CleanMail Home Changelog

What's new in CleanMail Home 5.9.3.1

Mar 29, 2023
  • OpenSSL updated
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • Minor fixes and improvements

New in CleanMail Home 5.9.2.1 (Aug 12, 2022)

  • TLS: changed the way certificate chains are loaded
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • Minor fixes and improvements

New in CleanMail Home 5.9.1.5 (Apr 15, 2021)

  • Windows install: check if Windows Vista/2008 or later

New in CleanMail Home 5.9.1.4 (Apr 8, 2021)

  • User Manual updated
  • OpenSSL updated
  • Log file UTF-8 encoded
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • Minor fixes and improvements

New in CleanMail Home 5.8.3.3 (Sep 8, 2020)

  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • Default skip size limit increased to 3MB
  • Minor fixes and improvements

New in CleanMail Home 5.8.2.3 (Feb 25, 2020)

  • Clam Anti-Virus updated
  • SpamAssassin updated to version 3.4.2
  • SpamAssassin rules updated

New in CleanMail Home 5.7.3.5 (Dec 10, 2018)

  • SpamAssassin rules updated

New in CleanMail Home 5.7.3.4 (Nov 14, 2018)

  • Fix for Windows XP/2003 support broken in 5.7.3.3

New in CleanMail Home 5.7.2.3 (Nov 2, 2017)

  • Attachment Filter: legacy charset support fixed
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • Fixed false positives for Yahoo senders

New in CleanMail Home 5.7.1.1 (Jun 20, 2017)

  • Clam Anti-Virus updated
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • Bugfixes: Web Dashboard, MIME parser

New in CleanMail Home 5.6.9.1 (Mar 3, 2017)

  • User Manual updated
  • Clam Anti-Virus updated
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • Default message size limit increased to 40MB
  • Minor fixes and improvements

New in CleanMail Home 5.6.8.1 (Sep 29, 2016)

  • OpenSSL security update
  • Clam Anti-Virus updated
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • Minor fixes and improvements

New in CleanMail Home 5.6.7.2 (Feb 23, 2016)

  • Clam Anti-Virus updated
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • Minor fixes and improvements

New in CleanMail Home 5.6.6.3 (Oct 9, 2015)

  • Fixed a statistics/logging bug introduced in version 5.6.6.2
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • Minor fixes and improvements

New in CleanMail Home 5.6.6.2 (Jul 21, 2015)

  • Clam Anti-Virus updated
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • Minor fixes and improvements

New in CleanMail Home 5.6.5.2 (Mar 16, 2015)

  • Default Skip Size (where applicable) increased to 1MB
  • Mail Storage Configuration: allow setting up to 365 days
  • Clam Anti-Virus updated
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • Minor fixes and improvements

New in CleanMail Home 5.6.4.4 (Jan 21, 2015)

  • Fixed a POP3 SSL bug introduced in version 5.6.1.x
  • Security updates
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • Minor fixes and improvements

New in CleanMail Home 5.6.3.1 (Jan 7, 2015)

  • Security updates
  • dnsbl.ahbl.org removed from DNSBL filter default settings
  • Clam Anti-Virus updated
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • Minor fixes and improvements

New in CleanMail Home 5.6.1.5 (Jan 7, 2015)

  • OpenSSL security updates
  • PFS (perfect forward secrecy) TLS support
  • Clam Anti-Virus updated
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • Minor fixes and improvements

New in CleanMail Home 5.5.2.1 (Jul 24, 2014)

  • Web Dashboard/Search bug fixed (duplicate entries)
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • Minor fixes and improvements

New in CleanMail Home 5.4.2.3 (Mar 17, 2014)

  • Windows: workaround for a problem were temp files cannot be deleted
  • Fixed a bug were CleanMail would stop under heavy load
  • SpamAssassin rules updated

New in CleanMail Home 5.4.1.3 (Mar 17, 2014)

  • POP3S support (POP3 over SSL using port 995)
  • SpamAssassin rules updated

New in CleanMail Home 5.3.3.2 (Mar 17, 2014)

  • Windows 7/8 UI fixes
  • sane default setting for mail storage directory
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • ClamWin update

New in CleanMail Home 5.3.3.1 (Sep 24, 2013)

  • bugfix: service restart failure with malformed mail log file
  • web dashboard: improved viewer
  • SpamAssassin rules updated

New in CleanMail Home 5.3.2.2 (Jul 5, 2013)

  • report tab: bugfixes and improvements
  • SpamAssassin rules updated

New in CleanMail Home 5.3.1.3 (May 21, 2013)

  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • minor fixes and improvements

New in CleanMail Home 5.3.1.2 (May 21, 2013)

  • new reports: top spam subjects, top spam helo names, top spam IPs
  • licensed recipient list and filtering report now accessible from dashboard
  • saved search queries can now be applied to any data source
  • dashboard/reporting: faster response time
  • new config file format (existing configuration files are updated automatically)
  • Fingerprint filter improved
  • Clam Anti-Virus updated
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • Avira Antivirus support updated
  • minor fixes and improvements

New in CleanMail Home 5.2.4.7 (Jan 10, 2013)

  • fixed a bug where incorrect mail addresses were displayed
  • report tab message menu moved to main menu bar
  • sort algorithm for address and host name input fields changed
  • several other minor fixes and improvements
  • SpamAssassin rules updated

New in CleanMail Home 5.2.3.6 (Oct 17, 2012)

  • optimized web dashboard
  • faster Admin client reports and actions
  • fingerprint filter: increased allowable local database size
  • UI improvement: sorted address and host name input fields
  • UI improvement: removed some rarely used config options
  • Clam Anti-Virus engine updated
  • SpamAssassin rulesets updated

New in CleanMail Home 5.2.2.4 (May 10, 2012)

  • shared fingerprints updated more frequently
  • fixed a rare bug that prevented receiving shared fingerprints
  • DNSBL filter removed from Quickstart Wizard
  • UI improvement: "Learn As Ham/Spam" actions (report page) easier to access
  • manual updated (Tuning The CleanMail Filter Pipeline)

New in CleanMail Home 5.2.1.2 (Apr 10, 2012)

  • fingerprint filter: shared fingerprints
  • default directory for temporary files configurable in configuration file
  • minor UI improvements
  • manual updated

New in CleanMail Home 5.1.3.1 (Dec 14, 2011)

  • automatically remove duplicates from whitelist/blacklist
  • search page: fixed error message when trying to edit remote configuration
  • search page: F5/refresh reloads config
  • report page: use correct credentials when accessing remote search

New in CleanMail Home 5.1.2.3 (Nov 29, 2011)

  • CleanMail Admin: fixed a crash when switching to report page
  • CleanMail Admin: fixed unblock/send message (report page) not working
  • CleanMail Admin: fixed a bug where some license keys failed to work

New in CleanMail Home 5.1.2.1 (Nov 18, 2011)

  • new filter type added: fingerprint filter
  • filtering speed-up of about 99% for similar spam messages
  • IMPORTANT: Please add this filter manually: filter is not automatically added to existing configurations!
  • learn/unlearn spam messages:
  • if multiple SpamAssassin filters are configured, apply to all configured SpamAssassin directories
  • learn/unlearn automatically modifies fingerprint filter database
  • changes apply to both Web Dashboard and CleanMail Admin
  • CleanMail Admin: reporting page revised and improved:
  • quicker response to selection changes
  • full text filtering of results
  • do not flush and reload when switching to other pages and back
  • CleanMail Admin: other changes
  • F5 (refresh) available on all pages
  • Quickstart Wizard option to create whitelist filter
  • SpamAssassin Maintenance page removed
  • SpamAssassin client/server option deprecated and no longer available in UI
  • blacklist/whitelist email addresses sorted by domain
  • default skip size for all filters supporting this setting increased to 512k
  • Web Dashboard: additions to blacklist and whitelist now permanent
  • Clam Anti-Virus engine updated
  • SpamAssassin rulesets updated
  • DNSBL filter default zone list updated
  • manual revised and updated
  • registration procedure improved/clarified
  • minor improvements and fixes

New in CleanMail Home 4.8.1.2 (Jul 26, 2011)

  • Freeware license after trial period expires
  • Clam Anti-Virus engine security update
  • SpamAssassin rulesets updated
  • CleanMail Admin remembers data source and other settings when exiting or switching between pages
  • minor improvements

New in CleanMail Home 4.7.2.1 (Apr 21, 2011)

  • fixed a bug where the web-button on the search tab opened a page with the wrong URL
  • rulesets updated
  • manual updated

New in CleanMail Home 4.7.1.3 (Feb 22, 2011)

  • IPv6 support
  • Clam Anti-Virus engine security update
  • NOD32(ecls) default command line improved
  • fixed a bug where CleanMail wouldn't display NOD32 output in test filter dialog

New in CleanMail Home 4.6.2.2 (Nov 23, 2010)

  • Windows XP Service Pack 2 or earlier: fixed a bug where the service failed to start
  • fixed "recv buffer overrun" error encountered in some configurations

New in CleanMail Home 4.6.2.1 (Nov 23, 2010)

  • Clam Anti-Virus engine security update
  • force 8-bit characters in the CleanMail reject message to ASCII
  • fixed issues with trial expiry and freeware license
  • Linux: updated library binds to libc6

New in CleanMail Home 4.6.1.3 (Aug 19, 2010)

  • fixed missing context menu on report tab
  • fixed SSL connected socket status display

New in CleanMail Home 4.6.1.1 (Jul 22, 2010)

  • SpamAssassin: upgraded to version 3.3.1
  • SpamAssassin: daily ruleset update using sa-update
  • web dashboard/reporting: full international character set support
  • web dashboard/reporting: fixed address decoding bug resulting in bad from/to address display in some cases
  • UTF-8 text encoding for all CleanMail log files
  • CleanMail Admin: fixed a possible bug where CleanMail Admin would hang after exiting
  • CleanMail Admin: improved appearance of charts
  • CleanMail Admin: fixed a bug were hide progress window also disabled check for updates

New in CleanMail Home 4.5.2.1 (Jun 2, 2010)

  • web dashboard loads faster
  • added 12 month statistics display option
  • attachment filter error logging: fixed MIME error logging line count bug

New in CleanMail Home 4.5.1.6 (Apr 30, 2010)

  • fixed a bug where CleanMail 4.5 would not run on Windows 2000 systems

New in CleanMail Home 4.5.1.4 (Apr 30, 2010)

  • added search functions to find messages in storage
  • web dashboard redesign, supports fast search
  • Report tab: use stored search as datasource
  • optional password protection for searches
  • attachment filter: log detailed MIME errors if filter error logging is enabled
  • minor improvements and fixes

New in CleanMail Home 4.1.2.3 (Jan 4, 2010)

  • fixed Y2010 bug in SpamAssassin rules
  • minor improvements and fixes

New in CleanMail Home 4.1.2.2 (Nov 19, 2009)

  • Complete Email Security for Servers (anti-spam & anti-virus)
  • free Clam Anti-Virus included
  • built-in POP3 to SMTP Connector

New in CleanMail Home 4.1.1.2 (Oct 8, 2009)

  • improved quickstart wizard
  • new: export report table to .csv file
  • new: automatic offline Bayes database expire
  • minor improvements and fixes
  • manual updated

New in CleanMail Home 4.0.3.1 (Oct 8, 2009)

  • ignore whitelist option configurable for attachment blocker and anti-virus filter
  • SpamAssassin rules updated
  • minor improvements and fixes
  • manual updated

New in CleanMail Home 4.0.2.1 (Oct 8, 2009)

  • fixed small installer and quick start issues
  • fixed an issue were hide progress window setting was not saved
  • manual updated

New in CleanMail Home 4.0.1.3 (Oct 8, 2009)

  • New: CleanMail Home to replace NoSpamToday! for Workstations
  • New: included ClamWin anti virus as optional installation task
  • improved diagnostics and configuration instructions
  • improved Quickstart Wizard
  • configuration files moved to all users program data directory tree
  • minor improvements and fixes
  • updated manual