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MailStore Server Changelog

What's new in MailStore Server 24.2.1.23314

Apr 26, 2024
  • When updating from version 24.2.0, the archive stores need to be upgraded to recreate missing recovery records. Please read the update notices carefully to learn more about the upgrade process.
  • Fixed:
  • Recovery records are not written, when an archive store needs to be upgraded.

New in MailStore Server 24.2.0.22307 (Apr 10, 2024)

  • The internal database engine was updated. Please read the update notices carefully to learn more about the upgrade process.
  • Following Microsoft's product renaming, the name "Azure AD" has been replaced by "Microsoft Entra ID".
  • Logins of users from directory services without OpenID Connect can be secured using multi-factor authentication.
  • Logins of users can be restricted to specific clients.
  • The clear-text copy of an IRM-protected message is archived from Microsoft 365 Journal reports, if available.
  • The Management API can be used to set the allowed clients of a user (SetUserLoginPrivileges).
  • The Management API command to create users can be used to set the allowed clients (CreateUser).
  • The default list of allowed clients for synchronized users can be configured.
  • Multi-factor authentication can be enabled for synchronized users.
  • Web Access: Major update of all underlying web framework components
  • The client prevents the usage of capital letters when renaming archives.
  • Administrators that are authenticated using OpenID Connect cannot change compliance settings that require a password confirmation.
  • The setting to automatically exclude folders in Exchange and Microsoft 365 profiles cannot be re-enabled.
  • Various minor bug fixes and improvements.

New in MailStore Server 23.4.0.22136 (Dec 13, 2023)

  • Note:
  • The support for Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 without service pack was removed.
  • New:
  • Flagged emails and emails marked for follow-up can be deleted from the source mailbox.
  • Emails older than a certain date or date range can be excluded from being archived.
  • Improved:
  • Updated 3rd party libraries.

New in MailStore Server 23.3.1.21974 (Oct 5, 2023)

  • Improved:
  • Updated PDFium 3rd party library to increase stability of PDF indexing.

New in MailStore Server 23.2.0.21787 (Jun 21, 2023)

  • Note:
  • The Outlook Add-In has to be updated to support multi-factor authentication.
  • New:
  • Logins of users with integrated authentication can be secured using multi-factor authentication.
  • Users with integrated authentication can manage app passwords to use non-MFA-capable clients even with MFA enabled.
  • Users have to enter a password when creating scheduled tasks for client side archiving profiles.
  • The Management API has methods to initialize MFA (InitializeMFA), disable MFA (DisableMFA) and delete app passwords (DeleteAppPasswords).
  • The Management API can be used to monitor Microsoft 365 credentials (GetCredentials).
  • A warning is shown when an archive is renamed, and side effects are to be expected.
  • Improved:
  • The MailStore logo shows the "by opentext" suffix.
  • Workaround for Microsoft 365 public folder archiving occasionally not working due to a behavior in Microsoft 365.
  • Fixed:
  • Microsoft 365 mailbox archiving fails with "Keyset does not exist" error.
  • User credentials are cached for too long when using LDAP Generic.
  • Bump copyright to 2023.
  • Various minor bug fixes and improvements.

New in MailStore Server 23.1.2.21362 (Mar 29, 2023)

  • Let's Encrypt has announced to change their production request flow permanently on April 24th 2023. After that date, previous versions of MailStore Server will not be able to successfully request certificates from Let's Encrypt.
  • Fixed Let's Encrypt setup can not be completed due to a incompatible request flow.

New in MailStore Server 23.1.0.21355 (Mar 22, 2023)

  • The support for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Small Business Server 2011 was removed.
  • New Retention policies now support the inclusion or exclusion of certain archives.
  • New Dedicated Microsoft 365 operated by 21Vianet profiles for archiving and exporting emails using modern OAuth authentication as required by Microsoft. Please note that for technical and organizational reasons, these profiles are only available to MailStore administrators.
  • New Directory Services: New profile for Microsoft 365 operated by 21Vianet using modern OAuth authentication, to synchronize users via Microsoft Graph API and to enable synchronized users to authenticate directly with Microsoft operated by 21Vianet using OpenID Connect.
  • Improved In the client it is possible to delete several archives at once.
  • Improved The help shown for the Management API within the client was improved.
  • Fixed Various minor bug fixes and improvements.

New in MailStore Server 22.4.0.21151 (Dec 7, 2022)

  • The resource management was improved.

New in MailStore Server 22.3.0.21002 (Sep 21, 2022)

  • Fixed:
  • The Outlook Add-In now supports Microsoft Outlook 2021.
  • The automatic server-sided execution of profiles can be changed using the Administration API.
  • Failed login attempts will slow down the login process, preventing brute force attacks.
  • Improved the login flow in the Outlook Add-In was improved.

New in MailStore Server 22.2.2.20854 (Aug 3, 2022)

  • Improved:
  • The setup now informs about a possible restart due to the installation of Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8.
  • Fixed:
  • The audit log page is not accessible for some users.

New in MailStore Server 22.2.1.20836 (Jul 1, 2022)

  • Fixed:
  • It is not possible to log in using OpenID Connect.

New in MailStore Server 22.2.0.20832 (Jun 30, 2022)

  • New:
  • Both Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 are now supported operating systems.
  • New:
  • TLS 1.3 is now supported for both outbound and inbound connections on operating systems that fully support this TLS version.
  • Improved:
  • The underlying framework was updated to .NET Framework 4.8.
  • Improved:
  • Update of third-party library, which fixes several minor issues in archiving, displaying and exporting of emails.
  • Improved:
  • The internal database engine was updated.
  • Improved:
  • The client components for all used databases were updated.
  • Improved:
  • Path structure for new MailStore Client and Outlook Add-in installations is now consistent with other MailStore products.
  • Fixed:
  • When mails are exported as MSG files using the signed export feature, the signature is broken.
  • Fixed:
  • Under heavy load the archiving process may hang and never succeed, blocking other functionalities, too.

New in MailStore Server 22.1.1.20589 (May 5, 2022)

  • Fixed: Under certain circumstances, a behavior in Microsoft 365 prevents the successful archiving of public folders.

New in MailStore Server 22.1.0.20583 (Mar 24, 2022)

  • Note The version number of this release follows the new standardized MailStore version numbers, reflecting the quarter the product was released in.
  • Improved The input validation for file and folder paths was improved.
  • Fixed During reindexing of messages the index may be marked as corrupt.
  • Fixed Binary encoded attachments are changed during archiving under certain circumstances.

New in MailStore Server 13.2.1.20465 (Dec 9, 2021)

  • Due to a change in PDF parsing, the search behavior for PDF attachments may vary between already archived and newly archived mails.
  • Fixed The indexing of certain PDFs may lead to the service crashing.
  • Fixed Recipients are able to find mails by searching in BCC.
  • Fixed Mails that were exported by recipients contain Exchange BCC headers.

New in MailStore Server 13.2.0.20422 (Sep 29, 2021)

  • Note:
  • Due to a change in PDF parsing, the search behavior for PDF attachments may vary between already archived and newly archived mails.
  • New:
  • Added integrated support for indexing PDF attachments, removing the dependency to Adobe PDF IFilter.
  • Archive stores are now created automatically for optimum performance.
  • Configuration of automatic archive store creation accessible via API.
  • Improved:
  • Performance of gathering telemetry improved.
  • Performance of the search result cache improved.
  • Performance of reading recovery record files improved.
  • Performance of rebuilding search indexes has been improved.
  • Web Access: Performance of search improved for several scenarios.
  • Client: Performance and user experience of the archives page improved.

New in MailStore Server 13.1.0.20288 (Apr 22, 2021)

  • Note: Following Google's major product renaming for business products, the name G Suite has been replaced by Google Workspace throughout the software.
  • New: If a license was changed by e.g. renewing or extending it, the license can be automatically updated in the background (approximately within a day).
  • New: The management API can now be used to retrieve license information.
  • New: Added support for AD FS OpenID Connect when using the directory service type "Active Directory".
  • New: Added support for AD FS OpenID Connect when using the directory service type "LDAP Generic".
  • New: The administrator is warned on the dashboard and in the status report when certificates used as credentials are about to expire or are already expired.
  • Improved: Significant performance improvement when moving messages within the same archive.
  • Improved: Client: When opening emails in a mail client, Thunderbird profile names are now displayed for all profiles.
  • Fixed: Folder names containing multi-byte Unicode characters are stored incorrectly.
  • Fixed: Client: The x64 version of Thunderbird is not properly detected.
  • Fixed: Client: The client does not check certificate revocation.
  • Fixed: Client: Ad-hoc export of emails to Microsoft 365 or an Exchange Server using auto discover fails.
  • Fixed: Outlook Add-in: After unloading the add-in, it cannot be loaded again in the same Outlook session.
  • Fixed: Outlook Add-in: Attachments with special characters in their name cannot be downloaded.
  • Fixed: Web Access: Attachments with special characters in their name cannot be downloaded.
  • Fixed: Various minor bug fixes and improvements.

New in MailStore Server 13.0.5.20118 (Nov 26, 2020)

  • Fixed:
  • Ad-hoc export to Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Exchange Online using Auto Discover does not work.
  • Directory Services: "Sync only these groups" filter behaves different for Microsoft 365 (Modern Authentication) than for other directory services.

New in MailStore Server 13.0.3.20071 (Oct 29, 2020)

  • Improved:
  • Replaced "Ignore SSL Warnings" label with "Accept all certificates" in archive and export profiles to resolve confusion around MailStore's own warnings if the option is enabled. The behavior itself remains as is, as "Accept all certificates" is an insecure setting.
  • Fixed:
  • Certificate warnings cause RunProfileArc audit event of type "Error".
  • Client and Outlook Add-in do not check certificate revocation.
  • Remove Zarafa from included list of Implementation Guides.

New in MailStore Server 13.0.2.20052 (Aug 11, 2020)

  • Note:
  • Before updating from version 13.0.1, please check if there are MailStore users whose email addresses contain upper case letters. In such a case, please contact tech support for assistance in preparing the update.
  • Fixed:
  • Directory Services: When using Microsoft 365 (Modern Authentication), email addresses are not always converted to lower case, which may result in the creation of a secondary folder structure and duplicate emails.

New in MailStore Server 13.0.0.20045 (Jul 15, 2020)

  • Note Following Microsoft's major product renaming for consumer and SMB products, the name Office 365 has been replaced by Microsoft 365 throughout the software. All references to Microsoft 365 interchangeably apply to the Office 365 Enterprise plans and other plans that kept Office 365 in their name.
  • Note This release fully removes the support for establishing unencrypted connections to MailStore Server. This also includes the HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect option, which must be considered insecure without the use of properly configured HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS).
  • Note Mobile Web Access has been fully removed in this release. Many improvements and bug fixes applied to the responsive Web Access in this release make it a suitable, modern, and secure replacement on all supported mobile devices, including support of authenticating users directly against Microsoft 365 and Google G Suite.
  • Note To manage connections to remote SMB/CIFS network shares, the Service Configuration tool now provides built-in functionality as an easier and more secure alternative to the startup script method available in previous versions. It is highly recommended to replace existing "net use" commands in the startup script with the new built-in functionality. A corresponding warning will appear on the administrator's dashboard as long as "net use" commands are found in the startup script file. Please note that the Startup Script section in the Service Configuration tool is only visible if the startup script file actually exists.
  • Note Microsoft has announced the removal of HTTP Basic Auth for Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Microsoft 365. As MailStore's traditional Microsoft Exchange profiles support EWS with Basic Auth only, a new dedicated Microsoft 365 profile with support for modern OAuth authentication and a new Directory Service with support for authenticating users via OpenID Connect have been added. Customers of Microsoft 365 are advised to regularly check for Microsoft's announcement on the timeline for removing HTTP Basic Auth, and should plan the migration to the new profiles in advance. Please note that IMAP access to the archive is no longer supported when using a directory service which authenticates users via OpenID Connect.
  • Note Google has announced the removal of basic authentication types for IMAP in G Suite. IMAP is used in MailStore when authenticating users against G Suite. The existing direcory service settings for G Suite have therefore been extended to support the modern OpenID Connect authentication method. Customers of G Suite are advised to regularly check for Google's announcement on the timeline for removing basic authentication, and should plan the migration to the new setting in advance. Please note that IMAP access to the archive is no longer supported when using a directory service which authenticates users via OpenID Connect.
  • New Dedicated Microsoft 365 profiles for archiving and exporting emails using modern OAuth authentication as required by Microsoft. Please note that for technical and organizational reasons, these profiles are only available to MailStore administrators.
  • New Directory Services: New profile for Microsoft 365 using modern OAuth authentication, to synchronize users via Microsoft Graph API and to enable synchronized users to authenticate directly with Microsoft using OpenID Connect.
  • New Directory Services: Added OpenID Connect as authentication method to G Suite profile, which allows synchronized users to authenticate directly with G Suite.
  • New Two-step login process in Client, Outlook Add-in, and Web Access which supports the use modern authentication via OpenID Connect to authenticate users directly against Microsoft 365 and Google's G Suite.
  • New Network share management added to Service Configuration tool as an easier and more secure alternative to using startup scripts.
  • New Group Policy templates for Client and Outlook Add-in are now bundled with MailStore Server.
  • Improved Options to allow unencrypted access via HTTP to MailStore Server fully removed in Service Configuration tool. This also includes the optional HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect.
  • Improved Outlook Add-in: Support for unencrypted access via HTTP to MailStore Server fully removed.
  • Improved Localization of Group Policy templates.
  • Improved Improved handling of logging job results for Jobs that did not create any output.
  • Improved Audit event MessageDelete is now set to "All Users" by default on new installations.
  • Improved Port on which MailStore Server should listen for Let's Encrypt validation requests can now be changed in the Service Configuration tool. Please note that Let's Encrypt still connects to port 80 on the resolved external IP address.
  • Improved The admin dashboard and recent profile results warn about potentially insecure (e.g. unencrypted, Ignore SSL warning set) outbound connections to email servers or directory services. This has been just an information since version 12.
  • Improved Client: Clicking on folder path in message view opens the folder and shows the messages therein.
  • Improved Web Access: Clicking on folder path in message view opens the folder and depending on display size shows the messages therein.
  • Improved Web Access: Show specific message if session has expired.
  • Improved Web Access: Major update of all underlying web framework components.
  • Improved Web Access: Increased available reading space for content in mobile view.
  • Improved Web Access: Search by "This Week" and "Last Week" filter take locale setting into account for first day of week.
  • Improved Web Access: Images attached to emails will be displayed in web browser instead of downloaded when opened.
  • Improved Unified handling of certificate validation across all clients that connect to MailStore Server. Please note that certificate thumbprints can no longer be whitelisted via Group Policies.
  • Fixed Messages of item class "IPM.Note.NotSupportedICal" cause ErrorAccessDenied exception when archiving from Microsoft 365 mailboxes.
  • Fixed Processing of Retention Policies does not mark broken search indexes as broken.
  • Fixed Audit Log cannot be opened when it contains an entry with a user name which includes a colon.
  • Fixed Passwords with leading or trailing space character cannot be used in Exchange/Microsoft 365 archiving profile, although supported by Microsoft 365.
  • Fixed Client: In contrast to the Legacy Web Access and Outlook Add-in, only the date is shown in message list, but no time information.
  • Fixed Web Access: Scrolling in sidebar does not behave as expected on iOS devices.
  • Fixed Web Access: Sidebar does not scroll to expected position while switching between search and folder view.
  • Fixed Web Access: Escape character visible in path property in message detail view.
  • Fixed Web Access: Folders become inaccessible when a large folder hierarchy exist in the archive.
  • Fixed Web Access: Microsoft Edge (Spartan) crashes when selecting a custom date.
  • Fixed Web Access: Content of emails with wide message body cannot be reached due to missing horizontal scroll bars in message view.
  • Fixed Web Access: In contrast to the Legacy Web Access and Outlook Add-in, only the date is shown in message list, but no time information.
  • Fixed Incorrect Dutch localization of "Uncheck all".
  • Fixed Mobile Web Access is built upon the no longer maintained jQuery Mobile. To address security concerns and support modern OpenID Connect authentication method, Mobile Web Access has been removed in favor of the responsive Web Access.
  • Fixed Update of third party library, which fixes several minor issues in archiving, displaying and exporting of emails.
  • Fixed Various minor bug fixes and improvements.

New in MailStore Server 12.1.3.14781 (Apr 23, 2020)

  • Fixed:
  • Outlook Add-in: Missing certificate validation during login.
  • Group Policy for the Outlook Add-in allows whitelisting of certificates by their thumbprint.

New in MailStore Server 12.1.2.14774 (Feb 27, 2020)

  • Fixed Outlook Add-in: Opening saved searches does not clear checkboxes that are not set part of the saved search.
  • Fixed Outlook Add-in: Selected folder highlighting appears too bright in connection with new icons on some displays.
  • Improved DATEV EMA migration profile now supports flexible per-run limit up to 100,000 messages.
  • Fixed Error handling in DATEV EMA migration profile for "Failed to retrieve from the store" errors on remote side.
  • Fixed Error handling in DATEV EMA migration profile for "Die Prozedur oder Funktion 'SP_EXPAM_ISDOCUMENTPURGED' erwartet den @DOCGUID-Parameter, der nicht bereitgestellt wurde." errors on remote side.
  • Fixed Error handling in DATEV EMA migration profile for "Failed to convert message to EML" errors on remote side.

New in MailStore Server 12.1.1.14767 (Feb 7, 2020)

  • Fixed Attachments with Umlauts in file name cannot be downloaded with Outlook Add-in and Legacy Web Access.
  • Fixed Missing localization of a section title in some export profiles.

New in MailStore Server 12.0.3.14426 (Jun 26, 2019)

  • Fixed: Outlook Add-in: Empty error message dialogs.
  • Fixed: SMTP sessions are not terminated with QUIT command when sending emails to external systems.
  • Fixed: Some buttons in the MailStore Server Service Configuration Tool are too small to display the whole label in some languages.
  • Fixed: GPO for client does not apply correct language if value is set to "(System)".

New in MailStore Server 12.0.2.14364 (May 8, 2019)

  • Missing translations of new texts in version 12 if selected language is other than German or English.

New in MailStore Server 12.0.1.14342 (Apr 24, 2019)

  • Fixed:
  • G Suite IMAP login fails due to failed token revocation.
  • Fixed Client: Clicking hyperlinks inside the email preview opens "about:blank#".
  • Fixed Archiving emails from MailStore Gateway mailbox fails when the POP3 user name in a proxy scenario is not lower case only.

New in MailStore Server 12.0.0.14279 (Apr 10, 2019)

  • Improved:
  • Automatic execution of database scheme integrity check when attaching or enabling archive stores.
  • Add G Suite to trademark list.
  • Fixed:
  • HTML MIME parts with too high recursion depth (i.e. nested DIVs) are not be shown correctly.
  • Various minor bug fixes and improvements.

New in MailStore Server 11.2.2.14252 (Feb 26, 2019)

  • This version fixes a critical security vulnerability. All customers running an affected version of MailStore Server should update their installations as soon as possible.
  • Fixed Critical security vulnerability in version 9.6 and newer.

New in MailStore Server 11.2.1.14113 (Jan 17, 2019)

  • Fixed Archiving from Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft Office365 may fail under certain circumstances in hybrid environments or migration scenarios.
  • Fixed Very large recovery records lead to continuous auto compacting of recovery record files.
  • Fixed Audit log entries larger than 4096 bytes cannot be read from file system.
  • Fixed Bump copyright to 2019.

New in MailStore Server 11.2.0.13732 (Sep 26, 2018)

  • New:
  • Official Microsoft Exchange 2019 support.
  • Official Microsoft Outlook 2019 support.
  • Improved:
  • Extend RecoverStore command by option to also restore deleted emails. Prior to usage consulting tech support is highly recommended.
  • Retention Policies: Stricter validation of policies.
  • Updated privacy policy and trademark list.
  • Fixed:
  • Incomplete exception handling in RecoverStore leads to abortion of recovery process if a corrupt search index file exists.

New in MailStore Server 11.1.0.13498 (Jul 18, 2018)

  • New Password policies defines complexity requirements and minimum length for passwords of MailStore-integrated users.
  • Note The password policy is hard-coded and is applied the first/next time a MailStore password is changed.
  • New Web Access: Changing own password now possible for MailStore-integrated users.
  • Fixed Renamed Alt-N to MDaemon to match current vendor name.
  • Fixed VerifyStore may fail under certain circumstances

New in MailStore Server 11.0.2.13363 (Apr 25, 2018)

  • Improved:
  • Performance when upgrading archive stores from version 10 or older. Refer to the update notices for further information about upgrading archive stores.
  • Note Users who already upgraded their archive stores with version 11.0.0 need to manually rebuild all search indexes in order to restore full search capabilities.
  • Note User who currently upgrade their archive stores from version 10 or older to 11.0.1 may cancel this process and upgrade to 11.0.2 to benefit from the performance improvement for remaining upgrade steps. Afterwards, one search index may require a manual rebuild due to the previous cancellation.
  • Searches (incl. Saved Searches) without archive date are now possible on non-upgraded archive stores.
  • Fixed:
  • Issue "System.NotSupportedException: Stream does not support reading" resolved

New in MailStore Server 11.0.1.13351 (Apr 20, 2018)

  • Fixed Searching for email or attachment contents will return no results for emails that have been archived in version 10 or older, after archive stores have been upgraded.
  • Note Users who already upgraded their archive stores with version 11.0 need to manually rebuild all search indexes in order to restore full search capabilities. When upgrading archive stores from version 10 or older to version 11.0.1 or newer this rebuild is done automatically. Refer to the update notices for further information about upgrading archive stores.

New in MailStore Server 11.0.0.13345 (Apr 18, 2018)

  • Improved Search: Messages can now be searched by their archive date.
  • Improved Recovery records are now stored in separate container files, contain all meta data of the messages and are updated in real-time.
  • Improved Archive store recovery based on the new recovery records allows a rebuild of a corrupt archive store database without the need to export and re-archive messages.
  • Improved Further hardening of encryption key file management to work around potential file system corruption.
  • Improved Added TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 support to outgoing connections when accessing email servers.
  • Improved Telemetry data extended by hardware specs (CPU, memory, disk).
  • Fixed Missing window title in Terminal Progress Dialog.
  • Fixed Incorrect help page requested on job page.
  • Fixed Output of VerifyStore and VerifyStores command does not contain hints about corrupt container files.
  • Fixed Path to archive store is missing in Windows event log when attaching a store.
  • Fixed Wrong error message if Outlook Click-To-Run detection fails.
  • Fixed Updated third party libraries to fix several minor issues in archiving, displaying and exporting of emails.

New in MailStore Server 10.2.3.12921 (Nov 22, 2017)

  • Fixed:
  • Displaying issues when changing the default password while using large values for scaling fonts (High DPI).

New in MailStore Server 10.2.1.12861 (Oct 25, 2017)

  • Improved MailStore Client: Update of Implementation Guide list
  • Fixed No folders are recognized when archiving from IMAP servers that do not announce SPECIAL-USE capability but XLIST instead, and respond to XLIST requests with a LIST response (i.e. Dovecot with configured Outlook workaround).
  • Fixed Web Access: Downloading attachments containing special characters in file name fails.
  • Fixed Web Access: Too complex search queries do not cause an error message.
  • Fixed Web Access: Displayed name of saved search is not updated when saved under a new name.
  • Fixed Web Access: Additional cross shown in search field when using Internet Explorer.
  • Fixed Web Access: Internet Explorer uses compatibility mode for when URL is evaluated as an intranet site.
  • Fixed Web Access: Opening or downloading large emails or attachments is slow or fails.

New in MailStore Server 10.2.0.12837 (Oct 18, 2017)

  • Responsive Web Access allows accessing the archive from any device, irrespective of operating system and display size. Additionally, it provides more functionality than the legacy web access, such as deleting or moving messages.
  • New Digitally sign emails exported to the file system to ensure authenticity outside of the archive.
  • New Management API: Method to manage SMTP settings added.
  • Improved Update notifications now contain a HTML representation and provide additional information about the installation and license status.
  • Improved SMTP Settings: Default port changed to 587 and STARTTLS selected by default.
  • Improved Audit Log: Use of Lock Smith is now recorded.
  • Improved Hardening of encryption key management.
  • Improved More details about skipped messages are shown in the profile summary.
  • Fixed User list in Audit Log not sorted alphabetically.
  • Fixed HighDPI issue in service configuration tool.
  • Fixed HighDPI issue In Auto-Create Archive Store dialog.
  • Fixed Attaching a MailStore Server 5 or older archive store to a master database that has been upgraded to MailStore Server 10.x fails.
  • Fixed "Test" button in Exchange profiles does not heed status of "Ignore SSL warnings" checkbox when autodiscovery mechanism is used.
  • Fixed Update of third party library, which fixes several minor issues in archiving, displaying and exporting of emails.

New in MailStore Server 10.1.4.12522 (Aug 25, 2017)

  • Support for the latest Microsoft Office 365 update (Exchange Server 15.20).

New in MailStore Server 10.1.3.12520 (Jul 28, 2017)

  • Fixed: Synchronizing users from Office 365 Germany fails.

New in MailStore Server 10.1.1.12437 (Apr 6, 2017)

  • Fixed:
  • Authorization against Active Directory may fail under certain circumstances, if archive was initially created with MailStore Server 5 or older.

New in MailStore Server 10.1.0.12426 (Mar 30, 2017)

  • New:
  • Status Reports: MailStore administrators can regularly receive status reports by creating a corresponding job in MailStore. These reports contain relevant information from all areas, like successful or failed profile and job executions, licensing information, and much more.
  • Autodetect "Sent Items" folder in IMAP mailboxes.
  • Depending on the auditing configuration, administrators and/or users are asked to provide a reason when deleting an email. The given reason is written to the audit log along with the event itself.
  • Compliance: Additional protection from accidentally blocking or unblocking the archive access by confirming the change with entering the password.
  • Compliance: Administrators are asked to provide a reason when blocking or unblocking the archive access for admins. The given reason is written to the audit log along with the event itself.
  • "Search here..." item in folder context menu allows to quickly start an advanced search on selected folder.
  • Improved:
  • Support for multiple IMAP sent item folders.
  • Search: Allow searching different strings in different parts of the email and add keywords for searching only in body or attachments. Major rework of search documentation.
  • Add search modifiers "Older/Newer than (range)", "Older/Newer than (date)", "Not Older/Not Newer than (range)", and "Not Older/Not Newer than (date)" in advanced search.
  • Removed default search index restriction of 10000 tokens (words) per object.
  • Update notifications extended with information about the server's environment (e.g. hostname, licensee, ...)
  • Increase default keep duration of profile and job results to 90 days for new installations.
  • The function "Test sync" of the directory service configuration now also allows to test authentication of users from the result list.
  • Integrated backup and VSS settings allow to exclude search indexes from backup to increase efficiency of remote backups or to protect unencrypted data to reside on other systems.
  • Select IMAP-TLS or POP3-TLS as default in new profiles.
  • Archive page now shows the total number of emails and size in megabyte.
  • No archiving of emails if not all attached archive stores are available (State: Archive here, Normal, Write-Protected). This prevents the creation of duplicates under certain scenarios.
  • Replacement of "Google Apps" by "G Suite"
  • Support Google G Suites' new JSON based exchange format.
  • Workaround for handling emails with incorrect character encoding identifier (e.g. utf8, cp1252, or CP-850).
  • Removed license information from normal user's dashboard.
  • Further improvement of protecting user passwords inside and outside of the application, for instance by using the Windows Credential Store.
  • Changed hash algorithms of self signed certificates to SHA256.
  • Installation path of new installations now contains "MailStore" instead of the companies former name "deepinvent".
  • Naming of status on "Auditing" page to make scope clearer.
  • Fixed:
  • Upgrading from version 9 or older fails if an archive store cannot be opened.
  • Outlook Add-in: Under certain circumstances the add-in buttons are disabled when working with multiple Outlook windows.
  • Inconsistent error level when profiles are cancelled.
  • IMAP Server: Incompatibility with Pine/Alpine email client due to sending incorrect continuation request.
  • IMAP Server: PLAIN authentication capability offered even after successful login.
  • Debug log contains misleading UID information when archiving IMAP mailboxes.
  • MIME preamble is never shown nor exported.
  • Incorrect label "E-mail Preview by Admin" on dashboard.
  • Product Key/Generated Passphrase must be entered in correct casing when unlocking archive stores.
  • CRAM-MD5 authentication is visible in debug log.
  • Various minor bug fixes und improvements.

New in MailStore Server 10.0.2.12254 (Jan 18, 2017)

  • Note: This version fixes two critical security vulnerabilities in Web Access. All customer running an affected version of MailStore Server should update their installations as soon as possible.
  • Fixed Web Access: Reflected Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in search function, allowing an attacker to gain access to the archive if the victim clicks on a specially-crafted link while being logged in to Web Access. Affected versions: 9.2 and newer.
  • Fixed Web Access: Open Redirect in Dereferrer. This allows an attacker to create specially-crafted links, which would redirect the victim to a malicious website, although the link itself seems to point to a trusted resource. Affected versions: 9.0 and newer.

New in MailStore Server 10.0.1.12148 (Dec 9, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Upgrade process may stop unexpectedly during encryption of databases on slow disks or USB drives.
  • Database update does not delete MailStoreFileGroup.fdb.key from previous failed update.
  • Internal backup of former standard archive stores causes duplicate data in target folder.

New in MailStore Server 10.0 (Dec 9, 2016)

  • New:
  • Full encryption of databases and audit logs. In addition to the existing encryption of the email contents and sensitive data inside the databases, all databases and the internal audit log are also fully encrypted as of this version. This requires an upgrade of all archive stores. Please read the update notices carefully to learn more about the upgrade process and the consequences of the stronger encryption.
  • Rotation of encryption keys.
  • E-Mail notifications for available software updates.
  • Optionally allow MailStore to send anonymized usage statistics, so that we understand even better how the software is used. The raw data to be transferred can be reviewed at any time.
  • All admin activities except MessageRetrieveContent will be recorded in the audit log.
  • Dashboard notification if SMTP settings have not yet been configured.
  • Windows performance counter for monitoring the Firebird database connection pool.
  • Improved:
  • Internal Archive Stores, formerly known as "Standard Archive Stores”, now support different locations for databases, indexes and the email contents. This is also fully supported by the auto-create store feature, as well as by the internal backup function. "Advanced Archive Stores” of type "File-based” are automatically converted to "Internal Archive Stores”.
  • The limitations of MailStore administrators have been extended and are enabled by default for newly created archives. MailStore administrators will not be able to browse, search, or export email of other MailStore users as long as the compliance setting "Archive Access”, formerly known as "E-mail Preview”, is set to "Block Access”.
  • The default admin password "admin” requires a password change on the first login via the client. Please note that the default password "admin” still can only be used when logging in from the same machine.
  • Relative paths are now used internally to store the location of archive stores. This makes relocating the whole archive to a new location much easier.
  • Synchronization of Microsoft Office 365 users that have no Exchange Online license assigned.
  • Delete key triggers delete function when one or more emails are selected in the email list.
  • Web Access/Outlook Add-in: Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS.
  • Show a warning when a folder is renamed and a folder with the new name already exists.
  • Automatically delete the mailbox cache file "MailboxCache.fdb" if it could not be loaded successfully.
  • License installation is now part of the setup process.
  • License file is stored encrypted on disk.
  • Fixed:
  • Hyperlinks in dialogs are now clickable.
  • Incorrect encoding of passwords used when logging into remote IMAP server.
  • Export via IMAP to Tobit’s David Server fails when server sends EXPUNGE in response to APPEND command.
  • RTF attachments are spuriously used as email body when email is exported to MSG file.
  • Clicking "Help" on the login screens results in displaying an error message.
  • Embedded browser controls are no longer supported by Google's consent dialog. As recommended by Google, the user’s default web browser is now used to open the consent dialog.
  • "Type your name here" appears in client dashboard if full name of user is empty.
  • Service Configuration: Spuriously translated command line example on Startup Script page in Dutch translation.
  • Major update of third party library, which fixes several minor issues in archiving, displaying and exporting of emails.
  • Changed:
  • "Advanced Archive Stores” have been renamed to "External Archive Stores”.
  • The navigation tree item "Users and Privileges” in "Administrative Tools” has been renamed to "Users and Archives”
  • The page "Storage > Statistics” in "Administrative Tools” has been relocated to "Users and Archives > Archives”. Additionally, it now supports the management (rename, delete, ..) of user archives.
  • Compliance option "E-mail Preview” has been renamed to "Archive Access”.

New in MailStore Server 9.8.2.11781 (Jul 20, 2016)

  • Fixed: Google Apps multi mailbox archiving profile ignores delete condition.

New in MailStore Server 9.8.1.11746 (Jul 8, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Login as normal user not possible.

New in MailStore Server 9.8 (Jul 8, 2016)

  • Improved:
  • Profile runs are now marked with "Has ended with warning" in "Recent Results" in case warnings were thrown internally. Until now, these warnings were only visible in the details and profile run was markes as "Successful".
  • Job Scheduler: Added column "Last Execution Result".
  • Fixed:
  • Client: Slow rendering of search result list when searching for a recipient, if a matching email contains a large number of recipients in the emails "To" field.
  • Client: Large number of email recipients may cause an overlap of the message content, which prevents the user from accessing the email body.
  • IMAP Server: Several bug fixes that improve the compatibility with IMAP clients.
  • Service Configuration Tool: Unexpected Exception and inaccessible "IP Addresses and Ports" section if configured certificate is no longer available in the Windows certificate store.
  • Archiving process stops and a System.UnauthorizedAccessException is thrown when archiving from a file system which contains inaccessible folders (i.e. inappropriate permissions).
  • Various minor bug fixes und improvements.

New in MailStore Server 9.7.1.11637 (May 5, 2016)

  • Fixed: Invalid CSS in a HTML email causes an error message and prevents the email from being displayed.
  • Fixed: Thousand seperator missing when displaying the number of archived emails in dashboard banner.

New in MailStore Server 9.7.0.11617 (Apr 22, 2016)

  • New New Gmail archiving profile with OAuth support and the option to automatically remove messages from the mailbox. Please refer to the update Notices for further details if you are using the Google Mail archiving profile.
  • Improved Simplified configuration for indexing email attachment content of supported file types. Additionally, a message on the dashboard notifies the admin about a missing configuration of indexing.
  • Improved Check for supported Adobe PDF iFilter versions added.
  • Improved Client: Minor UI refresh of the dashboard.
  • Improved Improved translations.
  • Fixed When synchronizing users with Google Apps, invalid MailStore users are created if the primary email address of the user contains uppercase letters.
  • Fixed Syncronizing users with Google Apps is limited to 200 users per group.
  • Fixed Under certain circumstances BCC recipients are shown to non-admin users by mistake.
  • Fixed Various minor bug fixes und improvements.

New in MailStore Server 9.6.0.11479 (Feb 25, 2016)

  • New Client: Pin to taskbar now possible on Windows 7 and newer
  • New Server: New API method GetServiceConfiguration to retrieve MailStore Server's service configuration
  • New MailStore Proxy: Support for Delivery Status Notifications (DSN) added
  • Improved Support for different SSL certificate thumbprint formats in group policies
  • Improved Group policies allow configuration of client und Outlook Add-in language
  • Fixed Incorrect number of deleted emails in summary when trying to delete emails from read-only IMAP folders
  • Fixed Server stops responding under certain circumstances when multiple simultaneous request are send to a LDAP based directory service
  • Fixed Computer Name and User Agent are not shown in Active Sessions when accessing the archive via Outlook Add-in
  • Fixed Mobile Web Access: jQuery and jQuery mobile updated to latest version to protect against potential security vulnerabilities
  • Fixed Various minor bug fixes und improvements

New in MailStore Server 9.5.0.11293 (Nov 16, 2015)

  • New: Official Microsoft Exchange 2016 support.
  • Improved: Improved Exchange Autodiscover support.
  • Improved: Client: Executing a saved search now applies search result highlighting analog to a regular search.
  • Fixed: Web Access, Outlook Add-In: Attachments having a name beginning with # cannot be opened in the webclient.
  • Fixed: MailStore skips folders when archiving from Mozilla Thunderbird, if Thunderbird's profile path contains special characters.
  • Fixed: Search does not use regional settings of the system to determine first day of week.
  • Fixed: Various minor bug fixes.

New in MailStore Server 9.4.0.11003 (Sep 24, 2015)

  • New: Official Outlook 2016 support.
  • Fixed: Installer does not recognize non-default installation path during upgrade, which may result in the creation of a new archive in the default location. The existing archive remains unmodified.
  • Fixed: Client: Copying table content to clipboard may duplicate columns or include hidden columns.
  • Fixed: MailStore Server may choose wrong SSL certificate on start when using self-signed certificate.
  • Fixed: Various minor bug fixes.

New in MailStore Server 9.3.0.10911 (Aug 12, 2015)

  • New: Official Windows 10 support
  • Improved: Directory Services Integration: Improved performance when creating the list of groups if a larger number of groups exists in the directory service
  • Improved: Server, Client and IMAP server: Removed support for insecure SSLv2 and SSLv3. Added support for TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2
  • Improved: X-Final-To header is now recognized when archiving IMAP multidrop mailboxes. In particular this enhances archiving of such mailboxes from a Kerio Connect mail server
  • Fixed: Various minor bug fixes

New in MailStore Server 9.2.1.10858 (Jul 21, 2015)

  • Improved performance when retrieving groups from Microsoft Office 365
  • Fixed: Synchronizing users from a Microsoft Office 365 environment with more than 100 users fails
  • Fixed: Web Access, Outlook Add-in: Compatibility issues with Internet Explorer 8
  • Fixed: Compatibility issues with .NET Framework 4.6
  • Fixed: Various minor bug fixes

New in MailStore Server 9.2.0.10808 (Jun 16, 2015)

  • New: A new job scheduler makes it easy to run maintenance tasks such as backup, data integrity check and index rebuild on a regular basis. The scheduler, which is completely integrated into MailStore Server, is able to run any Management API command.
  • New: The Microsoft Office 365 directory services can now be used by MailStore for user synchronization and authentication.
  • Improved: MailStore Web Access and the add-in for Microsoft Outlook now come with a completely rewritten message list view which makes it possible to scroll through large folder contents and search results with minimum latency.
  • Improved: MailStore Server now supports the 64-bit version of MDaemon Messaging Server.
  • Fixed: The information displayed in reports of multi-mailbox archiving profiles is misleading under certain circumstances.
  • Fixed: MailStore Web Access and the Outlook Add-in: Saved searches cannot be opened or deleted, depending on characters used in their names and the browser used.
  • Fixed: Some executable files are not marked as DPI aware, causing the user interface to look blurry depending on Windows version and DPI settings.
  • Fixed: Accessing Microsoft Outlook without access to the mailbox root folder causes an access violation.
  • Fixed: An advanced archive store cannot be created on a SQL Server with a Turkish server collation. Please note that even with this bug fix, the collation of the database used for MailStore still cannot be Turkish.
  • Fixed: Opening S/MIME messages in Outlook, restoring to Outlook and exporting to MSG/PST may fail under certain circumstances with the error message “Accessing content stream of non-leaf entities is not supported.”
  • Fixed: Some windows in MailStore Client are displayed incorrectly when Windows has a DPI setting other than 96 dpi (100%) and/or windows are resized.
  • Fixed: Certain Outlook messages cannot be processed by MailStore. The error “Argument is out of range of valid values.” is displayed.
  • Fixed Google Apps directory services synchronization may hang under certain circumstances if a large number of users or groups exists.
  • Fixed: Indexing message bodies and attachments in HTML format is performed incorrectly under certain circumstances, causing the results of full text searches to be incomplete. Rebuild search indexes if you encounter this error.
  • Fixed: File system archiving profiles cannot be created with drag and drop from Windows Explorer, as stated in the documentation.
  • Fixed: Some multi-select enabled tables in MailStore Client react very slowly if a large number of items is selected.
  • Fixed: Some multi-select enabled tables in MailStore Client don’t accept the Ctrl+A hotkey for selecting all items.

New in MailStore Server 9.1.0.10258 (Jan 20, 2015)

  • New First class support for Google Apps (includes user database synchronization, authentication, multi-mailbox archiving using a central service account, multidrop archiving and export).
  • Improved Internal archive store directory traversal is now reduced to a minimum, significantly improving performance especially when using larger archives and/or storing them on network storage.
  • Fixed MailStore's integrated e-mail preview is now able to detect and repair invalid CSS to a certain extent.

New in MailStore Server 9.0.5.10071 (Oct 29, 2014)

  • New Support for the latest Microsoft Office 365 update (Exchange Server 15.1).
  • Fixed An error occurs when trying to run an MDaemon multi-mailbox archiving profile created with an old MailStore Server version.

New in MailStore Server 9.0.4.10025 (Oct 16, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • Archiving and Export: If a profile is run via a scheduled task or the API, the memory and/or disk space used for reports and debug logs is not released until the server process is stopped or restarted.
  • Archiving and Export: User interface text might be displayed in the wrong language under certain circumstances.
  • Archiving and Export: The CRAM-MD5 authentication mechanism does not work when accessing mailboxes with the IMAP protocol.
  • Archiving: MailStore is unable to archive Microsoft Exchange folders containing tabulator characters in their names.
  • Client, Web Access, Outlook Add-in: Messages in HTML format might be displayed incorrectly under certain circumstances.
  • Web Access: Windows authentication is not offered when using Internet Explorer 11.
  • Server: Under certain circumstances, folder names are disclosed to users without the appropriate privileges.
  • Server: A timeout might occur when trying to upgrade a large number of archive stores created by old versions of MailStore Server.
  • Improved:
  • Server: Reduced disk I/O when accessing Firebird Embedded-based database files.
  • Various minor user interface improvements and bug fixes.

New in MailStore Server 9.0.3.9873 (Sep 18, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • Client: In 120 dpi mode, some controls do not scale correctly (message list, date ranges, folder include/exclude dialog, progress dialogs).
  • Client: Non-invokable commands are offered to users who have only limited archiving or export privileges (execute only or manage only). Users are getting an access denied error message only after trying to invoke those commands though.
  • Client: The page "Recent Results" is not visible to users who can only manage archiving and/or export profiles.
  • Fixed Directory Services Integration: Due to a bug in Windows' ADSI connection pool, Active Directory authentication sometimes fails when transport layer security (LDAP-SSL) is used. This version works around this bug by performing the authentication via separate LDAP connections when LDAP-SSL is configured.
  • Integrated Backup: The Restore.bat script generated by the integrated backup function omits empty folders.
  • Management API: The virtual time zones $UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) and $Local (Server Local Time) are not available in the GetTimeZones and GetWorkerResults API methods.

New in MailStore Server 9.0.2 (Sep 18, 2014)

  • Fixed: If a CD/DVD export profile was created with MailStore Server 6.x or lower and this was not removed when upgrading to MailStore Server 7.0 or higher, an error message is shown when trying to open the "Export E-mail" page.

New in MailStore Server 9.0.1 (Sep 18, 2014)

  • Improved The Exchange EWS and IMAP property caches are no longer updated if the contents of a folder hasn't changed, reducing write I/O especially when continuously archiving a large number of mailboxes
  • Improved New management shell commands to enable or disable a live debug log on the client or on the server (livelog-client-enable, livelog-client-disable, livelog-server-enable, livelog-server-disable). These commands replace the debug-console command available in earlier versions of MailStore Client. Use DebugView from Windows Sysinternals to view the live debug log.
  • Fixed Installation of the client and the add-in for Microsoft Outlook fails on systems with .NET Framework 4.5.2 installed
  • Fixed The server process may cause very high CPU load when the archive consists of a very large number of archive stores
  • Fixed MailStore's internal lock monitor writes timeout errors to the Windows Event Log even when the timeouts were expected, e.g. to detect internal idle states
  • Fixed Due to a bug in some versions of Microsoft Exchange, archiving folders may fail with error messages such as 'The Delete change relates to an unknown item' or 'The ReadFlagChange change relates to an unknown item'. This version uses a different sync method that doesn't rely on the buggy SyncFolderItems operation.
  • Fixed If a virus was detected in one or more items of a Microsoft Exchange folder ('ErrorVirusDetected'), archiving the whole folder fails
  • Fixed Archiving localized (non-English) versions of Google Mail leads to multiple inbox folders with different names when upgrading from earlier MailStore versions

New in MailStore Server 9.0.0.9709 (Jul 1, 2014)

  • New Client: Now compatible with all past and future MailStore Server releases with the same major version.
  • New Client: Group Policies now allow better control. Please refer to the Release Notes for details.
  • New Client: Entirely rewritten Message List (used for both folder contents and search results) now behaves more like the one built into Microsoft Outlook, is much faster and can easily display hundereds of thousands of messages. In order to simplify the selection of multiple messages, the last selected message is now opened in message preview.
  • New Client: Entirely rewritten Message Preview improves display of a large number of recipients and attachments.
  • New Web Access: HTML E-mail Viewer based on a secure whitelist-based HTML rewriter.
  • Improved Web Access: The attachment list now shows icons for the most common file types.
  • Improved Web Access: The message list now automatically loads new entries when the user has scrolled to its end.
  • New Add-in for Microsoft Outlook: HTML E-mail Viewer based on a secure whitelist-based HTML rewriter.
  • Improved Add-in for Microsoft Outlook: The attachment list now shows icons for the most common file types.
  • Improved Add-in for Microsoft Outlook: The message list now automatically loads new entries when the user has scrolled to its end.
  • New Server: Entirely rewritten internal lock manager significantly reduces congestions and leads to a much better overall behaviour of the system.
  • New Archiving and Export: Profiles in the "E-mail Servers" section are now run by a completely new MailStore-internal scheduler within the MailStore Server process. Previously, they were run by MailStore Client invoked by the Windows Task Scheduler.
  • Improved Archiving and Export: Profile manager now displays a summary of the profile settings next to the profile list.
  • Improved Archiving and Export: Profile manager now shows the execution state of all profiles, regardless of the computer they are running on.
  • Improved Archiving and Export: Profile manager is now able to display the details of previously run profiles. Writing task log files is no longer necessary.
  • Changed Archiving and Export: Support for AVM KEN! has been removed.
  • Improved Archiving: The performance when archiving Microsoft Exchange 2007 or higher EWS-based mailboxes with a high number of already archived messages has been significantly improved thanks to a new Firebird-based MAPI property cache with an also new folder contents sync module.
  • Improved Archiving: The performance when archiving IMAP-based mailboxes with a high number of already archived messages has been significantly improved thanks to a new Firebird-based property cache with an also new folder contents sync module.
  • Improved Archiving: The performance when archiving e-mail servers, e-mails clients and e-mails files with a high number of already archived messages has been significantly improved thanks to the implementation of a new store-hinting algorithm.
  • Improved Archiving: E-mails which are selected for deletion are now immediately deleted from the e-mail source. Previously, they were deleted in batch after the entire folder contents has been processed.
  • New Compliance: Audit events can now be written to flat files within the archive's directory instead of the Windows Event Log.
  • New Compliance: Easy to use viewer for flat file-based audit logs.
  • New Directory Services Integration: With the new Application Integration Directory Service option, it is possible to integrate the MailStore user database with any external user database. Please refer to the manual for details.
  • Improved Directory Services Integration: SSL can now be used for connections to Active Directory, provided that the server certificate is trusted by the MailStore Server machine.
  • Improved Directory Services Integration: For the synchronization with Active Directory, a naming scheme for MailStore users can now be specified. Options: SAM Account Name, User Principal Name, User Principal Name (Local Part Only).
  • Improved Directory Services Integration: For the LDAP Generic synchronization, MailStore now provides an option to only use the local part of e-mail address-like user names are used as the MailStore user name.
  • Improved Directory Services Integration: The LDAP Generic synchronization now supports groups.
  • Fixed Directory Services Integration: The MDaemon USERLIST.DAT synchronization does not correctly handle groups containing blanks in their names.
  • Improved Directory Services Integration: The Kerio synchronization now supports domain aliases. Previously, only user aliases were supported.
  • New Management API: The API has been entirely rewritten. Please refer to the Release Notes for details.
  • Improved Full Text Search: After setting attachments to add to the index, MailStore Server now checks if all required document filters are available.
  • Improved Full Text Search: Added compatibility with both Adobe Reader and the Adobe PDF IFilter to improve search in PDF attachments. The internal PDF document filter has been removed.
  • Improved Backup: The internal backup feature now writes a CSV file with directory original locations and a corresponding batch file which is able to restore all files to their original locations.
  • Improved Backup: As an alternative to using VSS, freezing and resuming the archive for snapshot purposes can now be done by using the PAUSE and CONTINUE service control commands offered by the MailStore Server service.
  • Improved Statistics: Significantly faster statistics calculation.
  • Other Dozens of minor improvements and bug fixes.

New in MailStore Server 8.1.2.9268 (Jan 11, 2014)

  • This update makes MailStore Server 8.1.2 compatible with MailStore Client 8.1, 8.1.1 and 8.1.2.
  • Changed MailStore Proxy is no longer part of the MailStore Server setup. Please download MailStore Proxy from https://my.mailstore.com/Downloads

New in MailStore Server 8.1.1.9259 (Jan 9, 2014)

  • Note This update resolves a vulnerability in MailStore Web Access, Mobile Web Access and the Outlook Add-in. MailStore recommends that customers install this update even if MailStore's HTTP and HTTPS servers are not reachable via the internet.
  • Improved Handling of broken S/MIME messages improved
  • Fixed XSRF (Cross-site Request Forgery) vulnerability in MailStore Web Access, Mobile Web Access and the Outlook Add-in
  • Fixed Service control errors are not written to the Windows Event Log
  • Fixed MailStore Server Configuration: The event log viewer shows the wrong time
  • Fixed Archiving from Thunderbird on computers with several (primarily non-western) system locales may lead to corrupt message contents in MailStore

New in MailStore Server 8.1.0.9075 (Aug 29, 2013)

  • New MailStore now comes with a new multi-user file system archiving profile that analyzes headers from e-mail messages in EML, MSG and PST files and writes those messages to the corresponding user archives
  • New It is now possible to provide a shutdown script (batch file) to perform additional tasks when stopping the MailStore Server service
  • Improved Directory Services: MailStore can now automatically delete users in MailStore while synchronizing. User archives are never automatically deleted.
  • Improved Active Directory Sync: Options to include disabled and/or hidden accounts in the synchronization
  • Improved It is now possible to use regular expressions in the folder include and exclude lists, making the folder selection much more flexible. Simply prepend the regex to include or exclude with || (case-sensitive) or |i| (case-insensitive).
  • Improved The MailStore Server service now registers for the Pre-Shutdown control in Windows Server 2008 / Vista and higher, giving MailStore enough time to correctly close large archives. On older versions, the Shutdown control is used (timeout here at least 10 minutes).
  • Improved The actual startup of the MailStore Server service is now done in the background, improving overall system performance at startup
  • Improved Exchange Server: MailStore now comes with a global option to skip messages which are marked as infected (disabled by default), rather than to write an error to the archiving report
  • Improved Better error handling for broken messages in MAPI format (Outlook MSG)
  • Improved Workaround for a bug in Gmail that causes the IMAP PERMANENTFLAGS to contain invalid characters
  • Improved When moving folders across user archive borders, the archive is no longer blocked for other concurrent operations
  • Improved Renaming a user archive is now performed much faster in most scenarios. This is done by simply re-assigning search indexes instead of rebuilding the source and target user archives.
  • Improved The "verify" maintenance command now writes more detailled error information
  • Improved The user database synchronization with IceWarp may timeout for large user databases. As a workaround, it is now possible to specify a timeout for API requests to IceWarp.
  • Fixed Exchange Server: Some item-level errors in Exchange Web Services (e.g. "ErrorVirusDetected") may cause the archiver to skip the remaining messages in the folder
  • Fixed An error message is shown when cancelling the deletion of a large folder
  • Fixed When an error occurs when creating a scheduled task, it may not be shown. Instead, the creation dialog re-appears.
  • Fixed When performing a directory services sync from the user selection page in the archiving profile editor, the user list doesn't refresh
  • Fixed Multidrop, Exchange Server Journaling, MailStore Proxy: If multiple users have the same e-mail address, messages from or to this e-mail address may not appear in the user archives of all affected users
  • Fixed After an error occurs when opening an archive store, it may be required to restart the MailStore Server service in order to be able to try this again
  • Fixed Exchange Server: MailStore may not be able to parse Journal reports if it contains unusal, but correct e-mail addresses, for example "Smith, John"@example.com
  • Fixed When trying to archive an Outlook PST file that doesn't exist, MailStore creates an empty one instead of displaying an error message
  • Fixed When using Microsoft SQL Server- or PostgreSQL-based archive stores, folders with a full name (path) that contains more than 255 characters are not created correctly
  • Fixed Exchange Server 2003 (WebDAV): When specifying a subfolder of the public folders in the mailbox field that contains special characters such as &, the archiving fails with an HTTP error
  • Fixed MailStore Server's internal heartbeat task may cause other operations to timeout even when there is currently nothing to do for this task
  • Fixed Folder names are not shown correctly in several titles of MailStore if they contain an ampersand (&)

New in MailStore Server 8.0.5.8779 (Jun 5, 2013)

  • New Support for the latest Microsoft Office 365 update (EWS API version V2_3)

New in MailStore Server 8.0.4.8653 (May 17, 2013)

  • New MDaemon 13.5 Support
  • Improved When sorting by sender/recipient or subject, messages with the same sender/recipient or subject are now sorted by the message date
  • Fixed MailStore Mobile Web Access redirects to the desktop version of MailStore Web Access after a successful login
  • Fixed MDaemon USERLIST.DAT synchronization fails in combination with multi-byte character sets

New in MailStore Server 8.0.3.8595 (May 2, 2013)

  • Improved The statistics page now comes with an option to show accumulated statistics of all archive stores
  • Improved In addition to the number of messages and the percentage of occupied space, the statistics page now also shows the total size of all messages in a user archive. The computation is based on the original MIME format of the messages.
  • Improved MailStore Web Access now internally uses relative URLs, making it compatible with security software that publishes it under a different URL.
  • BUG Due to incorrect Local/UTC conversion, the recent results page may show entries from a date that is before or after the selected date range
  • BUG While archiving Outlook 2010 or higher, Outlook may internally modify source messages in an incorrect way under certain circumstances to make conversation threading work. This version of MailStore works around this bug (requires February Cumulative Update for Outlook 2010).
  • BUG In 120 dpi mode, some controls in the wait dialog are hidden
  • BUG In 120 dpi mode, some parts of the MailStore Add-in for Microsoft Outlook don't scale correctly
  • BUG It is not possible to schedule a task based on an "other trigger" when using a 64-bit operating system

New in MailStore Server 8.0.2.8361 (Mar 19, 2013)

  • Fixed: Outlook Add-in and MailStore Web Access: An error message is shown under certain circumstances when performing a search which is limited by a date range ("The conversion could not be completed...")

New in MailStore Server 8.0.1 (Mar 19, 2013)

  • Improved: Improved Google Apps For Business IMAP Multidrop Support
  • Fixed: Outlook Add-in: automatic send/receive might get stuck due to an error in Outlook 2013 when the Add-in is registered
  • Fixed: Outlook Add-in/MailStore Web Access: use of the MailStore Server Timezone when searching within a Date Range
  • Fixed: 'Invalid RTF (missing end bracket \'}\').' error when trying to archive mails with broken rtf content
  • Fixed: elimination of some glitches in MailStore Client when using high DPI settings

New in MailStore Server 8.0 (Mar 19, 2013)

  • New: Official Outlook 2013 Support (including Office 365 Click-to-Run virtualization)
  • New: Official Exchange Server 2013 Support
  • New: All MailStore Server components (including administrative components) are now available in Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish and Turkish
  • New: 64-bit Support – MailStore Client now runs natively as a 64-bit process on 64-bit platforms. MailStore Client continues to support 32-bit platforms as well.
  • New: Modernized user interface for MailStore Web Access
  • New: Modernized user interface for the Outlook Add-in
  • Improved: The MailStore Client language can now easily be switched in the login dialog
  • Improved: Both MailStore Web Access and the Outlook Add-in now allow the message list to be sorted by date, sender/recipient, or subject.
  • Improved: IMAP Server: New IMAP UID mapping database improves compatibility with Microsoft Outlook. The UID error dialog which appears in Outlook under certain circumstances should no longer appear after updating to this version.
  • Improved: When multiple Outlook versions are installed (side-by-side configuration), MailStore now uses the latest installed and supported version of Outlook
  • Improved: Introduced a workaround for a bug in some versions of Exchange Server and Outlook which might have hampered MailStore in correctly detecting duplicate messages
  • Improved: Exchange Server: MailStore now comes with a global option to skip objects that can't be converted to MIME by Exchange Server (disabled by default)
  • Improved: When archiving e-mail messages, the source mailbox internal date (e.g. IMAP INTERNALDATE or MAPI PidTagMessageDeliveryDate) is now included in the duplicate message detection
  • Fixed: Under certain circumstances, archive stores that are closed in reaction to a VSS event can't be reopened afterwards without restarting the MailStore Server Windows service
  • Fixed: When an error occurs while closing archive stores in reaction to a VSS Freeze event, this error isn't correctly reported
  • Fixed: Search results may incorrectly display sent messages as received. Rebuild search indexes with this version if you encounter this error.
  • Fixed: Detection of the IMAP Inbox fails if the IMAP server reports its name in non-capital letters
  • Fixed: Outlook Add-in: If an authentication mechanism is pre-selected via Group Policies, the user might not be able to enter his credentials under certain circumstances
  • Fixed: Hundreds of minor fixes and improvements

New in MailStore Server 7.1.0.7815 (Sep 24, 2012)

  • New Official Windows 8 Support
  • New Official Windows Server 2012 Support
  • New Language Support for "Czech" in MailStore Web Access and MailStore Outlook Add-in
  • New Exchange Journal Archiving: POP3 Protocol Support
  • Improved The Windows Firewall auto-configuration now configures all firewall profiles (private, public and domain)
  • Improved When restarting MailStore Server using the service configuration UI, MailStore now waits 2 seconds after stopping the service
  • Improved The management API command "SyncUsersWithDirectoryServices" now has a new optional argument "dryRun"
  • Changed The authentication mechanism Digest MD5 is no longer usable in combination with the IMAP protocol
  • Changed E-mail messages that (because of an error) still exist in the search index, but not in the database, are longer contained in search results
  • Fixed MailStore Web Access (Internet Explorer) and the Outlook add-in display an error message under certain circumstances ("Could not load add-on"), even when the used zone is configured correctly
  • Fixed The management API command "AttachStore" returns an error when the argument "requestedState" is specified
  • Fixed Debug log files have an incorrect name under certain circumstances
  • Fixed The HTTP server services started by MailStore Server might use a previously configured SSL certificate instead of the last configured one
  • Fixed Outlook MSG files whose Internet Headers property does not end with a line break can't be read by MailStore

New in MailStore Server 7.0.7.7671 (Jul 11, 2012)

  • Fixed: Active Directory Synchronization - Exception when there are cyclic group memberships
  • Fixed: IceWarp Email Server - 'Value cannot be null' error when synchronizing with domains without users
  • Fixed: 'Invalid RTF (missing end bracket \'}\').' error when trying to archive mails with broken rtf content

New in MailStore Server 7.0.6.7662 (Jun 26, 2012)

  • Fixed: Directory Services Authentication via IMAP-SSL or IMAP-TLS does not work for Kerio Connect and MDaemon
  • Fixed: Archiving from Google Mail via a scheduled task on Windows XP fails with a certificate error
  • Fixed: E-Mails with certain unnamed attachments cannot be archived

New in MailStore Server 7.0.5.7647 (Jun 13, 2012)

  • Fixed: Exchange Journal Profile - Active Directory synchronization will never be executed

New in MailStore Server 7.0.4.7637 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • Fixed: MailStore Web Access - folders can't be selected in extended search
  • Fixed: Links sometimes open in Internet Explorer instead of the default browser

New in MailStore Server 7.0.3.7623 (May 31, 2012)

  • Fixed: An error occurs when trying to archive messages from the root folder of Exchange mailboxes and IMAP mailboxes

New in MailStore Server 7.0.2.7608 (May 25, 2012)

  • Fixed: MailStore Home can't be started with Turkish regional settings

New in MailStore Server 7.0.1.7599 (May 23, 2012)

  • Fixed: Improved handling of e-mails with flawed HTML content (unclosed tags)
  • Fixed: Certificate viewer could not be displayed to check certificate errors in certain cases

New in MailStore Server 7.0.0.7582 (May 14, 2012)

  • 64-bit Support – The MailStore Server Windows service now runs natively as a 64 bit process on 64 bit platforms. MailStore Server continues to support 32-bit platforms as well.
  • New Mobile Web Access – A new web access for mobile devices replaces the old iPhone client and supports a much broader range of devices, for example BlackBerry, Google Android, Windows Phone, iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
  • New The new "archive stores" replace the "file groups" known from earlier MailStore Server versions. Conversion is done quickly and automatically. Archive stores can handle much larger folder structures than the file groups from MailStore Server 6, making them much better suitable for larger installations.
  • New Microsoft SQL Server Support – MailStore Server can store metadata and (if wished) contents in a Microsoft SQL Server database. We support SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2012.
  • New PostgreSQL Support – MailStore Server can store metadata and (if wished) contents in a PostgreSQL opensource database.
  • New Multithreaded Multi Mailbox Archiving – Multi-mailbox archiving can now be spread over multiple threads (e.g. 5 or 25), making it much faster and more interesting for larger companies.
  • New First-class support for IceWarp Email Server – Multi-mailbox archiving, multidrop (Exchange Journal-like) archiving, synchronization of the user database including groups support.
  • New First-class support for Kerio Connect E-mail Server – Multi-mailbox archiving, multidrop (Exchange Journal-like) archiving, synchronization of the user database including groups support.
  • New Generic Multi-Mailbox Archiving – For all other e-mail servers. Based on SASL authentication (RFC 4422).
  • New API (Application Programming Interface) – Provides a complete set of commands for managing archive stores and users. The API can be accessed via HTTPS (JSON and XML formats).
  • New VSS Writer – MailStore Server now includes a VSS writer which makes backup easier and faster in some scenarios, and dramatically reduces downtime during backup to a few seconds.
  • New MailStore Server Startup Script – You can now provide a startup script (batch file) to make it much easier to use MailStore Server together with Network Attached Storage (NAS).
  • Improved Better Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) Support – Much better error handling. Client throttling support (avoiding "EWS 500" and "ErrorServerBusy" errors).
  • Improved Users and user archives can now be renamed.
  • Improved Emails and folders can now be moved between user archives.
  • Improved It is now possible to set privileges for multiple users in one step. Drag&Drop support for e-mails.
  • Improved Archive stores now have names which are independent from the directory they are stored in.
  • Improved Archive stores are now independent from the master database. They can now easily be detached and reattached on a different server.
  • Improved Archive stores can now be temporarily disabled rather than having to be detached.
  • Improved Archive stores can now place their metadata, contents and search index parts in different directories on separate volumes.

New in MailStore Server 6.0.8 (May 14, 2012)

  • This server version accepts client connections from MailStore Client 6.0 to 6.0.8.
  • Fixed Due to recent changes in Microsoft Office 365, some e-mail accounts cannot be accessed by MailStore

New in MailStore Server 6.0.7 (May 14, 2012)

  • This server version accepts client connections from MailStore Client 6.0 to 6.0.7.
  • Fixed iPhone Access: The "Load 25 more entries" button does not work
  • Fixed MailStore Client doesn't detect 120 dpi mode correctly, which may cause a cluttered user interface on 120 dpi systems
  • Fixed Exchange Server archiving: Unexpected EWS error 500 is displayed instead of the correct error message

New in MailStore Server 6.0.6 (May 14, 2012)

  • This server version accepts client connections from MailStore Client 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.0.5 and 6.0.6.
  • Fixed Specific seldom Outlook MSG files can't be read by MailStore
  • Fixed Incorrect implementations of the Google XLIST command by other e-mail servers might cause the archiving to be incomplete
  • Fixed MailStore Proxy sends the NetBIOS host name together with the SMTP EHLO command (instead of sending the fully qualified DNS host name, as it would be correct)
  • Fixed MailStore Proxy writes partly incomplete report files when using specific SMTP authentication mechanisms

New in MailStore Server 6.0.5 (May 14, 2012)

  • This server version accepts client connections from MailStore Client 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4 and 6.0.5.
  • Fixed MSG File Import may fail when the sender information is missing
  • Fixed automatic MAPI-Cache repair if it is damaged (Cache.fdb)
  • Fixed MailStore Web Access: Showing more entries might indicate that there are no more entries even when there are more entries available

New in MailStore Server 6.0.4 (May 14, 2012)

  • This server version accepts client connections from MailStore Client 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3 and 6.0.4. However, we recommend to upgrade all MailStore Client and all MailStore Outlook Add-in installations to version 6.0.4.
  • Fixed When restoring messages with ambiguous attachment MIME headers to Outlook, some attachments may not be appear in Outlook's message viewer
  • Fixed In combination with Exchange Server, it might not be possible to forward specific e-mails via Outlook ("content conversion failed") or to re-archive them ("EWS 500 error") when the message has been originally restored from MailStore
  • Fixed When compacting the file group database MailStoreFileGroup.fdb fails during upgrade (e.g. due to corrupted database pages), the file group incorrectly remains in the "needs upgrade" state
  • Fixed MailStore displays an error messages when trying to archive / export MSG messages in cases where Outlook is not installed locally
  • Fixed The date picker in MailStore Web Access / Outlook Add-in doesn't work correctly when certain date formats (e.g. Hungarian) are configured in Web Access' settings

New in MailStore Server 6.0.3 (May 14, 2012)

  • This server version accepts client connections from MailStore Client 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2 and 6.0.3
  • New Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 Support

New in MailStore Server 6.0.2 (May 14, 2012)

  • This server version accepts client connections from MailStore Client 6.0, 6.0.1 and 6.0.2
  • Fixed When deleting multiple e-mail messages at once, an error message "Mail not found" may appear under certain circumstances
  • Fixed It is not possible to specify a custom date range on the page "Last Results"
  • Fixed The Windows Explorer preview does not show the correct message body of MSG files created by MailStore
  • Fixed When exporting to MSG or opening in Outlook, Microsoft Outlook may display the message body incompletely in very rare cases
  • Fixed In rare cases Microsoft Outlook launches slowly when the Outlook Add-in is installed
  • Fixed In rare cases an incorrect error message is displayed when MailStore fails to archive Exchange Server 2003
  • Fixed The upgrade to the new MailStore Server 6 file group format may not complete when some container files (.dat) are corrupt

New in MailStore Server 6.0.1 (May 14, 2012)

  • Note This server version accepts client connections from MailStore Client 6.0 and 6.0.1
  • New Automatic detection of the Microsoft Exchange server name when using Hosted Exchange (Autodiscover)
  • Fixed Active Directory Synchronization: An error message may be shown when trying to select the AD group
  • Fixed After deconnection or session timeout, re-login fails when Windows Authentication is used
  • Fixed When archiving Outlook, the outlook folder tree retrieval may fail when Outlook is connected to Exchange Server in non-cached mode
  • Fixed The debug log viewer in the service configuration fails to open when it finds log files with an invalid file name