Blue HttpMailProxy Version 0.5.6 Released

Blue HttpMailProxy is an application that acts as a POP, IMAP and SMTP proxy to provide access to HTTPMail email servers (such as Hotmail, MSN, and Lycos).

Version 0.5.6 contains fixes for two long-standing bugs, as well as adding two new features. The 32-bit Windows binary can be downloaded from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/bhttpmail/HttpMailProxy-v0.5.6.zip or the source code can be downloaded from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/bhttpmail/HttpMailProxy_Source-v0.5.6.zip.

Bug 1863528 related to the treatment of multipart MIME messages within the IMAP proxy. In Thunderbird, this bug caused the display of a completely blank window when attempting to open such a message, because Thunderbird became so confused that it simply gave up on displaying the message. Bug 1844380 caused the application to reauthenticate against the server unnecessarily, which caused a substantial reduction in performance on most operations.

The first new feature makes it possible to configure the SMTP proxy to automatically save a copy of every sent message in the HTTPMail sent items folder. (For more information, see Docs/Setup.common file within the release.) The second new feature is an implementation of the APPEND command within the IMAP proxy, which allows copying messages onto a HTTPMail server. This feature can also be used to copy sent messages onto the server (if you configure your email client appropriately) but it also supports saving draft emails onto the HTTPMail server.

As ever, there are some further minor tweaks and changes that aren't worth mentioning, but that hopefully make the application just a little bit better!

Enjoy!