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.