What’s New in MailStore Home

MailStore Home 11.0.1

19/04/2018

  • Fixed Searching for email or attachment contents will return no results for emails that have been archived in version 10 or older, after archive stores have been upgraded.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.

MailStore Home 11.0

18/04/2018

  • 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.

MailStore Home 10.2.3

22/11/2017

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

MailStore Home 10.2.1

25/10/2017

  • 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).

MailStore Home 10.2

18/10/2017

  • New Digitally sign emails exported to the file system to ensure authenticity outside of the archive.
  • Improved Help function is now context sensitive.
  • Improved Hardening of encryption key management.
  • Improved More details about skipped messages are shown in the profile summary.
  • 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.

MailStore Home 10.1.4

24/08/2017

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

MailStore Home 10.1.2

26/04/2017

  • Fixed MailStore Home recovery utility not working.
  • Fixed Advanced search ignores selected folder.

MailStore Home 10.1

29/03/2017

  • New Autodetect "Sent Items" folder in IMAP mailboxes.
  • New "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.
  • Improved 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.
  • Improved 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.
  • Improved Removed default search index restriction of 10000 tokens (words) per object.
  • Improved Increase default keep duration of profile and job results to 90 days for new installations.
  • Improved Select IMAP-TLS or POP3-TLS as default in new profiles.
  • Improved Workaround for handling emails with incorrect character encoding identifier (e.g. utf8, cp1252, or CP-850).
  • Improved Further improvement of protecting user passwords inside and outside of the application, for instance by using the Windows Credential Store.
  • Improved Installation path of new installations now contains "MailStore" instead of the companied former name "deepinvent".
  • Fixed MailStore Home Portable Updater installs regular MailStore Home version when updating from 10 or 10.0.1.
  • Fixed Inconsistent error level when profiles are cancelled.
  • Fixed Debug log contains misleading UID information when archiving IMAP mailboxes.
  • Fixed MIME preamble is never shown nor exported.
  • Fixed CRAM-MD5 authentication is visible in debug log.
  • Fixed Incorrect text in Administration.
  • Fixed Various minor bug fixes and improvements.

MailStore Home 10.0.1

07/12/2016

  • Fixed Upgrade process may stop unexpectedly during encryption of databases on slow disks or USB drives.
  • Fixed Database update does not delete MailStoreFileGroup.fdb.key from previous failed update.
  • Fixed Error message "GBAK exited with code -1073741515" on upgrade of MailStore Home or MailStore Home Portable on computers without Visual C++ 2010 Runtime.
  • Fixed Error message "Error loading plugin DBCRYPT" on start of MailStore Home Portable on computers without Visual C++ 2010 Runtime.

MailStore Home 10.0

30/11/2016

  • New Full encryption of databases. In addition to the existing encryption of the email contents and sensitive data inside the databases, all databases are now fully encrypted. On first start, the archive will be upgraded automatically. Please note that this may take a few minutes.
  • New MailStore Home archives can now be password protected.
  • NOTE When protecting a MailStore Home archive with a password, it is required to save or print a recovery key. This recovery key provides the only way to restore access to the archive if the password is forgotten.
  • New 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.
  • New Windows performance counter for monitoring the Firebird database connection pool.
  • Improved Delete key triggers delete function when one or more emails are selected in the email list.
  • Improved Show a warning when a folder is renamed and a folder with the new name already exists.
  • Improved Automatically delete the mailbox cache file "MailboxCache.fdb" if it could not be loaded successfully.
  • Fixed Hyperlinks in dialogs are now clickable.
  • Fixed Incorrect encoding of passwords used when logging into remote IMAP server.
  • Fixed Export via IMAP to Tobit’s David Server fails when server sends EXPUNGE in response to APPEND command.
  • Fixed RTF attachments are spuriously used as email body when email is exported to MSG file.
  • Fixed Incorrect archive path shown in MailStore Home Portable Configuration dialog.
  • Fixed 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.
  • Fixed Major update of third party library, which fixes several minor issues in archiving, displaying and exporting of emails.

MailStore Home 9.8.2

20/07/2016

  • Fixed Wrong archive path shown in MailStore Home Portable configuration dialog.

MailStore Home 9.8.1

29/06/2016

  • Note Update due to MailStore Server Hotfix

MailStore Home 9.8

29/06/2016

  • Improved Re-Implemented backup feature
  • 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".
  • 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.
  • Fixed Client: Large number of email recipients may cause an overlap of the message content, which prevents the user from accessing the email body.
  • Fixed IMAP Server: Several bug fixes that improve the compatibility with IMAP clients.
  • Fixed Archiving process stops and a System.UnauthorizedAccessException is thrown when archiving from a file system which contains inaccessible folders (i.e. inappropriate permissions).
  • Fixed Various minor bug fixes and improvements.

MailStore Home 9.7.1

04/05/2016

  • 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.

MailStore Home 9.7

20/04/2016

  • Note This version requires .NET Framework 4.5.1. For the new system requirements, operating systems in particular, please refer to the "Installation" article of the MailStore Home manual.
  • Note Due to changes in the area of indexing email attachment contents, the search index settings should be opened and confirmed after the update, in order to let MailStore Home identify potentially missing IFilters.
  • Note Since this version of MailStore Home a PDF IFilter is required to index the content of PDF attachments. Information about installing missing IFilters can be found in the "Administrative Tools" section of the MailStore Home manual.
  • Note This version contains a new Gmail profile, that provides additional functionality such as support for deleting emails from the Gmail mailbox. Please notice, that it does not support any other folders than "All Mail" and "Sent Items". This new behavior anticipates scenarios which have been recognized as confusing by users and that where caused by the interaction of Gmail labels, IMAP folders and MailStore's single instance store. Existing Google Mail profiles can still be modified and executed, but no new ones can be created.
  • 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.
  • New Limitation removed: Archiving PST files directly is now possible.
  • 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 New modern design of the dashboard.
  • 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 A data integrity check can now be started from the user interface. This was only available through the command line in previous versions.
  • Improved Changing language, selecting the archive directory, and starting the application in debug mode now possible through new configuration program.
  • Improved Improved translations.
  • Changed Integrated backup function has been removed.
  • Changed AVM Ken! archiving profile has been removed.
  • Note Due to the reintegration of MailStore Home into the main development branch, several hundred improvements and bug fixes since MailStore Server 9.0 have automatically been applied to MailStore Home. These are not listed separately in this changelog.

MailStore Home 8.3

23/09/2015

  • New Official Windows 10 support.
  • New Official Outlook 2016 support.
  • Fixed Various minor bug fixes.

MailStore Home 8.2.1

28/10/2014

  • New Support for the latest Microsoft Office 365 update (Exchange Server 15.1).

MailStore Home 8.2

14/02/2014

  • Improved Handling of broken S/MIME messages improved
  • Fixed Archiving from Thunderbird on computers with several (primarily non-western) system locales may lead to corrupt message contents in MailStore

MailStore Home 8.1

26/08/2013

  • 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 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 The "verify" maintenance command now writes more detailled error information
  • 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 MailStore Home uninstallation fails if a language other than English or German is selected
  • Fixed Folder names are not shown correctly in several titles of MailStore if they contain an ampersand (&)

MailStore Home 8.0.5

05/06/2013

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

MailStore Home 8.0.4

16/05/2013

  • Improved When sorting by sender/recipient or subject, messages with the same sender/recipient or subject are now sorted by the message date

MailStore Home 8.0.3

02/05/2013

  • Fixed 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
  • Fixed 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).
  • Fixed In 120 dpi mode, some controls in the wait dialog are hidden

MailStore Home 8.0.2

27/02/2013

  • Improved Improved translations

MailStore Home 8.0.1

25/02/2013

  • Improved Improved Google Apps For Business IMAP Multidrop Support
  • Fixed 'Invalid RTF (missing end bracket \'}\').' error when trying to archive mails with broken rtf content
  • Fixed elemination of some glitches when using high DPI settings

MailStore Home 8.0

18/02/2013

  • New Official Outlook 2013 Support (including Office 365 Click-to-Run virtualization)
  • New Official Exchange Server 2013 Support
  • New MailStore Home is now available in Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish and Turkish
  • 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 Search results may incorrectly display sent messages as received. Rebuild search indexes with this version if you encounter this error.
  • Fixed Hundereds of minor fixes and improvements

MailStore Home 7.1

24/09/2012

  • New Official Windows 8 Support
  • 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 Debug log files have an incorrect name under certain circumstances
  • Fixed Outlook MSG files whose Internet Headers property does not end with a line break can't be read by MailStore

MailStore Home 7.0.7

10/07/2012

  • Fixed 'Invalid RTF (missing end bracket \'}\').' error when trying to archive mails with broken rtf content

MailStore Home 7.0.6

26/06/2012

  • Fixed E-Mails with certain unnamed attachments cannot be archived

MailStore Home 7.0.5

12/06/2012

  • Fixed minor fixes and improvements

MailStore Home 7.0.4

05/06/2012

  • Fixed Links sometimes open in Internet Explorer instead of the default browser

MailStore Home 7.0.3

31/05/2012

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

MailStore Home 7.0.2

24/05/2012

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

MailStore Home 7.0.1

22/05/2012

  • 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

MailStore Home 7.0

10/05/2012

  • New Modernized user interface.
  • Improved Better Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) Support – Much better error handling. Client throttling support (avoiding "EWS 500" and "ErrorServerBusy" errors).
  • Improved Hundereds of minor fixes and improvements.

MailStore Home 5.0.1

23/11/2011

  • Improved more detailed screen messages while compacting oder upgrading the archive
  • Improved 'About MailStore Home'-Page: new Button "Enter Support Command"
  • Fixed Error "Cannot transliterate between character sets" while upgrading
  • Fixed Error "An item with the same key has already been added" when compacting oder upgrading the archive
  • Fixed automatic MAPI-Cache repair if it is damaged (Cache.fdb)

MailStore Home 5.0

17/10/2011

  • New MailStore Home Setup now comes with the option to install MailStore Home Portable
  • New New User Interface: Now much cleaner, sleek and modern
  • New Auto Configuration: Account settings are recognized automatically based on the email address and no longer have to be entered manually
  • New Multiple archiving tasks can now be started at the same time
  • Improved Hundreds of small enhancements and bug fixes

MailStore Home 4.2.1

02/09/2011

  • New Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 Support

MailStore Home 4.2

01/02/2011

  • Improved Increased robustness when archiving defective Microsoft Outlook message stores and messages
  • Improved Improved support for Microsoft Exchange hosted environments
  • Improved Significantly reduced MailStore Home overall memory usage

MailStore Home 4.1.1

29/12/2010

  • New Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 Support
  • Improved Updated CD/DVD burning driver improves compatibility with various recorders
  • Improved Improved speed when searching for date or e-mail message size
  • Fixed After upgrading to Microsoft Outlook 2010, MailStore may show that Microsoft Outlook is not installed

MailStore Home 4.1

29/07/2010

  • New Microsoft Outlook 2010 support (including x64)
  • Improved Sent messages archived via IMAP are now displayed correctly in e-mail lists (recipient instead of sender). This requires setting the 'Sent Items' folder in the IMAP archiving profile.
  • Improved The message type (sent/received) can now be changed afterwards via the context menu in MailStore Home's e-mail list
  • Improved Opening in Outlook is now much faster when Outlook 2007 SP2 or higher is used
  • Improved MailStore Home Portable (Beta) now launches much faster
  • Improved Many minor improvements
  • Fixed MailStore Home can't be started with Turkish regional settings
  • Fixed Many minor bug fixes

MailStore Home 4.0.6

07/04/2010

  • Fixed Archiving Outlook MSG files does not work when the "Read MailStore Headers" checkbox is checked

MailStore Home 4.0.5

06/04/2010

  • New Archiving Yahoo Mail via IMAP is now possible. Please use the IMAP server imap.mail.yahoo.com
  • Improved If a subfolder can't be created when exporting to an IMAP mailbox, e-mails are now exported to the corresponding parent folder. This makes export work with Gmail / Google Mail.
  • Improved Improved search in sender and recipient fields
  • Fixed MailStore's own headers are not evaluated under certain circumstances when archiving e-mail files

MailStore Home 4.0.4

18/01/2010

  • 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 Significantly lower memory usage during archiving and search index rebuilding
  • 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

MailStore Home 4.0.3

04/01/2010

  • 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 Significantly lower memory usage during archiving and search index rebuilding
  • 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

MailStore Home 4.0.2

02/12/2009

  • Improved Microsoft Outlook Archiver: Significantly reduced memory usage during archiving

MailStore Home 4.0.1

18/11/2009

  • Improved It is now possible to create folders when moving e-mail messages within the archive
  • Improved Detailled connection log for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP connections (under Support Commands, type "debug-conn" to enable)
  • Fixed Not standards-compliant messages may not be displayed correctly in the internal e-mail preview (chinese characters)
  • Fixed Export doesn't correctly create folders in Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey under certain circumstances
  • Fixed Internet addresses (URLs) can't be found with the integrated search functionality
  • Fixed Keywords enclosed in brackets (e.g. phone numbers) can't be found with the integrated search functionality
  • Fixed Scheduled tasks created with MailStore Home Office show a success message that has to be closed manually (please schedule tasks again)

MailStore Home 4.0

30/09/2009

  • New Now Create up to 6 Concurrent Archiving Profiles
  • New Add Email Archiving Shortcuts to your Desktop
  • New Search Folders
  • New Backup to Hard Disk or USB Storage Device
  • New Powerful Email Export Function
  • New New Settings Panel
  • New Portable version available (BETA)
  • Improved Improved Built-in Email Preview
  • Improved Improved Performance

MailStore Home 3.0.2

09/12/2008

  • New Export to Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla SeaMonkey
  • New Filter archiving by email date (only email before a specific date)
  • Improved Improved processing of non standard-compliant email
  • Fixed Misleading error message "Index corrupt, please rebuild." under certain circumstances

MailStore Home 3.0.1

21/11/2008

  • 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 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"

MailStore Home 2.7.2

24/09/2008

  • 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 2.7.1.
  • Fixed MessageID error when archiving an Exchange Server mailbox via HTTP(S)
  • Fixed Object reference error when archiving a file system folder that contains MSG files
  • Fixed Rebuilding the index aborts when a corrupt message is found in the archive

MailStore Home 2.7.1

19/09/2008

  • Fixed Some buttons are missing in MailStore Home Plus
  • Fixed 100% CPU usage when on start page
  • Fixed Outlook: MAPIToMIMEStm error when trying to archive corrupt messages
  • Fixed Outlook: Forwarding a message exported by MailStore might lead to a blank body in the forwarded message
  • Fixed Error message when trying to archive a message with existing but empty Message-ID header field

MailStore Home 2.7

10/09/2008

  • Improved The most lightweight MailStore Home ever (56% reduction in main executable size)
  • Improved Dramatically reduced startup time and increased overall performance
  • Improved Simplified storage location management. Select a directory of your choice after installation.
  • Improved CD/DVD backups are now created 1:1 and can be restored via Windows Explorer
  • Improved More CD and DVD recorders supported
  • Improved MailStore now validates discs after burning
  • Improved Ability to open more than one email back in MS Outlook at the same time
  • Improved Now provides an option to delete an entire folder in the archive
  • Improved Plus/Premium only: Creating scheduled tasks simplified. Recreation of tasks is required with v2.7.
  • Fixed Tons of minor improvements and bug fixes