What's New in MailStore Server
Please read the MailStore Server Release Notes before upgrading to the current version.
MailStore Server 4.6.2
March 15, 2010
- Note This server version accepts client connections from MailStore Client 4.5 to 4.6.2
- Improved In addition to license files, this version also accepts 25-letter product keys which are delivered by our distributors
MailStore Server 4.6.1
February 12, 2010
- Note This server version accepts client connections from MailStore Client 4.5 to 4.6.1
- Improved This version comes with a workaround for a bug in Exchange Server 2007 which, under certain circumstances, might cause problems when batch-archiving Exchange mailboxes.
MailStore Server 4.6
January 18, 2010
- Note This server version accepts client connections from MailStore Client 4.5, 4.5.1 and 4.6
- New Exchange Server 2010 support
- New Exchange Web Services support enables archiving of mailboxes in Hosted Exchange environments where the WebDAV protocol has been deactivated (e.g. 1&1 Microsoft Exchange)
- Improved Encryption of saved MailStore Server passwords improved
- Improved MDaemon email server support improved
- Improved Multidrop mailboxes: Detection of sender and recipient e-mail addresses improved
- Improved Significantly lower memory usage during archiving and search index rebuilding
- Improved MailStore Web Access can now be loaded into an HTML IFRAME
- Fixed Incompatiblity with SPAMfighter Exchange Module
- Fixed IMAP archiving: Under very rare circumstances, archiving stops because of an InvalidCastException error
- Fixed Due to a bug in OpenOffice, MailStore is unable to index OpenOffice attachments (loading uwinapi.dll fails)
- Fixed Existing but empty address header fields cause MailStore to display "Undisclosed-recipients:;" in the built-in e-mail preview
- Fixed Due to an error in highlighting, an ArgumentOutOfRange error might appear while scrolling through e-mail lists
- Fixed Possible Year 2010 problem in combination with non standards-compliant IMAP servers
- Fixed Under certain circumstances, a profile selection dialog might appear when restoring messages to Outlook
MailStore Server 4.5.1
December 2, 2009
- Improved Microsoft Outlook Archiver: Significantly reduced memory usage during archiving
- Fixed Under certain circumstances, too many e-mails are archived during Exchange Server or IMAP batch archiving
MailStore Server 4.5
November 30, 2009
- New Administrative tools: New administrative tools provide a better overview and offer new features such as a display of all users who are currently connected
- New Email preview: New features such as "Find in e-mail"
- New Backup: An integrated backup feature offers time-controlled backups to any drive directly from MailStore
- New Experimental: Use any LDAP server
- Improved IMAP/POP3 archiving: Emails from multidrop mailboxes can be assigned to their respective users automatically during archiving
- Improved Journaling: Emails with unknown addresses can be automatically assigned to specific archive folders
- Improved Active Directory: Only synchronize members of a particular group
- Improved New filter: Only archive emails older than a specific time period (instead of fixed date)
- Improved Significant performance improvements
- Fixed Minor Bug Fixes
MailStore Server 4.0.4
October 19, 2009
- Note This server version accepts client connections from MailStore Client 4.0 to 4.0.4
- New Detailled connection log for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP connections (in Management Shell, type "debug-conn" to enable)
- Changed New license conditions and terms of use
MailStore Server 4.0.3
August 25, 2009
- Note This server version accepts client connections from MailStore Client 4.0 to 4.0.3
- Fixed MailStore Web Access login might fail under Safari and Opera if .NET 2.0 Service Pack 2 is not installed on the server
- Fixed I/O error when trying to append email data to broken container files (.dat)
- Fixed Specific email headers can lead the MailStore Server process to permanently use 100% CPU
- Fixed CSV file for IMAP batch archiving is not selectable under Windows Vista
- Fixed Workaround for a bug in Exchange Server 2003 that can cause problems when archiving emails sent via ActiveSync
MailStore Server 4.0.2
June 24, 2009
- Note This server version accepts client connections from MailStore Client 4.0, 4.0.1 and 4.0.2
- Improved Better parser for date headers that are not standards-compliant
- Fixed MailStore Server does not start under certain circumstances ("CreateFile failed")
- Fixed MailStore Server takes very long to start under certain circumstances. (To benefit from this bugfix, please ensure that .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 or higher is installed.)
- Fixed Unable to connect to localhost on some IPv6 systems, depending on the "hosts" configuration
- Fixed Outlook archiver is unable to process messages with an existing but empty Internet Message ID (e.g. "<>")
- Fixed IMAP connection fails depending on the IMAP server implementation ("Argument out of range")
- Fixed MailStore Proxy archiver is unable to process delivery reports with an empty SMTP "MAIL FROM" email address
MailStore Server 4.0.1
June 9, 2009
- Note MailStore Client 4.0 is compatible with MailStore Server 4.0.1
- Improved Improved rich text (RTF) message support
- Fixed Outlook 2007 Service Pack 2 only: Direct PST archiving may not work due to a bug in Outlook. This MailStore update comes with a workaround. Installation of the Microsoft hotfix http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;968858 is recommended anyway.
- Fixed MailStore Web Access logon does not work with the Opera browser
- Fixed An error occurs while archiving Zarafa IMAP server
MailStore Server 4.0
April 6, 2009
- New MailStore Web Access - Archive Access via Web Browser
- New MailStore Client for iPhone and iPod touch
- New Batch Archiving of IMAP Mailboxes
- New NAS Support (Network Shares)
- New Auto-Creation of new File Groups
- New Archive Usage Statistics
- New Search Folders - Access Saved Searches via the Folder Tree
MailStore Server 3.0.3
January 28, 2009
- New Outlook MSG file archiving without using PST files
- New Storage on network shares. This is an experimental feature - please contact MailStore Support.
- New IMAP batch archiving via CSV file. This is an experimental feature - please contact MailStore Support.
- Improved Improved search index management and improved search index structure
- Improved Faster search over all user archives if searching for folder, date or email size
- Improved Native extraction of PDF contents works around problems with buggy Adobe components
- Improved Users can continue to use the archive while index rebuild is in progress
- Improved Progress is now displayed for long search operations
- Improved Scheduled Tasks: It is now possible to create scheduled tasks in interactive mode
- Improved Scheduled Tasks: It is now possible to create scheduled tasks with an empty Windows password
- Improved Commands not available to the user are now hidden
- Improved User management now displays the number of users
- Changed Scheduled tasks are now created under the current Windows account
- Changed Outlook special folders Conflicts, Sync Issues, Local Failures and Server Failures are no longer included in the archive process
- Changed Outlook and Exchange archiving: Flagged messages are never deleted
- Changed User name maximum length increased to 255 characters
- Fixed Active Directory sync may synchronize SMTP email addresses in the incorrect order. This may lead to authorization problems when archiving multiple mailboxes.
- Fixed Storage Locations: Local directories on the MailStore Server can't be selected if access to a drive has been denied
- Fixed Miscellaneous problems with search indexes
- Fixed Archiving does not work if the current container file (.dat) is corrupt
- Fixed SMTP forward does not work
- Fixed Scheduled Tasks: MailStore does not display task start errors
- Fixed Performance problems when calculating statistics (Server start page)
MailStore Server 3.0.2
December 9, 2008
- New Microsoft Outlook Integration (Add-in)
- New Standard users can search in all readable user archives
- New Group policy template for automatic MailStore Server login
- New Export to Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla SeaMonkey
- New Filter archiving by email date (only email before a specific date)
- Improved Higher performance when searching simultaneously
- Improved Improved processing of non standard-compliant email
- Fixed Scheduled tasks can't be viewed by standard users
- Fixed MailStore Client icon is corrupt when installed via MSI package
- Fixed PST Export does not create Unicode PST files (only ANSI)
- Fixed Misleading error message "Index corrupt, please rebuild." under certain circumstances
- Fixed During Server Setup it is possible to choose an invalid data directory
- Fixed Server Setup may fail under Windows XP without Service Pack 2 or 3
MailStore Server 3.0.1
November 21, 2008
- Note This is a bugfix release. It contains no additional features. Please install it only if you are a new user or if you are having problems with version 3.0.
- Fixed Delete rules are not applied when connected to a POP3 server
- Fixed LDAP Authentication does not work after performing an Active Directory synchronization
- Fixed IMAP, POP3 and SMTP connections are not closed correctly
- Fixed Error message if Message-ID is available, but invalid (affects File System, MBOX, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Live Mail, Windows Mail and Outlook Express)
- Fixed Exchange archiving via HTTP(S): Error message "Invalid AllXsd value"
- Fixed User list is not updated after Active Directory synchronization (click on Refresh button required)
MailStore Server 3.0
November 17, 2008
- New New user interface
- New Significant performance and memory usage improvements
- New Significantly improved scalability when using with a large number of users and file groups
- New Single Sign-on (Windows Authentication)
- New New, improved Active Directory integration
- New Exchange: Batch archiving of all/multiple mailboxes of an Exchange Server with just a few clicks
- New Special Microsoft Exchange archiving wizard
- New Save and export email in Outlook MSG format
- New Archiving: Table View. Administrative view of the profiles of all users.
- New Wizard for archiving email
- New Backup and Export: Table View. Administrative view of the profiles of all users.
- New Wizard for email backup and export
- New Google Mail archiving
- New New Storage Locations tool
- New Commands for archive maintenance now invokable from the MailStore Client user interface
- New Export of the folder structure (Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Exchange Server and IMAP)
- New New MailStore Server configuration tool
- New Export of folders and subfolders directory from the tree view
- New Email Preview: Print via Outlook (if installed) includes e-mail headers
- New Email Preview: Copy to clipboard now possible from every header field
- New Email Preview: New quick access toolbar
- New Internal AES256 encryption of bodies and attachments
- New Administrative command filegroup-create-auto for automatically creating new file groups
- New New user management
- New Overview of all folder access privileges granted to users
- New Improved archive and export logs
- New New format for index files (higher performance and scalability)
- New Compact feature for freeing unused disk space
- New Creating new users is now possible directly from the email archiving wizard
- Improved Burn: support of a variety of new CD and DVD recorders
- Improved Exchange: Automatic Active Directory synchronization during the archiving process (Journaling and Multi-Mailbox)
- Improved Scheduled Task Wizard: Option to run the task every X minutes
- Improved Scheduled Task: Automatic default file name for log files. View all local protocols.
- Improved Backups created with version 3 can be restored by simply copying back via Windows Explorer.
- Improved IMAP, HTTP, POP3 and SMTP: Timeouts can now be specified when used together with slow mail servers.
- Improved Network traffic reduced when backing up or exporting to a network share and having synchronization enabled
- Improved Deletion of entire folders and subfolders is now possible if the corresponding privileges are granted
- Improved POP3, Windows Mail and Outlook Express: Deletion of already archived email if wished
- Improved Client: It is now possible to specify an alternate port for connecting to MailStore Server
- Improved Client: Improved behaviour during server maintenance
- Improved Client: If started on the server machine, Client checks for server startup problems and displays them.
- Improved Exchange: Better error messages as reaction of common HTTP error codes
- Improved Exchange: Journal archiving is now possible even when envelope journaling is not enabled and/or cannot be enabled.
- Improved MailStoreCmd: More comfortable interactive mode, Passwords now masked
- Improved Server: Higher performance thanks to new RPC stack
- Improved Outlook: Archiving of password-protected PST files (password field)
- Improved Server: Automatic recalculation of statistics after an unforeseen shutdown (power event)
- Improved Setup: New service controller starts and stops the server more reliably during Setup
- Improved Search over multiple file groups and user archived is now cancellable
- Improved Fast soft-delete is performed when deleting emails. Actual deletion is performed when compacting file groups.
- Miscellaneous Hundereds of small improvements and bugfixes.
MailStore Server 2.6.6
October 3, 2008
- Note This is a recommended update for all users of MailStore Server
- Improved Attachments with unsafe file extensions have to be saved on hard disk in order to open them
- Fixed Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008: The email attachment command "Open as" does not work as expected
- Fixed Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008: Open and save dialogs appear broken if a .NET service pack is installed
- Fixed Rebuilding an index aborts when a corrupt message is found in the archive
- Fixed Outlook: MAPIToMIMEStm error when trying to archive a broken message
- Fixed Outlook: Forwarding a message exported by MailStore might lead to a blank body in the forwarded message
- Fixed Outlook: Error message when trying to open multiple messages in Outlook at once
- Fixed Outlook: Error message when trying to reply to or forward a message open in Outlook 2000 or Outlook XP
- Fixed Outlook: When directly archiving PST files, the PST display name might be modified under certain circumstances
- Fixed Error message when trying to archive an email with an existing, but empty Message-ID field
- Fixed Right after logon, an error message appears for a few milliseconds
- Fixed Drag&Drop of attachments to Windows Explorer does not always work reliably
- Changed Exchange Mailbox: When using IMAP, deletion from the mailbox is automatically disabled if no folders are excluded to prevent users from unintentional deleting objects such as contacts and notes
- Changed Update check via standard web browser
MailStore Server 2.6.5
September 8, 2008
- Note This is a bugfix release. It contains no additional features. Please install it only if you are a new customer or if you are having problems with version 2.6.
- Fixed Connection to Microsoft Exchange Server fails under certain circumstances
- Fixed MailStore Client hangs when creating a scheduled task for Local System under Windows Vista
- Fixed Line breaks were missing in some screen messages
- Fixed MailStore Proxy Import: .mpr might not be deleted after archiving
- Fixed Some messages might have been archived with a date in the year 2020
- Fixed MailStoreCmd.exe writes "Session not found" instead of "Logon failed"
- Fixed Some minor bugfixes
- Changed Timeout increased for HTTP (WebDAV), IMAP, POP3 and SMTP connections
MailStore Server 2.6
May 5, 2008
- Note This release solves all known issues with version 2.5.1.
- New Exchange Public Folder Archiving
- Improved Context Help via F1 or help buttons
- Improved Exchange Journal Import now supports HTTP/HTTPS. Solves timeout problems that can occur with IMAP
- Improved Export to Exchange Mailbox now supports HTTP/HTTPS
- Improved Exchange Import: Automatic error analysis when the HTTP(S) connection fails
- Improved Better error reporting system
- Improved Better S/MIME support
- Improved Email List/Search Result: Sent emails are now marked labeled with "To:"
- Improved Active Directory Sync can now be run on Exchange users only (ads-sync parameter --exchange-only)
- Improved HTML body part is now indexed instead of the plain text body part if available
- Improved Wildcards are now possible at the beginning of search terms (e.g. *@contoso.com or *.pdf)
- Fixed File System Import terminates when the folder name contains several special characters (:)
- Fixed Two-digit years are interpreted incorrectly (e.g. created by old David versions)
- Fixed Storage Locations: Newly created folders might not be selected automatically
- Fixed Storage Locations: Change file group location -> Cancel deactivates the file group
- Fixed Error message "Font 'Segoe UI' does not support style..." when starting MailStore
- Fixed Open in Outlook: Subdialogs are not shown in several Outlook versions
- Fixed Open in Outlook: Error message "MAPI_E_USER_CANCEL" when cancelling the Outlook profile selection
- Fixed Open in Outlook: Terminating after showing "The digital ID can not be found"
- Fixed IMAP Import terminates if the IMAP server returns the same folder name twice
- Fixed IMAP Import terminates if the IMAP server does not return headers for a message
- Fixed IMAP Import: Error message "Unable to parse server response" when used with some non standard-compliant servers
- Fixed Exchange Journal Import: HTML-formatted reports (not emails!) can't be processed
- Fixed Exchange Mailbox Import: Email messages from "Sent Items" might not be marked as 'sent'
- Fixed Exchange Mailbox Import: Error message "mailbox is null" if the user name contains blanks
- Fixed TypeInitializationException when starting the MailStore service
- Fixed Outlook Import/Export: Focus problems (Windows in the background)
- Fixed Outlook Import: MAPI_E_INVALID_PARAMETER when archiving NDRs
- Fixed Outlook-Import: Email messages from "Sent Items" might not be marked as 'sent'
- Fixed Errors that occur while opening a file group are not shown
- Fixed Some S/MIME (signed) messages are not displayed in the email preview
- Fixed Thunderbird Import shows a warning because of not importable Online folders
- Fixed Index Options: The user list is not sorted alphabetically
MailStore Server 2.5.1
February 27, 2008
- Improved IMAP, POP3 and SMTP protocol implementations reworked (better compatibility and error handling)
- Improved It is now possible to specify any Windows user when creating a scheduled Task
- Improved Better screen messages for the most frequent errors
- Fixed Exchange: Authentication might fail when form-based authentication is enabled
- Fixed MailStore is unable to import an Exchange Journal report if it does not contain a sender SMTP address
- Fixed Errors that occurred while importing an email message might be hidden under certain circumstances
- Fixed Copy Cmd button in Scheduled Task wizard displays the command line instead of copying it to the clipboard
- Fixed Email subject is displayed in MIME-coded form in the progress viewer and import log
- Fixed Windows service is registered with no dependencies and might not be started correctly while booting Windows
MailStore Server 2.5
February 13, 2008
- New Scheduled Tasks: Import and export scheduling now much simpler than before
- New Scheduled Tasks: Table view of tasks on the local computer
- New Advanced Delete Rules: All time spans can now be specified exactly
- New Advanced Delete Rules: Option to delete dependent on the email date
- New Direct archiving of PST files and export to new or existing PST files
- New Cut, copy and paste of import and export profiles
- New Option to turn off automatic exclusion of special folders such as 'Deleted Items'
- New Windows Live Mail import (experimental; official Microsoft API not yet available)
- New Email Preview: Open in Windows Live Mail
- New Email Preview: Print and Print Preview directly from MailStore
- New Microsoft Outlook: Archiving of IMAP mailboxes opened in Outlook is now possible
- New Microsoft Outlook: Archiving of message stores other than Exchange and PST
- Improved Significant performance improvements especially when launching MailStore
- Improved MailStore.exe file size reduced by more than 55%
- Improved Storage Locations: Statistics grouped by file group
- Improved Storage Locations: Recalculate statistics
- Improved Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey: Improved folder scanner
- Improved Microsoft Exchange Server: Improved compatibility with Exchange Server 2007 SP1
- Improved Microsoft Exchange Server: Improved screen messages and workaround of some Exchange bugs
- Improved Microsoft Outlook: Improved stability through the new MailStore Extended MAPI client
- Improved Automatic debug log of import and export processes. Display via report window.
- Fixed Microsoft Exchange Server: Timeout error when processing very large folders (> 10,000 messages) if server is under load
- Fixed Email export fails when processing certain non standards-compliant messages (Can't write multipart data. Boundary is missing.)
- Fixed Extended search for email size may not work. If the problem persists, rebuild the index via Admin Tools -> Index Options.
- Fixed Microsoft Exchange Server: some unusual email addresses are not detected correctly when using journaling
- NOTE Lots of minor improvements and bug fixes
MailStore Server 2.0
December 3, 2007
- Note Many features originally planned for version 2.0 were already included in 1.6.1 and 1.6.2 versions. See below.
- Improved Completely removed maximum users restriction. Max-Users limitation in the license file is ignored.
- Improved Drag&Drop of an EML file onto the import profile list imports this file
- Improved Drag&Drop of a folder onto the import profile list creates a new File System import profile with this folder
- Improved Drag&Drop of a PST onto the import profile list creates a new Outlook import profile with this file. Additionally, a new MAPI profile is created.
- Improved Drag&Drop of an MBOX onto the import profile list creates a new MBOX import profile with this file
- Improved Select Folders: Show effective folders after applying include and exclude lists
- Improved Select Folders: Option to add folders excluding subfolders to the lists
- Fixed Connection cannot be established when using IMAP-SSL (IMAP-TLS is not affected)
MailStore Server 1.6.2
November 21, 2007
- Improved If a text was found in an attachment's file name, the attachment itself is now included in the search result list (below the containing message)
- Improved MailStore Proxy / NST import now shows the sender and recipients of an email message which could not be assigned to a MailStore user
- Improved Exchange via HTTP/HTTPS: It is now possible to specify the mailbox relative URL instead of the mailbox name (e.g. /exchange/johndoe)
- Improved MailStoreCmd.exe can now be started without parameters (Interactive Login)
- Improved Import/Export: Profile lists are now sorted using Windows' regional settings
- Improved Extended Debug Logging for IMAP and POP3 connections
- Fixed User Info: The 'Password' button is incorrectly titled 'Change'
- Fixed Compatibility with various IMAP server implementations improved
- Fixed The contents of PDF files can not be searched when Adobe Reader 8.x is installed
MailStore Server 1.6.1
November 16, 2007
- New Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Import now supports HTTP/HTTPS (WebDAV). Solves problems that may occur by using IMAP.
- New No Spam Today! Proxy Support (automatic archiving of all incoming and outgoing email)
- New Index Options (Administrative Tools): Configure attachment file extensions; Rebuild user indexes
- New Built-in Support Command 'exejcfg' enables Microsoft Exchange Envelope Journaling (Disable with -d)
- Improved Improved LDAP settings detection (solves problems with Small Business Server 2003)
- Improved MailStore Server now writes to Windows' Event Log (e.g. startup problems, message deletions)
- Improved Server performs client version check in order to avoid unintelligible error messages
- Improved MailStore Setup now provides the option to start MailStore after installation
- Improved Redesign of Email Import Reports
- Improved Automatic download and installation of Windows Installer and .NET Framework during setup if desired
- Changed Exchange Import/Export: Combined domain, user name and password in one edit field.
- Changed MailStore database is opened when starting the Windows Service (and not at the first login)
- Fixed Fixed stability problems in Outlook Express / Windows Mail import (misc error messages)
- Fixed Dialog windows which appear during login place themselves behind the main window under certain circumstances
- Fixed Some German text was missing in the software (displayed in English instead)
- Fixed Exchange via HTTP/HTTPS (RC1): Connection initialization is slow and could lead to timeouts
- Fixed Exchange via HTTP/HTTPS (RC1): Error message that the version could not be read with some Exchange Server configurations (e.g. 1&1 Hosted Exchange)
MailStore Server 1.6
October 17, 2007
- New Automatic Archiving of all incoming and outgoing email via separately available MailStore Proxy
- New Active Directory Synchronization
- New LDAP Authentication
- New Export directly to IMAP Mailboxes
- New Export directly to Exchange Mailboxes
- New Delete Rules for IMAP Mailboxes
- New Delete Rules for Exchange Mailboxes
- New Delete Rules for AVM KEN! Mailboxes
- New Email messages movable between folders of a user
- New Optional transport-layer encryption when forwarding via SMTP (TLS and SSL)
- New Completely rewritten Outlook Express/Windows Mail Import module (Removed 3rd Party Dependency)
- Improved Improved Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Support
- Improved SSL Warnungs can now be disabled when importing or exporting
- Improved SSL certificate viewer can now be displayed to check certificate errors (Import and Export)
- Improved Improved display of non standard-compliant email messages
- Improved Much faster IMAP import initialization, lower traffic
- Improved Scheduled Task can now be run without displaying a DOS window (MailStoreCmdSilent.exe)
- Improved Improved Status Messages
- Improved User Information window improved
- Improved Improved handling of email messages with inconsistent line endings
- Changed MailStore Server Setup now asks for the data directory on every installation
- Changed MailStoreCmd: Switch -pkfp optional
- Changed MailStore Home Import not displayed anymore in MailStore Server and Client
- Fixed Removable devices (USB hard disks etc.) are not display unser Storage Locations
- Fixed IMAP folder structures are not displayed correctly in some cases
- Fixed The IMAP INTERNALDATE field is ignored. The date shown in MailStore may be incorrect in some cases
- Fixed Date and time of email messages copied from Outlook may be not displayed correctly in some cases