AfterLogic News

DMZ Corp and AfterLogic Corporation have entered into a mutual partnership agreement, enabling DMZ Corp to offer AfterLogic's products and services in Japan and elsewhere. DMZ Corp assisted with creating a Japanese language web site http://jp.afterlogic.com and maintains a Japanese language translation for AfterLogic WebMail Pro, as well as a Japanese language product page http://webmail.dmz.co.jp for this application.

The latest update of ActiveX version of MailBee components introduces quite a few improvements across the library itself and the supporting code samples.

To start with, the new version is much faster on downloading or uploading large e-mails over IMAP.

Enhanced international support allows you to encode attachment filenames when composing e-mails and correctly process the charset information in HTML bodies of incoming or outgoing e-mails. This is especially useful when dealing with UTF-8 charset.

There are several new and updated sample projects for Delphi (covering SMTP, POP3, IMAP and SSL) which highlight using of many features of MailBee Objects. Delphi users should certainly take a look at the new samples!

Visual Basic 6 samples have also been updated with SSL/Gmail support.

This time, we have updated all the components within MailBee.NET Objects bundle. The most anticipated changes include the automatic detection of port number and SSL settings for well-known mail services (like gmail.com) and the support of DKIM anti-spam technology.

Automatic SSL/port detection makes it easier for the programmer to connect to SSL-only mail services like gmail.com, live.com and other servers operating on SSL ports (465 and 587 for SMTP, 993 for IMAP, 995 for POP3).

DKIM is a newer version of DomainKeys anti-spam technology used by gmail.com, yahoo.com and other leading e-mail service providers. Signing an e-mail with secure DomainKeys/DKIM signatures ensures the e-mail was actually sent from the declared e-mail address. From now on, MailBee.NET Security package supports verification and creation of both classic DomainKeys and DKIM signatures.

Outlook Message Converter component now extracts more dates from .MSG data (including dates when the message was sent and received), provides improved support of streams and Unicode, the automatic RTF-to-HTML and HTML-to-RTF conversion.

BayesFilter component can now use streams to load and save the database of spam and non-spam tokens. This allows the application to store the database not only in files but in any other container like XML or SQL database.

With the new version of WebMail Pro, you can access your mail and calendar from your mobile device and synchronize events with MS Outlook calendar.

The PDA version of WebMail Pro provides simple HTML layout optimized for small-resolution screens and does not require AJAX or JavaScript support from the browser.

Outlook Sync Add-In integrates with your Outlook 2003 or 2007 and allows you to easily synchronize events between your Outlook and WebMail Pro calendars.

Other improvements of WebMail Pro v4.8 include Identities (the drop-down list of your e-mail accounts instead of editable From: field) and further increased IMAP performance.

XMail Server Pro, the bundle of WebMail Pro with an SMTP/POP3/IMAP mail server, has also been updated. XMail Server Pro v4.8 includes the latest version of WebMail Pro and provides Archiving support.

The upgrade to the latest version is free for all registered users of previous versions of WebMail Pro and XMail Server Pro.

Nowadays IMAP IDLE extension became very popular for mobile sync and other purposes. Previously, only MailBee.NET Objects supported IDLE. With the new release, you can now take advantage of this feature in ActiveX version of MailBee components as well.

The new release also supports IMAP QUOTA (used to determine the mailbox size) and can better tolerate responses from not-well written IMAP servers (smart parsing).

It also contains a number of other improvements (see History in the documentation for the full list), we recommend upgrading to this version to all the users of ActiveX components of MailBee Objects family. Your existing license key will work with the new version.

Outlook .MSG conversion functionality recently introduced in MailBee.NET Objects brought a lot of useful feedback and feature requests from our users. We decided to put the focus on it in the new release.

The new version adds mostly anticipated Unicode support which allows using international characters in .MSG files. It can also convert .MSG files embedded into other .MSG's and read Outlook-specific e-mail address formats.

Using AntiSpam, IMAP and POP3 components can now be easier with the new WinForms sample project we included into the installation package. It's a real-world sample of how you can train and use Bayesian spam filter over POP3, IMAP and local folders. It also employs many good practices of handling exceptions, event processing and keeping the user interface responsive all the time. If you do not yet have this sample, you can get it with the new version.

This is to inform you that the current week is the last one when MailBee.NET and MailBee products are sold at the current prices.

From 1 Sep 2009, AfterLogic will change licensing structure and raise prices on MailBee.NET and MailBee products. Yet another reason to make your purchase until that date, in addition to the current 25% discount.

The new licensing structure for these products is simpler and contains Developer licenses only (Single Developer, 4 Developers Team, Developer Site). All of these licenses support royalty-free distribution.

Faster, Higher, Stronger. We believe this Olympic slogan is the best way to get the point of the new WebMail Pro.

IMAP module has been rewritten to achieve much better performance, consume less resources and decrease load on your IMAP server. This results in better response times of the user interface and increased scalability of the entire system.

We also extended Manage IMAP Folders feature with the ability to select which folder on your IMAP server should be used as Sent Items, Drafts or Trash (earlier, these folders were hard-coded). This is especially useful for non-English users which typically have IMAP accounts with international folder names.

As usually, we also made a number of minor improvements and end-user interface fixes (like Request Read Confirmation when you compose a message).

Last but not least is the improved multi-domain capability. If you host multiple domains, you can now configure a single WebMail Pro installation to offer webmail access for users from different domains, where each domain has its own default settings, skin and login URL.

Hope your summer is going well. And yet another good news if you are still evaluating MailBee.NET Objects or MailBee Objects (ActiveX) - 25% discounts on all MailBee and MailBee.NET components.

Until 31 Aug 2009, you can buy MailBee.NET Objects, MailBee Objects, MailBee Message Queue and individual components of MailBee.NET and MailBee family with a generous discount.

Just a month later since the previous release of MailBee.NET Objects, there is a new one hot off the grill.
In this version:

• long awaited support of import and export between MailBee.Mime.MailMessage and System.Net.Mail.MailMessage objects
• Outlook Message Converter now extracts RTF body from .MSG files (earlier, only plain-text body was extracted)
• support of many new bounced e-mail formats
• better recognition of ESMTP authentication capabilities

Already a registered user? Upgrade easily:

• download the latest version from http://www.afterlogic.com/download/MailBeeNetObjects.msi
• reinstall and use it with your existing license key

It's a good time to buy from AfterLogic now — you will get 2-year subscription on updates and maintenance for free.

With the standard purchase, you get 1 year of free updates and standard e-mail and HelpDesk support. The price of renewal for the next year is 50% of the software cost.

Nice thing is that 2nd year maintenance will cost you nothing if you make your purchase until 15 Jul 2009. This offer covers all products of AfterLogic.

Already a registered user? For all existing registered users, free updates and maintenance period is expanded until 1 Jul 2010. No matter how long before you purchased.

1. If you are already using WebMail Pro and IMAP, the new version is a "must" upgrade for you.

2. If you're still thinking of trying WebMail Pro and your server is running cPanel, it's the best time to start your trial now.

Why are we so confident about the first point? Because IMAP support in WebMail Pro now includes quotas for automatic mailbox size management, direct search on IMAP server, and new easy-to-use approach to deleting e-mails.

And what's so special in cPanel support? Because it's now really easy for the server admin to add WebMail Pro into the list of applications available for installation by domain admins. And, for the domain admin, it's just a matter of typing URL and license key for the application in order to have it installed for the particular domain.

However, even if you're not using IMAP or cPanel, you can find quite a few nice improvements in the new version, including Replied/Forwarded flags for messages, improved Admin Panel, cool UI language selector, export to iCal in Calendar, and more.

If you ever encountered a problem with incompatibility of Outlook .MSG files with the standard RFC822 .EML format which is used everywhere outside Microsoft realm, there is some good news for you.

The just released MailBee.NET Objects v5.5 introduces MailBee.NET Outlook Converter component which can read and write files and streams in OLE2 format (binary format of .MSG files). You can also load MailMessage objects from .MSG data or write these objects into .MSG format.

You can read more on MailBee.NET Outlook Converter at:
http://www.afterlogic.com/products/net-outlook-converter

Like other MailBee.NET components, MailBee.NET Outlook Converter is included into MailBee.NET Objects package and can be licensed either separately or within the bundle.

Still thinking on purchasing WebMail Pro, XMail Server Pro, MailBee.NET Objects or any other product of AfterLogic?

We hope you can now make your decision easier with this nice promotion — 25% discount on any AfterLogic product.

Please keep in mind this offer is valid only until 31 May 2009.

We're happy to say that it has finally happened: ActiveX version of MailBee components now includes the 64-bit version.

Although most new projects for Windows are using .NET, there are lots of legacy projects developed for the classic ASP/ActiveX platform that still exist and need to successfully evolve toward the 64-bit platforms.

You can now protect your investments in the legacy MailBee ASP code when migrating to 64-bit Windows. The new MailBee64.dll is included in the installation package, and it uses the same license key (no upgrade fees). The 64-bit DLL is fully compatible with the 32-bit version (no code changes required).

Also, as usual, please don't forget to contact our Professional Services department if you need help with any of your projects, including custom software development. Our top notch programmers would gladly review your requirements and quote on a custom project. The hourly rates start at only $35/hr.

Seems like everybody around is having fun and playing jokes these April days. More fun to come with a new 30% discount promotion on all AfterLogic products, because it's not a joke.

You can now purchase XMail Server Pro, WebMail Pro, MailBee Message Queue, MailBee.NET Objects and MailBee Objects bundles and individual components with a 30% discount off regular prices. Quite serious savings to spread good cheer.

The spring is here, finally! And so is the next release of WebMail Pro, which now offers support of right-to-left languages, greatly improved performance and easier installation process.

We're excited how fast the new WebMail Pro works, and how it looks with the new default skin.

But for some of you, even more important change may be RTL (right-to-left) support, a kind of user interface layout optimized for Arabic and Hebrew languages.

Some good news if you are lazy. New version comes with a web installer wizard which helps you setup the product and avoid common pitfalls. You can use this installer on both shared hosting and dedicated server. Why don't give it a try?

By the way, it's the last week while the current 50% discount offer is active. You are aware :-)

Limited offer: you can now buy WebMail Pro or XMail Server Pro for 50% off the regular price.

This offer is valid only until 15 Mar 2009.

The winter is hot here at AfterLogic. Previous month, we've been working hard to update all MailBee products including MailBee Objects and MailBee Message Queue.

Now, we've released the new version of our head-liner offering MailBee.NET Objects v5.0 which adds tons of new features and improvements. They include:

- .NET Compact Framework support (for Windows Mobile devices)
- BounceMail component for handling and parsing bounced messages and delivery reports
- DomainKeys class which can be used to sign e-mails with DomainKeys signatures and verify such signatures of existing e-mails
- Improved SSL support on .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5 Framework (better performance, Full Trust no longer required)
- New methods for extracting DNS records
- Improved support of Visual Studio 2008

Good news! To meet demands of personal users and small offices, AfterLogic introduces 10-user licenses for WebMail Pro and XMail Server Pro products.

AfterLogic WebMail Pro, an AJAX-enabled webmail front-end for existing mail servers, now starts at $99 for Single Computer, 10 Users License.

AfterLogic XMail Server Pro, a complete mail solution including SMTP/POP3/IMAP server and WebMail Pro front-end, is offered for $129 (Single Computer, 10 Users License).

New release of XMail Server Pro adds antivirus integration and auto-responder (vacation message). Web interface has been upgraded to WebMail Pro v4.4.

Antivirus integration, if enabled, makes the installed antivirus move infected e-mails into Quarantine folder of the user's mail account. You can access this folder using WebMail Pro interface or any e-mail client with IMAP support.

If you're out of office or wish to notify senders that their messages reached your mailbox, you can now enable auto-responder which will automatically send replies to all incoming messages. Each user can configure this feature through WebMail Pro interface.

Speaking of WebMail Pro, the performance and the promptness of the user interface has been radically improved. It's now working nearly as fast as a desktop e-mail client.

AfterLogic XMail Server is now two products: Lite and Pro. Lite version is free and open source. It contains all the features of the previous version of AfterLogic XMail Server, and some new ones introduced in this release:

- anti-spam: Bayesian self-learning filter
- anti-spam: verifying DomainKeys signatures of incoming e-mails
- new filters for processing e-mails
- improved webmail and web admin panel

Pro version is a commercial offering for those who demand more from their e-mail solution. Pro version includes all the features of Lite version and also adds:

- IMAP protocol support
- WebMail Pro application as webmail frontend

New release of AfterLogic WebMail Pro adds support of shared and public calendars and multiple domains.

Calendar sharing and publication enables improved collaboration capabilities between WebMail Pro users.

Web admin panel now supports individual settings for different domains making it possible to use a single WebMail Pro installation to serve different domains whereas each domain has its own skin and other settings assigned.

Just released MailBee.NET Objects v4.0 adds anti-spam capability to the developer's disposal.

The new MailBee AntiSpam component uses highly efficient self-learning Bayesian algorithm to detect junk e-mails. The component is very easy to use and works with any type of e-mail (POP3, IMAP, loaded from stream, disk or memory).

From now on, WebMail Lite PHP is distributed under GPLv2 license.

WebMail Lite PHP is a light-weight, modern-looking and easy-to-install webmail client which can check POP3 e-mail and send e-mails via SMTP protocol.

This free contribution to the community delivers the commercial-grade quality product to the open source scene.

You can now leverage the freedom of open source solution and take full advantage of modern AJAX technology WebMail Lite PHP built on.

AfterLogic XMail Server now includes modern-looking AJAX webmail front end.

With this release, you'll find that AfterLogic XMail Server setup program has option to automatically install WebMail Lite application. This can save your time and efforts on separate download and installation of the webmail front end.

Also, this version of WebMail Lite has been improved to natively support AfterLogic XMail Server. This includes mail account management and direct access to the mail database bypassing POP3 protocol.

AfterLogic XMail Server now comes with easy-to-use web administration modules — AXMA.NET/AXMA.PHP.

AXMA.NET is a web application written for .NET 2.0 Windows platform. It can, however, administer Linux installations of AfterLogic XMail Server as well because it can work with AfterLogic XMail Server remotely.

AXMA.PHP is a web application written for PHP 5.0+ Linux and Unix platform. It can administer Linux/Unix/Windows installations of AfterLogic XMail Server.

Windows installer has been rewritten from ground up which makes it easy to install the server on Windows computers.

WebMail Pro now includes so long awaited calendar and spell-checker tool. Besides these major new features, we added some cool stuff which will make your WebMail Pro experience more productive and intuitive. You'll now find checkboxes in message/contact lists and the list of frequently used contacts on the compose message screen.

It's really boring to browse a static website when the entire web gets visual and dynamic. It doesn't make sense to click and wait in our time of single-click solutions. It's ridiculous to reload an entire page just to expand a menu or open a search form.

MailBee.NET Objects has now been updated to v3.1.

New property LocalEndPoint in SmtpServer and DirectSendServerConfig classes allows you to bind all outgoing SMTP connections with the specific local IP address and port number (useful for performance tuning if your computer has multiple network adapters).

New method Smtp.GetMXHosts can be used to get the list of SMTP MX servers for the specified domain.

New version of MailBee WebMail Lite is available. Now both ASP.NET and PHP editions are completely free and packed with some features previously available in Pro version only.

Usability — with the message preview pane, you can quickly read messages not leaving the message list page.

Development — you can control WebMail Lite from other web applications and easily integrate the product into your web site.

User interface languages — English, Danish, French, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, and Swedish translations built-in, easy to add new translations.

The modern AJAX webmail is significantly improved. Handy AJAX addressbook, feasible integration with your site, optional integration with AfterLogic XMail Server and much more.

AJAX addressbook is implemented as auto-complete of To/Cc/Bcc fields, integration with AfterLogic XMail Server allows managing accounts on mail server, blocking external images in e-mails improves security, configurable columns width in message list lets you fine tune your workspace, special integration mechanism allows smooth integration of the product into your web site.

We updated MailBee Message Queue to make it support regular .EML files instead of the proprietary .MBM ones. Now MMQ can work with both MailBee SMTP and MailBee.NET SMTP components.

With .EML format support, MMQ can now act as a replacement of IIS SMTP queue. Any application which can submit .EML files to IIS SMTP pickup folder can do the same with MMQ.

Just released MailBee Objects v5.5 offers a pack of new features to developers of classic ASP, Windows, and other applications using ActiveX technology.

MailBee Objects v5.5 now supports queuing into IIS SMTP pickup folder, UTF-7M IMAP4 mailbox names, decoding MS-TNEF (winmail.dat) attachments, better charset processing, user-defined text body types (such as calendar entries), and more.

MailBee.NET Objects v3 is here now. In this version, we added S/MIME and more SSL capabilities along with mail merge over database, advanced processing of HTML e-mails, and more.

Other major changes include support of proxy servers, IMAP SORT and IDLE, ability to keep already downloaded messages on download error, and DNS MX query caching.

AfterLogic XMail Server is out. It is an open source email server based on popular and cross-platform XMail Server. The initial version supports POP3, SMTP, and Finger protocols. It can be used with MailBee WebMail as well as with any other e-mail client.

The new version with AJAX interface is finally out. WebMail Pro v4 is rewritten from the ground up and provides significant improvements in functionality and usability.

Equipped with both AJAX and static HTML versions of the user interface, WebMail Pro v4 can take advantage of modern web experience still retaining compatibility with older browsers.

MailBee WebMail Pro is reliable, secure, fast, easy-to-setup web-based e-mail client which provides high quality of rendering HTML-formatted e-mails and customizable skinnable interface.

Should you need web-based e-mail for your web site or integrate it with your existing web applications, you must see MailBee WebMail Pro 3.4.

Recently released MailBee.NET Objects 2.0 provides developers with a pack of new features and supported e-mail protocols including IMAP4, TLS/SSL, and MS-TNEF.

MailBee WebMail Pro is reliable, secure, fast, easy-to-setup web-based e-mail client which provides high quality of rendering HTML-formatted e-mails and customizable skinnable interface.

Should you need web-based e-mail for your web site or integrate it with your existing web applications, you must see MailBee WebMail Pro 3.3.

MailBee Objects is a set of robust and easy-to-use e-mail components which will enable your desktop and web applications to download, compose, send and manage mails at SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4 servers.

MailBee Objects 5.4 is now available, and it's a free upgrade for all registered users of MailBee Objects of previous versions.

MailBee WebMail Pro is reliable, fast, easy-to-setup web-based e-mail client which provides high quality of rendering HTML-formatted e-mails and customizable skinnable interface.

Should you need web-based e-mail for your web site or integrate it with your existing web applications, you must see MailBee WebMail Pro 3.2.

MailBee Objects is a set of robust and easy-to-use e-mail components which will enable your desktop and web applications to download, compose, send and manage mails at SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4 servers.

MailBee Objects can be used with .Net, ASP, VB, C++, Access, Delphi, Cold Fusion, JavaScript, and any other environment which supports ActiveX technology. Detailed documentation and sample projects for different programming environments allow you to start actual development in minutes!

MailBee WebMail Pro is reliable, fast, easy-to-setup web-based e-mail client which provides high quality of rendering HTML-formatted e-mails and customizable skinnable interface.

Should you need web-based e-mail for your web site or integrate it with your existing web applications, you must see MailBee WebMail Pro 3.1.

MailBee WebMail Pro 3.0 - New Version Available!

WebMail Pro is reliable, fast and feature-rich web-based e-mail client which provides superior quality of rendering HTML-formatted e-mails.

AfterLogic, an iForum company, has released Version 5.2 of MailBee Objects that make programmers’ job of “email enabling” their applications much easier than was previously possible.

Available for evaluation as a free 30-day fully functional download, MailBee Objects is a complete set of distributable components designed to simplify and reduce developers’ efforts when their applications must send email messages to SMTP servers, and receive, parse and delete messages from POP3 servers. MailBee components can be used in .Net, ASP, VB, C++, VBScript, JavaScript, Delphi, ColdFusion, or any other environment, which supports ActiveX technology. The free download includes numerous source code examples, that along with “try before you buy” concept and free technical support aim to please the development community.