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One thousand Git commits! ⚡ Control Center now stands at 1,007 thanks to today's merge of translatable notifications (coming in a future release!)

Following Monday's release, today Lightmeter 0.0.8-1 improves email blocking detection via RBL monitoring, with smarter blocklist alerts, and more secure block detail forwarding from third parties. Get it via Docker Hub, Linux binaries, or source https://lightmeter.io/release-notes-0-0-8/

New release! Lightmeter Control Center 0.0.8 has a new notification engine that sends alerts to Slack whenever #mailserver problems are detected, including when the new RBL checks detect your IP is blocked by other servers https://lightmeter.io/release-notes-0-0-8/

Roadmap planning meeting in Berlin today saw our 200th user story created, and 12 months of backlog groomed and effort-estimated! https://gitlab.com/lightmeter/controlcenter/-/issues

New release! Control Center 0.0.7 detects high bounce rates, and #mailserver inactivity – powered by a new analysis engine (it's just the start!). Also included: easier up- and down-grading, and tweaked UI. Get it via Docker Hub, Linux binaries, or source https://lightmeter.io/release-notes-0-0-7/

Telecom companies are doing a miserable job of using email for #CustomerService the world over, with only 53% providing email-based support, and 65% of email requests being ignored, according to research by Netomi https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/355342/telecoms-do-not-disturb-most-dont-answer-cust.html

We have packages for #NixOS! Lightmeter can now be setup in seconds for #mailserver monitoring on the ultra-stable, declarative Linux OS, thanks to help from n1ksnut and eadwu https://lightmeter.io/nixos-mailserver-monitoring-packages-now-available/

Another indie mail hosting service, Sekur, launches in Switzerland, promising “proprietary encryption technology" and "ultimate privacy” in CH, plus groupware options https://t.co/Nv62F84bNk

New 'On Email' Webmail product launched by mobile-mail specialists Edison Apps, claims to have "reinvented email", looks suspiciously like a watered down 'Hey mail' clone https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200831005206/en/OnMail-New-Email-Service-Edison-Control-Ad

Today Marcel Edmund Franke joins our Engineering team in Berlin! Marcel is an #OpenSource contributor who specialises in algorithms for distributed systems. Welcome Marcel 🤗 https://lightmeter.io/new-hire-engineer-marcel-franke/

New release! Control Center 0.0.6 adds community-driven translations via https://translate.lightmeter.io/ (DE and PT-BR to start), and includes the first community code-contributions 🎉 Docker image, binaries, and source code https://lightmeter.io/release-notes-0-0-6/

Lightmeter is now on
AlternativeTo -- time to add your reviews 📝
https://alternativeto.net/software/lightmeter/

(But there's only one actual test so far - so plenty of work to test all "critical paths" and outcomes ☺️)

State of the art #BrowserAutomation testing with #Taiko and @GetGauge now runs on every @gitlab commit to Lightmeter Control Center! It's never been faster to write flexible, reliable end-to-end tests (and bake quality into workflow).

New Lightmeter Control Center release 0.0.5 adds domain mapping for smarter statistics, and direct binary downloads plus images on Docker Hub for easier installation https://lightmeter.io/release-notes-0-0-5/

Two show-stopping bugs in separate #Outlook updates within one month cause ZDnet editor to scream: "#Microsoft's quality assurance team didn't bother to test the newest edition of Outlook with the latest version of Windows" https://www.computerworld.com/article/3567355/outlook-woes-i-have-no-email-and-i-must-scream.html

Did you know that #Sendmail, probably the most popular mail server in history, was originally configured to accept anyone's email by default, without authentication? Thus it was open #SMTP relay s/w when copyrighted in 1983 by the University of California http://www.dotcomeon.com/