Coadunation 1.5.0.B1 has been released. This version includes an Email Server, Web Mail Frontend, DNS Server, Web Administration Console, some bug fixes and optimizations. This allows Coadunation to be a platform independent server that supplies an end to end mail and dns solution for small to large users.

Extending on is core foundation, that allows the quick and easy development and deployment of self contained daemons and web applications. The Email Server and DNS servers implemented for Coadunation supply the following functionalities:

DNS Server

• Primary DNS Sever
• Secondary DNS Server with Zone Transfer support
• Recursive lookups
• DNS Caching
• Zone Modifications take affect in real time (No Stopping and Starting of the daemon is necessary)
• Web Administation via the Coadunation Adminstation console
• Java RMI api to manage DNS server
• Web Service api to manage DNS server

Email Server

• SMTP
• Maildir backend store
• Database user store
• IMAP4
• POP3
• Web Mail Access via a Web2.0 mail client
• Fetchmail Process
• Web Administation via the Coadunation Adminstation console
• RMI API to manage both Email Server and Fretchmail processes.
• Web Services to manage both Email Server and Fretchmail processes
• Mail processes is easily extended vi a routing file. (This means it is possible to writer other daemons and have them process incoming mail, for viruses, spam etc. With out the need to spawn other processes such as spam assassin to process the mail)

Along with these new daemons are a set of core improvements have been made such as:

• The addition of Java Annotations to the MX Bean interfaces allowing the Web Console to contain detailed information on any method displayed on the frontend.
• The addition of a guaranteed deployment order to daemons.
• Transaction propagation across RMI links.
• Fixed various bugs to do with the containers within Coadunation.
• Changed the XML user store so that changes can be made at runtime and not require a restart.
• Improvements have been made to the install process to automate the setup of the Email and DNS servers.