What's New in IMail Server 10

Product: Imail
Version: 10

Question: What's New in IMail Server 10?

Answer: The following changes and improvements are now available in IMail 10:

  •          Ipswitch has designed its own Digital Rights Management tool to protect licensing and to secure delivery for all Messaging software. It will require a new method of activation of all users, whether upgrading from an older version or installing new.

    Ipswitch's new DRM will replace HASP from Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Inc. from IMail Server V10 forward.

    Note: Please visit MyIpswitch.com for more information on managing licenses, and customer assistance.

    Note: All previous IMail versions will continue to work and run using HASP from Aladdin.

  •          New Low Bandwidth Web Client - A new Web Messaging Lite client was created to allow users with low-bandwidth (dial-up) capability for quicker access to their mailbox. Users can access this new client through the same standard web messaging login screen, by checking the new option "Use Web Messaging Lite". This new client does not have all the features of the standard web client, so as to keep the bandwidth as light as possible. Some features that cannot be accessed are Rules, Contact Groups, Search and Auto Suggest. See your IMail Admin Help under Using IMail Web Messaging > Low Bandwidth Web Messaging Lite for more details.

  •          New "Check All" Preference Setting (Web Messaging Lite Only). This setting, "Check All" will check all items across all pages in a mail folder. This feature controls checkboxes on a current page or checkboxes for all messages in the mailbox folder.

  •          When this feature is checked, the "Check All" will mark all messages in the mailbox folder.

  •          When this feature is unchecked, the "Check All" will check only the messages on the current page.

    Tip: Checkboxes Now Available for Standard Web Client and Web Messaging Lite

  •          New Message Display Checkbox Preference Setting. By popular demand checkboxes for message selection/deletion has been implemented. For users that prefer the checkbox selection method a new option setting in Preferences > Viewing Tab can be checked. Please note the following:

  •          All new users by default will have the display checkbox preference turned on.

  •          For existing users who have an existing preferences.config (saved users preferences) file, the checkbox option will be turned off.

  •          For existing users that have never saved their preferences, they will be treated as a new user with the checkbox option turned on.

    Important: "Check All" checkbox for the Standard Web Client will only apply to the currently displayed page.

    Note: Checkboxes require more space to display, hence fewer messages per page are displayed.

  •          New Web Calendar for Web Client - New web client calendar will provide a new web interface to allow scheduling tasks and appointments, that will work together with WorkgroupShare database. WorkgroupShare (IMail Premium Only) allows sharing of other user calendars, or public calendars.

    Calendar Upgrades

  •          A link to the old web calendar will still be available in the Web Client. This link (located in the upper right corner of the Web Client) will only display as long as the Web Calendar Service is running. The new Web Calendar uses the WorkgroupShare databases and does not require services.

  •          Calendar conversion utility. CalConvert.exe utility exists under IMail directory to allow the conversion of the old web calendar to the new WorkgroupShare database.

    Warning: Client computers that have invalid timezone settings will have problems with their appointment conversions.

    Note: The new Web Calendar for the Web Client requires no services.

    Tip: For reminders to work properly, be sure that your pop-up blocker is turned off.

  •          Web Client Impersonation by System Administrator - System Administrators have the capability to access users web mail and preferences within the IMail Server. See your IMail Admin Help under Using IMail Web Messaging > User Impersonation by System Administrator for more details.

  •          User Password Complexity Setting - System Administrators now have the capability to control the complexity of user password settings. These settings can be controlled in the User Login Settings in Domain Properties. These password levels are controlled in the Web Client when a user changes their password in preferences. See your IMail Admin Help under Mail Domain (Host) Configuration > Domain Properties for more details.

  •          Account Suspension from Failed Logins (Web Messaging Only) - Account will now be suspended if the user fails to login with the correct User ID and password. The actual suspension of the account is dependent on the User Login Settings in Domain Properties. When a user is suspended due to unsuccessful login attempts, they will receive a message on the login page saying "Your account access has been suspended".

  •          Domain Forwarding is now available in the Web Admin under Services > SMTP > Domain Forwarding. The Web Admin will allow domain names to be forwarded to another designated IP address.

  •          Message Encoding (User Preference Setting) for users can now be controlled by the System Administrator at the user level (User Properties) or domain level (Global User Changes).

    Message Encoding options were added to the following Web Admin pages:

  •          User Properties page,

  •          User Default Settings,

  •          User Utilities > Global User Changes.

  •          New User Interface for Contacts display. Redesigned with the following new features:

  •          New search feature to simplify finding a user.

  •          New sort capability by clicking on titles: Display Name and Email Address

  •          Contacts are now displayed one per line.

  •          New capability for multiple deletions.

  •          Telephone display on Contacts List page when present.

  •          New User Interface for Standard Web Client User Preferences. Preferences are now split into tab sections, for easier visibility.

  •          New User Interface for Creating/Editing Contacts. Creating / Editing contacts are now split into tab sections for easier visibility.

    Defect Fixes and Improvements

    Install Upgrades

    Installations that have converted their WorkgroupShare and Personal Contacts from Access to SQL or SQLExpress prior to IMail V10 must be sure that the following registry key exists and is set as follows before upgrading:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Softalk\WorkgroupShare\Setup

    DBType

    REG_DWORD

    0x00000001 (1)

    Warning: This registry key setting, if missing, during upgrade will reset WorkgroupShare DB back to Access.

    Note: Please refer to the following KB for more information on converting WorkgroupShare Access DB to SQL or SQLExpress: http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20070802-KF01.htm

    Web Administration

  •          Global User Changes now works correctly for external ODBC User database.

  •          Full Name, Vacation Message and Information Manager (Auto Responder) are now internationalized and can handle foreign characters. The Web Admin will now correctly display all foreign character sets, for the three User Preference settings in the web client.

  •          Dictionary Attack settings will now be skipped for users that are using SMTP Auth.

  •          Fixed issue of Domain Administrator not honoring Default User Mailbox Size settings when adding a user.

  •          List Administrator page will now display the associated Owner and Administrator for each list, with sort capability for each column.

  •          Default Host under System Settings will no longer receive "Bad Socket State" in web messaging when the Domain Name(OHN) does not match.

  •          Dirty IP setting under Premium Filter has been changed to take "No Action" during new installation. Previously setting was using "Take the same action as spam".

    Services

  •          SMTP. Issues of services crashing due to high volume logging has been fixed.

  •          Queue Manager. Fixed issue on Japanese OS where forwarding to a list would change encoding for the body of the message from UTF-8 to JIS.

  •          SMTP. Fixed issue where Web Client would not work when SMTP AUTH was disabled.

  •          SMTP. Fixed issue where a UserID beginning with a hyphen was not being rejected when using IMail User Database.

  •          IMonitor. IMonitor has been removed to improve IMail performance. IMonitor produced many false positives and caused many other problems. For replacement ideas for IMonitor see the following KB: http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20071220-JH01.htm

    Web Client

  •          Personal Contact groups will now correctly delete a selected contact from a group.

  •          Public Contacts created in WorkgroupShare (IMail Premium) can now properly create and edit groups.

  •          Plain text email will now print in a larger font that is easier to read. Was increased from font size 8 to 10.

  •          Login page will now clear all session variables when it first loading.

  •          Fixed issue of Username containing an apostrophe not being able to reply to messages.

  •          Fixed issue of Japanese named files not displaying correctly.

  •          Updated Branding document for customizing the Web Messaging Client to include assistance for Web Messaging Lite Client branding. http://docs.ipswitch.com/_Messaging/IMailServer/v10/PDF/BrandingV10.pdf

  •          Updated document for Creating A New Language Resource File, which has new Strings.resx file that includes the new Web Messaging Lite Client and Calendar. http://docs.ipswitch.com/_Messaging/IMailServer/v10/PDF/CreateLanguageFileV10.pdf

    Install

  •          Now is assigning IUSR_machine-name Full control to SofTalk registry key.

  •          When IIS 6 is detected separate Application Pools will be created.

  •          IMail Premium - Path for the installation of Instant Messaging is now correctly placed in the proper folder.

  •          Fixed the Start menu shortcut to correctly recognize IMail Servers that are not using the default web-site in IIS.

     

    Document #: IM-20080327-NO01.htm
    Revision Date: 03/27/2008