Re: [IMail Forum] Change Host Name?

2005-06-01 Thread David Delbridge
Anyone? David Delbridge wrote: Hi all, When installing Imail 7.1 on a new server, I chose a different host name (so as not to conflict with the production mail server) and broke my Declude license. [They were kind enough to issue a replacement license.] Now, for other reasons, I'm

[IMail Forum] Change Host Name?

2005-05-27 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, When installing Imail 7.1 on a new server, I chose a different host name (so as not to conflict with the production mail server) and broke my Declude license. [They were kind enough to issue a replacement license.] Now, for other reasons, I'm wishing I had never changed the host

[IMail Forum] Upgrade from Imail v7.x

2005-03-18 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, Can I still upgrade from Imail 7.x to version 8? [I can't find this option on Ipswitch's website.] Furthermore, would you RECOMMEND this upgrade? When originally announced, I didn't see any improvements I couldn't live without, but now I have need for the postmaster retries setting

Re: [IMail Forum] Spam to Root/Postmaster

2005-03-08 Thread David Delbridge
Cell http://www.thecashstore.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Delbridge Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 9:54 PM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: [IMail Forum] Spam to Root/Postmaster Hi all, I host a few hundred e-mail

Re: [IMail Forum] Spam to Root/Postmaster

2005-03-08 Thread David Delbridge
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Re: [IMail Forum] Spam to Root/Postmaster

2005-03-08 Thread David Delbridge
Thank you, all, for the terrific and helpful replies. Dave -- David M. Delbridge Circa 3000 ColdFusion Hosting http://www.circa3k.com 866-CIRCA3K (247-2235) Outside U.S: +1.775-832-2445 To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive:

Re: [IMail Forum] Spam to Root/Postmaster

2005-03-08 Thread David Delbridge
Vantek Communications, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Delbridge Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:22 AM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spam to Root/Postmaster We already employ an anti-spam

[IMail Forum] Spam to Root/Postmaster

2005-03-07 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, I host a few hundred e-mail domains and my default root and postmaster accounts are suddenly being attacked by spammers, to the point that a recurring DoS situation occurs. [The root mailboxes fill up and the mail server then bogs down with mailbox full GSE replies to non-existent

Re: [IMail Forum] Postmaster DOS

2005-02-28 Thread David Delbridge
, a dict attack can then render it impotent. For the real fix, from our experience, v8.x definitely appears to handle this sort of thing more elegantly using 'queue manager'. Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David

[IMail Forum] Postmaster DOS

2005-02-27 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, My IMail 7.1 server is experiencing a recurring denial-of-service or failure situation. After watching the server for two weeks now, a couple of symptoms have caught my eye: 1.) IMail appears to be 'hanging' on a particular message, indicated by a '~' GSE or SMD file in the queue

Re: [IMail Forum] OT: hardware company

2005-02-16 Thread David Delbridge
We have built our own 1U servers for six or seven years now and I must agree that the cost savings have steadily diminished. Originally, you could save hundreds on each server, but not anymore. But the REALLY infuriating part of building your own boxes is component availability; namely mobos

[IMail Forum] Orphans

2005-02-11 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, What determines an 'orphaned file?' I am trying to cleanup but can't seem to find them. SpoolViewer.exe shows me: # E-mails being received right now: 11 # E-mails being delivered right now:4 [4 recips] # E-mails awaiting re-tries:126 [128 recips] #

[IMail Forum] Maximum Processes

2005-02-09 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, What server parameters determine the optimum value for SMTP Maximum Processes? The manual is vague, recommending that you increase if you see heavy mail traffic, but then warns, too high, it can cause your server to malfunction. That's not a lot to work with. My Imail 7.1 server has

[IMail Forum] AutoRespond + Trash

2004-12-17 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, What is the simplest way to autorespond to AND trash incoming mail in IMail 7.x? If I setup a filter, the autoresponse is never sent (due to processing order, I presume). And the AutoResponder's Forward To won't trash the messages either; only forward to another e-mail address. [And

Re: [IMail Forum] Recording List Recipients

2004-07-15 Thread David Delbridge
is greatly appreciated. Dave Rod Dorman wrote: On Wednesday, July 14, 2004, 12:01:19, David Delbridge wrote: Is there any way to record in a custom message header, the recipient's e-mail address, WHEN the message is coming from a mailing list? I have succeeded in doing this via Declude JunkMail

Re: [IMail Forum] Recording List Recipients

2004-07-15 Thread David Delbridge
Thank you, Sandy. Sanford Whiteman wrote: Except for list mail. With list mail, my custom Declude header shows X-CUSTOM-TO = [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's because Declude is scanning the message on the way in to IMAILSRV, i.e. before the list explosion. And wisely so, since otherwise

[IMail Forum] Recording List Recipients

2004-07-14 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, Is there any way to record in a custom message header, the recipient's e-mail address, WHEN the message is coming from a mailing list? I have succeeded in doing this via Declude JunkMail, except that it doesn't work for list mail because the recorded address is the list address. e.g.,

Re: [IMail Forum] AOL Blacklisting: Mechanics?

2004-05-02 Thread David Delbridge
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Delbridge Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 1:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] AOL Blacklisting: Mechanics? Hi all, Does anybody have details re the mechanics of AOL's spam button and automatic blacklisting practices

[IMail Forum] AOL Blacklisting: Mechanics?

2004-05-01 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, Does anybody have details re the mechanics of AOL's spam button and automatic blacklisting practices? For example: - How many pushes of that button will blacklist an IP? - What's the polling timeframe? Per day? Per week? - What's the blacklisting duration? Always 1 week? -

[IMail Forum] Bagle.J Question

2004-03-04 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, I have banned ZIP files (Declude's VIRUS.CFG) and am instructing my customers, as a workaround, to rename any ZIP files prior to attachment. But this brings up a disturbing question: What would prevent a virus from perpetrating the same workaround? I mean, if Bagle.J can instruct an

Re: [IMail Forum] Bagle.J Question

2004-03-04 Thread David Delbridge
R. Scott Perry wrote: A virus certainly can do that. However, for each step that they add (The password is the number 12345 plus 2, Rename it to .ZIP, etc.), the fewer people will actually open it. I'll buy that. I suppose you can only do so much to protect SOME people from themselves. To

Re: [IMail Forum] Command-Line Tool to Get Account Password?

2004-01-08 Thread David Delbridge
/2004 at 05:38:12, David Delbridge wrote: Does any command-line tool exist for obtaining a particular Imail user's account password? The encryption is a simple shift cipher with the username used as the key, and the encrypted value is stored in the registry as a textual representation

[IMail Forum] Command-Line Tool to Get Account Password?

2004-01-07 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, Does any command-line tool exist for obtaining a particular Imail user's account password? Our hosting control panel (built in-house) allows admins to manage e-mail accounts, but ever since we deployed Imail's web-based mail w/ KillerWebMail, end-users have had the opportunity to reset

[IMail Forum] List Won't Send To Members

2003-09-10 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, PLEASE HELP! One of my Imail lists will not deliver to its members. Instead, it delivers the message to the list's owner (who isn't even a list member) and nobody else. I have deleted and recreated the list numerous times without luck. Other lists on this Imail 7.1 server work just

Re: [IMail Forum] List Won't Send To Members

2003-09-10 Thread David Delbridge
this to the moderator: A message has been sent to your list and requires your approval Just a thought. I am now aware of this behavior and should know better in the future. I apologize for taking everyone's time. Dave David Delbridge wrote: Hi all, PLEASE HELP! One of my Imail lists

Re: [IMail Forum] Vanishing CC Mail

2003-09-04 Thread David Delbridge
Thank you, Scott. I figured out why these tests have suddenly begun failing where they didn't before. I had whitelisted this particular computer by IP. However, we juggled IPs a couple weeks ago and failed to update GLOBAL.CFG. Perhaps I've been doing a bit too much at once. Yes, I have some

[IMail Forum] Vanishing CC Mail

2003-09-03 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, My e-mail account is losing mail CC'ed to me. From what I can tell, the IMail server logs show that these messages are being received and processed. I have verified that the primary recipients (designated in the messages' 'To:' fields) are receiving the messages. I ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),

Re: [IMail Forum] Vanishing CC Mail

2003-09-03 Thread David Delbridge
www.eservicesforyou.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Delbridge Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 9:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] Vanishing CC Mail Hi all, My e-mail account is losing

[IMail Forum] DOMLIST.EXE RESULTS

2003-08-20 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, I'm sorry to be a rube, but what does it mean when domains that we don't host (ie. we don't have virtual servers for) appear in the results of DOMLIST.EXE? The report shows hundreds of domains with no messages IN and typically one or two messages OUT. In other words, if the domain isn't

[IMail Forum] Weird KillerWebMail Bug Report

2003-07-29 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, I just received a very strange bug report from one of our IMail users. Apparently, when he visits our webmail interface (IMail 7.x w/ KillerWebMail) with Internet Explorer, his browser flakes out -- slows down, form fields don't function properly -- and his pop-up blocker stops working.

Re: [IMail Forum] Weird KillerWebMail Bug Report

2003-07-29 Thread David Delbridge
Thank you, Scott! That sounds promising. Dave Scott Winberg wrote: Hello David, Have him download spybot http://spybot.eon.net.au/ (free) and search for adware. Gator is a big one that I have seen do this and many other weird problems. If he is signing on to XP or 2000 with his user id

[IMail Forum] Catch-All Mailbox Caveats

2003-07-11 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, What are the real-world caveats of offering catch-all mailboxes (a.k.a. nobody aliases in IMail)? A hosting provider, I have long denied this service to our customers for fear of spammers inundating our mail servers with fabricated addresses culled from a name dictionary. Furthermore, I

Re: [IMail Forum] Catch-All Mailbox Caveats

2003-07-11 Thread David Delbridge
- and that leads to problems later on --- Hope this helps, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief Sortmonster (www.sortmonster.com) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Delbridge Sent

Re: [IMail Forum] Catch-All Mailbox Caveats

2003-07-11 Thread David Delbridge
a dynamic, local ip block list for your system... nah... that sounds like a lot of work. _M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Delbridge Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Catch-All

Re: [IMail Forum] Virtual Servers in 8.0?

2003-05-29 Thread David Delbridge
Thank you all for your responses. Perhaps HATE is a strong word. The natives are confused. [And Tech Support HATES when that happens.] To clarify, webmail is not an issue because the login form clearly requests Email Address. The trouble we're experiencing is isolated to the % (percent)

Re: [IMail Forum] Virtual Servers in 8.0?

2003-05-29 Thread David Delbridge
Egads! So Outlook doesn't require the '%' symbol fix for virtual servers?! For whatever reason (and it has been a while since we first tested and deployed IMail), I was under the impression that MOST mail clients required the '%' format. Funny how one small misconception can snowball into so

[IMail Forum] Virtual Servers in 8.0?

2003-05-27 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, Can someone please tell me if IMail version 8.0 elliminates the requirement for individual IPs per domain? We went the virtual route with version 7.x and our hosting customers positively HATE the 'name%domain.com' username formatting requirement. If IMail has addressed this in version

Re: [IMail Forum] MS Outlook: Server requires authentication. ...or does it?

2003-01-11 Thread David Delbridge
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David Delbridge Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] MS Outlook: Server requires authentication. ...or does it? Hi all, We are receiving conflicting reports from

[IMail Forum] Archive Searching

2002-12-14 Thread David Delbridge
Hey gang, I'm sorry to be confrontational, but could we please ease up on the hastiness in which we chastise folks for not searching the IMail Archives? Let's face it, the Archives' searching capabilities are dismally inadequate, especially considering the sophistication of its users and the

[IMail Forum] Server Migration: Forwarding Inbox Mail

2002-12-12 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, I have some old mail that went to the wrong server (due to a DNS goof). Can I simply copy those messages into the user's new IMail server inbox? Thank you. Dave To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive:

Re: [IMail Forum] Switching IP's after installation

2002-12-05 Thread David Delbridge
I had a very serious problem. After several successful test installations on production servers, we performed a final clean installation in our lab. For security reasons, the lab is on a private, non-routable subnet, with DHCP providing temporary IPs, etc. Installation went as expected, through

Re: [IMail Forum] SMTP AUTH Troubles with cf

2002-12-05 Thread David Delbridge
My question is, is there a way to auth the cf server so it will relay mail to all mail servers so I can set the relay back to No Relay? ColdFusion does not support secure SMTP logins. However, you CAN 'authorize' the CF server. Select Relay mail for and specify the IP address range of your

Re: [IMail Forum] Switching IP's after installation

2002-12-05 Thread David Delbridge
, with the exception of the different IP's. Doug Hair NTInet Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 803-533-1660 http://www.ntinet.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Delbridge Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 6:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: [IMail Forum] KillerWebMail: Random IE Failures

2002-11-18 Thread David Delbridge
STATUS Moving the image directory to an IIS server appears to have resolved both problems. We opted to install the images into a new virtual host on an existing IIS server rather than kludge this one up. The performance gains are so significant that I'm actually glad these errors prompted me to

[IMail Forum] KillerWebMail Templates: List Manager Functions?

2002-11-12 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, I am considering the KillerWebMail templates for IMail but could not determine from the online demos if equal attention has been paid to the mail list administration pages. As our hosting customers will be using webmail to manage their lists, I must be certain that these functions have

Re: [IMail Forum] KillerWebMail Templates: List Manager Functions?

2002-11-12 Thread David Delbridge
Thanks Grant and Don. That's all I needed. I'm sure my hosting customers will appreciate it as well. Dave -- David M. Delbridge President CEO Circa 3000 ColdFusion Hosting http://www.circa3k.com 775-832-2445 To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive:

[IMail Forum] KillerWebMail: Random IE Failures

2002-11-12 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, 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

Re: [IMail Forum] Is No Relay Option Good for ISPs?

2002-10-08 Thread David Delbridge
Doh! I get it. Thank you for the clarification. Dave Len Conrad wrote: I'm not sure I follow. Can you please name some offending 'web' apps? I greatly appreciate it. ANY web app that wants to send mail, like cgi forms, cold fusion, vbscript, asp pages, anything that sends mail out

[IMail Forum] Is No Relay Option Good for ISPs?

2002-10-07 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, Are there any caveats to be aware of for ISPs employing the No Relay option? My company is migrating from Post.Office to IMail for the sole purpose of closing our open mail relays. In order to lock things down, we anticipate using the no relay option and instructing our customers to

Re: [IMail Forum] Is No Relay Option Good for ISPs?

2002-10-07 Thread David Delbridge
Thank you, Len. I'm not sure I follow. Can you please name some offending 'web' apps? I greatly appreciate it. Dave Len Conrad wrote: Are there any caveats to be aware of for ISPs employing the No Relay option? biggest one is your (web) apps that can't do SMTP AUTH. apart from that,

Re: [IMail Forum] Suspicious Ebay email

2002-10-06 Thread David Delbridge
http://www.DNSstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=66.136.167.121 shows that the E-mail was sent from a swbell DSL line in St. Louis, MO. I'd contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, the mailserver name (mail.hannibalpd.com) is for a police department in St. Louis, MO -- so it may actually be the Hannibal

Re: [IMail Forum] Clarification: AddList Command-Line App Needed

2002-10-02 Thread David Delbridge
Thank you for the reply, Rick. Regarding spam, a listserv is common hosting fare that we are expected to offer. Whether we build a listserv for our customers manually in IMail Administrator or allow them convenient self-service through our control panel is irrelevant to any spamming issues.

Re: [IMail Forum] Clarification: AddList Command-Line App Needed

2002-10-02 Thread David Delbridge
Thank you, Sanford. If I convert to an external database -- say, SQL 2000 -- will the list data be stored in the database or remain in the registry? Is there a document available that describes all of the database tables and fields created upon converting to an external database? I could not

[IMail Forum] AddList Command-Line Application?

2002-10-01 Thread David Delbridge
Hi all, Is there an AddList command-line utility available for iMail v7.13? In production? Any info is appreciated. Thank you. Dave To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge