CodeTwo Exchange Rules 2010
Email signature manager for
Exchange Server 2010, Outlook & mobiles
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Date Published: 31 Jan 2022
Latest Version: 3.16.0.0
Size: 63.1 MB
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Supported platforms
Administration Panel:
Windows Server 2022 / 2019(1) / 2016(2) / 2012 R2 / 2012 / 2008 R2 SP1
Small Business Server 2011
Windows 11 / 10(3) / 8.1 / 8 / 7 SP1
Support only for 64-bit versions
Exchange Rules Service:
Exchange Server 2010 - with Hub Transport role installed
(1) The Administration Panel cannot be installed on a server machine running Exchange 2010. You need to install it on a client machine to manage email rules and program’s settings in these versions of Exchange Server.
(2) If you can't find the program after the installation, consult this KB article.
(3) If the Administration Panel doesn't work after upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or 8.1, you need to reinstall the application.
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Version history
| Version | 3.16.0.0 |
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| Date: | 31 Jan 2022 |
| New: | New simplified version of the HTML template editor, designed for intuitive use. The simplified editor experience is available:
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| New: | Upon opening the template library, the user is now asked to allow the program to download predefined templates from an external (CodeTwo) resource. |
| Fixed: | Fixed various image-related problems that might have occurred with templates:
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| Version | 3.15.0.0 |
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| Date: | 09 Jun 2021 |
| New: | New HTML signature template editor, designed to make composing signatures much easier, faster and more intuitive. |
| New: | New signature template library. It contains many predefined signature templates that can be quickly customized before loading them into the editor for further processing. |
| New: | Conditional placeholders added to the signature template editor. This feature lets you create custom placeholders that can contain multiple values. Which value replaces a conditional placeholder in a signature depends on a set of user-defined conditions that are checked as the signature is added to an email. Conditional placeholders can be used e.g. to add a generic phone number to an email signature if a sender has no phone number specified in AD, or to insert different marketing banners for selected users only. |
| New: | CodeTwo Exchange Rules Converter, a stand-alone application that lets you automatically transfer your email signatures, signature adding rules and custom placeholders to the cloud signature product - CodeTwo Email Signatures for Office 365. |
| New: | The program can now process messages that contain the CalendarPart property. |
| New: | During the installation of the program on Exchange Server 2010, the user is informed about the requirement to install the Administration Panel on a client machine. |
| Fixed: | After reaching their recipients, encrypted or digitally signed emails to which the program applied a signature did not contain all the original email addresses specified in the To / CC fields. |
| Fixed: | The Sent Items Update service could not find emails in the Sent Items folder if they were sent from Apple Mail installed on Mac computers. |
| Fixed: | After importing rules and setting from another CodeTwo product, some entries generated in a log file would be incorrectly marked as errors. |
| Version | 3.13.0.0 |
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| Date: | 29 Jan 2020 |
| New: | Improvements to the QR Code image insertion mechanism. QR Codes can now also contain more characters. |
| New: | The names of CodeTwo Exchange Rules services have been revised to avoid ambiguity. |
| New: | Optimized handling of HTML email signatures. |
| Fixed: | Inserting side banners or a header section to HTML emails that were missing the <body> tags would delete the contents of those emails. |
| Fixed: | After selecting to remove previous occurrences of an email signature from a conversation thread, the program would also remove email reply separators if that signature ended with empty HTML paragraphs. |
| Fixed: | On rare occasions, the Sent Items Update (SIU) service would fail to connect to certain Exchange environments via Exchange Web Services. |
| Fixed: | Minor bug fixes. |
| Version | 3.12.0.0 |
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| Date: | 24 Jan 2019 |
| Fixed: | Minor bug fixes. |
| Version | 3.11.2.0 |
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| Date: | 22 Oct 2018 |
| New: | Support for the Transport Layer Security 1.2 (TLS 1.2) protocol. |
| Version | 3.11.1.0 |
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| Date: | 10 Sep 2018 |
| Fixed: | Minor UI improvements. |
| Version | 3.11.0.0 |
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| Date: | 23 May 2018 |
| New: | A new functionality in the Editor: Insert HTML snippet. It makes it easy to add one-click surveys (customer satisfaction surveys) to email signatures. |
| New: | Enhancements in the Insert hyperlink option: automatic adding of Google, Matomo and Woopra campaign tracking parameters to hyperlinks. |
| Changed: | Minor signature rule improvements and optimizations. |
| Changed: | The Administration Panel is no longer supported on 32-bit machines. You can install it on 64-bit machines only. |
| Fixed: | On rare occasions, the Sent Items Update (SIU) service did not update certain messages. |
| Version | 3.10.2.103 |
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| Date: | 20 Nov 2017 |
| New: | The Restore images removed by iPhone and iPad action. It restores images that were automatically removed from an email when responding from iPhone or iPad devices. |
| New: | The Reply all option was added to the Rules Tester. |
| Fixed: | It was not possible to download large log files via the Administration Panel. |
| Fixed: | The color picker (available in the Editor or when assigning colors to rule categories) did not store defined custom colors. |
| Fixed: | On some occasions, e.g. when opening an email with a non-standard encoding, the RTF source code of the message was displayed when an RTF signature was added. |
| Fixed: | On some occasions, the Message type and Secure message type conditions did not work properly. |
| Fixed: | Occasional delays in sending notifications when the trial version expired or the number of licenses was exceeded. |
| Fixed: | If the keyboard shortcut Alt + S was used, the program submitted all the changes. |
| Fixed: | Minor UI improvements. |
| Version | 3.9.2.3 |
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| Date: | 27 Feb 2017 |
| Fixed: | Improved HTML parsing of message body. |
| Fixed: | Improved AD hierarchy checking mechanizm. |
| Fixed: | Optimization of the number of log file entries. |
| Version | 3.9.0.143 |
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| Date: | 28 Nov 2016 |
| Fixed: | Optimized processing of emails with message splitting enabled. |
| Fixed: | The “Matches AD group” condition did not work correctly when configured using a group alias. |
| Fixed: | Emails with a corrupted HTML source were getting their body removed when processed by the software. |
| Fixed: | Code optimization and minor UI changes. |
| Version | 3.8.0.418 |
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| Date: | 02 Nov 2016 |
| Fixed: | Under certain conditions the rules scheduler worked improperly when weekly recurrence was configured. |
| Fixed: | The footer positioning algorithm has been optimized. |
| Fixed: | Users with limited permissions to Active Directory were not able to access some features of the software when access rights were customized. |
| Changed: | Updated EULA. |
| Version | 3.7.2.32 |
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| Date: | 19 Sep 2016 |
| Fixed: | When updating the software installation where only services were present (no Administration Panel), old settings were not properly converted and the updated version run without executing any previously configured rules. |
| Fixed: | In some scenarios Licensing module displayed wrong number of days left in Trial. Only Server Monitor displayed those correctly. |
| Fixed: | Signatures added to some emails without body (e.g. sent from network-enabled scanners) contained question marks instead of special or national characters. |
| Fixed: | In some emails without body (e.g. sent from network-enabled scanners) attachments list was duplicated after processing by the software. |
| Version | 3.7.1.3 |
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| Date: | 30 Aug 2016 |
| Fixed: | Some non-standard emails (e.g. sent from some network scanners) were unexpectedly stripped of attachments when processed by the program. |
| Version | 3.7.0.347 |
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| Date | 28 Jul 2016 |
| New: | A Sender/Recipient matches AD group condition has been added. The condition works with emails sent to or from a given AD group address, and it doesn’t work with emails sent to or from members of this group. |
| New: | Hints on email rule configuration and mail signature editing features have been added. |
| Fixed: | In specific and very large server environments with heavy email traffic some emails did not get an auto-signature due to email processing time outs. |
| Fixed: | Some email signature images displayed as attachments in some email clients, e.g. on iPhone or Thunderbird. |
| Fixed: | If the Scheduler in the Time range feature was set to a weekly or monthly recurrence pattern, and the rule activity time included midnight, the Scheduler did not activate the rules it was associated with. |
| Fixed: | It was impossible to create a new condition within an existing group of conditions in the Conditions/Exceptions tab. |
| Fixed: | Some keywords defined in the Conditions/Exceptions tab were not removed if they were between some special characters. |
| Fixed: | Some non-standard emails (e.g. sent from some network scanners) were not recognized by the program, and thereby auto-signatures were not appended. |
| Fixed: | Minor bug fixes and code optimization. |
| Version | 3.6.0.1218 |
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| Date | 17 May 2016 |
| New: | Access Rights feature has been rebuilt – it is now role based and allows the administrator to restrict access to Server Monitor, log files, program settings, individual tabs per rule, etc. |
| New: | Saving a currently designed signature to the Template Library is now possible from within the Signature editor. |
| New: | Rules edition auditing feature has been added. It is now possible to track who created and/or modified a rule, and when it happened. |
| New: | Search field has been added to the list of rules. |
| New: | Drag & drop and multi-selection actions are now possible on the list of rules. |
| New: | Rules can now be categorized using colors. |
| Changed: | Option "Create copy of the original message when updating Sent Items" is now switched off by default. |
| Fixed: | Local administrator rights are no longer required to run the Administration Panel. |
| Fixed: | Changes in the body of a new message which wraps secure and digitally signed emails could not be saved. |
| Fixed: | Minor bug fixes and code optimization. |
| Version | 3.5.0.728 |
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| Date | 02 Nov 2015 |
| New: | Rules tester: It is now possible to test changes applied to rules without having to submit changes to Exchange Rules services. |
| New: | Placeholders {Message date} and {Current date/time} can be now customized to convert timestamps to a desired time zone. |
| New: | It is now possible to copy/move templates between the Template Library folders. |
| New: | Improved processing trace option in the Rules tester. |
| New: | Rules tester UI has been refurbished. |
| New: | The editor now supports adding placeholders within the |
| Fixed: | Keyword and signature removal mechanism did not work properly on certain occasions. |
| Fixed: | Collect all log files option did not work properly in specific environments. |
| Fixed: | Messages were improperly processed if the sender happened to be an Active Directory contact and at the same time, a member of an AD Group defined in the rules conditions. |
| Fixed: | Images pulled from network shares could not be added to signatures. |
| Fixed: | {QRCode} feature missed some placeholders. |
| Fixed: | Saving placeholders configuration in Template Library did not work properly. |
| Version | 3.4.0.130 |
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| Date | 30 Jun 2015 |
| New: | Now the product is fully compatible with Exchange hybrid environments (Exchange on-prem with Exchange online), which use a centralized mail transport configuration. |
| Version | 3.3.0.529 |
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| Date | 28 May 2015 |
| New: | Completely new HTML editor. |
| New: | Social media icons tool added to the new HTML editor. |
| New: | Configuration files are no longer overwritten when the program is updated. |
| New: | It is now possible to define email sender’s address for critical email notifications sent from the program. |
| New: | It is now possible to use additional Active Directory attributes in Conditions and Exceptions. |
| New: | Optimization: faster processing of split messages, improved signature positioning mechanism, improved Active Directory communication, maxconnections and timeout parameters optimization. |
| Fixed: | Improved connection mechanism between the Administration Panel and Exchange Rules services. Cache for last connection parameters. |
| Fixed: | The program did not process empty values in “matches AD Filter” operators in Conditions and Exceptions. |
| Fixed: | On rare occasions, the pictures included in a message body were shown in incorrect order. |
| Fixed: | Links generated by the Web page as link placeholder were incorrectly displayed in OWA. |
| Fixed: | Backslash symbols were removed by the program from RTF messages. |
| Fixed: | On rare occasions, signatures were not stamped to RTF messages. |
| Fixed: | Emails containing wrapped secure (encrypted or digitally signed) messages did not display all recipients in To: and Cc: fields. |
| Version | 3.2.1 |
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| Date | 04 Mar 2015 |
| New: | The program supports processing encrypted and digitally signed messages. |
| New: | The {Photo} placeholder has new properties that allow adjusting dimensions of photos pulled from Active Directory. Thanks to this feature, photos in messages are displayed in defined dimensions after being processed by the program. |
| New: | Sent Items Update service has been redesigned. The service was optimized and can now be configured using a dedicated wizard. |
| New: | The program enables editing keywords entered in the Subject/Body conditions/exceptions. |
| New: | The program sends notifications to chosen users if the number of licenses is approaching the available pool. |
| Fixed: | In specific multi-server environments (Hub Transport, Mailbox and CAS roles installed on separate servers), Sent Items Update service did not update messages in Sent Items folders of mailboxes. |
| Fixed: | After setting the condition to Sender belongs to AD group, messages sent by users on behalf of the distribution group were incorrectly processed by the program. |
| Fixed: | In some cases, the program incorrectly displayed images included in new templates using Template Library. |
| Fixed: | In some situations the program did not process rules for users disabled in Active Directory. |
| Fixed: | In some cases keywords entered with special characters were treated by the program as regular expressions what excluded rules from processing. Currently, the program treats these characters as a part of keywords and processes them as such. |
| Fixed: | {Email as link} and {Webpage as link} placeholders were incorrectly converted while importing settings from the previous version of the program. |
| Fixed: | Rules for distribution groups exceeding 1500 members were incorrectly processed. |
| Version | 3.1.0 |
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| Date | 23 Oct 2014 |
| New: | Full support for multi-server environments and improvements in terms of the program’s stability and performance. |
| New: | New architecture of the program: Service is installed directly on Exchange server machine, and the Administration Panel is installed on any machine even outside the domain. Additionally, Access Rights configurator along the Logon settings feature enables assignment of access rights to users managing different instances of the Administration Panel. |
| New: | Implemented the mechanism responsible for a real-time automatic replication of settings between the program's services / components. |
| New: | Implemented the Server Monitor feature that lets you control the whole server farm in terms of the program’s services (Service and Sent Items Update), the performance of rules' processing mechanism and the license count. |
| New: | The program supports Exchange aliases in Sender and Recipient conditions. |
| New: | User Interface of the Administration Panel has been redesigned. |
| New: | Scope of recipients / Scope of senders / Triggering and suppressing options have been moved and can now be set in a separate Conditions / Exceptions tabs within the Administration Panel. The program also enables grouping and nesting the selected Conditions / Exceptions for defining more complex rule’s conditions. |
| New: | New condition available: Message type. It enables defining the type of emails for which the rule will be triggered. |
| New: | Creation of Signatures / disclaimers has been moved to a separate Actions tab in the Administration panel. |
| New: | For better comfort of use, the Insert disclaimer / signature action has been divided into two separate actions: Insert disclaimer and Insert signature. |
| New: | New action available: Apply full message composition. It enables designing complex message layouts. |
| New: | New approach to designing signatures / disclaimers via the enhanced Editor. Additionally, it is now possible to manually insert placeholders into templates within the Editor. |
| New: | Defining a place where the signatures / disclaimers will be inserted into messages has been moved and can now be set directly within the Editor in the layouts’ additional options. |
| New: | Managing already existing signatures / disclaimers in the processed messages has been moved and is now available directly within the Editor in the layouts’ additional options. |
| New: | Options to Schedule rules and process subsequent rules have been moved and can now be defined in a separate Options tab within the Administration Panel. |
| New: | It is now possible to create custom placeholders directly within the program’s Settings. |
| New: | Settings Importer tool has been redesigned and now enables converting settings from the previous versions of CodeTwo Exchange Rules family. |
| New: | Template Library has been redesigned. |
| New: | Rules Tester has been redesigned. |
| Fixed: | The checkbox in the Email addresses editor for Sender / Recipient conditions works in the opposite way and now is used to initiate the process of matching original message Sender / Recipient email addresses with their corresponding aliases found in AD while processing messages. |
| Version | 2.4.5 |
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| Date | 27 Feb 2014 |
| New: | Support for messages sent via OWA on Internet Explorer 11. |
| Fixed: | Improved positioning mechanism for signatures added to the replied and forwarded messages. |
| Fixed: | The ”Bottom Signature - Logo” template has been removed from the Library as it generated errors in the Event Viewer. |
| Version | 2.4.4 |
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| Date | 25 Sep 2013 |
| New: | Mechanism that enables defining the depth of users’ search in the nested AD groups. |
| New: | Mechanism that enables defining the maximum time of message processing after which the message will be sent without applying any action. |
| Fixed: | Styles set in footers containing double quotation mark (e.g. font applied to the whole footer) were incorrectly applied. |
| Fixed: | Setting AD Group Condition in a rule was not visible in the log files. |
| Fixed: | Improvement of applying footers directly below the latest response. |
| Version | 2.4.0 |
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| Date | 18 Jun 2013 |
| New: | Support for Exchange 2010 SP3 Rollup 1. |
| Version | 2.3.0 |
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| Date | 24 May 2013 |
| Fixed: | Editor: Copy/cut/paste options did not work for the selected text |
| Fixed: | Fixes in the image conversion mechanism between HTML and RTF formats. |
| Fixed: | Update of disclaimers/signatures in messages not containing TNEF part in the Sent Items folder. |
| Version | 2.2.0 |
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| Date | 5 Apr 2013 |
| New: | The program detects how many times the same e-mails are being processed by the Hub Transport Server (the same one or other member server with the Hub Transport role installed). If the messages are processed more than once by the server, the program will process those messages only once. |
| New: | Options to adjust timeouts of CodeTwo Exchange Rules Settings Server service and to disable restarts of this service. |
| Fixed: | The CodeTwo Settings Server service was being restarted in the desktop version. |
| New: | Improved positioning mechanism for signatures placed directly under the response (including MSHTML10). |
| New: | Improved agent resilience against the HTML code errors in signatures. |
| Version | 2.1.1 |
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| Date | 18 Dec 2012 |
| New: | Support for messages sent from MS Outlook 2013. |
| Fixed: | Error ‘Failed to execute action 'Insert disclaimer/signature'. Error: Workspace 'MSHTML10' not found in file C:\Program Files\CodeTwo\CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro\Data\PosFinder.dat.’ |
| Fixed: | Error related to ER.Shared.Common library. |
| Fixed: | The sent date of the message reflects the LocalTime. |
| Version | 2.1.0 |
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| Date | 28 Nov 2012 |
| Fixed: | New component to process RTF emails to enhance the performance of the program. |
| Fixed: | The recipients listed in BCC field were not displayed in the Sent Items folder after the Sent Items Update changed the message. |
| Version | 2.0.1 |
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| Date | 12 Oct 2012 |
| New: | Notifications for the administrator on critical events related to the program. |
| Fixed: | The forcing of messages did not work correctly if multiple force phrases were used. |
| Version | 2.0.0 |
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| Date | 25 Jun 2012 |
| New: | Remote access to the Administration console from another machine. |
| New: | Replication of settings to remote servers. |
| New: | Import/export rules tool. |
| New: | Inserting signatures and disclaimers as headers (not only footers). |
| New: | Separate templates for RTF-formatted messages. |
| New: | User-controlled signatures: triggering and suppressing phrases. |
| New: | Rules tester. |
| New: | Rules scheduler. |
| New: | Photo placeholder that pulls users' images from Active Directory. |
| New: | QR placeholder that stamps QR codes to email signatures. |
| New: | Signature and image library. |
| New: | Installing and uninstalling of the program Transport Agent from the Administration console. |
| New: | Brand new user's interface and HTML editor. |
| Version | 1.1.11 |
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| Date | 17 Dec 2010 |
| Fixed: | The application did not find the correct path to log files if MSExchange Transport service worked under the Local System account. |
| Version | 1.1.10 |
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| Date | 17 Sep 2010 |
| Fixed: | The application may not have added the signature below the most recent reply if the messages was sent from Outlook 2010. |
| Fixed: | Improved mechanism of communication between Transport Agent and SentItemsUpdate. |
| Version | 1.1.8 |
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| Date | 26 Jul 2010 |
| New: | It is possible to add the EWS address manually in the configuration file in 'EWSUrl' key. |
| Fixed: | Power Shell script used for manual installation of CodeTwo Sent Items Update has been improved. In some cases executing the script finished in error 21. |
| Fixed: | This version tackles the problem in which EWS automatically disconnected from CodeTwo Sent Items Update service. |
| Version | 1.1.7 |
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| Date | 10 Jun 2010 |
| Fixed: | The support for multiple databases by Sent Items Update has been improved. The installer failed to install the service if there were more than one database on MS Exchange. |
| Fixed: | Sent Items Update did not update emails sent from external application due to the TNEF part missing. |
| Fixed: | Change of logic in Sent Items Update setup. Now Sent Items Update is activated after the setup is complete. |
| Fixed: | Change of logic for retrieving EWS service address in Sent Items Update. If the connection to the autodiscover service fails, a local address of EWS service is used. |
| Fixed: | Mechanism inserting the signature below the most recent reply in OWA. |
| Version | 1.1.3 |
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| Date | 06 May 2010 |
| Fixed: | Messages that were resent by users from the Sent Items folder and that contained attachments were delivered without attachments. |
| Fixed: | Messages were duplicated in the Sent Items folder if the user used the Resend option on a message. |
| Fixed: | Problem with access rights to IPC channel in non-English version of the server. |
| Version | 1.1.2 |
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| Date | 30 Apr 2010 |
| New: | A new feature has been added. It enables users to view signatures/disclaimers in email when it is moved to Sent Items. |
| Version | 1.0.8 |
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| Date | 03 Mar 2010 |
| Fixed: | The licensing system has been changed. Occasionally the program reverted to demo mode when user or operating system changed network cards settings. |
| Fixed: | Occasionally, messages were treated as Non Interpersonal ones and signatures were not stamped. In the current version, users can turn off Non Interpersonal message detection by setting the value of the system registry key. |
| Fixed: | The logic of starting and stopping Microsoft Exchange Transport service has been changed. In some cases the process of stopping the service took more time than expected and the program installer was not able to finish the installation. |
| Fixed: | All installed files have been digitally signed. |
| Fixed: | A shortcut to User's Manual is now installed in a different way. |
| Version | 1.0.5 |
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| Date | 27 Jan 2010 |
| Fixed: | Error occured when sending log files to CodeTwo Technical Support |
| Version | 1.0.4 |
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| Date | 12 Jan 2010 |
| New: | Final Release version. |
| Version | 1.0.0 |
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| Date | 23 Nov 2009 |
| New: | Beta version of the program. |
