Last Friday, the 20th February, the new version of EPiServer Mail was released! This release has the version number 4.4 and brings some long awaited features.
The first and maybe the best news is that EPiServer Mail now works with EPiServer CMS R2 SP1 and EPiServer CMS R1 SP3. This also means that the version of System.Web.Extensions that is being used is now 3.5. I think a lot of our partners will be happy about this since most of them are using the 3.5 version.
The installation process have of course also been updated and now it uses the Deployment Center just like the CMS and the Relate+ package – installation has never been easier. Speaking about Relate+; the release of EPiServer Mail 4.4 means that now the packaging of Relate+ is complete, since Mail is one of the included components of the packaging.
With this new version of Mail the integration with the CMS has also been made tighter. First of all the look and feel has been updated to better blend in together with the CMS (see screenshot). But also it is now possible to send a CMS page directly from the Edit mode without having to go to Mail. But there is more; a new feature lets you group newsletters under one node in the page tree and see an overall trend graph of the entire collection. Pretty cool!
Together with the release of EPiServer Mail came a hotfix for EPiServer Common. This is the common framework used by both Mail and Community. The hotfix includes a new integration membership provider that works like the Multiplexing Membership Provider that comes with the CMS. I think this is a very welcome feature, especially for our enterprise customers.
What are you waiting for? Head over to the download section of EPiServer World and get your copy of the new EPiServer Mail.
For the complete list of new features have a look at this article by Product Manager Per Ivansson.
2 comments:
I have been in contact with you on EPiDesk. thanks for all your replies. There is one side of things I am unsure of. how do we manipulate the ReceipientCollections to set unsubscribe. EPiMail is a large product and can't seem to find it. Or am I going about it in the wrong fashion? i assume I'm on the right track as there is a field bisunsubscribed which means that EpiMail will not send to those addresses if it's set.
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