The blog has been kind of quiet lately but we’ve been VERY busy at work. If you haven’t noticed there have been many improvements to Email On-Demand over the past months including a new interface with beautiful reporting, a new API and many other new and improved user-friendly features. On-Premise customers don’t worry, we have been working hard on Hurricane MTA Server too.

Hurricane MTA Server is more important to us than ever now, since we are using it to power our SocketLabs Email On-Demand solution. This has led to several innovations and improvements in Hurricane MTA Server. Lately we have been working under-the-hood, strengthening the foundation of Hurricane MTA Server for future growth and leverage.

The latest production release of Hurricane MTA Server was pushed out quietly earlier this month but contained some really big improvements including:

• Support for running natively in 64-bit mode now allows Hurricane MTA Server access to much more RAM, increasing performance dramatically.
• Fully upgraded the backend statistical database to further increase its performance and scalability.
• Totally replaced the internals of the bounce and failure processing and analysis to provide much more accurate and specific bounce and failure codes.

Each of these items were a massive undertaking for us in their own right and we have been working on them for over a year. It is really great to finally see them come to fruition.

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A new update pushed out last night brings full timezone support to the SocketLabs Email On-Demand control panel.

Previously all times displayed were Eastern time. Now your dates and times are displayed and treated according to the local timezone of the computer you are using to view the data!

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Last night we rolled out an updated SocketLabs Email On-Demand API with the following new functionality:

• A new messagesOpenClick method can be used to get information on each message open or click event.
• Full timezone support. By default the API now retrieves dates and times as UTC, however a new timeZone parameter enables developers to specify their own local offset to UTC, and the dates and times in the returned data will be automatically converted.
• API documentation is now published in HTML and viewable online.

You can view the latest API documentation here:

http://www.socketlabs.com/od/api

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