v12 SP1 Released April, 24, 2012
v12 Released January 31, 2012
Release Notes
- View the v12 release notes for a complete list of new features and defect fixes.
- View the v12 SP1 release notes for a complete list of new features and defect fixes.
Download:
If you have not yet upgraded to IMail Server v12, please download the full install. If you have already upgraded to IMail Server v12, please download the patch installer.
Full Install
Download IMail Server v12 SP1 here (Full Install – 386 MB)
Download IMail Server Premium v12 SP1 here (Full Install – 386 MB)
Patch Installer
Download IMail v12 SP1 Patch here (Patch Install – 16.4 MB)
Requirements:
You must have a current serial number for your specific version of IMail v12.xx. If you do not have your IMail v12.xx serial number, please login to myIpswitch.com to download IMail v12.xx.
Summary for IMail Server v12 SP1
Includes the following fixes from Hotfix 1
- Fixed: Some attachments containing “é” could not be accessed via the web client.
- Fixed: Rare timing condition that caused mailboxes to be overwritten with an empty mailbox.
- Fixed: After changing password in web client users could no longer access their contacts.
- Fixed: After changing password in web client, passwords not recognized by Outlook collaboration plugin.
- Fixed: Invalid data in collaboration database breaks access to web client.
- Fixed: Some messages do not display Subject, From, etc. in the message list.
Web Client
- Improved message list load times when mailbox contains a large number of encoded messages.
- Corrected issue with “Read” messages becoming “Unread” when a message is deleted.
- Printing a message now correctly displays TO: and CC: header information.
- Option to “Include Original Message” in user options is now honored.
- Mail Usage Chart can now handle max mailbox size’s that are larger than terabyte.
- Group Contacts – Users can no longer add a contact to a group if the contact does not contain a valid email address.
- When using Japanese language users will now be correctly prompted with the “Attachment is missing” warning.
- Move/Copy will no longer set the priority level to “High” after moving or copying the message to a another folder.
- Fixed potential login loop when the “Auto login” feature was selected resulting in the API log being filled with user logins from the user.
- When replying or forwarding a message the original message now correctly displays CC information.
Lite Client
- Contact Selector within the Lite Client will no longer display contacts with invalid email addresses.
Services
- Addressed memory leak that occurred during the the mailbox compacting. This occured in POP3, IMAP, and IIS.
Utilities
- Corrected issue where “Mailall” would incorrectly attempt to deliver messages to the primary domain for accounts on virtual domains.
- Collaboration Converter Utility for converting Access database to SQL, will no longer fail due to invalid column in the Recurrence table.
IMail Collaboration (WorkgroupShare)
- Service no longer become unresponsive when invalid data is returned during a Free/Busy lookup.
- Addressed memory leak when Free/Busy returned more than 10k of data.
Logging
- The API log has been improved to display a username to associated log entries.
- IIM Server Log has been improved with the addition of the user’s ID alongside the client IP address.
Installs
- Upgrading using the “Typical” installation selection will no longer remove the Web Service.
Summary for IMail Server v12
All New Web Client
- New System Requirements for the new Web Client requires both Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.
- The XML Files associated with user’s mailboxes are no longer required with the new Web Client.
- New Branding document for customizing the new IMail Web Client.
- New improved Telerik editor correcting issues with font formatting when using Firefox or Safari browsers.
- New tabbed user interface for greater usability experience.
- Capability to Export a user’s contacts information to “.csv” or “vCard” format.
- Capability to Import a user’s contacts from “csv” or “.vcf” file formats.
- New IClient.config setting to lockout user for 1 minute (default setting) after 3 tries (default setting). For more information on this settings read the Admin Help under Using IMail Web Client > Configuring “IClient.config” for the Web Client, view the Login Lockout Settings.
- New Auto Logout setting in the IClient.config 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 Using IMail Web Client > Configuring “IClient.config” for the Web Client, view the Auto Logout Setting.
- Capability for the IMail Administrator to configure websites that are accessible for all users. (e.g. Archiving url to allow user to access all archived email messages, or Company website link.)
- Notes and Tasks are now available with the Web Client to be included with Calendar, Contacts and E-mail for synchronization with Outlook.
- Meeting Requests 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.
- RSS Feed now available for user’s subscriptions.
- Web Sites configurable by the IMail Administrators allowing easy online access for common web links. (e.g. KB Link, Mail Archiving)
- New Reporting Spam feature available
- Sound and blinking tab notifications when new mail arrives, with the capability to customize on a per user level.
- New Alternate From Addresses that can be customized at the user options level and used as needed when sending messages.
- New Auto Save to Drafts 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 User Options > Composing Messages tab.
- New Auto-Login feature giving the user the capability to by-pass the login screen once it has been set.
- New Auto-Logout feature that is configurable by IMail Administrator to automatically log a user out after a certain amount of inactivity.
- New links to switch between the Lite Web Client and the regular Web Client.
- The iclient.config 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 Using IMail Web Client > Configuring New Web Client.
- Away message indicator above the navigator folders to remind user’s when enabled
- Tool tips show mail folders that have Auto responders enabled.
- Address Book enhancements
- Expanded Contact Infomration (multiple addresses, websites, personal information, business information).
- Addresses contain link to google maps or the map engine specified by the user.
- Customizable user option to set a default address book, and a default contact sort.
- Users can now create multiple personal contact folders.
- Photos are now supported and can now be added for contacts.
- Calendar enhancements
- Customizable user option to set a default calendar.
- Customizable user options to specify and display the beginning time and end time for the work day
- Customizable user option to set the default calendar display by day, week or month.
- Users can now create multiple personal calendar folders.
- Calendar display format is set to the 12 hour (am/pm) time.
- Improved performance throughout for mail access, calendars and contacts.
- Web Client user access is now being written to the API Logs.
- Messages can be multi-selected with the following actions
- Report as Not Spam
- Report as Spam
- Move/Copy
- Mark as Read
- Mark as Unread
- Improved timezone/DST support. User option to allow an override of the Automatically Determined Time zone. Customizable user option located within the web client under User Options > General Options > Timezone Offset.
- Lite Web Client to support mobile devices for Email, Contacts, Calendaring, Tasks and Notes.
- The New Web Client allows easier branding for customizing and displaying company logos, colors, and text.
- Easier method to create custom language files for the new web client.
- New Web Client Themes with the ability for customers to create their own themes
- New User Configurations
- New IClient.Config Settings 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 Using Web Client > Configuring “IClient.config” for the Web Client.
- Capability to disable the Web Client Forwarding of user’s email. Locate the key=”EnableForwardTo” within the “IClient.config” file.
- Customizable user option View Messages > Reading Pane Location when reading messages.
- Customizable user option View Messages > Paging Styles allowing users to define their own personal paging needs.
- Customizable user option View Messages > Number of Items Per Page allows users to define their own personal needs for the number of messages to be displayed per page.
- Customizable User Option > Contacts > Default Address Book allows users to define the contacts to display first when selecting email addresses while composing a message.
- Customizable user option View Messages > Column filtering allows users to always display the column filters, or to turn off and on as needed vis the mailbox Mail Actions.
- New user option to warn a user when sending a message without an attachment, when body of the letter uses the word attachment. Update your User Options > Composing Messages to turn this feature off.
- New user option to warn a user when sending a message without a subject. Update your User Options > Composing Messages 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 User Options > General Options (tab) > Initial Item To Display.
IMail Collaboration Client
IMail Collaboration 64-bit Client is now available to synchronize messages, contacts and appointments with Microsoft Outlook 64-bit.
IMail Configuration Export Utility
A new command prompt utility IMail Configuration Export (IMailConfigExport.exe) is now available to export all IMail registry keys. See the Web Administration Help for more details under Command Line Utilities.
- Require Password Change for the Web Client – 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.
- Allow Web Calendaring has be reworded to Enable Personal Information Management. Personal Information Management incorporates the use of Calendaring, Tasks and Notes.
List Administration – Headers and Trailers
Header.txt / Header.html and Trailer.txt / Trailer.html – New user interface has been created for the List Administration Header and Trailer messages to correctly handle all outgoing messages.Header.html and Trailer.html has been added to handle all outgoing HTML messages, and Header.txt and Trailer.txt will only be used for plain text list messages.
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.
Defect Fixes for v12
Mobile Devices
- Corrected issue with SmartForward and SmartReply, where messages were not arriving correctly, when the feature is used.
- Corrected handle leak for file watcher when .net updates are applied for Activesync®.
Web Administration
- Apostrophe used in the full name correctly functions for adding, modifying and deleting when using both SQL user database or IMail registry
- Domain Administrators will now be required to adhere to password policies set by the System Administrators when setting or resetting a user’s password.
- System Setting > Default Host – 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 group will now display correctly under the Collaboration > User > Shared Items page.
- External User Database – User Passwords previously not case sensitive has been corrected. SQL user databases will now honor case sensitive passwords.
List Administration
- 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.
Installs
- Silent Installer for Mail Client Apps x86.exe Installation for Instant Messaging Client and IMail Collaboration Client now correctly installs when running in silent mode.
- Install will no longer hang due to multiple IP addresses assigned to the NIC.
- Install will now automatically enable ASP.NET 32-bit applications when installing on a 64-bit 2003 Server.
- Upgrade Installation – Commtouch files will all be correctly updated during upgrade.
- Upgrade Installation with BitDefender will upgrade without log errors and Queue Manager service failure, due to files being improperly overwritten.
Services
- Queue Manager – DSN successful delivery notifications now successfully delivers the full headers.
- Postini – Corrected issue to allow messages to send using SSL when using Postini.
- Queue Manager – DNS lookup for recipient (remote) domains will no longer be performed when “Send All Remote Mail Through Gateway” is set.
- Queue Manager – Domain Forwarding has been corrected to work when remote gateway is configured.
- Outbound SSL Connections with Yahoo – 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.
- SMTP – Whitelist has been corrected to work for “Max Invalid Recipients Per Session” a Dictionary Attack setting.
- Queue Manager – “Helo” Banner from a remote server now correctly logs after STARTTLS.
- SMTP – Invalid users will be correctly “bounced”; will no longer connect to remote server after an550 invalid user.
- Queue Manager – 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.
- SMTP – Advanced Setting Mailbox delimiter 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.
- Queue Manager – Auto forwarded messages will now have the correct Time offset included in the header message.
- SMTP – Connection Checks – Mail From validation has been deferred to the Data command, to avoid two IMail Servers from looping with Mail From validation turned on.
- Log Manager – Control Access – Setting to “Allow All Except” will now log correctly.
Archiving
- MailArchiva – Corrected issue with spam getting through when archiving at the user level was not checked.
IMail Collaboration (WorkgroupShare)
- IMail Collaboration database users will no longer be duplicated when the reply-to address within the Console or Web Administration is modified.
- IMail Collaboration logs when activated are now correctly logging to the correct path. “..IMail\WorkgroupShare\Data\Logs”
- IMail Collaboration synchronization of recurring appointments has been corrected when setting to First Day of every one month.
Utilities
- IMail Collaboration Database Converter – 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.
- Forward Finder – 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.
- “wgscvt.exe” – Utility located under the “../IMail” directory has been updated to add new column names to handle meeting requests for the new web client.
- Adduser.exe – Corrected issue when modifying a user “-m” and “-p” is not specified, the password is left as is.
Web Client
- 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 open links in a new browser window, and not in the current preview pane.
- Spell Check now available when composing in plain text.
- Word wrapping corrected for plain text messages that would display in Outlook as one long line.
- WCorrected word wrapping issues that were happening in odd places, making some sentences longer than others. corrected for plain text
- Font Size increased for improved visibility for the address recipients of TO: CC: and BCC: when composing a new message.
- Default Contact Folder – New Web Client has new user option to set the default contact folder when composing new messages. In the Web Client go to Action > Manage User Options > Contacts.
- Calendar – Default Initial View – New Web Client has new user option to set the initial view (Day, Week, Month) when displaying calendars. In the Web Client go to Action > Manage User Options > Calendaring.
- Import Contacts from .csv or .vcf file format – Capability to Export a user’s contact information to “.csv” or “vCard” format, and import to another user’s contacts.
- Search Filters – New Web Client are can now correctly search double-byte characters in the subject and body.
- Reply To and Forwarding – No longer loses CRLF formating when using plain text messaging.
- Reply and Forward – Icons now appear as part of the message when messages are replied to or forwarded.
- IMIP Folder will no longer be created for meeting requests.
- Web Client SMTP Port Setting- New “iclient.config” setting to specify the SMTP port (default of 25) to be used for the Web Client.
- New messages composed in the Web Client can set mail priority from the Compose Option Settings.
- Safari browsers no longer will have issue where the folder tree would not display upon login.
- Safari 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 “+”.
- Contact Selection page for selecting mail recipients will no longer become unreadable from paging when composing a new message.
- Contact Selection page for selecting mail recipients when composing a new message now has search capability and no longer requires manual searching.
- Contact Auto Suggest now accesses all address books attached to user’s Web Client.
- Contacts 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.
- Shift+ Click and Ctrl+ Click now works with the checkbox user option turned on.
- Incorporating Calendars into the main navigation panel with the Web Client corrected the Calendar paging issue where no scroll bar appeared when multiple calendars existed.
- With Calendars now available on the main navigation panel, reminders for calendar appointments will work with opening the calendar.
- IE9 browsers can now handle Calendar start and stop times when creating/ updating a new appointment.
- Message folder names containing special characters 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.
- Firefox issue of sending a blank message when user has new messages set to use plain text, and then opts to switch to “HTML”.
- Firefox context menu displays correctly when right-clicking on a mail message.
- Corrected javascript error that was being thrown when using Firefox, IE7, IE8 and IE9 browsers and clicking on Move/Copy 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.
Ipswitch Instant Messaging
- 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.