New Features for CakeMail 1.5
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Suppression List Functionality
You can now easily manage suppression lists to ensure emails don’t get sent to the wrong people. You can restrict specific email addresses or entire domains, which will help diminish overall complaints and increase delivery for all your mailings.
New Segment Summary Page
The new Segment Summary Page allows you to easily manage list segments, and view them as independent lists.
Advanced Search in List Members
You can now search for members with multiple criteria.
Two New Stock Interface Skins: Marshmallow and Midnight Mint
7 stock user interface themes are now available, so you can prepare your mailings in your own custom environment!
User Selectable Themes on Login Page
See the flexibility of the CakeMail first hand by selecting a dynamic theme directly from a scrolling menu on the login page, changing your interface skin real-time.
All CakeMail hosted interfaces will be updated to the new version automatically. If you host your own interface, you can access the new version at: http://www.cakemail.com/downloads
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Dutch : The Fourth Language Available on CakeMail Thanks to ZennerMedia from Belgium
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Following English, French and Russian, Dutch is now available for CakeMail users. The interface has been translated by ZennerMedia, an Internet company based in Belgium that is happy to have a way to serve customers in their 3 official languages.
We were fortunate to have an occasion to chat with Sam Zenner, CEO of ZennerMedia.
CakeMail: Could you please tell us about what ZennerMedia does?
Sam Zenner: ZennerMedia’s main focus is to help companies get their stories out there. Rather than helping our customers shout louder in a place where everyone is already screaming for attention, we want to provide them with solutions that “take people’s breath away”.
We try to be a full-service agency, serving custom-made websites that adhere to the highest industry standards. This also means that we manage our customers’ blogs as well as their mailing lists.
CM: Why did you choose CakeMail and how will it help your business?
SZ: We chose to work with CakeMail because of its entirely translatable interface. Not having to program an email application from scratch saved us a lot of time and working with CakeMail didn’t interrupt our regular workflow. We’ll be able to offer to our customers an entirely Dutch app less than 2 months after our first contact with CakeMail team.
CM: What language issue is CakeMail solving for your specific needs?
SZ: Even though Belgium is sort of a multilingual country (3 official languages), much of the “older” generation doesn’t understand English all that well. This Dutch version of CakeMail will help our business, in that we no longer have to confront our customers with an English interface. From now on we can direct our clients to the MailMarketing.be website and they’ll find a clean, easy to use interface in their native language.
CM: What were your specific challenges related to the translation?
SZ: Even though the translation module isn’t finished quite yet, everything was fully functional so I don’t have any complaints. The biggest challenge in translating was to abbreviate most of the interface, because the Dutch language tends to need more words than English to explain the same thing.
CM: Anything else you wish to add?
SZ: I hope we can continue to work with The Code Kitchen on new projects. I liked working with the team and there are a lot of app’s out there that would be used a whole lot more if they could be translated!
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Release 1.4 of the CakeMail Interface
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008CakeMail is pleased to announce its latest release of the CakeMail open interface, version 1.4. All CakeMail hosted interfaces are updated automatically. If you are hosting your own interface, you can download it at: http://www.cakemail.com/downloads
Improved Exporting
Export any list, report, open or click through results to CSV, at any time.
New Automated Account Creation
CakeMail gives you piece-of-mind, and lets you decide who will activate new accounts: A user or your admin. Further, account creation confirmation emails can be sent to the new user, to your admin, to both, or to none at all. CakeMail lets you decide.
New Bounce Management Tool
Email messages can bounce for many reasons; some times not because the email address is invalid. So CakeMail allows you to easily set your rules & manage bounce rules as you see fit. CakeMail lets you decide.
CakeMail Launches Website Redesign
Monday, March 31st, 2008Following the successful launch of CakeMail Version 1.3, CakeMail and The Code Kitchen are happy to announce the launch of the redesigned CakeMail website: www.cakemail.com. The overall objective of the redesign is to make the CakeMail website content easily accessible, more concise and more inclusive to our different user groups. We believe this updated look and structure will allow visitors to find the information they need fast, without heavy marketing jargon.
First, you will notice a new lay-out we believe is less cluttered and makes more effective use of space. We have modeled the new website after the stock CakeMail user interface; easy, clean and concise. Of course we have kept the corporate Cake color scheme, but we believe the information is now laid-out in a much more intuitive manner.
The new structure maintains a good working balance between CakeMail’s key products and services, news content, developer material, and an overall view of the business of email marketing. It clearly highlights our programs such as Open CakeMail (you host your interface), Hosted CakeMail (we host your interface), as well as our API. Also, it more clearly highlights many important features such as our forum, key downloadable information as well as our new CakeMail blog!
CakeMail’s open-innovation approach extends to our marketing effort. So please check-out our new site, and as usual, let us know how we can improve it. In the coming weeks, there will be more blog posts to update you on new and exciting additions to our site, and product line. So if you haven’t already, I strongly suggest you subscribe to the CakeMail RSS feed. There are lots of exciting things cooking!
Release 1.3 of the CakeMail Interface
Thursday, March 27th, 2008CakeMail is pleased to announce its latest release of the CakeMail open interface, version 1.3. All CakeMail hosted interfaces are updated automatically. If you are hosting your own interface, you can download it at: http://www.cakemail.com/download/
Template creation & management
To help speed-up the mailing creation process, CakeMail users can easily create professional templates, and then access them through their template library. CakeMail Resellers can use the CakeMail template management tool to reduce demands on creative resources, by offering their clients a set of system- or user-based mailing templates.
Improved reporting
CakeMail reporting is more powerful than ever. With a simple mouse click, CakeMail users can download detailed mailing results information like who opened the mailing, who clicked on a link, and which email addresses are no longer valid. Leveraging the data from prior mailings, users can instantly generate open and click-through lists and use them to ensure timely, personalized and relevant responses.
Automated install script
There is great news for CakeMail resellers who host their interface on their own servers. CakeMail now has an install script that will automatically validate server pre-requisites, install the UI, and look for recent updates. So now you don’t have to worry about manually searching for and installing updates, all you have to do is run the CakeMail install script!
Release 1.2.0 of the CakeMail Interface
Monday, February 11th, 2008Version 1.2.0 of the CakeMail interface is now ready for download at
http://www.cakemail.com/download/
All hosted reseller interfaces has been updated.
New features
- Added default permission groups for new accounts for easier rights management (Create Mailing, Send Mailing, Mailing Stats, Manage Lists, View List Members, Create User, Set User Permissions)
- Changed themes structure to allow easier interface upgrade
Changes
- Image upload is now limited to 200 KB per image
- We’ve hidden the mailing list selector on Mailing Overview page when no other mailings are there to be selected
- We’ve added the “Search” permission in ClassList in Group edit page
- We’ve removed “alt text” on logo image
Bug fixes
- List upload is now working with register_globals on
- CSV import now supports fields enclosed by double quotes
- UTF-8 support fixed on list renaming
- Corrected display of “Preview in Web Browser”
- Removed confirmation when no test emails are checked
- Hide completely the List submenu when there are no Archived lists
- Validates for empty of the import list form
- Corrected position where the error template is included in some templates
- Fixed mime-type in CSV export (now fully supports UTF-8)
- Signup email copyright link fixed
- Mailing delivering progress bar fixed
(Originally posted in our forum)
Release 1.1.0 of the CakeMail Interface
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008The CakeMail Interface release 1.1.0 is now available here:
http://www.cakemail.com/download/
New features
- added “Insert/Edit Image” icon to the Fckeditor and support for individual client’s image folder and absolute urls for images
- upgraded HTML Editor (works on Safari and Opera too)
- added “LIKE %..%” option for sublists (segmentation)
- added new types for the new fields of a list (available now: text, integer, timestamp)
Changes
- emails for sending the tests in mailing step 3 are not checked by default
Bug fixed
- validate empty campaign and mailing names
- encoding special chars when previewing the HTML/TEXT messages in mailing step 3
- Ajax utf8 display in Safari
- URL encoded and HTML encoded all the content that is displayed (against XSS attacks)
- no slashes in campaign names for some characters (e.g.: quotes) when renaming
- displaying the returned exception when trying to create a group with an empty name
- using double quotes in group names, user names and client page
- replaced hardcoded htdocs/ paths with BASE_PATH
- lists loading stopping on click, in create mailing step 1 (recipients)
- update saved forward page
- mailing stats page title
- font path for graphs is now defined in global file
(Originally posted in our forum)
CakeMail Customer Hub
Monday, January 14th, 2008 We’re releasing today the CakeMail Customer Hub at
https://hub.cakemail.com/
This interface allows CakeMail’s customers to:
- List their opened client accounts
- View their client’s monthly email volume
- Manage their client’s sending limits
- See their billing history with CakeMail
This is just the beginning. In the next months, we’ll add more and more features to this interface, thereby allowing our customers to sell the service more efficiently.
As usual, we welcome suggestions and comments.
New API beta release
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Our API build 4153 in entering testing period on https://beta.api.cakemail.com.
This API being completely distinct from the live one, new accounts needs to be created to be able to test it, as well as API ID and Key if you wish to hook up to it directly (contact us at hi@cakemail.com).
This version of the API can also be accessed through our interface installed here:
http://beta.cakemail.com/.
Here are the new features in this API release:
o DKIM & DomainKey Support (configuration needed)
o Improved mailing performance
o Added information in headers
o Possibility of external MTA relay servers
Comments are welcome as we’re eager to put this release live.
(Originally posted in our forum)
Release 1.0.0 of the CakeMail Interface
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007We just released the version 1.0.0 of the interface. It’s available here:
http://www.cakemail.com/download/
Have fun!
(Originally posted in our forum)
