Finally the GUI has a new node for WebMail Pro server configuration. Foremost it allows you to configure the PDO DB connection using a dialog with preconfigured settings for all supported DB engines: mySql, SQLite and MS SQL Server via ODBC driver. It allows to turn on full text search capabilities in WebMail Pro (see Full Text Search). Service logging level can be set similarly to other services, also Services - Logging tab contains WebMail logging which is linked to the corresponding logging control in WebMail node. There are serveral other important options to run WebMail Pro server: settings of IMAP and SMTP server hostname and whether to use full email address as username.

Messages can be moved (or copied when holding Alt key) by dragging to a folder. You can black and whitelist emails by just dropping them on the Blacklist and Whitelist Filter folders. You can create GroupWare objects with email attachments by drag & drop and you can also attach GroupWare items to other GroupWare items. Completely supported and final.

Very useful feature. As you type in To:, Cc:, or Bcc: fields, user's address book is queried and automatically suggests all email addresses available. There's also history which remembers a few last entries to select from.

National holidays are displayed on top of each calendar view. Users can select which set of holidays they wish to be displayed, or even subscribe to multiple holiday sets such as both US and UK at once.

WebMail Pro database cache can run mySql, SQLite and MS SQL Server 2005+. Yes, we support all the major db systems now. There were many problems getting MS SQL to work but finally it works really good. For MS SQL you need to use ODBC driver PDO connection such as odbc:dsn. (ODBC can be currently only used with MS SQL, all other engines use a native driver).

There are two types of searches in message bodies: Binary and Full text search. Which type will be used can be set in the Adminstration GUI - Webmail - Database - Full text search. By default Full text is off and Binary is used. 1/ Binary searches for phrases in plain text files on the server (for LocalPOP and POP3) or using IMAP SEARCH command for IMAP accounts. People are still able to search in message bodies. It works fine with hunders of messages in a folder. 2/ Full text search allows you to search hunders of thousands message bodies in milliseconds and find all term occurencies through database queries. Full text search is a subject on its own, with complete full text search capabilities the same syntax works as if you look up information on the internet. Full text search requires mySQL installed as WebMail DB cache storage which keeps full text index of all message bodies, the search is performed using MATCH AGAINST statement. SQLite and MS SQL use LIKE statement as they do not natively support any full text indices, the search results are limited but still faster than using Binary search.

For improved security, information about the last login to the account can be displayed. In case of a mismatch, users can change password or notify administrator before account can be compromised.

Administrators can restrict access to features that do not conform to environment and type of users in question. Additional restrictions were added: hide Forwarder tab, hide Auto-login, disable GroupWare folder type, hide Forgot Password tab, hide Anti-Spam user settings.

GroupWare items can be exported and re-imported to/from various formats, in the same way as in Outlook Connector. This allows users to backup and restore their data themselves for improved reliability, or reuse them for other purposes.

For their own account, users can turn on/off Anti-Spam filtering, and enable/disable Spam folder, Anti-Spam reports, Qurantine. This way they can individually select which spam management scenario best fits their requirements. Domain administrator can override these settings or hide this dialog completely.

See tooltip for a sample. Besides page navigation fields, showing page 1 out of 120, in parenthesis the number of selected messages is shown, out of total number of messages in current folder.

WebMail Pro can handle multiple (even external) accounts in IMAP, POP3 or LocalPOP mode, offering the same functionality as desktop email clients. Once set, all accounts are accessible under single login, with periodical checking for new messages. Using drag & drop for management of multiple accounts, users can manage all their email from one interface, from anywhere they happen to be, without the need to sign in separately to several accounts.

Password expiration is fully supported. If password is expired, user is prompted to change it.

Shift+Home/End buttons selection; save sent messages option is on by default; user can specify Sent folder during compose; subject reflects in composer window title; Safari compatibility improved (still not 100% working); Send and Save buttons temporarily disabled during attachment upload; double-click on node title cause subtree to open; auto add recipient to Contacts is disabled when GroupWare is disabled; count of selected address items is displayed in Add Address list; saved email is removed from Drafts folder during Send.

A useful little feature which lets you display the reverse hostname of IPs listed in the GUI in Sessions, Intrusion Prevension, Account List (Last IP). It does not slow down the GUI at all as it is run in a separate thread that processed the existing datagrid and its IP addresses. It can be disabled in the Options menu. Both the IP and Host can be easily seen at the same time in separate columns. rDNS lookup of status IP addresses is useful for delivery troubleshooting. When working with this feature you will notice how much spam is utilizing your SMTP server just by seeing that some xDSL dynamic IP is trying to deliver mail to your server.

Support for selected domains and accounts has been added to Mail Service - Archive, you can specify a subset of accounts to perform archivation of, using Add Domain, Add Account buttons. Different icons are displayed in the list of items for archivation.

Content filters and rules support multiselect for deletion. Rules have been updated so there is an Active/Inactive checkbox for each rule (just like in Content filters). You can easily disable one rule and it will be skipped. Good for one-by-one testing or simply saving old rules. The same logic has been implemented in WebMail Pro rules for unification.

To Status - Account Statistics- List, LastIP record has been added. Sent Out counter calculates total of all messages sent out, including the same message which was then split to multiple recipients and messages for relaying.

Config - Menu - Accounts - Export/Import finally supports all of the object types: Accounts, Domains, Remote Accounts. All of them are exported and can be easily imported. Multiselect of objects can be used to specify what objects (e.g. domains) should be exported. When importing the object is checked first and if already in the system it will not be imported. Settings from several servers can be easily merged this way.

Allow Subscriber field in Mailing List options and subscribers file can contain groups, domains and email addresses. Previousluy only email addresses could have been used. Allow subscribers field can also contain a group name instead of a filename- in such case the members of the group will be checked. The group format needs to be written in [] brackets, which specifies it is a group and not a file, such as [group@domain.com]. It can be used dynamically without editing the file (when using groups or domains).

To Group configuration dialog, Members can post only option has been added (the same option as in mailing lists), allowing only members of the group to post to a list. It works in the same way as with mailing lists, since lists and groups are the same type of accounts.

IMAP public folder dialog has been improved to support browsing for IMAP folder in subdirectories and localized IMAP folders.

Continuing conversion to full Unicode support across all applicable engine subsystems: now suported in Catalogs - Email response, Email antivirus removal, Patterns content, Migration Logs, SMTP - Bounce back, IMAP Public folders and groups, Groupware public folders and groups.

Option formerly labeled "Score message where remote IP does not verify to a valid SMTP server" does just this, by attempting to connect to port 25 of the domain the message is coming from and adds specified score if there's no SMTP session prompt.

Option formerly labeled "Perform a delay before processiong an SMTP incoming connection" does just this, the server waits up to the specified time and if any data is sent from the remote party in this time the connection is terminated (violation of RFC822, often by spammers who can't wait to get as much email delivered in the shortest time).

You might have noticed this spam with character delimiters so engines cannot process it... Well this can handle it. New check_text_alphanum_ratio() function has been added to SpamAssassin, which calculates a ratio of alphanumeric and non-alphanumeric characters (ignores extended ASCII and control characters). If it exceeds 30% of the total length (not whitespace), adds score to the message. The rule has been tested with multiple languages, genuine email and even email with special schemes.

SA rules statistics provide daily totals of messages received, marked, quarantined, rejected, scanned with spamassassin, the number of hits and percentages for each rule, how many rules have been hit and not hit. It lets you easily analyze what rules are not used at all and what rules are powerful, their percentage of all spamassassin scanned messages and more. A new option has been added to AntiSpam - SpamAssassin where you can specify the log file, utilizing datetime format variables, such as "yyyymmdd....". The statistics are written each midnight.

Due to problems with connecting Jabber to GoogleTalk, SRV DNS handling has been added to enable server-to-server communication. Probably because NAPTR is too young to be generally adopted, most of the SIP and XMPP admins set only the DNS SRV records and no NAPTR. Now if the other server is not listed in trusted hosts, IM Server first checks its DNS SRV record for server-to-server communication arrangement before connecting to the domain's name host directly. If no record is used a direct connection is established. Fixes issues with GoogleTalk not working properly.

Anybody dealing with employees needs to have some way to check when they come to the office and leave. Using IM Presence History, you can easily view presence changes and even create a log analyzer to pass the data to ERP systems. It resembles IM Message Archive but it shows only the presence state (available, invisible, unavailable and other, even custom status options) and the custom status message in presence. Very useful, just think of all possible applications. Auto deletion has been also implemented similiar to Message Archive.

Same as for IM Server (see above), DNS SRV records are checked for server-to-server communication. In SIP, this behavior needs to be enabled first in SIP - Advanced - Use extended DNS lookup. This time NAPTR is checked first. If no NAPTR is found, SRV is checked and then direct connection follows. This allows to reach all domains/hosts properly.

In responses sent to the gateway and requests sent to the gateway, Contact header contains the real SIP's gateway contact and is replaced, fixes problems with BYE or ACK commands not getting through to clients for incoming calls over gateways (if SIP client is not on the local network).

Volume statistics and Packet statistics (SIP, RTP) have been added to Status - Statistics - SIP Service. You can easily see how your RTP NAT Traversal works, how many packets were transferred, or if they are flowing at all- helpful for debugging.

In SIP debug logs you can see the RTP NAT pair creation record. It will tell you if the RTP NAT pair was connected.

SQLite is installed as default DB for Anti-Spam and GroupWare instead of MS Access. After performing stress tests and adding more DB indices it's working perfect and in UTF-8. Thousands of records just like that. Even faster than some other DB systems. Due to problems with DBCS Windows and MS Access database and UTF-8 charset we were forced to find a replacement for MS Access. Basically MS Access cannot store any non-local characters in varchar fields. It is not possible. You cannot store any ANSI as it is converted by the ODBC driver manager to Unicode and then back to ANSI in the access driver itself. If UTF-8 characters are specified, they are considered as local -and converted to Unicode (but such characters do not exist) and the information is lost.

Also Firebird direct access has been added. Configuration is done within Administration GUI using Database Manager dialog. Requires the Firebird libraries (firebird.dll) to be present and available). The main reason for not using Firebird is that it cannot share the database file amongst different applications. SQLite can do that just fine and is even faster with many GroupWare items, where Firebird starts having problems.

Groupware holidays have been extended to the level that implementing them requires no knowledge of holiday file format. They are returned from the GroupWare server as events for the specifed date and to user appear at the top of each day/week/month view as read-only events. WebMail Basic was updated not to interfere (as it already supports holidays the old way and it would display holidays twice). WebMail Pro works out of the box and in UTF-8.

Big changes have been done in the SyncML engine, improving compatibility with various clients and future extensibility by specific features. Finally we support v1.2 which has been tested with the latest Nokia phones and is working fine. Protocal is automatically adjusted to device capabilities, no additional settings are required after upgrade.

With backup storage you can backup any objects from your SyncML compatible device without the server knowing their format. All you need to do is to specify the Files folder as a resource and simply sychronize the objects with GroupWare server. If data is lost or device stolen, full restore is just a matter of synchronization of this backup resource.

Logging has been enhanced by additional information for debugging. Service logging level can be set similarly to other services, also Services - Logging tab contains SyncML logging which is linked to the corresponding logging control in SyncML node.

FTP user/group path permissions have been enhanced so that a permission can either be general (Relative) or it can link directly to an absolute (Full) directory path (optional). FTP directory aliases are defined on the general level. These are for all users/groups of the FTP server and when defining user/group path permissions, you need to specify a relative path and the access rights. If you want to create a special private directory alias, you need to fill in Full path of the permission. Each permission can link the directory alias to a full path directory, with possibility of global directory aliases and user/group permission directory aliases. In short, you can override the default path with the Full path. So you can have a special path for only one user of the FTP host. In the past you would need to define a directory alias and disable it in the permissions for all but one to achieve this.

New access control feature is introduced in HTTP server. Old IP access and authorization is deprecated (although still supported so it can be converted to the new system manually). In new access control there's single list where all restrictions can be specified: Authorization, IP, Account Type and URI. For each item you can select Allow or Deny so you have a flexible way to define general acccess rights to your web site.

There's complete account integration in HTTP Access control. When local system accounts are specified, they login with the same system passwords as to other services. In such case the password set in the HTTP Access dialog will be ignored and the system user's password will be checked instead. If you want to specify a local account/group/domain, you do so by putting in inside of the [] brackets: [john@doe.com] [group@icewarp.com], [domain.com]. That means anybody from the group or domain is allowed to login. If you do not enclose the username in brackets, you are specifying a non-local user, it's required to set the password and no integration takes place.

Virtual host names support string masks, so you can create a host such as "*.icewarp.com" or the like. You do not need to define multiple aliases or virtual hosts to the same directory. You can specify URIs with string masks for which HTTP Access restriction applies. This is very handy in a multi-host environment.

A new commad has been introduced in the command line interpreter (tool) allowing you to query various information or take actions on any type of objects. Currently only "passpolicy" argument is supported but more will come. The corresponding method has been added to API: ValidateData(Type). "tool check account * passpolicy" will list all user accounts violating the password policy.

Account conversion (FS <-> DB) has been created as an API function, so that the conversion accessible from System - Storage - Accounts in the GUI can be controlled also from WebAdmin in its future release.

Server migration supports IMAP completely in a smart way. It migrates the remote flags and internaldate parameters, so the user does not see a difference after the migration- the messages are marked as read/flagged and with date as recieved by the original server.

Setup supports language selection at the beginning and the application comes translated to several languages. Not only does it allow for localized installation process, WebAdmin, Wizards or WebMail interface, the Administration GUI can be switched to any supported language without leaving or restarting the GUI.

Linux version should finally handle thousands of threads and socket file descriptors. Compiled with lower thread stack size it should be much less memory dependent thus stable. Memory leaks and consumption tested with all services. Incomplete list of further changes includes full support for mailparse as per RFC2231 with conversion to RFC822 MIME, PHP version 5.2.4 tests conducted (template, imap, mailparse, ssl, eaccelerator, icewarpphp, pspell), in speed comparison 5.2.2 is about 20-25% faster, both stable, PHP compiled with pspell support, requires pspell libraries and dictionaries installed.

Administration Console runs under X-windows using Wine emulation. Administration GUI is a simple Windows binary, which can run under Linux X-windows environment using winehq.org's Wine (any version works fine), or on Mac OS X (Intel) under Darwine in X11, on Solaris and FreeBSD. Therefore the binary is now distributed also in the Linux package under ./wine directory along with xml and doc files and ./examples directory. You still need to connect to remote server even for localhost, however the script which starts the config automatically forces the connection manager of the GUI. Only the F1 help isn't working as it requires additional Windows binaries (hh.exe).