8/20/15 - SmarterMail Upgrade to version 14.2.5704

We will be performing a software upgrade to SmarterMail, the hosted mail solution provided as part of your VCG email and website hosting solution, on Saturday, August 22, 2015.

The work is scheduled during the off-peak hours of 12:30am - 3:00am, CST.

The upgrade will bring the hosted mail server to the latest version of SmarterMail (version 14.2.5704), and contains several fixes as well as feature additions. Details regarding this upgrade can be found below. Please note that your server instance may not include all of the details provided in this list (complete details can be found at http://www.smartertools.com/smartermail/releasenotes/v14.aspx).

You may lose email access during this period, however, no email data will be lost during the upgrade. You may also experience some slight delays in sending or receiving mail immediately following the completion of the work. All email will, however, be successfully transmitted (including mail sent to you during the upgrade period).

This upgrade is part of our ongoing commitment to provide best-in-class service and support.

If you have any questions about this update, please contact VCG Client Support.

SmarterMail version 14.2.5704 Release Notes

Added

• A menu option under Actions to retrieve the CalDAV URLs to use for the users personal calendars.
• A temporary address can now be generated by users with a short life span that operates as an alias to their account. This is to allow sign ups to external services without giving out the account's real email address.
• A user can now set which calendar is the default to use when creating new appointments.
• An instance of a recurring calendar event can now be deleted from the context menu.
• An option for external domains on whether messages should deliver locally or remotely if the user account exists locally.
• An option to toggle between overlaying multiple selected calendars, contacts, tasks or notes collections in a combined view versus displaying one at a time.
• CalDAV now supports syncing multiple calendars.
• Calendar events can now be marked as private.
• Calendar events can now be moved between personal calendars.
• Calendars can now be created, removed and renamed using CalDAV clients that support those operations.
• Categories for a user's Contacts are now included when exporting to CSV and can be imported from CSV.
• Contacts, Tasks and Notes now allow multiple collections to be viewed at the same time.
• Deleting email folders in either an email client or webmail will now have their associated folder on disk removed as well. Orphaned folders from earlier releases of SmarterMail will be cleaned up automatically.
• Domain conference rooms can now be selected to view on the calendar page.
• Domain location settings can now be set using the API.
• Dropbox is now available as a connected service allowing links to Dropbox files in email messages.
• Editing a recurring event now displays the series instance's start and end dates.
• Grids now support multi-selection on Apple Mac browsers by holding down the command key.
• ICS files can now be imported into SmarterMail calendars.
• IMAP authentication now supports Cram-MD5.
• Message Sniffer is now available as an antispam add-on.
• Microsoft OneDrive is now available as a connected service allowing links to OneDrive files in email messages.
• Migrating contacts from google now import a larger set of contact fields including multiple email addresses.
• Migrating Gmail contacts now maps the Notes field to the Additional Info field of a SmarterMail contact.
• Migrating Google calendars now migrates all calendars from a Google account.
• Multiple calendars can now be added to a single account.
• Multiple calendars can now be viewed together in a combined view, which color codes events from the different calendars.
• Multiple personal calendars are now supported in the mobile interface.
• Multiple personal calendars can now be synced using SharePoint sync (Add to Outlook).
• New mailing list variables to display current dates and times based on either the moderator, domain or servers time zone.
• Option in Account Settings to automatically mark messages filtered to the Junk E-mail folder as read.
• Option to mark a domain as external and have messages to that domain sent either to the domain's MX record or to a specified host address. (Ent Only)
• Private calendar events now function correctly for iOS devices that sync using CalDAV.
• SmarterMail is now compliant with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS).
• SMTP Accounts has been added to the Features tab in domain settings, allowing them to be enabled or disabled per domain.
• Tasks can now be imported from Gmail.
• The ActiveSync users grid for both system and domain administrators now includes a column for the users last sync date and time.
• The automatic notification email for when an account has exceeded it's size limit can now be customized.
• The My Today Page now displays appointments for all calendars in a user's account.
• The reminders popup now displays items for all calendars in a user's account.
• The webmail function that turns URLs into links now include extensions of .br, .it, .edu and .web.
• Unsubscribe links for mailing lists can now be given friendly text instead of just displaying the unsubscribe URL.
• User availability now includes all calendars in the users account.

Changed

• Blocked senders will now block on the From address in the header of the message, in addition to the Mail From address given in the SMTP session. Previously it only blocked on the Mail From address of the SMTP session.
• Messages sent over SMTP to postmaster@[domain] will now deliver to the primary domain admin and the global postmaster address if a postmaster account has not been created for the target domain.
• Migrating the same Google calendar twice will now overwrite the previously migrated events instead of creating duplicates.
• Queued mailbox migrations now import using multiple threads.
• RSS Feed items can now be edited via the right click context menu.
• The background task to delete stray files generated for web mail operations now only runs between 1 and 2 AM.
• The maximum threads allowed for spam checks has been increased from 50 to 150.
• The mobile interface titles now show the specific folder or collection the user is in.
• Time zone information now utilizes the built-in system registry time zone information instead of an external file.
• Variables for custom mailing list subscriber fields are now case insensitive.

Efficiency

• Deleting a large number of items from the IP blacklist or whitelist is now much faster.
• The load time of the monthly calendar view is now much faster.
• The loading of the reminders popup window is now much faster for users with a large number of calendar events.

Fixed

• A meeting request that was declined now properly shows that it was declined in webmail.
• A recipient address formatted with a quoted username containing a certain sequence of characters will no longer cause high CPU during the SMTP session.
• A scenario that could cause an error page when viewing domain users.
• A scenario where an all-day event spanning multiple days could show a day earlier in webmail.
• A scenario where an IMAP connection could get dropped when doing a Gmail migration has been resolved.
• Accepting a meeting request in webmail that contains an exception event no longer sends multiple acceptance emails to the organizer.
• All day appointments synced using SharePoint sync now display on the correct date.
• All day appointments that span multiple days now show correctly in the mobile interface.
• An event cancellation email now displays correctly in webmail.
• Attendees will no longer receive a cancelled appointment email when an organizer deletes a past event.
• Availability times displayed in webmail are now correct.
• Calendar events for certain types of time zones now sync times correctly when using Outlook 2013 and Exchange ActiveSync.
• Calendar events now show correct times in the mobile interface.
• Calendar events that are at midnight in UTC time now display on the correct day in webmail and also sync to the correct date using SharePoint sync.
• Deleting an item from the Appointments or Messages tabs when viewing a contact now properly hides the buttons from the tabs that are not selected.
• Deleting multiple contacts from an address book shared from another user now functions correctly.
• DMARC verification now only fails if both the SPF and DKIM checks fail to verify, per RFC.
• Doing a search after scrolling through contacts in webmail now correctly displays the search results.
• Domains with login page customizations now function correctly when the webmail url contains one or more prefixes before the domain name.
• Downloading all attachments from webmail when one of the attachments is winmail.dat now functions correctly.
• Exporting contacts to a CSV file no longer adds an extra empty field to the item rows which could cause issues when importing that file.
• Gmail email migration now functions correctly when one or more Gmail labels contain characters that are not allowed in Window's folder names.
• Having two or more email folders with names of single digit numbers are now displayed correctly in webmail.
• IMAP search now handles search commands with multiple levels of parenthesized lists correctly.
• iOS devices now sync correctly using CalDAV.
• Mailing list moderators that are not domain administrators can now access their mailing lists.
• Messages displayed in the mobile interface now wrap text when the length of a line exceeds the width of the display.
• Migrating contacts from Gmail now functions correctly.
• My Today event links now properly open the event details window.
• Propagating the Mailbox Size Limit user default field to all domains or a specified domain now functions correctly.
• Recurring calendar events created before DST now adjust properly in webmail after the DST time change.
• Secondary calendars can now be deleted successfully for accounts using a non-English language.
• Selecting all contacts or tasks and then deselecting some items now functions correctly when deleting from those collections.
• Syncing iOS devices using CalDAV will no longer create a new user calendar for each task.
• The action "Send VCard(s)" now functions correctly for the Global Address List.
• The Antispam Administration page's Filtering tab fields now save correctly.
• The attendees hyperlink is no longer displayed in webmail for meetings where the user is not the organizer.
• The button to hide / show the email folders in webmail now functions correctly after adjusting the divider between the message list and message preview sections.
• The calendar page in webmail now functions correctly for users with permissions to view one or more newly created domain level calendars.
• The date and time input fields can no longer be edited when viewing a read-only appointment.
• The delete button when editing a note now function correctly.
• The drag and drop functionality of email in web mail is now disabled when the folder list is collapsed.
• The Global Address List now syncs correctly using Sharepoint syncing.
• The Login Display Customization feature is now checked or unchecked according to the domain default settings when adding a new domain.
• The Message Sniffer engine is now shut down properly when the SmarterMail service is stopped.
• The mobile interface now shows the email messages times in the user's time zone.
• The system level trusted sender description field can now be edited.
• The web interface no longer needs to be refreshed to function properly after activating a new license.
• TLS 1.2 is now fully supported for both incoming and outgoing connections.
• Two scenarios within the mobile interface where downloading an attachment could fail.
• Users are no longer able to add an appointment to a shared read-only calendar using the mobile interface.
• Users with certain foreign (non-English) languages set as Internet Explorer default language can now view existing or create new calendar events without JavaScript errors.
• Users with read-only permissions to a shared calendar can no longer delete appointments from that calendar on the All Appointments tab.
• Using the select all action on contacts now selects the correct subset of contacts when a category filter is applied.

Removed

• All day appointments no longer display times in webmail.
• The five-ten RBL check is no longer included as part of the default RBL checks for either spam filtering or server blacklist checks.