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Webmail Updates

Following our system update this weekend we have retired the sqwebmail service.  This has been replaced by the roundcube webmail service that was previously in beta.

The old URL for sqwebmail should automatically redirect to the new service at https://wizmail.org/webmail/

Please let us know about any problems you may experience with the new service by contacting us at helpdesk@wizmail.org

Webmail Updates

Following our system update this weekend we have retired the sqwebmail service.  This has been replaced by the roundcube webmail service that was previously in beta.

The old URL for sqwebmail should automatically redirect to the new service at https://tidymail.co.uk/webmail/

Please let us know about any problems you may experience with the new service by contacting us at helpdesk@tidymail.co.uk

New Webmail Beta – Roundcube

We are pleased to announce a new beta webmail service – Roundcube.

This new webmail service can be found by following the Read Mail – * BETA * link on the Tidymail front page.

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New Webmail Beta – Roundcube

We are pleased to announce a new beta webmail service – Roundcube.

This new webmail service can be found by following the Read Mail – * BETA * link on the Wizmail front page.

Read more »

Withdrawl of Prayer beta webmail service

The beta webmail service we had been running, ‘Prayer’, has been withdrawn with immediate effect.

We have been reviewing its usability and have concluded that does not provide sufficient user facilities over the existing offering, nor does it provide suitable administration capability particularly when trying to diagnose user problems.

We would like to thank all our users who tried it.

Refinements to URL scanning

We made a few adjustments to the URL scanning code in the past couple of weeks to allow it to be more effective as the spammers mutate to avoid earlier block techniques.

  • We added a number of handlers to spot redirectors.
  • We’ve adjusted the list of tell-tales that accompany trojan executables
  • Improved spotting of Image-Only spam.
  • Greater range of countries and formats for telephone numbers.

We’ve got a few more steps before we can administer the spammed telephone numbers via our management interface but for the time being we’ve added a selection of the more egregious examples to the database manually.

New blocking for phish & virus

We’ve just rolled out new code to block certain spam message types which either contain newly morphed trojans or point to sites which ask you to download trojans under false pretences, or just infect your machine if you visit.

The most recent types of these have been

  • “Server upgrade” pointing to updates.yourdomain.dodgydomain/…./…exe
  • Western Union Money Transfer
  • DHL Express Services undelivered parcel
  • 123greetings.com ecards
  • HMRC Unreported/Underreported Income

Needless to say none of these actually come from the companies and institutions involved.

Our apologies to our customers who have received these sorts of email prior to this rollout. We always endeavour to avoid inaccurate blocking so before making these sorts of change we have to check carefully that these filters don’t have an adverse effect on genuine email.

And if you are still getting these sorts of email do please let us know at the helpdesk address.

Announcing new beta Webmail service

We have just introduced the beta-test version of a new webmail system for all Tidymail users.

The service is based on the prayer webmail program, with some adjustments for our environment.

So, please try out the new service and let us know what you think by mailing us at helpdesk@tidymail.co.uk

** Update **

This beta service is now closed.

New Webmail service available to Wizmail users

We have just introduced a new webmail version for our beta-system users at wizmail.org.

The service is based on the prayer webmail program, with some adjustments for our environment.

So to all wizmail.org webmail users, please try out the new service and let us know what you think by mailing us at helpdesk@wizmail.org

** Update **

This beta service is now closed.

Image-Only Spam Blocking

We’ve just rolled out a new feature. Image-Only Spam Blocking.  This is a method of spotting the resurgence of image-based spam where there is no accompanying text or clickable links, but where the spammers include the name of the site in the image itself sometimes with a help section explaining how to type the URL into your browser.

This is currently enabled as part of the URL blocking code which works on the clickable links.

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