Lyris MailShield 1.5 now available

• February 12, 1998

Lyris MailShield 1.5 Now Available

Version 1.5 of Lyris MailShield is now available on Windows 95/98/NT and Solaris SPARC/x86 platforms.

A complete list of new features is available here.

New features of interest:

• New spam detection: spot sendmail HELO buffer overflow trick
• New spam detection: supports the Dialup User List (DUL) ban list
• New spam detection: multiple RCPT TO with blank MAIL FROM
• New spam detection: check Subject for Prefixes such as AD: or ADV:
• Feature to dynamically verify recipient addresses against destination
• Feature to ban filename types in MIME attachments, eg: .EXE, .BAT, etc
• Feature to limit length of MIME attachment filenames, blocks exploit
• Feature to canonize From: addresses of outgoing mail
• Feature to specify approved To: headers to bypass filters
• Feature to append your message to the SMTP Welcome message
• Support for destination SMTP server load-balancing
• Support for failure-over destination SMTP servers
• Multiple TCP/IP addresses are now specified with carriage returns

New advanced features of interest:

• New function: &BodyPrepend to prepend text to the message body
• New function: &MessageAppend to add your own SMTP begin text
• Support for ESMTP EHLO command
• Support for ESMTP SIZE feature
• Support for rewriting of the SMTP RCPT mail recipient
• New function: substr()
• New function: &extract to pull out specific text from messages
• Many New DNS lookup functions
• Unix "nopid" option to not write the process id to file
• New function: &HeaderMimeGetAllArray
• Added + and - operators
• Ability to toggle debug mode on/off in real time
• ORBS support has been disabled

About Lyris Technologies, Inc.

Lyris Technologies (http://www.lyris.com) is the developer of Lyris ListManager, the world's best-selling email marketing software. Over 4,000 businesses — from Fortune 500 corporations to fast-growing startups — rely on ListManager for high-performance email campaign management and analytics. Lyris also offers Lyris ListHosting for outsourced email campaigns, the Lyris MailShield software suite for spam protection, and Lyris MailEngine for fast, efficient email delivery. Founded in 1994, Lyris was recently named one of the fastest growing companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.