5.4 Build 449: Info on update released May 1, 2000

This AUP represents a major revision update. The new version number is v5.4. Build 449. A tremendous amount of work has been done especially with the WEB server. Many fixes, enhancements and new features are in this major revision update.

wcMail

NEW: Auto-responders and mailing lists can now use a full E-mail address. This allows for autoresponders, such as info@domain1.com and info@domain2.com to work correctly.

wcFile

FIX: Fixed bug with the proper order of WIZARD display pages. Auto command line operations are now fixed with WCF files.

wcRepair

NEW: Added new calibration logic to find the highest message ID in the message data bases. This will help corrects situations where some customers were having mail reading problems due to a non-calibrated or corrupted data\master.dat file.

wcOnline

FIX: Cleaned up some memory leaks that were introduced in 448.1.

wcServer

FIX: Fixed a security hole with certain url file names.
FIX: Fixed a long time "special circumstance" bug where if a SDK client created a "System.Control" channel notification handler, wcConfig would lock up. Veteran Platinum Xpress sysops will probably remember this problem with v2.0.
This is now fixed which means that SDK developers will not have a problem using "System.Control" notification channel handlers, and will be able to write new powerful "monitor" programs. The SDK example, wcSPY , will not lock up the system.
NEW: Added a server message database date validity check during mail creation.

Note: This should not take away the responsibility of 3rd party wcBasic or SDK programmers, who are creating messages with their program, of initializing the TMsgHeader message structure prior to calling AddMessage(). You should always initialize your data variables.
NEW: Server System Client USER PROFILE changes are updating/using any connected user client INI file. This will make user profile fields dynamically changed and reflected for all similar client connections.

Web Server

NEW: When changing to a new web page, the user browser will now require new login authentication when the password has changed.
FIX: Fixed WEB Server security bug where it was not checking for blank browser authentication passwords.
NEW: Web server will now detect broken browser connections!
FIX: No more memory leaks because of broken connections!
NEW: Massive Performance improvement when running WCX code.
NEW: You can now disconnect a web connection with wcNode!!!
NEW: You can now Add/Subtract Online Time to a web connection using wcView!
NEW: You can now change user security to a web connection using wcView!
FIX: Fixed some bugs with the new WEB MAIL Browser introduced in 448.4.
FIX: Fixed WEB Questionnaire update problem.

wcView

NEW: wcView can now be used to change the security profile of a connected user.
Previously, this was only allowed if and only if (iff) the user was allowed to change to a higher security.
NEW: Improved communications between host clients and wcView. Less communications bandwidth means less wcServer overhead.

wcSDK

NEW: New extended function to help change user passwords securely. (Detail)

wcBasic/Plus Pack

FIX: Added Ignore Time online logic for logging in MAIN.WCC
NEW: Added Activity Logging of new mail created via web.
FIX: Fixed random bad message date due to not initializing the message header.
NEW: Cleaned up all the source code so that it has Santronics Copyright information. 3rd party wcBasic developers with the PLUS PACK must retain all copyright information for customized or modified Santronics developed wcBasic source code.
NEW: Changed the FormatNumber function so that it uses a 64 bit integer for formatting purposes. The reason is that some DWORD numbers (which are only 32 bit) will go negative if DWORD exceeds MAXDWORD (about 4 gigs). This should cause no harm since it is only for formatting (displaying numbers on the screen).
NEW: Added template variable to html-mailform.wcc. (Detail)
NEW: Two new functions for Base64 Encoding and Decoding. (Detail)

Activity Logs

FIX: Corrected the activity log initial stamping with the "on at" information. It should have been "on "+device+" at ".

wcFirst

FIX: F1 Help (and HELP button) now works to display wcfirst.hlp

wcCore

FIX: Fixed bug where random user profile files were created. (Detail)

wcConfig

FIX: Fixed a small bug where running external modules failed, thus failing wcConfig in subsequent internal configurations. This was because wcConfig was logging off prematurely.
FIX: Fixed SMTP Allow Relay IP list edit problem.

Finger Service

NEW: Enhanced the finger service so that the system can send host generic information to any finger client. (Detail)