Earlier today, we promoted the latest version of code for our email service to the Production Test Environment (PTE). If you’re one of our email resellers, you should have already received an email from us letting you know about the release, so you can familiarize yourself with the changes before your users get them a week from now. Complete information about what’s changing in this release can be found on the release notes page.
In addition to feature releases, we’re constantly working to improve performance and reliability. Those releases where there is no end-user or reseller impact, beyond an improved overall experience, usually happen ‘behind the scenes’ and fairly frequently.
While we’re talking about releases, I wanted to take a minute to explain our approach. In general, we have two main goals in our releases:
- Address or remove bugs wherever and whenever we can.
- Add new features that provide the widest possible benefit across both the end-user and reseller user bases.
For example, in this release:
- To help both end users and resellers, we added a new settings page that gives users the ability to change how their spam is handled. In particular, POP users can now choose to have their spam tagged and delivered to their Inbox. Then their spam will get downloaded with the rest of their mail, and they’ll no longer have to use Webmail to check the contents of their Spam folder. We have a screencast showing this functionality in another blog post.
- To help end users, we added the ability to export contacts. Users could previously import contacts from Outlook-format address book files, and now they can export them as well.
- To help resellers, we’ve added a way to mitigate the effects of phishing attacks targeting their user bases.
Our mission with OpenSRS Email Service is to provide an easy-to-use experience that gives the ‘power user’ enough functionality to keep them happy, while not overwhelming the average user with gizmos and whiz-bang that does nothing to help them read their mail quickly and easily.
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