• All new tabbed user interface for enhanced usability
• Capability to Import/Export user contact information
• Notes and Tasks are now available with the Web Client to be included with Calendar, Contacts and E-mail for synchronization with Outlook
• Meeting Requests are now available allowing the ability to create and accept using the new Web Client for synchronization with Outlook when IMail Collaboration is in place
• RSS Feed now available for user’s subscriptions
• Web Sites configurable by the IMail Administrators allowing easy online access for common web links
• New Report Spam feature (Premium Only)
• Sound and blinking tab notifications when new mail arrives (capability to customize on a per user level)
• Greatly enhanced iclient.config file allows IMail Administrators greater capability to customize the web client to their user’s needs
• Away message indicator above the navigator folders to remind user’s when enabled
• Tool tips show mail folders that have Auto responders enabled
• Expanded Contact Information (multiple addresses, websites, personal information, business information)
• Addresses contain link to google maps or the map engine specified by the user
• Customizable user option to set a default address book, and a default contact sort
• Users can now create multiple personal contact folders
• Photos are now supported and can now be added for contacts
• Customizable user option to set a default calendar
• Customizable user options to specify and display the beginning time and end time for the work day
• Customizable user option to set the default calendar display by day, week or month
• Users can now create multiple personal calendar folders
• Calendar display format is set to the 12 hour (am/pm) time
• Web Client user access is now being written to the API Logs
• Lite Web Client to support mobile devices for Email, Contacts, Calendaring, Tasks and Notes
• Easier branding for customizing and displaying company logos, colors, and text (View the all new branding whitepaper here.)
• Easier method to create custom language files for the new web client
• New Web Client Themes with the ability for customers to create their own themes
• Capability to disable the Web Client Forwarding of user’s email
• New user option to warn a user when sending a message without an attachment, when body of the letter uses the word attachment
• New user option to warn a user when sending a message without a subject
• Ability to have initial login open a specified folder (e.g. email folder, calendars, tasks, etc…)
• And much more…

For a complete list of new features and improvements for IMail Server v12 please read the full release notes online: IMail Server v12 Release Notes.

• Facebook in 2011
• Email-malware Levels Off
• Unregistered Domains
• Compromised Websites Hide Malware
• Zombie Hotspots

Other Q4 2011 Highlights:

• 101 Billion: Average daily spam/phishing emails sent
• 209,000 Zombies: Daily Turnover
• Streaming Media/Downloads: Most popular blog topic on user-generated content sites
• Pharmacy Ads: Most popular spam topic (31.2% of all spam)
• India: Country with the most zombies (23.5%)
• Parked Domains: Website category most likely to contain malware

Report Overview

The last months of 2011 saw an increase in free-merchandise scams on Facebook. This trend report includes a study of Facebook attacks in 2011 revealing that many rely solely on social engineering while most ultimately lead victims to fraudulent affiliate marketing/survey sites.

In the fourth quarter of 2011 email attached malware levels dropped significantly from the billions of messages observed in Q3. These were replaced with numerous outbreaks of emails with malicious links. Most of these links led to compromised websites that were used to host malware scripts. Spam levels increased marginally in December but remained at a three year low.

Download the complete “Internet Threats Trend Report, January 2012″ for FREE now….

Configuration methods for each mobile device can vary. To help you better understand what options are available to your organization, we have published a free whitepaper entitled “Mobile Device Configuration”. This guide will explain how the following list of devices connect with IMail Server:

• Windows Mobile
• iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
• Blackberry
• Android

To access this free whitepaper, simply click right here.

Get answers to these questions and many more in our latest YouTube video on IMail Anti-virus powered by Commtouch.

• IMail Collaboration Apps (32-bit) – this install includes the Ipswitch Instant Messaging Client and the IMail Collaboration Client (32-bit).
• IMail Collaboration Apps (64-bit) – this install includes the Ipswitch Instant Messaging Client and the IMail Collaboration Client (64-bit).

And for those of you who just need the Ipswitch Instant Messaging Client – you can download that here.

Stop by next week for additional previews of the new web client.

Come back next week for a preview of the mobile web client.

http://blog.commtouch.com/cafe/anti-spam/new-spammer-tactics/?1pmjul11

This change in spammer focus has several potential impacts for IMail customers:

• Mail servers will be seeing spam from places that might have previously been considered a trustworthy source. Thankfully, the Commtouch Anti-spam solution is there to handle these new threats so the overall impact for Commtouch protected servers should be quite low. 
• The change in spammer focus means that any publicly facing mail server is at greater risk for account compromisation. There are a number of things that a mail server administrator can do to help ensure IMail is immune to these kinds of attacks. Check out the following KB article for more information on this topic:  http://ipswitchmsg.force.com/kb/articles/FAQ/Best-practices-to-prevent-spam-relaying-1307739584502

1. Last Login Report – Allows an Administrator to run a report showing the last time a user logged in to IMAP, POP3, or Web Mail.
2. Collaboration Database Converter – Tool that assists an administrator in converting the collaboration database from Access to MS SQL.
3. Password Strength Checker – Allows an administrator to display a list of users for the server or by domain and returns whether or not the user listed meets the specified password strength requirements configured by the administrator.
4. Mailbox Reporter – Tool that allows an administrator to run a report listing the amount of space being used at each domain, user, and mailbox.

To download these new administrator utilities for free, simply jump over to the Utilities Page.