Anti Spam - Spam Filter - Spam Appliance



		Release March 20, 2006 - Version #2000 - MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next release of the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance system software with an expected release date between March 20, 2006 and March 22, 2006. IMPORTANT: Effective with the October 18, 2005 release of the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance system software, there have been several changes to the automatic update service. If you wish to use the automatic update service, you will need to modify the settings found under the "System Settings" tab in the "System Updates" sub-menu. You will be asked to define how often your appliance checks for new system software updates and at what time the check will take place. Once you have configured these options, your MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance will automatically check for new updates and apply them. Customers using the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 2100, 4100, 6100 and 8100 will receive an email notification once the new update has been processed. You will then need to reboot your appliance for the changes to take effect. Please note that once your appliance has been rebooted it may take several minutes for the system software to come online due to database updates which must be processed. Customers using our MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 1100 need not reboot their appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2006032000". Reminder: If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. New Features: Targeted Filters: Added a new system-wide feature called "Targeted Filters". These filters are designed to block messages which generally fall outside the normal processing of the MessageIQ Anti-Spam Engine. Currently, Targeted Filters include the ability to block messages with a non-blank subject line and blank body, or messages with a blank subject line and blank body. Targeted Filters work only when MessageIQ Anti-Spam v3.0 (currently in public beta) is enabled and can be configured under the "MessageIQ" tab. Improvements and Fixes: MessageIQ Anti-Spam v3.0 -- Improvements have been made to the processing speed and stability of MessageIQ Anti-Spam v3.0. This engine is currently classified as Public Beta. MessageIQ Anti-Spam v2.0: An issue has been resolved which would cause the MessageIQ Anti-Spam v2.0 engine to delay processing of inbound messages if it was unable to retrieve the current Spam Profiles Database after a certain number of attempts. Queue Status Viewing -- An issue has been resolved which would not allow certain messages in the Quarantine Queue, to be released or released and reported as a false-positive from within the queue status viewing interface. Queue Status Viewing -- It is currently not possible to sort queues by the message date. This option will be added at a later date. Queue Status Viewing -- Message counts in the queue status view and the quarantine queue are no longer updated in real-time in order to improve performance of the queue viewing interface. Administrators may see a small but temporary discrepancy in the message counts when viewing queues. Queue Search -- After entering a search term you may now press the ENTER/RETURN key to submit your query. Queue Detail Display -- Corrected an issue with the time display not using the correct time zone. Domain Filters -- An issue has been resolved which caused domain level filter priorities to be incorrectly set when deleting certain domain level filters. Unknown Sender Delay -- Messages which are currently not processed due to the Unknown Sender Delay will now be displayed in the Unscanned Queue. Other Updates March 22, 2010 - MailFoundry Release Announcement --------------------------------------------------- MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. �MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between March 22, 2010 and March 24, 2010. �Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2010032200". NOTE: ------- As of April 15, 2010, if you are on a previous MailFoundry System software release, the anti-virus updates will no longer work, and anti-virus scanning scanning will be disabled. To avoid this issue, please update to the MF2010032200 release before that time. Overview ----------- The MF2010032200 release of the MailFoundry software includes the following new features and updates: An update to the anti-virus engine. Upgraded services, including web server software. Enhanced security measures Highlights of the bug fixes include the following: Fixed password issue when trying to configure LDAP for address verification A comprehensive and detailed breakdown of the new features and bug fixes is now listed to aid the integration of this new release and for customers who require extra information for compliance. Features / Updates ---------------------- An update to the anti-virus engine is included in this release. Per the NOTE section above, as of April 15, 2010, all previous versions of the MailFoundry system software will have their virus scanning disabled due to changes in the virus signature database updates. Please update to MF2010022300 by then to ensure continued virus protection. The backend web server and web cgi engine have been upgraded for enhanced security. Version information is no longer given by the web server for HTTP requests. For customers using the SSL version of the Mailfoundry User Interface, the SSL protocol version accepted by the web server have been limited to SSLv3 or TLSv1. This should aid in passage of PCI compliance checks. The SSH daemon has been upgraded on all 32 bit models (1150b, 2100, 4100, 6100), to aid in PCI compliance. Please note that whether or not this daemon runs is entirely optional on the end-user part, and may be disabled at any time by going to System Settings → Support Admin Login and disabling the Support Login option. SSH is not required to run unless it is needed by the MailFoundry support staff to diagnose/fix an issue. A new serial console application has been provided, and security restrictions removed. To access this, connect to the serial port with a terminal application with settings 38400 buad, 8N1, and at the login prompt, enter "mfesu". This will bring up a menuing system, which will allow you to fully perform all actions that you might otherwise perform via the web console normally accessed at 66.18.31.253, including a simple and quick configuration utility. The online manual will be updated soon with a step-by-step walkthrough of this new feature. Bugfixes ---------- A bug in the MF2008060900 release that would prevent configuration of the Exchange Connector with certain passwords has been fixed A bug in the MIQ engine that caused problems with certain MIME-encoded headers in messages has been fixed A bug that could cause quarantined messages to not be released upon request has been fixed. A bug that would not allow the user to change the hostname of the appliance has been fixed A bug that would not allow the user to add/modify aliased IP addresses has been fixed ------------------- If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. �If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- Questions? MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL June 9, 2008 - MailFoundry Release Announcement -------------------------------- MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between June 7, 2008 and June 10, 2008. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2008060900". Overview -------- The MF2008060900 release of the MailFoundry software includes the following new features and updates. - An updated to the anti-virus engine. - A theme picker in the branding section of the GUI. - Support for Active Directory and generic LDAP in the Exchange Connector. Highlights of the bug fixes include the following. - A possible loss of network configuration at boot has been fixed. - Problems with the DB Maintenance pop-up window have been fixed. - Load Average is now calculated correctly on all platforms. - A log message has been corrected to denote a permanent failure of auto-users. A comprehensive and detailed breakdown of the new features and the bug fixes is now listed to aid in the integration of this new release and for customers who require a extra information for compliance. Features / Updates ------------------ - An update to the anti-virus engine is included in this release that speeds up processing time, addresses a possible infinite loop and addresses a memory consumption issue. The loop and memory issue are corrected by a supervisor program in previous releases. - A theme picker which allows for changing the theme, or color scheme and logo, of the interface is now available in the System Settings->Branding section. The default theme is the current MailFoundry color scheme and logo. The previous color scheme and logo may also be selected if desired. - The Exchange Connector has been enhanced to provide compatibility with Active Directory servers and has been tested with MS Windows Server 2008 and MS Exchange 2007. A generic LDAP server may also be used. Sample authorization DN's and base DN's are included in the Help section in the Administrative GUI. The MS Exchange Connector is located at SMTP Settings->MS Exchange Connector. Bug Fixes --------- - A condition whereby the network settings of the appliance can be lost upon boot that was introduced in MF2008040700 is fixed. - Display problems with the Database Maintenance Window that were introduced in MF2008040700 that included the window display as all black or displaying an error are fixed. This is only a display problem and the database maintenance will operate correctly. - In previous releases, the displayed load averages were inconsistent. They are now computed as the 1, 5, and 15 minute average percentage of SMTP load capacity. When the load reaches 100%, the appliance will begin sending temporarily unavailable messages to connecting servers until the system load drops. - In previous releases, when all upstream SMTP servers failed with a 5xx level error and the appliance is configured to use auto-users/auto-domains, an erroneous log message stating "Temporarily unable to deliver message from to " was sent to syslog even though the message did indeed fail and a non-deliverable bounce was generated. This release modifies the log message to read "Unable to deliver message from to ". - If an attempt is made to install a version of the software that is no longer available, an appropriate error will now be displayed to the user. In previous releases, this condition may proceed as though the software has been installed even though nothing has been done. - After entering a new "Message to be included in the user digest notifications", the section may appear blank after reloading even though the data is correctly stored. This is corrected. - Extra lines reading "Last Update" on the Quarantine Status page in the Administrative GUI have been removed. - After changing the hostname of an appliance using the IP configuration page introduced in MF2008040700, several problems may occur. These include the CSR generated during SSL setup having the old hostname, the HTTP redirection used after SSL configuration directing to the old hostname, the hostname listed in the /status RSS feed using the old hostname and quarantine digest links will also use the old hostname. This release corrects these errors. - Modifying the DNS servers using the IP configuration page introduced in MF2008040700 makes the needed changes however, the console interface does not reflect these changes. This release corrects this discrepancy. - When adding an upstream SMTP server, older versions of the software allowed for a 10 second timeout between responses from the remote server when testing its viability. This release increases this timeout to 60 seconds. - Previous releases allowed domains to be entered in mixed-case. This release forces all domains to lower-case. - This release changes the link reading "Reprocess" to "Release" when viewing the details of a queued email in the Reports->Queue Status->Unscanned section if the details being viewed are for an email that has been queued due to USD. - The back-end database on the 8100 series has been upgraded to fix a possible data corruption bug. - A possible problem causing high load on the 4100 series due to detection of RAID mirroring status has been fixed. - An update to the supervisor program limits prevents an unnecessary reloading of the spam filtering engine on the 8100 platform. - If an appliance running MF2008040701 is reset to factory defaults, and it becomes necessary to re-run the setup wizard through the console port, the final step of saving the network settings does not work and is fixed in this release. A work around is documented in the errata for MF2008040701. ------------------- If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- Questions? MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL April 7, 2008 - Version #0701 - MailFoundry Release Announcement (MF2008040701) ----------------------------------------------- MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between April 7, 2008 and April 10, 2008. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2008040701". Updates and Changes ------------------- - The administrative interface has been updated to reflect the new MailFoundry look. - Configuration of network interface settings can now be done through the administrative interface after the appliance has been configured. This includes changing the IP, netmask, default router, aliased IP addresses, loopback interface addresses, hostname, DNS servers and static routes. The feature is available under System Settings->Network Configuration. - Numerous speed increases in backend functionality are included. Bugfixes -------- - An issue that could cause appliances under certain conditions to return a status of "connection limit reached" before such a state had had occured has been fixed. - Sorting of emails listed in quarantine digest messages is now in most recent to oldest. - Deletion and editing of quarantine digest redirections will now choose the correct address for the operation. - The envelope From address is now included in the external syslog messages that denote a transaction has been marked as spam. * A data display bug in the MF2008040700 release has been rectified in the MF2008040701 release. It would cause the ability for Anti-Spam messages to be sent to quarantine to not be displayed in the interface. If the appliance is set to use this option, it will continue to use this option, it just did not display correctly with the MF2008040700 release. ------------------- If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- Questions? MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL April 7, 2008 - Version #0700 - MailFoundry Release Announcement (MF2008040700) ----------------------------------------------- MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between April 7, 2008 and April 10, 2008. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2008040700". Updates and Changes ------------------- - The administrative interface has been updated to reflect the new MailFoundry look. - Configuration of network interface settings can now be done through the administrative interface after the appliance has been configured. This includes changing the IP, netmask, default router, aliased IP addresses, loopback interface addresses, hostname, DNS servers and static routes. The feature is available under System Settings->Network Configuration. - Numerous speed increases in backend functionality are included. Bugfixes -------- - An issue that could cause appliances under certain conditions to return a status of "connection limit reached" before such a state had had occured has been fixed. - Sorting of emails listed in quarantine digest messages is now in most recent to oldest. - Deletion and editing of quarantine digest redirections will now choose the correct address for the operation. - The envelope From address is now included in the external syslog messages that denote a transaction has been marked as spam. ------------------- If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- Questions? MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL March 17, 2008 - MailFoundry Release Announcement -------------------------------- MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between March 17, 2008 and March 21, 2008. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2008031700". Updates and Changes ------------------- - This is a bug fix release that corrects issues present in the MF2008022500 release. If your appliance is running the MF2008022500 release, it is recommended that it be upgraded to this release. - Under certain rare conditions involving problems with the backend database, the appliance may attempt to redeliver an email to the RCPTTO's default MX rather than to the upstream SMTP server. This has been corrected. - The power-off functionality in the GUI does not function correctly and using the power button on the front panel or rear of the appliance is necessary to power-off the appliance. This has been corrected. ------------------- If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- Questions? MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL February 25, 2008 - MailFoundry Release Announcement -------------------------------- MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between February 25, 2008 and February 28, 2008. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2008022500". Updates and Changes ------------------- - This release contains an updated MIQ scanning engine, version 3.1. It features improved detection of obscured URLs, PNG image support, and improved handling of non-English character sets. - Several performance and stability enhancements are included in the SMTP engine. - Several SMTP timeout values are now configureable via the GUI through the SMTP Settings->Misc. section. ------------------- If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- Questions? MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL November 5, 2007 - Version #0501 - Solinus is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. Solinus plans to release the new system software between October 18, 2005 and October 19, 2005. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Management" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. If your appliance is set to use our automatic updates service, your appliance will apply the update once released. You can verify that your MailFoundry Network Appliance has been updated by checking the version number listed at the bottom of your administrator interface. If updated the version number will list "MF2005101700". Improvements: Included with this system update is an all new system software update system. This system will provide greater flexibility for product updates as well as more stability during and after the system software update process. The new system update system will not affect Spam Profile and Anti-Virus data updates. IMPORTANT NOTICE: As part of the new system updates system, your appliance will automatically be set to use the manual updates option if your appliance is currently configured using the automatic updates option.A new automatic updates process has been included which must be configured. With this new system, you can define the time at which you prefer automatically downloaded updates to be applied to your appliance. For customers using the MailFoundry 2100 or MailFoundry 4100, a system reboot will be required for all future system updates. If you configure your appliance to use the automatic update system, you will be notified by email once a new system update has been applied in order to perform the reboot of your appliance. November 5, 2007 - Version #0500 - MailFoundry Release Announcement -------------------------------- MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between Novemeber 1, 2007 and November 2, 2007. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2007110500". Updates and Changes ------------------- - This release contains an upgrade for the Anti-Virus scanning engine. ------------------- Reminder: If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL August 27, 2007 - MailFoundry Release Announcement -------------------------------- MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between August 27, 2007 and August 29, 2007. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2007082700". Updates and Changes ------------------- - This release contains an upgrade to the Anti-Virus scanning engine that allows it to handle new styles of rule sets, improve rule set load times and improve scanning times. 8100 Specific changes. The MF2007082700 MailFoundry release for the 8100 platform marks a significant upgrade for the software that touches all portions of the system. The base operating system and software has been migrated from 32bit to 64bit binaries. The web interface and all other interfaces remain the same. What Changed ------------ - Core kernel and services - MIQ System - Web server - Database - Scripting engine Performing the Upgrade ---------------------- Every effort has been made to make the transition from the previous 32bit environment to the new 64bit environment as easy as possible and with minimal impact on operations. * The update performs an upgrade of the system database. The upgrade process will ask to reboot the appliance to complete the upgrade. The database upgrade occurs AFTER THE REBOOT AND THE APPLIANCE WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE UNTIL AFTER THE UPGRADE COMPLETES. DO NOT REBOOT THE APPLIANCE DURING THIS TIME. It will resume normal operations after the database upgrade completes. The upgrade operation takes from 5 minutes to 30 minutes depending on the size of your database tables (usage). 1.) Perform a manual backup of the appliance before beginning the upgrade. In the web interface, choose System Settings->Remote System Backups->Perform Backup Now . 2.) Perform the upgrade via the web interface by going to System Settings->System Updates. The MF2007082700 update should be available for installation. 3.) Reboot the appliance when asked, noting the '' section above about the delay after reboot. 4.) The appliance will resume normal operations after the database upgrade. ------------------- Reminder: If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL June 11, 2007 - Version #1101 - MailFoundry Release Announcement -------------------------------- Due to a bug found after the release of MF2007061100, MailFoundry has created an incremental release numbered MF2007061101. The original software release of MF2007061100 is no longer available for download and users with appliances running the software should upgrade to MF2007061101. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2007061101". Questions should be directed to our Support Staff. Their information is at the end of this email. Updates and Changes ------------------- - A bug affecting LDAP functionality has been fixed. - A minor GUI bug has been corrected. ------------------- Reminder: If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL June 11, 2007 - Version #1100 - MailFoundry Release Announcement -------------------------------- MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between June 11, 2007 and June 13, 2007. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2007061100". Updates and Changes ------------------- - A new system kernel for all systems is included. The kernel improves the ability of the appliance to operate under heavy loads and larger number of connections. Improvements to SMP for applicable systems is also included. Speed improvements for filesystem accesses included. - Releasing a message from the Unscanned queue via the web interface now correctly bypasses USD for the sender of the message being released if applicable. - If more than 25 domains are configured on an appliance, via any method, the domain drop-down selector now becomes are search box and the current domain is displayed or "System-wide Settings". To change to a new domain, enter the domain to switch to or enter a portion of the domain to search on to bring up a list of domains to choose from (ie: "co" could bring up a list of "acmeco.us" and "acme.com" to choose from). A button to return to the System-wide Settings is available after switching to a domain. Entering a period into the search box will return a list of all available domains to choose from. - When viewing messages in a queue via the web interface, you may now change the number of messages per page via an input box on the lower left of the screen. - The branding options now display properly after being set and a new "footer" field is available. The content of the footer field is added to the end of quarantine digest messages. - Several logging changes have been made. The IP address of the upstream SMTP server is now displayed in addition to it's DNS name. The Message-ID header is logged making it easier to correlate logs with other systems that use this field. UUID's for each unique message transaction, the first field in chevrons, are still available to make searching with grep and products such as Splunk simple. - 6100 and 8100 models now display status of the hardware RAID including hot spare information for the 8100 on the Overview page. - A new feature to disable negative caching when using auto-users is available in the SMTP Settings->Misc. area. For normal operations, negative caching is always enabled. This option has no effect if the appliance is not using auto-users. When using auto-users and negative caching is enable, it allows the appliance to cache the results of tests to the upstream SMTP server(s) when the upstream server(s) respond with a 5xx level error indicating that the From/To combination is rejected. For most MTA setups, this would indicate that the RCPTTO address does not exist so, the appliance can cache this information to avoid checking it again for a small period of time. Some mailers, such as Exim, make additional checks on the From/To combinations that can not or operationally should not be whitelisted. Disabling negative caching in this instance will prevent the appliance from caching this negative information as it would result in the appliance not delivering to that address for a set period of time even though it may truly be valid. Most sites should leave this value as enabled. - A bug that would cause RedListing to be activated in rare circumstances even though it was disabled has been fixed. ------------------- Reminder: If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL April 2, 2007 - MailFoundry Release Announcement -------------------------------- MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between April 2, 2007 and April 5, 2007. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2007040200". Updates and Changes ------------------- - Improvements in the MIQ anti-spam scanning engine are included with this release. - An update to the anti-virus scanning engine is included in this release. - Statistics for RedListing were incorrectly being logged and are now correctly classified. - RedListing will no longer have issues with IP addresses local to the appliance. - GreyListing correctly identifies recipient and sender based whitelists as appropriate. - A bug that caused the SMTP session to drop under certain circumstances if a host was greylisted and sending to a recipient that did not exist has been corrected. - With the last release, billing reports had problems and are now working correctly. ------------------- Reminder: If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL February 26, 2007 - MailFoundry Release Announcement -------------------------------- MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between February 26, 2007 and February 28, 2007. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2007022600". Updates and Changes ------------------- - Updates to allow the appliances to recognize the new daylight savings time changes enacted by the US Congress in 2005. These changes only affect customers using timezones that fall in the United States. - Whitelists for Redlisting will now function as documented. Previous behavior was erratic. - Reports may now be scheduled to coincide with midnight GMT. In previous releases, this would cause problems. - Unit times of seconds are now available for Greylisting settings. - The RedListing column abbreviation in the Whitelists section of the interface has been changed from "R" to "RD" to avoid a conflict with the RBL label. The conflict did not affect functionality. - When displaying an IP's status for a RedList search, a host is now displayed as "not redlisted" instead of "whitelisted" to avoid semantic confusion with actual whitelisting. - The release includes an update to the virus scanning engine. ------------------- IMPORTANT: Effective with the October 18, 2005 release of the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance system software, there have been several changes to the automatic update service. If you wish to use the automatic update service, you will need to modify the settings found under the "System Settings" tab in the "System Updates" sub-menu. You will be asked to define how often your appliance checks for new system software updates and at what time the check will take place. Once you have configured these options, your MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance will automatically check for new updates and apply them. Customers using the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 2100, 4100, 6100 and 8100 will receive an email notification once the new update has been processed. You will then need to reboot your appliance for the changes to take effect. Please note that once your appliance has been rebooted it may take several minutes for the system software to come online due to database updates which must be processed. Customers using our MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 1100 and 1150 need not reboot their appliance. Reminder: If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL January 16, 2007 - MailFoundry Release Announcement -------------------------------- MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between January 16, 2007 and January 18, 2007. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2007011600". Updates and Changes ------------------- ** This release makes modifications to the statistics database upon installation. Depending on the age of the appliance, the modifications can add from no additional time to the boot process to up to 5 minutes in some cases. - RedListing has been added as an additional tool to combat spam. A paper describing RedListing is available on the MailFoundry support website at http://www.mailfoundry.com/support/ . - GreyListing as been added as an additional tool to combat spam. GreyListing is fairly standard across the industry and is effective but, does delay incoming mail. - This release includes an upgrade to and performance enhancements to the appliance's database server. - Improvements to the MIQv3 engine to catch new variants of image based spam are included in this release. - The virus scanning engine has been updated with this release. - "Error Code 10" has been eliminated. - RBL catches now have the option of being able to reject at the connection level or at the "SMTP Level". Rejecting at the connection level will drop the connection immediately after opening it and does not allow for the use of domain whitelists (IP based whitelists still can apply). Rejecting at the "SMTP Level" will accept header information from the incoming server to determine the involved domains so domain level whitelists can be applied. Previously, only "SMTP Level" functionality was available. - When viewing the Queue Status, the counts of the quarantine message reasons are now only updated when requested by clicking on the link. The last updated time shows the last time the counts were updated. These counts previously were updated every 15 minutes and are very database intensive to update. The "Total Count" is always up to date. - On the Overview Page statistics bar graph, the hours listed on the bottom were off by 1. The last bar to the right represents the total accumulated mail for the previous whole hour and should have read as such (data for 10am-11am will now be marked as "10"). Data for the current hour is not displayed. - Message headers can now be optionally rendered when viewing a message from any of the queues. When viewing headers from messages in the quarantine, the header showing the rule-id that caught the message will be highlighted. - Numerous performance and stability improvements have been made to the appliance with this release that are not directly visible to the end user. IMPORTANT: Effective with the October 18, 2005 release of the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance system software, there have been several changes to the automatic update service. If you wish to use the automatic update service, you will need to modify the settings found under the "System Settings" tab in the "System Updates" sub-menu. You will be asked to define how often your appliance checks for new system software updates and at what time the check will take place. Once you have configured these options, your MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance will automatically check for new updates and apply them. Customers using the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 2100, 4100, 6100 and 8100 will receive an email notification once the new update has been processed. You will then need to reboot your appliance for the changes to take effect. Please note that once your appliance has been rebooted it may take several minutes for the system software to come online due to database updates which must be processed. Customers using our MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 1100 and 1150 need not reboot their appliance. Reminder: If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL October 23, 2006 - Version #2301 - MailFoundry Re-release Announcement ----------------------------------- Due to a bug discovered in the software, the MF2006102300 release was withdrawn. The patched version of the software is being released under the name "MF2006102301" and will be made available shortly. For convenience's sake, a copy of the original release notes are included below. As a reminder, news bulletins are always available to customers at our Technical Support Bulletins area which can be accessed from our support webpage at http://www.mailfoundry.com/support/ . -- MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL October 23, 2006 - Version #2300 - MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between October 23, 2006 and October 25, 2006. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2006102300". Updates and Changes ------------------- - This release adds the ability for an RBL to trigger if any return code is returned from an RBL server for an IP address. Previously, if triggering on more than one return code per RBL server was needed, multiple entries were needed on the RBL configuration page. Now, the option to trigger on one return code per server or on any return code per server is available. IMPORTANT ** In order to help keep your MailFoundry appliance filtering as much spam as possible, this release makes an important change to the RBL configuration. After installation, an entry for the RBL server "zen.spamhaus.org" will be added and made active. This SpamHaus server is taking the place of the old SBL-XBL server at SpamHaus and we highly recommend it's usage. All other entries for spamhaus.org in the RBL configuration are no longer needed and will be disabled. This entry for "zen.spamhaus.org" triggers on any return value from the zen.spamhaus.org server. If you do not wish to use the "zen.spamhaus.org" entry, disable it and re-enable the entry you were previously using. - MIQv3 with this release includes enhancements to the image matching algorithms to better detect spam emails that have their content contained in images. - Virus scanning with this release has been updated to fix some minor bugs. - The Search buttons that were inadvertently removed with the last release are now restored in the queue status screens. IMPORTANT: Effective with the October 18, 2005 release of the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance system software, there have been several changes to the automatic update service. If you wish to use the automatic update service, you will need to modify the settings found under the "System Settings" tab in the "System Updates" sub-menu. You will be asked to define how often your appliance checks for new system software updates and at what time the check will take place. Once you have configured these options, your MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance will automatically check for new updates and apply them. Customers using the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 1150b, 2100, 4100, 6100 and 8100 will receive an email notification once the new update has been processed. You will then need to reboot your appliance for the changes to take effect. Please note that once your appliance has been rebooted it may take several minutes for the system software to come online due to database updates which must be processed. Customers using our MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 1100 and 1150 need not reboot their appliance. Reminder: If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL October 9, 2006 - Version #0900 - MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between October 9, 2006 and October 10, 2006. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2006100900". MIQv3.0 ------- With this release of the MailFoundry software, the first non-beta version of the MIQv3.0 anti-spam engine for the MailFoundry appliances is now available. The MIQv3.0 anti-spam engine is the core technology that allows MailFoundry's human editors to defeat spam attacks as they happen. After installation of the MF2006100900 release, the MIQv3.0 engine will become the default and sole engine available. The older MIQv2.1 engine will no longer be available and will not be selectable through the management interface. IMPORTANT: Spam signature updates for the MIQv2.1 engine will cease Nov. 2, 2006. It is important to upgrade your appliance to maintain quality anti-spam protection! Other Release Changes --------------------- - A new system kernel is being distributed to improve performance and reflect new hardware lines. - Snapshots of the statistics databases that are taken daily are now done using an improved mechanism to ease database contention. - A queue viewing bug existed when clicking to numbered pages and has been rectified. - A bug in the Reverse Path checking code caused this check to fail under certain conditions. This has now been fixed. - A note concerning the usage of footers has been added to the Message Footers section of the management interface. IMPORTANT: Effective with the October 18, 2005 release of the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance system software, there have been several changes to the automatic update service. If you wish to use the automatic update service, you will need to modify the settings found under the "System Settings" tab in the "System Updates" sub-menu. You will be asked to define how often your appliance checks for new system software updates and at what time the check will take place. Once you have configured these options, your MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance will automatically check for new updates and apply them. Customers using the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 1150b, 2100, 4100, 6100 and 8100 will receive an email notification once the new update has been processed. You will then need to reboot your appliance for the changes to take effect. Please note that once your appliance has been rebooted it may take several minutes for the system software to come online due to database updates which must be processed. Customers using our MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 1100 and 1150 need not reboot their appliance. Reminder: If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL September 5, 2006 - MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between September 5, 2006 and September 6, 2006. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. Updates and Features: MIQ v3.0 Beta: An upgrade of the MIQ v3.0 Beta scanning engine is included in this release which fixes some bugs that have been noted. Improvements in rule loading and memory usage have also been added. Virus Scanning: An upgrade of the virus scanning engine to fix memory handling issues. UI: Whitelists are now searchable. UI: Queues default to sorting by date with this release. UI: Overview page now includes links to queues. UI: Model number is now displayed at the bottom of the UI. UI: After performing an action in a queue, the browser will be returned to the queue from which it came. Bug Fixes: System Updates: The causes of most of the displayed error codes are fixed in this release including Error Code 13. Status Page: Removed errant comma from queue counts that appeared in the /status page. Billing Reporting: The following columns were found to be incorrect on reports and have been corrected with this release: rbl, rpdns, rpsane, rfc, noptr, spf, sizeext, sizeext_size. Statistics: In the detailed views, the size column for Size Extension is now properly populated for the current month. IMPORTANT: Effective with the October 18, 2005 release of the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance system software, there have been several changes to the automatic update service. If you wish to use the automatic update service, you will need to modify the settings found under the "System Settings" tab in the "System Updates" sub-menu. You will be asked to define how often your appliance checks for new system software updates and at what time the check will take place. Once you have configured these options, your MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance will automatically check for new updates and apply them. Customers using the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 2100, 4100, 6100 and 8100 will receive an email notification once the new update has been processed. You will then need to reboot your appliance for the changes to take effect. Please note that once your appliance has been rebooted it may take several minutes for the system software to come online due to database updates which must be processed. Customers using our MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 1100 and 1150 need not reboot their appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2006090500". Reminder: If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL July 25, 2006 - Version #2500 - MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between July 25th, 2006 and July 27th, 2006. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. FIXES: Message IQ v2.1 Anti-Spam Engine: Several issues have been identified and fixed with the release of the Message IQ v2.1 Anti-Spam engine in the MF2006071700 release. These fixes will include better kill rates with fewer false positives. If you are currently running MF2006071700, it is recommended that you upgrade to MF2006072500. Database Utilization: The time delay for the program that clears out the billing report stats table has been decreased to run daily. This should reduce the database utilization of your appliance. IMPORTANT: Effective with the October 18, 2005 release of the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance system software, there have been several changes to the automatic update service. If you wish to use the automatic update service, you will need to modify the settings found under the "System Settings" tab in the "System Updates" sub-menu. You will be asked to define how often your appliance checks for new system software updates and at what time the check will take place. Once you have configured these options, your MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance will automatically check for new updates and apply them. Customers using the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 2100, 4100, 6100 and 8100 will receive an email notification once the new update has been processed. You will then need to reboot your appliance for the changes to take effect. Please note that once your appliance has been rebooted it may take several minutes for the system software to come online due to database updates which must be processed. Customers using our MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 1100 need not reboot their appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2006072500". Reminder: If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL July 17, 2006 - Version #1700 - MailFoundry Release Announcement -------------------------------- MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between July 17th, 2006 and July 19th, 2006. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. FEATURES: A new version of the Message IQ Anti-Spam Engine v2.1 is being released. This new version of the default anti-spam engine contains new abilities for catching spam attacks. We encourage all users to upgrade to to take advantage of this new engine. Support for the MessageIQ v2.0 engine will only remain for a short period of time so we encourage users to upgrade now to avoid any future anti-spam detection issues. FIXES: Billing Reports: An issue has been identified with the billing reports for users who wish to include the last date a particular field was tagged. If you include date fields such as 'last message', you must go to the Reports Tab -> Custom Email Reports -> Click on the 'Schedule Report' button in the 'Custom Reports' box. Domain Aliases: An issue has been resolved for administrators attempting to add/edit domain aliases. IMPORTANT: Effective with the October 18, 2005 release of the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance system software, there have been several changes to the automatic update service. If you wish to use the automatic update service, you will need to modify the settings found under the "System Settings" tab in the "System Updates" sub-menu. You will be asked to define how often your appliance checks for new system software updates and at what time the check will take place. Once you have configured these options, your MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance will automatically check for new updates and apply them. Customers using the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 2100, 4100, 6100 and 8100 will receive an email notification once the new update has been processed. You will then need to reboot your appliance for the changes to take effect. Please note that once your appliance has been rebooted it may take several minutes for the system software to come online due to database updates which must be processed. Customers using our MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 1100 and 1150 need not reboot their appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2006071700". Reminder: If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL June 19, 2006 - MailFoundry Release Announcement -------------------------------- MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between June 19th, 2006 and June 21st, 2006. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. FIXES: DB Maintenance: An issue has been resolved that would occasionally have prevented the database maintenance from completing successfully. Quarantine Release All / Delete All: A bug which prevented deleting or releasing all the messages in the quarantine at once has been resolved. Domain admin searches: If a domain admin would attempt to perform a search that was in control of multiple domains, they would see extra results that did not match their search query. This has been resolved with tighter controls on how the search query is created on the system. Quarantine Message Expiration: Many customers have noticed that the Quarantine queue is not expiring messages at the configured time interval. This issue has been resolved and messages will be expired in the first 24 hours after the update has been installed. Due to the large number of messages that may be back-logged, this initial deletion will take between 2min. and 20min. to complete and the results will not be seen until some time afterwards. Mail flow will be unaffected during that time. Quarantine Digest Duplication: Some customers have noticed that some digests can duplicate to some of their users. This issue has now been resolved. Background Overview Image Creation: The process that creates the cached images for the overview page has received some updates to cut down on system resources. IMPORTANT: Effective with the October 18, 2005 release of the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance system software, there have been several changes to the automatic update service. If you wish to use the automatic update service, you will need to modify the settings found under the "System Settings" tab in the "System Updates" sub-menu. You will be asked to define how often your appliance checks for new system software updates and at what time the check will take place. Once you have configured these options, your MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance will automatically check for new updates and apply them. Customers using the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 2100, 4100, 6100 and 8100 will receive an email notification once the new update has been processed. You will then need to reboot your appliance for the changes to take effect. Please note that once your appliance has been rebooted it may take several minutes for the system software to come online due to database updates which must be processed. Customers using our MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 1100 need not reboot their appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2006061900". Reminder: If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL May 22, 2006 - MailFoundry Release Announcement ---------------------------------------- MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. MailFoundry plans to release the new system software between May 22nd, 2006 and May 24th, 2006. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Settings" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. NEW FEATURES: A new version of the anti-virus system software. FIXES: Admin Interface Restart Bug: An issue may occur where the admin interface will not restart after a database error or reboot. This issue has been resolved by enhancing the system monitoring and restart capabilities. Quarantine Digests: The digest system will now be case insensitive when discovering which addresses to generate a digest. Overview Page: With the MF2006050800 release, images on the overview page are generated in the background for faster loading. This process of generating images could cause the system to run low on system resources on machines with higher numbers of domains. This issue is now resolved. HoneyPot Addresses: Several fixes are in place. First, the Unknown Sender Delay is no longer applied to the HoneyPot Addresses. Also, when an email with multiple recipients is received by the MF appliance and one of the recipients is a HoneyPot account, a bounce-back email failed to be generated for the HoneyPot address in the list (all emails were delivered and no bounce-back was generated). The proper behavior is now to deliver to the available recipients and generate a bounce-back for the HoneyPot address(es). SMTP Server Logging: A number of logging fixes have been put in place. MIQv3 Targetted Filters: With the MF2006050800 release, the Targetted Filters were not being properly applied to the MIQv3 rulesets. System Updates: Many users reported Error Code 13 appearing in the admin interface. This error should now be less prone to occur. Queue Detailed: A problem has been resolved with the viewing of attachments in the queues. Queue Counts: Some users have reported issues with the Queue Counts not updating. This issue has been resolved. IMPORTANT: Effective with the October 18, 2005 release of the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance system software, there have been several changes to the automatic update service. If you wish to use the automatic update service, you will need to modify the settings found under the "System Settings" tab in the "System Updates" sub-menu. You will be asked to define how often your appliance checks for new system software updates and at what time the check will take place. Once you have configured these options, your MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance will automatically check for new updates and apply them. Customers using the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 2100, 4100, 6100 and 8100 will receive an email notification once the new update has been processed. You will then need to reboot your appliance for the changes to take effect. Please note that once your appliance has been rebooted it may take several minutes for the system software to come online due to database updates which must be processed. Customers using our MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 1100 need not reboot their appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2006052200". Reminder: If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. -- MailFoundry Support Staff support@mailfoundry.com 1-888-302-MAIL March 28, 2006 - Version #2800 - MailFoundry is pleased to announce the next release of the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance system software with an expected release date between March 28, 2006 and March 29, 2006. IMPORTANT: Effective with the October 18, 2005 release of the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance system software, there have been several changes to the automatic update service. If you wish to use the automatic update service, you will need to modify the settings found under the "System Settings" tab in the "System Updates" sub-menu. You will be asked to define how often your appliance checks for new system software updates and at what time the check will take place. Once you have configured these options, your MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance will automatically check for new updates and apply them. Customers using the MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 2100, 4100, 6100 and 8100 will receive an email notification once the new update has been processed. You will then need to reboot your appliance for the changes to take effect. Please note that once your appliance has been rebooted it may take several minutes for the system software to come online due to database updates which must be processed. Customers using our MailFoundry Anti-Spam Appliance 1100 need not reboot their appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2006032800". Reminder: If you receive email that should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which has been falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. Improvements and Fixes: Mail Service: An issue has been resolved that may cause the MailFoundry appliance to reject messages with a permanent failure message if the following conditions apply: 1) The appliance is configured with the Auto Discover Email Addresses option enabled under the domain level Accepted Addresses menu. 2) The MailFoundry appliance receives a temporary failure message from the target SMTP server during verification of an address for a configured domain. February 28, 2006 - Solinus is pleased to announce the next release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software with an expected release date between February 28, 2006 and March 1, 2006. IMPORTANT: Effective with the October 18, 2005 release of the MailFoundry system software, there have been several changes to the automatic update service. If you wish to use the automatic update service, you will need to modify the settings found under the "System Settings" tab in the "System Updates" sub-menu. You will be asked to define how often your appliance checks for new system software updates and at what time the check will take place. Once you have configured these options, your MailFoundry appliance will automatically check for new updates and apply them. Customers using the MailFoundry 2100, 4100, 6100 and 8100 appliance will receive an email notification once the new update has been processed. You will then need to reboot your appliance for the changes to take effect. Please note that once your appliance has been rebooted it may take several minutes for the system software to come online due to database updates which must be processed. Customers using our MailFoundry 1100 appliance need not reboot their appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2006022800". Reminder: If you receive a message which should have been detected as spam, please forward the message to spam@mailfoundry.com. If you encounter a message which was falsely detected as spam please forward it to notspam@mailfoundry.com. New Features: MessageIQ Anti-Spam v3.0 Public Beta - We are placed to announce the latest version of the MessageIQ spam detection engine, MessageIQ Anti-Spam v3.0. As part of our development and testing process for this new version, we are making available to all MailFoundry customers a public beta version. Please be aware that although MessageIQ Anti-Spam v3.0 should detect more spam then previous versions of the engine, it may also generate more false-positive results. It is strongly recommended that if you enable MessageIQ Anti-Spam v3.0, you do not disable MessageIQ Anti-Spam v2.0 at this time. You can set anti-spam engine preferences by clicking on the "MessageIQ Settings" tab and then select "Anti-Spam Engines" from the left side menu. MessageIQ Anti-Virus -- An updated version of the MessageIQ Anti-Virus engine has been included with this release. The new version improves performance and stability. Several updates were also made to the processing of incorrectly created ZIP archives. Queue Status Viewing -- Many improvements have been made to Queue Status Viewing to make the system perform much faster as well as easier to use. The message subject and the date received have been added along with the to, from, message size, and failure reason fields. Each field can be used to sort messages, providing quick access to messages. Queue Status Viewing - Domain Level - Domain level administrators may now access the incoming, outgoing and unscanned queues for their domain. Previously domain level administrators could only view the quarantine queue for their domain. System Logging -- You may now define the log facility for external logging. You may choose LOCAL1 through LOCAL7. Anti-Spam / Anti-Virus Max Message Size -- You may now configure the maximum message size to be processed by the MessageIQ Anti-Spam and MessageIQ Anti-Virus engines. Messages larger than the maximum size specified will not be processed by the configured engine. Removed "Notify the Sender" Anti-Virus Action -- Most virus infected messages come from spoofed "From:" addresses. Using the "Notify the Sender" anti-virus option generates a large volume of incorrectly targeted messages or undeliverable messages. This option has been removed and is no longer available. Improvements and Fixes: Domain Admin Statistics View -- In rare cases, a domain level administrator was able to view detailed statistics from the System Level. This issue has been resolved. Queue Sorting -- When clicking on a sorting field in the queue status display, only the current page's content was sorted. Now, the entire contents of the queue (Incoming, Outgoing or Unscanned) are sorted. System Status Page -- A display issue was corrected which caused the system uptime to display incorrectly when the system uptime was less then one day. Custom Filters -- A display error caused the "Last Matched" and "Number Matched" columns to be reversed. Quarantine Digest Overrides -- Fixed an issue which would cause new override entries to not be applied if an existing override had not been present. Login Accounts -- Login accounts may now include the @ symbol as part of their user name. Statistics View -- Fixed an issue which would cause administrators to not be able to view per-user statistics for some users. December 12, 2005 - Solinus is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. Important: Effective with the October 18, 2005 release of the MailFoundry system software, there have been several changes to the automatic update service. If you wish to use the automatic update service, you will need to modify the settings found under the "System Settings" tab in the "System Updates" sub-menu. You will be asked to define how often your appliance checks for new system software updates and at what time the check will take place. Once you have configured these options, your MailFoundry appliance will automatically check for new updates and apply them. Customers using the MailFoundry 2100 or MailFoundry 4100 appliance will receive an email notification once the new update has been processed. You will then need to reboot your appliance for the changes to take effect. Customers using our MailFoundry 1100 appliance need not reboot their appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2005121200". New Features: Quarantine Digest From Address - You may now configure the address quarantine digest messages are set to. The default from address is "postmaster". MailFoundry 1100 Update Notification - Users of the MailFoundry 1100 will now receive a notification email when new automatic updates are applied to the appliance. To receive the email, the user must be subscribed to the "Technical Contact List" inside the MailFoundry user interface. Improvements and Fixes: Branding - Corrected the wording on the "Acknowledgements" page in the MailFoundry user interface so it no longer reads " is a registered trademark of Solinus, Inc." when branding is enabled. Whitelists - An issue that would cause whitelists created under domain settings to show the anti-virus check to be disabled even when it was actually enabled. Additionally, when using the "Select All" option when listing whitlists, a chosen action was applied to all whitelists instead of only those checked on the current page. This has been resolved. Unknown Sender Delay - When adding a whitelisting entry and selecting the "Recommended Option", the entry now includes whitelisting of the Unverified Sender Delay check. MailFoundry 1100 System Updates - When applying system updates manually with the MailFoundry 1100, you are no longer prompted to restart the appliance is this is not necessary with the MailFoundry 1100 appliance. Queue Processing - An issue was identified, that would cause issues when reprocessing queued messages, which has been resolved. October 31, 2005 - Version #3101 - Solinus is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. This release will be made available immediately. This release resolves an issue introduced with release MF2005103100 that caused the Microsoft Exchange Connector to not allow additions and modifications to its configurations. Important: Effective with the October 18, 2005 release of the MailFoundry system software, there have been several changes to the automatic update service. If you wish to use the automatic update service, you will need to modify the settings found under the "System Settings" tab in the "System Updates" sub-menu. You will be asked to define how often your appliance checks for new system software updates and at what time the check will take place. Once you have configured these options, your MailFoundry appliance will automatically check for new updates and apply them. Customers using the MailFoundry 2100 or MailFoundry 4100 appliance will receive an email notification once the new update has been processed. You will then need to reboot your appliance for the changes to take effect. Customers using our MailFoundry 1100 appliance need not reboot their appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2005103101". October 31, 2005 - Version #3100 - Solinus is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. Solinus plans to release the new system software between October 31, 2005 and November 1, 2005. Important: Effective with the October 18, 2005 release of the MailFoundry system software, there have been several changes to the automatic update service. If you wish to use the automatic update service, you will need to modify the settings found under the "System Settings" tab in the "System Updates" sub-menu. You will be asked to define how often your appliance checks for new system software updates and at what time the check will take place. Once you have configured these options, your MailFoundry appliance will automatically check for new updates and apply them. Customers using the MailFoundry 2100 or MailFoundry 4100 appliance will receive an email notification once the new update has been processed. You will then need to reboot your appliance for the changes to take effect. Customers using our MailFoundry 1100 appliance need not reboot their appliance. Once this update is applied to your MailFoundry appliance the system software version number, located at the bottom of the user interface screen, should read "MF2005103100". New Features: Unknown Sender Delay - Your MailFoundry appliance is updated in near real-time with new Spam Profiles as our human editing team finds new spam attacks, however some users who are on the front line of a new spam attack may see spam at the same time our team does. This causes a period of a few minutes where the new spam will pass the MailFoundry appliance anti-spam check and reach your user's inbox. Unknown Sender Delay or USD is a new feature unique to the MailFoundry anti-spam product line designed to help organizations on the front line of new spam attacks by delaying inbound email from senders which you have never received email from in the past. In many cases, by the time the defined period of time has expired, your appliance will have received a new Spam Profile coving the inbound messages which will prevent the message from reaching your users inbox. USD is a configuration option which may been enabled or disabled by the system administrator. You may also define the period of time of which unknown sender's messages are delayed (5 to 60 minutes). If USD is enabled on a system level, it may be enabled or disabled as needed on a per-domain level. Known senders messages will be processed without delay when using Unknown Sender Delay. Branding - You may now change the look-and-feel of your MailFoundry Appliance to better fit your organization's branding. You can change the logo displayed within the user interface, change the product name displayed and configure the support contact information found under the "Support" tab. Branding settings will also modify the Quarantine Digest message feature of your MailFoundry Appliance. Improvements: Direct User Manual Access - You can now find a direct link to the MailFoundry user manual under the "Support" tab within the MailFoundry user interface. HMail Email Engine Improvements - Many changes have been made to the HMail Email Engine to provide better performance. Improvements have also been made to the connection limiting system, communications with the anti-spam and anti-virus engine as well as several improvements which will provide better stability for your MailFoundry appliance. Database Server - The database server included with your MailFoundry appliance has been updated to provide better support for larger database tables. Anti-Virus Engine - The anti-virus engine included with your MailFoundry appliance has been updated. Honey Pot Accounts - When receiving email into a Honey Pot account, the MailFoundry appliance will now send a permanent delivery error to the sending SMTP server alerting the sender that the email account does not exist. X-Envelope - The HMail Email engine will now show the original sender of an email in the X-Envelope-To and X-Envelope-From field of message headers. This change will make it easier for creating of custom content filters based on the sender of the message. Bug Fixes Stats Display - Fixed an issue which would cause you to be redirected to the queue stats screen when selected a domain from within the statistics detail screen. Quarantine Redirections - Fixed an issue which allowed domain administrators the ability to view quarantine redirections for domains which they did not have rights to. Quarantine Overrides - An issue which effected domains, configured with the "Auto Discover Users" option, that would cause configured Quarantine Overrides to disappear if a user did not receive email for a period of time, has been resolved. Overview Tab - An issue which could cause the "Overview Tab" to not display correctly, instead displaying an error, has been corrected. Duplication Of Messages - Fixed a rare issue which could cause duplication of messages as they were being processed by the MailFoundry appliance. Anti-Virus Statistics - A rare issue which caused anti-virus statistics to be counted incorrectly has been resolved. Custom Content Filters - An issue was discovered which caused domain administrators to not be able to create user specific customer content filters. This issue has been resolved. October 17, 2005 - Version #1700 - Solinus is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. Solinus plans to release the new system software between October 18, 2005 and October 19, 2005. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Management" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. If your appliance is set to use our automatic updates service, your appliance will apply the update once released. You can verify that your MailFoundry Network Appliance has been updated by checking the version number listed at the bottom of your administrator interface. If updated the version number will list "MF2005101700". Improvements: Included with this system update is an all new system software update system. This system will provide greater flexibility for product updates as well as more stability during and after the system software update process. The new system update system will not affect Spam Profile and Anti-Virus data updates. IMPORTANT NOTICE: As part of the new system updates system, your appliance will automatically be set to use the manual updates option if your appliance is currently configured using the automatic updates option.A new automatic updates process has been included which must be configured. With this new system, you can define the time at which you prefer automatically downloaded updates to be applied to your appliance. For customers using the MailFoundry 2100 or MailFoundry 4100, a system reboot will be required for all future system updates. If you configure your appliance to use the automatic update system, you will be notified by email once a new system update has been applied in order to perform the reboot of your appliance. September 1, 2005 - Solinus is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. Solinus plans to release the new system software between August 31, 2005 and September 1, 2005. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Management" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. If your appliance is set to use our automatic updates service, your appliance will apply the update once released. You can verify that your MailFoundry Network Appliance has been updated by checking the version number listed at the bottom of your administrator interface. If updated the version number will list "MF2005090100". Bug Fixes: An issue that could cause the quarantine lifespan of collected messages to be incorrectly set to 0 days after modifying domain level quarantine options has been fixed. This update will modify any system-level quarantine lifespan from 0 to five days. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Solinus is pleased to announce that on September 1, 2005 we are upgrading our 24/7 Extended Support service. If you need technical assistance with your MailFoundry appliance please call 888-305-7776. This telephone number can be use for both standard support (8:00AM to 5:00PM, Monday - Friday) and 24/7 Extended Support. When calling, please have your MailFoundry appliance serial number available. Important: The previous 24/7 Extended Support telephone number will no-longer function as of September 1, 2005. If you require technical support outside of the standard support hours, please call the number above. For subscribers to the 24/7 Extended Support service there is no additional cost. For non-subscribers who wish to speak with a technician after hours, there will be a per call fee of $50.00. If you have not already subscribed to the 24/7 Extended Support service now is your chance. For only $99.00 per year you will have the peace of mind, knowing that a Solinus technical support representative will be only a call away. To subscribe to the 24/7 Extended Support service, please contact your Solinus Account Executive at 1-888-302-6245. August 15, 2005 - Solinus is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. Solinus plans to release the new system software between August 22, 2005 andAugust 23, 2005. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Management" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. If your appliance is set to use our automatic updates service, your appliance will apply the update once released. You can verify that your MailFoundry Network Appliance has been updated by checking the version number listed at the bottom of your administrator interface. If updated the version number will list "MF2005081500". Improvements: Honey Pot Accounts Email accounts which have been configured as a "Honey Pot" account will now automatically have their spam and virus actions set to delete. IMPORTANT NOTE: Honey Pot accounts are an important defense against spam. Your organization may see spam attacks that have not yet reached other organizations using the MailFoundry appliance or that have not yet reached the MessageIQ processing center. By using the Honey Pot system, messages detected by your appliance are sent directly to the MessageIQ processing center for review. To setup a Honey Pot account, select the "SMTP Settings" tab. Next, you will need to select the desired domain from the domain drop-down list. Once selected, click on the "Change" button. You will now see "Honey Pots" listed in the left-side navigational menu. Click on the Honey Pot option. Finally, click on the "Add Address" button to add a new Honey Pot account. Optionally, you can click on the "Upload List" button to upload a larger list of addresses. System Startup Improvements have been made to the system startup process to insure that all services are started correctly. Bug Fixes: Quarantine Digest An incorrect error message was displayed when releasing a message with the "Release and Report as not Spam" option. Network Troubleshooting Tools Improvements have been made to the Network Troubleshooting Tools navigation. Now when you enter data and press the enter key the corresponding action is taken. Online Statistics When viewing detailed statistics by user name where the user name contained an underscore "_", the underscore was replaced by a slash "/". SSL Support Under SSL settings the SSL authentication option was incorrectly listed as authorization. Quarantine Settings A issue was discovered which could cause quarantine settings to be overridden when switching from system wide settings to domain specific settings. Mail Service An issue was identified which would cause messages from the "Unscanned" queue to be released without being scanned if the MessageIQ engine was not functioning correctly. Fixed a rare issue that could cause the mail service to stop responding during high memory usage periods. Fixed a rare issue which could cause instability when using extended logging. July 25, 2005 - Version #2501 - After the release of the MailFoundry System Software version MF2005072500, an issue has been discovered in the custom content filters system. This issue could result in excessive CPU usage for customers who use keyword lists with large amounts of keywords per list. The MailFoundry Development Team has created a patch to correct this issue and has scheduled it for release. If you are using our automatic update system to apply updates this update will be applied for you. For customers using our manual update system, we strongly recommend that this patch be applied immediately. To manually apply this update, click on the "System Updates" section under the "System Settings" tab in your MailFoundry user interface. Your feedback is very important to us. Please send any comments, suggestions or bug reports to: support@solinus.com. July 25, 2005 - Version #2500 - Solinus is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. Solinus plans to release the new system software between July 25, 2005 and July 26, 2005. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Management" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. If your appliance is set to use our automatic updates service, your appliance will apply the update once released. You can verify that your MailFoundry Network Appliance has been updated by checking the version number listed at the bottom of your administrator interface. If updated the version number will list "MF2005072500". Improvements: Honey Pot Email Accounts A Honey Pot email account is an account within your configured domain that does not receive legitimate email. The message traffic for the account is transferred to the MessageIQ editing team to help us improve our Spam Profile creating. Using this feature is optional. It is designed to help us better detect new spam outbreaks by increasing our spam collection. This feature works best with accounts which at one time were used for legitimate email but are no longer used and receive mainly spam. You can find this feature under the SMTP Settings tab in the "Honey Pots" section. You will need to select a domain from the domain drop-down list and click the "Change" button before this option is displayed. Secure Sockets Layer Support SSL support has been added to the MailFoundry user interface. Several advanced features are included such as the ability to restrict user interface access to non-SSL mode, SSL mode or allow both and which TCP/IP port is used for SSL mode connections. You may configure SSL options under the System Settings tab in the SSL Settings section SSL support has been added to the Quarantine Digest system. You may enable or disable this option under the System Settings tab in the SSL Settings section. SSL Authentication Advanced users may now configure SSL authentication for the MailFoundry user interface. Using this feature, you can limit access to your appliance to only web clients with matching root certificates. Network Troubleshooting Tools A new feature has been added to the System Settings tab called "Network Troubleshooting". This feature allows you to perform several networking utilities such as nslookup, ping and traceroute from your appliance. You can use these utilities to troubleshoot network connection issues from your appliance. Connection Throttling Improvements If your MailFoundry appliance reaches the maximum connection limit it will return a temporary error to the sending SMTP server instead of closing the connection. System Administrators with monitoring systems can look for the following message to determine if the appliance has reached the maximum connection limits: "421 Maximum connection limit reached. Please try again later." This message indicates that the appliance is extremely busy but it is still processing mail. Quarantine Management Improvements When viewing the Quarantine queue, you will see a checkbox next to messages which have been released by the user or the system administrator from the quarantine. If you click in the "Details" link you will be able to see the date and time it was released. Quarantine Digest Improvements Users may now report messages which have incorrectly been identified as spam to the MailFoundry Spam Profile Editors directly from the quarantine view by clicking on the "Release and report message as not spam" link. Updated Anti-Virus Engine The anti-virus engine has been updated to provide better performance and more reliability. Updated HMail SMTP Engine The HMail SMTP engine has been updated to provide better performance and more reliability. Web Server Updates (MailFoundry 1100 Only) All web server components on the MailFoundry 1100 have been updated to improve security and performance. In addition, the TCP/IP address of the console interface for older models of the MailFoundry 1100 has been updated and will now use 66.18.31.253. Network Settings Improvements You can now find your MailFoundry Appliances' MAC address under the System Settings tab in the "Network Configurations" section. Bug Fixes: Queue Management Further improvements have been made to the speed at which message lists are displayed in the queue management interface. In addition, a bug which caused large amounts of detail to be sent to the system log, that could possibly cause the file system to become full after viewing queues on the MailFoundry 2100 and MailFoundry 4100 has been resolved. Quarantine Management An issue which caused the "Report as Not Spam" link to not function correctly has been resolved. In addition, the "Report as Not Spam" link will no longer be displayed for messages which entered the quarantine due to the anti-virus engine or a custom content filter. Incorrect Virus Statistics An issue which cased incorrect collection of statistics regarding detected viruses has been resolved. Domain Administrators Domain administrators may now change their password as needed. Message Size Limitations If a domain was created with an unlimited message size limitation and the domain was mapped to an SMTP server with a defined message size limitation, the message should be rejected but was not. This issue has been corrected. Your feedback is very important to us. Please send any comments, suggestions or bug reports to: support@solinus.com. June 13, 2005 - Solinus is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. Solinus plans to release the new system software between June 13, 2005 and June 14, 2005. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Management" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. If your appliance is set to use our automatic updates service, your appliance will apply the update once released. You can verify that your MailFoundry Network Appliance has been updated by checking the version number listed at the bottom of your administrator interface. If updated the version number will list "MF2005061300". Improvements: SMTP Throttling - Further adjustments have been made to the SMTP Throttling system to provide better system performance and stability. Bug Fixes: (MailFoundry 2100/4100 Only) Denied Incoming Hosts / Allowed Outgoing Hosts - An issue was discovered when setting the address type to "IP block with bit mask" where the bit mask was larger than /32, the MailFoundry appliance would not correctly recognize the entry. This has been resolved. TCP/IP Settings: After initial configurations, the MailFoundry appliance was not correctly identifying changes made to the appliances TCP/IP settings. This has been resolved. (All Models) NULL Bytes Messages: If a message was received that contained NULL bytes, it was not correctly processed by the MailFoundry appliance. This has been corrected. Backup Restoration - An issue has been discovered related to the re-synchronizing of quarantine messages when doing a restoration of a backed up system configurations. This has been resolved. Your feedback is very important to us. Please send any comments, suggestions or bug reports regarding the new user interface to: support@solinus.com. May 31, 2005 - Solinus is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. Solinus plans to release the new system software between May 31, 2005 andJune 1, 2005. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Management" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. If your appliance is set to use our automatic updates service, your appliance will apply the update once released. You can verify that your MailFoundry Network Appliance has been updated by checking the version number listed at the bottom of your administrator interface. If updated the version number will list "MF2005053100". New Features: SMTP Throttling - A new system has been added to the SMTP service of the MailFoundry appliance that will help protect the server for loss of stability during high volume message spikes. This system will also help to protect the MailFoundry appliance from database corruption during high traffic periods. Maintenance System - A new option has been added to the "System Settings" tab that allows you to perform routine maintenance on your appliance if you are noticing mail processing issues. This system will stop all mail related servers, check and if needed repair the database and then restart services. It is recommend that you use this option as a first step before you contact technical support, as it will resolve most mail processing issues. Domain Level quarantine Views - Domain level administrators may new view the quarantine for users belonging to domains which the administrator controls. Queue Status Improvements - Further improvements have been to the speed at which queues are displayed. In addition, you can now sort queued messages by message size. Quarantine Queue Status Improvements - New options have been added to the quarantine Queue Status system. Now, you can report messages which have been falsely detected as spam to our Spam Profiles Editing Team and additional release them back to the uses email account. These option can be found by clicking on either "Details" or "View" in the queue status pages. Statistics Improvements - A detailed breakdown of the most common virus infections detected by the MailFoundry appliance is now included. You may access it from the "Overview" tab by clicking on the "Mail Classification" or "Virus Classification" graphics or by drilling down on the statistics pages under the "Reports" tab. RSS / Text Quick Stats - RSS is a commonly used XML Based aggregation system which allows you to share information with other applications. The MailFoundry appliance now includes an RSS feed of your systems statistics. A text based version is also included. You can use the following URL to Access the RSS Quick Stats http://servername/status/?type=rss To access the Text Quick Stats use the following URL: http://servername/status/ Bug Fixes: Statistics Display - In some cases, statistics display the current month's information if there were less than 12 months of data. This has been resolved. Quarantine View - When searching for content in quarantine queue where there were less then 20 results, an error would be displayed of "Unable to get failure message". This has been resolved. Exchange Connector - If the user name and password options were left blank, the Exchange Connector would not correctly authenticate users. In addition, if your domain controller is unavailable and you selected the disable option within the MailFoundry interface an error occurred. Both issues have been resolved. Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus User Overrides - In some cases, when you set a user override for either anti-spam or anti-virus, domain or system defaults were not properly configured for the user on the remaining options. This has been resolved. Emailed Reports - Issues were found relating to the time zone setting for Emailed Reports. This has been resolved. Console Setup - When using the "Reset Configurations" option in the Console Setup system, some values were not correctly set in the database. This has been resolved. Your feedback is very important to us. Please send any comments, suggestions or bug reports regarding the new user interface to: support@solinus.com. April 11, 2005 - Solinus is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. Solinus plans to release the new system software between April 11, 2005 and April 12, 2005. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Management" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. If your appliance is set to use our automatic updates service, your appliance will apply the update once released. You can verify that your MailFoundry Network Appliance has been updated by checking the version number listed at the bottom of your administrator interface. If updated the version number will list "MF2005041100". New Features: New User Interface - After extensive development and testing, the all-new MailFoundry user interface is complete and will become the default user interface on your MailFoundry Network appliance. With this update, the new user interface will replace the current user interface. The demo interface that had been located on port 8080, will be removed. Improvements: Exchange Connector - The Exchange Connector has been enhanced to include better support for multiple version of Microsoft Exchange. The MailFoundry user interface will now ask you which version of Microsoft Exchange you are using for better integration. The Exchange Connector now supports anonymous authentication and base searches. Auto Domains - The Auto Domains system now performs a check of your target email server when you select the Auto Domains option to verify that your target server is not an 'open relay'. This verification will prevent the MailFoundry appliance from filtering mail for domains that are not actually managed by your target server. User Interface - Several enhancements have been made to the new user interface since the demo version was released. They include: A new tab for "SMTP Settings" which include all SMTP related options separate from the MessageIQ configurations. You now have the ability to enable or disable both anti-spam and anti-virus services globally or by domain. The system administrator has the ability to override domain level settings as needed. Improvements were also made to the online statistics including better descriptions and updated colors for the graphs. Quarantine Management - Improvements have been made to the system that maintains the Quarantined messages. The new process will allow the MailFoundry network appliance to process larger quarantine systems with increase speed and stability. Big Fixes: An issue, which caused some domains created by using the domain upload system to function incorrectly, has been corrected. An issue, which allowed domain administrators to view quarantine digest override settings for other domains, has been corrected. An issue, which could cause database errors to be displayed when using the manual update procedure, has been corrected. An issue, which caused the detailed statistics in the twelve-month view to not be correctly displayed, has been corrected. An issue, which could cause messages larger than the allowed size to be processed on domains using the auto domains feature, has been corrected. Important note for users who choose the "manual updates" option: Because this update requires the replacement and restart of the user interface, it may appear that the update process has become unresponsive. This is a known issue. After several minutes of the update service processing, you will need to reload the user interface by going to the main URL you normally use to login. You will be asked to login again. Your feedback is very important to us. Please send any comments, suggestions or bug reports regarding the new user interface to: support@solinus.com. March 16, 2005 - Version #1600 - A few weeks ago, the Solinus development team updated the anti-spam engine in the MailFoundry network appliance. Unfortunately, an unforeseen issue resulted in a higher than normal amount of spam slipping through the gateway. We have now isolated the anomaly and thoroughly tested a fix which will be sent out today. Should you continue to see an abnormal amount of spam, please contact your account executive or Solinus support. We apologize for any undue difficulties caused during the past few weeks. March 9, 2005 - Version #0900 - Solinus is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. Solinus plans to release the new system software between March 9, 2005 and March 10, 2005. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Management" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. If your appliance is set to use our automatic updates service, your appliance will apply the update once released. You can verify that your MailFoundry Network Appliance has been updated by checking the version number listed at the bottom of your administrator interface. If updated the version number will list "MF2005030900". Improvements - Solinus has updated the MessageIQ anti-spam engine to include support for detection of several new spam methods. We strongly recommend all users who are using the manual update option apply this update as soon as possible. Your feedback is very important to us. Please send any comments, suggestions or bug reports regarding the new user interface to: support@solinus.com. February 21, 2005 - Solinus is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. Solinus plans to release the new system software between February 21, 2005 and February 22, 2005. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Management" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. If your appliance is set to use our automatic updates service, your appliance will apply the update once released. You can verify that your MailFoundry Network Appliance has been updated by checking the version number listed at the bottom of your administrator interface. If updated the version number will list "MF2005022100". Solinus continues to beta test our new user interface. Your MailFoundry Network Interface includes both the standard user interface and the new user interface. To access the new interface, click on the link, found on the main login screen, titled "New User Interface Demo". Improvements - Solinus has updated the Anti-Virus Engine to include support for detecting messages which attempt to exploit the MS05-002 vulnerability ("Vulnerability in Cursor and Icon Format Handling Could Allow Remote code Execution). Improvements were also made in the areas of multipart/partial messages and decoding of non-standard mail files. Bug Fix - A bug has been identified and fixed which could cause quarantine messages to not be correctly released from the queue when the "Release" link is clicked from within the management interface. Your feedback is very important to us. Please send any comments, suggestions or bug reports regarding the new user interface to: support@solinus.com. January 24, 2005 - Solinus is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. Solinus plans to release the new system software between January 31, 2005 and February 1, 2005. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Management" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. If your appliance is set to use our automatic updates service, your appliance will apply the update once released. You can verify that your MailFoundry Network Appliance has been updated by checking the version number listed at the bottom of your administrator interface. If updated the version number will list "MF2005012400". Solinus continues to beta test our new user interface. Your MailFoundry Network Interface includes both the standard user interface and the new user interface. To access the new interface, click on the link, found on the main login screen, titled "New User Interface Beta". Many of the enhancements listed below only apply to the new user interface. It is expected that this will be the last release of the MailFoundry system software with the standard user interface. The next major update will make the new user interface the default user interface for your appliance. Improvements - The MailFoundry network appliance will now notify you, by displaying a message on the System Updates screen, if a system update was not applied correctly or if there are errors with the updates system. Improvements - Further enhancements have been made to the database storage engine to improve performance for locations with high message volume. Improvements - Queue processing has been further enhanced for locations with high message volume. In addition, queue processing may now be done in a background process. Improvements - When making modifications to the IP address restrictions lists the MailFoundry network appliance no longer needs to restart the user interface web server. Bug Fix - A bug has been identified and fixed which could cause duplicate whitelist entries for domain-level whitelists. Bug Fix - A bug has been identified and fixed which cause the hardware monitoring page to not function correctly. Many smaller fixes and enhancements have been made to the new user interface. Please continue to report any issues you may find with the new user interface as we finish the beta testing cycle. Your feedback is very important to us. Please send any comments, suggestions or bug reports regarding the new user interface to:support@solinus.com. November 1, 2004 - Version Release Notes Improvement - Non-US Text Support for Quarantine digest Messages HTML quarantine digest messages which contain non-US text will now be displayed correctly. This includes the custom header text which may be included by the system administrator. Improvement - Updated Anti-Virus Engine Improvements include: - Improved Memory Management - Increased speed of scanning of larger files - Now detects JPEG files modified to take advantage of the Buffer Overrun in JPEG Processing (GDI+) issue (MS04-028) found on non-patched Microsoft Windows systems. Improvement - System Stability Solinus has made many improvements in this version which will increase system stability and improve performance. October 18, 2004 - Fix for LDAP integration with Exchange 5.5. October 12, 2004 - Version #1200 - Bug Fix -- Exchange Connector A bug was found in the compatibility checks with the new Exchange 5.5 support that may have limited certain aliases from being correctly identified. October 11, 2004 - Version #1100 - Improvement -- Queue Status: Performance The speed of search and sorting options within the Queue Status section of the MailFoundry Network Appliance interface has been greatly improved. Improvement -- Exchange Connector: Exchange 5.5 Support The Exchange Connector has been updated to improve compatibility with Microsoft Exchange 5.5. Bug Fix -- Domain Level Login: Access In some cases, domain level administrators were not granted access to the domain options interface when logged into the MailFoundry Network Appliance. Note to Administrators: Your MailFoundry Network Appliance by default automatically installs new system updates once they are released. If you would like to manually apply new updates you may modify your MailFoundry Network Appliance's System Update Method by accessing the "System Management" menu within your MailFoundry Network Appliance's administrator interface. Once you navigate to the "System Management" select "System Updates". Modify the system update mode and click "Update". September 18, 2004 - Version #1800 - Fixes a recently discovered issue with the spam scan engine that caused it to go non-responsive, thus incurring secondary issues with the database. If you apply the MF2004091300 update, you SHOULD apply this as well. September 13, 2004 - Version #1300 - New Feature - Exchange Connector: The Exchange Connector will allow you to improve performance and statistical accuracy when using the MailFoundry Network Appliance with a Microsoft Exchange Server. The Exchange Connector will integrate with the LDAP server included with Microsoft Exchange to authenticate email accounts based on your Active Directory. Using this feature, mail addressed to non-valid email address will not be passed to your Exchange Server reducing server usage and storage. The Exchange Connector can be found under the "Filters" menu on the MailFoundry Network Appliance. New Feature - SMTP Message Size Maximum: The MailFoundry Network Appliance now offers you the ability to limit the size of inbound messages. This setting can be managed on a per-server or per-domain basis. This new feature will allow you to block large attachments before they reach your internal server which will reduce system resource usage. New Feature - Auto Domain Detection: The MailFoundry Network Appliance now offers the ability to auto-detect valid domains. New Feature - Default Domain: The new Default Domain feature allows you to redirect all "postmaster" email to one email account system wide. Using this feature, system administrators can quickly manage "postmaster" emails for all domains managed by the MailFoundry Network Appliance. Improvement - Memory Usage Improvements: Solinus has improved the memory usage of our MessageIQ engine. The MessageIQ engine will now perform better in high-volume mail traffic environments. August 18, 2004 - Version #1800 - Bug fix for problem where newly created domains could not modify or see virus settings. August 17, 2004 - Version #1700 - Critical Bug fix. This path must be run if you run the MF2004081600 patch. Fixes an issue with the antivirus software that can cause the box to go non-responsive. August 16, 2004 - Version #1600 - New Feature - Technical Contact Management: Using the Technical Contact Management feature, MailFoundry system administrators may define a list of email address that will receive technical notices from Solinus. Technical notices include new MailFoundry system release announcements, important technical issues as well as technical tips. Improvement ? Quarantine Improvements MailFoundry will now correctly update the quarantine status view in real-time when expired messages are removed from the quarantine system. Improvement ? Domain Level Statistics Domain level administrators may now view domain level statistics without error. July 28, 2004 - Version #2801 - fixed a possible mail delay that could occur after the nightly full spam rule update (at Midnight GMT) and the first incremental update a few minutes later July 28, 2004 - Version #2800 - Additional improvements to viewing the queues July 26, 2004 - Version #2600 - Bugfix: queue status view This has been fixed so that it responds much quicker even with very large quarantine queue sizes. Addition: stats view The stats pages were updated to show all the stats that are kept now concerning mail. Bugfix: fixed handling of non-hour based timezones This fix concerns running billing reports when the box is set with a non-hour based timezone, like -3.5 GMT Database memory handling improvement June 29, 2004 - Version #2900 - -- minor bug fixes June 28, 2004 - Version #2800 - -- New feature added: Quarantine option. This allows the admin to quarantine both spam and virus messages, and have quarantine digest messages go out at the appointed time. -- New feature added: Mail footers. This allows the admin to set a footer on all outgoing messages. Miscellaneous bug fixes. June 4, 2004 - Version #0400 - Bug Fixes: -- Fixed bug in the system update page that occured when trying to change the update method from manual to automatic or vice versa -- Fixed timeout issues when trying to modify the billing reports or the remote backup frequency May 20, 2004 - Features added: -- Whitelisting of strict RFC compliance. -- Messages in the queues can now be viewed. -- Automatic or Manual updates. Automatic updates can now be turned off, and selected manually. However, they must be applied sequentially. -- Filters: -- The ability to filter on blank portions of a message has been added. -- Custom filters were tweaked to improve their performance in certain instances -- Bugs in how keywords were matched against against attachments were fixed. October 11, 2004 - Solinus is pleased to announce the next planned release of the MailFoundry Network Appliance system software. Solinus plans to release the new system software between October 11, 2004 and October 12, 2004. Once released you may apply the update using the "System Updates" option under the "System Management" menu of your MailFoundry appliance. If your appliance is set to use our automatic updates service, your appliance will apply the update once released. You can verify that your MailFoundry Network Appliance has been updated by checking the version number listed at the bottom of your administrator interface. If updated the version number will list "MF2004101100". Version Release Notes Improvement -- Queue Status: Performance The speed of search and sorting options within the Queue Status section of the MailFoundry Network Appliance interface has been greatly improved. Improvement -- Exchange Connector: Exchange 5.5 Support The Exchange Connector has been updated to improve compatibility with Microsoft Exchange 5.5. Bug Fix -- Domain Level Login: Access In some cases, domain level administrators were not granted access to the domain options interface when logged into the MailFoundry Network Appliance. Note to Administrators: Your MailFoundry Network Appliance by default automatically installs new system updates once they are released. If you would like to manually apply new updates you may modify your MailFoundry Network Appliance's System Update Method by accessing the "System Management" menu within your MailFoundry Network Appliance's administrator interface. Once you navigate to the "System Management" select "System Updates". Modify the system update mode and click "Update".


		"The administrative time spent on spam has dropped from several hours to a few minutes thanks to MailFoundry." - Doug Hanell The Sedona Group