Feature requests

Edit active automations is not possible but there is an popup telling me it is in development. I don't see it on the roadmap yet. Is it coming? It would be helpful to edit the long automations without the subscribers losing their mailings. This is especially necessary for online courses with drip content and mails that are sent periodically.

The two step opt-in is now necessary but this is not very helpful for mailings which are necessary like mails from an online course. Those mails are needed for customers. My suggestions: Make the opt-in mandatory (also for guest users!) in the checkout of WooCommerce. It would be helpful to set a specific list at product or category level so the users get the right automated emails corresponding to their purchased product/membership immediately. Make a link to membership plugins so when purchasing a membership the customer can accept to subscribe to a specific (mandatory!) list as part of the membership. I know the rules around newsletters are a bit harsh nowadays but as it is right now it is not a good solution for online courses and products which need multiple mails. Those are not marketing mails but necessary information about the bought product/membership. Thanks!

When creating an automation that starts when someone clicks a link in an email, it cannot be done until the email has been sent. The problem with that is that there's a good chance someone will open the email as soon as it arrives, click the link, then discover that nothing happens (they will be directed to wherever the link goes, but the automation won't start). The only way to get this trigger to work is to quickly edit the automation AFTER the email has been sent. So now the sender has a choice: tell the recipients that the link won't work for a while, so "please wait 5 minutes" (or however long it takes to find the automation, open it for editing, click on the trigger option, find the email that's just been sent, click the button to show the links, find the right link (the panel the links open in is tiny and cannot be made larger), select it, then update the automation. What that means is that an automation cannot be finalized until the email that triggers it has been sent. I haven't tested this to see if it's simply the flag that says it's sent or if it has to be physically sent to be picked up by the automation (was hoping that scheduling it might work, but it doesn't) - as that would help a bit if it was just a flag - maybe we can edit the automation before the email was physically sent. I am guessing that this restriction is in place because by forcing the user to send emails, they cannot later mess it up by editing an already sent email (because emails once sent, cannot be edited or resent - only duplicated, which by the way, is a great - and vital feature). For me, I'd rather the restriction was removed. Allow me to create the email with the link I want. Then open an automation and select the link as a trigger before I send anything. That way I can ensure everything is as I want before I hit the SEND button.

Send next email based on previous email specific link click

Please add full support of Multilingual Plugin WPML to your list. I would start with adding a language switch to the Post Notification Email. Then progressively support the translated pages for the Unsubscribe page, Manage Your Subscription page, etc. In the meantime, as proposed, I will create manual newsletters and have my MailPoet subscription pages bilingual. Thanks.

What: Function to manually trigger an automation by bulk-tagging contacts. Why: Launches, Promos, Campaigns, Segment sequences. Situation: Currently, bulk tagging does not add the contacts to an automation, even if "tag added" is set as the trigger. How: Option 1: Create an option in preferences, "Allow bulk tagging to trigger automations." Option 2: Enable this by default and display a warning when bulk tagging "Adding this tag will add XXX contacts to the automation YYYY. Do you really want to tag these contacts?" Context: Currently, there is no way to manually trigger an automation, other than tagging each contact individually. (which is unfeasible for any decent number of contacts) This is a major downside of Mailpoet since one of the most important use cases for automations are launch campaigns that must be manually triggered. The solution above would make Mailpoet much more attractive for email marketers who currently cannot use mailpoet for the sole reason that manually starting automations is an absolutely crucial function for any email-marketing app. This function is super easy to implement and would elevate Mailpoet to a completely new level.

A little disappointing. Waited days and days for approval to use their mailing service. Gave up and decided to switch to my own isp. Also, no sign of the templates to refine the unsubscribe and manage my subscription pages.

Resend a newsletter or campaign to those who did not open the first email

You should really optimize how you save the email sending queue in the table _mailpoet_sending_queue. On my websites, for the bigger one, this table is several Go and continues to increase with time... until the server crash. Why are you saving each email in plain HTML in the database? You should save only one version of the global email and then optimize to call this email for each user... not save each email in the table, I have dozen of thousands of the same emails in my table... Really, they're a lot of improvements to be done here! It's ok for small websites but for bigger ones it's not really possible.

When sending with your own server, you can catch the bounce mails but not process them automatically. There used to be an external plug-in, but this is no longer being developed. ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/bounce-handler-mailpoet/ ) Couldn't this be developed by default in MailPoet, after all not everyone uses the Mailpoet sending service