What's New in IMail Server 10.01

Command Line Installation with Advanced Options for IMail Server. Designed as a method to allow silent installations on multiple computers that share similar configurations for new IMail Server installations only. See Command Line Installation, or the IMail Admin Help under Command Line Utilities > Installing with Advanced Command Line Options

Important: This command line utility will currently not work for repairs or upgrades. It was designed for new installations only.

Note: Activation on multiple computers will require multiple serial numbers.

New Web Calendar Features

  • Calendar Meeting Requests can now be created using the new web messaging calendar. Currently these requests can only be responded to (Accept, Decline) with Outlook. We are still in the process of creating the capability for these requests to work in the Web Client. This new feature allows a user to send request e-mails to attend a meeting or event, with capability to automatically update their calendar depending on their response.
  • 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 do not have their DayLight Savings checkbox set (manual clock setting), and are in a Time Zone that uses Day Light Savings will have problems with their appointment conversions, when Day Light Savings turns on or off.

      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.

New WorkgroupShare Release (IMail Premium Only). A new release of WorkgroupShare version 2.3 from Softalk, Ltd., will be released with IMail Server Premium v10.01. WorkgroupShare 2.3 Release Notes.

Message archiving is now available as an additional feature. IMail Server has added new user-interface to support new options for archiving. After successful installation of your archiving choice, go to IMail Web Administration System > System Settings to enable these settings.

What's New in IMail 10.0: http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20080327-NO01.htm

Defect Fixes and Improvements for V10

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-KF02.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-20080626-JH02.htm
Revision Date: 06/26/2008