DUN Manager - Beta Test Version

DUN Manager
Beta Test Version

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The file linked from this page is a beta test version of DUN Manager. The beta version is made available to those that have experienced problems in DUN Manager, to ensure such problems are fixed before an official release. Please make sure you keep your previous version of DUN Manager, in case you need to downgrade.

This beta will become the next full release later in 2008 or early 2009.

New Features and Bug Fixes in beta 10th December 2008

1 - The Scheduled FTP task now supports the XDMLSD and XCLMSD commands. Also minor FTP fixes.
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New Features and Bug Fixes in beta 22nd October 2008

1 - Made more Unicode improvement to the FTP Scheduled Tasks, so they are now able to handle file and directory names containing non-Latin Unicode characters, provided the remote FTP server is also fully Unicode capable. Note the directory specified for FTP is still ANSI, but it may contain Unicode files or sub-directories. Also note that all logging is ANSI, so non-Latin characters will appear as ?, with the exception of the Scheduled Task Log Window used when testing scheduled tasks which does display full Unicode characters (Windows fonts permitting). A tick box 'Ignore UTF8' allows Unicode to be ignored, if the remote FTP server is unable to handle it. The FTP tasks now support the HOST command that may be required by some very new FTP servers, generally if HOST is not supported it will be ignored, but if the error prevents logging on, tick the new 'No HOST Command' box. The 'Ignore Files with Extensions' option now allow extensions just two characters long, including the dot.

2 - Fixed a long term bug in the Sync Files Scheduled Task, such that copying could not be aborted during the first file copied, nor was a watchdog timer correctly reset. This bug only caused a problem if the first file was very large when copying would not stop until it was finished, and if the file took more than 15 minutes to copy (usually 10 gigs or larger) the task would stop with a 'stuck task' error and further files would not copy until the task was run again.

3 - The Check for Mail and Relay Mail Scheduled Tasks are now Unicode aware, so notification of newly arrived mail should non-Latin headers, Windows fonts permitting. This means spam sent with Cyrillic (Russian) symbols will display correctly, ditto Greek, Turkish and Arabic. Chinese and other Far Eastern are not normally installed in Windows (and display as blanks), but may be added from Control Panel. Regional and Language Options, Supplemental language support, beware the Asian fonts take a lot of disk space. Note this is only display Unicode support, logging is still only ANSI. The Check for Mail tab has a new option 'Treat Non-Latin Charset Email as Spam', so it may be automatically deleted. This is done by identifying non-Latin character sets, also by checking the number of 8-bit characters in the header (non-Latin character sets have their main alphabets between 0xC0 and 0xFE) so they can still show English ASCII characters. Often spam ignores the character set so just displays as accented characters. During testing, it was interesting to see that a lot of banking phishing emails are delivered with the Windows-1251 character set, which is Cyrillic, so clearly email not from UK banks (or very intelligent spammers). Don't use the new spam feature if you expect email from non-Latin countries, unless you use the White List to protect it. If MailMaint is used to access the same mailboxes, a beta or release dated 21st October 2008 or later must be used, otherwise the Unicode headers will be lost.

4 - The first time DUN Manager is run on a PC on which a modem or ISDN adapter has not yet been installed, previously a Windows 'Location Information' dialog would automatically appear requiring the country and telephone area code to be specified. Since many PCs are now used with modems, this dialog is now suppressed. If a modem or ISDN adapter is subsequently installed, Location Information should be specified when it is configured, or from the DUN Manager DUN Connections window, Entries, Dialling Properties, Edit My Location.

New Features and Bug Fixes in beta 2nd October 2008

1 - Made various improvements and fixes when Exporting and Importing DUN Connection Entries. If selected, all DUN passwords for Windows 2000 and later are successfully exported, not just those entered though DUN Manager. Fixed a bug in the last release that allowed only entries in the Current User or All Users phonebook to be exported, but not both at the same time. When importing DUN connections exported with this new release, they will be imported into the correct phonebook. Fixed a long term bug that prevented exporting entries that had not been entered or used through DUN Manager. Added a progress dialog during import and export, allowing cancel. Added more logging of export and import. Only administrator level users are now able to access the Export and Import options, with Vista and Windows 2008 the program must have administrator access. Also, DUN Manager needs to be registered before Export and Import may be used, the features are no longer available during a trial, unless a demonstration license key is requested.

2 - Made some Unicode improvement to the FTP Scheduled Tasks. Added 'Turn UTF8 Off' tick box to stop an FTP server returning UTF8 listings which DUN Manager does not currently support. This should be used for FileZilla Server which defaults to UTF8 ON, unlike most other servers which default UTF8 OFF. Without this command, DUN Manager can not handle files with names containing characters above 7-bit ASCII with FileZilla Server. Two other tick boxes 'Ignore UTF8' and 'No HOST Command' are not yet used. No longer attempting to access files or directories with the Unicode substitution ? character (meaning the character is non-displayable in ANSI), give an immediate error instead. Better Unicode support will be added in the next release.

3 - Fixed some bugs in the FTP Scheduled Tasks. Don't keep upload resume files unless some data actually sent. Don't attempt to upload _xxx.ftp resume files created by DUN Manager. FTP Uploading is now always allowed to create the base directory if it's missing, not just if files are being replaced, and it now works properly. Added a workaround for WS_FTP Server where the MLST returns 501 if the file name has spaces. SSL now send the PBSZ command before PROT to keep MS FTP7 server happy.

4 - The Sync Files Scheduled Task is now fully Unicode capable, and will now copy all files on the PC, not just those with ANSI characters. Note the directories specified for copying are still ANSI, but they may contain Unicode files or sub-directories. Also note that all logging is ANSI, so non-Latin characters will appear as ?.

5 - Changed the default time servers for the Set PC Clock Scheduled Task and new connections to two of the NTP pool servers (which are randomised), uk.pool.ntp.org and pool.ntp.org.

If you notice any problems with this beta release, please email Magenta Systems with details of the problem and the date of the beta version you are using.

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