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Hi all,

This week's change log:
/g/beta/message/12844

Mostly small fixes this week, but all are welcome. And many will improve matters considerably for those affected.

Feel free to reply to this topic if you'd like to comment on the changes. Or better yet, if you expect a lot of discussion start a new topic (or rejoin an existing one) about a specific change.


o Now tracking confirmation email delivery attempts and bounces.

I think this completes something I've been advocating for a long time: that every email sent from Groups.io have delivery tracking. In Y!Groups, and initially in Groups.io, only group postings had delivery tracking. By adding tracking to group- and system-generated notices it should become easier for mods to help members when things go wrong.

As a bonus for Mark, it should reduce the number of instances where a member or moderator has to call on support to figure out what happened. And it will provide better evidence in those cases where support is still needed.


o Resize photos in digests to a max of 400x400.

This had been handled correctly in groups that have the "Max Photo Size In Email" option set to anything other than "No Resizing". Now it is done for the No Resizing case as well.

For affected groups this should make the digest much more legible, particularly on mobile devices, when photos or other images are included in messages. It should also dramatically reduce the byte size of the digests so that they will download more quickly and take less room.


o Don't force a digest at 10pm if a digest has been delivered in the last 6 hours.

There is ongoing discussion in beta@ about the size of digests and how frequently they are delivered.

The key problem being that some email interfaces, including Gmail, will hide the bottom portion of a message, or in some cases truncate it, when it gets "too long". This can make most of the Digest unusable for many subscribers. The previous week's reduction of digests to 12 messages max (had been 25) is a response to that problem. It has the downside of approximately doubling the number of digests sent in very busy groups, so people are still looking for solutions.

A likely outcome will be the creation of a fifth subscription type: Summary (distinct from Digest, Special notices, No Email or Individual). Summary would produce a once-daily list of the messages posted that day, but would not (unlike a Digest) contain the full message content. It would likely include just the subject lines, each being a link to the group's Messages pages.

Stay tuned for details.


o Cleanup +owner messages to hopefully improve their deliverability.

Groups.io does some processing of the header fields in received messages before posting them to the group. Now this processing is also done for messages sent to the group's +owner address.

Hopefully this will reduce the likelihood that a moderator's email service will reject forwarded +owner messages or divert them to the Spam folder.


o The Download Archives function now downloads a zip (compressed) file.

This should make the download go much faster. If you're just keeping the archive around for your records then it will take a lot less room. But of course you'll have to expand it to actually use it.


o Added Timezone selector to add event page.

This will help groups whose members live in multiple time zones. Previously when a user created an event, the event was listed using the timezone of that user - which may not have been helpful if the event was happening somewhere else.

A geographically diverse group might want to use UTC rather than any one person's local time, particularly for online events (like chat sessions) which have no tie to a physical location.


o For messages with more than one rcpt tos, process all of them instead of stopping at the first error.

I'm a little puzzled by the wording of this one, but I think it has to refer to an inbound message being sent to multiple groups. It was listed as a CHANGE, but it sounds more like a BUGFIX.


Anyone have comments about these, or others:

o CHANGE: In the Month calendar view, show all times as hh:mmt (if on the hour, it used to skip the :00 part)
o SYSADMIN: Separate web serving and email delivery onto different machines.
o CHANGE: In posttosub messages, include the group subject tag in the email subject.
o BUGFIX: In files, if a folder had a # in the name, it screwed up paging through the files list.


Please call out any you find significant.


Shal