Power to your Outlook - Atmail 6.1.6 released

March 18, 2010

Today we announce Atmail 6.1.6 - With exciting new features such as shared WebSync support, new login theme, new plugin framework and admin management.

Atmail 6 now includes Shared/Group Synchronization Support of your Atmail calendar and address book to MS Outlook via a reworked WebSync. The new Websync has improved support for CalDAV calendars via Atmail with all personal and shared calendars available inside Outlook. This represents a large leap in plugin functionality for WebSync and it means that Atmail 6 is a excellent solution for Exchange/Groupware installations.

You may have an iPhone with a subscribed calendar from Atmail that you shared with your sales team. You have an incredible lead and need your team to attend, how do you organize this? Simple! Create an event on your iPhone, and users of outlook will be able to have this synced directly to their account, using CalDAV and the updated MAPI plugin for Atmail.

WebSync features a permission model based on the users group or site-wide. Allowing ISPs to delegate control of users to share data within their domain/group only.


Plugin framework - welcome to the new framework for developers

Extend Atmail with ease - Create plugins in Atmail to extend any functionality; helpers to expand message views, content, address book, calendar, admin, login/logout functions and more. New API and developer functions now included in 6.1.6

As announced on our blog, this release contains the CSS competition winning login theme. Congratulations to http://xonet.ru/atmail/ - Take a minute to browse just how easy it is to customize Atmail’s branding - http://www.atmail.com/support/index.php/Atmail6/CustomLoginPages

New Features:

  • WebSync shared/group support.
  • New login theme based on xonet.
  • New plugin framework.
  • Admin plugin management.

Improvements:

  • Large focus on the Webmail client with more refining of the user-interface, interactions and cross browser support
  • Improved Internet Explorer 7/8 support
  • Improved Atmail 5 configuration migration
  • Removed deprecated split() use in install/tools

Issues Fixed:

  • Fixed license seats calculation
  • Fixed session breaks on very large folder lists
  • Now saves language on sign-in page
  • Initial mail server startup permissions fixed
  • Fixed UI if php-gd or imagemagik unavailable
  • Fixed attachments with %252 in the name
  • Domain/groups now support UTF8
  • Various subadmin bugs fixed
  • Fixed various receipt rendering bugs
  • Fixed webmail only attempting to create local maildir
  • Fixed forwarded blind copies not rendering attachments

We recommend all existing customers to upgrade to the new Atmail 6.1.6. Follow the simple steps to update your install in under 5 minutes.

Questions? Contact us via our web-form


Filed under: Product News, Frontpage, Atmail 6 — brett @ 4:25 am

18 Comments »

  1. I’m impressed with the Atmail dev-team’s input for the new Websync and shared CalDAV support - Well done team!

    Comment by Ben Duncan — March 18, 2010 @ 4:31 am

  2. Any chance for a OSX client for syncing contacts?

    Comment by Tomislav — March 18, 2010 @ 6:55 am

  3. @Tomislav - For Atmail 6.2 we will include CardDAV support, allowing OSX to use the Addressbook server directly for contact data. The next major iPhone release will include CardDAV support also, allowing you to sync contacts on your phone via native protocols.

    In the meantime, the new 6.1.6 version has the updated Outlook plugin for shared, global, and personal contacts in Atmail.

    Enjoy!

    Comment by Ben Duncan — March 18, 2010 @ 9:46 pm

  4. When will the calendar start to support reoccurring events? Great news on the outlook plugin!

    Comment by Paul Cahill — March 19, 2010 @ 10:50 am

  5. Is the documentation for the plugin framework widely available?

    Comment by Bill Foss — March 19, 2010 @ 11:15 am

  6. @Bill - The documentation for the plugin feature is available at http://www.atmail.com/support/index.php/Atmail6/CreatingPlugins - We will further extend the documentation soon, in the meantime you can find 2 example plugins shipped with Atmail that will give you a real-world example on how the framework functions

    Comment by Ben Duncan — March 19, 2010 @ 2:38 pm

  7. @Paul - For recurring events, this is currently supported in the CalDAV server we use. For the WebUI frontend, we will add the feature to set and manage recurring patterns in v6.2

    Comment by Ben Duncan — March 19, 2010 @ 2:38 pm

  8. What about RTL (right to left ) layout of web mail on languages as Arabic or Hebrew ?

    Comment by kerncore — March 20, 2010 @ 12:53 am

  9. @kerncore - For Arabic and Hebrew support, you can translate the entire Atmail Webmail and Admin interfaces by following the guide at:

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

    For RTL support, you can add this to the BODY tag and the entire UI will function as expected.

    We have a partial translation of Atmail in Arabic from an existing client; we hope to have this merged into the next major version of Atmail, 6.2

    Comment by Ben Duncan — March 20, 2010 @ 7:25 pm

  10. To : Duncan

    I mean right side of layout, not just direction.
    See example of correct layout for Hebrew/Arabic languages.

    Or see the screen shot
    http://tinypic.com/r/3166trp/5
    http://i44.tinypic.com/3166trp.jpg

    Possible to do this in @Atmail ?

    Comment by kerncore — March 21, 2010 @ 1:53 am

  11. @kerncore - Yes, Atmail can support Hebrew and RTL encoding

    If you follow the translation guide, create a Hebrew translation, and set RTL in the header of the UI. Then, the UI will work as expected!

    We have previous clients who have done this for their local install, your welcome to translate Atmail into Hebrew and provide to Atmail. In return, we can give you a 50% discount on your purchase.

    Details at:

    http://atmail.com/blog/2009/50-translation-discount-for-atmail-6/

    Comment by Ben Duncan — March 21, 2010 @ 5:07 pm

  12. Hi Duncan

    I have already read the documentation (Customization Guides)
    http://www.atmail.com/support/index.php/Site/Atmail6Customization

    According to your guide i’ve added RTL and CLASS = “he” in the header, does not display div’s “secondary”,”action”, “header” to right side, and div’s “primary_content” and “primary_header” to left side.

    We need “mirror-like” view for contacts link, inbox/outbox/drafts panel, tags, titles, buttons. Meaning all should be placed on the right instead of on the left.

    Email editor and Calendar should have support for BiDi entry (RTL/LTR )

    Current status of ATMail as I’m understand, is not BiDi aware, terms of:
    • Message composition,
    • Other input boxes (contact details, calendar events, etc…)
    • UI customization not BiDi enabled
    (UI structured left-to-right, captions cannot be made RTL aware.)

    Could you please send me a screen shot of the operational UI in Hebrew/Arabic that you’ve mention to have?

    Thanks in advance,

    Comment by kerncore — March 22, 2010 @ 3:10 am

  13. @kerncore - For RTL support, you will need to extend this for each DIV/element required.

    Note, we have made this really easy to extend *ANY* element in the UI via css/lang.css - Simply identify the BODY.he ( hebrew ) and RTL/extend each element required.

    You don’t need to edit any templates or touch the core of Atmail, just the CSS and language translation file

    Should you need any further help, send your partial Hebrew translation to devteam [at] staff.atmail.com and we can assist.

    Comment by Ben Duncan — March 22, 2010 @ 3:15 am

  14. Do you have any plans for WebSync to support Outlook 2010? Is, when do you plan to release it?

    Comment by Greg — March 23, 2010 @ 1:03 pm

  15. still no german umlauts in autoresponders?

    Comment by hans dorfff — March 24, 2010 @ 1:40 am

  16. @Greg - Yes once Outlook 2010 is released, we will be supporting this with Websync 100%.

    Outlook 2010 is still in BETA and not available to the general public.

    Comment by Ben Duncan — March 24, 2010 @ 6:09 pm

  17. @hans - We support UTF-8 characters for the auto-responder, this is set in the Exim configure as the content-type.

    Check your MySQL UserSettings.* table is in UTF-8, I would suspect this is your local issue.

    Comment by Ben Duncan — March 24, 2010 @ 6:09 pm

  18. What’s the time line for a 6.2 release with all the mobile features?

    Comment by Joel — April 9, 2010 @ 3:20 pm

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