New for Version 12
What's New in IMail Server v12
Full release notes are available at:
- IMail Collaboration Client
is now available to synchronize messages, contacts and appointments with Microsoft Outlook 64-bit.
- IMail Configuration Export Utility
A new command prompt utilityis now available to export all IMail registry keys. See the Web Administration Help for more details under .
- Console and Web Administration
- - New user interface has been created for both the Console and Web Administration to require users to change their password when logging into the Web Client.
The Console Administration has the multiple user edit capability to allow setting this new feature very easily for many users.
- has be reworded to . Personal Information Management incorporates the use of Calendaring, Tasks and Notes.
Disabling Personal Information Management will disable all features. To disable only and allow see help on configuring your iclient.config under
- List Administration - Headers and Trailers
- and - New user interface has been created for the List Administration Header and Trailer messages to correctly handle all outgoing messages. and has been added to handle all outgoing HTML messages, and and will only be used for plain text list messages.
After upgrading go to and in the Web or Console Administration to verify your "header.txt" and "trailer.txt" files converted correctly for each list.
Conversion of of headers and trailers that contain special encoding may not be handled correctly. Find the backup "header.old" and "trailer.old" and correct as necessary.
For Administrators with a "Header.txt" or "Trailer.txt" in place, the install will follow these steps:
- Backup the
"Header.txt" and "Trailer.txt" files to "Header.old" and "Trailer.old". - The
"Header.txt" and "Trailer.txt" file will be copied and renamed to "Header.html" and "Trailer.html", with <pre> tags wrapped around all existing text. - No attempt will be made to search and strip for any preexisting tags from the original
"Header.txt" and "Trailer.txt".files. It will be left up to the IMail Administrator to correct any list header and trailer messages that contain html tags.
- Upgrade Installation
- Detection of
"iclient.config" at the root level has been added, enabling a prompt for customers to maintain the iclient.config at the root.
- New Web Client
- for the new Web Client requires both and .
Administrators with custom external user databases configured for one or more domains will need to make the following changes to handle the meeting requests feature for the new Web Client.
- The associated with user's mailboxes are no longer required with the new Web Client.
- New document for customizing the new IMail Web Client.
http://docs.ipswitch.com/_Messaging/IMailServer/v12/PDF/Branding.pdf
- editor correcting issues with font formatting when using Firefox or Safari browsers.
User's with signatures that are using deprecated HTML will display incorrectly, and will need to be manually updated to recognize the new HTML controls.
- New for greater usability experience.
- Capability to a user's information to
".csv" or "vCard"format. - Capability to a user's from
"csv" or ".vcf" file formats. - New for 1 minute (default setting) after 3 tries (default setting). For more information on this settings read the Admin Help under , view the .
- New setting in the to automatically log a user off if inactivity has been detected. Default setting is 60 minutes. To customize this setting read the Admin Help under , view the .
- Capability for the IMail Administrator to that are accessible for all users. (e.g. Archiving url to allow user to access all archived email messages, or Company website link.)
- are now available with the Web Client to be included with Calendar, Contacts and E-mail for synchronization with Outlook.
- are now available allowing the ability to create and accept using the new Web Client for synchronization with Outlook when IMail Collaboration is in place.
- now available for user's subscriptions.
- configurable by the IMail Administrators allowing easy online access for common web links. (e.g. KB Link, Mail Archiving)
- New feature available
- Allowing user's to report new messages as spam
- Report false positive messages from a user's Spam folder as NOT Spam.
- arrives, with the capability to customize on a per user level.
- New that can be customized at the user options level and used as needed when sending messages.
- New allowing user's to recover most data when loss of computer power occurs or user inadvertently exits out of browser. This new feature is a user option can be customized under the tab.
- New feature giving the user the capability to by-pass the login screen once it has been set.
- New feature that is configurable by IMail Administrator to automatically log a user out after a certain amount of inactivity.
- New between the Lite Web Client and the regular Web Client.
- The file has been greatly enhanced allowing the IMail Administrators greater capability to customize the web client to their user's needs. For more information on settings read the Admin Help under .
- above the navigator folders to remind user's when enabled
- show mail folders that have enabled.
- Expanded (multiple addresses, websites, personal information, business information).
- contain or the map engine specified by the user.
- Customizable user option to set a , and a .
- Users can now c.
- are now supported and can now be added for contacts.
- Customizable user option to set a .
- Customizable user options to specify and for the work day
- Customizable user option to set the by day, week or month.
- Users can now .
- Calendar display format is set to the 12 hour (am/pm) time.
- throughout for mail access, calendars and contacts.
- Web Client user access is now being written to the .
- with the following actions
- Report as Not Spam
- Report as Spam
- Move/Copy
- Mark as Read
- Mark as Unread
- User option to allow an override of the Automatically Determined . Customizable user option located within the web client under
- to support for Email, Contacts, Calendaring, Tasks and Notes.
- The New Web Client allows for customizing and displaying company logos, colors, and text.
- Easier method to create for the new web client.
- New with the ability for customers to create their own themes
- allowing the IMail Administrators more flexibility in controlling Web Client usage. For more details on all the numerous new settings, go to the Administrator Help and select .
- Capability to disable the Web Client . Locate the key=
"EnableForwardTo" within the "IClient.config" file. - Customizable user option when reading messages.
- Customizable user option allowing users to define their own personal paging needs.
- Customizable user option allows users to define their own personal needs for the number of messages to be displayed per page.
- Customizable allows users to define the contacts to display first when selecting email addresses while composing a message.
- Customizable user option allows users to always display the column filters, or to turn off and on as needed vis the mailbox .
- New user option to warn a user when , when body of the letter uses the word attachment. Update your to turn this feature off.
- New user option to warn a user when Update your to turn this feature off.
- Ability to have initial login open a specified folder (e.g. email folder, calendars, tasks, etc...). Customize this user option located at .
Defect Fixes and New Features for IMail Server v12
- Corrected issue with where messages were not arriving correctly, when the feature is used.
- Corrected handle leak for file watcher when .net updates are applied for .
- correctly functions for adding, modifying and deleting when using both SQL user database or IMail registry
- will now be required to adhere to password policies set by the System Administrators when setting or resetting a user's password.
- - Will now warn when trying to update with a non virtual domain. Entering a host alias of an IP'd domain will automatically update the OHN.
- Sharing a user's or public folder with a will now display correctly under the page
- Corrected issue with
"trailer.txt" with lists becoming an attachment when being sent with Outlook. Headers and Trailers for lists are now correctly handled with HTML and plain text messages.
- forfor Instant Messaging Client and IMail Collaboration Client now correctly installs when running in silent mode.
- will no longer hang due to assigned to the NIC.
- will now automatically enable ASP.NET 32-bit applications when installing on a 64-bit 2003 Server.
- Commtouch files will all be correctly updated during upgrade.
- with BitDefender will upgrade without log errors and Queue Manager service failure, due to files being improperly overwritten.
- - now successfully delivers the full headers.
- - Corrected issue to allow messages to send using SSL when using Postini.
- - DNS lookup for recipient (remote) domains will no longer be performed when "Send All Remote Mail Through Gateway" is set.
- - Domain Forwarding has been corrected to work when remote gateway is configured.
- - Corrected issue when using SSL to re-establish a connection on port 25 when attempting a connection on port 465 to create an implicit SSL connection.
- - Whitelist has been corrected to work for "Max Invalid Recipients Per Session" a Dictionary Attack setting.
- - "Helo" Banner from a remote server now correctly logs after STARTTLS.
- - Invalid users will be correctly "bounced"; will no longer connect to remote server after an550 invalid user.
- - Corrected issue where a group of recipients do not receive delivery of message once one of the addresses receives a 554 deliver error.
- Corrected issue where messages were bounced once Greylisted. Message will now be requeued with a 4xx error on the receipt to.
- when updated from the "-" default will now be honored and correctly deliver messages when Commtouch Anti-spam delivery settings are set to move to SPAM mailbox.
- - Auto forwarded messages will now have the correct Time offset included in the header message.
- - Mail From validation has been deferred to the Data command, to avoid two IMail Servers from looping with Mail From validation turned on.
- - Setting to
"Allow All Except" will now log correctly.
- MailArchiva - Corrected issue with spam getting through when archiving at the user level was not checked.
- database users will no longer be duplicated when the within the Console or Web Administration is modified.
- logs when activated are now correctly logging to the correct path.
"..IMail\WorkgroupShare\Data\Logs" - synchronization of recurring appointments has been corrected when setting to First Day of every one month.
- - Utility to convert your Access Collaboration database to SQL. Corrected issue when clicking the SQL Server selection dropdown, duplicate entries would be generated. This utility is part of the IMail Utilities a separate installation available for download.
- - Utility to locate all users with a Forwarding Address, with a capability to also remove the forward. This utility is part of the IMail Utilities a separate installation available for download.
- - Utility located under the
"../IMail" directory has been updated to add new column names to handle meeting requests for the new web client. - - Corrected issue when modifying a user
"-m" and "-p" is not specified, the password is left as is.
- Corrected issue of Web Client displaying the Server Timezone for receive date and not the Client Timezone. POP and IMAP were unaffected and displayed correctly.
- New Web Client messages will now window, and not in the current preview pane.
- now available when composing in plain text.
- corrected for plain text messages that would display in Outlook as one long line.
- WCorrected issues that were happening in odd places, making some sentences longer than others. corrected for plain te
- increased for improved visibility for the address recipients of TO: CC: and BCC: when composing a new message.
- - New Web Client has new user option to set the default contact folder when composing new messages. In the Web Client go to .
- - New Web Client has new user option to set the initial view (Day, Week, Month) when displaying calendars. In the Web Client go to .
- - Capability to a user's contact information to
".csv" or "vCard"format, and import to another user's contacts. - - New Web Client are can now correctly search double-byte characters in the subject and body.
- - No longer loses CRLF formating when using plain text messaging.
- - Icons now appear as part of the message when messages are replied to or forwarded.
- will no longer be created for meeting requests.
- - New "iclient.config" setting to specify the SMTP port (default of 25) to be used for the Web Client.
- New messages composed in the from the Compose Option Settings.
- browsers no longer will have issue where the folder tree would not display upon login.
- browsers can now resize the message list and preview pane.
- Attachments downloaded and saved from a Web Client message will no longer replace file name spaces with "+".
- page for selecting mail recipients will no longer become unreadable from paging when composing a new message.
- page for selecting mail recipients when composing a new message now has search capability and no longer requires manual searching.
- now accesses all address books attached to user's Web Client.
- paging slider was replaced with a scroll bar, correcting the problem of the paging bar disappearing when too many contacts were viewing telephone number information.
- Issues using Shift+ Click when selecting multiple messages for deletion and random messages not deleting when not using checkboxes has been corrected with the new Web Client.
- and now works with the checkbox user option turned on.
- Incorporating into the main navigation panel with the Web Client corrected the where no scroll bar appeared when multiple calendars existed.
- With now available on the main navigation panel, reminders for calendar appointments will work with opening the calendar.
- can now handle start and stop times when creating/ updating a new appointment.
- Message folder names containing can now be used without issue. Special characters that are problems will not be allowed as valid when created.
- Issue with some messages displaying raw html incorrectly in the Web Client has been corrected.
- issue of sending a blank message when user has new messages set to use plain text, and then opts to switch to "HTML".
- context menu displays correctly when right-clicking on a mail message.
- Corrected javascript error that was being thrown when using and browsers and clicking on when in a new window.
- Corrected issue with chrome browsers not allowing the border between the message list and preview pane to be resized.
- Inserting bullets/numbering will no longer apply to all text within the body of the message, when composing a new message.
- Corrected tiny font size when printing conversation headers.
- Corrected issue of Ipswitch Instant Messaging Client no longer allowing drag and drop of user names into personal groups.
- Adding a user via the IIM Console Administrator will now correctly add new users. Messaging