we had the same problem here and posted the question; wound up
being a bad address in the list that was autoreplying to the list
and this was triggering the additional posts...
look at the headers of the 1st received message, and compare that
to the headers of the additionally received messages
Hello,
Spammers have been targeting my server with no success. However, I am
constantly being bombarded and their TO list sometimes is 60, 70 or
even a 100 names long. Imail responds to each recipient with invalid
user messages which sometimes chokes the server. My questions are as
follows:
1.
It seems like we just started getting these messages with our recent
install of Declude Junkmail, but I am not sure if that is what it is or
not. That could just be a coincidence though.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:IMail_Forum-owner;list.ipswitch.com] On Behalf Of
Spammers have been targeting my server with no success. However, I am
constantly being bombarded and their TO list sometimes is 60, 70 or
even a 100 names long. Imail responds to each recipient with invalid
user messages which sometimes chokes the server.
We have setting in IMGate that
I was cleaning out the old web-based file attachments in the /spool/web/
directory and I got file sharing violation warnings when I tried to
delete some. They were both BRO*.tmp and IWM*.tmp files, nearly a month
old. Queue is clear and system has been rebooted since then.
Any ideas on (1)
Len:
Where did mime_header_checks come from?
Is this part of your advanced IMGate or are you just calling the
body_checks.regexp file something else?
Mike
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From: Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 7:26 PM
Subject: Re:
Wednesday, November 13, 2002 you wrote:
2. Is there a way to limit the number of recipients? After the first
X, Imail should stop processing recipients.
RSP Yes, there is a way. Searching the IMail Knowledge Base for recipients
RSP brings up http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-19990805-DM02.htm
Len:
Where did mime_header_checks come from?
it's an important new feature in recent postfix snapshots.
Is this part of your advanced IMGate or are you just calling the
body_checks.regexp file something else?
see above. there is now more than just header_ and body_ checks.
Len
To
It seems like we just started getting these messages with our recent
install of Declude Junkmail, but I am not sure if that is what it is or
not. That could just be a coincidence though.
Are you low on disk space? That has been known to cause blank E-mails.
2. Is there a way to limit the number of recipients? After the first
X, Imail should stop processing recipients.
Yes, there is a way. Searching the IMail Knowledge Base for recipients
brings up http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-19990805-DM02.htm .
Isn't the option for this under the SMTP
2. Is there a way to limit the number of recipients? After the first
X, Imail should stop processing recipients.
Yes, there is a way. Searching the IMail Knowledge Base for recipients
brings up http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-19990805-DM02.htm .
Isn't the option for this under the SMTP
Hi all,
I need to create a custom configuration where Imail server would give all its mail to
another SMTP server which IMO can better handle large queues. Is there a way to
specify a different port for the gateway? (the gateway software is on the same machine)
Thanks!
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It seems like we just started getting these messages with our recent
install of Declude Junkmail, but I am not sure if that is what it is or
not. That could just be a coincidence though.
Are you low on disk space? That has been known to cause blank E-mails.
Wouldn't a badly fragmented disk
No we have about 5.5G left on our OS partition and about 25G on the data
partition which is where Imail is installed to.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:IMail_Forum-owner;list.ipswitch.com] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 8:13 AM
To:
This has always been the case with my experiences as well. In fact after
this came up again, I downloaded the new Mozilla and tried it yesterday and
got the same results I have always gotten.
Travis W. Rabe
The Davidson Group
Technology Director
Work: (775) 832-8314 x108
Cell: (775) 250-6526
No we have about 5.5G left on our OS partition and about 25G on the data
partition which is where Imail is installed to.
Is there any pattern to the blank E-mails? All from the same IP address or
user? Is there a subject, or are they completely blank? At the bare
minimum, there should be
My new installation of KillerWebMail templates is exhibiting regular
problems in IE, but not Netscape. With each screen refresh, icons
randomly fail to load. However, if I waive my mouse over the bad
image placeholder, the image appears.
Also, the lefthand and bottom frames occassionally
I haven't noticed any pattern and none of them have subjects, body, or a
sender. I will check for a header next time I get one and let you know.
Thanks for the help!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:IMail_Forum-owner;list.ipswitch.com] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry
Sent:
Title: Mensagem
Hi
all,
I have a client that
are using Imail Server 7.13 with all patches applied, but some users have been
complanning about receiving duplicates e-mails, they are using POP3 connection,
and don´t leave message in the server.
I alredy the support
Team of Ipswitch and
has anyone had any trouble sending and receiving mail in a language
different than english?
i have a customer trying to communicate in Japanese. they are using
a pop client.
is there something we need to do on the mail server end. i called
tech support and they told me 7.13 is double byte
Then you could always run that defacto standard that most businesses
rely on every day SERVER called Exchange.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:IMail_Forum-owner;list.ipswitch.com]On Behalf Of Todd Holt
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 3:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wednesday, November 13, 2002 you wrote:
LC And as I've been involved with a lot of ISPs' mail systems, the volmes and
LC profile of abuses varies enormously, but ime I can't eve imagine any of
LC them eating all that spam, wasting all that bandwidth to unknown
LC users/nobody. But you hit the
Unfortunately this probably won't work as you cannot split the listener and
send port settings.The best it to run the gateway on a different machine.
Eric S
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From: Andrey Fyodorov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:36 AM
two possibilities:
A. they probably check their mail too often
B. they probably have multiple POP3 accounts conifgured in their Outlook profile to
connect to the same mailbox on the Imail server.
-Original Message-
From: Douglas Santos
Wednesday, November 13, 2002 you wrote:
ES You could set up Tar-pitting (slowing down the process between
ES accepting multiple rcpt To)
ES http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-19990805-DM01.htm
I do not believe, nor did my testing so indicate, that this would
help in the case of a
I have at least one AOL person who cannot send to the list they are
subscribed to. They can receive from the list just fine. Log snippet
below:
20021113 112504 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (CA28028C) [66.93.108.70] connect
64.12.136.165 port 62408
20021113 112504 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (CA28028C
Does this mean that the KillerWebMail templates only work properly
if a site uses IIS?
No, this is just a way of offloading image traffic to a secondary web
server, which could run on any platform. It is not necessary for KWM.
-Sandy
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Does this mean that the KillerWebMail templates only work
properly if a site uses IIS?
No... the broken image problem is infrequent, and has been improving in
every iteration of IMail. I haven't seen it too much in 7.13. You might
try /KWMimages/ in your config file, which is an absolute root
Hey guys,
Well, we've been plagued with the POP3D hangups ever since moving to the
new W2K machine, and we've been working with Ipswitch, who can't seem to
find the problem, and MS, which when the machine hangs, we do a mem dump and
send them the file, here's what they had to say, I wanted the
I need to create a custom configuration where Imail server would
give all its mail to another SMTP server which IMO can better handle
large queues. Is there a way to specify a different port for the
gateway? (the gateway software is on the same machine)
Yes. Use 127.0.0.1:port. This
These log lines are all SMTPD lines. This is incopming mail.
When IMail sends mail the log lines will say SMTP.
Dave
In reply to 13 Nov message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
First of all thanks for your help.
Here are the log records for your reference :-
11:12 00:00 SMTPD(4E78017E)
I updated the article. Hit Refresh to see changes today.
Dave MacMillan
Knowledge Base Content Manager
In reply to 13 Nov message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
2. Is there a way to limit the number of recipients? After the
first
X, Imail should stop processing recipients.
Yes, there is a way.
Scott,
The we have 32GB availible running on Win NT 4.0. Yesterday at 12:30 PM, we
received 1 each message to 4 addresses I monitor (info, support, sales and
webmaster at ableweb.net). The only thing in each message header was
X-UIDL: 337120358, 360, 362, 363 respectivly) No From, To, Sender,
Then you could always run that defacto standard that most businesses
rely on every day...Exchange.
I don't think you have your statistics right.
-Sandy
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The we have 32GB availible running on Win NT 4.0. Yesterday at 12:30
PM, we received 1 each message to 4 addresses I monitor (info,
support, sales and webmaster at ableweb.net).
Okay, check your logs for 12:30 yesterday. :)
If you can't catch these while still in the MBX file, the logs
Duplicate messages usually happen when the user goes to download there messages
from Outlook. And for some reason they loose there connection. When the
connection to the Mail server is loose
and the message is not sent back from the Email Program letting the mail
server know to clean up the
In IMail 6.06, can the kill list refuse connections from any server at a
domain? Can I put example.com in the list and have it refuse connections
from both mx1.example.com and mail.example.com? If not, is there
anyway to do this (assuming they have dynamic IPs).
Thanks,
Oblio
To
Scott,
I have Ipswitch Support looking into this as well. I only noticed it
appearing after upgrading to 7.13 with hotfixes. I sent them the SMTP
logfile, Inbox as well as the messages themselves. They will let me know
when they have a chance to look at them.
Jim
AbleWEB Internet Services
no. What you put in there is a literal string. no wild cards allowed at this
time
Eric S
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From: Oblio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 3:29 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] v6.x Kill list Q.
In IMail 6.06, can the kill list refuse
Perhaps I did not look hard enough in the Imail knowledgebase,
however, since I could not track it down I figured I would ask.
I was wondering if there was a way to write a script using the
Imail Web server? Is their some sort of programming language
or reference besides the Imail Web tags?
No, not with the IMail kill list. You'd have to put the full domain in.
tom
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From: Oblio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:29 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] v6.x Kill list Q.
: In IMail 6.06, can the kill list refuse
Here's a fairly current 'free' copy of PktFilter:
http://www.famhost.com/pktfilter.zip copyright notices are maintained within
the distribution package.
~Rick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:IMail_Forum-owner;list.ipswitch.com]On Behalf Of Len Conrad
Sent:
After doing some further thinking you should be able to specify the
different port in the gateway address in the SMTP setup (111.222.333.444:26)
this will send all remote mail to the gateway address (same machine
different port). Let me know if this works
Eric S
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From:
20021113 112504 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (CA28028C) [66.93.108.70] connect
64.12.136.165 port 62408
20021113 112504 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (CA28028C) [64.12.136.165] EHLO
imo-m10.mx.aol.com
20021113 112504 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (CA28028C) [64.12.136.165]
unacceptable mail address in MAIL From:[EMAIL
And there is a setting in IMail to limit the number of valid
recipients per SMTPD session, but I think it's only for SMTP
outbound sessions. See IMail7 u/g page 270.
No, it's for SMTPD inbound sessions (SMTPD only handles inbound
sessions). You are correct that it only
the MaxRCPTPerMessage that this article refers to is for outgoing
mail not for incoming mail and as such would not help in the case of
a dictionary attack.
No, it's for incoming mail, but it only limits valid addresses.
-Sandy
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Clueing in on at this time. -- is there a chance for domain wide
killing?
Maybe something like:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - kill individual account
@mail.sleazy.com - kill specific server
*.sleazy.com - kill domain
Would be nice.
John
Eric Shanbrom wrote:
no. What you put in there is a literal
I need to create a custom configuration where Imail server would
give all its mail to another SMTP server which IMO can better handle
large queues. Is there a way to specify a different port for the
gateway? (the gateway software is on the same machine)
Yes. Use 127.0.0.1:port. This
Andrey-
I am also getting duplicate messages sporadically.
A. My mail client (MS Outlook 2002) checks the server once every 15 minutes.
B. There is only one POP3 account configured in this Outlook profile.
I haven't spent much time on this yet, but going from that information, I
would
Scott,
I can forward a copy of what I sent them as well as my Declude config files
if necessary. I also have questions about whitelisting and will send them
separately to you.
Jim
AbleWEB Internet Services
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From: R. Scott Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
These log lines are all SMTPD lines. This is incopming mail. When
IMail sends mail the log lines will say SMTP.
But he's talking about incoming mail...
I read that he wants Imail to give/send all outbound to a better SMTP
service on the same machine, that is listening on non-25.
Len
I was wondering if there was a way to write a script using the
Imail Web server? Is their some sort of programming language
or reference besides the Imail Web tags? Like server side VB
or Java?
No, all you have is the tags, which do contain some limited conditional
loop features. See the
Perhaps I did not look hard enough in the Imail knowledgebase,
however, since I could not track it down I figured I would ask.
You didn't look in the archives.
I was wondering if there was a way to write a script using the
Imail Web server? Is their some sort of programming language
The we have 32GB availible running on Win NT 4.0. Yesterday at 12:30 PM, we
received 1 each message to 4 addresses I monitor (info, support, sales and
webmaster at ableweb.net).
That's a big clue -- it is almost certainly a spammer, if it was sent to
those 4 addresses.
Hi,
It might be the Norton 2003 problem. I have had a user that kept sending
mail and it kept disapearing. Outlook Express would set up a mail session, I
could see it in the IMail log. However at the point when the data is
supposed to be sent nothing happens. There seems to have been a bug in
SMTPGeneral Send all mail through gateway
Gateway address 127.0.0.1:other port
Eric S
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From: Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SMTP gateway. Can I tell it to use port 26?
I
Fixed it. Thanks,
-Stein
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Sandy, that's the SMTPD listen-on port, not the SMTP send-to port,
on p 271.
No, it's the way to specify alternate routing (as later accepted by
Eric). The listen port is set in the Registry.
where to set SMTP to send to non-25?
As above.
-Sandy
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Bonno,
We're not running Norton. We're running McAfee. I'll check those logs as
well.
Jim
AbleWEB Internet Services
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From: Bonno Bloksma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Blank Email
I read that he wants Imail to give/send all outbound to a better
SMTP service on the same machine, that is listening on non-25.
You're on the wrong thread.
-Sandy
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Your virus scanner should not be watching the imail\spool directory as that
could cause the blank email problem. You shouldn't let it look at the users
directory either.
Tripp
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From: Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 6:16
What does the first part of this log mean? Anyone have any ideas? (the
part where it repeats SMTP32-FWD by mail.esc6.net)
Received: from SMTP32-FWD by mail.esc6.net
(SMTP32) id A09A8; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 09:09:05 -0600
Received: from SMTP32-FWD by mail.esc6.net
(SMTP32) id A05C0; Thu,
I haven't spent much time on this yet, but going from that
information, I would say that there IS another possibility. When I
figure out the cause, I will post it.
Export your PST file to a new PST and observe the results. Since the
UIDL cache (where downloaded UIDLs are
I am also getting duplicate messages sporadically.
A. My mail client (MS Outlook 2002) checks the server once every 15 minutes.
B. There is only one POP3 account configured in this Outlook profile.
I haven't spent much time on this yet, but going from that information, I
would say that there
I was wondering if there was a way to write a script using the
Imail Web server? Is their some sort of programming language
or reference besides the Imail Web tags? Like server side VB
or Java?
No, all you have is the tags, which do contain some limited conditional
loop features.
Hi Travis
Yes, I have seen this as well. If you go to mozilla.org and clock on the
bugzilla links, it will take you to a section where they list this as a
problem. It is very prevalent in Mozilla 1.1 and a little less prevalent in
Netscape 6 and 7. In all of the troubleshooting I have done, I
Now today when I test I have duplicated the problem. Strange. I wonder if
Outlook or any other IMAP client has this problem too. There have always been
issues with NS4 IMAP and iMail (e.g. inline JPG doesn't load), but know it
looks like Moz has different ones. I have used both NS4 and Moz
I have never had any problems with Outlook using IMAP. Eudora has also
worked well in the past. The only time I have seen this come up is with
Netscape 7.0 and Mozilla.
Travis W. Rabe
The Davidson Group
Technology Director
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on the wishlist
Eric S
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From: John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] v6.x Kill list Q.
Clueing in on at this time. -- is there a chance for domain wide
killing?
Maybe something
A client claims that messages are not in the Sent folder that should be. He
maintains that numerous messages have been sent via the web interface with
Preferences for Save copy of outgoing messages in Sent Folder set to
Yes. Has anyone experienced this behavior? Is there anything in the logs
...an orphaned Critical Section, or Critsec, that the thread using
the critsec exited without releasing the critsec...
Chances are that that the unreleased CS is a symptom, not the cause of
your problem. Armed with this possibility, Ipswitch could do a quick
code review and check to
In IMail 6.06, can the kill list refuse connections from any server
at a domain?
The KILL.LST does not refuse connections from servers based on the
HELO/EHLO announcement. It refuses based on the SMTP envelope MAIL
FROM:. Keep this in mind when reading other posts in this thread.
SMTPGeneral Send all mail through gateway
Gateway address 127.0.0.1:other port
this must be 127.0.0.1? can't be a remote ip?
Len
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You didn't look in the archives.
I did, just not hard enough. The key words I used kept pulling up
other un-related items and I got tired reading everything. I did
not see anything about being able to write a script or not.
I was wondering if there was a way to write a script using the
the last duplicate e-mail was received at 10:10am.
Since this time, no more duplicate e-mails.
This was taken from the Imail log for the 8:09am email:
20021113 080901 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (04690066) [64.169.228.40] connect
156.21.1.21 port 4213
20021113 080901 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (04690066
Hello all. I do apologize if is this topic has been
covered in your discussions.
As anew user, I am very confused on how to
setup my Aliases, Lists and configure imailsrv2.pl to run a Discussion Forum. Is
there a step by step guide where I can refer to? I am not sure how all these
three
this must be 127.0.0.1? can't be a remote ip?
No, it can be any IP, of course. That's just the syntax. In this case,
Andrey wrote:
(the gateway software is on the same machine)
-Sandy
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Thank you Sandy!
I will try this as soon as I get a chance.
Eric
Eric Stevenson
Network Administrator
New West Products, Inc.
7510 Airway Road, Ste. 4
San Diego, CA 92154
(619) 671-9022 x239
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
were not sent twice.
This was taken from the Imail log for the 8:09am email:
20021113 080901 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (04690066) [64.169.228.40] connect
156.21.1.21 port 4213
20021113 080901 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (04690066) [156.21.1.21] EHLO
list.ipswitch.com
20021113 080901 127.0.0.1
Hi,
Does anyone know of a tool that will report daily on the amount of email
sent to and received by a user. It should generate a text delimited file or
better still interface with an ODBC database.
Thanks.
Glen.
AQUARIUS
Hello All,
This is really just an F.Y.I. but comments are welcome.
I have already spoken to IPSwitch about this one. Their support staff
was able to reproduce the problem and it has been passed (So I was told)
onto development.
In a nutshell, when you have a List group that is configured for
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