Couldn’t sleep this morning, and no one was on our servers, so took the opportunity to do some upgrades…

Zimbra was down at all locations 8:15am-8:45am Sat morning…

Hope you all are having a good holiday!

Just a quick post letting you know the <i2m> holiday schedule… we are always available, but will be “off-line” taking some well deserved time off…

12/24 – 1/2 day (Christmas Eve)

12/25 – off (Christmas Day)

12/28 – off (Monday following Christmas)

12/31 – 1/2 day (New Years Eve)

01/01 – off (New Years Day)

If you need support during that time, please send an e-mail to:

rt(at)support.include-im.com

In an emergency, please use the contact numbers you have, but start with me if you can…

Thanx!    and of course, please have a safe and enjoyable holiday season!

Ok… The reason some people were having trouble with the spell check was that it was choking on a special character somewhere within your e-mail, most likely the NULL character, and most likely as part of your signature, if it happened on every e-mail…

How did it get there?

When you compose an e-mail alot of HTML is happening in the background, and the editor has inserted the character which is perfectly legal, but the spell checker was not configured to ignore it…

This has been addressed in Zimbra 6.0.4, but that won’t be released for a bit… so in the meantime, Zimbra released the configuration for the spell checker and we’ve  applied it to the current version… so the problem has been resolved… (thanx Gail B for testing!)

Thanx!

We will be doing a 6.0.2 to 6.0.3 upgrade this weekend to all Zimbra locations… so mail may be unavailable temporarily in the late evening on Sat/Sun while the upgrade happens…

Accroding to the release notes, this is what is changing…

Major Fixes in ZCS 6.0.3
42570,42422 These bug fixes are Zimbra’s response to CVE-2009-3555, which is an SSL “man in the middle” vulnerability.

41920 Fixed issue that was causing duplicate contacts to display.

42074 Scrolling now works correctly

42127 The body of an email message now displays correctly.

42012, 42477 Two Jetty networking problems were fixed.

Nothing major that you will notice, but hmm… will be interested in the scrolling issue fix. I know the change from the <prev>-<next> buttons to a scroll bar in your mail list (that happened in 6.0.0) has not been a favorite among some of you… so prehaps they have made some improvements based on feedback…

Also.. we have received some more feedback about the spell check issue… its a bit more widespread than we thought… its not isolated to one server, all three have just a few users where the spelling check is an issue… We are continuing to work on it, but have not found the source of the problem yet (maybe we will get lucky and the update and subsequent reboot of the servers will correct it for these people)…

In the short term, if you really want spell check if it is not working, and you are not using FireFox.. You may want to switch to it… it has a built in spell check (and is just a better browser IMHO)

Thanx!