Change History

1.0.4.9 [July 3 2004]

• Bug Fix: Badly formatted from email addresses stop emails from progressing from pending to waiting status.
• Bug Fix: Familiar email address window only appears once.
• Bug Fix: Some outlook files failed to scan for email addresses correctly.
• Bug Fix: Some servers had a hard time being connected to.

1.0.4.5 [June 15 2004]

• Bug Fix: The pending messages window now correctly displays mime-encoded subjects.
• Bug Fix: Familiar Email Addresses window now stays on the screen until you dismiss it.
• Enhancement: New database subsystem to dramatically increase the speed and lower memory requirements.
• Bug Fix: AntiSpam stops responding after a disconnect from the network.
• Bug Fix: After 64,000 messages, some messages appear to get stuck in the waiting stage.
• Enhancement: Ability to search the Familiar Email Address window.
• Enhancement: The Inbox address crawling tool now has some ability to filter out addresses of SPAM senders that may already be in the inbox.
• Bug Fix: The status message box now wraps messages in a more logical manner.
• Bug Fix: Messages seem to come in both before and after existing messages in the inbox.
• Bug Fix: The port changing option failed with a missing setting error.
• Enhancement: The ability to filter the familiar addresses window.

1.0.4.1 [February 27 2004]

• Bug Fix: In some cases AntiSpam fails to send validation email to incorrectly formatted from addresses.

1.0.4.0 [January 29 2004]

• Bug Fix: In rare cases AntiSpam personal fetches the wrong SMTP User name from Outlook Express.
• Bug Fix: Left over debug code prohibits new users from activating spam protection.

1.0.3.0 [January 28 2004]

• Bug Fix: Unable to login to certain SMTP servers.

1.0.2.0 [January 26 2004]

• Bug Fix: Some logic used to detect misconfigured accounts was not working.
• Bug Fix: On some displays the Familiar Email Address window can appear black.
• Bug Fix: AntiSpam reports an error when it cannot find a windows address book.
• Bug Fix: If AntiSpam's POP or SMTP services fail no solid information is available to fix the problem.
• Bug Fix: When AntiSpam discovers a port it needs is already taken it informs the user but shutsdown without allowing them to change the port AntiSpam uses.
• Bug Fix: The enable and disable options under advance behaved opposite of the labels.
• Bug Fix: A server that continues to abort SMTP transfers can cause AntiSpam personal to use 100% of the CPU.
• Bug Fix: The pending messages window refreshes every 5 seconds making it hard to use.
• Enhancement: Beta users now have a separate auto update mechanism.
• Bug Fix: Uninstalling from the control panel Add Remove option failed.

1.0.1.70 [November 13 2003]

• Bug Fix: When installing AntiSpam Personal for the first time user always gets a Dependency Failed error

1.0.1.69 [November 12 2003]

• Small configuration changes to the 1.0.1.68 release

1.0.1.68 [November 12 2003]

• Bug Fix: AntiSpam is unable to pull new email addresses from Outlook while Outlook is open.
• Bug Fix: Applying patches requires restarting the computer.

1.0.1.67 [November 7 2003]

• Bug Fix: Added clearer message for when POP server drops connection.
• Bug Fix: Outlook Address book was not being crawled for addresses

1.0.1.66 [November 6 2003]

• Bug Fix: In some cases, AntiSpam can fail with an ArgumentException error when registering a license or a 14-day trial.
• Bug Fix: Built-in help fails to work.

1.0.1.65 [November 5 2003]

• Bug Fix: AntiSpam is sending multiple STAT requests for each message and some servers seem to be dropping the connection as a result.
• Bug Fix: AntiSpam internally is no longer correctly handing a situation where email are deleted from the email server outside of using your normal email client.
• Bug Fix: On some displays, the boxes that scroll up from the bottom of the screen are completely black.
• Bug Fix: The uninstall account option fails with a transaction error (introduced in 1.0.1.64)
• Bug Fix: AntiSpam should now run on Microsoft's Longhorn O/S, but it is untested.

1.0.1.64 [October 29 2003]

• Enhancement: Stability and reporting improvements for when things go horribly wrong with the computer while AntiSpam is running (like a hard drive crash).
• Enhancement: Prevents SPAM with your email address as sender from being delivered to your inbox.  Those emails are instead sent to to the waiting emails window were the use must manually send them to the inbox.
• Bug Fix: Spam from accounts that pretend to be domain admin accounts are now stopped.
• Bug Fix: AntiSpam stops processing without giving any type of notification.

1.0.1.63 [October 15 2003]

• Enhancement: When you create a new direct to inbox rule from a pending or waiting email window, all emails in the window are immediately tested against the new rule.
• Bug Fix: On some systems an error message about JETCOMP failing pops-up.
• Bug Fix: System now better handles situations where the connection to the pop server is lost.
• Bug Fix: The registration required indicator comes on when AntiSpam is off-line regardless of actual registration status.
• Bug Fix: AntiSpam goes off-line and never comes back when some systems go into standby mode.

1.0.1.62 [October 10 2003]

• Bug Fix: AntiSpam fails to add valid email addresses from validation emails when a invalid Reply Address or From Address are present.
• Enhancement: AntiSpam now works around a bug in the Yahoo Pop server
• Bug Fix: Bounce return messages for emails that have been scheduled to be deleted as spam go through to the inbox.

1.0.1.61 [October 8 2003]

• Enhancement: Created new package that no longer requires .NET or MDAC to be installed.
• Bug Fix: Fixed bug that caused existing email on pop servers that returned some non-standard replies to be deleted during initial sync.  This effected Comcast users.
• Bug Fix: The system is unable to identify some diagnostic messages and keeps trying to resend them.
• Bug Fix: Accounts for Outlook 98 users do not show in the Account Manager.
• Bug Fix: Outlook continues to be unstable with AntiSpam running.

1.0.1.60

• Enhancement: Additional listserver support.  Managed to identify even more list server emails when they don't use the approved tagging.
• Bug Fix: If you create a ListServer Direct To Inbox rule without actually clicking on the available tags box an empty rule is created.
• Bug Fix: If AntiSpam is checking for new addresses in your address book at the same time as a lot of other communication activity is present it is possible that AntiSpam can lock-up.

1.0.1.59

• Bug Fix: Last patch broke downloading of new messages for users that do not leave their email on the server.
• Bug Fix: Some messages with missing header information (such as a reply-to address) failed to process.

1.0.1.58

• Bug Fix: Stats have been broken and not updating for the past several months
• Bug Fix: Even non Outlook users are slowed down a little bit by the fix for the Outlook RSET bug.
• Bug Fix: If an error occurs while downloading new messages it is possible some messages will not be downloaded at all.
• Feature: Because of the above bug a new feature to re-sync to your email server has been added under Tools>Advanced.  It will find any messages that were skipped because of the above bug.
• Enhancement: Added new List Server Direct To Inbox rule to the Direct To Inbox rule panel.  This will scan for markers in the mail header (electronic envelope) that identify an email as a list-server sent email and allow AntiSpam to always pass to inbox or destroy the email.

1.0.1.57

• Bug Fix: Last patch caused existing emails to get stuck.  New email processed just fine.

1.0.1.56

• Enhancement: AntiSpam now checks for new email right away rather than wait for the email client to request new email.
• Enhancement: AntiSpam is now bulk/listserver email aware.  This means email tagged properly as a mass mailing from an automated source will not be sent a challenge message.
• Enhancement: AntiSpam now auto detects Norton AntiVirus and disables SMTP encryption on port 25 to avoid a bug with Norton AntiVirus.

1.0.1.55

• Bug Fix: We have reason to believe the bug fixed in the prior version is also affecting users downloading email.

1.0.1.54

• Bug Fix: In some cases Outlook fails to send outgoing email because the AntiSpam server is too fast for it.

1.0.1.53

• Bug Fix: Outgoing email fails with some servers that have non-standard capability listings.

1.0.1.51

• Bug Fix: Required MSVP60.DLL to be installed..
• Bug Fix: The more advanced TLS secure sockets features have be re-enabled.
• Enhancement: Improved internal tracking of challenge emails.

1.0.1.50

• Bug Fix: Update files are now placed in the temp directory
• Bug Fix: Patch files are not automatically deleted after use.
• Bug Fix: When scanning Outlook Contacts to add to the familiar emails address list, AntiSpam skips first contact.

1.0.1.49

• Bug Fix: AntiSpam crashes after 20 minutes or so for Outlook users.

1.0.1.47

• Bug Fix: Outlook Express does not scan existing emails for addresses when an account is protected.
• Enhancement: Improved code for accessing Outlook addresses.

1.0.1.46

• Bug Fix: The Address book in outlook is not being scanned by AntiSpam
• Bug Fix: No indication is given when a license has been revoked.
• Bug Fix: If the download of an update fails the download status bar never disappears.
• Bug Fix: Email constantly asks for password because mailbox is locked.

1.0.1.45

• Enhancement: Removed the need to sync all the messages from your email server the very first time.
• Enhancement: Greatly improved the error notification for the registration process.
• Bug Fix: Outlook is sometimes unstable after installing AntiSpam.
• Bug Fix: Checking email on an account that is still in the process of syncing headers the first time causes a second sync window to spawn.
• Feature Change: AntiSpam no longer caches emails locally but rather connects to your email server and downloads the email on demand when your email client requests them. This will reduce the hard drive space needed by AntiSpam.
• Bug Fix: After installing, the Configure New Account Wizard does not automatically start.\
• Bug Fix: Outlook users get an Unable to Configure error the first time they run AntiSpam. It works after the first attempt.
• Bug Fix: The Setup Account Wizard does not see accounts for Outlook XP on Windows 98 machines.
• Enhancement: Added screens to help with the installation of the .NET runtimes and MDAC files.

1.0.1.44

• Bug Fix: The 'Always Send To Inbox' option would crash when incoming emails did not have subject lines.

1.0.1.43

• Feature: The default ports that the POP3 and SMTP services listen on can now be changed using File->Port Assignments

1.0.1.42

• Bug Fix: Accounts created under an Outlook Express Identity do not show up under the Account Manager.

1.0.1.41

• Bug Fix: Email History menu option was not working.

1.0.1.40

• Bug Fix: Outlook complains about missing Add-in (introduced in version 1.0.1.38)
• Bug Fix: Activating an account on the license seems to work but the warning message that it needs activation never goes away.
• Bug Fix: SSL connections that drop unexpectantly can hang AntiSpam.

1.0.1.39

• Bug Fix: Unless your ISP supports SMTP with SSL, AntiSpam is unable to send email or challenge messages (introduced in ver 1.0.1.38)
• Bug Fix: When protecting a new account without first having a valid license, AntiSpam would crash with an error message.
• Bug Fix: Using an activation code that has already been registered fails to retrieve the license.

1.0.1.38

• Note: All existing accounts will need to be re-activated by your license when upgrading from an older version.
• Bug Fix: Initial Sync with email server would begin but never finish.
• Feature: Users can now request a trial license from within the application
• Feature: The registration process now reports the number of available account activations remaining on the license
• Known Issue:  TLS secure encryption has been temporarily turned off in this release.
• Feature: A complete help system has been added.
• Feature: A brand new installation system has been added that includes notification if .NET runtime or the correct version of MDAC are not installed.
• Feature: SSL encryption now works out of the box with Windows 98 users.
• Feature: AntiSpam Personal no longer requires the latest Microsoft Data Access Components.