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Take advantage of the powerful and efficient PageGate Version 7!
Brand new powerful message templating system.
| • | Administrators now have total control of how outgoing messages are formatted. |
| • | Templates can be set at multiple levels, minimizing the number of templates needed. |
| • | Templates are automatically created when upgrading from previous versions |
Priority settings for recipients and carriers.
| • | Messages to certain recipients and/or carriers can be moved to the front of the delivery queue |
New PageGate load-balancing module
| • | Intelligent load-balancing |
| • | Round robbin support |
| • | Failover support |
| • | Supports up to 4 PageGate servers |
SMTP SSL/TLS and STARTTLS now supported for SMTP connections.
| • | Supports secure and encrypted connections for message delivery. |
Carrier level default domain for the SMTP protocol.
| • | Saves administration time when setting up new recipients. |
| • | Saves even more time when switching recipients to a new carrier. |
Dynamically updated DNS servers.
| • | If Internet connections are changed, PageGate's DNS settings will automatically change too. |
SMTP relay servers settable on a by-carrier basis.
| • | Allows multiple outgoing paths for different SMTP carriers. |
New HTTPGET and HTTPPOST delivery protocols.
| • | Can push message data to webpages and webforms. |
Support for setting small delays between messages.
| • | Better support for old or slow equipment that can't keep up with PageGate's delivery rate. |
Improved Fax Capabilities, including MS Fax service support.
| • | Messages can be sent to a Microsoft faxprinter on the local computer |
| • | Messages can be sent to another computer running MS fax service. |
Improved support for the latest Windows operating systems.
| • | Smother installs, uninstalls, upgrades, and day to day operations. |
New silent installer capabilities.
| • | Useful for automating deployment of PageGate on multiple computers. |
| • | Especially useful for the PageGate GUI Client. |
Upgrade/Integration Notes
Database changes to reflect PageGate's new features and capabilities:
carriers table
+ relay_mail
+ relay_server
+ username (split out of password field)
+ priority
- drop_control
users table
+ priority
- drop_control
- alpha
- notify_only
- notify_code
- remove_from
- remove_domain
- reliapage
- sendsubject
messages table
+ priority
templates table (new)
+ type
+ name
+ settings
+ subject
+ body
***Note: Integrators can leave removed fields (-) in place - won't harm anything.
***Note: New fields must be populated.
For a more detailed list of all changes, please see pgrelease.txt