All of our existing customers using DiiMES will be upgraded to the new version by the end of January. All customers will be contacted to arrange upgrade roll out dates.

What’s new in Version 9?

• New Clean, Fresh Look & Feel using ajax.
• New People Management Engine
• New Workflow Engine to assist you with stepping through simple to complex workflows
• Organisation Manager
• New User Roles as well as User Groups to manage access
• Active Directory (Windows Domain/SBS/etc) security integration
• Web-based photo and picture editing
• Web-based Word Docs, Spreasheets & Presentation Access
• No Google Apps Used so your information is safe!

New Modules:

• Team Management Modules
• Organisation Manager Modules
• Online Commerce Portal (sell tickets, products and resource subscriptions from one shopping cart!)
• Full Mail, Calendar & other useful too integration

Updated Modules:

• Event Management Modules
• Notification Modules
• External Database Connectors (connect to existing systems)

We’re still hoping for public calendar support and the ability to use alias addresses as your actual sending address (from within webmail – you can do this from your mobile phone or from Outlook, but not from webmail!!!)

Version 6.5.3586 (2009-10-26)

• ADDED: A custom body rules spam check that allows system administrators to create a list of words, wildcards or regular expressions and assign weights to messages based on those rules.
• ADDED: An option to choose whether or not to include received headers from authenticated SMTP sessions.
• ADDED: Commtouch Zero-hour Antivirus integration (add-on).
• ADDED: Customizable from, to and reply-to settings for mailing lists.
• ADDED: New web services have been added to control the Antispam Administration settings.
• ADDED: The ability to choose between Lite and Free modes when applicable.
• ADDED: The ability to define at which retry attempt to change priorities.
• ADDED: The ability to search for subscribers from the mailing list configuration page.
• ADDED: The mailing list subscribers grid is now sortable.
• CHANGED: Contacts now contain category information when transfered via SyncML in VCard format.
• CHANGED: Contacts without a display name now use the company field if applicable.
• CHANGED: Exported contacts with illegal Windows file name characters are now replaced with an underscore.
• CHANGED: Improved consistency of page titles in the Collaboration and RSS sections.
• CHANGED: Mapped folders now display unread messages counts.
• CHANGED: Max message size for content-based spam checks has been moved to the Options tab of the Antispam Administration page. This setting applies to the SpamAssassin-based pattern matching engine, remote SpamAssassin, custom body rules, and URIBLs.
• CHANGED: The GAL now has an Edit button and menu item for domain administrators and a View button and menu item for others.
• CHANGED: The license management page will now indicate if an add-on is in trial mode.
• CHANGED: The RSS aggregator will now specify an user agent string when downloading feeds.
• CHANGED: When adding a domain, the mailing list command address now has a default value.
• EFFICIENCY: IMAP retrieval and mailbox migration now perform significantly faster on large mailboxes.
• EFFICIENCY: Improved the performance of Bayesian filtering.
• EFFICIENCY: Improved the performance of the SpamAssassin-based pattern matching engine.
• FIXED: Adding an Event group will now function as expected.
• FIXED: Attempting to access the Today page while logged out of SmarterMail now loads the login page as expected.
• FIXED: Calendar appointments containing curly braces in their names now function as expected.
• FIXED: Contacts with long description fields are no longer truncated in VCard format.
• FIXED: Corrected a javascript error that could appear when replying to plain text messages.
• FIXED: Corrected an issue that could cause ActiveSync to create duplicate items with Windows Mobile 6.1.
• FIXED: Corrected an issue that could cause calendar items synchronized with SyncML to resynchronize after dismissing reminders in Outlook.
• FIXED: Corrected an issue that could prevent some users from creating events.
• FIXED: Dates and times are now localized correctly on the Tasks page.
• FIXED: Disable password changes now properly prevents a user from changing their password.
• FIXED: Disabling Webmail access for a user no longer disables SMTP access.
• FIXED: Domain forwarding with user verification now functions as expected for domain aliases when the domain has a catch-all enabled.
• FIXED: DomainKeys signatures now include the query tag.
• FIXED: Eliminated concurrency issues with mailbox access that could cause mailbox corruption in rare circumstances.
• FIXED: Email addresses containing non-ASCII characters now display correctly in Outlook when replying to a message.
• FIXED: Email attachments containing quotes in their name now function as expected.
• FIXED: Emails with winmail.dat attachments are now viewable in the spool.
• FIXED: Folder names with non-ASCII characters now display correctly via Exchange ActiveSync.
• FIXED: Greylisting filtering no longer causes mail unexpected delays in the RCPT command.
• FIXED: IMAP folders now appear in their intended locations after creation.
• FIXED: IMAP retrieval on messages that are only line delimited with line feeds now function as expected.
• FIXED: Incoming gateways with user or domain verification now download the list of users and domains when SmarterMail starts rather than on first use of the gateway.
• FIXED: Listing multiple email addresses for a contact now functions as expected.
• FIXED: Mailing list templates now display correctly in plain text mode.
• FIXED: Mailing list templates now display when composing a new message in HTML.
• FIXED: New messages composed in plain text now resize correctly after a draft is auto-saved.
• FIXED: Non-ASCII characters now display properly when used in subfolders.
• FIXED: Outgoing TLS now reissues the EHLO/HELO command after beginning the TLS session.
• FIXED: Outgoing TLS now works correctly when delivering to multiple servers when only one of the servers supports TLS.
• FIXED: Paging on the events list now works correctly.
• FIXED: Primary domain administrators can no longer be disabled or have the domain administrator role removed..
• FIXED: Propagating plus addressing settings now functions as expected.
• FIXED: Removing mailing list subscribers via checkboxes now functions as expected.
• FIXED: Service access control no longer displays on default user settings when that feature is disabled.
• FIXED: Shared folders now always appear in IMAP.
• FIXED: Shift-clicking rows in the infinite scrolling grid now works correctly when the click occurs in the checkbox column.
• FIXED: SmarterMail now correctly synchronizes calendar items with a negative reminder time in SIF format via SyncML.
• FIXED: SmarterMail now honors the From address of the mobile device when sending a message via Exchange ActiveSync.
• FIXED: SmarterMail now remembers the initial search parameters if a system adminstrator clicks Cancel while editing a user
• FIXED: SmarterMail now re-requests SyncML device information if the SyncML sync profile is deleted from SmarterMail, resolving issues where items may be transfered to a SyncML client in an unsupported format.
• FIXED: SMTP authentication now functions as expected if the session authenticates multiple times.
• FIXED: SMTP Blocked senders now works correctly when a wildcard is used.
• FIXED: Sorting of list subscribers is now case insensitive.
• FIXED: Spam checks for incoming gateway rules are now honored if a domain forwarded domain is an alias or forward.
• FIXED: SyncML support with the Blackberry Funambol client is improved.
• FIXED: The current password field will not display for domain administrators trying to reset a user password.
• FIXED: The editor in the compose page now functions as expected when drafts are auto-saved.
• FIXED: The GMail mailbox migration now imports more than 25 contacts.
• FIXED: The Greylist spam threshold now applies even if Incoming SMTP Blocking is disabled.
• FIXED: The infinite scrolling grid no longer causes the first message in the list to remain selected when checking a row further down the list. This will prevent accidental deletes and moves.
• FIXED: The login page now displays a friendlier error message when the service can not be contacted.
• FIXED: The Mail for Exchange on Nokia phones now syncs calendar events via Exchange ActiveSync.
• FIXED: The mailing lists tab in Domain General Settings is no longer visible when the Mailing List feature is disabled for that domain.
• FIXED: The scrollbar for the infinite scrolling grid now display correctly in Google Chrome 3 and 4.
• FIXED: The SpamAssassin-based pattern matching engine now converts HTML messages to plain text in the event that a plain text part does not exist.
• FIXED: The SpamAssassin-based pattern matching engine now runs header rules that apply to all headers.
• FIXED: The SpamAssassin-based pattern matching engine will no longer crashes on extremely malformed messages.
• FIXED: Upgrading from older versions of SmarterMail 4 to SmarterMail 6 will no longer result in some messages not being visible.
• FIXED: Users can now delete Exchange ActiveSync relationships from the Synchronization page.
• FIXED: Using Add to Outlook on a calendar no longer fails if the calendar contains certain yearly recurrence rules.
• FIXED: Using mark as Spam and Mark as Not Spam twice in a row will no longer fail to perform the action.
• FIXED: VCards now contain versioning information, preventing warnings in newer Funambol clients.
• FIXED: When adding a folder, typing an invalid name will no longer cause the OK and Cancel buttons to move off the page.
• FIXED: When using the check all box in the messages page, the correct count now displays when using the delete action.

This is the next installment in our online services stategy which includes our website (this site), our domain name registration service, our client support system and our webmail upgrades.

Drop on over to: http://support.dawes.biz/ to see it for yourself.

The first site to be released on the new verison of our platform will be the SU Teams Volunteer Management System that will be put in use in the next few weeks.

Stay Tuned for some screenshots soon!

Our pricing has dropped also for some domains.

customservers.com.au is where our new custom web hosting service will be centralised to, so when you need something new, whether it be a new domain, more hosting space, computer hardware or software or you just need to get a bug fixed or want to see the status of our servers, this is the one stop shop for where you will go. If you haven’t received your login details, let us know and we’ll get them out to you quick smart.

Head on over to: http://domains.customservers.com.au/ from now on to purchase, renew and manage your domains.

Our new mailserver is now up and running. We’ve moved from MailEnable to Smartermail as we’re finding it a much better interface to use and manage, even though it is a little more expensive to have.

We also have new sync features for Outlook and mobile devices as well as great new calendar and task functionality.

Some new features:

We will be moving everyone across (after being notified) to the new server a few at a time to minimise disruption.

Let us know what your thoughts by clicking on the heading of this article and dropping us a comment!

He was a genius, a musician and a great father and husband.

A man who will never be forgotten, as his talent and music will live long after our children’s children have grown up.

We miss you already bro, but we’ll keep listening and remembering the times you where on this earth to thrill us all.

Twitters that express our feelings right now:

John Mayer (johncmayer):
Dazed in the studio. A major strand of our cultural DNA has left us. RIP MJ.

Rob Thomas (ThisIsRobThomas):
Official. Michael jackson dies at 50. Speechless.

Sean “P. Diddy” Combs (iamdiddy):
Michael Jackson showed me that you can actually see the beat. He made the music come to life!! He made me believe in magic. I will miss him!

Hanson (hansonmusic):
It is difficult to think of a more impact full loss from the passing of an icon, than that of Michael Jackson.

The primary reasons for this are:

1. The site currently uses jQuery, which is not really a great advertisement of for ExtJS
2. The functionality of the site is somewhat hampered by the fact that we’re using a generic template.

So we’re rebuilding the whole site to deliver content in a much better way…

Stay tuned.

The official training session will be later in the year, however this presentation is to show a few of the great features coming together.

We’re hoping the session will not only be informative, but also a catalyst for great ideas to emerge and new gadgets and features to be added.

Two different admin panels will be used for the project, and for both we’ve decided to use ExtJS. Using ExtJS Core 3.0 for the team admin panels where the interface is lot more simple and using ExtJS 3.0 Full for the fully featured, MS Outlook-style interface.

Release One Features:

Admin Panel

• Staff Manager
• Regional Manager
• Team Manager

Team Websites:

• Team Info Website
• Team Forum

Features Scheduled For Release Two:

Admin Panel

• Admin Dashboard
• Admin Notifications
• Admin E-mail

Team Panel

• Team Calendar
• Team E-mail
• Facebook/MySpace/OpenSocial Integration