Release Notes for AMOS Mail version 5.

The following is a list of new features and BUG fixes in AMOS Mail since version 5.1 for Windows 95/98/Me
and Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP.

Important notice: Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later must be installed on Windows 95, Windows 98 and
Windows NT4 before AMOS Mail can be installed. AMOS Mail uses some OS features that were not standard
on these platforms. These features are distributed as part of Microsoft Internet Explorer.

The following new features have been added:

• It is now possible to set up automatic export of AMF files. (Menu Remote Other Services…) 5.1.1
• A new version of the spell checker is integrated with the E-Mail editor.
• An option to specify number of rings before answering has been added to the “Advanced” settings
for modems. (AM devices only).
• New icon and logon screen. 5.1.2
• Option to list date in AMOS Mail Monitor.
• Active serial devices are now displayed in bold in AMOS Mail Monitor.
• Incoming SMS messages to attached GSM phone can now be saved to a specified mailbox.
• Headers on outgoing SMS messages can now be turned off.
• The send queue activity window has been changed so that TCP/IP is no longer required.
• Queue aging now also applies to gateways of type “File Exchange (AMF)”.
• Automatic export of AMF files for gateways of type “File Exchange (AMF)” is now supported.
Menu option Remote, Other Services…
• Possibility to search the Remote Post Office List by name or PO id.
• Possibility to search the Internet Alias List by Internet address or AMOS Mail address.
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• Support for connecting post offices via Null-modem cable added. 5.1.3
• Support for Dial Up Networking directly from TCP/IP connect dialog.
• Automatic crash recovery. AMOS Mail will now handle errors that previously caused the
application to be terminated with an “Application Exception” error message.
• A new menu option “Open Backup Database” has been added to the “File” menu. This option 5.1.4
allows the user to open a backup AMOS Mail database in a separate client window without closing
the current mailbox.
• A progress dialog now appears during shutdown.
• AMOS Mail will now always terminate maximum two minutes after the user selected “Exit and
Sign Out”. Earlier, the application could hang e.g. when a modem device did not respond.
• It is now possible to resize the attachment window and the icons are also automatically arranged
inside the window.
• AMOS Mail will now automatically restart after a crash.
• It is now possible to type an SMTP address directly into the “Find” field in the address book and
add this recipient as a “one off recipient” to the message.
• Several new command line options has been implemented
• -d <directory> opens the database in specified directory.
• -r Opens the database in read-only mode.
• -u <mailbox> Log on to specified mailbox.
• -w <password> Log on with specified password.
• -s Show logon screen always. (-u and –w overrides).
• A progress dialog has been added to TCP/IP connections with remote post offices. Only when 5.1.5
connecting manually.
• The address book dialog has been improved.
• Active telex devices are now shown in bold in Amos Monitor.
• Amos Monitor can now log activity to text files.
• The message window address field has been enlarged to show more error texts on failed addresses.
• Messages are now assigned ID when they are created rather than when they are saved/sent, making
it possible to reference the message number in the message itself.
• The table list in AMUtils.exe window “Table tools” is now sorted.
• Mssinp command line syntax extended with option –db <database path>. 5.1.6
• An option “Never display connection progress dialogs” has been added to “Local Post Office 5.1.61
Release Notes for AMOS Mail version 5.2

Preferences”. This option is a quick-fix to a bug that displays the “Connection Progress” dialog on
the server side when older post offices connect via TCP/IP. The bug itself will of course be
corrected in the next release.
• Device labels are now displayed next to device names in the left side tree-view in Ammon.exe.
• Messages are now automatically stored in WorkBox when a spell check sesion is invoked. This is
done because the spell checker has been reported to crash the application causing the current
message to be lost. This change will prevent that and hopefully make it possible to reproduce and
correct the bug.
• Several command line utilities have been added to the distribution. These are documented in 5.1.7
HTML documents ManXxx.html also in the distribution.
• The database utility – amutils.exe – now remembers the path to the database files.
• The “Phone book” dialog has been redesigned and improved.
• It is now possible to filter messages also on TCP/IP connections. This feature requires AMOS Mail
5.1.7 or newer on both sides!
• A report over filtered/skipped messages is prepared after a dial-up or TCP/IP connection. This
feature requires AMOS Mail 5.1.7 or newer on both sides!
• Ammon.exe will use device label in log file names.
• A threshold alert limit can be added for remote gateway queues. It is found under the menu. Setup – 5.2
Remote PO Management… - Details – Miscellaneous.
• If AMOS Mail is unable to open all necessary ports when it starts up a notification will be sent to
Sysop.
• A new format of the license is implemented. However the old ones still works as before.
• The NTB news feed service has been removed.
• A new command line utility configBackup is made. It is able to backup both the AMOS Mail
database and all its registry settings.
• New databases can and should now be done from the utility AMUtils.exe
• 2 new parameters added to the RunAM utility. Username and password.
• Closing AMOS Mail now always means Exit & Sign out. Menu choice “File - Run in background”
has been added.
• When the checkbox “Ask before closing app window” in user preferences is checked, the Cancel 5.2.0.1
button will be default in the messagebox that appears when one closes the application.
• On some systems it could take several seconds to create a new message because the message id was 5.2.1
generated at an earlier stage. A new setting under Local PO Management->Preferences “Assign
message ID…” have been added so that this can be configured.
• A new field under Modem Properties – GSM Text – “SMS Prefix” is added. This field can be used
when a GSM modem is attached directly to the system for sending SMS’es via the SMS gateway, to
specify a text prefix for each message. This can fx. be used on some GSM operators to avoid
sending the number of the GSM modem.
• Implemented AHDLC plugin to allow use of Fleet and GAN terminals without an external ISDN
terminal adapter. This setting is found under Remote – Modem services – Details – Email.
• A download headers feature is implemented for both the tcp/ip protocol and the dialup protocol.
This is controlled from the filter tab in the connect dialogboxes. The partial downloaded messages
can be previewed and managed in a new window located below the queue window.
• Sendqueue filter now support multiple gateways separated by a semicolon.
• A progress dialog for both dialup and tcp/ip is reimplemented. This dialog replaces the old dialup
statistics window.
• A new option “Show unread msgs. count” is added to User Preferences – Miscelaneous. When this
option is turned on all folders that contains unread messages will turn bold and show the number of
unread messages after it’s name. The reason it can be turned off is that is may take to much
resources on some systems either with many folders or a slow system in general.
• The option “Host locked out” is now also available for tcp/ip connecting hosts.
• A new option “connect” for the runAM utility is added. This can be used to invoke a dialup to a
specified remote post office from the commandline. Ex: “runam connect amos1 tapi1”
• A new pushbutton “Calculate statistics” in folder properties have been implemented to be able to
calculate how much space in the database each folder is holding.
• In the Setup – Mailbox management dialog a new checkbox “Show mailbox stats.” have been
added. When checked the system will calculate a some key numbers for the selected mailbox.
• AMUtils has a new tab "recover password" to be able to reset a lost password.
Release Notes for AMOS Mail version 5.2

• Command line utilities documentation is now available through the menu “Help – Amos Mail
manpages…”
• The Excel template for viewing the connect log has been enhanced.
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The following corrections have been incorporated:

• Several bugs in DNS resolution (SMTP server) has been corrected. 5.1.1
• Some bugs when sending SMS directly through a GSM phone has been corrected. This function is
now tested with several versions Siemens, Nokia and Ericsson phones.
• Some problems related to scheduling of TCP/IP polling have been corrected.
• Some address book templates would be wrong in newly created databases (Introduced in 5.1)
• Connection log window sorted session entries “upside down”.
• Connection log window listed all entries. Will now only list 1000 latest entries.
• Several bugs that could cause system crashes in high-load situations have been corrected.
• A bug that could cause system crashes when sending to an illegal address has been corrected.
• A bug that could cause hangs after a complete repair has been fixed in the db utility.
• A bug that made it impossible to connect the db utility to the database when the computer name
exceeded 15 characters has been corrected.
• Wrong address book icons were used under some circumstances. 5.1.2
• Duplicated entries in AMOS Mail Monitor suppressed.
• The part “Visma” in the AMOS Mail registry keys has changed to “Xantic”
• Handling of non-existing domains has been changed in DNS lookup.
• A dialog box you could not dismiss would be displayed when a connection attempt was made
before a remote post office was defined. This bug only occurred on systems without “Private Hub”
license.
• Option “Allow senders in this domain to relay SMTP Messages” on inbound SMTP routing was
always enabled.
• Several errors in the setup script has been corrected.
• Sending SMS directly through attached GSM phone would not work if the GSM phone was not the 5.1.3
first device in the AMOS Mail device list.
• Autoreply to the internet did not work (introduced in 5.1.2).
• The application would not start on systems without Dial Up Networking installed. Instead an error 5.1.4
message “Could not load library Rasapi32.dll” would appear. Introduced in 5.1.3.
• Device in AMMON going bold too early (on ring event). This could result in staying bold. Now it
goes bold on the connect event.
• If there was a size limit on an entry in the Internet Alias list and the destination address was an
address on the local PO, then the server would allow messages that exceeded the limit.
• When attaching a file to AMOS Mail the system did not check that the whole file was successfully
read. This could result in only part of an attachment being sent.
• On some GSM phones (at least Nokia phones) a timeout of 3 seconds when waiting for response
after sending an SMS was not enough. This caused AMOS Mail to beleive that the SMS sending
failed when it actually worked. This timeout is now increased to 10 seconds.
• The Amos Mail Database Utilities could delete *dat files during “Recreate Index” if the disk did not
have free space more than the size of the .dat file itself.
• A bug that caused erroneous inbound distribution of messages received via POP3 has been
corrected.

• A bug in the “update address” dialog has been corrected (introduced in 5.1.4). 5.1.5
• A bug in the automatic crash recovery failed to restart SMTP, POP3 and TCP servers.
• A bug in the shutdown dialog could cause Amos Mail to hang on shutdown. Introduced in 5.1.4
• The automatic crash recovery function has been revised to collect more information about the
incident. This added information does however make the total file size a lot larger. For that reason,
the user is no longer asked to forward the information to Xantic Support. Instead, the information is
kept on the local computer only. The logged-on user is still notified about the incident.
• A bug in the TCP/IP gateway traffic logging has been corrected. This bug could cause Amos Mail
to enter into an infinite loop when closing connections.
Release Notes for AMOS Mail version 5.2

• The TCP/IP traffic logging function has been revised to use less system resources.
• The telex device would some times hang on dial if “Auto answer” was not selected. 5.1.6
• Messages were some times listed more than once in folder lists. Introduced in 5.1.4.
• System would some times hang on “Exit and Sign Out”. Introduced in 5.1.5.
• “System downtime” would exit the application in version 5.1.5.
• The resizing of the attachment window was sometimes faulty. Introduced in 5.1.4.
• Several changes has been done to reduce use of system resources and improve stability.
• A bug affecting “delivery rules” in the Amos Connect hub has been corrected. 5.1.61
• The activity log in Amos Mail would in some cases not show any activity. 5.1.7
• The word “Global” had been replaced with “mssGlobal” in dialog boxes.
• Several minor bugs has been corrected in the address book.
• Messages would in some cases be delayed on the server. This happened when the workstation’s
clock was ahead of the server’s clock.
• “Tags” on incoming messages would “follow” replies/forwards of that message to the sent box.
From the sent box it was not possible to remove them.
• Messages were not set “Read” when they were read by a MAPI client such as AMOS Replication.
• “Show Distribution List Expansion” did not work for messages sent from the AMOS Mail client. It
did work for messages that were received over gateways such as fax and SMTP.
• It was possible to delete messages from “Read only” databases with the “Del” key.
• “Exit & Sign Out” is now the default action when the AMOS Mail window is closed.
• Several bugs have been corrected in the “File Scan” function.
• A couple of bugs have been corrected in the Schedule time calculation routine.
• Gateway notifications – queued messages, queued notifications – were sometimes not sent, some
times sent many times.
• The MS Exchange directory synchronization did not work. Introduced in AMOS Mail 5.1.5
• 'copy to'function had no effect in a mailbox which send automatic generated messages 5.2
• Telex activity messages were not visible in the AMOS Mail activity window.
• Versions 5.2 and 5.2.0.1 could in rare cases crash when messages entered the system. The crash 5.2.0.2
would occur if the system was in one particular state when a message entered the system, and the
message contained multiple addresses that resolved to the same recipient at the end of the recipient
list. E.g. two distribution lists with the same recipients.
• The “dial automatically” flag in modem SMS gateway settings was cleared during startup if the 5.2.0.3
system did not have the GN ComText license. Introduced in 5.2.
• Removed output from SYS to AMMON that was used for debugging purposes. 5.2.0.4
• AMOS Mail could crash and restart occasionally on servers with lots on modems with heavy load 5.2.0.5
on them due to a weakness in the heap manager in Windows 2000 and older Windows versions.
• Crash analysises have revealed a possible buffer overrun and some uninitialized variables – all 5.2.0.6
fixed.
• Added buffer overrun detection mechanism to help investigate future overruns.
• AMOS Mail could occationally give a message “Buffer overrun detected” and then terminate. The 5.2.0.7
mechanism introduced in 5.2.0.6 have been enhanced so that a file called “winmss32dmp.log” will
be updated and AMOS Mail automatically restarted when this happens.
• A bug in the AMOS Connect Basic script caused that it was impossible to send any messages after
the upgrade for these customers.
• The postoffice name was not displayed in the application title bar when a read only PO was opened. 5.2.1
• Creating a new postoffice from the setup application could fail under some circumstances. This is
now fixed.
• Fixed some inconsistent behavior in the schedule management dialog.
• When trying to attach a file to a message that was open in another process the error message “OS
Error 0” was given. The error message is now understandable.
• Fixed bug in AMUtils – recreate indexes.
• Some bugs in “User Size Limits” fixed..
• Fixed a bug where, occasionally, all recipients could be removed from a message.
• A bug that limited the server name in the “Connect to existing post office” dialog to 15 characters
has been fixed.
• Several changes have been incorporated to improve the overall system stability.
• Fixed problem: “Amos-Mail TCP/IP can only trigger Dial-Up networking Manually” 5.2.1.1
Release Notes for AMOS Mail version 5.2

• AMDev.ini file updated with new devices.

• Fixed: Devices not always going from bold to normal when going inactive in the AM Monitor.
• Fixed: Amos-Mail TCP/IP can only trigger Dial-Up networking Manually 5.2.1.5
• If using message size limitations it was possible to get the following error message: "MESSAGE
SIZE EXCEEDED 0KB" and some of the combinations of System wide limit, PO limits and Alias
limits did not work – Fixed.
• Fixed some reported but rare crash scenarios.
• Fixed bug: After sending message to multiple recipients on the same PO using the modem protocol, 5.2.1.6
only the first recipient was removed from the outqueue. Thus, the next time the PO was called, the
message was resent to the next n-1 recipients, and so on…
• Fixed bug: Schedule for automatic dial-in is disabled after failed session 5.2.1.7
• Changed default tcp host to be tcp1.amosconnect.com
• Fixed problem with 32 byte activation key and adding modems during AMOS Connect Wizard.
• Fixed bug: File scan does not pick up open file and mark it as processed.