hMailServer 5.0, build 278 (Alpha)

Post by **martin** » 2007-11-29 13:47

A new 5.0 alpha is now available:
http://download.hmailserver.com/dev/hMa ... 0-B278.exe

This build can only be used for testing purposes, and you should absolutely not upgrade an existing production installation to this build.

The following changes have been made:

The event log file now include Unicode-markers. This should resolve the problem with it sometimes being displayed incorrectly when opening it.
It's now possible to make modifications to an email in script events. Previously, an error was logged if trying to do this.
In previous builds, hMailServer where sometimes unable to detect clients IP address.

GlenC · Post by **GlenC** » 2007-11-29 15:17

Thanks Martin!
Greylisting now works
Integrated SA now functioning
Connecting IP adddresses now reporting corectly

Since I moved to integrated SA I´m not using Eventhandlers at the moment. This weekend I'll give that a try to see how the eventlog writing goes, but I suspect it is probably fine now too.

Jeinhor · Post by **Jeinhor** » 2007-11-29 15:41

Why are you writing "build 258" when the .exe says "[...]-B278.exe"?

Just curious

EDIT: Just a thought, nothing important, but: everytime I install a new build the installer adds the shortcuts to the start menu (which I then remove every time). In other installers there are usually a option not to create start menu items. Maybe you can add it if it's just a boolean-option in the setup project?

katip · Post by **katip** » 2007-11-29 19:34

Hi Martin,
remote admin installation complains about missing libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll
hence the error i described here: http://www.hmailserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11026
putting both files to hmail program folder solved the problem. fyi

BTW what about SSL? i couldn't make it work.

GlenC · Post by **GlenC** » 2007-11-30 01:00

Martin,
I know you said there were issues with SSL. Just want to relate my experiences and offer up my log files if you think they might help. What I'm seeing (from Thunderbird's perspective) is an error telling me that connections could not be opened (after the initial Inbox connection). It suggests lowering the cached connections. I lowered it from 5 to 2 and that seemed to work for a while. Today however, for some reason, 2 is not good enough anymore and it refuses any additional connections. TThis only occurs (so far) with SSL connections. Also, I'm not sure if it is related or not but, I have about 20 messages sitting in a new folder called "Problematic Messages".

Let me know if you need additional info or logs or anything.

katip · Post by **katip** » 2007-11-30 21:43

Trying to add new TCP/IP Ports by remote admin ends with "Run-time error 380. Invalid property value" error. xp-pro sp2 en. FYI

Post by **martin** » 2007-12-02 22:07

Jeinhor, spelling error, fixed it. I've added a checkbox to the next build so that you can skip creation of start menu groups.

Katip, Did you specify a port number when you added a TCP/IP port? I've changed the software so you'll be required to enter a port number it in the next build.

GlenC, with "issues" I meant "incomplete implementation". The next build will contain some fixes which should resolve the issue with Thunderbird, among other things. (The error message you got in thunderbird didn't have anything to do with the actual error. That's some kind of default error message in thunderbird). If you could zip the contents of the Problematic messages folder and send it to me at martin@hmailserver.com, it would be interesting to see.

GlenC · Post by **GlenC** » 2007-12-02 23:30

Well, amazingly the next day all but one message vanished. I have no idea where they went or how they went there. Since then, I have discovered about 20 or so messages left undelivered in the Data folder. I'm pretty sure they aren't the same messages though. These messages are all Hotmail messages that were pulled through a program called Hotpop. Hmail then pulls them in through the pop fetcher. I'll zip a few of those up too so you can look at them. The very first header line seems to be corrupted... you'll see right away. I'll send those now.

Post by **martin** » 2007-12-03 00:11

It could very well be related to that first line in the header. I saw the same issue just a couple of minutes ago so I just fixed it. (hMailServer accesses memory in an invalid way). I put up an updated version of build 280 about 10 minutes ago which should resolve that problem.

I've started to add automatic testing of this and the SSL functionality now so it should hopefully stabilize soon. (I haven't had that before, which means I have to test it manually which is pretty time consuming..)

GlenC · Post by **GlenC** » 2007-12-03 00:46

I found build 279, I think that is the one you are referring to?

I was getting the memory errors too but they seemed random and I couldn't coincide them with any events in the log so I thought I would wait until I had better information to offer on those.

Post by **martin** » 2007-12-03 00:53

Yes, 279, which is mentioned here:
http://www.hmailserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11060

GlenC · Post by **GlenC** » 2007-12-03 01:40

With build 279 it appears that the Hotmail/POP issue is resolved. Also I'm not seeing the cached connection issues anymore. I've raised them back up to the default 5 cached connection setting again.

danny6167 · Post by **danny6167** » 2007-12-03 11:18

the hotmail/POP issue?

GlenC · Post by **GlenC** » 2007-12-03 13:40

danny6167 wrote:the hotmail/POP issue?

Well, that's the best way I could describe it. A program named Hotpop downloads messages from Hotmail and then makes them available to a POP client. I set up hMail to do that job. Those particular messages had a problem with the header, which Martin fixed in B279.

danny6167 · Post by **danny6167** » 2007-12-03 15:34

ok. Does hotpop work with windows live atm. I used to use mr postman but that seems to be broken

GlenC · Post by **GlenC** » 2007-12-03 18:28

Well, I think so... I never made any changes at Hotmail but I think it is now Windows Live Mail... I never log in so I'm not for sure

danny6167 · Post by **danny6167** » 2007-12-03 19:28

google doesn't like me today. got a link?

GlenC · Post by **GlenC** » 2007-12-03 20:07

http://www.boolean.ca/hotpop/