What's new in febooti Command Line Email 5.1

Jul 7, 2013
  • New:
  • NOID command allows to remove Message-ID field.
  • Changed:
  • Now Message-ID header field is generated automatically.
  • Improved:
  • Minor UI tweaks.

New in febooti Command Line Email 5.0 (Jan 28, 2013)

  • New:
  • IGNOREATTACHERRORS command allows to send emails while ignoring all file attaching errors (such as Network timeout, Unable to read file, Access denied, Sharing violation, etc.).
  • TONAME parameter allows to specify friendly name both for TO and CC email recipients.
  • Optional LOGSUCCESS parameter to log successfully sent email basic history.
  • Optional LOGFAILURE parameter to log only failed email sending attempts to specified file.
  • Full compatibility with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 both for 32 and 64 bit versions.
  • Minor tweaks and fixes across the entire product.
  • Fixed:
  • Some security issues regarding SSL and STARTTLS connections. Consult OpenSSL documentation for more details.
  • Changed:
  • UTF8 email text messages without attachments are now sent without an additional multipart/mixed section.
  • Friendly name part of the TO, FROM and CC fields in the email header from now on are encoded if they contain international (non ASCII) characters.
  • Friendly name part of the FROM and REPLYTO fields are always enclosed in quotes.
  • Improved:
  • Slightly faster email sending speed.
  • Improved timeout error handling and more friendly timeout notifications.
  • Improved warning messages about incompatible command line parameters.
  • Debug screen now displays error information regarding log file errors.
  • OpenSSL libraries updated to the latest version (includes security fixes).
  • More minor improvements.

New in febooti Command Line Email 4.1 (Apr 24, 2012)

  • Improved HTML image CID generation according to RFC to display cached images correctly on iOS / iPhones.
  • In case of SMTP error, user is directed to more relevant help topic.
  • OpenSSL libraries updated to current version.
  • Minor UI improvement.

New in febooti Command Line Email 4.0 (Feb 1, 2011)

  • New:
  • Introduced 64-bit version of Command line email for 64-bit Windows.
  • HIDE command immediately hides Command line email command prompt window.
  • Added hidefebootimail.exe executable that works without any screen output window.
  • HELO command allows using custom client / SMTP communication session initiation greeting.
  • Fixed:
  • If OpenSSL libraries were missing, febootimail.exe crashed upon execution.
  • If a line contained only a single dot character, the end of email message was cut on some occasions.
  • If an EML file contained a dot in separate line, sending email with OPENEML parameter could cut the part of an email following the line with the dot.
  • Changed:
  • Windows 98, Me, NT and 2000 are no longer supported. Use Command line email v3.2, instead. See FAQ.
  • Changed Command line email license text to clarify the terms of software use.
  • Improved:
  • If attaching a file fails, the error is shown instead of sending a zero length attachment.
  • Content MIME type of email attachments is now specified more precisely.
  • Screen output in some scenarios is now colored and provides better visualization.
  • If TEXT value within configuration file (specified by CONFIG parameter) is put into quotes, leading and ending space characters are preserved.
  • Better installing experience in some scenarios.
  • OpenSSL libraries updated to current version.
  • Minor improvements.
  • Note:
  • Before installing Command line email v4.0 user has to uninstall the previous version.

New in febooti Command Line Email 3.2 (Sep 1, 2009)

  • Fixed:
  • When using friendly names with national characters (regional settings for language other than English), sometimes incorrect quote characters were used.
  • If UF parameter was used after TO parameter, the beginning of TO field sometimes contained unnecessary commas.
  • If no TO recipients are specified, email header does not contain empty TO field.
  • DEBUG and DEBUGX commands sometimes returned slightly incorrect line break values.
  • DEBUGX sometimes produced garbled text at the end of debug output.
  • In rare cases error information was not complete (and contained %1 characters instead of necessary description).
  • In rare cases using OPENEML files led to application crash.
  • If OPENEML and SAVEEML parameters were used simultaneously, it usually led to application crash.
  • If DIAL parameter is used, disconnect is now graceful.
  • PRECEDENCE parameter was incorrectly writing two colons in email header.
  • Changed:
  • If available, CONFIRM command uses REPLYTO address instead of FROM address to request confirmation.
  • CONFIRM command does not use friendly name in its header.
  • SAVEEML, OPENEML, LOG and other files are not opened in exclusive access mode anymore.
  • Email date is now created without preceding zero, if email is sent before 10th day of a month.
  • If email date is specified in custom header, the original email date is not added.
  • From now on, the TZ environment variable is not taken into consideration.
  • Email MIME boundary now is always written in lower case.
  • OpenSSL libraries moved to separate folder in order not to be in PATH variable (and thus possibly conflicting with other software).
  • Improved:
  • When some error is experienced during sending individual emails using TOEACH parameter, the application attempts to send the remaining emails instead of quitting.
  • On some non-English localizations of Windows some OS error messages were shown in incorrect character encoding.
  • When multiple attachments are specified in text file (using UF parameter after ATTACH command), they can be separated by line break character only. In previous application versions also a pipe character had to be used.
  • When using CONFIG parameter, the file names used in configuration file can be put in quotes.
  • Unnecessary line break characters are automatically removed when using UF parameter.
  • TO and CC fields are wrapped more accordingly to RFC standard.
  • In some cases error information is supplemented by providing OS reported error (e.g. when a file is not accessible).
  • Added Febooti Command line email icons for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008.
  • OpenSSL libraries updated to most current version.

New in febooti Command Line Email 3.1 (Aug 9, 2007)

  • Bug fixes for issues connected with warning message displaying and attachment sending.

New in febooti Command Line Email 3.0 (Apr 23, 2007)

  • Windows Vista compatibility
  • Added -TOEACH and -CONFIG parameter
  • -ATTACH parameter allows wildcards

New in febooti Command Line Email 2.0 (Aug 9, 2006)

  • SSL parameter
  • STARTTLS parameter
  • CR, -ENTER parameter
  • SAVEEML, -OPENEML parameters
  • DEBUGX parameter
  • and more