• Includes Danish translation
• Now uses latest version of ZLib compression library; should fix problem where some anti-spyware tools were wrongly deleting SpamPal's zlib.dll.
• Multiple 'Country' blacklists weren't working together since the blacklists listing update last month; fixed.
• SMTP: EHLO response sent all in one packet (previous method could sometimes confuse OE).

• Fixed two further bugs in handling of public blacklist queries, which had led to more spam getting through in v1.588.
• SpamPal could crash during filtering if a plugin had failed to load; fixed.
• Includes updated French translation.

• Ignorelists of providers were often not getting honoured; fixed.
• Now includes Stark Wong's Traditional Chinese translation - AT LAST!

• Owing to popular request, I've removed the "an email message which should have been no more than XXX bytes has size YYY bytes" error message.
• Fixed a couple of incorrect menu items in the Russian translation (thanks svy!)
• Tweaked the update-checking code to hopefully eliminate an obscure bug that could cause SpamPal to incorrectly advise the user to install every plugin available.

• Fixed bug that was still causing plugins to complain incorrectly that you were using an old version of SpamPal.

• Fixed issue that had suddenly started causing crashes, usually at the "Filtering message headers" stage - this may have been exacerbated by Windows XP Service Pack 2.
• The installer had somehow become broken, and wasn't creating the shortcut in the Startup group correctly, which meant SpamPal wasn't automatically running at startup - fixed.
• Hopefully fixed bug that caused plugins to claim that they needed a "later" version of SpamPal when it was already installed.
• IMAP4: No longer displays "Mailbox does not exist" error in pop-up dialog
• IMAP4: A bug in Microsoft Exchange's implementation of IMAP4 causes messages to be corrupted after they're rewritten by SpamPal if they use anything other than a tab as a line continuation character in the headers. SpamPal should now detect Microsoft Exchange and turn all line continuation characters into tabs if it's rewriting a message, to get around this bug in some cases.
• Tweaked some of the default settings to hopefully improve performance for new installs.

Again, just minor tweaks and bugfixes, as trialled in the last 6 months of beta-releases.

• Now includes Keith Every's setup wizard
• No longer incorrectly reports "SPAMCOP DNSBL not found" error when first installed.
• POP3:
  • Could merge first line of message body with message headers if TOP n 0 command didn't include a blank line to terminate the headers; fixed.
• IMAP4:
  • No longer sends more than 10 FETCH responses to client in one go - seems to stop Outlook crashing.
  • Could give silly warning message with 0-byte literals; fixed.
  • Was doing too many commands after entering a folder for the first time - fixed.
  • Now supports IDLE command (although doesn't announce this in CAPABILITY response) - necessary because some clients (Mozilla?) are using the IDLE command even though SpamPal doesn't report it as supported; this was causing "BAD fetch response" errors.
  • Fixed error that was causing crashes when using IMAP4
  • "Can't append to folder" error was displaying folder name instead of error message; fixed.
  • Could crash when faced with an entirely empty message body; fixed.
  • Could crash when re-loading modified configuration during IMAP4 session; fixed.
• SMTP:
  • Could crash during processing of SMTP EHLO if a network error occurred before the response was received; fixed.
• Filtering:
  • Wasn't filtering correctly on Return-Path: headers - fixed.
  • Fixed bug in handling of email addresses containing high-bit characters that caused crashes when Windows is configured to certain Far East locales.
  • Fixed possible bug in matching of wildcarded email address patterns
• Networking:
  • (Hopefully) now won't report "error 0" back to client for some connection errors.
  • No longer crashes while expiring v.long pending entries from auto-whitelist records
  • Worked around a bug in Windows 2000 (and others) that can cause spurious "No buffer space available (system resources low)" errors.
  • Now retries if it encounters a spurious WSAEWOULDBLOCK, which should work around another bug in Winsock
• User Interface:
  • Now reports "spampal is already running" message correctly.
  • "Add to whitelist" dialog can now extract an email address from within angled brackets - so if you copy-and-paste an entire From: line into it, it'll whitelist the email address.
  • Add to Whitelist dialog can now extract an email address from square brackets [ ] as well as angled brackets < >
  • "Add to whitelist" dialog could not add netblocks to ignorelist if they had a comment - fixed.
  • Keyboard shortcuts RETURN/ENTER and ESCAPE should now work in the "are you sure you want to exit SpamPal?" message
  • Wasn't creating wlist_email.dat and blist_ip.dat when installed, so displayed an error if you tried to use the "add to whitelist" dialog without ever having opened the options window and clicked OK. Fixed.
  • Fixed bug in how SpamPal & plugin version numbers are parsed in locales where a period is not a decimal separator. (Should fix issue with inaccurate "this plugin needs a more recent version of SpamPal" and "you need to install this update" messages.)
  • Default action for clicking on the tray icon is now to open the status window rather than do nothing
  • Includes some corrections to the German language file.
• General:
  • Date & time in logfile and SMTP Received: header now calculated using Win32 rather than ANSI C functions; previous code wasn't working for Australians (and possibly other localities).
  • Some plugins weren't getting unloaded as they should; fixed.
  • No longer unloads HtmlModify plugin during shutdown (as unloading HtmlModify can cause a severe delay under some circumstances, because it's linked with wininet.dll)
  • Now uses scanf rather than atof to read in status window bar positions - should hopefully fix problem with parts of the status window not appearing in locales that use a comma as a decimal separator.
  • Now outputs correct error dialog if it crashes during a DNSBL query thread.
• Plugin API:
  Fixed bug in POP3 code that could result in message bodies being lost if client did TOP/RETR and a plugin returned a non-zero value from minBodyBytesRequired at FILTERING_STAGE_START.

No major enhancements but a lot of tweaks and bugfixes. For a full list see all the changes in beta-versions since v1.50 on the history page, but here's the most important ones:

• Status window now shows average response time for each blacklist.
• Blacklist and whitelist fields now include a context-sensitive menu allowing you to cut, copy and paste without having to remember the hotkeys.
• Sessions should time out after a while if they appear inactive.
• IMAP4 users can choose to filter only mail in Inbox (or another folder of their choice).
• Should block most SMTP relay exploits.
• The logfile is now trimmed to a user-specified size.
• No longer keeps showing the "DNSBL cache file is corrupt" error.
• In the unlikely event that SpamPal does crash, it now gives more useful error messages.
• And lots more....

• Supports IMAP4 and SMTP connections
• Redesigned Options window
• More efficient DNSBL querying
• Now includes RegExFilter and UrlBody plugins
• Plus all the other enhancements that have been trialled in the last six months of beta releases.
• Too many more changes to list here - see this page for more details!

Click here for full history!