Kavi® Mailing List Manager (KMLM) 4.0 Release Notes

About Kavi Mailing List Manager

Kavi Mailing List Manager (KMLM) helps you add, monitor, troubleshoot and maintain mailing lists and email aliases. A variety of List Types are supported, so your organization can host discussion lists or send newsletters to members and public subscribers. KMLM tools make it possible to interact with ezmlm-powered mailing lists through Web-based interfaces, with fully threaded message archives for subscribers and easy access to moderation requests and subscriber lists for administrators, including special subscriber lists used to deny or allow posting privileges. Lists can be as private or open as required.

KMLM also provides email troubleshooting tools for viewing mail transfer agent status, mail delivery logs, and a bounce report that can be automatically sent to administrators by email.

New in KMLM 4.0

There are several small enhancements in the 4.0 release of KMLM. Logging and activity histories are now provided for aliases as well as mailing lists, and the kinds of information captured for mailing lists has been expanded. A new bulk unsubscribe tool is available for mailing list administrators.

Dynamic Members Mailing Lists, formerly available only in the Kavi Members Super Admin Menu, have been moved to KMLM so any administrator can create an announcements list where subscribers are added dynamically according to specified selection criteria whenever a message is posted.

Expanded Logging and Activity Histories (Admins)

• The Full Logs now capture any changes made to aliases, including when a subscriber is added to the alias, or removed.
• KMLM 4.0 provides an Activity History for each mailing list, linked from Mailing List Home.
• Moderation of a list message through KMLM Admin tools is recorded and can be viewed in the Mailing List Activity History.
• Administrators can now add Activity Notes through the Add, Edit and Delete Alias tools.
• An Activity History has been added for aliases. Links are available on Manage Aliases tools.

Bulk Unsubscribe (Admins)

Administrators use the new Bulk Remove Subscribers tool to unsubscribe multiple email addresses from a mailing list as a batch operation. Just enter email addresses in a large text field or upload a file with all the addresses you want to remove. This action removes the subscriber from all the Subscriber Lists for this mailing list, including the Regular, Digest, Moderator, Allow and Deny lists.

Improved Email Address Searching (Admins)

On the Manage Aliases page, searching for an email address will now find more matches. It is now possible to search on the domain portion of an email address, not just the username portion.

Other

• The Dynamic Members Mailing Lists tool has been renamed and moved from the Kavi Members Super Admin menu to the KMLM Admin menu, so all Mailing List Admins and Organization Admins can create query-populated mailing lists. (Admins)
• In the Edit Cross-Posters tool, the name of each available list is a link to that Mailing List Home (for KMLM lists), or "Full List Name (listname)" for Kavi Groups Lists. (All)
• The Examine Mail Headers tool is more robust, with better support for malformed or incomplete mail headers. (Admins)
• HTML in the description and policy usage sections is no longer rendered on the Available Lists page. (All)