With the new version of Atmail including improved support for CSS themes, we are starting a competition for the best designed CSS login page theme!

The winner will be announced on the 16th of February 2010 and will be given a free 1,000 user license of Atmail and have their theme included in future Atmail releases as the 4th choice for the default login page.

A tutorial on how to design a new CSS theme for the login page is available at: http://www.atmail.com/support/index.php/Atmail6/CustomLoginPages

To enter, create a new CSS theme for the Atmail login page (feel free to use the evaluation version for reference) and provide a URL or CSS file as a comment on the blog.

Good Luck and Great Designing!

Today we announce Atmail 6.1.3 - With new features including full LDAP and ActiveDirectory support, new login page themes, Sieve email filtering, support for PHP 5.2.12, and a host of improvements to the Admin and Webmail user interfaces including the long awaited Forward as attachment, or forward inline.

This update also includes the Zend library upgraded to the latest and includes security related patches. We recommend strongly upgrading to this version.

Test the new version using the online demo, or download a copy for your own Linux server.

New Features:

• New LDAP and Active Directory Authentication support for the email server edition - Plug Atmail into your organizations existing LDAP or directory server to authenticate user logins via POP3/IMAP, Webmail and SMTP authentication.
  
• New User Email Filtering using Sieve - Define email filters to divert messages to folders at SMTP delivery time
• New login page themes - 3 new login pages, using CSS themes
• Support for PHP 5.2.12 - Latest version of PHP 5.2.X supported
• Improved Anti-Spam engine - Catch more spam , improved URI blacklist support, Spamassassin options and runtime configuration
• New forward inline, or forward as attachment support in the Webmail UI

Improvements:

• Upgraded Zend version for security and performance
• Improved security for XSS issues using HTML purify
  
• Now indicates message flags for threaded view
• Improved malformed email address error message
• Improved blocked email address server rejection error message
• Composer: Attachments placeholder now auto grows to encapsulate the attachment descriptions
• Search - Improved DND behavior
• Improved calendar url detection
• Improved calendar uri generation for Modify Permissions pane
• Calendar Server - Removed PyKerberos requirement

Issues Fixed:

• Fixed issues with PHP 5.2.12
• Fixed many Javascript execution security issues
• Fixed Exim mysql escaping for recipient data
  
• Calendar - Fixed month view alignment on months that don’t have days on top or bottom rows
• Fixed various webmail 2 pane, 3 pane and search pane drag and drop issues
• Fixed various 3 pane preview rendering issues
• Fixed 3 pane view not displaying if search tab open
• Fixed compose pane appearing in incorrect context during search
• Fixed a small bug where i18n recipient addresses were not being processed properly, resulting in raw =?UTF8?… output or “Unknown”
• Disable threads for drafts and sent folders resolving ATMAIL-906
• Search - Fixed 3 pane when selecting a result, other results are not unselected
• Search - Fixed Select/Deselect all having no effect
• Fixed XSS vulnerability in live search
• Fixed search pane being removed if email sent from results given in that search pane

We recommend all existing customers to upgrade to the new Atmail 6.1.3. Follow the simple steps to update your install in under 5 minutes.

Due to popular demand we’re pleased to announce that the Atmail 6 Free Demo License now includes access to Atmail’s SubAdmin feature. If you install Atmail 6 and register with the Free License from today you will automatically have access to SubAdmin. If you have previously installed and registered with the Free License, then you will need to register Atmail with a new serial key. To get the new serial key follow these simple steps:

• Visit http://atmail.com/register-license.php
• scroll down to the “Free License Activation” section, enter your email address and click the button.
• Copy the serial displayed on the screen
• Login into your Atmail 6 WebAdmin and go to the License tab
• Enter the email address you submitted on the Free License Activation form into the DownloadID field and paste the serial you copied into the Serial Key field. Click “Register License” in the top right of the page.
• Logout of WebAdmin and log back in, you should now have access to the SubAdmin feature via the “Security” tab.

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version in the Atmail 5.x series. The new Atmail 5.7 release fixes several bugs and also includes several new improvements for the 5.x series. We encourage our exisiting Atmail 5.x clients who cannot yet upgrade to the Atmail 6.x series to upgrade to this latest 5 series release. This latest version in the 5 series includes upgraded SpamAssassin* for improved Spam detection, upgraded ClamAV* for improved virus removal, improved internationalization and fixes XUL display for Firefox 3.x. A comprehensive list of changes is below.

The Atmail 5.x series will continue to be developed during 2010, with an eventual end of life in January 2011, beyond which no further releases in the 5.x series will be made and a switch to the 6.x series will be necessary if you wish to continue to receive important software updates. If your Atmail 5.x license has expired and you wish to renew for one more year please visit our license renewal page.
(* Applies only to Atmail Server version)

Changelog:

• Upgraded to ClamAV 0.95.3*
• Upgraded to SpassAssassin 3.2.0*
• Improved the CSS, layout and UI elements for the Advanced interface for FF3+
• IMAP/POP3 accounts with passwords that contain quotes now supported [#1002]
• Mark as read/unread on ajax interface now supports marking multiple emails at one time [#1113]
• Default to text/plain for processing message parts with no Content-Type specified and more accurate attachment identification [#1142]
• Fixed syntax error created in TLS_CACHEFILE value when WebAdmin edits pop3d-ssl file [#1107]*
• Added –encoding=utf-8 as an arg to aspell call to avoid problems with spellchecking some multi-byte chars
• Fixed login page CSS layout issues for German language
• added onAuthStart plugin event
• fixed preferences drop down menu height for Japanese lang
• set ja_JP.UTF-8 locale if Japanese language used
• added debug flag for SQL.php, DB errors only written to apache error log if $pref[’db_debug’] = 1
• Improved language support for calendar
• Year select list on search form now dynamically created to always display most relevent date ranges
• Added japanese support to html composer
• Improved Japanese style date formatting
• Added some missing tool tips
• Added more language variables rather than using hard coded English for some strings
• Language now remembered properly by “Remember Me” function
• Added error message when a message cannot be saved
• Clicking “delete auto-reply” button now actually removes the auto-reply from the DB rather than just clearing the textarea*
• Folders now support the hash (#) character
• Calendar appointments and tasks now support the hash (#) character
• Draft messages now open correctly when using the Simple Interface [#1130]
• Detects IE8 on login page and properly pre-selects the Advanced Interface

Today we announce Atmail 6.1.2 - With new features for Subadmin users, complete integration with ArchiveVault for account provisioning, API and archive access for Subadmins.

The update also includes a new Exchange migration script for IMAP based mail & calendar data, along with performance and Webmail enhancements.

Updating from a previous Atmail 6 release? Follow the simple steps to update your install in under 5 minutes.

New Features:

• New Exchange migration scripts for IMAP based calendar data
• New Subadmin disk-space quota support. Specify how much storage a Subadmin user can allocate to users
• New Subadmin dashboard - Users can login and see their account profile at a glance, user quota, disk space quota, account details and activity via inline graphs
• New ArchiveVault integration - Subadmin level support, delegate control of a select domain to a Subadmin user with ArchiveVault permissions to view/search inbound & outbound messages for the domain

Improvements:

• Upgraded ClamAV version
• Calendar - New and modified events are given an alarm 30mins before due, allowing event notification on an iPhone or desktop client
• Calendar Server - UserStatus is now cached in the authentication table, heavily reducing sql load and increasing performance dramatically
• Calendar Server - Removed PyKerberos requirement
• Improved MIME and attachment handling
• BETA FreeBSD 7.X Support

Issues Fixed:

• Fixed sendmail detection under FreeBSD
• Fixed logo branding URL
• Abook - Fixed permissions not being correctly applied for Shared entries
• Mail - Fixed incorrect mail printed when viewing multiple emails
• Calendar - Fixed various issues with DAViCal
• Calendar - Fixed new calendars on external servers

We recommend all existing customers to upgrade to the new Atmail 6.1.2. Follow the simple steps to update your install in under 5 minutes.

ArchiveVault 1.3 is now available - The new version includes a user-interface overhaul, new Admin options, improved Lucene search index for data-mining, new API features and integration with Atmail 6.

Using ArchiveVault you can rollout a comprehensive Email-archiving and e-Discovery solution for your organization. Archive all incoming and outgoing messages from your organization. Compatible with all the popular MTA’s (qMail, Postfix, Sendmail, Exchange, etc ) and simple integration if you already use the Atmail server software.

ArchiveVault is available in an appliance or software download for Linux. See the pricing page for more details, and test-drive the online demo with example  messages archived from Enron, a perfect example why you need to implement an email-archiving policy for security and compliance!

Many of our customers are migrating from Microsoft Exchange to Atmail for the added stability, performance and reliability using Atmail under Linux. To make the migration process simplier for clients, we have created a new migration script.

A full tutorial is available at:

http://www.atmail.com/support/index.php/Atmail6/ExchangeUserMigrationGuide

Data migrated includes

• User folders
• Email messages ( All folders )
• Calendar data, exported from Outlook Vcalendar format to CalDAV ( We love open protocol calendaring, not a proprietary system like Exchange )
• User addressbooks ( Via the Atmail Websync utility )

Our mission with Atmail is to become the leading Linux messaging solution and exchange alternative - With the new migration script, switching from Windows Exchange to Atmail is made one step easier.

Today we announce Atmail 6.1.1, which includes full OSX support for Snow Leopard server. If you are an existing OSX server administrator, you can use Atmail Webmail as a replacement for the bundled Squirrelmail and offer your mail users an enhanced Webmail platform, full integration with the existing CalDAV server, and use Atmail’s stunning Web UI.

Suse Enterprise Server 11 & OpenSuse 11 are now fully supported for the server-edition of Atmail. Complete mailserver, CalDAV and Webmail client features, including dependency installation on the host server.

Included in the new 6.1.1 release is improved ArchiveVault integration via the Webadmin - Enable/Disable archiving and configure Atmail with ease.

In addition the new Atmail 6.1.1 release contains a host of new features and enhancements, these include:

New Features:

• Installer
• Native Package installer for Snow Leopard Server - Webmail edition
• Full support for Suse Server 11 / OpenSuse 11 - Server + Webmail edition
• Webadmin
• Support to enable/disable domains via the Admin panel - Disable a client or problematic domain
• Added ArchiveVault integration via the Webadmin panel - Enable/Disable archiving with ease
• Search
• New search pane, results can be either displayed in the 2 pane or 3 pane view. With pagination and sort support for results.
• Support for Apache Solr - Fulltext search and Lucene powered results via IMAP. Create a search engine for your users mail content, data mine messages better.
• Migration
• New CLI tool migrate-imap.php, for importing existing user data and folders into Atmail 6
• Core
• Added HTML Purify support into Atmail - Improves XSS detection and cleaning input from users for malicious scripts/tags via Webmail
• Added support for PHP 5.3

Improvements:

• Admin
• Improved Webadmin Relay panel for removing IPs and avoiding duplicate entries on creation
• Added Max connections per IP for the SMTP settings panel
• Websync
• Improved timezone calculation between the client and server
• Core
• Added chmod 700 permissions for folders and maildir messages for security
• Webmail
• Added standalone composer support
• Improved performance to display non threaded emails
• Control-click support in the 2-pane interface to select multiple elements to drag’n'drop
• Plain links in text emails, automatically converted to a URL to click and open in a new window/tab
• Supporting the \NoSelect flag for IMAP folders in the UI
• Improved threading code and performance
• Fixed signature appending for saved message drafts
• Changed folder count to “unread” rather then number of messages
• Added quickview for CC field when viewing messages
• Fixed session timeout for Webmail/Admin logins

We recommend all existing customers to upgrade to the new Atmail 6.1.1. Follow the simple steps to update your install in under 5 minutes.

The long awaited Outlook Websync support is now available in Atmail 6.1 released today.

You can test-drive the new release via the online demo, and download the Websync plugin to evaluate.
With the Atmail plugin, users can synchronize contacts, calendar events and tasks with the Atmail server. Atmail is one of very few products which supports a synchronization path between Outlook and open-protocol CalDAV servers.

The data synchronized is made available via the Webmail interface, allowing you to keep Outlook and Webmail in sync. Any new data created in either Outlook or the Webmail interface are synchronized together.

In addition the new Atmail 6.1 release contains a host of new features and enhancements, these include:

New features:

• Translations
• New German translation
• New Dutch translation
• Webmail
• Now supporting the IMAP thread “refs” extension - More relevant thread results are returned
• Added “Thread Limit” setting so user can restrict threads shown depending on how old they are
• New folder-tree available for IMAP folders - Collapse, expand and create sub-folders with ease
• Added ‘iPhone’ toggle button in settings to enable/disable features or settings - Improves the user-interface and usability
• Websync
• Personal data syncronization support ( Contacts, Calendar, Tasks )
• Site based download of utility binary
• Added new help menu for using Websync
• Admin
• Added “Login to Account” feature to access a users account as the administrator
• Added ability to disable a users account via the User manager

Enhancements:

• Installer
• Enhanced installer to check PHP runtime environment ( get_magic_quotes_gpc, php_admin_value declarations, basedir restrictions )
• Calendar
• Improved Tasks panel and transitions
• Ability to move appointments in month view via DND
• Now supporting the IMAP thread “refs” extension - More relevant thread results are returned
• Webmail
• Threaded emails are animated on expand/collapse
• Improved folder manager for mailbox tree and subfolders
• Improved ajax loading bar for viewing messages and switching mail views
• Improved message compose panel for usability
• Improved recipient handling for i18n and special characters
• Optimized SQL functions for high loaded systems
• Abook
• Added support to click a users email address, and automatically popup a compose tab to email the user
• Added Sync button on toolbar, which opens the Outlook Sync help guide
• Core
• Session management re-factored for the Webmail and Admin interface

Issues fixed:

• Abook
• Fixed position of Sync help button under ie7
• Fixed update error when sql strict enabled
• Fixed new entry error when sql strict enabled
• Fixed newline filter on vcf import
• Webmail
• Fixed bug with auto-creating folders for user created by 3rd party (e.g. Plesk)  method
• Fixed bug with some special chars not being encoded same as urlencode causing selector references to become corrupted
• Fixed new bug with correlation between generated filenames for unknown files (e.g. CIDs with no specified filename)
• Added workaround for iconv_mime_decode_headers() producing illegal decoded addresses
• Fixed various issues causing message view and Threading to be faulty
• Fixed HTML Entities in subject line in various places in UI
• Calendar
• Fixed new/modify/delete buttons being available on month view
• Fixed incorrect width for user emails in modify permissions pane
• Installer Now correctly finds apache2 under debian systems
• Fixed CSS positions for IE7 and JS issues
• Fixed JS error where day view attempted aligned its view before data available
• Update input box for tasks and calendar names to be consistant with UI
• Core
• On user logout now sets SessionID to 0 to support mysql strict mode
• Fixed session timeout for Webmail/Admin logins
• Fixed search and mail tab position if calendar is disabled
• Fixed sql schema to be more compatible with strict mode
• Admin
• Fixed bug in API where Password was not being parsed correctly
• Fixed blank error on duplicate subadmin create
• Improved session destroy functions for Webmail/Admin logout actions
• Improved Webadmin JS for IE7

We recommend all existing customers to upgrade to the new Atmail 6.1. Follow the simple steps to update your install in under 5 minutes.

We are thrilled to announce Atmail ( parent company Netbased Software ) has won the NSW state Export Award for Smaill Business - It’s great to receive recognition for our company efforts with exporting an Australian software product to over 4,000 clients in 75 countries. We are a 95% export based business with offices in Western Sydney, development HQ in the Sunshine Coast, and a US sales and support office.