new Email Responder: improved design, Win7 and Outlook 2010 support

Feb 1, 2010

This release mainly addresses functional changes that make this product more convenient –a  new improved toolbar, new status icons that show current auto-reply/auto-forward status, some other minor usability issues). Several other major issues were fixed – auto-reply when calendar status is “Free”, and failure to work with latest Windows MSN/Live Messenger.
Functional Updates:

The "Auto-reply" column has been added in the "Email Responder" tab in Options. You can now quickly check and manage sending of auto-reply for each status.

The updated status icons now show if auto-reply and/or auto-forward is currently ena6bled. The Status icon in Windows notification area and in Outlook toolbar now provides additional information if auto-reply or auto-forward is enabled according to the current status.

Re-designed toolbar and menus. You can manage your statuses easier with the new re-designed toolbar and menu.

Ability to quickly enable/disable the auto-response functionality has been added. You can now quickly disable or enable the auto-reply and/or auto-forward functionality by simply clicking  the toolbar or double-clicking  the icon in Windows notification area.

Support of Windows 7 and Outlook 2010. The Product was tested on Windows 7 and updated to support Outlook 2010 already. A new separate tab now appears in Outlook 2010

A confirmation message is added when resetting templates in the "Manage Autoresponse Templates" dialog

Explanation texts and option descriptions are re-written in some dialogs
Issues Fixed:

By default the auto-response message was sent when in the "Free" status taken from Outlook Calendar

Auto-reply and auto-forward messages were sent to e-mails detected by Outlook as "junk"

In some cases 2 auto-replies would be sent to one new e-mail message

The Application toolbar and menu would not appear if more than one Outlook window is open

E-mails were still auto-forwarded in some cases when the application was in "Disabled" status

The Status could not be taken from Windows Live Messenger on Windows XP