Platform updates 2024

All new Maxemail versions may include background performance and security improvements. The following notes detail the visible changes to the Maxemail interface and API.

December 2024

🚀 Added

  • New login system for accessing the Maxemail interface, requiring all users to create a new password and add an authenticator app for MFA. Read more about the setup process in the new user setup guide.
    API accounts are not affected, but will be updated in 2025 to use tokens.

🚫 Removed

By adding a new login system, the following features as part of the legacy login are removed:

  • In-app change password.
  • Administrator option to trigger user password reset procedure.
  • Administrator option to change a user's password and password expiry options.
  • Legacy federated login using a token signature.

Fixed

  • Not possible to open the dialog to create or rename user permission groups.

October 2024

🚀 Added

  • New customisation options for the unsubscribe landing page. The page itself has been updated with a cleaner style. See info about customising the unsubscribe page.

🔆 Improved

  • Simplified interface for creating new users.
  • Removed legacy cookie handling for ROI tracking. This was already upgraded to use LocalStorage in a past release. No website changes are required if using the standard Maxemail ROI Tracking script.
  • All custom link domains are upgraded to use HTTPS.
  • Background improvements to recipient response handling, to support the updates above and allow future improvements to track automated/bot traffic.

Fixed

  • Difficulty in editing Datatable field values in the interface.
  • Errors were shown in Check Email for images with draft edits.
  • Heatmap figures were misplaced for Email Builder buttons with links containing special characters.

April 2024

Mid-release update

🔆 Improved

  • Changed the interactive recipient unsubscribe behaviour to always use the Confirmation type, regardless of the selection in Email Setup. This is in response to seeing an uptick in the number of automated bots triggering the single-click unsubscribe, making it no longer feasible.
    This does not impact the ISP "one-click" requirement described below, as that relates to the automated unsubscribe mechanism through the ISP's own unsubscribe button.
    No client action is required – the Maxemail unsubscribe token added to email content does not change. (The unsubscribe method options in Email Setup will be removed in a future update). Read more on Unsubscribe management

February 2024

🚀 Added

  • Add the new "one-click" List-Unsubscribe-Post header that's required by Google and Yahoo from April 2024. (Maxemail has had the regular List-Unsubscribe header for many years, but this adds the new associated header for 2024). Read more on Feedback loops

🔆 Improved

  • Change ROI Tracking to store recipient details in the browser's LocalStorage.
    This removes the need for cookies to implement ROI Tracking. No website changes are required if using the standard Maxemail ROI Tracking script. See more details about the ROI Tracking identifier.
  • Update charting package used for Insight Report PDF exports, to make better use of modern browser features.
  • Replace the Twitter 'Larry' bird icon with 'X'.
  • Rebuild of core application and customer backend, to prepare for future database upgrades.
  • Move the User Guide to a new documentation platform.

🚫 Removed

  • Removed Email Builder newsfeed component. Meta removed support for fetching page content, and this feature saw no usage in Maxemail.

Fixed

  • Update Facebook API connection. Meta discontinued their official SDK, so Maxemail has switched to a recommended third-party to maintain support. See Social media options