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Upgrading fixed again

Ooops, we broke some of the upgrading code, so some users trying to upgrade would just get an error message. And just after we started a special pricing. Doh! It should be all

Rob Mueller
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Full/Enhanced special price now until end of May

Coinciding with the addition of unobtrusive advertising to the web interface for Guest users, we're offering a special to new users and existing users upgrading their accounts to Full/Enhanced for the remainding

Rob Mueller
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Unobtrusive advertising added to guest accounts

We are currently running a trial to investigate the effectiveness of some advertising on Guest accounts only. Paid subscribers will remain free of advertising. If this trial is successful, we hope to be

Richard Lovejoy
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New backscatter spam protection

Backscatter (bounces to emails you never sent) are an annoying problem due to spammers abusing the way internet email was originally designed. Unfortunately most backscatter was not correctly detected by the existing spam

Rob Mueller
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New “Test” option for Pop Links

When entering a new external Pop Link on the Options -> Pop Links screen, previously there was no way to actually test that the information was correct without explicitly going back to

Rob Mueller
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File storage increased to 1G for Enhanced users

For Enhanced users we've increased their file storage space from 250M to 1000M (1G), and the monthly bandwidth transfer quota for file storage from 750M to 1000M (1G). This will allow Enhanced users

Rob Mueller
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Increased domains and aliases for Full & Enhanced users

To reduce complexity, we've significantly streamlined our aliases/virtual domains system. Previously, the limits for Full and Enhanced users were: Full - 3 aliases (5+ chars) Enhanced - 5 aliases (5+ chars), 1

Rob Mueller
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Unnamed files no longer so

About 100 files managed to be created (I think mainly via FTP) with filenames that were invalid UTF8. This was across a bunch of users, and the symptom was that the filename was

Bron Gondwana
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SPF added to spam checking score

Spam checking for full/enhanced accounts via SpamAssassin has been updated to include SPF checks as an additional score. http://www.openspf.org/ We're currently using the default SpamAssassin scores for these checks:

Rob Mueller
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