febooti Command line email utility - history

Fixed:

• Warning messages were not displayed and logged if no error was present at the same time. In some cases popup window was not displayed.
• Files were not attached if file masks used to specify files located on other drive than current.

Improved:

• Popup window modified to better represent status of email sending operation outcome.

New:

• TOEACH, SPLIT parameter for sending separate email to multiple individual recipients.
• CONFIG, CFG parameter to store recurrent command line parts in configuration text file to shorten command line.
• New GUI registration tool available from Start menu to facilitate software registration.
• Added Windows Vista compatibility considering Microsoft guidelines.

Fixed:

• Better reporting on email sending success / failure.
• Bug that caused incorrect encoding of UTF-8 headers.
• Minor misspells.

Changed:

• Command line email v3.0 installer replaces help.bat with febootimail-help.bat to avoid confusion with Windows help.
• Uninstall shortcut removed from Start menu. febooti Command line email can only be removed using Programs and Features option in Windows Vista (or Add or Remove Programs in Windows XP and earlier Windows versions) Control Panel as recommended by Microsoft.
• REGISTER, R parameter now takes into consideration whether WAITAFTER parameter is used.

Improved:

• ATTACH parameter now supports file masks (e.g., *.pdf or *.* or pic?????.jpg).
• OpenSSL library version update including important bugfixes.
• Improvements in command line parsing provides better reporting on mistakenly used parameters.
• Improved error handling, new errorlevels added.

New:

• SSL parameter for establishing secure encrypted connection to SMTP server.
• STARTTLS parameter for establishing STARTTLS secure connection with SMTP server.
• NTLM, CRAM-MD5, AUTO to provide more authentication methods (AUTH).
• CR, ENTER parameter for adding line break character right in DOS prompt.
• SAVEEML, OPENEML for operations with standard EML files.
• DEBUGX parameter provides a comprehensive report on Client-SMTP communication session.
• NOXMAILER - allows removing X-Mailer tag from email header.
• UF command alias for USEFILE.

Fixed:

• On most servers authentication AUTH PLAIN did not work.
• On some servers with slightly different authentication implementation AUTH did not work.
• Redundant charset information is no more added to MIME parts that do not require it.
• Nuls in email messages added with USEFILE switch previously caused message breaks. Now NUL characters are translated into spaces.
• Issues with HTMLFILE switch that on some occasions could not correctly embed images and image links starting with http://, ftp://, https://, file:///, etc.
• Friendly names of email sender or recipient could not contain commas.
• Many minor bug fixes.

Changed:

• When message text is taken from USEFILE parameter, UTF-8 encoding is automatically detected and respective charset tag is added to message header.
• Command line email now is supplied in MSI installer package which is compatible with MS Windows Vista.
• Now administrator rights are required only to install and register the application. Administrator rights are no more required to run the application.
• e-update now only provides notification on version updates.
• PATH variable is used instead of installing additional febootimail executable.
• New errorlevels added. Error messages added, removed and modified.
• Many minor changes.

Improved:

• Optimized message processing delays resulting in better email sending speed.
• Debug output screen layout changed to provide better report on email sending processes.
• Many minor improvements.

New:

• WAITBEFORE parameter which adds specified delay before sending operation.
• WAITAFTER parameter which adds specified delay after sending operation.
• HEADER switch that allows to set custom email headers.

Fixed:

• CR / newline bug that caused header to appear in email body.
• Attachments where file names contain comma and semicolon (also, removed undocumented feature that allowed attach multiple files separated by commas. Multiple files from now must be specified using multiple FILE / ATTACH switches).
• Invalid "Content-Transfer-Encoding" in header.
• Negative time bug occurring when time zone was specified in minutes e.g. (GMT+05:45) Kathmandu.
• Debug screen displaying login instead of plain and vice versa when using SMTP authentication.
• Installer in some specific cases was incorrectly reporting "Can't create folder".
• Spaces in file names are preserved.

Improved:

• When using HTMLFILE switch, images now keep their original file name case.
• Corrected HTML file parsing (Disposition, Content Type and ID, Image Source) now compatible with Mozilla email engine.
• Installer animation.

New:

• TESTHTML command that allows to test .html sending without adding footer in trial version.
• LOG parameter that allows to log some general information of sending process. Added 2 new warnings related to LOG command: "Warning: Can't open log file" and "Warning: Can't write log file".
• LU and DOUPDATE commands that force check for updated version.
• DLU and DONTUPDATE commands that suppress checking for new version even if auto update is enabled.

Fixed:

• Fixed bug that caused error on some systems when DEBUG command was used.
• Added line breaks before febooti footer to ensure correct trial footer formatting in trial version.
• Minor fixes and tweaks.

New:

• Support for UTF-16 / UCS-2, UTF-32 / UCS-4 by converting to UTF-8 text encoding.
• Option to request read confirmation.
• New command parameter for online help access.
• Recipients list can be separated with LF / CR (return / enter key).

Fixed:

• Sets correct encoding for all email (header, body) parts.
• When sending HTML messages, there are no more duplicate images.
• REPLY parameter misspelling fixed, old version still works for backward compatibility.
• Minor fixes and tweaks.

Features:

• Send email from command line to any number of recipients (may be limited by your ISP SMTP server).
• Send email from Scheduled Tasks, any software that can execute external commands, CGI scripts etc.
• Send email using CC (Carbon Copy) and/or BCC (Blind Carbon Copy).
• Send email message using plain text or HTML message with embedded pictures.
• Set alternate text for email programs that do not support HTML messages.
• Set SMTP server address and SMTP server port; the address may be used as a traditional URL (e.g.: mail.yourdomain.com) or as an IP numeric address (e.g. 10.123.123.123).
• Use mail server authentication (AUTH PLAIN, AUTH LOGIN) before sending email.
• Friendly name in both the TO and FROM fields (this name appear in email instead of your e-mail address).
• Unlimited attachments.
• For batch programming - return codes to check success or failure from environment variable %errorlevel%.
• Ability to set message priority (HIGHEST, HIGH, NORMAL, LOW, LOWEST, NOT SET).
• Optional reply-to email address and reply-to friendly name.
• Ability to set message text encoding.
• Ability to set message comment.
• Ability to set organization of a sender.
• Ability to take parameters from a text file or files.
• Plain text or MIME encoding (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions).
• Auto dial (if modem is used).
• Bind IP address (if more than one Interface / LAN card is used).
• Ability to set timeouts manually.
• Optionaly displays Windows message box after message is sent.
• Optional quiet mode - suppress normal output.
• Optional debug mode - view internal variables and SMTP server messages.