Weekly update - Atmail 6.06 available for download

September 9, 2009

Atmail 6 Webadmin The development team of Atmail have been busy refining the new version with additional client and user feedback.

Our goal is to release weekly sub-point updates to Atmail 6 with additional features and enhancement until the new release matures. Within the next month, the weekly updates will be put on hold while we focus and develop the next killer features - Including the new Websync , SyncML support and enhanced groupware options using CalDAV.

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

This weeks updates include:

Migration:

  • Improved address-book migration and mail-relay table import from previous Atmail 5.X table schema files

New Features:

  • Added testatmail.php diagnostic script during server installation - SMTP, POP3, IMAP and Calendar services are checked for integrity post installation with an example account and user data.
  • Server installation script scans if iptables is installed and prompts the admin to open any ports required for Atmail if blocked ( SMTP, POP3, IMAP, etc )
  • Added support for the latest PHP 5.3

Improvements:

  • Admin
  • Improved Calendar server logging in the Webadmin Dashboard
  • Improved installation of SSL keys during server installation for POP3/IMAP
  • Calendar Server/Client
  • Fixed shared user deletion when delegating calendars via the Webmail interface
  • Fixed invalid relative href being returned on duplicate folder creation
  • Can now enable and disable calendar service via the Webadmin interface
  • Webmail Client
  • Improved contacts interaction with Javascript and jQuery for adding and removing elements from a contact

Bugs Fixed:

  • Admin
  • User deletion now removes mail and calendar directories
  • Webmail
  • Now correctly renders preview with multibyte characters
  • Now handles internal failures to parse some UFT-8 address lists

Keep posted on our blog for next weeks update, which will include LDAP authentication for the server-mode version, further Webmail enhancements and new Web-admin options.


Filed under: Frontpage — Ben Duncan @ 6:02 am

8 Comments »

  1. Hi,

    I know the atmail team are working really hard refining the new version. But do you know when hosted@mail customers will get the upgrade.

    Thank you.

    Comment by Wayne Harrison — September 10, 2009 @ 12:24 am

  2. email rules are very necessary, when do you plan to include it?

    Comment by Gentian — September 11, 2009 @ 9:03 am

  3. Issues during installation include constant error :

    PHP Notice: Undefined index: domain in /usr/local/atmail/server-install.php on line 1498

    and other errors like Undefined adminpass, etc. etc.

    This was not the case earlier release of 6 (Fresh install).

    Side note - for those who cant run the calendar server, how about giving them (us) the old calendar as an option that we had in Atmail 5.x

    Comment by Shivam — September 11, 2009 @ 9:00 pm

  4. @Gentian - We’ll include the new email-rules interface in Atmail 6.0.9, ETA one month from now.

    We are leaning towards using Sieve rules for the mail-server edition, so messages can be routed at SMTP time into a desired folder or action, rather then the Webmail client moving the message.

    Comment by Ben Duncan — September 11, 2009 @ 9:04 pm

  5. @Shivam - For the PHP notices, these are not errors are do not effect the installation, just PHP warnings about an undeclared variable. We’ll remove these on the next patch, however it will not effect an installation.

    For the new Calendar we use CalDAV now, not the older Atmail 5 Calendar format in MySQL. We have no plans at this time to use the old format, we are sticking to using open-protocols for Calendaring data.

    Installing the Calendar server is easy however, so I recommend you give it a go on your server.

    Comment by Ben Duncan — September 11, 2009 @ 9:06 pm

  6. @Ben,

    Good choice about Sieve.

    Comment by Atif Ghaffar — September 12, 2009 @ 7:49 am

  7. Still waiting on:
    • Multiple Accounts Creation
    • Email Rules
    • Folder Management

    Can’t really roll out as ISP until we have these features. Any ETA on these (I saw email rules, but what about the other two?)

    Also is contact notes field synch included now?

    Thanks
    Artie

    Comment by artie chang — September 14, 2009 @ 8:08 am

  8. Fantastic new update this is. Mailing needed this kind of facility. Thanx for the post.

    Comment by r4 revolution — September 28, 2009 @ 10:37 pm

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