Here are some of the highlights of what has been added and improved since last year's 11.x release. You can read about the new features, changes, and fixes in their extensively detailed release notes for version 12 through 12.1 and beyond.

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SmarterMail 12.x

Improved Text Editor Throughout

A new text editor means that users have the tools they need to create richly formatted emails, without a lot of unnecessary code in the background. Cleaner code can help keep delivery, receipt and viewing of emails fast and efficient. Cleaner code also allows for greater flexibility when changing how a particular email looks as it’s easier for a Web designer to go into the code directly to make changes without relying solely on the design tools offered in the editor. In addition, the editor is now included when adding Notes and creating Tasks in SmarterMail, meaning that users can format key elements such as addresses, highlight important points, include links to Web pages or addresses, and more. Having a rich text editor available when creating Tasks and Notes increases the functionality and improves the overall experience when using these features.

Connect and Share Using Google Drive

SmarterMail’s File Storage makes it easy to share large files without having to worry about hitting any attachment limits or adding large files to your recipients’ inboxes. SmarterMail 12.x takes file storage to the next level with the ability to connect your SmarterMail account to your Google Drive account. With this connection, you’re then able to link to files either using SmarterMail’s built in file storage or to files you’ve stored in your Google Drive account. Even better — you don’t have to manage the permissions for your Google Drive files as SmarterMail will automatically modify the file share so that anyone with access to your linked file can easily open it, view it or work with it!

Greater Support for IPv6

While earlier versions of SmarterMail offered support for IPv6, SmarterMail 12.x increases the functionality available to System Administrators. For example, IPv6 is now supported in greylisting, IP whitelisting and blacklisting, SMTP authentication bypass, SPF checks and more. In addition, system admins can include IPv6 addresses when setting up abuse detection rules for things like DoS, bad SMTP harvesting and password brute force.

Increased Spam Management

Knowing when a mail server is listed by one of the realtime black lists (RBL) used by SmarterMail used to be a manual process. SmarterMail 12.x now includes an automatic RBL checker that lets you know if your server is actively blacklisted. System administrators can even set up system events that will immediately notify them if a server becomes listed by a RBL, which means that they can quickly act if a server does become listed.

Improved Migration

SmarterTools has always made it easy for end users and administrators to move mailboxes over to SmarterMail, regardless of whether they’re moving from a competing mail server or from any one of the most popular mail services. With SmarterMail 12.x, we’ve added some features to make it even easier. For example, it’s now possible to import users at the domain level, and automatically apply any domain defaults to them on import. In addition, system administrators can see any and all migrations that are occurring, in real time. Finally, it’s now possible to stop and restart migrations right from the migration wizard.

Large Number of Additional Improvements

With each successive major version of SmarterMail that is released, we do our best to include a large number of back-end improvements to help keep mail servers performing at their best. Many of these changes are in the back-end code, so they’re not easily seen by end users, much less by system administrators, except when they notice how much better SmarterMail runs. Some of the changes in SmarterMail 12.x include improved processing of HTML messages, leading to messages being processed much faster. There’s an improved code structure to speed up startup and reduce overall resource usage, and we’ve also improved remoting calls, leading to improved performance for webmail users.

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