News and Announcements

I maintain a list of announcements that have been emailed to all users. I do this very rarely and only when I think that my user community would benefit. At maximum, I can see sending out 1 message every 3 months although so far I've averaged 1 per year.

August 10, 2005

Added automatic address expiration. When you create an address you can ask it to be automatically deleted after a certain number of messages have been received on it, or after a certain amount of time has past. Very handy for those addresses which are very temporary.

June 9, 2005

I've installed the ClamAV virus scanner into the mail forwarding chain which can detect 35000 viruses, worms, trojans, and phishing emails. Although the messages that are caught will be cleaned, it is highly recommended that you have a virus utility running on your computer to protect against viruses that slip through as well as those from other messages and applications.

February 3, 2005

I've added (by popular demand) a feature where you can send mail to a 3rd party so that it comes from a mailnull address. If you go to the List Addresses page, you should see a Edit Del Mail links associated with each address. The Mail link will take you to a page where you can send mail to someone else from that address. This will allow people to send mail to help addresses from a mailnull address or reply to mail previously sent to one of their addresses without exposing their real email address.

January 16, 2005

I've added a new email editing page and the ability to have multiple administrative and forwarding email addresses.

December 9, 2004

Added the feature this morning where mailnull.com mail servers will [finally] bounce invalid or deleted email addresses. It will not bounce addresses that are disabled and not forwarding to your email address. This will hopefully help with removing old addresses from spam lists and better informing legitimate people that they have an old address.

March 17, 2004

Reworked the address management code. I've added a new mail redirect program and tracking of message counts and sizes. Look for the mailnull.com Received mail header as well as the X-Mailnull-To: mail field. Also, the account status information now has the count and size information.

February 22, 2004

Reworked the internal session management code which, unfortunately, means that all of the current sessions have been invalidated. My apologies but I believe that the changes will provide a more stable system.

February 2, 2004

Sent out an announcement to the users updating them on the latest features. I specifically hoped with the delete account capabilities, users would remove old or unused accounts. The announcement also introduced the WebMail feature and the splitting up of the mailnull script into the /cgi-bin directory.
Finished the first take of the WebMail contact form feature. Users can add a contact form to their pages without posting their email address.

January 27, 2004

Split the main CGI script into a directory of scripts in /cgi-bin for easier management and feature development.
Added account create confirmation with an email confirmation message.
Added new delete confirmation with an email confirmation message.
Added some smaller features including edit buttons on the slot create results page.

October 8, 2003

Sent out an announcement to the users updating them on the latest features.
Added forums to the web site to give people a place to report problems, ask questions, or discuss various topics..

October 7, 2003

Added a Javascript page to the web site with a couple little scripts and hacks to simplify the MailNull UI.

Sep 25, 2003

Added a NOTE section to the status page so when you delete or edit a slot, it does not show a confirmation page, just a note line at the top of the status page. I hope that this is a lot faster for those of you who edit and delete slots frequently.

Jan 4, 2003

Added a secure (https) flag to the account which will redirect you to secure web pages whenever possible. Also added secure prompts to all login and account creation pages. This will allow you to store your important account username and passwords in the mailnull system securely. To adjust your secure flag, please edit your account.

Dec 20, 2002

Finally added the session and cookie authentication code that I've been meaning to do for a while. Still tuning it a bit but in general the system now supports storing sessions and a browser cookie (if supported) for all authentication. If you browser does not support cookies, you still should be able to authenticate and perform an action but every command will prompt you again for your login and password.

Sep 1, 2001

Added a password hint to the account creation page. If you lose your password, the system can email a hint to your email address. Please edit your account to add one.

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