This week we are announcing the next minor patch of Atmail, version 6.0.11. The latest patch includes a host of improvements to the Webmail interface and core.

As a promotion for the new Atmail 6.0.11 we are offering a 10% discount off any new purchase until Nov 5th. Now is a perfect time to purchase and implement Atmail for your organization!

The latest changes available in the new patch include:

Enhancements:

• Webmail
• Upgraded the Pear Mail_RFC822 class used for email address list parsing
• Added correct Content-Disposition header for IE7/IE8 for exporting an email to disk
• Improved folder creation for special characters and UTF-8 for IMAP compatibility
• Fixed bug preventing access or thumbnails of message attachments inside message folder that had names with complex i18n and special characters
• Improved context search for Address-book and Mail when switching between tabs
• Fixed attachment handling in complex i18n and special character mailbox folders
• Fixed complex attachment filename handling in the Drafts folder
• Improved “Print” view to handle printing a message with multiple pages
• Fixed various bugs with saving and editing drafts with i18n attachments and special characters.
• Session storage now back in UsersSession.SessionData in DB
• Fixed IE7 bug with handling of dynamically added attachment form fields
• Fixed IE7 bug/limit on url length 2048 chars, now getattachment and get thumbnail uses shorter urls
• Now validates Reply-To field to prevent users typing an invalid email-address in the settings panelFixed Subnet query error in Exim configure for mail-relays
• Improved message sort order for Sent view
• Improved detection of \Noselect flag on folders via IMAP
• Calendar
• Improved the month view render for IE7
• API
• Fixed domain list returning blank domains
• Extended API for Subadmin creation, updates and deletion
• Core
• Correctly resetting Zend session timeout
• Migration
• Purges duplicate admin user/groups from migration
• Improved command line processing for migrate-a5-config.php script

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

We are pleased to announce our new partnership with [7!]sevensignals based in Hamburg, to become the main German distributor for the Atmail products and services.

The company has translated the Atmail website into German, which is now available at:

http://de.atmail.com/

For any new customers in Germany that are interested in Atmail, you can receive local pre-sales and technical support via phone and email.

We are pleased to work with [7!]sevensignals to further promote Atmail to the German market, the company will provide improved localization support for Atmail 6 and the ArchiveVault product range.

For any existing German customers prior to this partnership, you can still access technical support and resources directly from Atmail.

Today we have made Atmail 6.0.10 available as a maintenance patch for the Atmail 6 version. The update includes major IMAP compatibility improvements and user-interface enhancements.
Updating from a previous Atmail 6 release? Follow the simple steps to update your install in under 5 minutes.

Enhancements:

• Admin
• Fixed Subnet query error in Exim configure for mail-relays
• Fixed compatibility issues with IE7/IE8 in the Webadmin Calendar and User defaults panels
• Solved JS issue with the delete user function in IE
• Removed external users from Subadmin user manager view
• Mail
• Improved folder support with special characters ” and ‘ and advanced UTF-8 folder structures
• Added improved compatability with UW-imap and Cyrus IMAP servers ( Thread and Search extensions )
• Added compatibility checks for IMAP servers which do not support Thread extensions
• Improved IMAP namespace detection for folder structure and messages
• Added HTML entity quoting for plain/text messages, solves some messages not rendering in the user-interface correctly.
• Improved the bodystructure mail parser
• Removed duplicate email addresses in To and CC fields when using Reply-All
• Improved autoreply feature when replying to messages in the inline composer
• Improved the usability of the Delete and Junk buttons while reading messages in the 2-pane view
• Fixed various issues for rendering Webmail in IE7
• Added folder detection for main root folders Sent, Drafts, Trash, Spam - Automatically created if missing or removed on the server
• Fixed IMAP authentication using the username only prefix
• Core
• Removed use of any PHP “short tags” for compatibility reasons
• Database schema check added for installation integrity

The latest 6.0.10 patch improves the IMAP compatibility for the Webmail client and further improves the user-interface - All existing customers are recommended to upgrade.

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.

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

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.

We would like to announce the implementation of our new ticketing system for all Atmail support requests.  This should provide both our current customers and any prospective customers with faster turnaround time as well as a method to track the status of support requests.  We’ve migrated all of our existing clients log in details from our client portal and existing clients can log in with their existing DownloadID and passwords.

You can log into the new ticketing system a couple of ways from the Atmail website:

• Existing customers can log into the existing Client Portal using their Download ID and password.  All support requests from the client portal will be directed to the new ticketing system.
• New users will be able to submit tickets to our support system using the online contact form

If you are a Premium Support or Corporate Support client, your tickets are flagged accordingly and brought to the top of our queue to help improve the response times of our technical and support staff.  We welcome any feedback on this new system and hope this will help in our effort to streamline our support offering and improve how we communicate with everybody.