Release Digest: General, February 14, 2003

Open Webmail 1.90

[ Thanks to Thomas
Chung for this information. ]

Open WebMail is a webmail system written with perl. It is
designed to manage very large mail folder files in a memory
efficient way. It also provides a range of features to help users
migrate smoothly from Microsoft Outlook to Open WebMail.

Open WebMail has the following features:

multiple languages, multiple charsets, multiple iconsets/styles,
strong mime support, SMTP relaying, virtual hosting, user alias,
per user based capability, mulitple authentication modules(unix,
pop3, mysql, postgres, ldap), PAM support, folder/message
management, draft folder, confirm reading support, reply with
stationery, full content search, spelling check, auto reply, mail
filter, calendar, event reminder/email notification, webdisk, pop3
support, online password changing, message count preview, user
history…

What’s new in 1.90
——————-

1. new webdisk support: user can use his homedir as a virtual disk
   on web. Its main features includes
   1. basic file operation lke copy, move, delete
   2. file download and upload. download for directory or multiple
      files are supported.
   3. online archive list, compression and decompression, supporting
      format: zip, tar.gz, tar.bz, rar, arj
   4. thumbnail support
   5. file name or content search
   6. user can copy attachment files between messages and the
      webdisk
2. support ssh terminal through the Mindterm SSH Java applet v
   1.21 (thanks to author Mats Andersson, mats@mindbright.se for
   releasing this great software under GPL)
3. when use_homedirfolders is ‘no’, change folderdir to from
   cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/users to cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/users/mail
   This is a preparation for the webdisk in the near future 🙂
4. address book popup window supports default filter and the
   checked entries will be remembered when filter rule is changed.
   (thanks to Javier Smaldone, jsmaldone.AT.yahoo.com for his
   code)
5. support weekstart at any day of a week in calendar add option
   default_charset to openwebmail.conf.default (suggested by Isam
   Ishaq, isam.AT.planet.edu)
6. support event color in calendar (suggested by Jukka Liukkonen,
   murrmurr.AT.users.sourceforge.net)
7. escape the sessionid when saving a link to the web calendar. So
   any links that appears inside openwebmail can be used as a link url
   for a calendar event.
8. support Alt-Key shortcuts for most buttons in openwebmail. This
   could be helpful for some users. Please refer to doc/accesskey.txt
   for all shortcut keys.
9. traditional chinese help tutorial translation (thanks to Alex
   Huang, hoswin.AT.ms32.hinet.net) ps:simplified chinese help
   tutorial is converted from this version
10. Spanish help tutorial translation (thanks to Javier Smaldone,
    jsmaldone.AT.yahoo.com)
11. improved openwebmail-tool.pl
    1. better init check
    2. more folder check options
    3. option –no to skip sitereport
12. fix a security bug related to siteconf and auth_module (thanks
    to Dmitry Guyvoronsky, demiurg.AT.altaee.com)
13. fix a bug in openwebmail-send.pl which didn’t convert the
    charset of the attached files to the sendcharset(the charset used
    for outgoing message) before the message is sending (reported by
    James Briggs, james.AT.ActionMessage.com)
14. turn all blocking lock into nonbloking lock with timeout to
    eliminate deadlock in case openwebmail can not obtaine lock for
    some files
15. many minor impreovments and bug fixes

http://openwebmail.org

Zope 2.6.1

Zope Corporation announced the release of Zope 2.6.1, the latest
version of the award-winning open source application server. The
new release represents the successful global collaboration of
community developers, as it is the first to contain a majority of
enhancements from the Zope community.

“This is the first Zope release where I have have been empowered
to add my Zope improvements directly into the product,” says Toby
Dickenson, a major contributor to the new release. “It is that
directness which has been the key to capturing so many changes. I
have just been doing the same job I have always done, but I can now
do it in a way that benefits the whole community immediately.”

Zope 2.6.1 has improved internationalization and translation
support for page templates and enhanced full-text indexing, with
faster results and better handling of world languages. System
administrators will appreciate the improved OS signal handling and
log rotation support. High volume web sites will benefit from
improved object cache control, providing better performance with
lower memory usage.

“This release shows that Zope is becoming a global product,”
says Sven Guttmann, Senior Consultant at arvato systems GmbH, a
Bertelsmann AG company. “At Bertelsmann, we have a major internal
website with 50,000 new XML articles per day. We gain much value
from the contributions of Zope developers and we also contribute
back. This model for open source development clearly is
working.”

“Among all the open source projects at Cap Gemini Ernst &
Young France, a big part of them are based on Zope,” says Mickael
Remond, open source officer at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. “The
Zope community is very productive, and the standard features allow
us to develop a large part of the functions the clients are asking
for. Our development teams quickly learned the Zope development
process and are now up-to-speed in developing Zope
applications.”

Zope 2.6.1 can be downloaded from the Zope.org website . With this release,
Linux and Solaris binary builds now include Python 2.1.3 with large
file support, providing pre-packaged support for large site
deployments.