New Updates – August

We have been busy listening to all your feedback going into the upcoming November election. From updates to our Universe Search, to more integrations, and more integrations to go!

Action Network Integration

We had one of our new campaigns ask if we could build an integration with Action Network. They have a well defined API for us to work with and their Directory of Technology has been great to work with to help answer our questions. We can now sync your contacts from Action Network into Campaign Deputy. This includes Tags, if they are a part of an Action Network list. We also pull over events, so for those states that require disclosures of Events we have you covered.

Campaign Page

As part of the Action Network integration, we didn’t have a place for you to update your API Key(s), so we built a new Account Settings page to show you all the candidate information associated with your account. If you click on your name in the upper-right portion of the screen, you can access this new page and see which account you are logged into for our multi-account users. This page will also be the home for our future Zapier integration and more to come!

Universe Search

We have added more fields to our Universe Search. Action Network tags, Zip Code, Linked Attribution searching, Contribution Date. As part of our maintenance, we will be able to add details about emails actions as well.

Attribution Codes

As more campaigns import their previous data, we get a lot of attribution codes on one account. We are adding Cycle and an Archive flag to better handle these. The Universe Search is using our new Attribution Auto Suggest, we will be moving more of the system to use the Auto Suggest instead of drop downs.

Stripe Charges

If you have a contribution page with us, you will have access to a “Merchant Charges” report. We will show the most recent charges, but you can export any date range you would like. If you select a large date range please be patient, Stripe only allows us to pull 100 records at a time. We see most exports taking less than a minute.

Other Bug Fixes

  • You can now use a decimal place when doing a contribution search in the Universe Search.
  • Anonymous contributions are now showing on the contribution report.
  • Added Thank You Note Sent to contributions.

Upcoming Maintenance

We bought a new server months ago and now we just have to move our database to this new server.

Campaign Deputy will be down for maintenance from 9PM EST-11PM EST on Sunday, August 26th. Contributions, and Forms will not be affected. Contribution alerts will be delayed during this time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apple Email Security Updates

Email is constantly changing, and Apple recently made updates to their email service for emails hosted at the @mac.com, @me.com and @icloud.com email addresses.

Email security wasn’t well defined back in 1982, and allowed anyone to impersonate sending an email. An standard called DMARC stopped that and allows email providers to apply the most strict control. Apple chooses which servers are allowed to send emails from their domain, any other server will now be marked as spam, no exception.

Attempting to send an email from @mac.com, @me.com and @icloud.com outside of Apple Mail will immediately be marked as spam.

Apple Mail isn’t the first provider to do this, Gmail did this in 2016 and Yahoo in 2014. These changes help to limit the amount of spam from these domains and prevent phishing attacks.

If you want to send event invitations from an the hosts email address, it is now best to have them BCC their invitee list to give you the best chance to prevent you from being flagged with DMARC.

Sometimes an email will show “on behalf of domain.com” to work around this limitation with DMARC because the email address is actually written like the below address. Email clients make the format more human readable by showing the “on behalf of” separately. The resources link below has more detailed information about this and why you can’t remove it from Gmail, Yahoo, or Apple Mail.

personalemail=yahoo.com@send.mydomain.com

Resources

How Apple’s DMARC Changes Affect Email Senders

Gmail DMARC Update 2017

Why do some emails show “on behalf”