History
Release 1.3: September 29th, 2003
- The main window has been reorganized to take less screen estate, with indicators for mail in and a "Check All" button
- Added support for ISO encoded Base64 headers
- A splash screen at startup has been added
- The local spammers list has been removed: difficult to keep up-to-date and basically useless
- OSIRUSOFT blacklist has been removed, NJABL, CBL
and Spamhaus have been added, blacklist servers can now be added/removed from a file and
are no more hardcoded (except for initial setup)
- The DNS search for mail exchange servers in SpamCop reporting and bouncing has been expanded
- A failed bounce now leaves the message marked for delete
- Filter check has now startsWith, endsWith possibilities
- A bug that wasn't allowing auto report to be disabled has been corrected
- A bug for mail passwords containing spaces has been corrected
- The bad news: Sun's decision to drop support for old Swing/JFC libraries (pre-1.2) makes virtually impossible for PostArmor to run
on Mac OS 9! For users that have it installed already, the substitution of the jar file with the latest release will allow them to run
the latest version.
Release 1.2: August 6th, 2002
- Changed package & application name(!) The new name is PostArmor.
- The score for blacklists has been changed to 90, so that they're not deleted automatically by default.
- Reading messages has been modified to be buffered, so that download speed is increased.
- Mail evaluation has been moved to several small threads, so that the software doesn't hang anymore waiting
for a result.
- Blacklist results (both positive and negative) are maintained in a local cache for a week, to minimize network
traffic on frequent checks.
- OSIRUSOFT blacklists have been added.
- Most icons are radically different (and hopefully with a little more style) & all fonts have been reviewed.
- All windows have been reviewed for size.
- Reserved account names are checked to avoid conflicts.
- Report email has now a trigger value, so that it can be sent after a given quantity of messages are on hold.
- More data on messages are saved: it's now always possible to see the evaluation results.
- If the connection fails during autocheck, the failure is silent (before an alert was popping up).
- A bug that was deleting expired messages even when good has been corrected.
- A bug that caused errors while checking several POP accounts at the same moment has been corrected.
- A bug for crashing on an empty (non-null) password has been corrected: now an error is reported to the email program.
- A bug that was jamming the filters' list while deleting a set has been corrected.
- The software now performs a smarter Garbage Collection.
Release 1.1.2: July 16th, 2002
- Added support for ORDB blacklist.
- French, Spanish and Italian translations are now extended to help, FAQ and assistant.
- Corrected a bug in bouncing messages with illegal headers.
- Corrected a bug that prevented adding filters in a localized version.
- Header names are now considered case-insensitive: this was causing a problem before when sender was using improperly
cased headers (i.e. "CC" instead of "Cc").
- Changed base namespace for the classes.
Release 1.1.1: July 4th, 2002
- Added APOP support.
- Added French translation (courtesy of Jacques Suc).
- Reviewed buttons and added toolbar behavior to the Message List.
- Bounce and SpamCop buttons are disabled if there is no DNS available.
- Corrected a bug that prevented saving the window position on Java 1.1 systems.
- Reviewed documentation & website. Added a new Getting started section to the docs to ease initial configuration.
Release 1.1: June 30th, 2002
- Added complete SpamCop support: can send reports with a button and check against blacklist.
- Added a wizard/assistant to help create new accounts.
- Added maximum score to delete immediately messages which are definitely spam.
- Corrected bug with messages' color in mail window. Font is larger too.
- First checks after launching are faster now, and the software uses a bit less memory.
- Windows remember their position between launches.
- Passwords are saved (encrypted) in the account settings files.
- A progress bar shows the progress for checking mail.
- Reviewed documentation & new website!
Release 1.0: June 24th, 2002
- Corrected bug regarding the refresh of the message list.
- More tolerant for non-conformant headers.
- More tolerant with absence of a DNS when verifying addresses or bouncing mail.
- On the report sent by e-mail, the matching rules that contributed to the score are now clearly indicated, in order to ease the tuning of the filters.
- For the same reason, a double click on the message in the GUI mode now shows the headers and the rules it matched (only if it has just been evaluated, this information isn't saved between launches).
- Messages that fail to be bounced are not deleted from the list (previously they were deleted anyway).
- If the close box of the main window is clicked, a confirmation is asked to quit the application.
- A special call was necessary to let MailArmor (or any Java app) use Mac Look&Feel on Mac OS 9 (!): the application looks much better on Mac OS 9 now.
- Reviewed documentation & website.
Release Candidate 3: June 19th, 2002
- Corrected nasty bug when an operation was done on multiple messages at the same time.
- Corrected bug with e-mailers that delete messages one by one (as opposed to deleting at the end of the session).
- Corrected harmless but annoying bug when a wrong password was given.
- "Cc" and "Bcc" headers were accidentally deleted from the "Header" menu in the Rules pane: they're back now.
- "Content-Type" header has been added, to allow checks like "charset=...".
- Black- and white-lists are also checked against "Reply-To" & "Sender" headers, to handle mailing lists correctly.
- Address checking is performed ignoring the case: before, "Me@myServer.com" was not regarded as the same as "me@myserver.com".
- Main window can be minimized.
- Mac OS 9 Launcher now defaults to listen to port 110, as there are no privileges problems.
- Another special Mac OS X Launcher has been added, that starts MailArmor with administrator privileges on port 110.
- "About..." menu in the Mac OS Launchers now shows properly the splash screen.
- Reviewed documentation & website.
Release Candidate 2: June 13th, 2002
- Reviewed documentation & website.
- Italian and Spanish localizations.
- New "About..." dialog.
- New "Remove" icon.
Release Candidate 1: June 10th, 2002
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