Release history - 2.5.x

2.5 series

New features overview

• added SyncML support. It is now possible to syncronize appointments, tasks and contacts between DeskNow and Outlook, PocketPC, Palm and every other SyncML enabled device, including many modern mobile phones.
• included Outlookk Connector to the distribution
• added HTML editing of emails and messages
• added multilingual spelling checker with user's custom dictionary
• threaded message boards
• added support for read receipts and priority when receiving and sending emails
• added the possibility to use multiple mail identities/signatures and changing them while composing an email
• added more options for event recurrency
• added support for SPF (Sender Permitted From) antispam protocol
• added support for Kerberos authentication for ActiveDirectory
• added ActiveDirectory authentication using the Kerberos protocol
• added Kerberos authentication
• improved caching
• the location of an appointment (if any) is now shown in the Day/Week/Month views
• icons are displayed to mark appointment reminders and recurrency
• improved log message for unknown mailbox: added email address of the sender
• added option to automatically remove undeliverable and quarantined messages from the queues after a certain time
• improved window to select mail recipients
• removed check for google toolbar on login page
• improved DNS service detection to prevent incompatibilites with some rare network configurations. NB now DeskNow always uses the defualt DNS servers configured in the system
• improved online help on how to setup Webfolders on Mac OSX and OS9

Please see below for a detailed list of changes in this series.

2.5.15

• fixed problem occurring during SyncML connection with P800/P900 phones
• fixed problem occurring when using mailing lists with an external SMTP server
• fixed potential CPU 100% problem when setting email reminders on events recurring on the last day of every x months

2.5.14

• further improvements on the fixing of the security vulnerability reported by SIG^2

2.5.13

• improved decoding of email messages using 'inline' content-disposition types (used for signatures by some antivirus software)
• closed security vulnerability reported by SIG^2

2.5.12

• fixed problem preventing syncing of contacts in subfolders with PocketPC devices
• fixed problem when creating consecutive multiple links to shared objects from different users (first user was always shown)
• the end date option for recurrent events now allows years to be in the past (this is useful when syncing old calendars)
• improved error logging when a disk access problem prevents listing of messages in mail queues
• fixed problem that did not handle correctly the 'Never' preference in sending read receipts
• fixed problem in renaming a mailing list
• fixed problem in using the PocketPC Upload application with DeskNow
• fixed internal error problem when using the 'always send read receipt' preference and viewing emails that request the read receipt for the first time
• fixed error in user self registration when registering in a custom userclass in a virtual domain
• upgraded Java version in Windows installer to 1.4.2_06. This fixes a rare CPU100% problem caused by malformed attachments using the iso-2022-jp character set (Japanese)
  

2.5.11

• added antivirus parameters for AVG Antivirus Free 7
• Implemented workaround for problem with the latest version of Spam Assassin, which could classify a mail as spam when the original mail client is Outlook and the mail was sent through DeskNow
• fixed problem causing share password not to be accepted after server restart
• fixed some minor SyncML bugs (especially for non-English characters)
  

2.5.10

• fixed problem in saving events recurring yearly on the xth day of the week of a given month
• fixed problem in synchronizing with Outlook events, contacts or tasks containing accented characters
• fixed problem in filtering the content of outgoing messages on a word in the subject
• updated portuguese (brazilian) translation
• updated norwegian translation
• domain aliases are now forced to be lowercase
• added Gallegan translation
• fixed minor issues in syncing contacts (email fields, and street address)
• fixed syncml bug that could cause copies of a contact to appear in parent folders in Outlook
• fixed problem when using LDAP authentication with a branch that did not contain 'dc' elements
• fixed problem when deleting file folders with non-ASCII characters from the selection list (deletion from properties page worked fine)
• removed <BASE HREF> tags when displaying html emails, as it could confuse browsers when fetching images
• disk quota exceptions when assigning emails to an user are reported immediately back to the sender - no retries
  

2.5.9

• 0.0.0.0 is now recognized as an alias for localhost (according to RFC 1122, Sec. 3.2.1.3a.). This can avoid mail loops involving some MX records incorrectly configured
• added configuration option to get the IP address of the remote client from proxy headers if DeskNow is behind a forward proxy (ex. Apache)
• forced setting of default priority in tasks - fixes potential confusion when syncing with Palm devices
• fixed potential syncml problem when syncing large number of events
• fixed javascript problem regarding number of recurrencies when modifying a recurrent event
• space and colon characters replaced in mail headers if present in rebranded application name, to avoid possible incompatibilities with other clients
• fixed problem of duplicate contacts after using the HTTP API command to recreate the user directory when using PostgreSQL
• fixed some formatting problems when resuming editing emails saved in drafts
• fixed some inconstincencies in branding
• fixed problem in disabling tips from cfg file
• improved attachment decoding when there is no plaintext message body and there are plaintext attachments

2.5.8

• event location displayed even when the event is a fullday event
• updated Dutch translation
• added Greek translation
• improved performance of webmail when sending large attachments
• fixed bug affecting recurring event with certain timezones, the recurrency set to every n days (n > 1), and the event being a fullday event
• fixed bug in SPF checks affecting SMTP servers where the HELO host has a different SPF record from the domain
• corrected incompatibility problem with WAP phones using OpenWave technology
• WAP encoding now defaults to UTF-8
• fixed problem converting double line breaks in single line breaks when editing HTML emails using IE and changing the mail identity
• fixed problem in Mozilla blocking HTML editing after a particular sequence of keystrokes
  

2.5.7

• fixed some compilation errors occurring when using Tomcat 5
• fixed problem related to change of language causing 'Name already in use'
• fixed incorrect logging of messages rejected due to expiration of expirydate in the mail address
• updated danish translation
  

2.5.6

• solved problem causing AVG antivirus invocation to hang in some very particular cases output generated on stderr)
• delivery errors due to dns problems are no longer considered permanent. the delivery will be retried later
• added API command to delete mail messages from a folder (all messages, or only messages before a certain date)
• incresead loop logic detection with X-Loop headers
• fixed problem in displaying message boards when using DeskNow on custom installation with Tomcat 5

2.5.5

• improved logging of mail filtering
• Now SMTP users sending with a 'from' domain not in DeskNow will see attachments filtered according to the default domain
• fixed possible error when saving content filtering preferences
• closed ActiveDirectory connections are now reopened transparently
• Fixed problem causing an extra character to be added to an address in a mailing list after another addres is deleted
• added LDAP authentication plugin
• fixed problem that caused contact pick window to appear again when pressing space in the html editor (the focus was still on the pick button)
• fixed broken signature smart swap in mozilla/firefox
• fixed some cases in which mail compose buttons were not displaying in recent versions of firefox when opening in new window
• after a spellcheck, some <p> are removed (IE only)
• increased date range in calendar event edit
• fixed problem adding a ? character in HTML emails in some east-asian encodings
  

2.5.4

• fixed but that affected checkbox in dialog to select DeskNow attachments
• fixed bug that could prevent using the spelling checker dictionary of a different language after a change in Preferences
• fixed 'index out of bounds' problem that could occur when upgrading from very old versions
• fixed problem with visualization of send button where the to,cc or bcc field contains many addresses
• added option in ActiveDirectry to create accounts in different communities according the the AD position
• fixed problem with broken connections in Active Directory not being automatically recreated
• improved cahing of user preferences
• fixed problem occurring when upgrading from earlier versions of DeskNow with several thousands of message board posts in the database, and the DB used was SQL Server 2000
• new version of the SyncML Outlook connector

2.5.3

• threaded message boards
• HTML editing in message boards
• added multilingual spell checker, supporting 14 different languages
• added administration panel to monitor active sessions. It is possible to terminate active sessions.
• added option to backup configuration files (including license key)
• added option to forward a copy of all incoming and outgoing emails to a specific email address, for archiving
• added filter condition to match a custom header in the message
• added option to make mailing lists accessible to everyone. This allows using mailing list to distribute emails inside the organization
• fixed problem causing the wrong mail identity to be used in the From field in outgoing emails
• fixed problem hiding send buttons in mail compose window in IE in particular cases
• fixed problem causing the edit panel to to be shown in Mozilla in particular cases (when the default format was plain and the user requests a change to HTML)
• fixed problem with case sensitivity when adding/removing mailing lists
• DeskNow now retries the delivery when the remote server replies with a temporary greylisting message
• added option in ActiveDirectory authentication plugin to specify the exact LDAP query to use when looking for users
• fixed problem with PostgreSQL 8 due to now correct interpretation of indexes by PostgreSQL (the workaround that was necessary for earlier versions of Postgres is now disabled)

2.5.2

• fixed error when editing drafts
• fixed error when sending emails and no recipient is specified
• fixed possible crash of IE when using the HTML editor in some cases
• fixed style of sent HTML emails to reduce spacing between paragraphs

2.5.1

• fixed error occurring when composing a new mail and the default mail format is 'Plain' and there is no signature defined
• added dectection of browsers that do not support HTML editor
• added option to disable HTML editor
• fixed problem when sending very large messages (tens of Mb) via webmail
• fixed missing display of appointments that started and finished at 00:00 AM
• fixed potential error occurring after a restart: 'Name already in use'

2.5

• initial release of the series