What's new in POPcon NOTES 3.94
Jan 21, 2017
- Improved: Long file names in MIME headers now detected correctly for the RULES function
New in POPcon NOTES 3.93 (Jan 21, 2017)
- Improved: Timeout problems during transfer of emails to Exchange (2013) solved. These were caused by somewhat abnormally formatted OK acceptence messages back from Exchange for these specific emails.
New in POPcon NOTES 3.92 (Jan 21, 2017)
- Bugfix: Inefficient memory management for the list of emails kept on POP3 servers caused huge memory usage in previous versions - fixed.
New in POPcon NOTES 3.91 (Apr 17, 2015)
- Bugfix: The previously used OpenSSL library version seems to have caused slow connections and even crashes, especially on virtual machines. This version of POPcon now uses the most current OpenSSL v1.02a library to improve the SSL speed and solves stabilty issues.
New in POPcon NOTES 3.90 (Apr 17, 2015)
- Improved: SSL connections speed up by storing the SSL connection parameters found to be good in the registry after the first pass and used automatically subsequently.
New in POPcon NOTES 3.89 (Apr 17, 2015)
- Improved: New OpenSSL Library v1.02 used to speed up SSL connections
New in POPcon NOTES 3.88 (Apr 17, 2015)
- Improved: Connection speed to SSL POP3 servers improved by caching the SSL parameters instead of retrying different connection parameters every time POPcon connects to the same server. This is especially important since some providers switched off SSLv3 support in favour of TLS.
New in POPcon NOTES 3.87 (Apr 17, 2015)
- Improved: SSL protocol version handling when communicating with servers with multiple SSL version implementations
New in POPcon NOTES 3.85 (Apr 17, 2015)
- Bugfix: Problem with new SSL libraries incompatibility with some systems solved. Error message was "unknown error". Upgrade if you experience this particular error.
- Bugfix: Under some circumstances POPcon would load old messages again if you switch from "leave messages on hosts for n days" to "delete messages after downloadng". Fixed.
New in POPcon NOTES 3.84 (Apr 17, 2015)
- Improved: Now using v1.0.1g version of SSL libraries with "Heartbleed" fix
New in POPcon NOTES 3.83 (Jan 29, 2014)
- Improved: Now using latest version of SSL libraries to solve problems with Sophos (and other) firewalls when connecting via POP3-SSL to provider servers
New in POPcon NOTES 3.82 (Aug 14, 2013)
- Bugfix: Problems with connection tab (HTTP proxy username and password) fixed.
New in POPcon NOTES 3.81 (Jun 13, 2013)
- Improved: New Email header for finding target addresses included: X-Orig-To
- Improved: Added support for ESET antivirus greylisting feature. Emails that get rejected with the SMTP error message "451 4.7.1 Please try again later" will automatically be retried.
New in POPcon NOTES 3.80 (Mar 17, 2013)
- Improved:: Interference from antivirus and backup software could cause access to the database of already downloaded emails to be blocked and subsequently cause POPcon to download all old emails again in accounts where you leave emails on the POP3 server. This version adds repeated attempts to read the database file and a new secured backup database file to solve this.
- Bugfix: Swiched on all antivirus engine testing options - older versions would not see virus files that was packed in some nested special archive formats.
New in POPcon NOTES 3.79 (Jan 24, 2013)
- Bugfix: "Remove strings from start/end of recipients" feature did sometimes remove the same strings from the sender/FROM address as well - fixed.
- Bugfix: Possible early deletion of emails in case more emails than allowed to download in one pass are on the server and the server doesn't correctly answer on the UIDL command - fixed.
New in POPcon NOTES 3.77 (Apr 24, 2012)
- New: Automatic removal of emails that are 0 bytes long (usually caused by antispam or antivirus products)
- New: Special support for scanner/fax devices that always email with the same message id (Dell MFP for example) by switching off the Message-ID duplicates filter for those.
- New: Archive to different folders for each account in PRO version
- Improved: Don't spam-check emails more than once in case the transfer to exchange is interrupted and delivery of the same email is attempted again later.
- Improved: Adds additional header field "x-original-from" if the FROM address was invalid and replaced with [email protected]
- Improved: Don't deliver same email twice if once delivered normally (for TO: address) and second delivery would be due to CC or BCC address in same email causing a reroute due to unknown address or POPcon PRO rules
- New: Support for "554 Too many Received: headers" SMTP error message now causes email to go to BADMAIL folder
- New: Filtering of "env-from" part of received..for headers. That part is not taken as TO: address
- New: Special support for emails from voicemail systems: Filename voicemal.wav and voice.wav of attachments are modified to stop Outlook from wrapping around at voicemail.wav(99) back to voicemail.wav(1). Users needed to manually clear Outlook caches because of this Outlook bug.
- Bugfix: Stop repeated mail cycles at complex schedule times
New in POPcon NOTES 3.74 (Apr 24, 2012)
- New: Allowed new minimum "0" minutes cycle time for continuous downloading and forwarding of emails
- Improved: popcon_addaccount utility now supports the "display name" parameter to update the display name used in the logs
New in POPcon NOTES 3.73 (Apr 24, 2012)
- Added processing of X-Greylist header field supporting antispam system SQLGrey
New in POPcon NOTES 3.72 (Apr 24, 2012)
- Added several new header fields, i.e. X-RZG-FWD-BY for strato, X-Forwarded-Original-Recipient
- Added handling of several new SMTP error return codes from antispam and antivirus SMTP filters
- Improved handling of multi-line received..for headers to find more BCC recipients
- Reduced problems caused by software blocking UID-Database files of POPcon by keeping a 2nd copy
- Eliminated false detection of duplicate messages by shortening the keep period for Message-IDs and for taking into account more message header fields in the detection algorithm
- Bugfix: Keep uids from being deleted by turning off and on POP3 accounts
- New: Added filter to allow only one line of REFERENCES header to pass through to Exchange because Exchange 2007, 2010 can't cope with multi-line References headers
- New: Installer now uses signed self-extracting .exes.
New in POPcon NOTES 3.70 (Apr 24, 2012)
- New: Support for Windows 2008 - old versions would not install proper on Windows 2008
- New: Extended Support für Exchange 2007 Server: All new SMTP-returncodes (blocked because of Spam, etc.) are now supported
- New: Archive function for incoming emails. Emails now can be archived into folders on the server
- New: Download specific POP3 accounts less often, i.e. only every 3rd or 10th mail cycle. Useful for free mail accounts that limit number of access per hour
- Improved: Empty "" or fields in the sender addresses are now automatically corrected
- Improved: White- and blacklists: Delete all entries function
- Bugfix: [SPAM] tag now also in cyrillic or chinese emails without affecting rest of email
- Bugfix: Old emails are not re-downloaded when switching from keeping emails on server to deleting them after download
- Bugfix: Underline character are allowed in specific positions in email addresses