SurgeMail Change History (older)

For recent release versions of surgemail see the recent surgemail change history page.

SurgeMail 1.8g3 25-March-2004

• Spool path allowing SurgeMail to send dropped files as email (g_spool_path)
• New settings (g_delete_user_mode, g_user_alias_file)
• SurgePlus calendar and filesharing (fully functional but still beta)
• Fix: Memory corruption bug causing sporadic random crashes on SSL conections
• Fix: Vpipe restart bug on timeout
• Fix: Further fix to new na_exceptions web page
• Fix: Minor memory leak
• Fix: Proxy mode fix
• Fix (1.8g2): WebMail autologin fix for non default vdomains using custom quick login method
• Fix (1.8g2): Alias creation bug
• Fix (1.8g3): Hopefully final fix to WebMail autologin. (Rolled back logic to that of previous release builds)
• Fix (1.8g3): Reports page broken on UNIX systems
• Fix (1.8g3): Bug in SurgePlus that could sporadically crash SurgeMail on display of SurgePlus web pages

SurgeMail 1.8e 11-March-2004

• Additional "build number" added to version information to uniquely identify surgemail builds
• # character on first line of surgemail (not webmail) templates means comment
• Unmonitorable mail blocked by Avast by default (to allow use g_virus_allow_unmonitorable)
• Fix: Delete user removes the user form all mailing lists
• Fix: Mirror tidyup in logging of email actions in users log files

SurgeMail 1.8d 9-March-2004

• Web based Queue handling / delete / retry etc
• User.cgi exceptions forward and bounce with reason ability
• Additional old_pophost migration setting (g_fallback_relay_if_exists)
• Fix: Sporadic memory corruption crashes
• Fix: Global / domain exceptions actually listed in order processed
• Fix: Autogenerated g_server_name entries based on url_host no longer overwrite existing entries

SurgeMail 1.8b3 4-March-2004

• Fix: Crash on aspam message training
• Fix (1.8b2): User.cgi autologin broken (fixed again)
• Fix (1.8b2): Aspam URL scoring was broken
• Fix (1.8b2): Aspam now installed as default antispam scanner (as opposed to SmiteCRC - which is still fully supported)
• Fix (1.8b3): Rollback pre-release version of na_exceptions.htm template

SurgeMail 1.8a 25-February-2004

• Enhanced (and much faster) Report page
• Allow the use of return codes from g_virus_cmd virus scanners (g_virus_cmd_codes)
• Options to control the content of your periodic account log message.
• New version available indicator on status page
• Aspam test and training page in web admin interface
• SMTP verify option (g_verify_smtp)
• Searchable and sorted by date friends pending / spam pending etc lists
• Allow relay based on authent return code (lookup_relay_on_from)
• Dumping of pstat statistics to text file "tellmail pstat_dump" (for import to excel)
• Improved slightly odd behavior in places of web admin interface
• Fix: Browser image caching fixed - makes webmail use much faster!! :-)
• Fix: Allow SSL certificate creation to work with Microsoft CA
• Fix: Migration bug that resulted in duplicate messages and failure to create account if first login was IMAP and account was being migrated using old_pophost
• Fix: Migration bug that allowed IMAP migration to lose all message flags
• Fix: Bottom left hand navigation pane links not working if clicked while surgemail was not running (IE only)
• Fix: Several minor friends confirmation message fixes and enhancements
• Fix: Timezone information displayed incorrectly in received headers in 0 to +9 timezone
• Fix: IMAP fixes
• Fix: Improved shutdown behaviour
• Fix: High loading mutex timeout crash.

SurgeMail 1.7b3 4-February-2004

• Fix: Aspam functionality improved
• Fix: Mirrorring crash bug (introduced in 1.7a)
• Fix: Solaris_x86 only crash bug when doing log file searches
• Fix: Installer waits until surgemail has fully shutdown (was sometimes failing file copy on first upgrade attempt)
• Fix (1.7b2): User.cgi blank pages displayed for non admin users (introduced 1.7a)
• Fix (1.7b3): Aspam file update, crash and occasional incorrect match

SurgeMail 1.7a 27-January-2004

• ASpam more accurate and efficient antispam system
• New more accurate and efficient quota handling
• Ability to limit bounce message size (g_bounce_limit)
• Integrated fprot antivirus support (g_virus_fprot)
• Option to have spam store / friends pending folder part of / not part of quota (g_xxx)
• IMAP folder renaming also renames subfolders
• Mailing list administration for domain administrators
• User domain defaults administration for domain administrators
• Fix: Mirrorring of dlist subscribe.lst file

SurgeMail 1.6e2 9-January-2004

• Fix: Memory leak in sending of friends status messages
• Fix: Deletion of some necessary files files in the surgemail directory (only happens under certain circumstances and only affects unix versions, if nwauth is used and mirrorring is enabled)
• Fix: Account "Access Group" information no longer applied if no g_acces_group rules defined
• Fix: Improved handling of mirrorring (in particular dlist subscribe.lst mirrorring)
• Fix: Improved handling of very large numbers of messages in inbox (30000+ messages)
• Fix: Improved handling of friends bounce messages

SurgeMail 1.6e 23-December-2003

• Domain specific footer file based on from envelope (footer_file)
• Account creation check disable when using old_pophost / old_imaphost (old_smtphost, old_smtphost_skip)
• Fix: Linux memory fragmentation under heavy load fix
• Fix: Sporaric surgemail crash in user cgi processing

SurgeMail 1.6d 17-December-2003

• Allow intercept migration mail to be left on old server (old_pophost_nodelete, old_imaphost_nodelete)
• Per user enabling and serverwide configurable subject marking of spam (g_spam_subject_word)
• Latest version of webmail (version v3.1d build 6)
• User account aliases with quotas (g_user_alias, g_user_alias_file)
• Per user quotas for sending sms messages
• Fix: Sporadic web page corruption (particularly noticable in navigation pane)
• Fix: Several cases where intercept migration failed prematurely (eg on messages with no body)
• Fix: Save on domains page takes long with high cpu usage (surgemail/web_work/surgehost.ini was getting excessively large)

SurgeMail 1.6b 28-November-2003

• Allow users to import all mail from external POP / IMAP accounts
• Optional automatic domain dropdown for webmail and user cgi (g_user_domainlist, domain_select)
• New version of webmail (3.1c build 11) with simplified options pages in panel template set
• Fix: Quota in quota.txt file drift issue fixed
• Fix: Webmail panel template horizontal alignment issue in Opera browser
• Fix: Some minor imap issues fixed

SurgeMail 1.6a 19-November-2003

• Configurable signup emails (signup_user.eml and signup_manager.eml)
• Allow users to create aliases (g_user_alias_file, g_user_alias, user_alias)
• Additional spam control settings (g_black_*, g_verify_*, g_spam_subject_gateway, g_spam_allow_recent, g_spam_check_auth, g_from_bounce, g_from_stamp,)
• Minor changes in account status / spam hold mechanism and notification emails
• Additional gateway settings ( g_gateway_always, g_gateway_ifnot)
• Run late mfilter at local delivery time (g_user_mfilter)
• New version of webmail (3.1b build 45)
• New miscellaneous settings ( g_from_timeout, g_filter_max, g_drop_use_len, g_filter_max, g_create_allow_pass)
• Allow footers to be attached to outbound messages only (g_footer_send)
• Fix: Web admin interface javascript issues on OSX Safari and IE browsers
• Fix: IMAP intercept mode upgrade some fixes (of note on a few mailservers upgrade would complete if empty folder encountered - Mailsite in particular)
• Fix: IMAP OE fix that would display error if folder was emtied by another mail client
• Fix: Windows98 slow response time issue fixed
• Fix: Self signed certificates now work on OSX browsers - certificates need to be regenerated

SurgeMail 1.5f 31-October-2003

• Global and per domain defaults user setting now available
• Redesigned status summary information (includes a variety of additional information such as migrated users, free disk space, etc)
• Advanced log file searching capabilities
• Support for intermediate SSL certificates (eg. as issued by COMODO)
• Certificate Signing Request generation / certificate management through admin web interface
• Easier tracking of spam bounces (Msg.rec contain spam ratings, bounce message contains queue id)
• Ability to set retry hours per domain (g_retry_rules)
• Delivery time filter like g_filter_pipe (g_user_pipe)
• Improved surgemail catching of messages that are not correctly processed by AVAST
• Fix: Queue file backlogs would not be properly processed sometimes
• Fix: Mirrorring now smarter in the way it propagates updates
• Fix: User cgi pages fail to autologin back to webmail
• Fix: Correct determination of system directory on Windows 2003 multiuser systems
• Fix: Display of pending stored messages due to filename truncation
• Fix: Correct handling of the avast installation dll during surgemail upgrades
• Fix: IMAP folders staying locked if using the BAT mail client with IMAP

SurgeMail 1.5d2 9-October-2003

• Latest SSL libraries
• Fix: IMAP memory leak
• Fix: Duplicate UIDL fix

SurgeMail 1.5d 1-October-2003

• Ability to set log file size (g_log_size)
• Ability to specify AVAST update times (g_virus_avast_hour)
• Fix: Security fix
• Fix: Added workaround to fix IE status bar failing to recognise full document is downloaded (sometimes)
• Fix: Improved recovery of AVAST failing to update engine and spam database
• Fix: Web admin save of domain settings save lost surgewall setting
• Fix: Minor IMAP fix of specific attachment corruption
• Fix: Bulletins not delivered to subdomain accounts

SurgeMail 1.5c 24-September-2003

• Ability to specify specific ip's and ports for surgewall mode
• Fix: 100% CPU loop that occurred if one of several redirect_cc's failed (introduced post 1.4b)
• Fix: Status page message count "unsent yet" inaccuracy
• Fix: OSX mail client was not displaying some IMAP messages properly
• Fix: IMAP proxying in surgewall mode
• Fix: default domain quota was being used for vdomains

SurgeMail 1.5b 19-September-2003

• Quite a few changes in the web admin user administration pages
• Exception rules are now external to Friends and Spam system
• Latest version of webmail (version 3.1a build 8)
• Access defaults for users not in any g_access_groups (user_access_default, g_user_access_default)
• Smitecrc is more efficient in memory use
• Domain admins can now send bulletins
• Fix: Automatic correction to surgemail key login if smitecrc smitespam login details are incorrect
• Fix: Several crashing bugs removed (primarily solaris affected)

SurgeMail 1.5a 9-September-2003

• Vipe now autodisables vpipe if it has three errors in a row (unless g_virus_filter_require is set to true)
• Add spam headers to body changed from boolean to numeric spamdetect rating
• Add more options to the Friends/Spam exception rules (still in friends page - will be moved from here)
• Modified the way the surgemail release numbering scheme is used (no functional surgemail changes)
• Ability to limit the max number of emails a user may send in 30 minute period (send_limit=n in authent response)
• Fix: Report page broken on unix platforms on the first 9 days of the month
• Fix: File permissions issue on upgrade - primarily OSX but could affect other unix platforms
• Fix: Access permissions in "Access type" were overridden by "Account Status"
• Fix: Webmail now provides more informative error messages if the login fails due to access limits
• Fix: If friends rule had no * or ?, and had a trailing space rules would incorrectly match
• Fix: Empty folders created properly for old_imaphost migration + migration on linux fixed
• Fix: Several fixes in smitecrc and the way smitecrc is run
• Fix: Bounce messages if workarea full - previously under some conditions blank messages were sent
• Fix: Fixed error handling in surgemail if AVAST setiface.dll is corrupted (would deadlock surgemail)

SurgeMail 1.4c 2-September-2003

• CentiPaid micro payment system.
• Web admin now "remembers" domain you are working on.
• Low disk warning notifying admin if work paths or mail delivery paths fall below this level (g_low_disk)
• Auto responder options to respond always/once a month/once ever to each user.
• Disable accounts / delete user after period of inactivity (g_disable_smtp_after, g_delete_user_after)
• Cookies allowing automatic login to web admin interface
• Web admin asks for confirmation before deleting domains and users
• Fix: Domain admin redirect + redirect_cc pages allow one of multiple domains to be selected and fixed surgemail crash
• Fix: Various fixes to old_imaphost intercept mode migration (was significantly broken)
• Fix: Search for particular email in webmail
• Fix: Bug in spam held messages that meant that no status message was being sent out and old spam was not being purged
• Fix: Bug in friends systems that meant the friends report email continued to grow
• Fix: DNS failover to other dns server if one is broken (was not working correctly)
• Fix: Web admin now shows system/domain administrators stored messages rather than their own.
• Fix: Solaris only issue that ?????? was being sent as from/to addresses when using IMAP.
• Fix: Several problems running surgemail on Win 9x systems.
• Fix: Path issue with dlist
• Fix: Several instability issues fixed

SurgeMail 1.4b 15-July-2003

• Latest version of webmail including updated spam settings templates
• Added DNS translation (g_dns_translate)
• Improved per channel connection statistics
• Fix: Several AVAST related bug fixes
• Fix: Minor friends system bug fixes
• Fix: Minor user spam system bug fixes
• Fix: Web admin UI bug introduced 1.4a

SurgeMail 1.4a 30-June-2003

• Installer rollback functionality (run "surgemail -rollback" on command line)
• AVAST antivirus integration (windows only and needs to be purchased separately)
• Improvements to surgewall
• Per user virus / spam / other filter enabling and disabling
• Allow quota warnings to be disabled (g_quota_warning_disable)
• Forward and reverse dns lookup check (g_dns_paranoid)
• Additional gateway features (g_auth_skipgateway, g_gateway_auth, g_local_skipgateway)
• Additional spam settings (g_spam_vanish, g_spam_vanish_all - similar to g_spam_bounce settings)
• Early (prior to filters) message archival (g_archive_early)
• Fix: Account status bug fixed (introduced 1.3d)
• Fix: Drift in quota processing fixed
• Fix: Per user spam filtering was badly broken
• Fix: Several Friends fixes
• Fix: Variety of minor fixes

SurgeMail 1.3l 10-June-2003

• New webmail version (3.0x)
• Addition of g_authent_always, g_domain_default, g_friends_confirm_subject settings.
• Fix: Domain web admin page has all missing settings (surgewall and old_imaphost*)
• Fix: "Delete original message" disabled by default when forwarding / using responder
• Fix: Several of IMAP protocol RFC compliance fixes

SurgeMail 1.3k 30-May-2003

• Surgewall feature - the ability to place surgemail as a filter "in front" of an existing mailserver to apply friends rules, spam filtering, virus scanning (see domain setting surgewall)
• IMAP intercept mode migration (see old_imaphost_*)
• Friends settings improved
• Mailbox manipulation rules in user account management
• Domain admins can modify users' friends and spam settings
• Stop accepting mail for accounts that have not been accessed for certain time (g_disable_smtp_after )
• Allow retry period to be set (g_retry_bounces)
• Improved handling of excessive invalid logins
• All multivalue settings are now ordered
• Fix: Bug that messages were sometimes bounced if received within 1 minute of pop login (introduced 1.3j)
• Fix: IMAP Allow subfolders in Outlook Express + several minor folder update issues
• Fix: minor IMAP quota bug
• Fix: Bug that first Friends email was sometimes not delivered

SurgeMail 1.3j 10-May-2003

• Ability to search for administration settings
• Allow old_pophost to be checked subsequent to first login (old_pophost_always)
• Additional control over user cache (g_authent_cache size, g_authent_cachebad)
• New tarpit setting (g_tarpit_badrcpt)
• Tailorable Quota 80%, Quota reached, and bounce messages (warning.eml, quota.eml, failed.eml files)
• Automatic daylight savings timezone identification for "Received" headers
• Web admin interface changes to more effectively handle large numbers of domains
• Fix: Account quota file gets automatically rebuilt to prevent incorrect quota limit messages
• Fix: Automatically removes trailing spaces from 'mail from' envelopes
• Fix: Additional header linefeed(if headers over 2kB and packet broken on cr/lf boundary)
• Fix: Variety of minor fixes

SurgeMail 1.3i 30-April-2003

• Ability to search for administration settings
• Display users' quota in administration interface
• Allow virus scanning to be enabled on per user basis (g_user_virus_scan)
• Allow server side storing of suspected spam messages (see user's spam settings)
• Allow url aliases (url_alias)
• Fix: Under certain conditions swatch would not restart surgemail
• Fix:Add missing contents template files

SurgeMail 1.3h 28-April-2003

• Fix:Bug in g_ssl_per_domain preventing surgemail startup if set.

SurgeMail 1.3g 24-April-2003

• Frame driven administration interface
• Added quota warning message at 80% quota and limit message at 100% quota
• Cutom smitecrc spam detect filters using local.rul file (see filter.dat for rule syntax)
• Addition of arbitrary message scanning (g_scan_*) (equivalent of dmail process command)
• Addition of cc forward based on from address (g_forward_from_cc)
• Valid recipient check on from envelope (g_badfrom_check, g_badfrom_stamp)
• Spambot is now part of distribution
• Fix: Several friends system fixes + features (add g_friends_ignore, only new entries in report, 1st email delivery correct for automatically add new addresses)
• Fix: Corruption of webmail surghost.ini when settings of existing domain saved in surgemail admin interface
• Fix: Timezone in Received header changes correctly with daylight savings time
• Fix: Trailing spaces in delivery address stripped before attempted delivery
• Fix: Memory leak
• Fix: Virus command (g_virus_cmd) crash on bounce containing virus and certain attachments not being deleted

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