SurgeMail Change History

SurgeMail 1.3f 2-April-2003

• Fix: Some user account management actions causing crash (introduced for 1.3e)
• Fix: Friends message uses correct email address in text
• Fix: Sporadically swatch could fail to restart surgemail (windows only)
• Fix: Smitecrc excessive CPU usage (introduced for 1.3e)

SurgeMail 1.3e 28-Mar-2003

• Force smite headers to be added to all mail going through server (g_smite_all)
• Allow custom smite filter rules through the use of #include "local.rul" in filter.dat.
• Allow sender ip to be specified in reported ORBS stamp messages (use ||remoteip|| )
• Authent cache lifetime setting (g_authent_cachelife)
• Manager approved account create without further user validation (when users do not have prior email address)
• Smart updating of surgemail administration web templates
• New version of Webmail (3.0u build 25)
• Fix: Installation of missing webmail executable (introduced for 1.3d)
• Fix: Conversion of drop files was losing first line of headers
• Fix: Sporadic webmail CPU loop

SurgeMail 1.3d 20-Mar-2003

• Per user options for SmiteSpam system
• Addition of original recipient and authenticated user headers
• Allow smite headers to be added to gatewayed mail
• Allow old_pophost to be used to retrieve mail if user already in local database (old_pophost_iffirst)
• Allow webmail to autologin when running on a different server from surgemail
• Allow exceptions to g_con_perip (g_con_perip_except)
• Allow access group membership based on arbitrary authentication module fields (g_group_field)
• Allow mfilter to be applied to local files only (g_mfilter_localonly)
• Web UI tidyup
• Fix: Freebsd stack overflow problems (random crashes)
• Fix: Fixes to the IP failover system
• Fix: Incorrect date display
• Fix: Run mfilter over pop_fetched mail
• Fix: Improved log file handling
• Fix: Removal of several obscure bugs that could cause surgemail crashes and apparent lockups

SurgeMail 1.3c 18-Feb-2003

• Queue analysis
• Improved smitecrc integration
• New version of webmail
• Mfilter rules reloaded with test command or tellmail reload
• Fix: DNS issues that were slowing large systems
• Fix: Variety of stability fixes
  

SurgeMail 1.3b 24-Jan-2003

• Addition of multiple orbs services (g_orbs_list)
• Can force all users to use ssl but still allow plain smtp delivery (g_ssl_require_login)
• Ability to disable primary web interface
• Added IMAP SSL capability (dedicated port + STARTTLS)
• Easier configuration if host name is not the same as domain (eg host = mail.mydomain.com)
• Fix: Attachment matching in dmail dfilters
• Fix: Crash on several strange message syntax issues
  

SurgeMail 1.3a_rc1 14-Jan-2003 (Production release 1.3a on 24-Jan-2003)

• Extensive server upgrade and migration support
• Ability to block and name translate attachments
• mfilter improved logging and fixed several minor bugs
• Fix: IMAP folders properly displayed by MS Outlook
• Fix: Variety of minor issues
  

SurgeMail 1.2c 3-Dec-2002

• Allow non local addresses be added to mailing list using web admin interface
• Use url_host (if defined) in per vdomain ssl certificates
• Fix: Problems with subdomain delivery
• Fix: Variety of minor issues including

- Links in domains page of admin interface
- Single link in account creation confirmation email
- Keep correct access privileges when resetting administration password

SurgeMail 1.2b 13-Nov-2002

• Improved delivery log file flexibility (see g_log_path, g_record_path, g_record_days)
• Improved Friends system: Customisable naming, cusomisable kids-only mail, fixed several bugs
• Skip virus & crc check (by IP) for known safe bulk mailouts (g_vpipe_skip)
• Additional spam prevention settings (g_tarpit_blackhole, g_con_persubnet, g_tarpit_drop, g_tarpit_max, g_tarpit_max_remote)
• Automatic SSL certificate generation on demand, and per vdomain SSL certificates
• Web admin : feature additions and minor fixes
• Allow monitor to be disabled
• Allow mail server name to be different from domain name for user account management (g_server_name, url_host )
• Upgrade installs will optionally update surgemail and webmail template files
• Fix: Possible message loss if g_virus_cmd virus checker is used (if you use g_virus_cmd you MUST upgrade immediately)
• Fix: Several user account management fixes including admin password on mail verification, list mailbox
• Fix: Several bugs in web based mailing lists administration

SurgeMail 1.2a 22-Oct-2002 (only released as beta)

• Allow individual surgemail subsystems to be disabled
• Webmail license key integrated into surgemail
• Attachment filename translation
• Tidier ini file handling
• New version of Webmail
• Fix: Show messages not displayed by some imap clients
• Fix: Handle leak under certain conditions if user over quota
• Fix: Hide surgemail path in SMTP error on user over quota
• Fix: Only ouput over quota message a single time in logs
• Fix: Minor web admin changes
  

SurgeMail 1.1d 11-Oct-2002

• Fix: Issue adding friends to friends system
• Fix: Sporadic ini file corruption upon web based administration (introduced version 1.0d)

SurgeMail 1.1c 7-Oct-2002

• Fix: subdomain delivery loop (introduced in version 1.1a)

SurgeMail 1.1b 4-Oct-2002

• Fix setting of authentication modules keeps settings
• Fix IMAP timeout when sending in mail
• Fix broken Report Refresh
• Fix broken delete accounts in NWAuth

SurgeMail 1.1a 30-Sep-2002

• Complete support for Friends + SmiteSpam in web admin UI
• Extended reporting facility
• Addition of startstop.log file
• More comprehensive manual
• Improved install + upgrading + uninstall
• Improved server mirrorring
• NetAuth enhancements
• Fix: Login with failed password cached making local delivery fail
• Fix: Swatch settings changes does not require surgemail restart
• Fix: Sporadic NetAuth password Q&A field corruption
• Fix: Sporadic Surgemail crash upon IMAP access
• Variety of minor bug fixes and enhancements
  

SurgeMail 1.0d 9-Sep-2002

• Integration of SmiteSpam antispam system
• Integration of Friends antispam system
• Automatic identification of domains for user account administration
• Group based access control to POP, IMAP,SMTP
• Account status control
• Archiving of all received messages
• Addition of several new configuration options
• FreeBSD webmail issue, Windows tellmail issue
• Continued minor bug fixing

SurgeMail 1.0c 15-Aug-2002

• First production release build
• Updates have been made to many areas recently, so please upgrade to 1.0c at a convenient time as a baseline. Recent changes include:
• Help system now updated
• OpenSSL integration complete for all platforms
• Fixes in mirrorring code
• Fixes in SpamAssassin integration (g_filter_pipe)
• High end server proxy mode support