Category Archives: VPOP3
VPOP3 v6.0 – Bandwidth control
One of the new features in VPOP3 Enterprise v6 is enhanced bandwidth control. This allows you to restrict the speed of VPOP3 connections for different users, services and IP addresses. VPOP3 Basic has basic bandwidth control, so this article may still be useful, but VPOP3 Basic does not support ‘bandwidth pools’ or scripting. Because of […]
Read More...Mistake with VPOP3 6.1
Yesterday we released VPOP3 6.1 (build 2648) and had to remove it from our website a few hours later. This was because we discovered an incompatibility with Windows XP/2003. This version works fine on Windows Vista and later, but we inadvertently added something which required Windows Vista. LevelDB The ‘culprit’ was LevelDB. This is a […]
Read More...VPOP3 version 6 released
We have just released VPOP3 version 6.0 build 2644. People with software maintenance or priority support contracts which expire on or after 6th February 2013 can upgrade to this version free of charge. The main differences between 6.0 and 5.0 are: Configurable bandwidth limits for VPOP3 services POP3 service can ‘hold’ messages rather than delete […]
Read More...VPOP3 version 6 release candidate
We are happy to announce that we have just made available for download the release candidate version of the next release of VPOP3 v6. You can download it from here. This version should be OK for production use. We use it here on our main server and some of our other servers, and several of […]
Read More...Automatically deleting old messages
Sometimes we get asked if the VPOP3 administrator can set up VPOP3 to automatically delete old messages from users’ mailboxes. While this is often a dubious thing to do, there are occasionally valid reasons for doing it. VPOP3 Enterprise has a ‘hidden’ facility to do this automatic deletion based on rules. At the moment there […]
Read More...Office365 & BT
BT Internet have recently started “upgrading” all their business customers to Office365. This causes various problems for many business users. Problems 1) No choice The first problem is that there was no choice to business users whether they upgraded or not. If BT had said “We have this fantastic new service you can use at no […]
Read More...VPOP3 Antivirus
For many years now we have been selling “avast! for VPOP3” as our low cost antivirus software for scanning emails as they pass through VPOP3. At the end of 2012, Avast are stopping supporting their version 4 virus scanning engine, which VPOP3 uses. This means that the “avast! for VPOP3” solution will stop updating after […]
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