Oracle® Collaboration Suite Release Notes 10g Release 1 (10.1.2) for Solaris Operating System Part Number B25473-22 |
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This chapter summarizes release note issues associated with Oracle Mail. This chapter contains the following sections:
Note: This document was updated on February 23, 2007. Additional updates and new information can be found in Note 415183.1 on http://metalink.oracle.com. |
Directory Cache: Enables faster lookup when using the Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g WebMail client
Oracle Contacts: This new feature for Oracle Collaboration Suite enables Oracle Mail users to utilize a Suite-wide address book
New archiving policies enable archiving of users' messages in a third-party storage facility
New routing control features reject messages based e-mail attachments
Recovery of deleted e-mails
Message recall enables administrators to locate messages in a Collaboration Suite Database and move those messages to a specified folder for further analysis
Note: Other new features can be obtained by applying Oracle Calendar server 10.1.2.x Cumulative Patches. These new features are listed in Section 2.2, "Oracle Calendar Server Cumulative Patches". |
Table 8-1 lists resolved issues in Oracle Mail.
Table 8-1 Resolved Issues in Oracle Mail
Description | Resolved In | Bug Number |
---|---|---|
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: SMTP Inbound did not accept mail for "Postmaster". |
10.1.2 |
2949014 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: SMTP log messages should have included message IDs. |
10.1.2 |
3022376 |
Oracle Mail Administration: A script was required to add information store targets to the |
10.1.2 |
3977203 |
Oracle WebMail Client: Enhancement needed to support mail attribute in private distribution lists. |
10.1.2 |
4038589 |
Oracle Mail Installation: Sanity check for Oracle Mail packages was missing. |
10.1.2 |
4043631 |
Oracle Mail Administration: Japanese rewriting rules description was indecipherable in the Configure Routing Control screen in the Policy subtab of the Administration tab in the Oracle WebMail client. |
10.1.2 |
4063194 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: Sending a message such as |
10.1.2 |
4188644 |
Oracle WebMail Client: Users received two copies of the same message. |
10.1.2 |
4216258 |
Distribution List Management: If an administrator added a user suspended from a distribution list again, the table displayed the distribution list twice. |
10.1.2 |
4227552 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: Some accounts had the following message display: Some messages could not be downloaded. |
10.1.2 |
4258895 |
Oracle WebMail Client:Inserted the last inserted image even if the Upload File text box is empty. |
10.1.2 |
4287654 |
Oracle WebMail Client: In Oracle WebMail, when accessing discussions in the shared folders page or accessing items with subitems, clicking the link failed while opening the folder. The following error displayed: An error occurred. |
10.1.2 |
4293221 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: There was a 15 minute delay for public folders to display. |
10.1.2 |
4321322 |
Oracle Mail C-APIs: IMAP dumped core during GETACL when shared folder length was 1022 characters. |
10.1.2 |
4336454 |
Oracle Mail Administration: LogMiner-based recovery for a message failed if the message was sent to multiple users. |
10.1.2 |
4383657 |
Oracle Mail Administration: Restore using |
10.1.2 |
4401272 |
Oracle WebMail Client: Return To Portal link was not present in Oracle WebMail. |
10.1.2 |
4420983 |
Oracle Mail Administration: Instructions in the Oracle Mail Administrator's Guide for creating server-side rules with |
10.1.2 |
4450542 |
Oracle Mail Administration: Notification message from mailer daemon was not translated. |
10.1.2 |
4453262 |
Oracle Mail Administration: There was a mis-translation for Japanese in the Mail Administration screen. |
10.1.2 |
4462183 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: Unsubscribe message generated by bounce processing was not correct in some cases. |
10.1.2 |
4463242 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: Japanese multiple-byte name indecipherable in delivery status notification. |
10.1.2 |
4464756 |
Oracle Mail PL/SQL SDK: Enabling e-mail text indexing broke partial word search on e-mail header fields. |
10.1.2 |
4477343 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: ERROR = ORA-00001: Unique constraint (ES_MAIL.PK_LIST_CMD) violated |
10.1.2 |
4481215 |
Oracle Mail Administration: Virus Scrubber using SAVSE filter did not work. |
10.1.2 |
4481482 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: There was a SQL exception in |
10.1.2 |
4481792 |
Oracle Mail Administration: Disallowed headers were not shown properly in UI. |
10.1.2 |
4483022 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: ESDS process threw null pointer exception. |
10.1.2 |
4483159 |
Oracle Mail Administration: Application error occurred in the Apply Filter page. |
10.1.2 |
4484619 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: Attachment file names with a semicolon character were not handled properly by OJMA. |
10.1.2 |
4485111 |
Oracle Mail Administration: Could not edit the newsgroup properties from the List Edit or View List Properties pages. |
10.1.2 |
4485441 |
Oracle Mail Administration: Context sensitive help was not available during configuration of Oracle Mail. |
10.1.2 |
4485674 |
Oracle WebMail Client: A message saved as a draft in Oracle Connector for Outlook could not be opened in Oracle WebMail. |
10.1.2 |
4486060 |
Oracle Mail PL/SQL SDK: Search results page showed content types of messages in message body. |
10.1.2 |
4486425 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: ISO-2022-JP variant parameter did not work. |
10.1.2 |
4488120 |
Oracle WebMail Client: Could not read messages in Oracle WebMail if folder name contained a |
10.1.2 |
4488199 |
Oracle Mail PL/SQL SDK: Searching messages by Unread status in shared folders was not working. |
10.1.2 |
4490821 |
Oracle Mail Installation: Upgrade threw errors saying schema name conflicted with |
10.1.2 |
4490893 |
Oracle Mail Administration: Javascript error occurred on List Server process page in Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control Console. |
10.1.2 |
4491032 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: Messages' received date was changed after backup and restore. |
10.1.2 |
4492896 |
Oracle WebMail Client: Korean read receipt message sent using Oracle WebMail used MS949 instead of EUC-KR. |
10.1.2 |
4495014 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: HTML message body with two quotation marks ("") disappeared after it was replied to or forwarded. |
10.1.2 |
4495432 |
Oracle Mail Installation: Needed support for custom SSL factory for LDAP connection pool. |
10.1.2 |
4496459 |
Oracle Mail C-APIs: |
10.1.2 |
4496599 |
Oracle Mail Administration: When peers were deleted, all other available peers were set as current peers. |
10.1.2 |
4498864 |
Oracle Mail Administration: SMTP Inbound and Outbound Include Complete Error Message In DSN parameter value reverted back to True after value was changed to False. |
10.1.2 |
4501342 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: User could not open a public folder in OJMA. |
10.1.2 |
4503365 |
Oracle WebMail Client: Japanese member name indecipherable when mail was sent to an Oracle Connector for Outlook distribution list with Japanese members. |
10.1.2 |
4503725 |
Oracle Mail C-APIs: Milter sample code did not compile on Linux. |
10.1.2 |
4504366 |
Oracle Mail PL/SQL SDK: |
10.1.2 |
4510306 |
Oracle Mail Installation: After upgrade from Oracle Collaboration Suite 9.0.3.1 to Oracle Collaboration Suite 10.1.1, the default values were missing in Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control Console. |
10.1.2 |
4510460 |
Oracle WebMail Client: Oracle WebMail page threw null pointer exception after upgrade from Oracle Collaboration Suite 9.0.4.2 to Oracle Collaboration Suite 10.1.1. |
10.1.2 |
4513034 |
Oracle Mail Administration: Reject NNTP Inbound Routing Control policy page had wrong column header. |
10.1.2 |
4514956 |
Oracle Mail Administration: Oracle Internet Directory port showed incorrectly on review page in component configuration wizard. |
10.1.2 |
4515186 |
Oracle Mail Administration: Could not clear spam settings for an Applications Tier by copying it from an Applications Tier for which spam settings were not set. |
10.1.2 |
4516696 |
Oracle Mail Installation: Oracle Mail information store configuration assistant failed when run against a remote Oracle Database 10g, 10.2. |
10.1.2 |
4524106 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: The |
10.1.2 |
4528346 |
Oracle Mail Administration: Maximum Time Interval parameter was mislabeled in the Policy page of the Oracle WebMail client. |
10.1.2 |
4531871 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: Garbage collector slept indefinitely for collection queue. |
10.1.2 |
4532960 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: A rule created in Microsoft Outlook would not function. |
10.1.2 |
4536414 |
Oracle Mail Installation: Oracle Mail configuration assistant failed because of SQL string length limit. |
10.1.2 |
4538565 |
Oracle Mail Installation: Oracle Mail configuration assistant did not support non-e-mail tablespaces in raw mapfile. |
10.1.2 |
4539472 |
Oracle WebMail Client: Three of the same Polish prefix names were displayed in the Contact Prefix field. |
10.1.2 |
4539916 |
Oracle WebMail Client: Images and text attached inline in a message body could not be downloaded from Oracle WebMail. |
10.1.2 |
4540042 |
Oracle Mail Administration: Housekeeper would not run the tasks immediately when |
10.1.2 |
4540093 |
Oracle WebMail Client: Deliver filter was not working. |
10.1.2 |
4541258 |
Oracle Mail Installation: During the Applications tier upgrade from Oracle Collaboration Suite 9.0.4.2 to Oracle Collaboration Suite 10.1.1, the Oracle Collaboration Suite Upgrade Assistant failed with a null pointer exception. |
10.1.2 |
4542997 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: List Server threw error 1100 when processing invalid unsubscribe address. |
10.1.2 |
4549455 |
Oracle Mail Administration: UA title was not translated into Norwegian and there was invalid HTML in the title tag. |
10.1.2 |
4549603 |
Oracle Mail Administration: UA had broken copyright statement in Korean Oracle WebMail administration online help. |
10.1.2 |
4549783 |
Oracle WebMail Client: Default spellcheck language differed from language selected during login. |
10.1.2 |
4552142 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: Envelope journal needed a tab in front of recipients to comply with RFC 822. |
10.1.2 |
4555887 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: MIME utility calls were routed to JDK implementation instead of GDK. |
10.1.2 |
4558685 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: IMAP log file showed MTEXT bad flags. |
10.1.2 |
4559200 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: |
10.1.2 |
4559391 |
Oracle WebMail Client: Users could not subscribe from View All Lists page. |
10.1.2 |
4560429 |
Oracle WebMail Client: Javascript error occurred on View Subscribed Lists page in Internet Explorer 6.0. |
10.1.2 |
4560502 |
Oracle WebMail Client: Oracle WebMail should have used |
10.1.2 |
4562490 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: |
10.1.2 |
4564063 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: New strings needed to be translated in |
10.1.2 |
4565199 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: Discussion shared folder produced a SELECT error from the Oracle WebMail client. |
10.1.2 |
4565563 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: Follow-up issue from bug 4205704; essmo ORA-06502 host bind array too small. |
10.1.2 |
4568261 |
Oracle WebMail Client: There was no option available to remove a grantee from a shared folder. |
10.1.2 |
4571824 |
Oracle Mail Installation: Error occurred installing Oracle Mail schema in an existing database. |
10.1.2 |
4573898 |
Oracle Mail Installation: Collaboration Suite Database configuration failed for non-default Collaboration Suite Database. |
10.1.2 |
4579926 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: Default value for IMAP |
10.1.2 |
4584235 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: IMAP parameter Allow Clear Text Login description was wrong in Oracle Mail Administrator's Guide. |
10.1.2 |
4589625 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: Unable to route user using migration tool after pre-migration was performed. |
10.1.2 |
4591288 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: Error occurred during migration to Oracle Mail 10g due to migration parsing information error. |
10.1.2 |
4592926 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: |
10.1.2 |
4596774 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: |
10.1.2 |
4596803 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: Needed to make a change in filter/antispam reject reply codes in SMTP. |
10.1.2 |
4597129 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: Markerline was malformed in shell for some e-mail messages. |
10.1.2 |
4598338 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: STORE command with UID did not include the UID message data. |
10.1.2 |
4598452 |
Oracle WebMail Client: Header's charset name was |
10.1.2 |
4600853 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: |
10.1.2 |
4602270 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: List Server should use unique values/strings for boundary. |
10.1.2 |
4615709 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: After a folder was shared with a directory user, a blank sharee list displayed. |
10.1.2 |
4621404 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: |
10.1.2 |
4626390 |
Oracle Mail Installation: It was necessary to pass ORACLE_HOME as a system property. |
10.1.2 |
4628954 |
Oracle Mail Installation: Collaboration Suite Database configuration assistant failed with undiscovered Javaexception. |
10.1.2 |
4628984 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: Could not post a message in which the last character of the subject is a question mark (?). |
10.1.2 |
4633489 |
Oracle Mail PL/SQL SDK: Enhancement: ESDS PL/SQL interface for quota management. |
10.1.2 |
4636988 |
Oracle Mail Java SDK: OCSAPI mail did not return message text for particular message. |
10.1.2 |
4638259 |
Oracle Mail Protocol Servers: Needed to change descriptive message for SMTP error code 550. |
10.1.2 |
4640324 |
Oracle Mail Installation: Oracle Mail Applications tier configuration assistant was failing on Windows Applications tier installation. |
10.1.2 |
4649124 |
Oracle Mail Installation: |
10.1.2 |
4653627 |
Oracle Mail Installation: Collaboration Suite Database configuration assistant failed during infrastructure upgrade. |
10.1.2 |
4665037 |
Oracle Mail Administration: Online help was not working. |
10.1.2 |
4674744 |
Searches of Attachments in Different Character Sets
When you perform a search for attachment names, search behavior is determined by the character set used by the Oracle Mail server to build the search index. In other words, if the characters you are searching for are not found in the character set used by the Oracle Mail server to build the search index, the attachment will not be found.
Base Users with Multiple Mail IDs
Base users having multiple mail IDs cannot be managed from the centralized provisioning framework in Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g. Users that have multiple mail IDs cannot be managed from Oracle Delegated Administration Services, hence Oracle WebMail must be used to manage such users.
Sharing Public E-mail Folders with a Domain
Shared public e-mail folders available to an entire domain can be created using Oracle Connector for Outlook, only.
See Also: "Creating Public Folders" in Appendix C of Oracle Mail Administrator's Guide for more information about creating shared folders |
Attachments and Caching with Microsoft Internet Explorer and Oracle WebMail
By default, neither attachments nor inline images are cached on the client's disk (for security and privacy reasons). Due to a bug in Internet Explorer, this prevents users from opening attachments inline using that browser. For example, clicking on a text attachment and selecting Open from the attachment dialog will fail (the default text editor application for the user will launch, and then generate an error that the file could not be found).
If you have deployed SSL, attempting to download attachments to disk will also fail.
Documentation of the details of this Microsoft Internet Explorer bug can be found in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:
"Internet Explorer Cannot Download" Error Message When You Use an HTTPS URL to Open an Office Document or PDF File:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812935
INFO: Prevent Caching When You Download Active Documents over SSL:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815313
Internet Explorer file downloads over SSL do not work with the cache control headers:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323308
There are two workarounds available for this issue; you can use a different browser, or, you can relax caching settings. For detailed instructions for relaxing caching settings, see "Security Issues Related to Microsoft Internet Explorer" in Chapter 2 of Oracle Collaboration Suite Security Guide.
The following table lists known issues in Oracle Mail.
Note: Fixes for known issues may be available in cumulative patches. For a list of available cumulative patch downloads and their installation order, see note 406284.1 on http://metalink.oracle.com. Each cumulative patch includes aREADME.html file that lists all bugs fixed. |
See Also: Chapter 2, "Oracle Collaboration Suite Cumulative Patch Release Notes", for information on cumulative patch new features and known issues. |
Table 8-2 Known Issues in Oracle Mail
Description | Action | Bug Number |
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Reconfirmation of an invitation to a distribution list fails if the reconfirmation is sent in Rich Text Format. |
Use plain text to send reconfirmation of an invitation. |
4162028 |
Oracle Discussions folders cannot be differentiated by case. |
Do not use case to differentiate between folders. |
4258365 |
Success, Failure, and Delay preambles do not appear in DSNs even when set. |
None |
4446226 |
IMAP cannot handle nested folder names, that exceed 990 characters. |
None |
4462743 |
Filters (such as virus scanners) no longer work after upgrading from Release 9.0.4. This is because in 9.0.4, filters needed to be defined for each server, while in 10gR1, filters can be defined in a central location and associated with multiple servers. The definitions of existing filters are converted to the new format but not automatically associated with the servers. |
Use the Admin Policy pages to associate the filters with the SMTP servers. |
4688288 |
DAS displays "Default" even when no archiving policy exists. |
None |
4484334 |
The number of lists for which a user is a member is displayed even when a search is performed by an individual with insufficient privileges to view that information. Because the searcher may not have the sufficient privileges to view all the lists for which a user is a member, there is a difference in the number of lists actually displayed to the count shown on the table. |
None |
4485186 |
Under heavy load, number of database connections from the Oracle Web Access client might be very high. |
You can change the database connection pool scheme used by the application to a fixed scheme by setting the property |
4485215 |
After a user is deprovisioned, changing the state of the user from inactive to active will not reprovision the user. |
To reprovision the user, an administrator must use Oracle Delegated Administration Services. |
4486586 |
SMTP Inbound dumps for DLs when multiple mailstore message insert mode is auto |
Enable submit mode or use default insert mode |
4489538 |
Spam control Reject Reasons are displayed partially when there is a carriage return. The Reject Reason after first carriage return is not displayed by Oracle WebMail. |
Use a single line for the spam error rejection reason value. |
4495683 |
Part of message headers sent by the List Server will appear in the message body. |
None |
4503517 |
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control Console online help was not working |
None |
4680974 |
Oracle Mail rejects messages that contain lines exceeding 4000 bytes. |
Maximum limit on the MIME line lengths can be set in the SMTP server For example, If no limit is set, the default maximum of 4000 bytes is assumed. If the limit is set below 1000 bytes (the RFC minimum), the default limit of 4000 bytes is assumed. If the limit is set above the maximum message size, the server rejects a message if its line size exceeds maximum message size. Oracle recommends that administrators evaluate what kinds of messages the site receives and set the appropriate limit using the previously mentioned SMTP parameter, if the default limit of 4000 bytes is not sufficient. While there is no limit on maximum line length, an unreasonably high limit is not recommended because it opens up the possibility of denial of service attacks. |
4743425 |
When installing a new Oracle Mail (10.1.2.3) on top of Oracle Mail (10.1.2) the configuration assistant fails because the install code expects an earlier version number (earlier than 10.1.2) from which to upgrade. |
Set the Oracle Internet Directory parameter |
5467535 |
The following table lists Oracle Mail globalization issues.
Note: Fixes for known issues may be available in cumulative patches. For a list of available cumulative patch downloads and their installation order, see note 406284.1 on http://metalink.oracle.com. Each cumulative patch includes aREADME.html file that lists all bugs fixed. |
See Also: Chapter 2, "Oracle Collaboration Suite Cumulative Patch Release Notes", for information on cumulative patch new features and known issues. |
Table 8-3 Globalization Issues in Oracle Mail
Description | Action | Bug Number |
---|---|---|
Traditional Chinese index entries in the Oracle WebMail administrator help page are displayed incorrectly with mixed Traditional Chinese characters and English words. |
None |
4389408 |
The subscription DSN message sent by an administrator is indecipherable. |
To prevent this problem, the distribution list administrator should add members by invitation. |
4477041 |
|
None |
4540467 |
Wrong encoding for Oracle WebMail online help in French, German, and Korean. |
None |
4681015 |
When sending a mail in Korean using the message character set ISO-2022-KR, the following error message displays: An error occurred: unable to create the new message. |
Use the EUC-KR character set. |
4684419 |
Note: Fixes for known issues may be available in cumulative patches. For a list of available cumulative patch downloads and their installation order, see note 406284.1 on http://metalink.oracle.com. Each cumulative patch includes aREADME.html file that lists all bugs fixed. |
See Also: Chapter 2, "Oracle Collaboration Suite Cumulative Patch Release Notes", for information on cumulative patch new features and known issues. |
Chapter 3, "Oracle Mail Servers" of Oracle Mail Administrator's Guide, page 3-39: The following example is erroneous and can be ignored:
Dear <orcl>recipient_full_name</orcl>, Your salary is <orcl>getSalary(recipient_mail_address)@dblink</orcl>. ...
Chapter 4, "Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g WebMail Client" of Oracle Mail Administrator's Guide: Oracle WebMail client properties can be edited in the OC4J_OCSClient
and OC4J_Mail
sections of the $ORACLE_HOME/opmn/config/opmn.xml
file, as necessary, in addition to the oc4j.properties
file.
Note: Any further editing tasks mentioned in the Oracle Mail Administrator's Guide of theoc4j.properties file must be done in the $ORACLE_HOME/opmn/config/opmn.xml file. |
The section "Editing SAVSE Filters" in Chapter 6 of Oracle Mail Administrator's Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1.2) contained erroneous information. This has been corrected.
Appendix F, "Oracle Mail Server Parameters and Log Files" of Oracle Mail Administrator's Guide, page F-33: The log file location in the Oracle Mail List Server Instance Debug Parameters section should be $ORACLE_HOME/oes/log/um_system/list
.
The following table lists Oracle Mail documentation issues:
Table 8-4 Documentation Issues in Oracle Mail
Description | Action | Bug Number |
---|---|---|
In situations where there is more than one Collaboration Suite Database, you must write an e-mail policy plug-in to create a user using Oracle Directory Integration and Provisioning in the second (not the default) Collaboration Suite Database. |
Check back here regularly for updates to this document for instructions on writing the e-mail policy plug-in. |
4335497 |