Revision History

Version 2.0 (Build 251) May 2011

• New: Certificate verification options, see global properties tab
  "SSL/TLS" applied to secure SMTP connections.
• Bugfix: Possible delay on closing a secure connection to SMTP
  servers.

Version 2.0 (Build 179) March 2011

• Does not trigger an error if the server doesn't
  support UTF-8 but continues in ANSI mode
• Existing files with same filename on the FTP server
  where overwritten with local file even though option was not set.

Version 2.0 (Build 162) March 2011

• Support of generic proxy servers.
  - HTTP proxies, method CONNECT. Basic, Digest and
  NTLM authentication.
  - SOCKS4, SOCKS4A and SOCKS5
• FTP native proxy server, method USER@HOST
• Bugfix splitting e-mail attachments.

Version 2.0 January 2011

• The product is compatible with Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7.
• Location of database and application data, i.e. .ini files,
  moved to user's local application data folder, more details about
  this change in install.txt and the online help.
• Requires a new license key.
• The NT service version has been discontinued and is no longer available.

Update Notes

Owners of a valid update subscription should have received their new license key by e-mail free of charge.

A one year update subscription is available for 149 EUR (EU residents € 177,31 incl. 19% German VAT) .

Order update subscription

Version 1.4.3.19 December, 2009

• Bugfix in post job processing (backup, delete, and clearing the archive file attribute).

Version 1.4.2.18 August, 2009

• New option "Implicit SSL/TLS" to support Yahoo mail as well.
• Bandwidth control options for both SMTP and FTP.
• Improved SMTP transfer speed especially SSL-SMTP in very fast networks.

Version 1.4.2.17 July, 2009

• New option to throttle SMTP transfer speed.
• Bugs introduced in previous release fixed (Password dialog lock feature. Upper SMTP display was not limited to a maximum number of 200 lines which could lead to error "application not responding").

Version 1.4.2.12 June, 2009

• SMTP (e-mail) supports SSL now, required to use gmail (google mail).
• Daily log file rotation.
• Size limitation of log files.
• Improved transfer performance and speed of live-display with very fast network connections.
• Less CPU usage.
• Some bugs fixed.

Version 1.4.1.11 November 02, 2007

• The FTP port can now be specified after the FTP host name. For instance ftp.domain.com:21.

Version 1.4.0.10 July 24, 2006

• Bugfix: E-mail recipients may have got the wrong files when message Size was not set to 0. Improved: Performance of post job processing like Backup, Delete, and clearing the archive file attribute.

Version 1.4.0.9 Nov 8, 2005

• FTP may have assumed an error on listing an empty directory on the FTP server, fixed.

Version 1.4.0.8 Oct 28, 2005

• Fixed a problem with creating temporary file on program start.

Version 1.4.0.7 Aug 26, 2005

• Fixed Index does not exist.Index: s_path / Index out of date.Index: s_path

Version 1.4.0.6 July 31, 2005

• Fixed slow performance on processing post-job-tasks like Backup, Delete, and clearing the archive file attribute.
• Some internal changes to prevent false positive virus detection.
• On NTFS file systems installation grants group Users modify permissions on the program directory including all subdirectories as well as file PDOXUSERS.NET which is usually located in C:\.

Version 1.4.0.5 - July 25, 2005

• Data Execution Prevention (DEP) compatibility added (FDM NT)
• Performance problems on newer Intel processors featuring
  EM64T fixed.
  
• Random access violation upon closing window
  "Recipients - File Groups" on very fast systems fixed.
  
• Solved the problem of a modal dialog sometimes hiding behind
  other windows if you switch to a different application while it's
  processing, predominantly in Windows XP (Windows bug).
  

Version 1.4.0.3 - July 16, 2005

• Database error after update of some older versions fixed.
• Files were not sent with disabled option Mirroring of entire folder structures (FTP) (introduced in v1.4.0.1)

Version 1.4.0.1 - July 07, 2005

• Mirroring of entire folder structures (FTP).
• Hidden files visible in file selection.
• User defined connection timeout.
• Default group membership changed on creating Windows user accounts (FDM NT).
• Changed pre-validation of sufficient access rights to files being distributed.
• String length of error messages increased to 255 cups.
• Bugfix FDM NT, network files "File not found" unless a user once logged in.
• Minor bugfix in edit field for loading an optional message text from file (quoted string upon blanks).
• Fixed an error that randomly appeared on systems with more than one processor.
  

Changes v1.2x -> v1.3x-v1.4x

Standard version is capable to run in an user account without extented rights.

Interactive NT service version is capable to send network files.

New GUI features allow easier managment of recipients and files.
For instance multiple-selections in grids, sort on column click, new filter (by group membership), customizable and persistant column layouts, sizable windows, context menus etc.

New option to specify a maximum e-mail message size.
FDM can create an appropriate amount of additional messages combining as many files as fit in that space limitation into each message. Single file attachments are not splitted up so message size may exceed the limit nevertheless. In mode "Single ZIP" FDM creates multiple ZIP archives accordingly.

New property MinSize.
If file size (in bytes) is smaller the file won't be sent (see Advanced File Settings).

New help file.

Version 2.0 of strong file encryption introduced.
FDMCRYPT 2.0 released.
This step became necessary since we moved to an open source cryptografic code base in order to be able to provide more transparency of security related processes in FDM (see help file "Third Party Copyright Notes"). For an extra charge and on demand source code of FDM's interface to that OSP cryptografic code base is available now. Note: Public Keys created by FDMCRYPT 1x are no longer supported and therefore MUST be exchanged.

Easy installation.
One setup program installs both FDM versions now. Setup also detects whether BDE must be installed and can download and install it for you. During installation a backup copy of an existing database is made to a newly created subdirectory in folder Data.

Internal changes/fixes.
Field-length of field "To Addr" extended to 255 characters. Unfortunately this breaks database backwards compatibility.

Temporary files like ZIP files or encrypted files are now created in a temporary subdirectory in FDM's program folder.

Some anti-virus live protection software decreased e-mail transmission rate heavily, fixed.

FDM / FDM NT 1.2.0.1 - March 17, 2004
Bug introduced in v1.2 fixed a few hours after realease.
(Error "Cannot access field 'PERIOD' as type Integer").

FDM / FDM NT 1.1.1.7 - 1.2.0 - March 17, 2004
FTP passive mode added
New SMTP engine including MIME inline encoding, auto-encoding of message text if extented characters are found (quoted-printable), revised pre-execution of external programs.
New option 'Allow Empty Files Being Sent'.
New email option "Request Confirmation Of Receipt".
Wildcard selection changed/fixed (for instance mask "*.14?" found file xxxxxxxxxxx.14 as well).
Fixed some bugs in the FTP module (NLIST 450/550).
Windows XP themes support.

FDM NT only: Revised tray-icon-recovery after logon or Explorer crashes.

FDM / FDM NT 1.1.1.5 - 1.1.1.7
Fixed a database error introduced in Version 1.1.1.4.
System display setting 'Large Fonts' caused errors on file selection. Selected files without an extension could lead to an error.

FDM / FDM NT 1.1.1.4
Full version includes a new, standalone Database Tool that provides easy to use database maintenance, backup & restore as well as database repair functionality.
Added protection for an inadvertently overwritten update.db file on manual database restores.
Date/Time values are formated mm/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss. Version

FDM / FDM NT 1.1.1.1
Variables are supported in subject line now. Subject line is truncated to ~1000 characters. Fixed another bug with ZIP & recursive file selection. In wildcard file selections file names beginning with "$$$" and folders named "fdmBak" are ignored.

FDM / FDM NT 1.1.1.0
E-Mail priority added. Field length off User/Password fields (email authentication) was increased from 20 to 30 chars (does not apply if you restore data from earlier databases).

FDM / FDM NT 1.1.0.9
ZIP error with option "Include all sub directories" fixed. SMTP timeouts had not been displayed correctly, fixed. GUI of the NT service version was redesigned.

FDM / FDM NT 1.1.0.8
Option "Include all sub directories" in file selection dialoge added.
Fixed help file crashes when display driver was set to none True Colors
(introduced in v. 1.1.0.0) .

FDM / FDM NT 1.1.0.7
Error handling on FTP upload errors improved.
A running external process is abortable now.
Index error (introduced in v. 1.1.0.6) with databases from prior versions fixed.
New window design.

FDM / FDM NT 1.1.0.6
Scheduler improved and some bugs fixed
FDMCRYPT v. 1.01
Incorrect syntax check of e-mail addresses fixed

FDM / FDM NT 1.1.0.3 (internal)
Listview of recipients & files added

FDM / FDM NT 1.1.0.1
Memory leak fixed

FDM / FDM NT 1.1.0.0
Public key encryption added.
SMTP authentication added.
Some new message options.
Abort-button added.
Variables in body text.
Logging improofed.
Some minor bugs fixed.

FDM / FDM NT 1.0.4.6 (internal)
Option "Overwrite existing remote FTP files" added.
Custom Mime-Types, adjustable in file mime.ini added.

FDM / FDM NT 1.0.4.5 (internal)
Simple user editor for the lock feature added.


FDM / FDM NT 1.0.4.4
Muliple wildcard selections in same directories and
file groups reenabled.

FDM / FDM NT 1.0.4.3 (internal)
Thread sycronizing improved

FDM / FDM NT 1.0.4.2 (internal)
FTP retries on droped connections added.
Fixed problem with e-mail notification setup.

FDM NT 1.0.0.1
Derived from FDM 1.0.3.9

FDM 1.0.3.9
E-mail notification after FTP delivery added.
Added user defined delay/msec before delivery to next
recipient (usefull for MS Exchange).
Period "Every 5 min." added to Scheduler.
Passwords are no longer displayed as clear text.
Now FDM tries to do a clean termination of actually running
transfers at program shutdown.
Unused remote FTP file names are created higher than
suffix [10] now.
Fixed possible crashes with "POP3 before Smtp" when
no DNS server was found.

FDM 1.0.3.7
Another time format bug in Core Monitor fixed
(depending on different system time format settings
calculating of Next Poll might raised an exception).

FDM 1.0.3.6
Time format bug in scheduler fixed
(depending on different system time format
settings scheduler didn't save its settings).

FDM 1.0.3.5
File selection improved
External program execution added
Logging improved

FDM 1.0.2.2
Backup option added
Archive option is working correctly now

FDM 1.0.1.0
ZIP password option added
Fixed Error:"Component not connected"
with some w2k installations

FDM 1.0.0.75
Another "Bytes lost bug" fixed

FDM 1.0.0.74
"Pop3 before SMTP" authentication added
Two more "Invalid Variant Type.." errors fixed

FDM Built 1.0.0.73
Bytes had been lost during transfer to some ftp-servers - fixed

FDM 1.0.0.72
Linking recipients and file groups is much faster now
Error: "Invalid Variant Type.." at several places fixed

FDM 1.0.0.71
Creation of blank recipients should be impossible now
Error messages fixed when no recipient at all is in database
Now window "Join" is brought up much faster

FDM 1.0.0.70
Error message fixed when deleting recipients

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