Chrysanth Mail Manager User Guide

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Latest version: 2.3
Release date: April 19, 2005

Version 2.3

Adds support for German language localization. (Special thanks to Martin Reiche and Guo Xu for localizing Chrysanth Mail Manager into German.)
Adds SSL secure connection support. (Special thanks to T. Sakamoto for suggesting this feature.)
Adds support for Mail Log export to MS Excel, HTML, XML or ASCII format. (Special thanks to Sue Phillips for suggesting this feature.)
Adds an option in Setup->Option to automatically run Chrysanth Mail Manager when Windows starts. (Special thanks to Donald Harriman for suggesting this feature.)
Adds one more worker thread (total 4 threads) to the mail verification process against external DNSBL servers.
Solves the problem of when using different POP3 port number, email content could not be fetched for preview.
Solves the problem that occasionally causes Chrysanth Mail Manager to freeze when trying to preview email content while mail checking is in progress. (Special thanks to T. Sakamoto for identifying this problem.)
Solves some Japanese encoding problem with UTF8, UTF7 and ISO-2022-JP. (Special thanks to T. Sakamoto for identifying this problem and assistance in the development of the solution.)
Solves the problem that causes error while shutting down Windows, if there is more than one Chrysanth Mail Manager tray icon being displayed.
Some minor improvements on performance.

Version 2.2

Adds MS Outlook 2000 or above Address Book import function. (Special thanks to Richard Mills and John Faulkner for suggesting this feature. Richard Mills has been very helpful during the development of this feature.)
Adds support for "is empty" and "is not empty" filter, which enables blank From or Subject line to be marked as spam. (Special thanks to Doug Haworth for suggesting this feature.)
Adds support to make the grid focus stay in the next header after multi-select for bounce or delete.
Adds Multi-Email Selection menu items to the Email menu.
Detects more IP, especially those enclosed in round brackets (x.x.x.x) or without brackets like x.x.x.x.
Solves "Invalid Base64 Character" problem when password is too long, now password can be up to 79 bytes. (Special thanks to T. Sakamoto for identifying this problem and suggesting the password length.)
Solves the problem of some IP not being detected as relay IP due to formatting.
Solves the problem of ROI time is not saved properly when OS shuts down.
Solves the problem of mail check conflict while some dialogs are being opened (like DNSBL dialog). (Special thanks to Tim Keech for identifying this problem.)
Solves the problem that causes error while shutting down OS with Chrysanth Mail Manager staying in tray.
Solves the problem of after first filter condition being deleted, the Field part will always record as Subject, even if it was changed to CC, To, From etc before closing the dialog.
Solves the problem of when detecting DHCP server assigned DNS IPs, Chrysanth Mail Manager will potentially use the DHCP server's IP as the default DNS server IP. (Special thanks to Donald Harriman for identifying this problem and assistance in the development of the solution.)
Some minor improvements on performance.

Version 2.1

Adds support to search for DNS servers' setting locally first. If DNS servers' setting is not available, then only use public DNS servers.
Friendly mail notification tray icon will not dismiss now during auto-process. (Special thanks to John Shaffer for suggesting this feature.)
Adds Notify Sender function in Mail Log to send notification mails to accidentally deleted mails. (Special thanks to Mark Nathan for suggesting this feature.)
Changes to F5 instead of the old CTRL-M for Check Mail function.
Solves the problem of "Max line length exceeded" problem due to downloading message with Null body.
Solves the problem of settings are not properly recorded if Chrysanth Mail Manager is closed by the system during shut down, instead of manual exit.
Now closing Mail Viewer while downloading the content will no longer show error message.
Changes to Setup.exe instead of CSMailManager.zip for all registered customers; Customers will not need any unzipping software now. (Special thanks to Ian Green for suggesting this useful trick.)
Some minor improvements on performance.

Version 2.0

Adds Startup Wizard to help new users get started.
Adds portable support, which means users can now copy Chrysanth Mail Manager onto a thumb drive and create an empty file named "Portable.cssw" without the quotes in the same folder, so that Chrysanth Mail Manager will record all settings on the same thumb drive.
Adds Hashcash support. (Special thanks to Adam Back from Hashcash.org for his assistance and passion in promoting this great anti spam/ junk mail protocol.)
Adds new function to view header in Notepad without downloading from mail server again. (Special thanks to Ian Green for suggesting this feature.)
Adds new features to mark all mail headers to be deleted or bounced, multi select mail headers to be deleted or bounced. (Special thanks to Mike Porter, Nigel Caldwell, Ian Green and Jerry A. Bagley for suggesting this feature.)
Now the mail verification process against external DNSBL servers are much faster due to addition of 2 more worker threads.
Now scheduled mail check will not start if mail verification due to previous mail check session is still in progress. (Special thanks to Rod Willmot and Peter Markham for suggesting this feature.)
Adds new feature to Friend list or Blacklist domain and email from mail log. (Special thanks to Randy Allgood for suggesting this feature.)
Adds clear log function to clear error log messages. (Special thanks to Murat Kayaalp for suggesting this feature.)
Solves the problem of "@ Outside address". (Special thanks to Philip Harris for identifying this problem.)
Some UI change and bug fixes to the main grid, now the grid's look and feel is much more Office 2003 like.
Adds Time Bank tab to indicate the ROI (Return on Investment). Shifts Statistics, Graph and Log to other forms.
Creates a utility to import Spam Inspector 4.0 backup file's email list. (Special thanks to Mark Nathan for his suggestion and assistance on developing this feature.)
Solves the problem of not showing tray icon when Chrysanth Mail Manager is set to start in tray icon.
Solves the problem of adding new account menu, opening some files when Chrysanth Mail Manager starts and others.
Some minor improvements on performance.

Version 1.9

New on the Help menu, "Affiliate" brings you to a page on our website dedicated to developing partnerships with potential resellers. If you would like to earn commissions as a distributor of Chrysanth products, take a look!
Now supports Japanese language. We invite users interested in localizing Chrysanth Mail Manager to other languages to contact us at CSNETime@chrysanth.com.
Optimizes startup speed.
Complete online documentation. (Special thanks to Rod Willmot for his help on this project.)
Friendly mail is now signalled by its own tray icon and the familiar "You've got mail" sound. (Special thanks to Richard G. Lubman and James Robbins for their feedback on developing this feature.)
Solves the problem of not closing to a tray icon when this is selected on the Options dialog.
Solves the problem of being unable to log off or shut down when minimized to a tray icon.
Now spam is signalled by its own icon and sound, instead of the "You've got mail" sound. (Special thanks to Rod Willmot for suggesting this and other changes.)
Solves the problem of spam sound being played for each spam instead of once for all. (Special thanks to Rod Willmot for identifying this problem.)
The Field Chooser dialog box is now named accordingly (instead of "Customization"). Additionally, the Setup Menu now refers to "DNSBL Servers" instead of "RBL Servers" in order to be consistent with the dialog it leads to and with documentation.
Some minor improvements on performance.

Version: 1.8

Solves problem of EAccessViolation error encountered by some users when verifying mails (Special thanks to Murat Kayaalp, Keith J Shaw, Richard G. Lubman, Stuart Morris, Alexander Santamaria Jiménez and Yoshiyuki Kasuga for their assistance in helping us identify the associated problem, providing further information on developing the solution and testing the solution)
Solves problem of long hint not being displayed properly in the grid
Solves problem of closing Filter dialog box using the system's close button (the X button) without cancelling the changes made
Solves problem in which, after deleting a filter condition, the previous filter condition would show wrong editor
Updates the menu of DNSLB Servers... so that it is no longer accessible when mail verification is in progress
Some minor improvement on performance

Version: 1.7

Adds support for different locale date settings (Special thanks to Mopas A.S., Francesco Francescangeli and Keith J Shaw for their assistance in helping us identify the associated problem and for providing further information on developing this feature)
Adds support to pop up the default Internet Dialer on Windows 2000 and above platform (Special thanks to Derek Read for his assistance in helping us identify the associated problem)
Solves problem of Access Violation when trying to blacklist/ friend list an empty address or domain via menu item
Some minor improvement on performance

Version: 1.6

Adds Purge Mail Log function to clear mail log content
Updates some content to the online documentation, which you may access from Help-->Online Help
Solves problem of inaccurate statistics due to recording of deleted spams with subsequent mail check without processing mail first (Special thanks to Terry Boyle for his assistance in helping us to identify this problem)
Solves problem associated with launching application from IE like 'Edit with Microsoft FrontPage' that does not run the launched application instantly after mail check has started. This problem also affects creating New Office Document in the Start menu (Special thanks to Terry Boyle for his assistance in helping us to identify this problem)
Some minor improvement on performance

Version: 1.5

Viewing mail now will first show an animated graphic while retrieving content
When mail check is undergoing, double clicking on the mail item to view the mail content will no longer freeze the application
Solves problem of mail verification sometimes does not update the grid check box
Solves problem associated with hints in the grid that brings main form to the front
Normalizes toolbar and menu shortcut and accelerator keys
Updates View menu so that it would only enable relevant grid menus when the grid functions are accessible
All resizable forms will re store to their last window states, i.e. window size and position
Clicking on the URL of Chrysanth Update will no longer freeze the application
Some user interface update
Some minor improvement on performance

Version: 1.4

Added some content to the online documentation, which you may access from Help-->Online Help
When performing task like blacklisting, it will no longer cause the page to scroll up or down because this time the record pointer will be shifted to the next available row on the grid
Solves problem associated with some email addresses that contain single quotes
Solves problem with blacklisting or whitelisting an email address that shows "cdsEmailList" caption
Some minor improvement on performance

Version: 1.3

Start in tray icon option
An option to minimize to tray icon when closing the main form
Enhanced support to retrieve mail header from some non-compliant POP3 server (A very special thanks to Safro Kwame for his assistance in helping us to identify this problem)
Solves toolbar reset problem
Some minor improvement on performance

Version: 1.2

Minimize to tray icon support, which makes Chrysanth Mail Manager capable of performing mail check at the background when minimized
A shortcut to the online documentation
Some minor improvement on performance

Version: 1.1

Office-2003 like toolbar
More consistent UI in non-XP machines
Some minor improvement on performance

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