There are lots of new and powerful features in this release, here's a summary.

Version 2

• Improved SMTP handshaking

• Added support for tokens in cf_mailheader value attribute
• Fixed syncronization bug for the queuelimit attribute - The queuelimit attribute throttles ActivMail to the speed of available mail servers

• Added Finalizer for Logs and SMTP connections - enhances fault protection
• failto attribute bug fix in cf custom tag

• FAILTO attribute - allows you to specify a email address that will be used as the Return Path for bounces.
• Character Set control - using the new TEXTCHARACTERSET, and HTMLCHARACTERSET you can now specify the characterset used for each message part.
• Text Encoding control - the new TEXTENCODING, and HTMLENCODING allow you to specify the encoding to be used for the respective message parts.
• Added support for authentication on mail servers that require a EHLO command in order to use authentication.
• Added line number debugging support to jar file.
• New ActivMail Lite version

• Unlimited Attachments - Now you can send mail with attachments, and highly customize how they are encoded.
• Custom Headers - add custom headers to email sent with ActivMail
• SMTP Authentication - Support for SMTP AUTH LOGIN, authenticate to your SMTP server with a username and password
• Multiple Server Ports - specify a different port for each server in your server list
• Embed Images in HTML Email - send images in your HTML email
• Send multiple alternative parts - send messages alternative message parts, such as text/x-aol (HTML for AOL 6.0 and below)
• Flexible encoding, and character sets - you can pick how you want your message encoded
• Attachments can use tokens - quoted-printable or 7bit encoded attachments can use tokens
• CF_MailAttachment tag - makes it easy to send attachments
• CF_MailHeader tag - makes it easy to use custom headers
• CF_MailParam tag - makes it easy to migrate existing CFMAIL code
• Fixed FROM exception TTL - exceptions thrown in the MAIL FROM SMTP state no longer enable TTL sending

• Fixes java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBounds exception that can occur with double byte characters encoded with quoted printable. See: Using Double Byte Characters with ActivMail

• SMTP Server Load Balancing - you can now specify multiple SMTP servers to distribute the load across several SMTP servers. Provides a huge performance increase.
• Queries - now you can use ColdFusion queries to specify distribution list, and from address
• Tokens - use tokens to personalize messages, and subject lines using columns from a query.
• CF_MAIL wrapper tag - a CF Custom tag that acts very similar to the built in CFMAIL, eases the transition to ActivMail from existing applications.
• Improved Memory Management
• Queue Capping - to save server memory the message queue can be capped off until messages are sent.
• Verify SMTP Server Connection - will throw an error if it can't connect to SMTP server.
• Improved message fail over logic
• Performance Optimizations
• Additional Exception Logging

• Increased Performance with multiple servers - when one server in the list of servers is down, it can slow down ActivMail's queuing, it now tries to reconnect to the server less often.
• Added Diagnostics - you can return diagnostics about the JVM and mail queue. Use the GETSTATUS attribute.
• Thread Life - added a thread life attribute to reduce the need to keep creating new threads every time CFX_ActivMail is invoked.
• Added Sleep Attribute - the sleep attribute can be used to slow down the message sending rate, some of our customers requested this.

• Added workaround for a bug in ColdFusion MX - added a workaround for a ColdFusion MX bug in com.allaire.cfx.Query.getColumnIndex, the CFMX bug prevented query mode from being used with a static from address. The bug has been reported to Macromedia. More info about the MX bug can be found here.
• Added documentation - for upgrading CFX_ActivMail from a previous version, added to install.html.

ActivMail Documentation

• Getting Started
• Installing ActivMail
• Tag References
• Examples
• Whats New!
• ActivMail Log Reference