Greetings, Apiary folks!
This weekend, I addressed an overwhelming number of deprecation notices by deploying a fix to the Variables extension and I signed up for a free-tier account on MailJet (thanks for the pointer, Jesús Martínez).
* Massive unsubscribe
This morning, I woke up to a large number of unsubscribe messages because of bounces on the WikiApiary mailing list. I've verified that there are still people subscribed to the mailing list and asked the listadmins mailing list about this.
* Mailjet
Because of complaints about mail tracking, I switched to using MailJet's SMTP relay. As an added bonus, their free tier allows us to send more email and will hopefully work.
I did notice that they have an option to see who have read emails. The only way I know to implement that is with mail tracking beacons that were a problem with the previous relay. The previous relay munged email sent through their relay to accomplish this. I haven't had a chance to check this yet. If you have gotten any emails from the wiki, it would help if you could inspect them to see if they have been altered by MailJet.
* Variables extension
WikiApiary uses the Variables extension. Since we upgraded to 1.39, the runJobs cron job has been sending me notices about this once a minute. Because I spent time fixing the email this weekend, I also addressed the deprecation notices that the Variables extension was sending. Everything seems to be working, but I'm not sure about the changes I made.
If you can check pages on the wiki, that would help.
Mark.