No worries, long thread that continued yesterday
afternoon/evening.
Tyler
PS.. I have passed on a lot of the information
discussed from yesterday to webtv.net. Being that they are in Mountain View CA
they probably haven't gotten to their email yet but it will be interesting to
see what
Sean,
Out of curiosity what type of nic do you use? Dell servers using Broadcom
nics are susceptible to SMTP problems.
Rick Davidson
National Systems Manager
North American Title Group
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From: Sean Diana [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April
Feature request:
Support for partial domain name in the access list.
as an example, if I wanted to block all mail from Mexico, I would only have to
enter mx or dotmx in the access list. examplemx REJECT
In the Linux mail systems, entering the mx in the access table for Postfix will
block
3com and everything was fine until we upgraded to 8.1HF2
Thank You,
Sean Diana
IT Department
Infosynch Inc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Davidson
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:40 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I continue to have a problem with an address on my white list being caught
by the URL Domain black list filters.
What version of IMail are you running? I believe that IMail v8.10 and
later have true whitelists, but previous versions had partial whitelists
(where the whitelist would force the
At 16:28 28/04/2004, you wrote:
For those of you who use ASSP with Imail to block spam, do you set ASSP
as the gateway for Imail?
No. ASSP is a proxy, set ASSP to port 25 to catch your mail, then set
IMail to port n25 (or any number that takes your fancy)
(Imail Admin - Services - SMTP -
you need to check the flow of mail coming in to Imail. If I remember
correctly if its in the white list it only skips some filters but not others
(i.e. inbound rules)
Thank You,
Sean Diana
IT Department
Infosynch Inc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From Matt and his admin at Microsoft
FYI every time I try and telnet smtpinvite.mx.webtv.net 25 this morning
I get the 421 error. Last night everyone was getting Connection Closed. What
are you getting now?
Tyler
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From: Matt Lariz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chris,
Yes I have done that, and it is all working fine, but I wonder about
webmail. By setting it up like this wouldn't mail sent via the web
interface not got through the proxy since it is sent directly through
Imail?
Nelson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
- Original Message -
From: R. Scott Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 07:14
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ANNOUNCEMENT FROM IPSWITCH - Update on 8.11
Just as a reminder, SPF has been available on the IMail platform since
December, 2003 --
Which of the below is the most acurate as to how a POP3 session
works?
B.
Why do you ask? This is basic TCP/IP application behavior.
--Sandy
Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist
Broadleaf Systems, a division of
Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc.
On Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 10:22:52, Tripp Allen wrote:
8.11 should be released in days. Below are the release notes.
...
o Antispam: When normalization is turned off for the phrase filter,
the following characters will be treated as delimiters:
: ;:,.%!{}|?[]()\_-+*\~`/=^'$@ (including
How do you turn off the greetings page after you log in to webmail?
I have already deleted the news and welcome message, but every time someone
logs in it says Greeting and then continue.
Imail 8.1 hotfix 2
Kyle
Are you running any connection filters? What's in the logs?
Tripp
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From: Sean Diana [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:47 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ANNOUNCEMENT FROM IPSWITCH - Update on 8.11
3com and everything was fine
Any chance of adding code to support Sender Policy Framework (SPF)
http://spf.pobox.com/?
Just as a reminder, SPF has been available on the IMail
platform since December, 2003
I've thought SPF was integrated into the txt record at the DNS level. I had
no idea that Imail has features to
Rename
MailNews.txt in the web directory to MailNews-off.txt, after that I don't get
the greetings anymore.
Jason
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Kyle
FisherSent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:18 AMTo:
[EMAIL
No significance, the list was taken right out of the code without cleanup so
the \ is actually just a . The two colons looks like typo on my part.
This KB article explains a bit more about the delimiters and the # character
http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20030502-DM01.htm
This is the same
On Tuesday, April 27, 2004, 23:34:30, Rick Klinge wrote:
There other email server works. Have you tried it?
smtpin.mx.webtv.net
You're missing the point, it doesn't matter how many lesser priority
e-mail servers are defined. If the final delivery point (highest
priority) server
The problem with our server started with v8. We use Intel nics.
At 10:40 AM 4/28/2004, you wrote:
Sean,
Out of curiosity what type of nic do you use? Dell servers using Broadcom
nics are susceptible to SMTP problems.
Rick Davidson
National Systems Manager
North American Title Group
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In short the situation explained:
We are a small ISP with a primary emailserver (Imail) and a backup
emailserver (Imail).
All the MX records of our customer domains points to first the primary (MX
5), second the backup
email server (MX 10).
For illustration purposes:
IP address primary
Scott Perry:
:I'm not sure I'm able to interpret these results intelligently:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/spf.ch?server=langsenkamp.comip=209.132.161.151
Can someone shed some light here? Outbound mail from here always should be HELO
langsenkamp.com, and we don't use the 'nobody'
alias so I
On Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 12:06:23, A. Clausen wrote:
Do you know if the SPF team has figured out a way to deal with forwards,
short of rewriting the envelope? I've got a basic SPF config on our primary
domain, but this was a sticking point when I was first looking into it.
No, they're
As more and more ISPs start to block port 25, I was wondering how everyone
is handling this. I read through the KB and the archives and the only thing
that I found that might allow me to keep Imail on 25 and have something else
listing on another port was Sourceforge. I'm looking at it now.
Are
Can someone extrapolate on 'normalization' or point me to a URL that
does?
Regards,
Jamie Price
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.HostMySite.com
Get your FREE .com, .net, .org, .biz and .info domain name at
HostMySite.com!
Phone: International 302.731.4948 | Toll Free: 877-215-4678
:I'm not sure I'm able to interpret these results intelligently:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/spf.ch?server=langsenkamp.comip=209.132.161.151
Can someone shed some light here?
You ran an SPF test that simulated a sender of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sending E-mail from the IP 209.132.161.151.
The end
This is an example for the host file on our primary emailserver:
15.15.15.15 localpop3domain.com
15.15.15.15 anotherlocalpop3domain.com
212.18.15.129 customerwithownemailserver.com
15.15.15.15 againanotherlocalpop3domain.com
First of all: there is no reason to have local virtual hosts
Are there many issues with changing the port to 26 globally...
You can't change it over fully, since _something_ needs to be
listening on 25 (but maybe you knew that).
...and just having all the users change the port in their e-mail
clients?
All the users is way too
Hi all.
I'm looking at setting up an imail implementation for 3000 users, all
webmail.
I asked Ipswitch tech support if there were any white papers,
guidelines, or specifications for scaling but they said they've never
generated that sort of information.
They sent me to the forum... and so, I
Any chance of adding code to support Sender Policy
Framework (SPF)
http://spf.pobox.com/?
Just as a reminder, SPF has been available on the IMail platform
since December, 2003
I've thought SPF was integrated into the txt record at the
DNS level.
I had no idea that Imail
We use Gdatapipe to map port 25 to port 50, and let all of our clients
know about it so they can make the necessary change in ports if
Earthlink et al starts blocking them.
Regards,
Jamie Price
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.HostMySite.com
Get your FREE .com, .net, .org, .biz and .info
Others will chime in I am sure.
Search the archives for hard drive configuration recommendations.
True, Raid5 will hurt you a lot more than help.
John Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
eServices For You
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum-
[EMAIL
I see no where on http://spf.pobox.com/faq.html that states SPF
requires an anti-spam program.
I'd say that any app that implements SPF checking becomes an anti-spam
app at that point, no?
http://spf.pobox.com/ has established the feasibility and others
have provide
One thing tech support did offer as advice was don't use RAID5.
This seems totally wrong to me as redundancy and throughput are the
primary benefits of using RAID.
They didn't say, Don't use RAID.
RAID 5 is the enemy of mailserver performance, as it is designed for
read-mostly
For your domain to publish SPF support, so that others using SPF can know
what IPs are allowed to send mail from your domain, all you need is DNS.
For you to block mail that fails SPF, though, you need an
anti-spam program (such as Declude JunkMail) that supports SPF.
I see no where on
Not to expose my ignorance too much... but I didn't know that I had to leave
something listening on port 25 - thanks for letting me know I probably
would've just changed it.
http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-19981118-DD01.htm just mentions that you
can change it, not to make sure something is
On Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 13:13:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As more and more ISPs start to block port 25, I was wondering how
everyone is handling this. I read through the KB and the archives and
the only thing that I found that might allow me to keep Imail on 25
and have something else
http://spf.pobox.com/ has
established the feasibility and others have provide plugs/patches for the
major leading email servers.
Correct. We've worked with them, and we're the ones that provided the
support for IMail.
So if you are just going by the information on that page, you should go to
Thanks that did it
Kyle
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jason Adams
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004
11:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Turn
Off Greetings in Webmail
Rename MailNews.txt in the web directory
to
Tripp:
I called support concerning some other issues with the WebMail features.
1. When a user is logged in as a host administrator in the drop down there
is an option to edit news messages, however, when selected it takes them
back to the login page. This doesn't happen if you are logged in as
I wholeheartedly agree with this request!
Specific to the url-domain-bl.txt file, I'd like to be able to filter out domains like
*hosting.com. I know it's dangerous to use wildcards, but it's sometimes worth the
risk. For example, I get tons of spam from 1001hosting.com, 2001hosting.com,
Thanks John and Sandy.
We're stirring up some strong opinions with my engineers on this end.
Let me start by being clear. We're talking about HARDWARE RAID, not
software.
My understanding of when to use and not use RAID5 is that you want RAID1
for sequential file processing (like MS
Trip:
What does it mean the feature (or feature less):
-IAdmin will no longer display the outbound rules tab for IPless virtual
hosts.
Why are you taking out the tab? How are we going to set outbound rules for
Ipless virtual domains?
Could you further explain please.
-Luis Arango
Can't you put these in your kill.lst file:
*hosting.com
Chris
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From: Spaminator
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] ANNOUNCEMENT FROM IPSWITCH - Update on 8.11
I wholeheartedly agree with this request!
Specific
Which of the below is the most acurate as to how a POP3 session works?
Or
B)
ClientServer
Source port 1234 --connection to-- Desination port 110
Destination port 1234
Ok, I have a hard question. Keeping a tight budget in mind and that I want
to get away from software firewalls,
What gateway/firewalls are available on the market now that allow the
following:
multiple wan ip addresses assigned to 1 machine behind the appliance.
advanced firewall capabilities.
We're stirring up some strong opinions with my engineers on this
end.
Um-hmm. :)
Let me start by being clear. We're talking about HARDWARE RAID, not
software.
Thought so.
My understanding of when to use and not use RAID5 is that you want
RAID1 for sequential file processing
http://www.martekware.com. It's free for up to 5 domains.
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FAX: (615) 523-1679
HOSTING: http://www.martek.net
PROGRAMMING: http://www.martekware.com
HIRE ME: http://www.martek.net/resume.pdf
I'd say Watchguard.
www.watchguard.com
Have a look. It's easy to setup and configure, yet secure and scalable.
---
Vincent Toussaint
Sys. Admin, Hybride
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www.hybride.com
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Why not use whois.arin.net and determine their IP ranges for example, if you
want to block videotron.ca get one of their IP addresses from a spam message
then do an arin lookup on it and you would get the following info:
Le Groupe Videotron Ltee VL-2BL (NET-24-200-0-0-1)
I've just blocked over 2600 viruses in the last hour and a half. Mostly
Bagle.aa. That's a lot for me. Usually I see a hundred in a day but not
thousands in an hour.
Are others seeing a more of a flood then usual?
Gary
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I have no inbound rules configured. I'm using 8.1HF2
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From: Sean Diana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] URL Domain Black List
you need to check the flow of mail coming in to Imail. If I
Thanks Barbara.
Tripp
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From: Barbara ONeal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] ANNOUNCEMENT FROM IPSWITCH - Update on 8.11
Tripp:
I called support concerning some other issues with the WebMail
We removed the tab because it was misleading as outbound rules aren't loaded
by virtual domain. Outbound rules for virtual domains are inherited from
the primary domain.
Tripp
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From: Panda Consulting S.A. Luis Alberto Arango [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yesterday I started getting a dictionary attack (about once an hour) from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] from a variety of IP addresses (mostly SBC Internet -
isn't that Yahoo??) in addition to the rise in viruses.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL
Does anyone know a way to get the Microsoft SMTP server that comes with IIS
to accept domain literals? I don't think it's a huge deal, but if it can be
done, that would be alright too.
--
A. Clausen
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I've just blocked over 2600 viruses in the last hour and a half. Mostly
Bagle.aa. That's a lot for me. Usually I see a hundred in a day but not
thousands in an hour.
Are others seeing a more of a flood then usual?
Yes, this one has been spreading pretty fast -- we sent out a virus alert
to our
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From: Laura Bhandari [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 12:48
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Virus coming quick
Yesterday I started getting a dictionary attack (about once an hour) from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] from a variety of IP
I'm looking at setting up an imail implementation for 3000 users, all
webmail.
I asked Ipswitch tech support if there were any white papers,
guidelines, or specifications for scaling but they said they've never
generated that sort of information.
They sent me to the forum... and so, I look
Uhmm..I understand.. so far they were working for me.. -as far as I know-.
Anyway, I will manage them under the primary domain then.
Thanks Tripp
-Luis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tripp Allen
Sent: Wednesday,
Last year I upgraded 10 of our busiest imail servers to RAID 0+1 on Intel
SRCU42L controllers with 6 36GB U320 15k rpm drives. These machines have
dual 1.2GHZ processors and 2GB memory. Whoah nelly, do they scream.. The
real bottleneck is the drives. Initially the servers were running RAID5.
Have you installed the IIS lockdown tool? That may help
Samantha
-Original Message-
From: A. Clausen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 4:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Virus coming quick
- Original Message -
From: Laura
Sure, that works fine if that's where the mail messages are from. They are never sent
from those domains, though. Those domains only appear in the URL to which the graphic
and link points, that's why I spoke of the URL blacklist. Frankly, it almost seems
like they're sent via a virus SMTP
I do, regularly. In my last response after you sent this, I mentioned that the
sending mail host IPs are everywhere around the world, and they change daily, even a
few times daily. Almost like it's a virus SMTP engine that's causing the damage (I
looked up a lot of the IPs and they aren't
No all good here
Thank You,
Sean Diana
IT Department
Infosynch Inc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 3:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] Virus coming
Symantec has released 3 updates today
Thank You,
Sean Diana
IT Department
Infosynch Inc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 3:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail
Does anyone know
of a hack to get the retry timer in the queue manager below 10
minutes?
-Andy
I have a mail server that is banging on 100 of CPU usage with only about
500 emails in the cue. Anyone else have the problem or know what might be
causing it? I can shut off all services and then turn them on one by one and
the only one seems to be SMTP that takes it through the roof. Memory
For several reasons, the most important being that Arin limits the number of
queries per day.
Second, compiling a lengthy list of IP numbers is what I am trying to avoid.
==
We can get rid of spam on your domain! , Anti-spam solutions
For those of you that have been having the problem of trying to access the
new Webmail in version 8.10, I have corresponding with Ipswitch, and have
found a temporary solution.
In the IMail Administrator, go into Services, and Web Messaging. In the
Advanced Settings, disable the option Enable
Hi there:
We are a medium size ISP , Imail server V
8.05
From days ago, we are experiencing some sort of
strange problem.
We have an IBM Dual Processor 2.8 Ghz
Xeon
2.5 GB RAM
Level 3 RAID 70 GB HD's
Windows 2003 (Was Windows 2000 but same problems) +
Imail + Declude AV + F-prot (32
Granted, but how is compiling a list of IPs any different than compiling a
list of domains most of which are forged to begin with. A spammer doesnt
have to use a valid domain name to send you mail but it will come from a
valid IP address. The IPs will ultimately be more effective especially if
Ok, I think I understand better now, thanks Scott.
We also host a number of domains that absolutely never generate mail...They have no MX
records and aren't configured on any mail
server (example would be .net and .org domains of an active .com we have running
full-function). Should these also
We also host a number of domains that absolutely never generate
mail...They have no MX records and aren't configured on any mail
server (example would be .net and .org domains of an active .com we have
running full-function). Should these also have something
in their DNS to tell MTA's that no
Thanks again Scott...here's my test...this domain is one that has no mail service:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/spf.ch?server=hypnosisonline.orgip=209.132.161.151
I'll copy this to the rest of my no mail domains and the other entries to those that
do tonite!
Chris
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Compiling a list of domains is not a very intelligent approach since so much of
the time the domain name is spoofed. I prefer to filter by IP number when I
can, and domain secondary, which is effective on relays, usually.
But we are getting off track from the original request and that would be
What version of IMail are you using? You said I also tried inserting new
ones after fixing it, and it broke every time. What did you insert and
how? Was this done manually or through web mail? Any chance that you have
been running into periodic disk full failures?
Tripp
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On 29/04/2004 at 07:04:57, Andy Tripp wrote:
Does anyone know of a hack to get the retry timer in the queue manager below
10 minutes?
Just out of interest, why would you want to do that? The recommended
minimum in RFC2821 is 30 minutes, and for good reason -- if a remote
server is tempfailing
Check in task manager your process list to see what is eating your CPU. That
will start giving you clues. Tell us what processes are eating your CPU to
see how we can help you.
You said that SMTP is eating CPU.. are you sure is the smtp program.. in
your process list?. Could be perhaps an
Does anyone know a way to get the Microsoft SMTP server that comes with IIS
to accept domain literals?
Yep.
Add the dotted-decimal as an alias domain, then run MetaEdit and add
in the square brackets.
--Sandy
Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist
If something is so time-critical that a 10 minute delay is a
problem, you shouldn't be using email.
On MXs that only relay internally to your mailbox servers, it's common
to have a quick retry timer in order to quickly recover from momentary
downtime on mailbox servers. We use 5 minute
Sandy - glad you're still up - was searching archives trying to find how you got IMail
and another SMTP service to share a box on
port 25 and different IP's and then Ipswitches site went dark on me - do you have that
handy?
Chris
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From: Sanford Whiteman
To: A.
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