MLD email newsletter plugin

[Connie]

I worked with the plugin in the last time, succeeded to activate it at one host, had no chance with another hoster (alphahosting in Germany).

I have some suggestions and one small glitch to report.

1. the actual version of the plugin is 0.8, but as the header of mld-newsletter.php still notices the version 0.7, the update-notice in backend will persist.
   Please correct the version number in the register_plugin-function! I posted this in february already!
   
2. as some hosters have basedir-restrictions in effect and are not willing to change that. maybe the caching could use a cache-directory in the data-directory of GS instead of the system-cache?
   
3. please take off that long changelog at the beginning of the mld-newsletter.php. That is not really necessary...
   
4. the option to include the tag into a page and not only into the template, as I had to create a special template just for one page...
   

I miss a documentation.
Why not add a readme.txt to the package (with the changelog as well) with these informations:

• a list of ALL template tags of the plugin, I read by chance that there is a tag to show an archive of the newsletter, but what is the exact tag for that?
  
• a hint to the css-files, most important to the CSS for the front end.
  
• info how to deactivate the use of the css-file(s) which sits in the pluginfolder, because all changes there will be overwritten with an update. I prefer to keep my styles in the template-css-files.
  
  If it is not possible to deactivate the default css-file, I ask for an option for the future
  
• a list of all css elements which the plugin uses
  
• some more explanation of the smtp-settings, as it is not obvious that you can leave blank the field "SLS / TLS" as well, here I suggest a select-box with "none, SLS, TLS", why not?
  

I suggest to use only css-names with a prefix, all styles should use the prefix "mld" so it is obvious that they belong to the plugin, there are IDs like "update" etc. which might collide with other definitions

These are my 5 cents, after I got the plugin working and finished the styling of the subscribe-form

Cheers, Connie