Changelog

This changelog lists every released version of Mail Log, the most recent first.

Version 1.1.0 – 19 September 2026

Added

• Mail Log now comes in two versions: the free one and the Pro version. The Free version does everything you know today.
• Every entry now shows the Message-ID the mail left the mail server under. You can search for it too.
• Pro version: GDPR information and erasure requests now cover the mail log too — through Joomla's own privacy administration.
• Pro version: On request a periodic summary arrives by e-mail: how much went out, what failed, and whether anything changed about your sender domain.
• Pro version: If a send fails, the message goes out over a second account straight away — and if that does not work either, it is retried automatically later.
• The dashboard now shows a traffic light for SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX of your sender domain. It tells you whether your mail passes as genuine at all.
• Pro version: Failed sends can also be reported over a web address — to a chat room, for instance. A message about broken mail rarely arrives by mail.
• Pro version: Particular messages can be sent over a different outgoing mail server than the rest — newsletters apart from order confirmations, for instance.
• In the Free version a card on the dashboard and on the queue page advertises the Pro version. The log screens stay free of it.
• Pro version: Every domain health finding now comes with what to enter in order to fix it.
• Domain health is on by default and runs once, the first time you open the dashboard.
• Pro version: Below the credentials of a second send route there is now a "Test the connection" button. It checks what you have just entered, without saving.
• Domain health has a screen of its own. The dashboard panel now only shows which check is failing.
• Pro version: There you see, for each check, what is actually in your domain's DNS — and what to change when something is wrong.

Changed

• Domain health now explains, in both versions, what SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX are actually about.
• Pro version: Every finding now says in plain words what to do — and a section of its own explains where such a record goes and which three fields to fill in.
• The two editions are now called Free version and Pro version everywhere — the same names the shop uses.
• The interface is tidier: the options have seven tabs instead of sixteen, and every screen leads to the other two.
• The dashboard shows volume for the last 30 days, with domain health beside it instead of below.
• Pro version: In the Joomla menu under Components the Pro version now reads "Mail Log Pro".

Fixed

• A deleted DKIM selector kept its old finding. Domain health therefore showed DKIM twice.
• If the outgoing mail server fails completely, the mail now shows up in the log as failed. Until now it was missing entirely.
• The title of the options screen showed an internal key instead of "Mail Log Options".
• After an update the browser sometimes still served the old styling until you force-reloaded the page. That no longer happens.
• The notification about a failed send showed internal abbreviations instead of text.

Notes

• The ID is recorded from the update onwards. Older entries leave the line empty.
• Pro version: On an erasure request the log entries are removed for good. Check beforehand whether a statutory retention period applies.
• Pro version: The report is off by default. Switch it on under "Report" in the options and create the "Send report" task in the scheduler.
• Pro version: Queue and backup route are off by default. Switch them on in the options and create the "Work through the queue" task in the scheduler.
• The panel runs one check by itself the first time you open it. For a daily check, create the "Check domain health" task in the scheduler.
• Pro version: The second channel is off by default. Enter the address under "Alerts" in the options. The recipient addresses of the failed message leave your site in the process.
• Pro version: Send routes are off by default and the only setting with which Mail Log interferes with ordinary sending. Read the manual chapter before switching them on.
• Pro version: No test mail is sent: the connection is established and the login checked, nothing more.
• In the Free version the Pro version's settings are shown but locked.

Version 1.0.5 – 18 September 2026

Fixed

• On PHP 8.5 every page showed warnings about outdated functions at the top. They are gone.
• The links in the overview panel always led to the German manual. They now follow the configured language.

Version 1.0.4 – 12 August 2026

Changed

• The installation details of the three parts were cleared of entries that had no effect, so that the package passes the review of the Joomla! Extensions Directory.

Fixed

• An English message in the overview ended with a superfluous space.

Version 1.0.3 – 1 August 2026

Changed

• The package and its three parts now carry meaningful names in the extension manager; technical abbreviations stood there before.

Version 1.0.2 – 31 July 2026

Added

• Emails from command line and scheduler runs are logged; nothing was captured there before.
• The option "logged contexts" now actually takes effect. With no selection, every context is still logged.
• The list points out entries from earlier versions that cannot contain a message text, and links them for deletion.

Changed

• Downloading the raw message now additionally requires the permission "view message text". Groups without it lose the download; super users are not affected.
• New installations log completely out of the box: full message text, raw message and mails with a sensitive subject as well. Existing installations keep their settings.

Fixed

• The message text of logged emails always stayed empty. It is captured again, as are attachments, reply-to, headers and the error message of failed deliveries.
• Resending from the log works again — without a stored message text it was not possible.
• With encrypted storage the masking patterns for sensitive content never took effect. Masking now happens before encrypting.
• On fresh installations nothing was masked although the options showed two masking patterns as active.
• The detection of HTML messages now also covers multipart messages and a plain-text alternative that has been set.
• With a truncated message text stored, the detail view did not show the original size.
• Saving the options made attachments from versions before 0.1.0 inaccessible because their storage location was lost.
• The options button appeared for groups without the necessary permission and refused the click.

Version 1.0.1 – 31 July 2026

Added

• After an installation or update an overview panel appears with version, status and entry points to getting started, download key and manual.
• A click on "Enable updates" leads straight to the update sites, already filtered to missing download keys.
• The extension manager now shows the list of changes behind the version number.

Language

• The messages shown during installation and update are available in German and English.

Version 1.0.0 – 20 July 2026

Added

• Initial release.

Deutsche Fassung