Information Technology Services

SurgeWeb will be updated June 28th 2010 at noon.

The following updates will be applied to SurgeWeb. Please be sure to let IT Services know of any difficulties with the new updated software.

- New: Rewrite of the attachments handling when forwarding messages. Should be much more reliable in terms of not losing attachments when sending. New features include: auto scaling of wide images to fit message window, being able to forward images in messages with "inline" (as opposed to MPR) images (notably as sent by iphone), slide show of attached images, ability to remove individual mpr images when forwarding, ability to treat mpr attachments as normal attachments.
- New: Improvements to caching of images that attached to a message so display images do not have to be redownloaded if a message is forwarded (or in some cases displayed multiple times).
- New: Link added to permanently hide the information line telling you that you can use desktop drag and drop
- Fix: HUGE speed improvement in the sending speed of messages with large attachments. (it is possible this will even noticably reduce loading on large systems)
- Fix: Attachment download links and multipart related images did not work (Chrome 6.0 only)
- New: Version number change and full set of specials builds for all platforms in preparation for a new release.
- Fix: (non surgeweb) Domains with mixed case domains in surgemail.ini were no longer able to login (fixed in 4.3h-30 in development branch, unsure when introduced)
- New: Spam/Notspam/Allow/Block buttons on likely spam now work when full message is displayed. (previously only worked from preview window)
- Fix: Previous / Next buttons were no longer working in popup message windows if the preview window was not displayed at all.
- Fix: Search for conversation (speach bubble button) was not working anymore in some cases.
- Fix: Several further fixes wrt attachments handling rewrite that were not working quite right yet.
- Fix: Desktop drag & drop attachments were not working in popup message windows yet.
- Fix: Enabled the desktop drag and drop for Fluid under osx.
- Fix: Most of the attach remove options were no longer working in 4.3k-12, now most work again. Still investigating how to fix some minor issues.
- Fix: Flash based uploader has a workaround for IE bug to make it work in IE which means the swf file needs to be redownloaded from server for each message you attach files to. This workaround has now been disabled for all other browsers other than IE.
- Fix: Timing issue that resulted in forward with attachments / forward attach "frequently" failing in build 4.3k-12 fixed.
- New: "Prettified" the folder management page.
- New: Folder sizes on folder management page. Surgeweb tracks folder sizes of folders accessed from surgeweb and displays this on the folder management page, if changes are made not through surgeweb these are not guaranteed to be uptodate in surgeweb (for performance reasons). However there is a button to recalculate these on the folder management page if needed.
- New: Shared folders - the ability to use surgeweb to configure ACL based sharing of IMAP folder between local accounts using (requires g_imap_acl to be set)
- New: Desktop integrated drag and drop support for adding of message attachments or uploading message files direct to the displayed maibox by dragging from the desktop or Explorer / Finder windows. Works in recent versions of Chrome, FF, Safari on both PC and Mac. Will not work in IE as the browser does not support the necessary features (unless Chrome Frame is used in which case it will work in IE6, IE7, IE8). DND attachment uploads will also continue uploading in the background while you view other messages etc (unlike Flash based uploads which stop in this situation).
- New: Rewrite of the ajax attachment uploads. Now actively detects whether an uptodate version of Flash is available, and if not it degrades to a simple single file form based upload dialog.
- Fix: Server defaults for read receipt sending changed to "Never | Never | Never" - still customisable by admins or users.
- Fix: Solaris 10 sparc only crash issue fixed as per 4.3k-4
- New: Full surgeweb ajax support in IE6 through the use of the google "Chrome Frame" plugin. The use of this plugin also offers significant advantages when running IE7 and IE8. This includes some rendering artifacts not appearing, it being much faster, and support for surgeweb desktop drag and drop integration as above.
- New: "Save to file" option to download multiple messages as raw messages / text for saving locally from message list. Multiple messages are downloaded as a single compressed messages.zip file.
- New: Incomplete addresses get expanded by surgeweb to include domain during send to make sure headers are complete etc. (eg. 'joe, john' to 'joe@mydomain.com, john@mydomain.com')
- Fix: You could not reply to messages if iconv translation of utf8 characters in From header failed, now it instead displayes undecoded (?=...) but at least you can reply to these messages now.
- Fix: Support for most cases of "name*=" encoding of attachment names in mime headers
- New: (non surgeweb) Major new spam prevention system is now on by default. For more info see: myrbl help.
- New: Tweaks to spam handling via surgeweb. Block button no longer reports to isspam training, and is available for all messages (wherever there is the Spam button currently) - this should be used to block email when it is not actually spam. Various spam actions (Spam / Block / purge etc) more reversible by placing messages back in Spam folder or in Trash rather than outright deleting them.
- New: Actual "Read Receipt" sending support added!! Three tiered system that allows you to configure the sending to "addresses on local domain / addresses on friends list / unknown addresses" each as as "automatically / only after asking / never". Defaults configurable in config_*.dat files and customisable per user. System defaults are Local(ask)|Friends(ask)|Unknown(never).
- New: Request confirmation "Both" option added.
- New: Handle Macintosh generated "multipart/appledouble" message types.
- Fix: Solaris 10 sparc only issue (worked fine on solaris8 sparc) where surgemail would crash on every surgeweb login. (broken since changes to make sessions last across surgemail restarts a few months back)
- Fix: Formatting issue in true plain text sending. Would only have affected the mobile template.
- Fix: Without preview pane displayed some cases were marking messages as read when they should not have done.
- Fix: Crash on certain really deep or invalid mime constructs in messages.
- Fix: Friends handling sporadic crashing issue (broken 4.3f-14, fixed 4.3h-30)
- Fix: Bulletin crash issue triggered by certain unusual MIME formatting in manually / email generated bulletins (fixed 4.3h-30)