New for Version 11.02

What's New in IMail Server v11.02

Full release notes are available at:

http://docs.ipswitch.com/_Messaging/IMailServer/v11.02/ReleaseNotes/index.htm

Web Administrator

• Mailbox processing has been improved to allow faster performance for all access methods (POP, IMAP, and Web Client access). Upgrading customers will require a mailbox conversion that will regenerate all UID and XML files for existing mailboxes.

  Warning For Upgrading Customers: It is highly recommended to run the upgrade and mailbox conversion during non-peak hours when e-mail activity is low, as the "convert.exe" utility may be a very lengthy process. The number of users and the size of their mailboxes will determine the amount of time needed.

  In-house testing has determined that the amount of time averaged 30 minutes / 50GB of e-mail. This time will vary by server size and disk performance.

  A checkbox option to run the "convert.exe" utility will appear at the end of a successful upgrade. Checking this option to run the "convert.exe" will immediately iterate through all users within the IMail Server and rewrite all the UID and XML files for all mailboxes. Again, it is not recommended to run this utility during high volume user usage, as this may be a very lengthy process and could seriously degrade system performance.

  Tip: If the conversion option is not selected at the time of the upgrade. Users opening their mail clients for the first time after upgrade will initiate the conversion for the mailbox being accessed. Depending on the size of the mailbox, this could take more time than usual.

• New capability to create language resource files for the IMail Web Administrator user interface. Instructions to generate resource files for foreign languages can be found at:

  http://docs.ipswitch.com/_Messaging/IMailServer/v11.02/PDF/CreateAdminLanguageFileV1102.pdf

• Maximum Mailbox Size has been upgraded to handle virtually any size the IMail Administrator requires. Maximum Mailbox Size can be controlled at the Domain Properties level, User Properties level, System Default User level, and Domain Default User Level.

  Caution: Although a mailbox can be much larger than previously allowed, keep in mind that the performance of a larger mailbox quickly diminishes as the size grows. Mailbox synchronization for IMAP or POP3 (with a copy remaining on the server) requires large amounts of time, CPU, and I/O.

  Important for Upgraders: A modification has been made to the ODBCUser.dll. If a custom ODBCUser.dll is currently in place, an updated version will be necessary before upgrading. Please see External Database Changes.

• Trailer.txt / Trailer.html - New user interface has been created for the System Trailer message to correctly handle all outgoing trailer messages. Trailer.html has been added to handle all outgoing HTML messages, and Trailer.txt will now only be appended to plain text messages.

  Important: After upgrading go to System > System Trailer in the Web or Console Administration to verify your "trailer.txt" converted correctly.

  Foreign OS Upgrades: Conversion of trailers that contain special encoding may not be handled correctly. Find the backup "trailer.old" and correct as necessary.

  Note for Upgrades: For Administrators with a "Trailer.txt" in place, the install will locate the registry key "HKLM/SOFTWARE/Ipswitch/IMail/Global/EnableTrailerHTML" and follow these steps:

  1. Backup the "Trailer.txt" to "Trailer.old".
  2. If the registry key value is set to "1" the "Trailer.txt" file will be copied and renamed to "Trailer.html", and then tags will be stripped from the "Trailer.txt" making it a plain text file.
  3. If the registry key value is set to "0" or the registry key does not exist, the "Trailer.txt" file will be copied and renamed to "Trailer.html", with <p> tags inserted around the plain text, and the "Trailer.txt" will be left intact.
• New Domain Trailer - New user interface has been created to allow capability for the System Administrator to maintain separate trailer messages at each domain level. The associated files are named: "DomainTrailer.txt" and "DomainTrailer.html", and are located in the "IMail\DomainName" directory. For more details go to Domain > Domain Trailer in the Web Administration. By default all domains will be set to used the System Trailer.
• A new "Refresh License" button as been added to both the Web Administration and Console Administration. This feature gives active licensed IMail customers an easier way to refresh their license to pick up new license information. To access this new feature go to System Settings.
• To assist IMail Administrators to plan ahead for the expiration of their Premium Anti-spam by Commtouch or IMail Anti-virus powered by BitDefender®, a notification has been added to both the Web and the Console Administration to remind the IMail Administrator one month prior and up to two weeks after expiration of either product.
• A new Web Client preference has been created to specify the default language character set when none has been specified. This new preference affects only web client messages and can only be updated by the IMail Administrator. This new feature can be found under Domains > Domain Properties then from the navigation panel click on Default Preferences.

  Note for New Installs and Upgrades: This new preference will default to the IMail Server Operating System language character set.

  Example:

  • United States IMail Servers will default to UTF-8
  • Japanese IMail Servers will default to ISO-2022-JP
• A new version 3.00.19 for IP Reputation by Commtouch® (ctIPd™) and version 3.01.0017 for Commtouch® Advanced Security Daemon (ctasd™) is included for IMail Server Premium customers.

  Commtouch® Release Notes

• Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX has replaced the Cute Editor for ASP.NET for creating and replying to messages when using the Web Client.

New in IMail Server 11.01

FIXES & NEW FEATURES v11.02

Web Administration

• Trailer.txt - System trailer message has been modified to correctly handle all outgoing trailer messages. Outlook will now handle the trailer as part of the message and not as an attachment. Trailer.html has been created to handle all outgoing HTML messages, and Trailer.txt will now only be appended to plain text messages.
• Trailer.txt - Japanese is correctly displayed in remote messages, with the addition of encoding being added to user interface.
• ActiveSync - Corrected problem of not being able to add users when an ActiveSync® license is not active and ActiveSync® is disabled for the server.
• Domain Administrator - Corrected issue of domain administrators having access to Collaboration Users for all domains.
• Adding Users - Adding a new user with Japanese characters in the Full Name are now correctly added.
• Creating and modifying users will no longer allow SMTP > Host Delimiters as part of the user name.

Console Admin

• BitDefender with foreign OS. Corrected user interface error due to foreign date formats being considered invalid.

Services

• Web Calendar Service - Due to incompatibility issues, the old Web Calendar Service will be removed during upgrade if detected. The Web Calendar was replaced in IMail Server v10 and the Web Calendar Service is no longer required.
• Queue Manager - Added capability to override IMail Server default of sending 5 messages per connection when remotely delivering e-mail. To enable this override add a new registry key to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ipswitch\IMail\Global\

  NumRCPTTOPerMsg

  REG_DWORD

  0x00000000 (0) = unlimited sending for Rcpt To's

  Note: Setting "NumRCPTTOPerMsg" to "0" will allow unlimited sending for Rcpt To's, any other value will limit Queue Manager to sending that many recipients per connection.

• SMTP - Corrected issue of large bod temp files being written to the windows temp directory.
• TLS/SSL - Corrected MX rollover issue.
• IMAP, POP3 and SMTP - IMail does not support CRAM-MD5 with IMAP, POP3 or SMTP when using Active Directory or external user databases . Corrected invalid connection announcement that CRAM-MD5 is supported.

Web Client

• Corrected Arabic Custom Language to correctly flip language for all "ar" languages to read "right to left".
• Corrected the Japanese word wrapping issue for plain text quoted-printable messages.
• Forwarding a message will now correctly use the same encoding that was originally used, unless a different encoding is selected under Web Client > Forward Message > Options.
• Corrected issue of mailbox with attachments not displaying for the web client, but showed up fine with POP and IMAP.
• A mailbox that becomes greater than 2GB will no longer become corrupted.

Installs

• Japanese OS upgrade from v8.xx to v11.02 will now correctly convert the Japanese full name characters.

Mobile Devices

• iPhone fails to synchronize with the error "Sync Key Mismatch" in the syncMMDDYYYY.txt log.
• iPhone fails to synchronize with the error "(Exception) Object reference not set to an instance of an object" in the syncMMDDYYYY.txt log.