1.8.2

Summary

1.8.2 is a fix release. Pro activates on www. sites again and rides out a licence server hiccup. Pasted images reach the people you write to, a password lock no longer locks you out by mistake, and the editor always lets you add a line around a picture. Mail sync and sending got sturdier, and multisite networks keep account mail away from subsite connections.

Added

• An admin setting decides whether users may lock PressedMail with a password. It is off on new sites and stays on where someone already uses a lock.
• Forgot your lock password? Pick one of your own email addresses, confirm your WordPress password, and PressedMail emails you a reset link that works once, for 30 minutes.

Changed

• On multisite, changing or testing WordPress email settings needs a network administrator. A subsite administrator can still read the settings and the delivery log.
• On a multisite subsite, password reset, signup and welcome emails go through the main site's connection when it has one that can send, and otherwise the way WordPress sends them.
• Removing a mailbox returns at once. Its stored mail is cleared in the background.
• Mailboxes on the site's own private network connect only when wp-config.php allows them with PRESSEDMAIL_ALLOW_PRIVATE_MAIL_HOSTS (true, or a list of names and ranges). Cloud metadata addresses stay blocked.
• Only administrators can set the shared AI key or turn on deleting all data on uninstall.
• Pro: files attached to a scheduled email are private to the person who scheduled it, and files left behind by a schedule that failed are cleaned up after a day.
• Pro: the licence grace warning counts down to the day Pro would really lock, and the licence screen shows the signed expiry.
• Password lock is now a site choice: "Let users lock PressedMail with a password" under Settings, Access Control. It is off on a new site and on where someone already set a lock. Turning it off removes every user's lock.
• A forgotten passphrase is reset by email. Confirm your WordPress password, pick one of your own addresses, and open the link within 30 minutes while signed in. So a lock can only be set while WordPress email goes out through a working SMTP server.

Fixed

• Pro activates on sites whose address starts with www. or has capital letters.
• Pro: one refusal from the licence server no longer locks Pro. It takes three refusals spread over at least a day.
• Mail sync no longer skips new mail when the server fails to look up its message number, so rules, AI and notifications still run on it.
• A mail server that resets a large folder no longer freezes that folder while the old copy is cleared.
• One throttled mailbox no longer stops other mailboxes on the same server from syncing.
• An update whose migration fails on one row no longer blocks every later update. Site Health names the step it set aside and says what to do.
• A message accepted for some recipients and refused for others counts as sent, with the refused addresses named, so a resend no longer duplicates it.
• An image pasted or uploaded into an email now reaches the recipient. It travels inside the message, so it shows even where remote images are blocked.
• Sent mail now looks the way it did in the composer: dividers, a forwarded header's address, code fonts, indents and table borders all arrive, and every campaign recipient gets the embedded images. A reopened draft keeps its date chips, callouts and column widths.
• Mailbox IMAP and SMTP servers are checked against the public address rules each time they connect, not only when the account is saved.
• A mail server that rejects the password or app password at login fails at once with a message that says so, instead of being retried for an hour.
• Mail logins and server names that contain a line break or NUL character are refused.
• Adding or saving an account keeps the setup wizard and what you typed on screen.
• Switching mailboxes during a refresh no longer shows the old mailbox's mail, and Try again reloads a mail list that failed to load.
• Pro: a scheduled send that hits a brief mail server outage retries for up to an hour instead of failing.
• Pro: Undo Send follows the server's clock, so a browser clock that is off no longer hides Undo early.
• Pro: AI tagging and phishing checks wait out credit and rate limit refusals, on sites in any language, instead of failing the email.
• Pro: the AI provider test and model list send a saved API key only to the address it was saved for.
• Pro: saving a new AI provider address without a key clears the saved key and asks for the new one.
• Pro: packaged builds ignore a signing key or update address the site defines for itself.
• Pro: queueing an Undo Send and creating a follow-up are refused on the server when the feature is off.
• Pro: a draft's date chip survives reopening the draft.
• A picture pasted into a signature keeps showing after you save it. In Pro the same goes for templates and auto-replies, and a WordPress notification built from a template carries its pictures inside the message.
• A date chip in a sent email shows the date, such as October 26, 2026, in your language. "Today" was only true on the day you sent it.
• Free: image captions reach the recipient, and to-do items arrive with their checkbox, ticked and struck through when done.
• Pro: removing every Cc or Bcc recipient from a scheduled email now sticks.
• Pro: editing a scheduled email with several recipients, or a recipient with a display name, keeps it sendable.
• Pro: deactivating and reactivating the plugin restarts scheduled sends, snoozes and calendar reminders.
• Pro: a shared AI key you removed stays removed after an update.
• Pro: on Ultimate, a settings manager who is not an administrator is no longer offered Branding & Appearance, a tab that only refused them.
• Password lock: one wrong passphrase no longer says "too many attempts", a lockout no longer blocks the forgot passphrase screen, and browsers no longer fill the WordPress password into the passphrase fields.
• A picture at the top of an email, or two pictures in a row, no longer leave you nowhere to type. Enter on a picture adds a line below it, Shift+Enter or the up arrow adds one above, and the picture and block menus have Insert line above and Insert line below. Dragging a block to the edge of the editor scrolls it, so a big picture can go below what is on screen.

Upgrade Notes

• Nothing to do. On multisite, a subsite administrator who used to manage WordPress email settings now needs a network administrator to make changes.
• If Site Health lists a PressedMail update step it gave up on, check that the database user may create and alter tables, then deactivate and activate PressedMail.
• A mailbox whose mail server sits on a private network address stops connecting until wp-config.php sets PRESSEDMAIL_ALLOW_PRIVATE_MAIL_HOSTS.
• Password lock: sites where someone already set a lock keep it on. Set up WordPress email under Settings, WordPress Email so a forgotten passphrase can be reset.