[ZendTo] ZendTo ANNOUNCE: 3.59 released

[Jules]

Folks,

I have just released ZendTo 3.59.

I have added many major new features since the last stable release:

- New database-based "Local" authenticator. If you don't have a 
corporate authentication system in place, you can easily install ZendTo 
using local users whose details are stored in a database table. All 
passwords are stored as MD5 hashes so it is very secure against attack. 
There are commands in /opt/zendto/bin to add, delete, modify and list 
users defined in your system. This is now the default authenticator set 
in preferences.php.

- Defence against brute-force attacks on your authentication system. 
Accounts are now locked out if they have 6 failed logins in a row in 24 
hours. Both those numbers are configurable. There is also a 
bin/unlockuser.php script which will unlock a user's account, or all 
accounts if given "-a" on the command line.

- MyZendTo. This is a complete additional package which provides a 
web-based filestore-like system where people can store their own files 
for access from off-site, instead of your employees emailing files to 
public GMail or Hotmail accounts or similar bad things.

- List of "internal" domain names to which unauthenticated users can 
send files can now be set by simply listing all the domains in a text 
file instead of you having to construct a vast regular expression to 
attempt to cover them all. Particularly userful for ISPs, and mere 
mortals who can't write regular expressions in their sleep :-) !

- Many bugfixes and minor improvements.

Please read the Change Log for a list of all the changes since your 
previous version.

Note that many of the new features require additional database tables.
- SQLite users: There are scripts in /opt/zendto/sbin/UPGRADE which will 
add each of the new tables you need if they don't already exist.
- MySQL users: Read /opt/zendto/sql/README.MySQL and run the long 
"mysql" command given in that file. You will need your password from 
your preferences.php file.

Please download it as usual from www.zendto.com.

A new website design to www.zendto.com is on the way... :-)

Any problems, issues or suggestions, please contact me: preferably via 
the mailing list so we can discuss the solution for the benefit of everyone.

Jules

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