Mailfence Release Notes October 2024

We’re happy to present the Mailfence Release Notes for October 2024 with several improvements and fixes.

Release Notes: New Features

• To address the common problem among users of any calendaring software about scheduling shared events or meetings between people, we now support a standard method to schedule these events using the specifications for iTIP and iMIP.
• Users can now deactivate and reactivate email aliases, providing more flexibility in alias management (deleting aliases remains impossible to prevent address recycling).
• Multiple email attachments can now be downloaded simultaneously as a single .zip file.
• Mobile app:
  • Documents: you can now upload, download, share, comment on, tag, and manage documents. Additionally, text files can be created or modified.
  • Contacts: you can now create, edit, manage, tag and comment both private and shared contacts.

Improvements

• Messages
  • Filters: Addressed an error in the “Recipients” rule condition “Does not contain”.
  • Improved compatibility with various file formats for attachments uploads.
  • Fixed an exception triggered by password encrypted message with calendar event attachment.
  • IMAP: Fixed an issue with the MOVE action in READ-WRITE mode.
• Calendar
  • iTIP/iMIP
    • Improved processing for meeting replies from Outlook and Gmail services.
    • Corrected the addition of attendee replies.
    • Improved synchronization of updates regarding attendee status.
    • Resolved an issue where meeting cancellations were not processed correctly.
    • Fixed a reply issue for short domain (mf.me) aliases.
    • Handling of meeting cancel request is improved.
    • Meeting invitations can now be accepted or declined from shared account mailbox.
  • Fixed duplicate birthday entry during contact creation.
  • Adjustment to avoid unnecessary event update email notification for deleted attendee.
• Contacts: Fixed inconsistencies in contact picture orientation.
• General
  • OpenPGP: Corrected display of revocation certificate generation prompt when a keypair is generated during the message-sending step.
  • E-mail domains: Improved flexibility by allowing users to unset catch-all address.
  • Administration: Resolved a bug affecting account removal when primary address was renamed.
  • Fixed a display issue showing blank pages for shared mailbox account quotas.
  • Enhanced user experience for contact imports.
  • Improved the display and management of sender addresses in the “Personal Data” section.
  • Enhanced search functionalities for better accuracy and speed.
  • Added support for navigating document previews with right and left arrows.
  • Improved currency symbol representation.
  • Improved the OpenPGP key management user experience.

Mobile app

Regarding the Mobile app, the Mailfence Release Notes for October 2024 includes the following bug fixes and improvements:

• Messages
  • A new “comment” icon has been added to message lists for easy interaction.
  • Enhanced display for text-heavy emails, preventing zoomed-out views.
  • Bug fix ensuring proper loading of remote images in emails.
  • New sounds added to notification alerts on iOS devices.
  • Corrected viewport height for emails containing copy-pasted images to improve readability.
  • Contacts in composition are now sorted by frequency of use, making email composition faster.
  • Fixed an issue with embedded images in signed emails to ensure they upload properly.
  • Improved rendering of blockquoted text, ensuring better spacing around message content.
  • Added support for loading remote images from the “background” and “srcset” attributes.
  • Improved rendering of subjects containing emojis for a more consistent experience.
  • Increased default font size for plain text emails, enhancing readability.
  • Mailbox quotas for shared mailboxes are now available.
  • Options to mark emails as spam or not spam are now added for better inbox organization.
  • Resolved an issue with signatures not appearing in blank messages.
  • Revised actions and components in message details for sender and recipient email addresses.
  • Enhanced message rendering across platforms and implemented various minor improvements and bug fixes.
• Documents:
  • Easily copy URLs of public documents directly to your clipboard for seamless sharing.

• Contacts
  • Manage mailing lists easily within the mobile app.
• General
  • Attachments/Documents
    • Added support for “.pkpass” files, including integration with Apple Wallet.
    • Expanded support for MS Office document previews to cover more file types.
  • Added a new setting to enable clearing of local file cache.
  • Android-specific fixes
    • Updated Android libraries, resolving over 90% of reported crashes in the Play Store.
    • Fixed an issue with keyboard focus during message composition.
  • Properly restricted landscape orientation for phone users to maintain a consistent user experience.
  • General UI/UX improvements for a smoother Mailfence experience.

Extra comments regarding Mailfence Release Notes October 2024

• For anti-abuse reasons, customer administrators are no longer permitted to reactivate accounts that have been disabled by our anti-abuse team. If reactivation is necessary, please contact support for assistance.
• As part of our commitment to improved email compliance and standards (SPF, DKIM, and DMARC), sending emails from an account’s reset/notification address (based on an external provider) is no longer possible. If you own the corresponding domain, please add it to your account to enable sending from that address.

Version

• Backend release 5.0.004c
• Frontend release 2.8.026
• Mobile App release 1.5.0

Check our previous Mailfence Release Notes and feel free to report any found bugs/queries/suggestions, related to our Mailfence Release Notes October 2024 to support[at]mailfence[dot]com.