POPREP 6.1 Release Notes
Updates since version 6.0:
Service Updates:
• Added support for Outlook Web Access, forms-based authentication.
• Increased debug output from OWA connector.
Event Scripts Updates:
• Added ability to write to the the LogFile and EventLog from Event Scripts.
Admin Console Fixes:
• Would not allow changes to LogLevel if DebugLevel was Disabled.
• Would report an Error if DebugLevel was changed and LogLevel was Disabled.
Updates since version 5.1:
Feature updates:
• Added support for receiving emails from OWA/Outlook Web Access/Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes.
• Improved and changed event scripts functionality.
NOTE: If you use event scripts, Please review the documentation prior to upgrading to this version.
• Now supports UAC under Windows Vista and later.
• POPREP 6 has been extended with an Administrative Service, the management console now take advantage of this service for all privileged operations, eliminating the requirement for the administrator to have the privilege to create global objects.
Service Updates:
• Added support for receiving emails from OWA/Outlook Web Access/Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes. [Tested with Microsoft Exchange 2003
and 2007]
• Today's/Current log name changed from poprep-yyyy-mm-dd.log to poprep.log
• Historical daily Log File name changed from poprep-yyyy-mm-dd.log to poprep.yyyy-mm-dd.log.
• Added command line option to configure service to run as either of: LocalSystem, LocalService, NetworkService
Event Scripts Updates:
• Added a basic WScript object replicating many of the Microsoft WScripts methods.
• Separated the MailObject into two separate objects. One that has generic helper methods and properties, and one that have methods and properties specific for the in transit Mail.
• Now detects and reports Script Runtime error messages during initialization of Event Scripts. Previously only syntax errors were reported.
• Event scripts will now TimeOut and Terminate after 3 minutes. Previously they would execute indefinitely, hence a faulty script could cause the service to hang.
• Improved performance of event scripts and associated methods.
NOTE: If you are updating from a previous version, then please read the documentation of event Scripts, Mail Object and Mail Helper Object, and make any necessary adjustments to your scripts prior to updating to this version of POPREP.
Admin Console Updates:
• Moved "Mail To" and "Bcc:" configuration from the "Outbound SMTP Settings" to new property page "Mail Routing"
• Added input fields for source and target - domain and default mailbox. Previously user had to type in these in a curly bracket and comma separated format. Data is still stored in the same format, so only the UI has been updated.
• Advanced Property page split into two pages "Event Scripts" and "Mail Routing"
• Moved Poll Frequency and connector Enable checkbox to a new property page "Schedule"
• Added ability to perform Right Click to Enable/Disable connectors on tree view items (Connectors).
• Display a message informing that a connector could not be enabled - if any of the property pages has got incorrect information. [We do not currently tell the user what is wrong, but at least that some thing is]
• Added link to Twistround website at the About Dialog and Licence Dialogs.
• Updated nag-screen for expired evaluation licence, display once only when licence expired.
• Added dialog that will be displayed when the evaluation licence expired, the dialog will only be displayed if any enterprise features has been enabled. It will allow the user to more easily update any connector settings by removing any unsupported settings for the new licence level.
• The user managing the service no longer requires privileges to create global objects.
• Tool-bar has a new button, allowing you to reconnect to the (new) admin Service, should you have stopped the service whilst the admin console is running. - We could easily reconnect automatically, but as you would not know if the configuration file had been changed independently of the console, the user would have to perform this extra step.
• Now displays a message if changing of log or debug level failed.
• Now displays a message if changing start-up type for the service failed.
POPCONF Updates:
• New switch /AddToAdmin[:[Domain\]Username] - adds a user or domain group to the PopRepAdmins groups.
Service Fixes:
• Fixed some incorrect log-file messages.
Admin Console Fixes:
• Fixed bug: The "MAIL FROM:" edit control would not be enabled if manual was selected. (If user de/re-selected manual the control would be enabled so editing was still possible)
• Disabled the ability to configure event scripts when the licence is less than Enterprise.
• Disabled dialog for configuring script editor and script template when the licence is less than Enterprise.
• A user would not be able to start/stop the service unless a member of the local Administrators group.
Setup Fixes:
• If you performed a repair, and the service was running it would be necessary to reboot the system before the changes took effect.