version 2.70 build 700, January 9, 2007Added: capability to resolve the
country where the email comes from and blacklist
the emails by the origin country.
Added: capability to change the default delay if you set the program to check
accounts at startup.
Added: easy way to backup and restore G-Lock SpamCombat profile (accounts and
filters settings). To save the profile, click on File menu and select Backup
Profile. To
restore the profile from backup, click File -> Restore Profile.
Added: the icon of the Trash changes depending on whether it contains deleted
emails or not.
Added: the lite screen of G-Lock SpamCombat in the system tray shows the number
of emails deleted during the last session.
version 2.65 build 650, July 26, 2006
Added: "Run internal mail server at
program startup" option in the Internal Mail Server settings.
Fixed: "S5 NO UID FETCH Too many
arguments" error when checking AOL account
Fixed: casual error on opening the Deleted Items folder.
version 2.61 build 560, March 09, 2006
Fixed: the message
source was transmitted empty to the Complex Filter.
Fixed: Delete function in the Complex Filter.
version 2.60 build 550, October 03, 2005
Added: "Enable extended hint in system tray" option in the General settings.
Fixed: Whitelist/Blacklist don't allow adding a blank line, which would catch
all the messages.
Changed: the program remembers the message number, from which it starts
processing the emails. See the "Start processing from xx message" option in the
Advanced account settings.
version 2.55 build 530, August 12, 2005
Added: "Ask confirmation when deleting emails from trash folder" option in
the General settings.
Fixed: the program hung on the emails with incorrect HTML formatting.
Fixed: erratic behaviour of the cursor in the Deleted Items folder - when
deleting emails the cursor jumped at a random message. Now it moves to the next
email in the list.
version 2.50 build 500,
June 14, 2005
Added: ability to establish secure connections over SSL/TLS.
The communication between SpamCombat and the mail server will be encrypted, so
no one can read your e-mails or spy out your passwords.
Some improvements in the program's engine.
version 2.33 build 465,
December 14, 2004
Fixed: the Whitelist and Blacklist screens were not properly displayed with
the 120DPI system font.
Improved the Bayesian filter. The process of re-classifying emails goes much
more faster now.
version 2.31 build 455,
November 10, 2004Fixed: the program produced the "Access Violation ... " error on
an incorrect message header and stopped processing emails from the appropriate
account.
Fixed: the program produced the error and stopped processing
emails if the screen saver got activated during the session.
Improved processing emails from IMAP accounts.
version 2.30 build 445,
October 15, 2004
Added: fast user switching support on Windows XP
- this feature allows multiple users sharing the same computer to have
individual SpamCombat Profiles and to swap their current work spaces without
logging off.
Added: ability to process emails received within the last xx days for IMAP
account.
Improved analyzing emails for incorrect format.
version 2.21 build 420,
September 15, 2004
Fixed: the program didn't display some MIME
encoded messages in the HTML preview format.
Improved processing emails from IMAP accounts.
version 2.20 build 400,
September 8, 2004
Added: ability to choose email processing mode
for the Spam Trap account: the Bayesian filter learns from ALL the messages you
receive on the Spam Trap account while other filters are turned off, or you can
activate any filter(s) and the Bayesian filter will learn only from the emails
that were not caught by the selected filter(s).
Added: new internal variable "Account Name" in
the Complex filter.
version 2.20 beta build 390, September 3, 2004
Added: ability to process emails from IMAP accounts.
Added: new fields "Viewable HTML" and "Viewable Body & Subject" to select in the
Field column in the Whitelist and Blacklist. "Viewable HTML" is a stripped HTML
you
can view in the Message Preview screen. "Viewable Body & Subject" includes a
stripped HTML, plain text part and message subject.
Added: new column in the program's main screen indicating if the message has an
attachment.
Added: ability to delete records from the General Statistics table. Select the
string(s) you want to delete and press Del on the keyboard, or click "-" button
at the bottom of the table.
Fixed: "Delete During Mail Check" deletion mode didn't work for the DNSBL
filter.
Fixed: the program produced an error when you used "Between" to setup a filter
for
statistics.
version 2.10 build
370
Added: ability to quickly customize (show/hide)
the grid columns. Click the mouse in the right top corner of the grid and
check/uncheck the columns you want to want to show/hide.
Added: MRU filters list - ability to quickly
switch between the most recently used filters within the grid.
Added: new field "Message Body & Subject" to
select in the Field column in the Whitelist and Blacklist.
Added: new deletion modes "Move to Trash During
mail Check" and "Delete Permanently During Mail Check" in the HTML Validator,
DNSBL and Bayesian filters.
version 2.05 build 355,
June 18, 2004
Added: ability to customize the message control
screens: Message Header screen, Message Body screen, and Interesting words
screen.
Added: ability to add new hot keys configurations for Check Accounts Now and
Bring to Front (maximize from the system tray) options. Note: add the shortcuts
that are not used by other programs.
Added: ability to set the deletion mode for a SpamTrap account separately.
Added: ability to exclude the appropriate account from the statistics.
Added: ability to pause the program. When the program is paused, you can edit
the filters as you like. When you resume the program, it will continue
processing emails using the updated filters.
Added: new statistics screen - Email Traffic. Here you can see how many Kb of
email traffic you saved with the help of SpamCombat.
Improved the HTML Validator filter.
Changed the order of filters to process emails: the DNSBL filter handles the
emails the last.
version 2.0, June 07, 2004
Added: ability to automatically add the sender's
domain either to the Whitelist or Blacklist. To do this, highlight FROM header
field, click the right mouse button and then select
Add Domain to Whitelist or
Add Domain to Blacklist option.
Added: ability to stop 'reading' deleted emails
by Cancel button.
Added: ability to change the order of the
accounts at the left pane of the SpamCombat screen. To move an account up or
down, select a desired account, then hold down Ctrl button on the keyboard and
use the keys with up and down arrows to move the account.
Added: the timer stops 20 seconds before the
accounts auto-check if you are editing the Whitelist/Blacklist at the moment. As
soon as you close the Whitelis/Blacklist screen, the timer resumes.
Fixed: the mousewheel works properly in the
Whitelist and Blacklist.
Fixed: SpamCombat 'froze' using almost 100% of
CPU when retrieving some HTML emails.
Changed the editing mode of the Value in the
Whitelist and Blacklist.
version 2.0 build 335 beta 4
Fixed: "Launch Email Client" option works properly.
Fixed: the indicator arrow is focused on the top record when the filters screen
is open.
Fixed: the hot key to whitelist emails is remembered.
Fixed: the hints are displayed properly.
Fixed: the program gets the focus and shows up on top of the other windows right
if you right click on the taskbar icon and select "Open G-Lock SpamCombat"
option
version 2.0 build 325 beta 3
Added: ability to restore an email from the
Deleted Items folder for further receiving it with the email client.
Added: ability to view deleted emails in the HTML
format. No pictures are actually downloaded, no hidden scripts, or codes are
executed. Now you can view deleted messages in either of these formats:
HTML/Message Source/Message body (decoded message).
Added: "Check accounts at resuming after
suspension (hibernate mode)" option in the General Settings that lets the
SpamCombat automatically start checking the accounts as soon as the computer is
brought out from hibernation.
Added: ability to customize the main SpamCombat
toolbar, the Message Control toolbar, and the Timer toolbar. You can
display/hide toolbars, add/remove buttons on the toolbars, and move toolbars to
any place in the SpamCombat main screen.
Added: ability to change a toolbar style (View ->
Toolbar Style)
Added: an arrow indicator showing the string
within the grid, which is currently in focus.
Added: multi monitor support.
Added: compatibility with desktop skinning
applications.
Changed: order of processing emails by the
sub-filters within the Blacklist and Complex filter. The sub-filters with the
"Delete during mail check" deletion mode are prioritized.
Fixed: if a computer was brought out from
hibernation mode, SpamCombat could not connect to the Internet and froze.
version 2.0 build 310 beta 2
Added: new options for deletion mode in the
Complex filter and Blacklist: Move to Trash During Mail Check and Delete During
Mail Check.
Fixed the work of the Complex filter.
A few cosmetic improvements.
version 2.0 build 300 beta 1
Added: Complex Filter letting you write a script
containing different functions, procedures, or operators to compare any header
fields to the specified value and classify the email as spam or good depending
on the result.
Added: option to set a POP3 account as spam trap.
All emails coming to this POP3 account are automatically marked as spam. The
Bayesian filter learns from these emails as well.
Added: option to specify the message# to start
processing emails from. This option allows to skip the first xx messages on the
server and start processing from the next message.
Added: Use Safe
Deletion Mode option in the Accounts settings. Check this option if you
notice that SpamCombat deletes wrong emails from the server. When you use safe
deletion mode, SpamCombat compares the headers of all the emails on the server
to the headers of the emails you checked for deletion and deletes right
messages.
Added: ability to choose a deletion mode for all
the filters except the Whitelist: spam emails can be either moved to Deleted
folder in the SpamCombat, or deleted permanently.
Added: ability to select a folder on the HDD to
store deleted messages.
Added: Find
Target option in the Deleted Items folder which allows a user to locate a
deleted email on the HDD.
Removed: option to enable/disable message cache.
The cache is always enabled now. To clear the message cache, click
Clear MessageID Cache button on the
SpamCombat Toolbar, or select Clear MessageID
Cache option under File menu.
Added: ability to show a safe HTML preview of the
message. No pictures are actually downloaded, no hidden scripts, or codes are
executed. Now you can switch between three preview modes: HTML/Message
Source/Message body (decoded message).
Added: ability set the Expire period for the
whitelist and blacklist conditions. When the expire period is over, the filter
item is automatically deactivated.
Added: new fields to whitelist/blacklist emails:
Message Source (RAW message code), IP Address and Entire Header.
Merged: Whitelist: Message Header/Body and IP
Address;
Blacklist: Message Header/Body and IP Address.
To whitelist/blacklist emails by the sender's IP
address(es), use IP Address field in the Whitelist/Blacklist.
Added: new buttons
Save BookmarkGoto Bookmark under the grid in the
SpamCombat main screen. Save Bookmark option allows the program to remember an
email within the grid. If you have a huge number of emails within the grid to
check and you want to focus on a selected message later, click Save Bookmark
button under the grid to remember it and continue parsing the emails. To return
to the remembered message, click Goto Bookmark button.
Added: the program remembers checked for deletion
emails if you process the same messages more than once..
Added: Color
Theme settings allowing you to show emails within the grid in the
program's main screen by different colors depending on how they are classified.
Added: ability to change the font of the
SpamCombat interface. To change the font, click
View and select Text Size -> Larger,
Medium, Small.
Added: ability to view the SpamCombat statistics:
general statistics on processed emails, assembled diagram, filters rating, and
efficiency of the Bayesian filter.
Changed: the Blacklist filters provided by
default with the SpamCombat 2.0 will be marked by the
navy color in your list
of Blacklist conditions. You can edit them as you want. The default system
Blacklist filters may be changed or updated later. Not working regular
expressions are marked by red. You should either correct, or de-activate them.
version 1.51 build 275
Fixed::
SpamCombat did not show up the results of the
DNSBL filter's work. Now if the sender's IP address is listed within a spam
database, it is shown in the Status column.
Fixed: if SpamCombat could not load its database
and was giving Stream Read Error, the program was kept in the memory (Processes)
and did not load the next time. Now SpamCombat opens properly and gives a report
about what database cannot be loaded.
version 1.50 build 265
Added: ability to launch a user's default email
client after deleting spam emails is completed.
Added: ability to assign a hot key to launch a
default email client.
Added: ability to import a POP3 account settings
from a user's default email client. SpamCombat supports import of POP3 accounts
from MS Outlook, Outlook Express, Qualcomm Eudora, and Opera 7.
Added:
ability to leave the Password field blank when
creating an account and enter a password only when the SpamCombat connects to
the server. If there is no password
provided in the Accounts settings, the program asks you for a password when it
connects to your POP3 account. This option is very useful if you run the
SpamCombat on a shared computer and are concerned about your privacy. Leaving
the Password field blank you can be sure that no third party user can access
your incoming emails.
Added: when the SpamCombat is checking accounts
being minimized to the system tray, the program's icon is blinking.
Added: new icon "~" to mark emails which have not
enough significant words to be resolved by the Bayesian filter. These emails
should be either whitelisted or blacklisted by a user.
version 1.40 build 237
clear Unknown status
Added: option to view/hide the accounts
statistics on the program's main screen.
Added: the options "Start Timer", "Pause Timer",
and "Disable Timer" are available from the program's main screen.
Added: ability to save deleted emails to the
disk.
Added: ability to choose what account to check
from the Start button and from the system tray.
Added: ability to clear the HitRate statistics in
the whitelist/blacklist screen.
Added: ability to prevent adding duplicated
records to the whitelist/blacklist.
Added: if you manually add a header field to the
whitelist or blacklist, the message icon in the Status column changes to good or
spam respectively.
Added: if you create and save your own filter to
sort emails within the grid, you can then apply this filter choosing it from the
filter drop down menu in the Status column.
Added: ability to whitelist/blacklist B class IP
addresses.
Fixed: if the deleted emails were grouped by any
column (Status, Account, From, etc.) and you selected all the emails for
deletion from the disk, the emails were not deleted and the error message
occurred.
Changed: if you delete emails from the server
while the timer is enabled, the timer does not restart but continues the
countdown till the next accounts autocheck.
Improved the work of DNSBL filter.
Enhanced the options to work with the program
when it is minimized to the system tray..
version 1.31 build 205
Added: the timer clock begins flashing when less
than 20 seconds is left till the next account autocheck. You can pause the timer
(click on the clock and select Pause) and continue working with the emails. When
you finished, click the timer and select Continue.
Fixed: the following buttons "Mark Message as
Spam", "Mark Message as Clean", "Add to White List", and "Add to Black List" did
not work properly.
Fixed: if you change the number of checked
messages (including or excluding for deleting) the footer of the "Marked"column
did not upgrade the result unless you push the
option "Sum" each time.
version 1.30 build 2000
Added: when a message has a file attached to it,
X-GSC-Attachment header field shows the attached file name.
Added: "Run program minimized" option in the
General Settings..
Added: the ability to view either a decoded email
or the email source in the main screen of SpamCombatt
Added: Hot Keys settings
allowing you to assign hot keys for the following operations:
Mark Message as Clean, Mark Message as Spam,
Add to Whitelist,
Add to Blacklist,
Delete Checked Message(s) From Server.
Fixed: the footer is saved if you close and
re-open the programm
Fixed: the footer is shown by the whole numbers
only without comma or zeros
Fixed: the
unwise.exe and install.log files are registered to the proper SpamCombat
directory
version 1.22 build 190
Added: option to enable/disable rollover
tooltips in the General settings.
Added: option to show/hide the program's left
pane under the View menu.
Added: "Last Checked" column in the SpamCombat
main window showing the date and time when the accounts were checked for the
last time. This information may be useful if the auto-mode in the program is
disabled.
Added: option to check for the program's update
under the Help menu.
Changed: if you set SpamCombat to automatically
check POP3 accounts every xx minutes and then manually clicked Start during this
period, the time counter is cleared and the count restarts.
Changed: deleted messages are saved with the same
icons they are marked in the program's main window.
Changed: sound notification plays only when new
emails arrive.
version 1.20 build 170
Changed: ability to choose either to delete or
not to delete spam emails when the auto-mode is enabled.
Added: sound notification when a new email comes.
Added: if the auto-mode is enabled and SpamCombat
is minimized to the system tray, the program icon changes when a new email comes
to the mail server.
Fixed: on some computers when trying to check
incoming email, the program displayed "Could not convert variable of type (null)
into type (integer)" error message and closed with a Windows notice that a log
file is being created.
The "Debug Mode" option in the General settings
is renamed to the "Enable Message Cache". If this option is checked, the program
saves the ID of processed messages to the cache on your hard disk.
version 1.10 build 151
Added: ability to automatically check POP3
accounts and delete spam emails
Added: ability to minimize SpamCombat to the
system tray
version 1.0 build 115
Fixed: the program did not delete marked messages
from some POP3 servers.
version 1.0 build 110
Improved the filters: HTML Validator and Bayesian when a HTML message had
comments
Fixed: some icons were not properly displayed on Windows ME;
Fixed: error when closing the program on Windows 98, ME;
Fixed a few minor bugs
version 1.0
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