Welcome to Spamphibian Gateway 1.2

For more information, updates, and technical support, visit our web site at http://www.outspring.com

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This file contains:

• Spamphibian

• IMPORTANT WARNING

• Installation Requirements

• Installation Instructions

• What's New in 1.2

• Revisions

• Known Issues

• Support

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Spamphibian

Spamphibian Gateway is a unique new stand alone spam-fighting solution that works with your existing SMTP server. Included is Spamphibian Admin, an easy-to-use Mac OS X application to remotely monitor, configure and administer Spamphibian Gateway.

Spamphibian Gateway is a server-side spam stopper, which means messages caught by Spamphibian Gateway are halted at the server and do not reach the user's account. The administrator can manually create any number of IP addresses, domains, URLs, generic string, or regular expressions filters to stop unwanted mail.

The real benefit of Spamphibian comes with a subscription to the Outspring Spamcaster Subscription Service where Spamphibian Gateway will receive daily updates of our powerful and reliable filter list. To purchase a subscription to this service, please visit our online store at: http://www.outspring.com/catalog/

For more about Spamphibian, see http://www.outspring.com/spamphibian.html

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IMPORTANT WARNING

Use caution when writing your own filter rules. As with any customizable filter software, it is always possible to write rules that lead to false positives.

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Installation Requirements

• Mac OS X (10.3 or greater)

• Power PC G4, G5 or Intel

• 256 MB of RAM (or greater)

• 100 MB of disk space (or greater) (*)

* By default, Spamphibian Gateway will quarantine spam onto your disk.

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Installation Instructions

For detailed installation and configuration instructions, see "Chapter 2: Setting up Spamphibian Gateway" of the manual at:

http://help.outspring.com/spamphibian/en-us/mac/1.2/help.cgi?page=install

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What's New in 1.2

Regular Expressions are now case sensitive and work properly on message headers and decoded messages' content (#1168).
Spamphibian Admin no longer converts Regular Expressions to lower case (#1156).
Improved detection of URLs and domains (#1165, #1180).
Fixed a bug where a message's text part was not detected as text and therefore wasn't scanned (#1178).
Fixed a Universal Binary bug related to IPs, both the Admin and the Gateway now correctly support IP address & rules on Intel Mac (#1176, #1177).
Fixed a bug which caused Spamphibian Gateway to stop processing incoming messages after receiving an empty rule list (#1179).
Improved message scanning performance (#1181).

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Revisions

1.1

Spamphibian Admin and Spamphibian Gateway are now Universal Binaries, able to run natively on Mac OS X PowerPC and Intel.
Fixed an issue where the number of messages in the "Retry Queue" could be incorrect. (#982, #1094)
Changed the default color for the "Busy SMTP in" value in the "Load" pane of the Monitor. (#1053)
Improved handling of special characters in URL rules. (#1069)
Fixed an issue where Spamphibian Gateway would stop accepting incoming mail due to "Too many open files". (#1072)
Improved URL detection in HTML messages. (#1073)
Improved handling of invalid rule files. (#1075)
Improved logging. (#1082, #1097)
Improved handling of non-ASCII string rules. (#1088)
Fixed an issue where it was not possible to add more than ten domains from the admin. (#1093)
Improved handling of DNSBL lookups to increase throughput. (#1095)
Fixed a bug that caused Spamphibian Admin to drop the connection and fail when saving lots of rules to Spamphibian Gateway (#1096)
Fixed a bug with the save/revert buttons after importing rules. (#1101)
Fixed a bug that caused the filter rules to disappear. (#1103)
Prevent the user from installing when "System Preferences" is running. (#1107)
Fixed a bug in the email validation code for product registration. (#1108)
Improved behavior of admin when viewing a message while messages are arriving. (#1113)
Fixed a bug where the rule editor would reset the rule type. (#1120)
Fixed problems that prevented the gateway from properly bouncing messages. (#1122, #1123, #1124)
Added build ID, version and platform architecture to the admin and SMTP greetings.
Fixed a bug where if you were only using regex rules, Spamphibian Gateway would ignore them. (#998)
Fixed a bug in the mime boundary detection code. (#1129)
Fixed a bug that caused Spamphibian Gateway to resend messages if 4xx errors were received when doing "RCPT TO:" to the destination server. (#1130)
Added the "RCPT TO:" checking feature to Spamphibian Gateway, to address backscatter. If enabled, Spamphibian Gateway will check incoming "RCPT TO:" values with the destination server, and cache the results. (#988)
Fixed a crash at startup issue. (#1132)
Accept "RCPT TO: <postmaster>" per RFC 2821. (#1135)
Fixed a bug where user's "Domain" rules were not taking affect. (#1138)

1.0

Initial release

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Known Issues

Spamphibian Gateway

By default, Spamphibian Gateway will generate "backscatter" if your destination mail server is configured to reject unknown users. There are hidden prefs you can enable to reduce this "backscatter", see "Chapter 7: Reducing Backscatter with "RCPT TO" Checking" of the manual at: http://help.outspring.com/spamphibian/en-us/mac/1.2/help.cgi?page=rcpttochecking
Spamphibian Gateway may be slow to shutdown if there are busy SMTP or admin server connections
Not all monitor statistics available per domain
Not all log entries are available per domain
Rescanning messages are not re-checked against DNSBL services
Rule files (ex: "Global Rules.txt") that do not follow the syntax may crash Spamphibian Gateway
The "max messages per connection" SMTP Out preference is not heeded

Spamphibian Admin

Slow response to multiple deliver, delete, rescan or redirect commands
If a column (ex: "Subject") is too narrow, the value may appear blank (instead of truncated with ...)
Canceling KeyChain dialogs may cause a crash
The Filter view may appear blank if viewed immediately after a connection to Spamphibian Gateway is established

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Support

Outspring has provided a centralized place for you to get help if you have questions or problems with Spamphibian Gateway or Spamphibian Admin. See http://www.outspring.com/support.html

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