Pinpoint 2 0.17: Exciting new toys
We have been hard at work. Oh yes, have we ever. And now Pinpoint 2 0.17 is upon us with a host of enhancements to features released with 0.16, as well as a whole brand new module that helps you manage recipient addresses across your domains.
But first things first. What has been improved?Release Request Decline Reasons
We realised that while the new release request mechanism works incredibly well, the original requestor might be left disgruntled when his release request is declined. Primarily because they do not know why. And if it has been declined, this requestor might fall back to the old faithful method of emailing an admin, negating the benefits of the release request mechanism. In response, we have added a new feature that when the "Decline" option is selected for a release request, the admin has the opportunity to select one of four pre-populated decline reasons or enter their own specific reason for the decline.
At least now, when an administrator does decline a release request, the original requestor is kept informed as to why, easing administrator workloads by reducing queries as to why it was declined.
Performance Enhancements
There have also been a number of performance enhancements, some already active before this release, that accelerate the generation of reports as well as the speed of the Dashboard data loading. In addition, with this release, we have improved the performance of loading the Message Listing view with release requests so that administrators can get to them quicker and action these.Shiny new stuff
Now that the boring stuff is out of the way, lets get to the most exciting aspect of the new release: Mailbox Management. This module has been specifically designed to allow you to control settings for addresses received by Pinpoint for your domain. Using Mailbox Management you can do two things to the list of addresses provided:- Deactivate a mailbox known not to actually exist on your domain. This provides you the ability to restrict mail being delivered to your domain. After all, why should mail be sent to your domain, potentially being processed by your mail server, using your bandwidth, etc, if no one is actually going to see it.
- Mark an address as an alias to another address. If you have sales@domain.com, you can mark this as an alias to salesguy@domain.com. The added benefit of doing this is that instead of salesguy@domain.com getting 2 Daily Junk Mail reports (or more) because of his own account and the aliases, he will get one, unified Daily Junk Mail report showing the details of all mail blocked on his address and all the aliases linked to him.
We hope you that these additional enhancements make administering your email security service that bit easier and hassle free. And as usual, if you would like to provide feedback or discuss the changes, please feel free to do so in the comments or email dev@synaq.com to chat to the development directly.
For more detailed information about this release, please refer to the release notes.