Today we are proud to announce the release of Atmail 6.2.0

In this release we have a startling array of new features and capabilities with our updated Push support for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, Android and Windows Mobile devices. Full PUSH support for email, calendar and contact data with full compatibility of the ActiveSync protocol licensed from Microsoft. v6.2 also includes a new HTML editor, Webadmin verbose log feature, mass-mail features via the Webmail UI and a host of improvements and optimizations.

Read the full changelog for details on the new features and enhancements. Experience a live copy of Atmail 6.2 via the online demo and test-drive ActiveSync support by configuring your mobile-phone with the online demo.

Interested to purchase? View packages available with ActiveSync licensing via the online store or upgrade/renew your existing Atmail version with ActiveSync support!

Since releasing Atmail with the plugin framework, the software opens up a world of developer opportunity to create mashups & plugins for new services.

A new plugin launched is MailTube - A plugin which scans email messages for YouTube links and automatically embeds a player in the Atmail UI. Users can click’to’play within the Webmail interface, without having to open YouTube in a new browser or tab.

Developers wishing to explore the plugin API of Atmail can learn more from the developer guide. We welcome developers to create new plugins and experiment with mashups ideas, please share your plugin ideas as a comment on the blog.

Test-drive? Login to the Atmail 6 demo and view the sample message which demonstrates the new plugin. If you already have an Atmail 6 license download and install the plugin.

Enjoy

Introducing the new Atmail appliance range. The Atmail Mini, Base, Pro and Multi-server appliance is now available with a new hardware architecture and optimized for Atmail 6.

The Atmail appliance is a complete turn-key hardware solution for your Email-server, Webmail, Calendaring, Groupware and overall messaging platform. The system takes the complexity out of maintaining and supporting a messaging solution for your organization.

Mini Model

An affordable small-business appliance with support between 25-150 users. Starting at just $1,495 the Atmail Mini appliance can replace your ageing hardware with a simple 1U appliance. Plug’n'Deploy messaging platform out of the box.

Base Model

Suitable for small to medium sized deployments of up to 10,000 active users, the Base model appliance includes redundant hard-disks, faster processor and up to 2TB of storage. The Base Appliance is a mid-level system for redundancy and performance.

Pro Model

A power-house for corporate and large deployments with up to 20,000 active users, the Pro model appliance includes an inbuilt SSD drive for the OS and Atmail software, dramatically increasing performance. User data is replicated between two drives for redundancy and failover protection. The Pro model is ideal for larger installations that require an added level of performance.

Multi-Server Model

Suited for large scale ISP and Telecommunications deployments with up to 100,000 active users, the model includes 3 Pro Appliances setup and optimised for a multi-server cluster. Designed for larger deployments and mission critical services that require multiple servers, redundancy and breakthrough performance.

Each appliance includes the Atmail software pre-installed with a fully-transparent upgrade path, Linux OS optimized for Atmail security & performance, 1 year warranty for hardware and affordable shipping worldwide.

We are offering a limited 10% discount on the total price of our Atmail Appliance and software packages until the end of July. To explore your pricing and package options, please view: Atmail Store

Atmail will be exhibiting at HostingCon 2010 from July 19th through the 21st in Austin Texas. HostingCon is the largest gathering of hosted services professionals in the world. The Atmail team will be focusing attention on its premium webmail client for hosting providers, ISPs and communication carriers. The new Atmail S-Class Email Server Appliance will be on display in the Atmail booth and we will be showcasing partner offerings, as well as participating in multi-vendor promotions. If you are planning to attend HostingCon, please stop by and see us in booth 433.

A bit of info from HostingCon’s sponsor: “HostingCon is celebrating its Sixth Anniversary, and with a projected attendance of over 1,500 Internet professionals from over 30 countries, the 2010 show promises to be the best yet. Located in the state-of-the-art Austin Convention Center, HostingCon 2010 is positioned to deliver the newest insights, practical knowledge and relevant connections to help you compete and win in tomorrow’s changing environment. This year, we have worked even harder to develop an event that puts you on track to build valuable relationships and to develop a strategic mindset for the future.”

We look forward to meet new customers and existing clients at HostingCon this year!

With this release, we focused mainly on fixing issues raised and revising code to make the calendar UI and backend faster to use.
The calendar server has a patch with this release specifically focusing on scalability and migration speed.

One of the big calendar improvements is a new multi-threaded migration script which significantly improves total migration time for large Atmail 5 datasets.

New Features:

• Calendar threaded migration script

Improvements:

• Improved calendar new event experience
• Improved calendar drag and drop experience
• Improved caldav client digest support
• Improved modify event pane and refresh after save
• Generally improved UI speed
• Vastly improved calendar server performance and scalability
• Vastly improved migration speed
• Fixed various websync warnings

Issues Fixed:

• A small list of bugs in the calendar backend and UI
• Fixed event available for editing before server has allocated id
• Fixed only first user being applied for calendar permissions
• Fixed event display on resize

We recommend that all current Atmail users upgrade to the new Atmail 6.1.9 - Follow these steps to update your install in under 5 minutes.Questions? Contact us via our web-form

We are pleased to announce the new Atmail 6 upgrade store, which is now online for existing customers.

Outgrowing your Atmail install and need additional user licenses? Are you an expired customer and need to download and install the latest version?

The new upgrade store allows clients to purchase any of the following:

• Additional user-licenses. Upgrade your existing 500 users license to 1,000 users and just pay the price difference
• Switch licenses, for example if you purchased a simple 25 User “Base” package, upgrade to another edition such as the ISP or Corporate version
• Purchase additional year of support and maintenance
• Upgrade to the Premium or Corporate support packages
• Purchase remote-install packages

We have designed the upgrade page to be simple as possible to upgrade existing Atmail6 licenses. For details please visit: http://atmail.com/upgrade/ and specify your existing ClientID and email-address to visit the upgrade store.

We are happy to announce an important update to the ArchiveVault software, version 1.5. 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.

New Features:

• Improved Lucene indexing performance and stability
• New Subadmin quota support - Delegate quota for ArchiveVault domains
• Added translation support. Ability to translate the software using the POedit utility and provide the UI in any language.
• Improved search performance for large data-sets

Learn more from the product home page and view the online demo for a test-drive of the new release. We have a sample data-set from all the Enron emails in the public domain; highlighting the importance to implement an archiving solution for your company data.

Discount Offer:

If your an existing Atmail customer you can offer email-archiving to your end users with a powerful but easy to maintain archiving tool. We are offering a 20% discount on new and upgrade purchases of the ArchiveVault software for 1 week only - View the Atmail Store for more details.

We’ve just release the initial version of our MapIt plugin for Atmail. This handy little plugin provides mapping to both the email and contacts portions of Atmail. First up all email bodies are scanned looking for anything that resembles a street address, when found the plugin can utilizes Google or Yahoo maps to create a map for the address then makes the address text interactive by popping up the map when the address is hovered over. If you click the address “link” then the map becomes sticky and stays visible till you click again, cool huh? The plugin underlines the address to give the user the idea that it can be hovered and/or clicked:

For contacts the plugin searches for any Home Address or Work Address information, if found it again uses Google or Yahoo maps to place a static map of that address on the page below the relevant address information:

Once installed via Atmail’s Webadmin you can edit the configuration file found at /path/to/atmail/webmail/config/plugins/mail.atmail.mapit.ini to alter behavior. Below is a sample configuration file:

[main]

# Mapping service to use ‘google’ or ‘yahoo’
map.service = google

# Map size, only relevant for map displayed on viewing a contact
map.size = 300×300

# Show a map upon viewing a contact if there are sufficient address details
option.process_contact = On

# Process email body contents and look for addresses to fetch a map for
option.process_email_body = On

You can download MapIt from here. We hope you find this little plugin useful!

As per the Atmail development roadmap, we are proud to announce two major enhancements for Atmail. CardDAV client support, allowing Atmail to view users address-books within the unified Webmail interface. The second feature is Webmail theme support in CSS. This demonstrates how easily Atmail is to customize for the frontend interface and provide users multiple Webmail themes.

With this release of CardDAV support, Atmail’s address book can now connect to a CardDAV server via open-standards as the source for all contact information, which is a major bonus for those wanting portable contact information, anywhere, anytime.

Atmail is one of the first Webmail clients to fully support CardDAV. With a growing number of desktop-clients and mobiles such as the iPhone and Android slated to support CardDAV, we are preparing to provide the complete open-protocol messaging solution. Say goodbye to proprietary formats for contact data.

New Features:

• Added CardDAV client support - Connect to an external CardDAV server within Atmail for contact data
• Theme support for the webmail user interface - New Granite theme available to those who prefer the corporate color palette
• Installer support for Ubuntu 10.X - Server edition and Webmail client
• New Windows Websync utility for Outlook - Improved performance, stability issues fixed and improved UTF-8 support
• MD5 and CRYPT-MD5 support now available in the server edition - Choose the default password encryption type via the Webadmin for users and migrate from legacy platforms easier.

Improvements:

• Improved thread processing performance, disk-level caching implemented
• Optimized caching, IMAP performance and client-level cache support via JS
• Calendar - Can now zoom to date view from month view
• Calendar - Edit event now uses convenient datepickers
• Improved mail search facility to support search keys
• Improved link detection and conversion of plain text URLs into links
• Improved handling of bad characters in To/Cc/Bcc fields
• Improved mime parsing for invalid or poorly formatted messages
• Better handling of wmv attachments for streaming in Windows Media Player
• Improved thread handling, user-experience and performance
• Improved Bedework calendar server support via CalDAV
• Added Subadmin support to the REST API - Add, delete, modify
• Improved Alias support via the REST API

Issues Fixed:

• Users can again edit a contact’s photo from the view contact page
• When uploading a photo for a contact the extension check is now case-insensitive
• Fixed Unicode memory leak/corruption in WebSync
• Fixed incorrect permission settings for Spamassassin directories upon installation
• Fixed dependency issues with Ubuntu 10.4
• Various Calendar bug fixes and improvements
• Fixed some API issues including hardening permissions checks
• Message bodies now showing in non-multipart text/plain messages
• Add Attachment button now works in Safari without multiple clicks
• Drag and Drop between sub-folders fixed
• Subadmin permission checks hardened
• Added paging for domains list in Webadmin
• Various other small fixes for Webadmin and Subadmin

We recommend all existing customers to upgrade to the new Atmail 6.1.8 - Follow these steps to update your install in under 5 minutes.

Want to test drive the latest right away? See our online demo at http://a6demo.atmail.com/ and demo the latest version online.

If you worry about server redundancy for your emails, we’ve got the solution for you.

We’ve recently made a HowTo page detailing how to setup GlusterFS with your Atmail server. GlusterFS is distributed file system for scalable file storage, allowing for the usage of files across servers. This allows you to have multiple copies of your system running at the same time!

Failovers, striping, replication, and load balancing for your Atmail servers? A breeze, with the GlusterFS system.

With the GlusterFS howto guide, you can setup two mirrored instances of Atmail. In the case the primary server goes down, the secondary server can kick in and handle all requests seamlessly. When the primary server is turned back on, the files added to the secondary server are automatically synchronised. Easy.

Atmail + GlusterFS HowTo
Gluster Community Website