New for Version 11.5
What's New in IMail Server v11.5
Full release notes are available at:
- New Version for Commtouch Anti-spam Engine
- Introducing advanced detection logic and improved performance.
- Introducing new detection capabilities. Advanced logic has been introduced to allow the detection engine to calculate thresholds of combined patterns extracted from the messages.
- Improved Performance.
- New Realtime Whitelists
are whitelist databases that store IP addresses and domain names of trusted sources. E-mail messages that find a Realtime Whitelist match will be considered trusted and further validation checks as set by the IMail Administrator will be bypassed.
A match made with a trusted realtime whitelist will bypass the following validations.
- will be bypassed if enabled.
- (if Premium Anti-spam is installed) if enabled.
- will not be checked.
- checks will be skipped.
- (if installed) will be bypassed if enabled.
- is skipped (checkbox is set by default). This check box can overridden by the IMail Administrator.
Updates made to the Realtime Whitelist will not successfully update until the or button has been clicked.
Be sure that the after updates have been applied.
For more details go to Web Administrator and click Help.
- Web Administrator
- A new has been added to the Web Administration. This report will display total mailbox sizes by users by domain. Selecting a specific user will display the user's file directory. To view this new report login to Web Administrator and from the home page go to and select .
- Services
- to give IMail Administrators a tool to prevent malicious attempts by a client to continuously try logging in to attain user names and passwords. Newuser interface has been added to the standard POP3 and IMAP protocol settings page for both the IMail Web Administrator and the IMail Console Administrator, allowing the IMail Administrator to configure authentication settings.
- . (Turned on by default) Configurable session options for user authentication, allows the IMail Administrator to set the following session options.
- . (Default set to 3) Once this setting has been reached by failed authentication attempts, the client will be disconnected.
- . (Default set to 9) After this setting has been met by disconnections from the failed authentication attempts, the client will be terminated and blacklisted.
- . (Default set to 60) Length of time that the offending IP will not be able to access the login page.
- now has new IMail Performance Objects used by "Perfmon" to report the following IMail statistics:
- - Maintains a total ongoing count for Commtouch Anti-spam.
- - Maintains a total ongoing count for Commtouch Anti-virus.
- - Displays a total ongoing count for Commtouch Zero Hour.
- - Displays the current sessions open for SMTP.
- SSL Configuration Utility.
The private key size for a SSL Certificate is now optional, with a default of 1024 bits (512, 1024, 1536 and 2048) to allow the certificate a higher security level. This utility "sslUtility.exe" is located in your "../IMail" directory.
- Web Client Password Strength Validation
A new validity check has been added to the web client to validate user password strength against the IMail Administrators Password Strength as defined at the . After user login, if the user's current password does not meet the required password strength then the user will be redirected to a "Change Password" page, which will require a new password that meets the password strength before allowing access to the web client for mail access.
- IMail Client Applications
- installation and installation have been combined into one installation located under your IMail Server folder
"...\Program Files\Ipswitch\IMail\IMail Client Apps". - IMail Client Applications is currently only available for 32-bit installations.
- IMail Collaboration Client will only install if Outlook can be detected.
- New Ipswitch Instant Messenger Client and Server Release
A new Ipswitch Instant Messenger version 2.1.1 is available with the IMail Server release. The following fixes and enhancements are as follows:
- Corrected issue with Windows 7 32-bit environment crashing Ipswitch Instant Messenger when trying to add an attachment to send in an Instant Message.
- Warning added when a new conversation is initiated with multiple recipients.
- Capability to start a new conversation with same recipient of an open conversation can now occur.
- Conversation bar will display a count of all recipients in the conversation. Hovering over the count will display all recipients in the conversation.
- Upgrading your Ipswitch Instant Messenger Server will require all older Ipswitch Instant Messenger Clients to upgrade to the current Ipswitch Instant Messenger Client protocol. Older Ipswitch Instant Messenger Clients will receive an "Invalid protocol" error, and will no longer successfully connect with the latest IIM Server release. All current users will be required to run the IMail Client Apps found under
"../Program Files/Ipswitch/IMail/IMail Client Apps"
Defect Fixes and New Features for IMail Server v11.5
Ipswitch would like to thank Wietse Venema for reporting the vulnerability below that is now corrected: Vulnerability Note VU#555316 STARTTLS plaintext command injection vulnerability.
- replaced OpenSSL v1.0.0.a to correct a security vulnerability, that affected SMTP, POP3, and IMAP.
- Corrected calendar issues for latest Safari 4.03.
- - Corrected issue with messages containing inline images not appearing until forwarded.
- Corrected issue with %s in email address to cause Queue Manager service to restart and not deliver message.
- All logging will now correctly display in Queue Manager and SMTP when the Log Server is set to a remote server.
- Now writing the X-CTCH-RefID to the message headers.
- Corrected issue where logging was omitted for Commtouch Anti-spam. This correction will allow the to display all flagged Commtouch messages.
- Issue with Domain Alias keys not resolving has been corrected.
- - Corrected issue so that only domains in the Accept list are relayed.
- - Corrected issue with wildcard settings not working correctly. Specifically
"*.domain.com" will now forward correctly.
- Corrected IMail Collaboration (WorkgroupShare) from failing to synchronize due to custom Outlook attributes.
- Corrected issue with Windows 7 32-bit environment crashing Ipswitch Instant Messenger when trying to add an attachment to send in an Instant Message.
- has been corrected to use local time versus universal time when calculating messages to be deleted.