Version 3.7.0.0 Release Notes

Limited Release

Version 3.7.0.0 was released to an initial group of customers on April 2nd, 2012. This release will be made available to all customers over the next few weeks. If you would like to get early access to new features, please contact Sophos Support.

When this update is installed, the Email Appliance will reboot.

April 2nd, 2012

This release extends support for Secure PDF Exchange (SPX). For more information on these features, see the 3.7.0.x Notable Changes.

You should also familiarize yourself with the known issues, since improper configuration of certain options may cause unexpected behavior.

Before you begin installing and configuring the Email Appliance, you should review the configuration directions.

Internet Explorer 7 and later, and Mozilla Firefox version 4.x and later, are the only supported browsers for this product release. However, the Email Appliance has been optimized for current-generation browsers. If you are using an older browser such as Internet Explorer 6 and experience performance issues, consider upgrading to a newer version of Internet Explorer, or to a recent version of Firefox.

Updates and Enhancements in the Sophos Email Appliance3.7.0.0 Release.

• The administrator interface has been updated with a modern, clean new look.
• The appliance's Management Information Base (MIB) has been updated. If you use the SNMP features of the appliance, you should download the new MIB.
• A new Outlook add-in, which allows users to report spam messages to Sophos and encrypt messages through the Sophos Email Appliance directly in their Microsoft Outlook. For more information, see the Outlook Add-in Deployment Guide.
• You can now configure advanced MTA features that were previously unavailable. Note that there is a hard limit of 500 mail domains.
• You can now configure advanced mail routing features, including:
  • Internal mail delivery servers
  • Incoming mail domains
  • Outbound mail proxies
• You can maintain some information in text files on a different system than your appliance. Using SCP and the new Configuration Sync feature you can then push updates to your appliance. Using Configuration Synchronization you can push the following types of configuration data to your appliance:
  • Internal Hosts
  • Trusted Relays
  • Recipient Validation
  • Recipient Aliases
  • Sender Address Rewriting
  • Recipient Address Rewriting
  • Mail Routing
• You can now maintain sender and recipient address rewriting in the appliance on the Configuration > Routing > Address Rewriting page.
• You can now choose to remove the "Powered by Sophos" logo for encyrpted mail in the SPX Template Wizard.

Issues Resolved in the Sophos Email Appliance3.7.0.0 Release

• Resolved an issue where offensive word matching could produce a false positive for attachments (DEF71363).
• Resolved an issue where the correct version of the Sophos thread definitions would not be properly displayed in the Help > About section of the online help (DEF77992).
• Resolved an issue where data validation could allow illegal characters in keyword policies (DEF72398).
• Resolved an issue where long hostnames could display improperly on the deliver-to section of the Mail Domains page (DEF71412).