SMTPBeamer - History

History

v3.04 1998-05-16
Released

v3.05 1998-07-07
Fixed the problem that a POP3 server sends blanks before the result code
Fixed deletion of temp files in POP3 sessions
Changed MBAdmin so that deleted database records will not be reused
Added SOCKS support
Added wake up for dialup router

v3.06 1998-09-03
Fixed a bug in setting the size of outgoing messages in MBAdmin
Added support to relay only from specific hosts
Added support for spam blocking using MAPS RBL (http://mail-abuse.org )
Added support for star domain
Added AUTH=LOGIN for inbound SMTP
Added sending of uploading an attachment via Web connector (changed s_msg.htm)
Added support for ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-7 and ISO-8859-9
Added a third digit for the thread number
Added support for saving inbound SMTP message to HIST-IN folder

v3.07 1998-10-26
Added support for user message size limit
Added support for spam blocking using ORBS
Added support for Auto Detect e-mail address in inbound POP3
Added support for discarding duplicate e-mail in inbound POP3 routing based
on identical message ID

v3.08 1998-12-01
Added support for Resent-To: and Apparently-To: in inbound POP3 with auto detect
Added support to directly deliver messages for local users
Added support to signal MBServer that it should immediately collect and send messages
(please read the section Helper Programs for documentation and a complete description)
Added auto detection of name server
Added a logoff page (logoff.htm) for the Web interface to force the browser to
close the session

v3.09 1999-01-30
Fixed a problem when starting with a wrong configuration
Changed the way a connect is done so that it does not take 5 minutes to find
out that a host is not responding
Changed POP3 greeting so that Mac clients are less confused
Changed the startup of the threads so that connections are refused when the configuration is not valid
Added a workaround for a configuration bug in some QPOP POP3 servers
Added support for the VRFY command
Added a access statistics for each mailbox
Added skipping of bad POP3 messages which are not downloadable
Added support for all auto detected name servers

v3.10 1999-03-22
Fixed a bug in Auto Detecting relay
Fixed downloading of corrupt messages
Added check to make sure CRLF are valid in a POP3 message
Added a DNS query to detect local POP3 mailbox(es)

v3.11 1999-04-23
Added a workaround for accessing the Web interface with IE 5.0
Added support for APOP
Added support for virus scanning
Added support for spam blocking using MAPS DUL (http://mail-abuse.org )
Added support to disable reverse lookup of the IP address. This speeds up connection time when there is not a properly configured DNS is available
Fixed reschedule of more than one message to a host when the host timed out
Fixed confusing POP3 port settings
Removed support for spam blocking using ORBS, because they shut down their service

v3.12 1999-05-27
Added a switch to allow delivering to original recipient after a SMTP forwarding
Added SMTP transcript to NDR messages

v3.13 1999-07-28
Fixed a problem with local mailbox when DNS is not responding
Fixed a problem with invalid messages from Lotus Notes
Changed the checking of duplicate inbound POP3 messages to be on by default
Added support for converting an invalid return path to a blank address
Added support for RFC 2034 (Enhanced Error Codes)
Added support for RFC 1893 (Enhanced Mail System Status Codes)
Added support for RFC 1891 ( Delivers Status Notification)
Added support for user defined delivery status notification (smtpdsn.txt)
Added an extra thread for virus scanning

v3.14 1999-09-27
Fixed a problem with the authentication checkbox in MBAdmin
Fixed a problem local SMTP forwarding from a non existing mailbox
Fixed quoting in CSV file
Fixed inbound and outbound message size limits
Changed the "wake up router" to be a little bit faster in detecting an already open route
Added routing for specific e-mail domain to make it easier to use SMTPBeamer
as a firewall relay host
Added address translation to translate e-mail domains, mailboxes or a complete domain to one single address

v3.15 1999-12-02
Removed Norton Anti Virus from the supported scanner options, because it
does not return a proper error level in the newest versions
Added check for relaying of reserved IP addresses
Added message compression when sending to another SMTPBeamer
(30 - 80% depending of the attachments in the message)
Fixed DSN to be outbound rather than to inbound

v3.16 2000-01-08
Added a workaround for the invalid http response of an Mac IE 4.5
Fixed forwarding of virus infected e-mail to go to postmaster@xxxxxx.xxx

v3.17 2000-02-25
Fixed web access when the message has no "From" field
Added support for forwarding to a group of addresses and for recursive forwards
Added an option of how to handle a virus infected message
Added a more verbose logfile when processing a message
Added a switch to dump the header of a message to the logfile
Added support to limit concurrent connections
Changed sorting of messages in http inbox so that the newest message is on top
Fixed console screen when running as a interactive service
Added workaround for Win2000 which reports an error when shutting down the service
Added support for the X-RCPT-TO field in inbound POP3 messages

v3.18 2000-04-27
Fixed name server auto detect in Win2000
Changed so that messages are copied into the HIST folder when the message
arrives (and not when the message is sent)
Changed sending of an NDR to an local mailbox without going over the relay server
Added Cut, Copy and Paste to MBAdmin so that it should be easier to
duplicate a POP3 mailbox
Added support for outbound virus scanning

v3.19 2000-07-18
Added an option to relay messages for authenticated users, which is
helpful for roaming users
Added support for CHUNKING (RFC 1830)
Added complete support for RFC 1891 ( Delivers Status Notification)
Added signal to send the current logfile to postmaster
Added option to purge old logfiles

v3.20 2000-10-27
Added a workaround for servers that deny the RSET command
Added support for F-PROT 3.x anti-virus scanner
Added support for command pipelining (RFC1854)
Added support for message chunking (RFC1830)
Added support for virus scanning of html pages

v3.21 2000-12-21
Fixed virus scanning with the newer versions of F-PROT
Added support for the Return-Path: header line

v3.22 2001-02-10
Added support for RFC 2554 ( SMTP AUTH LOGIN )
Added support for RFC 2595 ( SMTP AUTH PLAIN )
Added support for RFC 2195 ( SMTP AUTH CRAM-MD5 )
Added support for SMTP AUTH NTLM
Added support for RFC 1734 ( POP3 AUTH )
Added support for RFC 2222 ( POP3 SASL )
Added support for RFC 2195 ( POP AUTH CRAM-MD5 )
Added support for POP3 AUTH NTLM
Changed the default SMTP connection limit to 100 concurrent connections
Changed the default POP3 connection limit to 10 and 100 concurrent connections

v3.23 2001-04-11
Changed the logfile to use UTF-8 rather than ASCII
Changed the .dat and .ini files to use ANSI and UTF-8 rather than ASCII
Changed the maps blocking to use the new dialups.mail-abuse.org and blackholes.mail-abuse.org
Fixed translation of full name in web templates
Fixed the DNS query for the MX record to stop after the first server in
the case a domain has no MX
Fixed the DNS query for the MX record to query for an A record even one
of the DSN servers is down
Added support for messages encoded in UTF-7 and UTF-8
Added support for KOI8-R ( Russian ) and Big5 ( Chinese ) message decoding
Added support for code page 1255 ( Hebrew ) message decoding
Added forward of "postmaster" for each domain unless there is a already a
forwarding or a star mailbox

v3.24 2001-05-04
Fixed crashing of MBAdmin when a file was missing
Fixed detection of Magistr virus
Changed the parsing of the header of a message to accept only a blank line
with CRLF as end-of-header
Added the option to scan embedded TNEF ( WINMAIL.DAT ) for viruses

v3.25 2001-06-07
Fixed decoding of messages with more than 40000 Content-Type definitions
Fixed console screen buffer handling when running on Windows® 2000/2003
Added a check for an on-access virus scanner, because the scanner will block POPBeamer from accessing its files
Added additional checking when reading queued messages from disk

v3.26 2001-08-10
Fixed SMTP authentication with servers that announce only AUTH and PLAIN
Fixed a problem decoding the attachments of a multipart/related message
Changed the default charset for non-deliver-messages from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-7
Combined MAPS RBL, DUL and RSS into one lookup
Added the option to manually define spam dns lookup services

v3.27 2001-10-18
Changed that the access statistic is disabled by default
Changed definition of MAPS, because MAPS is now a pay service
Added user defined Spam Lookup Services
Added support for Sophos Anti-Virus 3.x

v3.28 2001-11-29
Fixed a problem with reply all in HTTP
Fixed detection of Aliz virus
Added the option to notify the postmaster in the case a new program version is available
Added the option to perform an online check for a new program version
Added the option to send echo messages
Added the option to send out-of-office messages
Added SPA (Secure Password Authentication) in POP3 for Outlook Express

v3.29 2002-02-27
Fixed the announcement of authentication in inbound ESMTP
Fixed disabling of CAPA command
Fixed the multiply host name announcement in ETRN
Fixed auto detect of dns server when running under a user account
Added diagnostic logging for the virus scanner
Added support for virus scanning in the EML message format
Added support for SSL / TLS encryption

v3.30 2002-05-03
Fixed HELO when ESMTP is disabled
Fixed deleting of the xxxx.tmp files after a invalid BDAT transfer
Fixed Return-Path header line when DSN NOTIFY=NEVER is used

v3.31 2002-08-09
Changed the handling of a SSL/TLS connection when the
target host has no CN (common name)
Changed the way the POP3 UIDL is calculated (some clients like a unique UIDL)
Added support for nested digest messages
Added the option to define the temp path without changing the TEMP environment variable
Added the IP address to the message that will be shown to the
sending server when blocked by MAPS/SLS

v3.32 2002-12-04
Fix: In a non-delivery report the header and the body text was sent back
rather than only the header
Fix: Contacted the authoritative name server of a domain
even when the local name server provided an authoritative answer
Fix: Decoding of Big5 HTML messages
Fix: Typo in a delivery status notification
Chg: SMTPBeamer allows a CNAME as an MX records;
this is prohibited by RFC 1713 and 2181, but a lot of sites use it
New: Check of the name server at startup to make sure it is working
New: Support for ISO-2022-JP (Japanese Characters)
New: /PROGRAM as argument for McAfee scanner

v3.33 2003-03-28
Fix: SLS was not always correctly blocking the message
Fix: Encoding BIG5 messages a temp file was not deleted
Fix: Decoding of quoted printable pdf files sent by Exchange 5.5
Chg: The SMTP HELO and the greeting shows the name of the IP address to which SMTPBeamer is bound to and not the main machine name
Chg: Decoding of a filename which is longer than 256 bytes
Chg: SMTPBeamer will not longer send to a domain where the MX record point to localhost
Chg: SMTPBeamer no longer uses an authoritative name server answer
to detect if a domain is not existing
Chg: SMTPBeamer no longer supports the old file based registration method
New: Outbound SMTP authentication
New: SSL/TLS SMTP encryption
New: Support for 8BITMIME ( RFC 1652 )
New: Decoding of yEnc, Deflate-8bit and Deflate-Base64
New: SMTPBeamer stops processing messages when the disk has less then 20MB free space
New: Checking the responsibility of a domain using the name server can now disabled
v3.34 2003-06-04
Chg: Domain responsibility can now be set in MBAdmin
Chg: Messages in the history folder are now longer byte stuffed
New: MBAdmin does not longer overwrite smtpbeam.ini
when the file was changed manually or through MBServer
v3.35 2003-10-03
Fix: Delete the temp file after a compressed pop3 download
Fix: Lost Outbound SMTP authentication password when other settings where changed
Fix: HTTP logon with space in the user name
Chg: Workaround for Verisign Sitefinder service which
captures all non-existing .com and .net domains and
breaks the verification of non-existing domains
Chg: SMTPBeamer ignores IP addresses that point to a top level wildcard A record
Chg: The IP address that a SLS/RBL returns must be
127.0.0.x or 127.1.0.x or else it will be ignored
( in some configuration the name server did not work in the past and
now due to Verisign Sitefinder service it now returns an ip address for every host )
v3.36 2004-02-05
Fix: POP3 client timed out using the TOP command
Chg: Relaying is disabled by default
Chg: Static route for a specific e-mail domain has now an optional port
New: Using a honeypot for mailers that use the AUTH command to probe for valid users
New: Option to purge old statistic files
New: Directory for the history files can be changed
New: Option to purge old history files
v3.37 2004-09-15
Fix: MBAdmin crashed when the history directory was changed
Fix: RFC822 deep counting of a message
Fix: Killer messages which have ASCII codes in the message id are
not properly sent to a POP3 client
Fix: Bare LF are removed while coping the message into the POP3 mailbox
New: Support for KS_C_5601-1987( Korean ) message decoding
New: Added /ARCHIVE to the default switches for F-Prot
v3.38 2005-02-10
Fix: Decoding of plus sign in DSN ORCPT
Fix: Recipients server returns 4xx and 5xx and 2xx status in one SMTP session
Fix: Removed the dot at the end of a TMP file, because Sophos 3.29 can't find such a file
New: The demo version sends a message to postmaster before it expires
New: Context specific help for the option menu

v3.39 2005-08-03
Chg: SMTPBeamer verifies the TLS/SLL certificate at startup and disables TLS/SSL when the certificate is not valid
v3.40 2005-12-05
New: Parsing of invalid Outlook addresses like "user@domain.com" <'user@domain.com'>
v3.41 2006-05-03
New: POP3 and HTTP server with TLS / SSL support ( View->Options->TLS / SSL )
Fix: Original-Envelope-Id in DSN
v3.42 2007-07-05
Chg: Send and receive functions optimized
Chg: Delivery Status information is added to the text part of a failed DSN ( non-delivery report )
Chg: Immediately send a non-delivery report when the recipient domain does not have a MX or A record
Chg: SMTPBeamer no longer uses the system TEMP directory,
SMTPBeamer creates a temp directory below the SMTPBeamer directory
Fix: a TLS outgoing connection was not terminated when
the other side dropped the TLS in the middle of a session
New: Better support for x64 operating systems
New: XWall supports RAR archives the same way as ZIP archives ( unrar.dll is needed )
New: Exe are now digitally signed
v3.43 2008-05-15

New: Force the application to run in Admin Approval Mode when UAC ( User Account Control ) is enabled in Vista or Windows 2008
New: User can change local POP3 password via web page
New: POP3 password can be stored in the database without encoding
New: Web: New style using new HTML templates ( for the old templates see http://www.dataenter.co.at/doc/smtpbeamer_admin_options.htm#webtemplates )
New: Web: compose message using a java editor ( View->Options->Web )
New: Web: use HTML format for message preview ( View->Options->Web )
New: Web: delete message from the main message list
New: Web: on forward include attachments from the original message ( View->Options->Web )
New: Web: on forward and reply append the original message without intending the line ( View->Options->Web )
Chg: Web: codepage changed from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
Chg: Web: date format uses long format
Chg: Web: logging is now less verbose ( View->Options->Web )
Chg: By default SMTPBeamer uses DNS rather then a Smart Host for outgoing SMTP messages
Chg: Reject e-mail to a non-existing recipient during the SMTP session
Fix: SMTP greeting delay removed
v3.44 2009-02-20
New: Warning when ini is read-only or no read-write ACL
Chg: UAC is requireAdministrator for MBSever.exe and highestAvailable for MBAdmin.exe
Chg: Authenticated POP3 clients are no longer checked against SLS/RBL
Fix: ESMTP PIPELINING with several RCPT TO and all of them get a different error
Fix: POP3 NOOP counter reset on every RETR or DELE because clients that sends NOOP between each message can't download a lot of messages in one session
Fix: Deleting of several messages when the POP3 client sends the QUIT command
Fix: Domain translation didn't work as expected
Fix: Manifest and UAC elevation also for MBServer.exe
Fix: ESMTP AUTH LOGIN with Microsoft .NET Framework (Namespace System.Net.Mail)
v3.45 2009-03-18
Chg: Plain text part is added to a web based HTML message
Fix: out-of-office message initiated from the web interface as HTML message had no body
Fix: Malformed DNS packet causes a crash in rare situations
v3.46 2010-01-20
New: non-delivery report shows the announced ESMTP SIZE
New: Support for RFC 2319 - Ukrainian Character Set KOI8-U
New: Disable TLS/SSL weak cipher ( TLSServOmitWeakCipher=True, TLSClientOmitWeakCipher=True )
Fix: parenthesis in Received: header line
Fix: MSG-OUT and MSG-IN directory are created even when ChkDsk changed them to a file
Fix: SSLv2 security flaw ( SSLv2 is still in place or else SSLv3/SSLv2 clients can't auto-negotiate )
Chg: Default codepage from UTF-7 to UTF-8 because some free mailer don't support UTF-7
Chg: DNS queries use udp rather then tcp
Chg: Timeout for DATA set to the values of RFC 5321
Chg: Using Microsoft VCC rather then Watcom for 32bit application
Chg: In 64bit SMTPBeamer, MBAdmin is now a native 64bit application
v3.47 2010-08-17
New: SMTP with SSL/TLS on port 465 (vergin.net as smart host)
New: Switches for ClamAV virus scanner
New: Delay after some failed inbound SMTP logon
Chg: Update switches for McAfee Command Line Scanner v6.x
Chg: Updated e-mail address parser for RFC 3696, RFC 5321 and RFC 5322
Chg: In a TLS session the whole certificate chain is sent to the client
Chg: Web: message list view highlights the current column
Fix: POP3 TOP command had invalid timeout value
Fix: DNS client id validation
v3.48 2011-06-23
New: Support for POP3 STLS
New: Bind inbound SMTP to several IP addresses or ports (SMTPIPAddress2=xxxx:yyy)
New: Timeout of 10 minutes for on-demand virus scanner (VirusScannerTimeout=10000)
New: TLS information shows the algorithm and bits of the public certificate
Chg: Graceful shutdown with CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT in Windows 7/2008
Chg: OpenSSL updated to v1.0.0a
Chg: Authenticated user bypasses spam checking
Fix: DNS query for smart host and static route used wrong name server
Fix: POP3 announced AUTH NTLM even when NTLM was disabled
Fix: DSN for persistent temporary failure had a status field of 5.x.x rather then 4.x.x.
Fix: Parsing a very long Content-Type: header line