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PYTHEAS MailGate Release 2.70

New Can send outgoing mail directly, without going through a SMTP relay.
New Can authenticate to the internal mail server (no longer necessary to allow anonymous connections on the Microsoft Exchange Receive Connector).
New For POP3 mailboxes which support it, PYTHEAS MailGate takes into account the LOGIN-DELAY parameter (Google Gmail accounts, for ex.). These are temporarily skipped if download sessions happen too frequently.
New In outgoing mail handling, if an outgoing message is received for an "unknown" sender address, you can now choose to be alerted with a "session log message". This alert option can be set in the Configuration Program.
FYI: An "unknown" SMTP address is a SMTP address which does not appear anywhere in the Recipients definitions, neither as a "SMTP address", nor in the "other SMTP addresses" field. Such a message sender will not receive notifications about successful or unsuccessful message delivery.
Change About notifications back to the sender of a particular incoming message (over size limit, for ex.): if outgoing mail handling is not enabled in PYTHEAS MailGate, such notifications are now sent directly to the sender of the incoming message. In earlier versions, these were sent to the internal mail server which was supposed to relay these notifications.
FYI: if outgoing mail handling is enabled, such notifications are handled like any other outgoing message.
Change In outgoing mail handling, if no other Delivery Status Notification (DSN) options are specified by the internal mail server which made the message, PYTHEAS MailGate adds the "Failure, Delay" options so that an unsuccessful delivery always gets reported, regardless of the downstream SMTP relay server defaults.
Change In notifications for oversized messages (which are sent to internal Recipients), only Recipients who really get the notification now appear in the notification.
In previous versions, the notification used the same To: and Cc: headers as the original message (internal and external), which was somewhat misleading, because in fact only internal Recipients get such a notification.
Change All message size limits can now be entered directly as text (removed the thumbwheels...).
Change In scheduling options, "connect every..." interval can be set in one-minute steps.
Fix S/MIME (signed) messages with invalid signatures are now handled without problem.
Fix Schedule option "collect incoming first" now works as expected (was broken in 2.61a).
Fix Minor bug fixes.
Info After the upgrade process, some notification message templates will be replaced with the default message templates (OutgoingPartiallySuccessful, OutgoingUnsuccessful, OutgoingSent, OutgoingStillQueued). The existing templates which you may have customized, are copied to files with a .bak extension and are located in the ProgramData\(...)\Templates subfolder.

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PYTHEAS MailGate Release 2.60, 2.61, 2.61a

New Supports up to 6 concurrent download tasks.
New
(2.61)
Now also supports POP3 TLS connections. Optionally, can check the validity of SSL/TLS certificates.
New
(2.61)
Sending of Session Log messages can now be triggered in a way that these are sent only if a POP3 login error occurs repeatedly. This should drastically reduce their number in case of transient login errors.
New
(2.61)
You can now do a "text search" in the PYTHEAS MailGate Remote Control program.
Change (2.61a) More checks in outgoing mail for Make-unique tags (in particular in Return-Receipt-To, Sender and Reply-To headers)
Change (2.61a) Supports IPv6 for connections to POP3 and SMTP relay servers.
Fix
(2.61)
Correctly handles invalid TNEF messages when doing content-check.
Fix
(2.61)
Better Active Directory connection when downloading SMTP addresses for Microsoft Exchange mailboxes.
Fix Minor bug fixes.

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PYTHEAS MailGate Release 2.50, 2.50b

New Supports secure SSL/TLS connections when sending outgoing mail.
New Can send a bounce message back to sender for messages over maximum size, which should not be delivered to the internal mail server.
Fix Minor bug fixes and enhancements.
Fix
(2.50b)
Minor bug fixes (2.50.

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PYTHEAS MailGate Release 2.41

New supports Microsoft Exchange 2010
Fix Message routing using special routing headers, like Delivered-to, Envelope-To, X-RCPT-TO, works again.
Fix Minor bug fixes and enhancements.

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PYTHEAS MailGate Release 2.40...2.40g

New Supports secure POP3 SSL connections
New (2.40g) Link to check for upgrade on the About-page.
Change Should be more tolerant with respect to messages with incorrect MIME structure
Change Needs the Microsoft .Net Framework v. 2.0
Change (2.40a) Separate configuration files for POP3 accounts and Recipients are now locked while the Configuration Program has them open.
Fix (2.40a) Problem when activating SpamAssassin in the Configuration Program on Windows Server 2008.
Fix (2.40b) Now detects the .Net Framework correctly on terminal server machines.
Fix (2.40b) MIME multipart messages with 8-bit-encoded parts are now sent to the internal mail server even if it does not announce 8BitMime support (error message in previous versions: Cannot use 'base64' encoding for 'message/rfc822...).
Fix (2.40d) If an error occurs during message header download, the message is no longer flagged as "already downloaded".
Fix (2.40e) On new installations, first start-up as Windows service should work smoother.
Fix (2.40f) The error message Unable to read past the end of the stream when downloading the message headers of a certain type of message should not appear any more.
Fix (2.40g) The "BTConnect-Fix" works again.
Fix (2.40g) Import support contract ID button now always visible.
Fix (2.40g) Virus check notification messages are now in correct format.

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PYTHEAS MailGate Release 2.34, 2.34a

New Content Checking Rules can now check for a certain value of any message header.
New For new installations on Microsoft Windows Server 2008, configuration data is now stored in ProgramData\Pytheas\PytheasMailgate. However, when upgrading from a previous version, configuration data remains in Program_Files_(x86)\PytheasMailgate resp. in Program_Files\PytheasMailgate.
New On Windows Server 2008, the Communication Task and Configuration Program now automatically start in UAC/Administrator mode.
Change In outgoing mail, the Make-Unique-Tag appearing in Cc-addresses can now be removed regardless of the domain. The behaviour is controlled by the Make-unique-address-tag_Check-in-sender-domain-only entry in PMailGat.INI, [Outgoing mail].
Fix CRAM-MD5 authentication now also works for long user names (>= 22 car.)
Fix In outgoing mail handling with Microsoft Exchange 2007, now correctly detects messages with high and low priority.

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PYTHEAS MailGate Release 2.33, 2.33a

New
v. 2.33a
Now supports also CRAM-MD5 authentication when sending outgoing mail.
Fix POP3 Account or Recipient data now removed from PMailGat.INI when using the procedure to move such data to separate files (see FAQ).
Information Works on Microsoft Windows 2008 (32bit and 64bit).

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PYTHEAS MailGate Release 2.32

New Support for Microsoft Exchange 2007
New Outgoing messages which temporary errors (SMTP Error 4xx) are frozen in the queue for a certain time to allow other messages being sent first..
Change Help file in CHM (HTML) format.

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PYTHEAS MailGate Release 2.31, 2.31a, 2.31c

New Rewriting of real names appearing in senders' addresses in outgoing mail. More details in the online help file.
Change The default value for the Make-unique-address tag has been changed to two underscores (was ## before). This has been done because it seems to be problematic to access mailboxes whose SMTP address contains ## with Outlook Web Access.
Fix Under certain (rare) conditions it could happen that the scheduler would stop retrieving POP3 mail.
Fix
2.31a
Corrected problems when saving the options how to handle messages once they have been detected as spam.
Information The product has been checked to work with Lotus Domino R7 and Microsoft Exchange 2007.

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PYTHEAS MailGate Release 2.30, 2.30c, 2.30d

New Universal interface for server-based real-time virus scanners, working at the file access level.
New The folder used for temporary storage for incoming messages can now be set explicitly.
New
v. 2.30c
Message subject tags for messages which cannot be routed automatically can now be set differently for messages without a valid address in the messaging domain, for messages for people on the Left Organization list, or for messages with no significant address at all. See online help for more details (in the Routing of Incoming Messages topic).
New
v. 2.30d
Incoming messages can now be saved to a folder in RFC822 format (in addition of being transferred to the internal mail server). See the help file for more information (search the index for Save incoming messages to a folder on disk).
New
v. 2.30d
Delete unwanted message headers. See the help file for more information (search the index for: delete certain message headers). This should be useful to avoid automatic read receipts being sent by older Microsoft Outlook versions.
Change Using of Resent-to header is now optional, controlled by a new parameter: Use Resent-to header. More info in online help.
Change Can now retry the intial "log into POP3 account before sending mail". More information in online help.
Change Timeout on outgoing SMTP connection can now be set independently. More information in online help.
Change
v. 2.30c
SpamAssassin interface: now supports the standard format of the Status header line for SpamAssassin v. 3 (score=...). The standard format of this header line for SpamAssassin v.2.x is still supported, too (hits=...).
Fix If configured to add a disclaimer to outgoing messages: S/MIME signed messages are now excluded, to avoid breaking the signature.
Fix Collect incoming mail first (Schedule options, Sequence of operations) now works as expected.
Fix Try connection (Verbindung versuchsweise aufbauen) in the Configuration wizard now works as expected, even when switched to German language.
Fix
v. 2.30c
The virus scanner interface should now work as expected, even without specifying a size limit.
Fix
v. 2.30d
Outgoing mail handling: better handling and reporting of unexpected disconnections in outgoing SMTP connections. The too many open files errors should not occur any more.

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