New features are now available in Atmail 6.0.9. This includes additional features ported from Atmail 5, and further enhancements to the Admin and Webmail interfaces.

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Atmail 6.0.9 marks an important milestone in the release cycle - We now have all the core administration features ported from Atmail 5, and have further refined the Webmail interface from client feedback. The current codebase is further enhanced and stable - We recommend existing customers make the switch to the new version and start enjoying the new interface and feature-set.

New Features:

• Admin
• Subadmin now has the ability to define and manage email aliases at their domain(s)
• Webadmin now includes a Mail-relay feature to manage SMTP access. Includes the ability to define IP subnets via the Webadmin, no need to edit the Exim configure file directly!
• Groupware
• Domain based groupware now available. Users can view the GAL and shared calendar, only to users at the login domain. Site-wide groupware also available
• Calendar Client
  
• New permission interface to assign a shared calendar to other users on the system. Includes auto-complete lookup.
• Webmail Client
  
• New attachment upload support for the quick-reply feature
• New inline attachment support in message view panel
• Added ability to search Global and Shared address-books via the Webmail interface
• Expanded email options with Print, Download Email and View header options

Improvements:

• Core
• Removed unused jQuery plugins
• Improved installer for Ubuntu and Suse Linux compatibility
• Improvements in Webmail and Admin panel for IE
• Mail
• Added larger more descriptive attachment icons
• Improved compose panel to automatically expand to the window height
• Fixed various issues for rendering Webmail in IE7
• API
• Expanded the API functions with Aliases support
• Revised internals so that API model no longer uses exceptions for errors but instead returns array resulting in same structured XML REST response
• Calendar Server/Client
• New line support for Subject/Location
• Rewrite of calendar action binding
• All CalDAV encoding has been re-factored
• New calendar colors
• Calendar UI more consistent
• Now tracks container E-Tag on the fly, rather then reloading via the server
• Sped up refresh code and realignment code
• Significantly better event focus code
• Improved IE7 support for the Calendar
• Over 20 additional optimizations for Calendar interface, addressing performance, CalDAV responses and usability
• Migration
• Added checksum that existing database has been correctly upgraded to v5.62 schema, before running the Atmail 6 migration script.
• Fixed User-quota migration to MB for the new database schema

The next major update of Atmail , version 6.1 will include the last core features clients have been requesting. Atmail Websync working against the new CalDAV and Address-book backend, and LDAP support for authentication of local users. This will be available early to mid November 2009.