We’re changing the format of our invoice numbers to make them friendlier for our customers. For a long time we’ve used the format “Rxxxxxx” where the R was followed by a unique identifier. In practice, however, it’s not the most popular format: it’s long, contains letters, and it’s hard to read back over the phone. [...]
Posts under ‘Changes’
Minor ACC Changes
We’ve moved a couple of the items around on the main menu of the account control center: The “Mail Domain Tests” and “Service Alerts” items were previously under the Tools section, these are now under Mail Services. The “Server Information” page is now part of “My Account” Certainly not major changes, but if you’ve become [...]
New: Alternate IP Filters for Outbound Mail
Our outbound accounts have long been configurable with one IPv4 and one IPv6 address or host name lookup (A or AAAA). A couple weeks ago a situation was brought to our attention that caused a conflict: end sites with a different failover IP. In order for these sites to work, you’d have to log in [...]
New: Envelope Address Character Settings
We’ve made some enhancements to our Client Validity Checks filter: configurable envelope address characters and a multi-domain settings mode. Although all 7bit ASCII characters are technically allowed by RFC, many of the uncommon ones are misused by broken mail servers, viruses, and poorly written mass mailers. If desired, some of the most commonly abused characters [...]
Default DNSBL Change
This post has been removed; it was being used to further a disagreement between third parties unrelated to Roller Network. A screen capture of the original is below. We, as a hosting provider or ISP, are not in the position to judge what may be “objectionable” content because everyone will have a different opinion.
New: Greylisting Multi-Domain Settings
A multi-domain configuration tool for the Greylisting filter is now available on accounts with a service level of Personal Plus or higher.
New: Secondary DNS Multi-Zone Settings
We have just released a multi-zone settings tool to our Secondary DNS service. This allows settings such as master, second master, and AXFR/NOTIFY settings to be applied to multiple (or all) Secondary DNS zones without having to update each zone individually. Zone file maintenance actions (delete and retransfer) must still be performed individually. This new [...]
Full Release of New Outbound Mail Features
As we mentioned last week there was a bug preventing us from releasing one of the new features for Outbound Mail. All of the accounts affected by this bug have been contacted and fixed, so we can proceed with the full release on May 22 as promised. Outbound Mail accounts now feature all of these [...]
New: Bulk Entry “Override” Selector
Our blacklist and whitelist filters have a bulk entry mode that attempts to auto detect the entry type based on a defined pattern. However, you may occasionally want to bulk add something as a specific type without using the auto detect engine, so we have added a new “Entry Type” selector. As you can see [...]
New: Secondary DNS “Second Master”
We’ve added an option to specify an optional second master DNS server for zones in our Secondary DNS service. Unlike the first master, only an IPv4 or IPv6 address is accepted for the second master. This can be useful if you want to specify a redundant master server or dual stack IPv6 and IPv4 connectivity [...]