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Funambol sync

2012-03-21T15:10:58-07:00

Anonymous suggested:
Funambol is now mature and works. It is an ideal way to get address book and calendar synched with blackberry, ios, android etc.

to be certain that something sent to spam@ actually does stop it coming through.

2012-03-19T09:23:47-07:00

Matt suggested:
Not convinced spam@ mail is getting vpop to learn what is spam. A lot of same emails come through, and we send them to spam@ to tell vpop its spam, and we still ge the mails through the next day...

Calendar reminders

2012-03-14T14:21:18-07:00

Rod Urquhart suggested:
Be able to put in a calendar reminder, even if it is just an email showing the days events the first time VPop3 is opened.

Configure default tabs

2012-03-14T14:18:59-07:00

Rod Urquhart suggested:
Put in an option to be able to globally configure the default tabs so when VPop3 is opened or a refresh is carried out, tabs like the calendar will still be there (and maybe remove the quarantine tab).

Re-enable the filter options in the administrator user inbox preview.

2012-03-07T23:20:03-08:00

Rob M suggested:
Re-enable the filter options in the webadmin>user>inbox preview. Extend the "message query" with filter options on sender and subject. I understand the change in the interface (collecting only 500 messages). Extending the message query to select only a maximum of 500 messages which math the "where clause" ain't all that difficult. That we as users have the ability to click through pages makes it somewhat harder to do...

Add time conditions to message rules [updated]

2012-03-06T01:40:48-08:00

Can we have time/date/dow/etc conditions in message rules

Andrew CJ said:

Good idea

email X@Y after Database Backup Succeeded

2012-03-06T00:23:53-08:00

Ianbro suggested:
Be able to change the database backup notifications to an email address so you can inform more than one person. You can do this with the daily usage summary already.

Allow to automatically extract/copy mail-attachments to a specific folder on a per-user-base

2012-02-28T03:27:48-08:00

Add time conditions to message rules

2012-02-27T08:19:38-08:00

Paul Smith suggested:
Can we have time/date/dow/etc conditions in message rules

Full and Incremental backup of the database [updated]

2012-01-24T05:10:39-08:00

Allow the database to backup a full and incremental at different periods With the latest release my DB backup has gone from 0.7G to 15G I backup every night that's 105G for the week I want to be able to set Mondays as a full backup and the other days as Incremental.

Paul Smith said:

Done more research into this, and using the differences system does decrease a 3GB daily backup to about 100MB differences from the previous backup. However, it does take a few hours to recreate the restore-able backup, which would be more time the system would be down if you had a crash (it would undoubtedly be even longer for a 15GB daily backup).

So, while it's possible, I'm not sure it's practical.

Full and Incremental backup of the database [updated]

2012-01-23T05:09:19-08:00

Paul Smith said:

Unfortunately, this is not really possible with a database (I don't know of any database which natively allows incremental backups).

You could do a transaction log backup (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/continuous-archiving.html) however, this is a bit complex to configure, and will often take up more disk space than doing periodic full backups. The main point of doing transaction log backups is to be able to do 'point-in-time recovery' (PITR), rather than to save space. Also, with a write-heavy database like VPOP3 uses, the transaction log restore may take a LONG time.

The backup size has increased in the latest version, because now the database stores all your messages, whereas previously it would only store some, so restoring the database backup would not restore many of the messages. This caused confusion for many, and problems for some.

We've thought of a way we could do a differential backup, but it would temporarily use a lot more disk space than now (it would have to make uncompressed backups (the current system uses compressed backups), and find the differences in the text between the base and latest backup, and just store those). Doing incremental backups this way wouldn't really be viable.
A 15GB compressed backup may well be 40-50GB uncompressed, and you would need two of those on the VPOP3 disk to be able to get the differences.

(Alternatively, you could just have VPOP3 put the backups on a £50 external drive, or store less than 7 backups)

Full and Incremental backup of the database

2012-01-23T01:22:18-08:00

Ianbro suggested:
Allow the database to backup a full and incremental at different periods With the latest release my DB backup has gone from 0.7G to 15G I backup every night that's 105G for the week I want to be able to set Mondays as a full backup and the other days as Incremental.

Be able to archive messages when a user is deleted

2012-01-04T06:29:24-08:00

Paul Smith suggested:
eg to .eml files in a ZIP file

Be able to send error messages to a list [updated]

2011-12-30T16:00:33-08:00

Allow POP3/SMTP/etc error messages to be sent to a distribution list, rather than just a single user

Paul Smith said:

On all other automated copy/moves you can send to a distribution list, or multiple recipients. (Contact support if you need help with this)

It's only error messages where there is a limitation (deliberately, in case the distribution to the list generates more errors, which need to be generated to a list, generating more errors, etc)

Be able to send error messages to a list [updated]

2011-12-29T09:24:44-08:00

Allow POP3/SMTP/etc error messages to be sent to a distribution list, rather than just a single user

Dan DiLauro said:

Would be good if this option was available in any move/copy situation, not just on error messages.

Romove Un Seen Un used mails [updated]

2011-12-01T02:08:33-08:00

there should be some system which can deleted all the older mails from the server which may be unwanted and not usefull after certain time frame

Paul Smith said:

There is a hidden feature in VPOP3 Enterprise, version 5 to do this. Contact support if you want to try it out.

Romove Un Seen Un used mails

2011-12-01T01:27:32-08:00

Utpal Shah suggested:
there should be some system which can deleted all the older mails from the server which may be unwanted and not usefull after certain time frame

Vpop mirror/farm [is now completed]

2011-11-29T08:23:40-08:00

A complete mirror of Vpop which can be used for if a sever goes down or for creating a mail server farm.

Vpop mirror/farm [updated]

2011-11-29T08:23:24-08:00

A complete mirror of Vpop which can be used for if a sever goes down or for creating a mail server farm.

Paul Smith said:

A mail server farm is hard to do. (for SMTP it's not hard, for IMAP/POP3 it's very hard)

With VPOP3 version 5, you can replicate the database relatively easily, and almost everything (including settings) is stored in the database, so that will allow 'warm standby' servers

be able to user spam filter with on or more mailcollector [updated]

2011-11-27T21:42:00-08:00

If can be add an option to SpamFilter setting to be able to use the message SpamFilltering with on or more MailCollector, By this way We can choice if need to filter spam email for all MailCollector mailbox or for some of them. it's very useful,

Akader said:

Be able to {use} spam filter with on or more MailCollector.

diffrent icon for active and inactive mailcollector

2011-11-25T01:58:58-08:00

Akader suggested:
Is it possible to change the icon of mailcollector for active and inactive collector for easly use. Instead of Green color could be changed to red color for inactive or as you like.

be able to user spam filter with on or more mailcollector

2011-11-23T22:42:23-08:00

Akader suggested:
If can be add an option to SpamFilter setting to be able to use the message SpamFilltering with on or more MailCollector, By this way We can choice if need to filter spam email for all MailCollector mailbox or for some of them. it's very useful,

Put the A-Z back into the address book [updated]

2011-10-25T03:41:46-07:00

The filters are nice but users miss the A-Z in the address book (as per v2)

soarer said:

A-Z for selection

Put the A-Z back into the address book

2011-10-25T03:39:56-07:00

soarer suggested:
The filters are nice but users miss the A-Z in the address book (as per v2)

Spam Quarantine report in management message list

2011-10-17T00:56:54-07:00

Rob M suggested:
When I open a Spam Quarantine report in a user's "messages info" from the userlist in the management application, I would like to see a readable message with the normal spam-message table. We get a unreadable message now. Is a message created by vpop3 so maybe it can be handled differently. ( viewMsgList($username) followed by doubleclick on message)

Easier Autoresponders [updated]

2011-10-15T15:34:54-07:00

I'd like to be able to setup automatic e.mail replies easily for distribution of rota's pricelists etc Ideally, I'd create a mailbox, a user would e.mail the e.mail to that user and somehow then lock that mailbox. Incoming mail for that user would be discarded, but would trigger the autoresponder to send the e.mail in that mailbox. The advantages - my users can easily create e.mail's complete with attachments etc, and can easily send them to the correct address.

Chris W said:

Or, restated, at present VPOP sends an Autoreponse e.mail, but this is a very simply txt only message. What it needs to allow is a .msg file which could be rich text with attachments included etc.

Autoresponders have never been easy to setup (only easily done in webmail), and I've lost customers because of it. It was possible to create a regular outlook e.mail to set an Autoresponder, but none of my customers can program script (they struggle with anything IT).

How about an "Add-in" for outlook that puts a button onto the outlook toolbar. This button the runs a macro that creates a suitable e.mail which will setup the Autoresponder. The macro would also create another e.mail which was addressed to something like "autoresponder@domain.com", which vPOP would intercept and place in the correct place to become the reply "autoresponse" message..

Documentation of the PostgreSQL tables so that we can access them via ODBC for reporting purposes [updated]

2011-10-10T02:20:09-07:00

If ODBC/OLEDB drivers for PostgreSQL are available, some documentation of the table structures could facilitate all manner of useful reporting-type functionality for companies with the relevant technical resources. The ability to interrogate the tables of users, mappings and/or lists via an API, for example, would enable a much greater degree of integration between VPOP3 and other applications.

Paul Smith said:

The tables do change between versions. We're a bit reluctant to encourage people to access them directly because this causes issues when we need to change them.

We've had several cases where people are 'stuck' using really old versions of VPOP3 because they wrote some custom tools to access the data 'behind the scenes' rather than doing it properly.

A public HTTP API to allow access to the data may be more appropriate. That way, even if we have to change the table structure behind the scenes, we can ensure that the API stays the same.

allow an alternative pre-registered email address top be entered when requesting login details.

2011-10-06T07:36:05-07:00

LAN Forwarding queue size [is now planned]

2011-10-05T03:58:45-07:00

For those of us who make extensive use of "LAN Forwarding", it would be very handy to be able to see the current size of the queue within the Status Monitor. The ability to click-through directly into the queue would also be useful.

LAN Forwarding queue size [updated]

2011-10-05T03:58:45-07:00

Paul Smith (admin) responded:

Planned for version 6

http://bugtracker.pscs.co.uk/view.php?id=612

Make web admin pages more compatible with mobile phone web browsers [updated]

2011-09-01T10:15:35-07:00

Currently the web admin pages are designed for desktop PCs, make a set of pages more suitable for mobile phones' browsers

Mark Travers said:

3 votes from me. This really would make my life easier

out queue progress [updated]

2011-09-01T03:49:25-07:00

Could we have a progress bar for the out queue. so we can see how far off completing an SMTP send Vpop has got? At the moment it just says Busy V 4.0.0.c

Paul Smith said:

I'm not really sure what you mean.

Version 5 has some changes in this area, so may be what you want, but as I'm not sure exactly what you're asking for, I'm not sure...

You can't stop a message which is currently being sent (there is no way to do that other than to drop the whole SMTP session and restart - we could possibly look at that for the future but it would be far from trivial)

We might need a mocked up screenshot and more detailed 'use case' description or something to see exactly what you are wanting.

Be able to delete detected spam from ISP immediately [updated]

2011-09-01T03:43:57-07:00

Paul Smith (admin) responded:

Planned for the future

http://bugtracker.pscs.co.uk/view.php?id=398

(Unfortunately it could not be fit into version 5)

out queue progress [updated]

2011-09-01T02:51:56-07:00

Could we have a progress bar for the out queue. so we can see how far off completing an SMTP send Vpop has got? At the moment it just says Busy V 4.0.0.c

Ianbro said:

I am referring to the Admin settings 'Out Queue Viewer' where you can see each email going out individually.
I assume you are referring to the status monitor, which gives you an overview of all emails, not the detailed one I would like.
This means you can kill or hold any emails which are clogging up the broadband line if the email is too big but make a decision on it based on the % sent at that point.

LAN Forwarding queue size

2011-08-30T10:48:58-07:00

Keith Trangmar suggested:
For those of us who make extensive use of "LAN Forwarding", it would be very handy to be able to see the current size of the queue within the Status Monitor. The ability to click-through directly into the queue would also be useful.

Documentation of the PostgreSQL tables so that we can access them via ODBC for reporting purposes

2011-08-30T10:45:33-07:00

Keith Trangmar suggested:
If ODBC/OLEDB drivers for PostgreSQL are available, some documentation of the table structures could facilitate all manner of useful reporting-type functionality for companies with the relevant technical resources. The ability to interrogate the tables of users, mappings and/or lists via an API, for example, would enable a much greater degree of integration between VPOP3 and other applications.

A tool to enter greylisting exceptions

2011-08-30T07:01:39-07:00

Scott suggested:
I use greylisting. Sometimes when I email someone (or register for a service) I want to enter an address or domain immediately as an exception. I also have my own outmail and smtp LUA scripts, and it would be handy to be able to auto-enter specific people to whom I send email into the greylisting exceptions. Therefore, having a command-line tool would be very handy. It could have options to allow for adding or deleting sender or recipient addresses or domains (if the address begins with a @ then it's a domain, and otherwise it's a specific address).

out queue progress [updated]

2011-08-22T02:24:43-07:00

Could we have a progress bar for the out queue. so we can see how far off completing an SMTP send Vpop has got? At the moment it just says Busy V 4.0.0.c

Paul Smith said:

The 'Connection' box should have two progress bars in it. The top, green, one is for POP3 collection progress. The bottom, blue, one is for SMTP sending progress.

out queue progress

2011-08-08T03:18:02-07:00

Ianbro suggested:
Could we have a progress bar for the out queue. so we can see how far off completing an SMTP send Vpop has got? At the moment it just says Busy V 4.0.0.c

Autoresponder / Divert VPOP3 Status Icons [is now completed]

2011-07-21T01:21:19-07:00

We always have problems with people forgetting to unset their autoresponder/assistant mail divert settings. Would it be possible to have the VPOP3 Status icon indicate that the autoresponder and or the divert is ON with slightly different icons designs (e.g. Outgoing Message the VPOP3 status shows an envelope on the icon) This would be a visual reminder to notify users if they have an assistant or autoresponder set.

Autoresponder / Divert VPOP3 Status Icons [updated]

2011-07-21T01:21:19-07:00

Paul Smith (admin) responded:

Will be in version 5

Logs [updated]

2011-07-21T01:19:32-07:00

There should be activity monitor for logged user & also maintains logs for those.

Paul Smith said:

Can you give more details - eg what do you want logged?

For instance, when they logged on, which messages they downloaded, which messages they deleted, if they moved messages to other folders, etc. How much detail do you want?

Logs

2011-07-20T20:25:07-07:00

Uttam Gupta suggested:
There should be activity monitor for logged user & also maintains logs for those.

SPF as part of spam filter [is now completed]

2011-05-13T03:42:57-07:00

It would be great if SPF (Sender Policy Framework) were included with scores for fail, softfail and pass as part of VPOP3 spam filter scripts instead of as a lua script that runs after the spam filter.

SPF as part of spam filter [updated]

2011-05-13T03:42:57-07:00

Paul Smith (admin) responded:

Will be in Version 5

proxy server [is now declined]

2011-05-13T03:41:12-07:00

Hi Paul, im looking at adding a proxy server to monitor internet access and block and allow user between lunch and tea breaks, please can you advice if you have plans for this in the future.

proxy server [updated]

2011-05-13T03:41:12-07:00

Hi Paul, im looking at adding a proxy server to monitor internet access and block and allow user between lunch and tea breaks, please can you advice if you have plans for this in the future.

Paul Smith (admin) responded:

This is not part of the feature set for a mail server.

Autoresponder with Calendar period dates selection [is now completed]

2011-05-13T03:39:06-07:00

Postmaster/Administrator need to configure a mailbox's AutoResponder with drop down box for schedule dates. rather than using <valid Fromdate-Todate>

Autoresponder with Calendar period dates selection [updated]

2011-05-13T03:39:06-07:00

Postmaster/Administrator need to configure a mailbox's AutoResponder with drop down box for schedule dates. rather than using <valid Fromdate-Todate>

Paul Smith (admin) responded:

Version 5 has a different system for autoresponders which includes this request

Introduce Message filtering rules [is now completed]

2011-05-13T03:38:10-07:00

At the moment I have many message filtering rules set in Thunderbird to move messages into the appropriate IMAP sub folder e.g any messages from pscs.co.uk go into my PSCS folder. However if Thunderbird is not running, then the messages don't get filtered. I'd like the filtering to be done at the server end, so the filter's effect is global to whatever email client I'm using.