New features
Detect spam by servers in message- Added the ability to find and resolve to IP addresses all servers referenced in the body of a message. Along with a new transform rule function, this allows messages to be deleted based on IP address ranges.
Permission rules- When a message is matched by a permission rule, that rule can cause an email message to be sent back to the sender.
Drag/drop email addresses- Email addresses can now be dragged from compliant email applications into the approved or rejected sender view
Drag/drop email address files— If you have a file containing email addresses, you can drag that file into the approved or rejected sender view to whitelist or blacklist them respectively. Multiple files can be dragged in one operation.
Permission rules- Two new permission functions allow domains and IP addresses to be checked against a sequence of IP address ranges.
Database support- ChoiceMail One now uses a SQL database instead of INI files for most information. The initial main benefit for ChoiceMail One single users will be greatly reduced memory requirements.
System rules (CM Enterprise only)- Added support for global permission rules that can be applied centrally before individual user rules are applied.
Tip of the day- Added automatic tip of the day support

Updates
Servers referenced in message- Added ability to see the list of all servers referenced in a message, complete with their IP addresses
Transform rules- Transform rules now work for headers as well as subject and body. It's also possible to have a single transform rule work for multiple items.
Transform rules- The transform rules are now displayed in tree format rather than as a raw text file.
Downloading emails- Added functionality to prevent ChoiceMail from downloading previously downloaded mails when an external error closes the TCP/IP connection.
Preview from approval dialog- Added the ability to preview messages from the "new sender registration" popup
Email rules dialog- Added the ability to move the rules with the mouse
Junk box- Added a TO field in the junk box
Support for legacy Eudora- Support commands that can be generated by Eudora users who have (or used to have) very old versions of Eudora
Splash screen- The splash screen can now be disabled by modifying the choicemail.ini file (unsupported)
Received Header (CM Enterprise)- CM Enterprise now has the option to insert its own received header into a message.
Permission management- A new action is now available that lets you mark an item as SPAM but leaves it in your unknown senders list and does not send a challenge. This is useful when playing with rules to see which items are affected by a rule. The color of the SPAM icon is different from regular unknown sender icons so as to stand out.
Permission management- The BCC icon is now displayed in a different color to make it stand out better from regular unknown senders.
Permission management- A new tab has been added that allows you to match attachment filenames. Attachment filenames can now be seen in the message previewer.
Permission management- The MoveUp and MoveDown buttons can be held down to make rule positions move quickly.
Permission management- Redesigned the permission rule dialog so that it fits better on smaller resolution screens
Permission management- Negating a rule now requires the initial 'not' to be enclosed in parenthesis.
IMAP- Added ability to disable IMAP proxy.
Activity logs- The maximum size of the activity logs can be changed by modifying a section in the popmanager.ini file (not officially supported)
Blocking mail servers- It is now possible to select text in the headers of a message (in the message previewer window) and create (or modify) a permission rule that will block all future messages coming from that mail server.
Permission rules- Permission rules created by users are displayed in blue while DigiPortal Software provided rules are displayed in black. Future versions of ChoiceMail One may change the behavior of (or silently remove) any permission rule that was provided by DigiPortal Software - therefore, changing permission rules provided by DigiPortal is not a good idea. Instead, disable them if you don't want them and create your own modified rules.

Fixes
Corrupted decode- Addressed an issue where a binary attachment was deliberately corrupted to cause normal decoding to fail and this caused permission management to fail with a range-check error.
Setup wizard- We had a problem where an old server configuration file where SMTP settings were already in there, but none of the other settings were defined. This was causing List Out Of Bounds errors.
Eudora- Fixed a problem where importing multiple personalities could cause an access violation.
Passwords- Fixed problem where user password could be corrupt due to some unpredictable file copy operations.
Login- Fixed problem where real mailbox and virtual mailboxes could be logged in at the same time.
Registration- Fixed a problem where pasting in a received usercode and registration key did not enable the OK button. The person responsible for this bug has been slain
Permission rules- A couple of regular expressions had erroneous OR characters in them.
Housekeeping- Email cleaner now runs every hour instead of every minute - also removes old registration files properly
Locking- Fixed incorrect functionality : CM shouldn't start up minimized if it's locked
IMAP- Re-introduced ChoiceMail IMAP initialization when an IMAP source gets tested

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January 20th, 2004
ChoiceMail 2.1
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Updates
Eudora - The setup wizard now indicates that Eudora 6.0 is supported – no actual code changes as 6.0 always in fact worked.
Junk Box - We now display the TO field in the junk box window.
Administration management (CM Enterprise/Web only) - Added more statistics data
Message forwarding (CM Enterprise/Web only) - Improved message forwarding to corporate mail server.

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January 9th, 2004
ChoiceMail 2.000f
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Updates
Permission rules - Added two new actions. (1) Change the status of a message to BCC (which essentially stops CM sending a challenge out) and (2) Delete a message permanently, bypassing the junkbox.
Administration management (CM Enterprise/Web only) - Added support for ChoiceMail Web administrators
Webmail gateway - New update addresses a number of login problems. Installation of the webmail gateway is now optional and controlled from the main installer.
Transform Rules - If you modify the transform rules, it is no longer necessary to restart ChoiceMail before you can access the updated rules.

Fixes
Freeze problem - We finally tracked down a bizarre problem where CM could freeze on Windows 9x/ME systems after running for a long time. The default log size has been reduced to 30 lines.
Long delay - Fixed a problem where ChoiceMail could be held up for a long time by an incoming attachment that contains no regular text.
Junk box - We no longer populate the junkbox when CM starts – this prevents CM from hogging CPU cycles for long periods of time at start up.
SMTP manager - Fixed another problem where a bogus email address could hold up the queue of outgoing challenges.
Long download delay - Fixed a problem where a received attachment with no body text could take a long time to be processed

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December 4th, 2003
ChoiceMail 2.000d
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Updates
Forwarding thread options (CM Enterprise only) — Added option to allow control over how many threads are used to manage forwarding.

Forced password changing (CM Enterprise/Web only) — Added option to allow administrator to force people accessing ChoiceMail interface through a web browser for the first time to have to change their password.

Transform Rules (CM Enterprise/Web only) — Transform rules are now available through the web browser interface.

Domain sorting — Added ability to retrieve domains sorted alphabetically.

Permission rules — Added more rules that detect and delete spam.

Fixes
Bogus FROM addresses — Fixed a problem where a ridiculously long FROM address could generate an access violation.

Rules import — Fixed a problem where you would get an error if you tried to import rules when you didn’t already have some other rules installed.

AV with uninstalled Outlook — Fixed a problem where ChoiceMail could crash at startup if it incorrectly detected that MS Outlook was still installed.

Duplicate domains (CM Enterprise/Web only) — Fixed a problem where duplicate domains could be entered through web browser interface.

Unnecessary args in registration messages (CM Enterprise/Web only) — Fixed a problem where we were arbitrarily adding session IDs to all URLs rather than to just those needed.

Default rules — Fixed problem where html tags inside our xml tags were not properly encoded. Was creating an invalid xml document.

Control Panel service (CM Enterprise) — Registry keys are now stored in HKLM

Account validation — Removing an unwanted account now moves to the next account rather than the previously validated account.

Account validation — Changed the word ‘verified’ to ‘validated’

Audio message — Fixed a problem that was causing the default audio message to not be found.

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November 19th, 2003
ChoiceMail 2.000c
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New Features

Registration messages  - The registration message customization has been completely redesigned so that you can completely tailor your outgoing registration message. You can also save multiple registration messages so as to change them.

Automatic approval  - You can now tell ChoiceMail to automatically approve anyone who fills in the registration form.

Updates

Tray icon  - Added menu option to system tray icon to allow you to preview approved mail without having to open the ChoiceMail main window.

Fixes

Outlook 2003 losing mail   - Modified some internal processing to address a change in Outlook 2003 where Outlook 2003 would sometimes delete mail without downloading it first.

Eudora – invalid pointer   - A problem where an unusually large Eudora.ini could cause ChoiceMail to fail to configure settings properly has been fixed.

Disabled window   - Fixed a problem where trying to configure the SMTP server could cause the error message “Cannot focus an invisible window”

Byte stuffing   - Fixed a bug where incorrect byte stuffing could cause periods to get lost in the registration URL.

100% CPU utilization   - Fixed HTML rule that was causing 100% CPU usage. Note – this only applies to new installs. Existing users should visit https://digiportal.com/support/choicemail/technotes/notes/cpu100p.htm to see how to repair an existing installation.

Byte stuffing   - Fixed a bug where incorrect byte stuffing could cause periods to get lost in the registration URL.

Connections   - Improved handling for unstable connections.

Infinite password prompting   - Fixed a problem where Outlook would keep asking for your password even though you entered it correctly. This could happen if an AntiVirus program locked a file before Outlook finished logging in.

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September 9th, 2003
ChoiceMail 2.000
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New Features

Multiple identities  - ChoiceMail now lets your multiple email accounts retrieve only those messages intended for those accounts rather than merging all incoming email into a single account. We have support for retrieving mail for a single email account only. Users can login to CM POP3 server using the format "cm/emailaddress" along with the email address password to get the mail for that email address only.

Incoming message limits  - Added ability to limit time spent downloading emails from each account. Useful for slow internet users with tons of messages.

Lock UI  - The user interface can now be locked so that it can't be seen without entering a password.

Approved mail  - You can now preview approved mail through the ChoiceMail GUI

Permission rules  - Added not operator and a (me) special keyword referring to your sources and aliases.

Permission rules  - You can now reference individual Received headers with an index. This lets you easily check the server from which an email really came. Permission rules now support regular expressions - although not intended for users to edit directly (they can), it will allow more sophisticated rules to be downloaded and installed to block known spam. Transform rules are also implemented to preprocess messages to make it easier to detect spam.

Challenges  - You can now optionally use an alternate (optionally fake) FROM address for challenges. This can be used to (a) prevent your real email address from being validated as live by spammers (b) eliminate bounce-back messages completely and (c) prevent a potential spam trick where a spammer could recognize that a challenge was coming and simply respond with a NEW spam using a NEW fake FROM address, thereby attempting to fill up your POP3 inbox.

IMAP  - ChoiceMail now has experimental support for IMAP - no wizards are available though.

Updates

Installer  - We now delete all old ChoiceMail shortcuts that were on the desktop. We also add desktop shortcuts for userguide and keyinfo

Safe Previewer  - We now include the ability to see the raw message.

Setup wizard  - Aliases and mailing lists can now be configured directly from the setup wizard

Authentication  - Updated to support usage of POP3 account credentials with SMTP server. Solves problem with Verizon SMTP servers where one must authenticate with the same username/password as the sending email address.

Permissions  - Added special keywords that can be used to detect whether the email address in the body of your message is (or is not) in your whitelist (see documentation for more information on how to use this feature)

Permission rule testing  - Testing starts after a delay of 1 second of no typing rather than testing every time you type a character.

Permission rules  - A new name is used each time you create a new rule

Permission rules  - New permission rules can be merged into existing permission rules. DigiPortal Software may make new permission rules available from time to time for this purpose.

Enhanced security  - The registration process has been tightened up to remove some theoretically possible breaches.

Fixes

Shutdown  - Fixed problem where ChoiceMail One sometimes prevented MS Windows from shutting down.

Permission rule testing  - The test for self-referenced FROM addresses is now done even if your own domain is in the accept list.

Registration alert popup  - Fixed a problem where the alert popup window was disappearing immediately on some systems.

Username change  - Fixed a problem where changing the username in ChoiceMail One caused lots of grief!

Empty messages  - Corrected a problem where ChoiceMail One could get stuck if the file has a length of 0.

Junkbox  - Added filterReason for mail system messages being deleted.  Without this line, there is no deleted reason when looking at messages in the Junk Box.

Reject with reason  - Fixed a bug where it sometimes wasn't possible to use spaces in the reason.

Domains  - Provide better message if user tries to add a domain that is already on the list.

Hints  - Changed hint for Show Recent Unknown Senders and made the caption reflect when the option was turned on or off.

Norton AV  - Fixed potential problem with older Norton AV usernames that might contain slashes in usernames.

General AV  support - Added handling for special AV case where user might be getting I/O errors instead of our "nice" AV message.

Installer  - Installer now refuses to run if an email application is open. This fixes a problem where the Outlook plugin for ChoiceMail/Exchange was not being installed if Outlook was already running.

Dialogs  - Where possible, increased spacing between controls so that there's less likelihood of characters being cutoff if you are using large fonts.

Setup wizard  - Eudora users can now specify the needed files directly rather than having to do a complete disk search. (Note: this was implemented in 1.505 but somehow it disappeared in subsequent releases!)

Empty FROM  - Fixed a problem where emails were being deleted automatically when it seemed like there was nothing in the FROM header (even though there was).

Empty FROM  - Fixed a bug where an empty FROM header was causing a crash when assertions were enabled

Startup performance  - Initial startup is now faster.

Rejection of system messages  - Was missing filter reason for unverified system messages.

Tab order  - The items in the general preferences now get selected sequentially as you press the TAB key.

List index out of bounds  - Fixed a problem where this error message could appear if you reject a sender with explanation.

Anti-virus collisions  - Added handling for stream errors in case anti-virus removes the temporary files while we are trying to  process them

Junk box  - Fixed a bug where junk box didn't know that messages had been deleted until you quit and restart ChoiceMail.

Integer overflow  - Fixed a problem where ChoiceMail would not allow mail to be retrieved by client if the total size of the mail was greater than 2Gb

Installer  - Installer will now only install into the DigiPortal Software Applications group.

Setup wizard  - Checks that email application is not running more often rather than just once.

Setup wizard  - Changed DELETE button to EXCLUDE in the POP3 source account selection dialog

Hints  - Some buttons in the SMTP settings dialog had incorrect hints.

Email accounts  - Changed "Source enabled" to "Account enabled" label

Permission rules  - Fixed a problem where we were not checking multiple repeated headers (typically , the RECEIVED header) in a message.

Permission rules  - Fixed a problem where multiple messages belong to a single sender were getting deleted incorrectly.

Outlook 2002  - Another attempt to address issues with multiple SRS files

Configuration  - Warn people if they try to change the "logging into ChoiceMail" userid as it's a BAD idea to do this.

Configuration  - Account testing now being done on server side on multi user version

Away/registration messages  - Fixed problem with Getting Default Messages in SingleUser mode that was preventing users from resetting to the default message

Client/Server  - Optimized some communication transfer

Client/Server  - Transferred listing of messages and deleting of messages to server side.  Accounts need to be contacted from the server end and not directly by the client.

Installer  - Fixed a problem where %APPTITLE% was being displayed rather than the program name when uninstalling ChoiceMail One.

Installer  - Fixed a (harmless but annoying) problem where a double-slash was being used in pathnames.

SMTP errors  - Added functionality that allows us to detect unusual SMTP sender errors and force CM to delete a message from sending queue.