MailPress

The WordPress mailing platform

Author:Andre Renaut (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:5.4
WordPress version tested:5.4.2
Plugin version:7.2.1
Added to WordPress repository:02-07-2008
Last updated:02-06-2020
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
Rating, %:58
Rated by:20
Plugin URI:http://www.mailpress.org
Total downloads:326 865
Active installs:1 000+
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  1. Style your html and plain text mails with dedicated themes and templates.
  2. Newsletters/Post notifications on a per post, daily (even intraday…), weekly, monthly basis.
  3. Subscriptions to Comments, Newsletters/Post notifications and even to Mailing lists.
  4. Support international emails
  5. Support Dkim or S/Mime
  6. and much more, for free !

Technical Details

  1. MailPress sends one mail for each recipient, so before sending thousands of mails in one pass, make sure your webserver and mailserver can afford it !
    (see also Batch_send add-on)
  2. Requires php7
  3. php function proc_open must be available
  4. php extensions simplexml and intl must be available

Privacy

This plugin is using the following external softwares :
1. Swiftmailer “Free Feature-rich PHP Mailer” (https://swiftmailer.symfony.com/)
** doctrine/lexer “Base library for a lexer” (https://github.com/doctrine/lexer)
** egulias/EmailValidator “PHP Email validator” (https://github.com/egulias/EmailValidator)
2. [Import Addon] Excel parsing library (http://code.google.com/p/php-excel-reader/) modified for php7 compatibility
3. [Import Addon] CSV parsing library (https://github.com/parsecsv/parsecsv-for-php) modified for php7 compatibility

This plugin is using – depending on your settings – the following external services & softwares
1. [Maps] Bing maps (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/maps) (javascript and REST api)
2. [Maps] Google maps (https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/?hl=en) (javascript and REST api)
3. [Maps] Here maps (https://www.here.com/) (javascript and REST api)
4. [Maps] Mapbox GL JS (https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/api/) (javascript and REST api)
5. [Maps] OpenStreetMaps and Leaflet (https://www.openstreetmap.org & https://leafletjs.com/) (javascript and REST api)

This plugin is using – randomly – the following external services (ip adress transmitted)
1. [Ip Geocoding] https://extreme-ip-lookup.com/ (REST Api)
2. [Ip Geocoding] http://www.geoplugin.net/ (REST Api)
3. [Ip Geocoding] https://ipapi.co (REST Api)
4. [Ip Geocoding] http://ip-api.com/ (REST Api)
5. [Ip Geocoding] http://ipinfo.io/ (REST Api)
6. [Ip Geocoding] https://ipstack.com/ (REST Api)

This plugin is storing data
1. [core] Subscribers
2. [core] Mails and recipients informations
3. [Comment addon] Subscriptions
4. [Mailinglist addon] Subscriptions
5. [Newsletter addon] Subscriptions
6. [Tracking addon] any activity on sent mails when clicking on mail links

This plugin authorize data export in csv format [Import addon]

This plugin is compliant with WordPress Export/Erase Personnal Data process (Privacy)