Major Update 7.7

Release overview

Release Date: 17th May 2016
Release Version: v7.7.0

⚠ Please Note:

Atmail 7.7 contains significant upgrades to core services, including jQuery and Dovecot.

Please note: Dovecot configuration has moved location

Old Location: /usr/local/atmail/mailserver/etc/dovecot.conf
New Location: /usr/local/atmail/mailserver/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

New Features/Enhancements

Core Product

Feature	Feature Description	Component(s) Impacted	User(s) Impacted	Impact Description
IMAP	Dovecot upgraded to version 2.2.22	Dovecot	End users	Functionality
jQuery	jQuery upgraded to version 1.6.3	WebMail & WebAdmin Interface	End users	Functionality UX
jQuery.ui	jQuery.ui upgraded to version 1.11.4	WebMail and WebAdmin Interface	End users	Functionality UX
jQuery Plugins	Multiple jQuery plugins updated	alphanum, alphanumeric, bgiframe, colorhelpers, form, numberformatter, php, scrollTo, stronglastword, selectToUISlider, iphone-style-checkboxes, spellchecker, qtip, excanvas, moment, leaflet, format, d3, flot	End users	Functionality

Feature Improvements

Core Product

WebMail & WebAdmin Interface

Feature	Feature Description	Component(s) Impacted	User(s) Impacted	Impact Description
Enhanced Auto Reply	Auto Reply / Out of Office responder enhanced to include: Subject Start Date End Date	WebMail Interface	End users accessing the WebMail interface	Functionality
Multiple attachment download	Users can now download multiple email attachments in one click	WebMail Interface	End users accessing the WebMail interface	Functionality
Encryption	SHA-512 set as default encryption	Database	End users accessing the WebMail interface	Functionality
Debug Levels	Introduction of Debug Levels (User & Developer) to send debug messages to the debug.log file and reduce number of errors displaying in the UI when debug is enabled	WebMail & WebAdmin Interface	End users who use the WebMail & WebAdmin interface	Functionality
WebAdmin Navigation	Dropdown menus / select lists within the WebAdmin interface did not open if you clicked exactly on the dropdown arrow	WebAdmin Interface	End users who use the WebAdmin interface	Functionality
List Update after User Import	After using the WebAdmin Interface to import users, the user and domain lists are automatically updated to reflect changes	WebAdmin Interface	End users who use the WebAdmin interface	Functionality
Folder configuration for 3rd Party Mail Clients (Trash, Sent etc)	Atmail now supports the IMAP SPECIAL-USE extension that assist with automatic configuration of 3rd party mail clients, such as Apple Mail	3rd Party Mail Clients	End users accessing their email using a 3rd party client	Functionality
Subadmin creation	Subadmins cannot be created without being assigned to a domain. The system messages have been improved to clarify this while creating Subadmin accounts	WebAdmin Interface	End users accessing the WebAdmin interface	Functionality
Translation Improvements	French, Spanish and German language files have been improved. In addition, validation checks have been added to the underlying code to ensure invalid language code cannot be inserted.	WebMail Interface	End users accessing the WeMmail interface	Functionality
API Improvement	Added postFetchUserData hook to API base controller to support alteration of user data related to an API endpoint from any plugin Added ability for plugins to modify API userUpdate arguments Added ability for plugins to call users::changeAccountId	API	Users extending their platform using the Atmail API	Functionality
Multipart/mixed message support	Added support for multipart/mixed message parts that have no boundary set	WebMail Interface	End users accessing the WebMail interface	Functionality
UTF8 characters in headers	Added support for UTF8 characters in headers	WebMail Interface	End users accessing the WebMail interface	Functionality
Organisation and display of aliases	Aliases now organized by domain with domain headings. Domain sections are in alphabetical order and entries in a domain section are sorted alphabetically by AliasName	WebAdmin Interface	End users accessing the WebAdmin interface	UX
Email forwarding disabled for inactive accounts	If a user's account has been disabled or deactivated, but they have set up a mail forwarding rule prior to being disabled/deactivated, email received will not be forwarded to the forwarding address	WebMail Interface	End users accessing the WebMail interface	Functionality
Spam filter instruction	Improved clarity of information and instruction displayed to the end user regarding spam filter sensitivity settings	WebMail Interface	End users accessing the WebMail interface	UX
IMAP login retry & improved errors	Atmail now attempts (up to) three times to login if there are issues writing to the socket (connection dropped). Each login attempt is spaced five seconds apart. If all attempts fail, the following error message is displayed to users: Cannot connect to the mail server. This may indicate the server is experiencing unusually high load or is unavailable. Please try again.	WebMail Interface	End users accessing the WebMail interface	Functionality UX
Automatic removal of corrupted Dovecot files	Automatic removal of dovecot files (for example, dovecot.index) that become corrupted and require deletion.	Core Services	Administrators managing IMAP servers	Functionality
Contacts Refresh Icon	Added a force refresh button to the WebMail contacts interface	WebMail Interface	End users accessing the WebMail interface	Functionality
Improved formatting of consecutive replies	Improved formatting of consecutive replies when viewing an email	WebMail Interface	End users accessing the WebMail interface	Functionality
Ability to change existing plain text passwords	Introduced the ability for an administrator to migrate existing plain-text passwords to current hashing method.	WebAdmin Interface	End users accessing the WebAdmin interface	Functionality
Outgoing email scan	WebAdmin > Services > Anti-Spam: If SpamAssassin is enabled, but "skip trusted networks" is disabled, outgoing email will be scanned for Spam	WebAdmin Interface	End users accessing the WebAdmin interface	Functionality
Smooth Scrolling	Enabled smooth scrolling for composer resize	WebMail	End users who use the WebMail interface	UX
Address Book & User Manager	Improved addressbook and user manager scrolling	WebMail & WebAdmin Interface	End users who use the WebMail and/or WebAdmin interface	UX
Visual Indicators	Tabs now use a colour to indicate loading Hover labels added to graphs in the dashboard	WebMail & WebAdmin Interface	End users who use the WebMail and/or WebAdmin interface	UX
Minification	Many jQuery scripts minify files on demand	WebMail & WebAdmin Interface	End users who use the WebMail and/or WebAdmin interface	UX

Bug Fixes

Core Product

Bugfix	Bugfix Description	Component(s) Impacted	User(s) Impacted	Impact Description
Email attachments not sent	Under certain configurations email attachments are not sent	WebMail	End users who use the WebMail Interface	Functionality
HTML email rendering	Some HTML crafted email rendered poorly or with errors when opened	WebMail	End users who use the WebMail interface	Functionality
Subadmin unable to edit a user	Subadmins were unable to edit a user if the user belonged to a group	WebAdmin	Subadmins using the WebAdmin interface	Functionality
Unable to attach from storage within Draft email	When a user edits a saved draft email, the composer did not provide an option to "attach from storage"	WebMail	End users who use the WebMail interface	Functionality
Quota warning and management errors	When a user was over quota they were unable to delete email or move mail to trash or to a custom folder. The same user still continued to receive email if email filters were set. In some situations, quota warnings were impacted by an error in detecting the user's maildir.	WebMail	End users who use the WebMail interface	Functionality
Unable to download attachments (Android)	Android Device > Mobile UI > Users were unable to download attachments when SSL was enabled	Mobile UI	Android end users who accessed the Mobile UI over SSL	Functionality
Forwarded emails not displaying images	Emails forwarded to users on external providers (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) do not display embedded images	WebMail	End users who use the WebMail interface	Functionality
Administrator set "preferred landing page" affects Subadmins	If the Administrator set the system's "Preferred Landing Page" to a page a Subadmin did not have the privileges to view, Subadmins could not login to the WebAdmin interface	WebAdmin Interface	Subadmins accessing the WebAdmin interface	Functionality
Scroll bar overlaps group removal button	When a certain number of groups are created, the scroll bar overlapped the remove group button	WebAdmin Interface	End users who use the WebAdmin interface	Functionality
Unable to delete email in mobile interface	Customers who deleted email via the mobile user interface had the email re-appear when logging back into email	Mobile UI	End users who accessed the Mobile UI	Functionality
User Manager Login Map Blank	The map feature in user manager displaying user login locations was not functioning	WebAdmin Interface	End users who accessed the WebAdmin interface	Functionality
Email filters not functioning for users with hyphenated usernames	Email filters were not functioning when the username contained a hyphen	WebMail Interface	End users who accessed the WebMail interface	Functionality
Underscores in email subject line	Email subjects showed underscores instead of spaces. Added support for MIME Q encoding.	WebMail Interface	End users who accessed the WebMail interface	Functionality
WebAdmin UI error	WebAdmin interface > Services > Anti-Spam Settings: descriptions within the user interface stated "below" where they should've stated "above". i.e. "The Spam score threshold above, is what a mail has to score, to be fed into Bayesian learning systems"	WebAdmin Interface	End users who access the WebAdmin Interface	UX
Auto reply error	When a user email filters set, auto-reply did not function	WebMail Interface	End users who access the WebMail interface	Functionality
Edit User toolbar button	WebAdmin > User Manager > Edit User did not display the edit user page	WebAdmin Interface	End users who access the WebAdmin interface	Functionality
Email Signature Image	Email sent from the mobile UI did not send an image within the email signature, when an image had been added via URL	Mobile UI	End users who access the Mobile interface	Functionality
Page Scroll Error	Page did not scroll up after saving edits to a domain preventing the end user seeing the success or error messages associated with the save action	WebAdmin Interface	End users who access the WebAdmin interface	UX
Invalid JSON for Admin Graphs	Fixed invalid JSON being returned for administration graphing functions	WebAdmin Interface	End users who access the WebAdmin interface	Functionality
Search query result highlighting	Fixed search query results highlighting	WebMail and WebAdmin Interface	End users who access the WebMail and WebAdmin interface	Functionality UX
iFrame detection	Fixed selector for detection if iFrame RTE zone is resizable. Allows correct resize of composer on most browsers.	WebMail Interface	End users who access the WebMail interface	Functionality UX
Incorrect count	Fixed incorrect unread count display when moving/deleting messages	WebMail Interface	End users who access the WebMail interface	Functionality UX
Tab Error	Fixed interface Tab issue where content did not load correctly if a user clicked across multiple tabs very quickly	WebMail Interface	End users who access the WebMail interface	Functionality UX
Long email subject overwrites action buttons	Added Z-Index to "To" field in threaded email list. Reply button is now clickable if subject line overlaps.	WebMail Interface	End users who access the WebMail interface	Functionality UX
Admin Graph Bug	Graphs within the WebAdmin interface provide hover and click response	WebAdmin Interface	End users who access the WebAdmin interface	Functionality UX
Subadmin Listing	Interface correctly reloads Subadmin list after Subadmin save/edit	WebAdmin Interface	End users who access the WebAdmin interface	Functionality UX

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