It’s been an eventful month for us here at Lucatec: We started by publishing Lucatec® Mask 2.3.8, another Minor Service Release that fixes a number of minor issues as well as one major issue that a small number of customers had been experiencing for a while now: Error messages on Outlook startup like “Cannot set allocations” or “Failed to load core – Invalid access to memory location” should hopefully be a thing of the past with this release. (Lucatec® Mask 2.3.8 Release Notes)
The really big news however is that we also have a brandnew major release!
Lucatec® Mask 3.0
Effective immediately, Lucatec® Mask 3.0.0 is available for download and purchase and it sports the following big new features:
Signature Enhancements
We’ve seriously tuned the signature insertion feature:
External Signature Synchronization
You can now put your team’s signature files on a network share and let Lucatec® Mask automatically synchronize your local Outlook signatures with the external ones, thus allowing you to easily manage your team’s signatures in a central location.
Expandable Macros
To make those signatures even more versatile and resuable you can now also use expandable placeholders, e.g. to dynamically insert the name and address of the current user or even to include content from an external file, for instance a common legal disclaimer or rotating ads.
Default Naming Rules
Rather than adjusting the Folder Options of every single mailbox and Public Folder, you can now simply define a simple rule to determine the name of the signature to use. This can massively reduce the configuration effort: All you have to do is consistently name your signatures: For instance, inside a mailbox called “Support”, Lucatec® Mask will by default try to insert a signature named “Support Signature”.
Enhanced integration with Outlook 2010
As already glimpsed in the previous blog entry Lucatec® Mask 3.0.0 now fully integrates with Outlook 2010′s new Backstage View, thus allowing you quicker access to Lucatec® Mask‘s configuration. So far we are quite happy with the new experience. How about you?
Multi-language user interface
The language of the user interface can now be switched at runtime. Also, multiple languages are supported by a single installation. This is especially useful in multi-user environments like Citrix- or Terminal Server.
We’ve also already prepared the system for integrating user-supplied translations. If you’re interested in translating Lucatec® Mask into your language: Get in touch!
Stay tuned as we update the site with more details about the new version in the coming weeks.
