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April 18, 2024

  • BUGFIX: Remove any spaces within a base64 part of a message before trying to decode it. There shouldn't be any, but some email is arriving with spaces prepended to each line of base64 data.

April 17, 2024


April 16, 2024

  • SYSADMIN: Completed the warm up of the new mail servers and they are fully in production.

April 15, 2024


April 14, 2024

  • CHANGE: We are now re-writing the From line of all emails sent to Gmail hosted accounts. Gmail is starting to enforce DKIM domain alignment, which is forcing us to do this.

April 5, 2024

  • NEW: We now handle Outlook/Google Calendar RSVPs for repeating events. A bug yet to be fixed is that this can sometimes generate multiple RSVP notification emails.

April 2, 2024

  • BUGFIX: The Organizer field was sometimes different for individual events vs the repeat event declaration in an ICS file, which caused parsing errors for some CalDAV servers, and was against the spec.

April 1, 2024

  • CHANGE: Email unsubscribe requests must now be properly DKIM signed.
  • CHANGE: We now include a 'Resent-From' header whenever we include a 'Resent-Date' header, as required by RFC 5322.

March 29, 2024

  • INTERNAL: Optimized the bounce system.

March 27, 2024


March 25, 2024

  • BUGFIX: We were incorrectly adding a Bounced User log entry when we sent bounce notice messages to bouncing members.

March 22, 2024


March 21, 2024

  • CHANGE: When a user who is going through the reverification process visits the site, they are now redirected to a special page which lets them change their email address or send a new reverification email. Simply visiting the website no longer automatically reverifies someone.
  • CHANGE: The reverification email now includes a link to a new web page, which when visited, reverifies the user. Simply responding to the reverification email will also still reverify the user.

March 20, 2024

  • CHANGE: When a bouncing user visits the website, they are now directed to a special page which lets them change their email address or send a bounce probe email. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/104774546#msg37751
  • CHANGE: We now always send an email notification to a member when they RSVP to an event, regardless of what the RSVP is. Also, events with a max number of attendees now also have ICS files formatted with METHOD=REQUEST so that members can RSVP directly in Outlook and other calendars. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/37722

March 15, 2024

  • BUGFIX: Include descriptions in #file-notice messages when adding new links.
  • SYSADMIN: Started sending email through remaining new servers.

March 14, 2024


March 13, 2024

  • BUGFIX: In some cases we were improperly encoding the 'To' header line for group & sender replies, leading to bounces from GMX associated servers.

March 12, 2024

  • SYSADMIN: Started sending email through a fourth email server.

March 11, 2024

  • CHANGE: Reverted the change where we re-write the Date header of emails. Instead, we now add a Resent-Date header.
  • MISC: Began new reverification process for some groups confirmed to have spam trap addresses.

March 8, 2024

  • BUGFIX: When a member leaves or is removed from a parent group, causing them to also be removed from any subgroups they are a member of, it was not logged in the activity logs of the subgroups that they had been removed or left.
  • BUGFIX: In some instances, it was not possible to edit extra member data fields in a member's group profile page.