We received the following message today from Postini, which affects all users of our Postini spam filtering service:

Postini is pleased to announce that the next release of Postini's email perimeter protection service is scheduled to rollout on Thursday, August 1st. This release will incorporate several enhancements to the Message Center and its settings, based on the feedback from you and your users. The rollout of this new functionality will not interrupt your Postini services. You will see these changes late in the day on Thursday, August 1st.

The key enhancements in this release include:

- Enhanced spam filter controls, giving users increased flexibility to personalize the filters.

- A more intuitive and streamlined process to automate approving senders and mailing lists after a message is delivered and read.

- Improved trash functionality, including the ability to empty the trash.

- New, cleaner message center layout.

- The ability to delete all messages at once.