identifier and the "with" string were not
standards compliant.
SMTP Thread-tracking option: When you start Lyris List Manager in the foreground with the "threadtrack" option on the command line, Lyris List Manager will keep track of the current
state of every SMTP mail thread. You can view the instant status of all mail sending threads from the server statistics page, where this additional information is appended. See
Starting Lyris List Manager.
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