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Version 1.27 - released on February 20, 2007

• Windows VISTA support for all AEP editions has been added
• Windows VISTA/2003 Server: now AEP correctly determines the number of AEP copies started in the system
• Windows VISTA/2003 Server: now the service does not require the interactive mode on being started
• Windows VISTA/2003 Server R2: changes enabling to correspond to new user rights requirements have been made
• NT Services: now instead of obsolete .bat files AEP uses NT Service Manager.
• RAS service was constantly polled if the system options had a RAS account. Fixed.
• Message Sender: an error occurred on replacing/adding CC/BCC fields has been fixed.
• Rules constructor: A new icon for rules with the flag 'Continue with next rule' has been added
• Parsers: WildCards errors have been fixed.
• Parsers: WildCards use logic has been improved
• Parsers: Some fixes for better processing of RegExp expressions have been made.
• Parsers: An error in the BlockParser component has been fixed.
• Main interface: A new button 'Clear Log' has been added
• Some fixes for better processing of email headers have been implemented.
• Overall AEP stability has been improved

Version 1.26 - released on November 3, 2006

• Windows 2000 compatibility. Fixed Error: Function not found in KERNEL32.DLL
• HTML Printer does not open settings dialog during process rule.
• MS Excel Processor. Fixed error in adding/update cell operation.
• MS Excel Iterator. Fixed error in range selection.
• Improved stability.
• Minor changes.

Version 1.25 - released on September 26, 2006

• New configuration scheme
• Improved user interface
• Added option to disable auto-expand tree in constructor window
• Added capability write to System Event log
• Log system improved
• Fixed header parsing with some mail servers
• Fixed GPF error in Microsoft Excel components
• Fixed UUE attachment extraction in Attachment Processor
• Added file filter in Attachment Processor, Attachments Modifier
• Corrected behaviour in NT Service mode
• Support Windows 9x/ME platform discontinued
• AEP Lite has been discontinued

Version 1.24 - released on December 21, 2003

• Sorting options were added to the "MAPI Messages Store" account. Now you can sort messages by sender name, sender email, recipient name, recipient email, subject, message size, creation time, delivery time and last modification time.

Version 1.23 build 1611 - released on November 12, 2003

• Error with "Regular Expressions" in the "Block Parser" component was fixed.
• Error in the "Block Iterator" and "Include Defined Text" flag was fixed.

Version 1.23 - released on October 17, 2003

• Fixed several errors while working on Microsoft Windows 98/ME.
• New flag "Use the System Locale for strings matching" was added to the Advanced of program's options.
• Minor improvements with Database components.
• Several minor fixes.

Version 1.22 - released on August 21, 2003

• Several errors with Regular Expressions were fixed
• Minor improvements for Excel components
• Error with "Realtime Processing" and "Process Only Headers" options were fixed for Broker mode
• Several minor improvements and fixes.

Version 1.20 — released July 14, 2003

• New "Calculator" component was added. It is used to perform arithmetic operations with variables. Except of standard operations like "Addition" and "Subtraction", it is possible to use logarithmic and trigonometrical functions. Also, this component can be used to transform numeric data to text data in different formats.
• Now "Date Parser" component understands more than 20 formats of the message's date
• "Database Manager" was added to all database components. Now you may change database properties from one place and it will be applied everywhere.
• "Variables Grouping" was added for variables management and their organization in groups.
• Global Variables were added. You can use Global Variables in Filters and for exchange data between Rules.
• Extended options for Regular Expressions were added to all components which use it.
• Interface of components was improved to simplify of entering of the variables.
• Improved work with very large rules.
• Several minor fixes with database components.
• Several minor fixes with Excel components.
• Many other minor improvements and fixes.

Version 1.17Lite — released June 2, 2003

• We are glad to present to you a new version of our famous product Advanced Email Parser - Advanced Email Parser Lite! Previously available only as corporate and business editions, Advanced Email Parser now comes in a Lite version, which contains all the functional features commonly used by local users and small business. And now AEP Lite has a new price! You can get powerful email processing system only for $49!

Version 1.16 — released February 24, 2003

• Several serious errors with "MAPI Messages Store" while working with "MS Exchange 5.5" and "MS Exchange 2000" were fixed.
• Error with "Public Folders" for "MAPI Messages Store" was fixed.
• SMTP E-mail translation was added for "MAPI Messages Store" account.
• You can work with logs over 2Gb now.
• The ultra fast logs reindexing.
• Actor "Stopper" was imporved to return status code from rule.
• Error with "Excel" components on Windows95/98/ME was fixed.

Version 1.15 — released February 10, 2003

• New external component "NotePage Sender" was added. Users of Advanced Email Parser can now use NotePage's PageGate and NotePager Pro wireless messaging products, to automatically receive important messages on their mobile phone or pager.
• Serious error with "Caching Options" used in "Excel" and "Database" components was fixed.
• Error with "Database Access" when you use the same returned field to different variables was fixed.
• Several minor fixes.

Version 1.14 — released January 22, 2003

• New component group "Automation" and new component "Data Sender" were added. This component used for sending data to other application, please view example how to use it in the AEPMFC catalog.
• New external component "Advanced Email Locator" was added.
• New external component "IP Locator" was added.
• Error with components copy/paste for Iterators and Conditions was fixed.
• Error with VBScript, PerlScript, RubyScript, PythonScript components and "Read Only" flag was fixed.
• Error with "HTTP Reader" and Windows Explorer on Windows 95/98/ME/NT4 was fixed.
• Error with MAPI initialization on the Win95/95/ME was fixed.
• New short keys were added: Alt-D for Disable, Alt-S for Safe and Alt-R for Read Only.
• Error in the "Simple Database Access" with all "search" fields was fixed.
• Added resized dialogs for all database and script components. Error in the "Account Filter" and the AEP internal SMTP Server was fixed.

Version 1.12 — released November 21, 2002

• Fixed error with the "Line Parser" and Regular Expressions
• Fixed error with the "Block Parser"
• Fixed error with the "Dictionary Condition"
• Fixed error with the "Regexp Iterator" component renaming
• Fixed error with the "Database Iterator" debug information
• On some systems messages in POP3 Broker mode were processed twice
• Now you can browse logs with Alt-Enter, Alt-Up and Alt-Down keys
• Fixed error with "HTTP Reader" and space losses
• Fixed error with "Line Modifier" and Regular Expressions
• Fixed error with "Block Iterator" and copy/paste
• Fixed error with international characters for Parsers, Iterators and Modifiers
• Fixed error with "Word Iterator" and debug information
• Fixed error with large debug text for Debug Viewer and Windows 95/98
• Fixed error with large body for the "SMTP Sender" component and Windows 95/98
• Fixed error with large text for Debug Messages and Windows 95/98
• Fixed error with national encodings for the Debug Viewer and Debug Messages
• Fixed error in Database Iterator with variables and returned columns mismatch
• New tab "Advanced" was added to the "Database Access" for compatibility with MS SQL Server
• Several fixes in "Simple Database Access" and "Database Iterator" for compatibility with MS SQL Server
• Now you can edit data in Debug Messages
• Several other minor changes and fixes

Version 1.11 — released October 19, 2002

• Fixed dangerous bug with components registration on Windows 95/98/ME
• Fixed error with Database components

Version 1.10 — released October 14, 2002

• New tab "Server" was added to the "Program Settings". Now, AEP can work as an e-mail SMTP server. Usage of an internal mail server delivers a number of benefits. For example, with it there is no need to query all mailboxes every 5 seconds to ensure timely reception of urgent, high-priority mail.
• New component "Message Sender" was added. This component can be used for automatic resending of a received message through specified mail server. This action differs from regular forwarding of a message. When forwarding a message, a new message is created, and the whole original message, including its body and heading, is copied into body of the new message. Resending leaves the original message body intact, only changing the fields in its heading. In this instance, recipient will actually receive the original message, but from another sender.
• New component "SMS Sender" was added. This components used for sending SMS-messages to GSM cellular phones. SMS-messages are sent through the Internet using special services. These services are accessed either via special servers or via web-sites of cellular operators.
• New component "Condition Group" was added. This components allows choosing one of several possible conditions for execution. Condition group is a convenient tool for multivariant message processing. Conditions in a group are checked one by one, and the first condiotion found true is used for processing.
• New component "Message Actor" was added. This component allows controlling message position in account folders and changing its marks while its processing is in progress. This actor implemented only for the "MAPI Message Store" account type.
• Very important change: realtime messages are processed immediately after filtering, now it is possible to use multistage change of the message by several rules.
• New option "Enable POP3 Broker" was added to the "Broker" tab of the "Program Settings". Uncheck this option if you do not use the Broker mode.
• New options "CC" and "BCC" were added to the "SMTP Sender" component.
• New option "Method" was added to "Regular Expression Parser", "Regular Expression Modifier" and "Regular Expression Iterator" components. By default "Regular Expression Match" method is used.
• Many other changes and fixes.

Version 1.092beta — released July 2, 2002

• Log system improved to process great many sessions and huge logs.
• New option "Cleaning Time" was added to the "Log" program settings.
• Log viewer imrovements.
• Bug with copy/paste while rule/component titles editing was fixed.
• Several minor changes and improvements.

Version 1.091 — released June 17, 2002

• New option "Remove Messages After Processing" was added to the "Simple MAPI" account.
• Implemented processing of attachments for "Simple MAPI Inbox" account.
• Bug with "Simple Database Access" and MS Access was fixed.
• Bug with "Realtime Processing" and "Internet POP3 Account" was fixed.
• Bug with the "Broker" mode and "The Bat!" mailer was fixed.
• Bug while copy/paste Modifiers was fixed.
• Minor changes and improvements.

Version 1.09 — released June 5, 2002

• New component "Date Parser" was added. This component allows to convert time string to user's format.
• New component "Simple Database Access" was added. This component is designed for easier work with database tables.
• New account type "Internet IMAP Mail" was added.
• New tab "Caching" was added for components working with data servers ("Database Access", "Database Iterator", "Simple Database Access", "Excel Access", "Excel Iterator"). See article Caching for details.
• New flag "Autosave configuration before exit" was added to the General program settings.
• New flag "Dynamic Data Binding" was added to the "Database Access" component. The flag enables the mode of working with a database where writing of long data is possible, regardless of SQL request length limitation.
• Authentication was implemented in "SMTP Sender" component.
• "Advanced" tab was added to the "File Writer" component. The tab contains text template which is added to the begin of created files.
• New fields "Extension" and "Output File Variable" were added to the General tab in the "File Writer" component. The first field sets extension for created unique files, the second - variable name name of created unique file to be stored in.
• Implemented processing of attachments for the "MAPI Message Store" account.
• New flags "Remove Leading Empty Lines", "Remove Trailing Empty Lines", "Remove Two Or More Empty Lines", "Remove New Line Characters" were added to the "Simple Modifier" component.
• New ability to clean history of processed account messages was added to General tabs of all account types - a button "Clear Message History".
• New ability to set secound intervals of automatic accounts checking was added to "Scheduler" tabs of all account types.
• New ability to process subfolders while working in the Collector mode was added to the "Outlook Express Folder" account.
• Messages generation was improved for the "MAPI Message Store" account.
• Bug with writing BLOB (large objects) to databases was fixed.
• Bug with database sources selection was fixed for all database components.
• Bug with folder selection in the "Outlook Express Folder" account was fixed.
• Bug occuried after "POP3 Account" connection breakup during working in the Broker mode was fixed.
• Bug occuried upon rules removing/editing during messages processing was fixed.
• Many other minor changes and fixes.

Version 1.08 — released on January 9, 2002

• New ability was added to search rules and components in Constructor.
• New ability to search data inside components was added.
• New "Words May Contain Spaces" flag was added to the Word Iterator to process sentence.
• Bug in the "Dictionary Filter" component was wixed.
• Bug in the "Dictionary Condition" component was fixed.
• Bug in the "Word Iterator" component was fixed.
• Bug in the "Excel Iterator" component was fixed.
• Bug in the "Excel Access" component was fixed.
• Bug in the "Database Iterator" component was fixed.
• Bug in the "Line Modifier" component with disabled debug was fixed.
• Now you can use templates in Filename for "File Template" component.
• Bug with special characters usage in text was fixed.
• Bug while copy/paste Iterators was fixed.
• Bug while copy/paste Conditions was fixed.
• Fixed bug in AEP started as service.
• Bug in POP3 Filter with large messages was fixed.
• Fixed bug with automated log cleaning.
• Bug in the "Outlook Express Folder" account under Windows ME was fixed.
• Bug in the "MAPI Message Store Account" account was fixed.
• Bug in the "Simple MAPI Inbox Folder" account was fixed.
• Bug in the "Qualcomm Eudora Folder" account was fixed.
• Lot of other small bugs were fixed.

Version 1.07 — released on November 27, 2001

• New components group "Modifiers" was added . These components allows to modify text sources and parts of messages. To receive modified messages by e-mail client in Broker mode you need to enable "Realtime Processing" flag in properties of rule which is use Modifiers.
• New component "Line Modifier" was added. This component allows to modify text sources line by line.
• New component "Block Modifier" was added. This component allows to modify text sources block by block.
• New component "Regular Expression Modifier" was added. This component allows to modify text sources with help of regular expressions.
• New component "Simple Modifier" was added. This component allows to modify text sources with help of simple text operations such as removing spaces, changing the register of letters etc.
• New component "Message Parts Modifier" was added. This component allows to add, remove and replace parts of the message using part type description in the content type field.
• New component "Attachments Modifier" was added. This component allows to add and remove attachments from message.
• New component "Excel Access" was added. This component is used to exchange data between AEP and MS Excel documents.
• New component "Excel Iterator" was added. This component is used to read data line by line from a MS Excel worksheet and execute a set of components for each line.
• New component "Database Iterator" was added. This component is used to execute a set of components for every record of SQL query.
• New account type "MAPI Message Store Account" was added to process messages from e-mail clients supporting MAPI (MS Outlook, MS Exchange etc).
• New account type "Simple MAPI Inbox Folder" was added to process messages from Inbox folder of most e-mail clients (Outlook Express, The Bat!, Incredi Mail, Allegro Mail, Pegasus Mail, etc.)
• New account type "Qualcomm Eudora Account" was added to process messages from Qualcomm Eudora folders.
• New tab "Processing" for all types of an accounts was added. In this tab you can customize messages retrieving settings and their further processing.
• Fixed bug with Regular Expressions for Windows XP.
• Lot of known bugs were fixed.

Version 1.07beta — released on October 12, 2001

• New "Filter Group" component was added. It's used to combine work results of some filters and filter groups using boolean operation (AND, OR). Incredible feature to build complex filters.
• New "Realtime Processing" flag was added in rule properties. It allow AEP to process messages immediately so work results will appear instantly. This very helpful feature is specially designed for processing offline data sources with large messages amount.
• New "Process Only Message Header" flag was added in rule properties. It will increase unwanted messages processing speed and protect your computer against viruses.
• New "Process Only New Messages" flag was added in POP3 Account properties.
• New "Listen on Address" option was added to Broker settings.
• New "Play Audio File" action was added to the "Debug Alert" component.
• Log system improved to process large logs and huge debug sessions.
• All known bugs were fixed.

Version 1.06 — released on September 17, 2001

• Serious bug with "Database Writer" component was fixed.
• New "Static Word Dictionary" flag was added to "Dictionary Filer" component for performance reason.
• New "Static Word Dictionary" flag was added to "Dictionary Condition" component for performance reason.
• Minor improvements with components copy/paste for rule editing.

Version 1.05 — released on September 14, 2001

• New "Outlook Express Folder" accounts type was added for processing messages from Outlook Express folders.
• New "RFC822 Compilant Files" accounts type was added for processing messages from files in RFC822-format, which are placed in directory.
• New "Unix Compatible Mailbox File" accounts type was added for processing messages from file in the Unix Mailbox format.
• New "Dictionary Condition" component was added which is used to check conditions in the specified text source using dictionary.
• New "Read Only" flag was added in rule properties, it's used to protect rules from editing.
• New "Change directory to DLL location" flag was added to the "Run Dynamic Library" component.
• New "Use Regular Expressions" flag was added in the "Simple Condition" component.
• Message processing was improved for POP3 accounts, so its speed increased.
• Fixed error occuring when large quantity of messages from POP3 servers are processed in the Broker Mode.
• All known bugs were fixed.

Version 1.05beta1 — released on August 21, 2001

• Fixed compatibility bug in "HTML Printer" component.
• Possibility of usage file wildcards in attachments was added to "SMTP Sender" component.
• Possibility of usage "Output Variable" in "Template" was added to "Set Value By Template" component.
• Several small bugs were fixed.

Version 1.05beta — released on August 15, 2001

• New components group "Iterators" was added.
• New "Word Iterator" component was added.
• New "Line Iterator" component was added.
• New "Block Iterator" component was added.
• New "Regular Expression Iterator" component was added.
• New "Iterator Stopper" component was added.
• New "Next Iteration" component was added.
• New "Dictionary Filter" component was added.
• New "HTTP Reader" component was added.
• New "HTML Printer" component was added.
• Option "Include Defined Text into Result" was added to "Block Parser".
• Option "Continue Until Defined Text or End of Source" was added to "Block Parser".
• Option "Ignore Empty Blocks" was added to "Block Parser".
• Option "Include Defined Text into Result" was added to "Line Parser".
• Option "Return Full String" was added to "Line Parser".
• Option "Ignore Empty Strings" was added to "Line Parser".
• All known bugs were fixed.

Version 1.04 — released on July 14, 2001

• Fixed serious bug with Windows NT - AEP could hang without any warnings.

Version 1.03 — released on July 6, 2001

• Work with attachments was added by using "Attachments Writer". Now they can be saved on disk for processing with other applications.
• Ability to send messages with attachments was added to "SMTP Sender".
• New options were added to "SMTP Sender" to support national languages.
• New tab "Advanced" was added to "Regular Expressions" parser.
• Capability to send e-mails from prepared template was added to "SMTP Sender" (i.e. you can "Load Message" and it will make all necessary work: split all message fields into headers and body - this is a simple way to send HTML messages with AEP).
• New options were added to "Advanced" program setiings to support national languages.
• International headers conversion was added. No more subjects like "=?ISO-8859-1?B?SWYgeW91IGNhbiByZWFkIHRoaXMgeW8=?="
• New "Text Body" text source was added to all parsers.
• New "HTML Body" text source was added to all parsers.
• New "Full Message" text source was added to all parsers.
• New "All Headers" text source was added to all parsers.
• Added message body conversion. You can work with message body as is, no more "=3D", no more invalid encodings for "Text Body" and "HTML Body" sources.
• Now you can install AEP as Windows NT or Windows 2000 service.
• Reducing memory usage for working with large messages.
• Lot of known bugs were fixed and "Stack Overflow" error finally fixed too.

Version 1.02 — released on May 28, 2001

• New tab "Advanced" added to program settings
• Option "Queue Processing Priority" added to general settings
• Minor improvements for components drag&drop and rule creation
• Several small bugs were fixed.

Version 1.01 — released on May 23, 2001

• New tab "Prompts" added to program settings
• Confirmation for object deletion was added
• Improved Drag&Drop for rule list
• Option "Double single quote in variables" added to Database Access
• Regular expressions added to Block Parser
• Regular expressions added to Line Parser
• Regular expressions added to all Filters
• Fixed bug with huge debug sessions
• Fixed bug with large message size
• Fixed bug with large messages amount
• Fixed bug with "Leave messages on server" for broker mode
• Reducing memory usage for debug data
• Some other minor changes and adjustments
• Lot of other bugs were fixed

Version 1.0 — released on April 27, 2001

• Improved log system.
• New general option "Clean up log at startup" added.
• Some other minor changes, adjustments, and fixes.

Version 0.92 — released on April 18, 2001

• Perl Script Component added.
• Pyton Script Component added.
• Ruby Script Component added.
• New general option "Keep debug events for the several last days" added.
• Several small bugs were fixed.

Version 0.91 — first public version, released on April 9, 2001