With the new version of Atmail including improved support for CSS themes, we are starting a competition for the best designed CSS login page theme!

The winner will be announced on the 16th of February 2010 and will be given a free 1,000 user license of Atmail and have their theme included in future Atmail releases as the 4th choice for the default login page.

A tutorial on how to design a new CSS theme for the login page is available at: http://www.atmail.com/support/index.php/Atmail6/CustomLoginPages

To enter, create a new CSS theme for the Atmail login page (feel free to use the evaluation version for reference) and provide a URL or CSS file as a comment on the blog.

Good Luck and Great Designing!

Today we announce Atmail 6.1.3 - With new features including full LDAP and ActiveDirectory support, new login page themes, Sieve email filtering, support for PHP 5.2.12, and a host of improvements to the Admin and Webmail user interfaces including the long awaited Forward as attachment, or forward inline.

This update also includes the Zend library upgraded to the latest and includes security related patches. We recommend strongly upgrading to this version.

Test the new version using the online demo, or download a copy for your own Linux server.

New Features:

• New LDAP and Active Directory Authentication support for the email server edition - Plug Atmail into your organizations existing LDAP or directory server to authenticate user logins via POP3/IMAP, Webmail and SMTP authentication.
  
• New User Email Filtering using Sieve - Define email filters to divert messages to folders at SMTP delivery time
• New login page themes - 3 new login pages, using CSS themes
• Support for PHP 5.2.12 - Latest version of PHP 5.2.X supported
• Improved Anti-Spam engine - Catch more spam , improved URI blacklist support, Spamassassin options and runtime configuration
• New forward inline, or forward as attachment support in the Webmail UI

Improvements:

• Upgraded Zend version for security and performance
• Improved security for XSS issues using HTML purify
  
• Now indicates message flags for threaded view
• Improved malformed email address error message
• Improved blocked email address server rejection error message
• Composer: Attachments placeholder now auto grows to encapsulate the attachment descriptions
• Search - Improved DND behavior
• Improved calendar url detection
• Improved calendar uri generation for Modify Permissions pane
• Calendar Server - Removed PyKerberos requirement

Issues Fixed:

• Fixed issues with PHP 5.2.12
• Fixed many Javascript execution security issues
• Fixed Exim mysql escaping for recipient data
  
• Calendar - Fixed month view alignment on months that don’t have days on top or bottom rows
• Fixed various webmail 2 pane, 3 pane and search pane drag and drop issues
• Fixed various 3 pane preview rendering issues
• Fixed 3 pane view not displaying if search tab open
• Fixed compose pane appearing in incorrect context during search
• Fixed a small bug where i18n recipient addresses were not being processed properly, resulting in raw =?UTF8?… output or “Unknown”
• Disable threads for drafts and sent folders resolving ATMAIL-906
• Search - Fixed 3 pane when selecting a result, other results are not unselected
• Search - Fixed Select/Deselect all having no effect
• Fixed XSS vulnerability in live search
• Fixed search pane being removed if email sent from results given in that search pane

We recommend all existing customers to upgrade to the new Atmail 6.1.3. Follow the simple steps to update your install in under 5 minutes.

Due to popular demand we’re pleased to announce that the Atmail 6 Free Demo License now includes access to Atmail’s SubAdmin feature. If you install Atmail 6 and register with the Free License from today you will automatically have access to SubAdmin. If you have previously installed and registered with the Free License, then you will need to register Atmail with a new serial key. To get the new serial key follow these simple steps:

• Visit http://atmail.com/register-license.php
• scroll down to the “Free License Activation” section, enter your email address and click the button.
• Copy the serial displayed on the screen
• Login into your Atmail 6 WebAdmin and go to the License tab
• Enter the email address you submitted on the Free License Activation form into the DownloadID field and paste the serial you copied into the Serial Key field. Click “Register License” in the top right of the page.
• Logout of WebAdmin and log back in, you should now have access to the SubAdmin feature via the “Security” tab.

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version in the Atmail 5.x series. The new Atmail 5.7 release fixes several bugs and also includes several new improvements for the 5.x series. We encourage our exisiting Atmail 5.x clients who cannot yet upgrade to the Atmail 6.x series to upgrade to this latest 5 series release. This latest version in the 5 series includes upgraded SpamAssassin* for improved Spam detection, upgraded ClamAV* for improved virus removal, improved internationalization and fixes XUL display for Firefox 3.x. A comprehensive list of changes is below.

The Atmail 5.x series will continue to be developed during 2010, with an eventual end of life in January 2011, beyond which no further releases in the 5.x series will be made and a switch to the 6.x series will be necessary if you wish to continue to receive important software updates. If your Atmail 5.x license has expired and you wish to renew for one more year please visit our license renewal page.
(* Applies only to Atmail Server version)

Changelog:

• Upgraded to ClamAV 0.95.3*
• Upgraded to SpassAssassin 3.2.0*
• Improved the CSS, layout and UI elements for the Advanced interface for FF3+
• IMAP/POP3 accounts with passwords that contain quotes now supported [#1002]
• Mark as read/unread on ajax interface now supports marking multiple emails at one time [#1113]
• Default to text/plain for processing message parts with no Content-Type specified and more accurate attachment identification [#1142]
• Fixed syntax error created in TLS_CACHEFILE value when WebAdmin edits pop3d-ssl file [#1107]*
• Added –encoding=utf-8 as an arg to aspell call to avoid problems with spellchecking some multi-byte chars
• Fixed login page CSS layout issues for German language
• added onAuthStart plugin event
• fixed preferences drop down menu height for Japanese lang
• set ja_JP.UTF-8 locale if Japanese language used
• added debug flag for SQL.php, DB errors only written to apache error log if $pref[’db_debug’] = 1
• Improved language support for calendar
• Year select list on search form now dynamically created to always display most relevent date ranges
• Added japanese support to html composer
• Improved Japanese style date formatting
• Added some missing tool tips
• Added more language variables rather than using hard coded English for some strings
• Language now remembered properly by “Remember Me” function
• Added error message when a message cannot be saved
• Clicking “delete auto-reply” button now actually removes the auto-reply from the DB rather than just clearing the textarea*
• Folders now support the hash (#) character
• Calendar appointments and tasks now support the hash (#) character
• Draft messages now open correctly when using the Simple Interface [#1130]
• Detects IE8 on login page and properly pre-selects the Advanced Interface

Today we announce Atmail 6.1.2 - With new features for Subadmin users, complete integration with ArchiveVault for account provisioning, API and archive access for Subadmins.

The update also includes a new Exchange migration script for IMAP based mail & calendar data, along with performance and Webmail enhancements.

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

New Features:

• New Exchange migration scripts for IMAP based calendar data
• New Subadmin disk-space quota support. Specify how much storage a Subadmin user can allocate to users
• New Subadmin dashboard - Users can login and see their account profile at a glance, user quota, disk space quota, account details and activity via inline graphs
• New ArchiveVault integration - Subadmin level support, delegate control of a select domain to a Subadmin user with ArchiveVault permissions to view/search inbound & outbound messages for the domain

Improvements:

• Upgraded ClamAV version
• Calendar - New and modified events are given an alarm 30mins before due, allowing event notification on an iPhone or desktop client
• Calendar Server - UserStatus is now cached in the authentication table, heavily reducing sql load and increasing performance dramatically
• Calendar Server - Removed PyKerberos requirement
• Improved MIME and attachment handling
• BETA FreeBSD 7.X Support

Issues Fixed:

• Fixed sendmail detection under FreeBSD
• Fixed logo branding URL
• Abook - Fixed permissions not being correctly applied for Shared entries
• Mail - Fixed incorrect mail printed when viewing multiple emails
• Calendar - Fixed various issues with DAViCal
• Calendar - Fixed new calendars on external servers

We recommend all existing customers to upgrade to the new Atmail 6.1.2. Follow the simple steps to update your install in under 5 minutes.

ArchiveVault 1.3 is now available - The new version includes a user-interface overhaul, new Admin options, improved Lucene search index for data-mining, new API features and integration with Atmail 6.

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.

ArchiveVault is available in an appliance or software download for Linux. See the pricing page for more details, and test-drive the online demo with example  messages archived from Enron, a perfect example why you need to implement an email-archiving policy for security and compliance!