Limited Release
Version 4.0.0.0 was released to an initial group of customers on March 3rd, 2016. 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.
March 3rd, 2016
This release adds features that support the appliance's communication with
Sophos Sandstorm. See the 4.0.0.0 Notable Changes for more details.
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 Appliance4.0.0.0
Release.
- Sophos Email Appliance SEA can now communicate with Sophos
Sandstorm, a cloud service that executes and analyzes suspicious
attachments, providing another, more sophisticated layer of protection for your
organization.
- You can now turn off automatic update of the software engine or configure the update to
occur at a scheduled time.
Issues Resolved in the Sophos
Email Appliance4.0.0.0
Release
- The Custom groups section in Policy Wizard
now accept sub-domains with single-letter names, for example: a.example.com, as a valid
input. (SEA-288)
- The correct number of recipients are now displayed in Mail Logs
and appropriate details displayed when a message with a large number of recipients is
received. (SEA-177)
- An issue has been resolved that could cause the error "There was an unexpected error
while opening a window (Error)" to appear when viewing details of an entry in
Mail Logs. (SEA-221)
- Few entries in Mail Logs no longer display a hyphen (-) under the
sender, recipient and subject columns even when correct values are displayed on viewing
details. (SEA-222)
- RC4 and CBC ciphers are no longer supported in any of the appliance's web ports
(10443,443 and 18080) and the default SMTP port (25). However, you can enable the ciphers
in the SMTP port. (SEA-289, SEA-291, SEA-275)
- A standard OpenLDAP query of the appliance now fetches all addresses from an Active
Directory (AD) server. (SEA-82)
- An issue has been resolved which prevents ES5000 Appliances from performing a kernel
coredump. (SEA-375)