AXIGEN 7.2 verfügbar - neues Webmail

Seit heute ist AXIGEN 7.2 verfügbar - das Highlight dürfte sicher das neue Webmail sein. Es gibt nun auch die Möglichkeit Werbung oder Hinweise im Webmail einzublenden. Insbesondere für Provider interessant.

Das neue Webmail ist zwar Funktional, aber noch Technology Preview - heißt nur auf Englisch und nur Mail und Kalender. Wir warten nun auf Ihr Feedback um das neue Webmail nach und nach weiterzuentwickeln. Sie sind also dazu aufgerufen, gerne Ihre Wünsche einzubringen.

Auch hat der Hersteller viele der Anregungen und Verbesserungsvorschläge der letzten Wochen implementiert. Aus diesem Grund ergibt sich eine große Liste an Neuerungen:

AXIGEN Mail Server 7.2

New features
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WEBMAIL: New WebMail interface based on the Ajax technology (that can be used in parallel with the older, standard one).

Technology Preview:
- Advanced navigation: Keyboard navigation, Drag-and-drop, Keyboard shortcuts, Dynamic loading / caching, "Live" email list view (no pagination)
- Information access improvements: Attachment management, Frequent folders
- External application integration: SOAP access to mailbox data, Advertising capabilities

Enhancements
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AUTOMATIC MIGRATION:
- The AXIGEN package for Windows operating systems now performs automatic upgrades from earlier versions.
SERVER/CORE:
- The WebMail and WebAdmin services can now encode their responses using the GZIP application if the client supports it.
- Centralized cross-domain management of ActiveSync(R) accounts, from CLI and WebAdmin; the CLI command "LIST ActiveSyncAccounts" now supports wildcard characters.
- Default timezone and default language configurable at server and domain levels, to control how these attributes are set when accounts are created.
FILTERS:
- SMTP-filters "RFCBreak" variable controlled from the WebAdmin wizard.
- AXIGEN now sends the optional "connect macro package" before the "connect package" itself; this is useful for Milter clients that need macro information.
STORAGE:
- Enhanced storage management from the CLI and WebAdmin interfaces.
-- Capability to easily activate (enable) and deactivate (disable) domains.
-- Capability to change parameters for any storage unit of a domain storage, while the domain is enabled or disabled.
-- Capability to permanently delete a domain storage.
-- One new parameter for using a storage unit: "readOnly".
DOMAINS:
- New "customerReference" attribute available at domain-level and account-level for keeping customer-specific information; this attribute is manageable from CLI and WebAdmin.
- Capability to enable / disable the use of the Outlook Connector and Web Personal Organizer at 3 levels: account defaults, account class and user account.
WEBMAIL:
- Advertising from WebMail.
-- New attributes for enabling and controlling the advertising displayed in the WebMail interface.
-- These attributes are manageable from CLI and WebAdmin at 3 levels: account defaults, account class and user account.
-- These attributes are synchronized with a LDAP server when the LDAP synchronization is enabled on that domain.
-- These attributes can also be managed from the Active Directory extension.
WEBADMIN:
- The domain's name is now included in the title of the configuration pages, for all domain objects.

Bugfixes from the previous version
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FTP-BACKUP:
- Configuration files containing special characters can now be restored.
REPORTING:
- The AXIGEN.mib file contained a typo that made certain MIB compilers fail.
IMAP:
- The "Expunge" command did not work on other users' folders.
- AXIGEN no longer hangs when using the IMAP ACL intensively.
- The EXPUNGE response has been removed for the FETCH, SEARCH and STORE commands, as specified by RFC 3501.
CALENDAR:
- Attendees that deleted events from which they had been previously uninvited were added again to the events in question.
- The event organizer no longer receives "Declined:Canceled: Event Name" messages from attendees when they delete the events that were either cancelled or for which they were uninvited.
FILTERS:
- The first word from a new line following a HTML tag could not be replaced/found.
ICAL:
- Events with attendees can now be saved from Mozilla Sunbird.
ACTIVESYNC®:
- Null message headers or body used to break the synchronization with mobiledevices.
- Fixed several contact fields compatibility issues between Outlook and BlackBerry smart phones.
- Fixed several event fields compatibility issues between WebMail and BlackBerry smart phones.
- The synchronization no longer fails for certain emails.
- Attachments containing NULL bytes were corrupted.
- On fetch operations, messages are no longer truncated.
AUTHENTICATION:
- On Windows systems, any attempt to authenticate using GSSAPI when the Kerberos library was not configured caused the server to not respond.
WEBMAIL:
- Some sharing permissions were lost when changing them from either the standard or the AJAX interface.
- Recursive events now preserve the set starting date.
- Certain contacts were incorrectly formatted.
WEBADMIN:
- Disabled domains are no longer displayed in the domain list of account management.
LDAPSYNC:
- Adding accounts to AXIGEN no longer fails when performing certain clustered operations.

Platform and application support changes
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Added support for:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
- Fedora 11
- Ubuntu Server 9.04
- Mandriva 2009.1
- OpenBSD 4.5
- NetBSD 5.0
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (PPC)

Removed support for:
- Fedora 9
- Ubuntu Server 7.10
- Mandriva 2008.0
- OpenBSD 4.3
- Fedora 8 (ppc)

- AXIGEN Outlook Connector 7.2

New Features
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- Support for Completed/Forwarded flags.
- Synchronization of selected Address Book folders with the WebMail service.

Enhancements
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- Changes made in the cached mode are first performed offline and committed to AXIGEN in the background.
- Moving a folder in the cache mode has been optimized so as to avoid the copying of messages.
- The synchronization of moved messages has been improved.
- Deleting messages has been optimized to be executed with a single command (UID EXPUNGE) instead of first marking the messages for deletion and expunging them later.
- Support for distribution lists has now been added.

Bugfixes from the previous versions
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- Windows character encodings are now decoded if presented as 'cp'.
- The MAPI connector now uses global encodings in a MIME message.
- Flags set from the WebMail interface cannot be removed from the Outlook client.
- Fixed Outlook-MAPI compatibility for task proposal mails.
- The Outlook Connector no longer crashes when trying to delete a reccurence of a task.
- Distribution lists' members that are deleted in WebMail are now removed from MS. Outlook too.
- The Outlook Connector no longer crashes when appending messages on an IMAP connection.
- The read receipt requests from a user with an encoded name are now sent.

Dank Ihrer Hilfe haben wir das Problem identifizieren können und auch beheben. Vielleicht geben Sie uns bei Zeiten einfach eine Rückmeldung.

Das neue Webmail ist im Moment nur "Technology Preview" - frei nach dem Motto "so könnte es aussehen".

Es ist unwahrscheinlich schwierig ein neues Webmail nun von A-Z fertig zu machen um dann festzustellen, dass die User es gar nicht so wollten. Mit Jahresende soll das komplette Webmail dann fertig sein.

Wir warten nun auf aktive Rückmeldung der User um alle Verbesserungsvorschlage und Hinweise nach dem Motto "dieses Feature hätten wir gerne und dieses, usw." - so formen wir ein Produkt, welches den Ansprüchen der User gerecht wird, anstatt irgendetwas vorzugeben.

Den Spamscore gab und gibt es auf Server-Ebene. Die Erfahrung hat aber gezeigt, dass das nicht ausreicht. Jeder User hat ein anderes "Gefühl" für Spam und kann dieses (wenn gewünscht) selbst korrigieren um so das eigene Level festlegen zu können. Was ich als Spam empfinde, empfindet jemand anderes als noch akzeptabel - besser gesagt wollte diese Mails sogar haben.

Die Spam-Methodik wird aber ebenso noch komplett umgebaut:
AXIGEN Mail Server - Product Features & Supported Platforms

Das sind so die Erfahrungen der letzten Jahre mit AXIGEN - aus denen haben wir gelernt und möchten das Produkt immer besser machen. Alleine die Lokalisierung (die wir vornehmen) benötigt leider einige Wochen an Arbeit. Diese Arbeit ist dann für 16 Sprachen zu erledigen. Von daher wird dies noch kommen, aber erst wenn wir einmal Feedback der User haben.

Es könnte ja auch sein, dass ein AJAX-Webmail der Großteil der User gar nicht haben will.