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activMail What's New

Build 2.1.0.40 10/20/04

Build 2.1.0.37 9/28/04

Added support for tokens in cf_mailheader value attribute
Fixed syncronization bug for the queuelimit attribute - The queuelimit attribute throttles ActivMail to the speed of available mail servers

Build 2.1.0.2 5/20/04

2.1.0 Release (5/17/04 build 2.1.0.0)

FAILTO attribute - allows you to specify a email address that will be used as the Return Path for bounces.
Character Set control - using the new TEXTCHARACTERSET, and HTMLCHARACTERSET you can now specify the characterset used for each message part.
Text Encoding control - the new TEXTENCODING, and HTMLENCODING allow you to specify the encoding to be used for the respective message parts.
Added support for authentication on mail servers that require a EHLO command in order to use authentication.
Added line number debugging support to jar file.
New ActivMail Lite version

2.0.0 Release

Unlimited Attachments - Now you can send mail with attachments, and highly customize how they are encoded.
Custom Headers - add custom headers to email sent with ActivMail
SMTP Authentication - Support for SMTP AUTH LOGIN, authenticate to your SMTP server with a username and password
Multiple Server Ports - specify a different port for each server in your server list
Embed Images in HTML Email - send images in your HTML email
Send multiple alternative parts - send messages alternative message parts, such as text/x-aol (HTML for AOL 6.0 and below)
Flexible encoding, and character sets - you can pick how you want your message encoded
Attachments can use tokens - quoted-printable or 7bit encoded attachments can use tokens
CF_MailAttachment tag - makes it easy to send attachments
CF_MailHeader tag - makes it easy to use custom headers
CF_MailParam tag - makes it easy to migrate existing CFMAIL code
Fixed FROM exception TTL - exceptions thrown in the MAIL FROM SMTP state no longer enable TTL sending

Build 25 (2.0.0.25) 3/6/2003

Fixes java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBounds exception that can occur with double byte characters encoded with quoted printable. See: Using Double Byte Characters with ActivMail

1.3.0 Release

SMTP Server Load Balancing - you can now specify multiple SMTP servers to distribute the load across several SMTP servers. Provides a huge performance increase.
Queries - now you can use ColdFusion queries to specify distribution list, and from address
Tokens - use tokens to personalize messages, and subject lines using columns from a query.
CF_MAIL wrapper tag - a CF Custom tag that acts very similar to the built in CFMAIL, eases the transition to ActivMail from existing applications.
Improved Memory Management
Queue Capping - to save server memory the message queue can be capped off until messages are sent.
Verify SMTP Server Connection - will throw an error if it can't connect to SMTP server.
Improved message fail over logic
Performance Optimizations
Additional Exception Logging

Build 239 (1.3.0.239) - 10/07/2002

Increased Performance with multiple servers - when one server in the list of servers is down, it can slow down ActivMail's queuing, it now tries to reconnect to the server less often.
Added Diagnostics - you can return diagnostics about the JVM and mail queue. Use the GETSTATUS attribute.
Thread Life - added a thread life attribute to reduce the need to keep creating new threads every time CFX_ActivMail is invoked.
Added Sleep Attribute - the sleep attribute can be used to slow down the message sending rate, some of our customers requested this.

Build 241 (1.3.0.241) - 10/23/2002

Added workaround for a bug in ColdFusion MX - added a workaround for a ColdFusion MX bug in com.allaire.cfx.Query.getColumnIndex, the CFMX bug prevented query mode from being used with a static from address. The bug has been reported to Macromedia. More info about the MX bug can be found here.
Added documentation - for upgrading CFX_ActivMail from a previous version, added to install.html.