SurgeWeb Bug list

If you find a bug please check this page first and report it to surgemail-support@netwinsite.com if it is not listed here. This list is also a very rough priority of items on the "to be implemented" list.
Note: This only covers full beta and production release builds. For documentation of changes in the prerelease builds see surgeweb changelog.



Confirmed bugs

- No particularly nasty "show stopper" bugs.

Feature requests, annoyances, and still unimplemented & to be implemented soon items:

- Unimplemented: Improved calendaring, compatible and synchronisable between mobile clients, desktop clients and surgeweb.
- Unimplemented: Contacts synchronisable across mobile devices, surgeweb, and possibly desktop clients.
- Unimplemented: Make additional features use multipart related functionality (addition of image signatures, emoticons, addition of inline images)
- Unimplemented: Better signature handling: multiple signatures, larger signatures, images in signatures
- Unimplemented: Admin addable skins
- Unimplemented: Labels addition using drag and drop.
- Unimplemented: Additional / customisable message list rows: including both to/from, numeric spam indicator in Spam folder, other??
- Unimplemented: Surgeweb does not support display of uuencoded atachments
- Annoyance: Pressing back button takes you completely out of surgeweb (warning displayed if navigate back whilst editing message for every browser other than Chrome)
- Annoyance: Improved browser compatibility and make sure html work on older browers
- Annoyance: The new addressbook picker etc does not conform to skin based color changes
- Annoyance: Screen layout menu must be adjusted through preferences tab and full screen refresh required
- Annoyance: Improved "plain text" support, mainly so html text can be pasted as plain text in editor.
- Annoyance: Discard during message edit does not delete the draft
- Request: "Online status" support within surgeweb
- Request: Have Done folder renamable to Archive
- Request: "Pinning" messages to the top of the messages list by : priority / label / other??
- Request: Tickbox to easily be able to bcc self to keep copy in addition to current imap Sent folder
- Request: Doubleclick in address picker closes window, and make picker not disappear when you mouse out
- Request: Prettification of message tabs (cursor pointers, hover over highlights tabs, get smaller if there are too many)
- Request: Shortcut keys customisable
- Request: Attachment name munging

- Unimplemented [implemented 4.3k-13]: Configuration of ACL priviliges for setting up shared folders (ACL shared folders already get correctly displayed)
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.3k-4]: Handling delivery confirmation notifications - when receiving mail
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.3h-15]: Contacts export / vCard sending and some additional minor contacts handling improvements.
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.3h-10]: Multiple account support (still disabled by default for now while minorcompletion work is done)
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.3h-10]: Full support for surgewall servers - currently partly works as per documentation
- Request [implemented 5.0b-4]: Show attached images as slide show
- Request [implemented 4.3k-13]: Display size of folders on the folders management page
- Request [implemented 4.3k-13]: Attachment drag and drop from the desktop using HTML 5
- Request [implemented 4.3k-5]: Autoadd the default domain if you say send to "user" it actually sends to "user@mydomain.com"

Confirmed bugs

- No particularly nasty "show stopper" bugs.

Feature requests, annoyances, and still unimplemented & to be implemented soon items:

- Unimplemented: Make additional features use multipart related functionality (addition of image signatures, emoticons, additiona of inline images)
- Unimplemented: Contacts export / vCard sending and some additional minor contacts handling improvements.
- Unimplemented: Handling delivery confirmation - when receiving mail
- Unimplemented: Full support for surgewall servers - currently partly works as per documentation
- Unimplemented: Better signature handling: multiple signatures, larger signatures, images in signatures
- Unimplemented: Improved multiple identity support. Not sure what form this will take in terms of alias support / multiple account support etc.
- Unimplemented: Admin addable skins
- Unimplemented: Labels addition using drag and drop.
- Unimplemented: Additional / customisable message list rows: including both to/from, numeric spam indicator in Spam folder, other??
- Unimplemented: Surgeweb does not support display of uuencoded atachments
- Annoyance: Pressing back button takes you completely out of surgeweb
- Annoyance: Improved browser compatibility and make sure html work on older browers
- Annoyance: The new addressbook picker etc does not conform to skin based color changes
- Annoyance: Screen layout menu must be adjusted through preferences tab and full screen refresh required
- Annoyance: Improved "plain text" support, mainly so html text can be pasted as plain text in editor.
- Annoyance: Discard during message edit does not delete the draft
- Request: "Online status" support within surgeweb
- Request: Have Done folder renamable to Archive
- Request: ACL support for setting up shared folders etc
- Request: "Pinning" messages to the top of the messages list by : priority / label / other??
- Request: Show attached images as slide show
- Request: Attachment drag and drop from the desktop - would require installation of Google Gears / HTML 5??
- Request: Tickbox to easily be able to bcc self to keep copy in addition to current imap Sent folder
- Request: Doubleclick in address picker closes window, and make picker not disappear when you mouse out
- Request: Prettification of message tabs (cursor pointers, hover over highlights tabs, get smaller if there are too many)
- Request: Shortcut keys customisable
- Request: Attachment name munging
- Request: Autoadd the default domain if you say send to "user" it actually sends to "user@domain.com"

- Unimplemented [implemented 4.2g-33]: Having arbitrary folders as "top level" instead of under "More Folders"
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.2g-33]: Have Done folder top level
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.2g-22]: Full support of language translation files.
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.2g-9]: Multipart related message handling for forwarding messages with mpr content
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.2g-4]: Surgeweb does not support multipart/report message attachments
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.2e-23]: Mirroring of shared abook files
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.2e-17]: Additional contacts features (images, improved import, dealing with multiple addresses per contact for autocomplete)
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.2e-4]: Contact searching of external LDAP addressbooks
- Annoyance [implemented 4.3f-6]: Make surgeweb sessions remain valid across surgemail restarts
- Annoyance [implemented 4.2g-9]: Message attachments are automatically opened in default email client rather than surgeweb
- Annoyance [implemented 4.2e-25]: Messages in drafts folder get deleted when you complete a message and press send, by design, but means drafts folder is not much use for message templates. Suggestion: Implement "Templates" folder which is like drafts but messages do not get deleted on send
- Request [implemented 4.2e-17]: Import of webmail groups

- Request [implemented 4.2b-11]: Remember sorting order across folders and sessions

Confirmed bugs

- Bug [fixed 4.1d-4]: When sending emails with an ampersand character '&' this would get replaced by a random letter in the text part of sent messages. Bug has always existed but is more noticeable now that surgweb preferentially sends in plain text. Html parts of multipart/alternative messages not affected.

Feature requests, annoyances, and still unimplemented & to be implemented soon items:

- Unimplemented: Multipart related message handling for sending messages with image signatures, emoticons, inline images etc
- Unimplemented: Contact searching of external LDAP addressbooks
- Unimplemented: Full support of language translation files - the translation mechanisms are all in place but I need to work my way through the interface files to make sure all strings get translated.
- Unimplemented: Handling delivery confirmation - when receiving mail
- Unimplemented: Mirroring of shared abook files
- Unimplemented: Full support for surgewall servers - currently partly works as per documentation
- Unimplemented: Having arbitrary folders as "top level" instead of under "More Folders"
- Unimplemented: Have Done folder top level and renamable to Archive
- Unimplemented: Better signature handling: multiple signatures, larger signatures, images in signatures
- Unimplemented: Additional contacts features (images, export, improved import, dealing with multiple addresses per contact for autocomplete)
- Unimplemented: Admin addable skins
- Unimplemented: Labels addition using drag and drop.
- Unimplemented: Additional / customisable message list rows: including both to/from, numeric spam indicator in Spam folder, other??
- Unimplemented: Surgeweb does not support display of uuencoded atachments
- Unimplemented: Surgeweb does not support multipart/report message attachments
- Annoyance: Make surgeweb sessions remain valid across surgemail restarts
- Annoyance: Message attachments are automatically opened in default email client rather than surgeweb
- Annoyance: Pressing back button takes you completely out of surgeweb
- Annoyance: Improved browser compatibility and make sure html work on older browers
- Annoyance: The new addressbook picker etc does not conform to skin based color changes
- Annoyance: Screen layout menu must be adjusted through preferences tab and full screen refresh required
- Annoyance: Messages in drafts folder get deleted when you complete a message and press send, by design, but means drafts folder is not much use for message templates. Suggestion: Implement templates folder which is like drafts but messages do not get deleted on send
- Annoyance: Improved "plain text" support, mainly so html text can be pasted as plain text in editor.
- Annoyance: Discard during message edit does not delete the draft
- Request: ACL support for setting up shared folders etc
- Request: "Pinning" messages to the top of the messages list by : priority / label / other??
- Request: Show attached images as slide show
- Request: Import of webmail groups
- Request: Attachment drag and drop from the desktop - would require installation of Google Gears
- Request: Tickbox to easily be able to bcc self to keep copy in addition to current imap Sent folder
- Request: Doubleclick in address picker closes window, and make picker not disappear when you mouse out
- Request: Prettification of message tabs (cursor pointers, hover over highlights tabs, get smaller if there are too many)
- Request: Shortcut keys customisable
- Request: Attachment name munging
- Request: Autoadd the default domain if you say send to "user" it actually sends to "user@domain.com"
- Request: Remember sorting order across folders and sessions

- Unimplemented [implemented 4.0d-3]: Allow CC / BCC etc state to be "sticky like old webmail" and remembered between messages
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.0d-3]: Additional indicators in message list : priority icon, attachment icon, SSL icon
- Annoyance [implemented 4.0d-3]: Surgeweb does not detect users timezone from browser

Confirmed bugs

- Bug [fixed 4.1b-4]: Several of the action in the html interface do not work yet - notably delete & move when a message is displayed.

Feature requests, annoyances, and still unimplemented & to be implemented soon items:

- Unimplemented: Multipart related message handling for sending messages with image signatures, emoticons, inline images etc
- Unimplemented: Additional indicators in message list (requires implementation of modified index format) : priority icon, attachment icon, spam rating
- Unimplemented: Handling delivery confirmation - when receiving mail
- Unimplemented: Full support of language translation files - the translation mechanisms are all in place but I need to work my way through the interface files to make sure all strings get translated.
- Unimplemented: Surgeweb does not support display of uuencoded atachments
- Unimplemented: Surgeweb does not support multipart/report message attachments
- Unimplemented: Having arbitrary folders as "top level" instead of under "More Folders"
- Unimplemented: Have Done folder top level and renamable to Archive
- Annoyance: Make surgeweb sessions remain valid across surgemail restarts
- Annoyance: Message attachments are automatically opened in default email client rather than surgeweb
- Annoyance: Pressing back button takes you completely out of surgeweb
- Annoyance: Surgeweb does not detect users timezone from browser
- Annoyance: Improved browser compatibility and make sure html work on older browers
- Annoyance: Prettification of message tabs (cursor pointers, hover over highlights tabs, get smaller if there are too many)
- Annoyance: The new addressbook picker etc does not conform to skin based color changes
- Annoyance: Screen layout menu must be adjusted through preferences tab and full screen refresh required
- Annoyance: Messages in drafts folder get deleted when you complete a message and press send, by design, but means drafts folder is not much use for message templates. Suggestion: Implement templates folder which is like drafts but messages do not get deleted on send
- Request: Tickbox to easily be able to bcc self to keep copy in addition to current imap Sent folder
- Request: Doubleclick in address picker closes window
- Request: ACL support for setting up shared folders etc

- Unimplemented [implemented 4.1b-15]: Completion of html editor in terms of color picker
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.1b-2]: Currently linux64, freebsd7, solaris8, solaris_x86  builds are not yet built with ICONV character set translation which means surgeweb will not translate character of international character sets to UTF8 correctly. (All other platforms work)

Confirmed bugs

- Bug [fixed 4.0x-3]: Sometimes various input fields do not accept input (notably search box, contacts fields and options fields) Cause still unknown - relogin generally makes it work again, if you can repeatably cause this issue please let surgemail support know.

Feature requests, annoyances, and still unimplemented & to be implemented soon items:

- Unimplemented: Handling of priority & confirmation flags - when displaying & receiving mail
- Unimplemented: Currently linux64, freebsd7 and solaris8 builds are not yet built with ICONV character set translation which means surgeweb will not translate character of international character sets to UTF8 correctly. (All other platforms work)
- Unimplemented: Multipart related message handling for sending messages with image signatures, emoticons, inline images etc
- Unimplemented: Full support of language translation files - the translation mechanisms are all in place but I need to work my way through the interface files to make sure all strings get translated.
- Unimplemented: Completion of html editor in terms of color picker, emoticons etc
- Annoyance: Improved browser compatibility and make sure html work on older browers
- Annoyance: Fix some of cursor behaviours and make hover over tabs highlight
- Annoyance: Message tabs should get smaller if there are too many
- Annoyance: The new addressbook picker etc does not conform to skin based color changes
- Annoyance: Message attachments are automatically opened in default email client rather than surgeweb
- Annoyance: Screen layout menu must be adjusted through preferences tab and full screen refresh required
- Annoyance: Messages in drafts folder get deleted when you complete a message and press send, by design, but means drafts folder is not much use for message templates. Suggestion: Implement templates folder which is like drafts but messages do not get deleted on send
- Annoyance: Pressing back button takes you completely out of surgeweb
- Annoyance: Surgeweb does not detect users timezone from browser
- Request: Having arbitrary folders as "top level" instead of under "More Folders"
- Request: Tickbox to easily be able to bcc self to keep copy in addition to current imap Sent folder
- Request: Doubleclick in address picker closes window
- Request: ACL support for setting up shared folders etc

- Unimplemented [implemented 4.0x-4]: Advanced (full IMAP) search & search across multiple folders
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.0v-21]: Handling of priority & confirmation flags when sending
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.0v-17]: Support for message flagging and arbitrary message labels

Confirmed bugs

- Bug: Sometimes variuos input fields do not accept input (notably search box, contacts fields and options fields) Cause still unknown - relogin generally makes it work again, if you can repeatably cause this issue please let surgemail support know.

Feature requests, annoyances, and still unimplemented & to be implemented soon items:

- Request: Having arbitrary folders as "top level" instead of under "More Folders"
- Request: Tickbox to easily be able to bcc self to keep copy in addition to current imap Sent folder
- Annoyance: Improved browser compatibility and make sure html work on older browers
- Annoyance: Fix some of cursor behaviours and make hover over tabs highlight
- Annoyance: Message tabs sould get smaller if there are too many
- Annoyance: The new addressbook picker etc does not conform to skin based color changes
- Annoyance: Message attachments are automatically opened in default email client rather than surgeweb
- Annoyance: Screen layout menu must be adjusted through preferences tab and full screen refresh required
- Annoyance: Messages in drafts folder get deleted when you complete a message and press send, by design, but means drafts folder is not much use for message templates. Suggestion: Implement templates folder which is like drafts but messages do not get deleted on send
- Annoyance: Pressing back button takes you completely out of surgeweb
- Annoyance: Surgeweb does not detect users timezone from browser
- Unimplemented: Handling of priority & confirmation flags - both when sending and displaying & receiving mail
- Unimplemented: Advanced (full IMAP) search
- Unimplemented: Full support of language translation files - the translation mechanisms are all in place but I need to work my way through the interface files to make sure all strings get translated.
- Unimplemented: Multipart related message handling for sending messages with image signatures, emoticons, inline images etc
- Unimplemented: Completion of html editor in terms of color picker, emoticons etc

- Annoyance  [implemented 4.0t-5]: Basic template editor window is not vertically resized

Confirmed bugs

- Bug [fixed 4.0j-6]: UTF8 in from #1 - Correctly SMTP encoded UTF8 characters in senders address not decoded and displayed in unencoded form, reply does work correctly
- Bug [fixed 4.0j-6]: UTF8 in from #2 - Invalidly encoded UTF8 characters in senders address results in javascript error when clicking on message list, message displayed OK and can be replied to.
- Bug [fixed 4.0h-3]: Serverside enumeration for sending to all Contacts in group is no longer working (broken approx end January by new contacts implementation)
- Bug [fixed 4.0h-3]: Getting tab key to behave like tab again in editor for Safari OSX

Feature requests, annoyances, and still unimplemented & to be implemented soon items:

- Request: Make login page on single URL work for multiple domains
- Request: Having arbitrary folders as "top level" instead of under "More Folders"
- Request: Tickbox to easily be able to bcc self to keep copy as in addition to current imap Sent folder
- Annoyance: Improved browser compatibility and make sure html work on older browers
- Annoyance: Fix some of cursor behaviours and make hover over tabs highlight
- Annoyance: Message tabs sould get smaller if there are too many
- Annoyance: Basic template editor window is not vertically resized
- Annoyance: The new addressbook picker etc does not conform to skin based color changes
- Annoyance: Message attachments are automatically opened in default email client rather than surgeweb
- Annoyance: Screen layout menu must be adjusted through preferences tab and full screen refresh required
- Annoyance: Messages in drafts folder get deleted when you complete a message and press send, by design, but means drafts folder is not much use for message templates. Suggestion: Implement templates folder which is like drafts but messages do not get deleted on send
- Annoyance: Pressing back button takes you completely out of surgeweb
- Annoyance: During drag and drop of messages it would be nice if folder list could scroll
- Annoyance: Surgeweb does not detect users timezone from browser
- Unimplemented: Handling of priority & confirmation flags - both when sending and displaying & receiving mail
- Unimplemented: Advanced (full IMAP) search
- Unimplemented: Full support of language translation files - the translation mechanisms are all in place but I need to work my way through the interface files to make sure all strings get translated.
- Unimplemented: Multipart related message handling for sending messages with image signatures, emoticons, inline images etc
- Unimplemented: Completion of html editor in terms of color picker, emoticons etc

- Request [implemented 4.0h-3]: Blacklist type spam handing in surgeweb interface
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.0h-1]: Allow images "from this user" feature

Confirmed bugs

- Bug: UTF8 in from #1 - Correctly SMTP encoded UTF8 characters in senders address not decoded and displayed in unencoded form, reply does work correctly
- Bug: UTF8 in from #2 - Invalidly encoded UTF8 characters in senders address results in javascript error when clicking on message list, message displayed OK and can be replied to.

- Bug [fixed 4.0f-3]: If surgeweb has messages in its index (older than most recent 200) and they are deleted with other client, surgeweb still displays them in the list, but displays an error if you try and click or move the message
- Bug [fixed 4.0d-7]: Crash on solaris sparc (not yet repeated but has happened on two customer systems)
- Bug [fixed 4.0b-17]: In fancy address picker messages with "," in text part are not addressed correctly (works in Basic tempalte)
- Bug [fixed 4.0b-15]: Basic template does not correctly disable surgeplus / blogs features (not yet confirmed)
- Bug [fixed 4.0b-15]: Login case sensitivity issue - On server filesystems that are case sensitive (ie most unixes - not windows), logging in as "marijn" and "Marijn" will result in different preference files being used (although mail gets dispalyed correctly)
- Bug [fixed 4.0b-11]: Basic template sends emails without from field filled in
- Bug [fixed 4.0b-7]: IE generates invalid warning about downloading non HTTPS content
- Bug [fixed 4.0b-7]: Pressing close on popup message window displayed navigate away from page warning dialog
- Bug [fixed 4.0b-7]: Folders with ' character (single quote) result in surgeweb ajax hanging on login
- Bug [fixed 4.0b-7]: Use of & character in reply name truncates reply name
- Bug [fixed 4.0b-7]: Mouseover hints over editor toolbar no longer appearing
- Bug [fixed 4.0b-7]: Clicking search and pressing ">" or ">>" shows next messages in folder not in search
- Bug [fixed 4.0b-7]: Reply directly without clicking a message first (ie just selecting tickbox) results in error and unusable interface - look at scroller (affecs other message actions too)
- Bug [fixed 4.0b-7]: Forward/forward attach of multiple messagas only attached one message in popup mode (it was attaching all messages in tabbed mode)
- Bug [fixed 4.0b-7]: Surgemail crash if message deletion attempted on session which is no longer valid (eg you are mid session and surgemail is upgraded or restarted)
- Bug [fixed 4.0b-2]: Surgemail crash on messages with invalid top level MIME headers (and no text part at all)

Feature requests, annoyances, and still unimplemented & to be implemented soon items:

- Request: Having arbitrary folders as "top level" instead of under "More Folders"
- Request: Blacklist type spam handing in surgeweb interface
- Annoyance: Basic template editor window is not vertically resized
- Annoyance: The new addressbook picker etc does not conform to skin based color changes
- Annoyance: Message attachments are automatically opened in default email client rather than surgeweb
- Annoyance: Screen layout menu must be adjusted through preferences tab and full screen refresh required
- Annoyance: Messages in drafts folder get deleted when you complete a message and press send, by design, but means drafts folder is not much use for message templates. Suggestion: Implement templates folder which is like drafts but messages do not get deleted on send
- Annoyance: Pressing back button takes you completely out of surgeweb
- Annoyance: During drag and drop of messages it would be nice if folder list could scroll
- Annoyance: Surgeweb does not detect users timezone from browser
- Unimplemented: Handling of priority & confirmation flags - both when sending and displaying & receiving mail
- Unimplemented: Advanced (full IMAP) search
- Unimplemented: Full support of language translation files - the translation mechanisms are all in place but I need to work my way through the interface files to make sure all strings get translated.
- Unimplemented: Multipart related message handling for sending messages with image signatures, emoticons, inline images etc
- Unimplemented: Completion of html editor in terms of color picker, emoticons etc
- Unimplemented: Allow images "from this user" feature


- Request [implemented 4.0b-11]: "Move to Done" on menubar of message list page
- Request [implemented 4.0b-10]: Option to Force https by redirecting http requests
- Request [implemented 4.0b-10]: Custom location for help files
- Request [implemented 4.0b-10]: Logout url for surgeweb to navigate to on logout
- Annoyance [implemented 4.0f-3]: Incorrect grammar in terms of Login buttons etc
- Annoyance [implemented 4.0b-14]: Forever scroller - if there is a javascript syntax error in server response, background action queue is frozen and info status scroller scrolls forever - requires relogin
- Annoyance [implemented 4.0b-13]: During drag and drop of messages it would be nice if folder list could uncollapse
- Annoyance [implemented 4.0b-11]: Too easy to fake emails by editing from information
- Annoyance [implemented 4.0b-11]: On login new message count not displayed until after inbox is clicked
- Annoyance [implemented 4.0b-8]: preview pane not cleared when folder is purged / no message selected etc
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.0d-2]: Better Spam handling features - ie spam button & notspam button & spam folder & closer integration of friends list (will be implemented soon)
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.0b-15]: Customisation files are not yet mirrorred
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.0b-11]: Spell checker
- Unimplemented [implemented 4.0b-5]: Contacts editing interface (actually almost all implemented but not yet in 4.0a build)