The issue may be legit, but I have no sympathy for Bob Parsons and
GoDaddy.
So he has a few less million to run ads with scantily clad women during
the superbowl. Boo hoo.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike N
Sent: Tuesday,
additions to handle
this.
Darin.
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From: Robert E. Spivack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:48 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Comcast mail blocking - diagnosis and request for
help disabling aliases/forwarding
Like others
Like others here, we have seen one of our mail servers blocked from
sending email to Comcast with the rejection message of spam not allowed.
After extensive monitoring, I believe I have tracked down the root
cause. We have a few users that had a nobody alias configured on
their domain with a
With Microsoft Exchange, is there a feature equivalent to subfolders?
(Routing mail directly to user jim's folder stuff by addressing it as
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
List Archive:
You need to pay attention to mailing list logistics, not just the
horsepower/bandwidth to do the actual mailing.
i.e. proper automated subscribe/unsubscribe links, bounce detection,
automatic hold on bounce, etc. Pro-active blacklist removal, active
feedback loop with AOL Postmaster, etc. etc.
Have you considered a service
instead of an appliance?
We use Postini and are very happy
with them. Microsoft also bought a company that provides front-end processing.
Works just like a hardware box you
simply re-point the MX record, but you dont have to buy the capital
equipment and
Etinc.com
$795 for the software if you are willing to DIY install on a *nix kernel
$2,495 for turnkey 1U appliance
Much cheaper than Packeteer, Allot, et. al.
Read the vendor's white papers -- very interesting analysis of the
technology they use versus Packeeteer and others
Have used it in
Sorry to hear about your problems, however, the best practices
recommendation is to NEVER run anything else on a domain controller.
Sure, it can be done, officially Windows SBS has a lot of special tweaks
built-in and you can also do these on your own, but running a DC on an app
server is really
No, it's like buying a word processor and expecting it to be a full-function
web publishing editor. Or like expecting the export to html feature
common in most pc applications today to be the only thing you need to
publish to the web.
Although list servers and email servers both process emails,
more than he is, especially when all you are doing is trying to
offer him some help.
I'm personally ashamed of myself for offering help to a spammer...but I'll get
over it :)
Matt
Robert E. Spivack wrote:
List Dad,
please ban this person for this kind of crude personal attack,
Thanks
, as they do for
Exchange, SQL, etc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert E.
Spivack
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:29 PM
To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] How to ensure high availability of email
service using
I have looked at Open-E and was
considering it, but decided against it.
It is basically an embedded Linux
that is packaged a novel way as a solid-state disk module that plugs
into an IDE header. This solves their copyprotection issues, but creates
implementation problems as I dont use
majority of innovation that we benefit from on a daily basis.
Matt
Robert E. Spivack wrote:
I have
looked at Open-E and was considering it, but decided against it.
It is basically an embedded Linux
that is packaged a novel way as a solid-state disk module that plugs
into an IDE header
Create a TOS/AUP for your list and
enforce it. Warn him the first time; remove him if a repeat offender.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Gary Jorgenson
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006
1:10 PM
To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com
Subject: [IMail Forum]
availability of email service using Imail 2006?
Open-E installs on the SAN server and not the Windows
servers. You clearly don't get this.
By the way. You're an asshole.
Matt
Robert E. Spivack wrote:
IDE
sucks I DO NOT HAVE IDE sockets in my servers with room to plug in
their module.
native
Is Double-Take suitable for file server applications? (i.e. creating an HA
file server via replication instead of actual clustering?)
I'm hesitant to consider any product where they won't show the price on
their website until you fill out a quote form. Usually, that tells me it is
expensive and
Really?
BulkVerifier (if I have read their
site correctly) should be detected by a good email server as a directory
harvest attack and blocked.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Matrosity Hosting
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006
6:16 PM
To:
Its a matter of definition.
Re-write your TOS and contracts to
state that outbound SMTP is not included and clients are expected to use their
own carriers SMTP for outbound service. Then add an optional
SMTP Port 587 submission service and charge a decent fee for it. Now,
any new
Any software that stores everything in a single file has the potential for
corruption.
The best solution is to use IMAP instead of POP. When corruption happens,
just clear and reconfigures the mail client and all the emails will sync up
again.
Knowing how Imail works, sort messages into
Isnt their chart wrong? It shows RAID 5 as very
high and very high while RAID 0+1 is only high
and very high which would seem to indicate RAID 5 is better and
uses less disks. Looks like a typo ???
From:
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Behalf Of Christopher Checca
, as portions of the data can be read/written from
all disks in the array at the same time.
Darin.
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From: Robert E. Spivack
To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com
Sent: Thursday, February
23, 2006 7:36 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum]
New
Thanks for the entertainment J
You dis Microsoft for perceived poor security and then complain
when they wont bypass it for you!
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Dave Riddle
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006
9:02 PM
To:
We are planning on moving to SmarterMail + Postini when our svc contract is
up.
Anyone considering Declude should read the Declude mailing lists -- starting
to sound like Imail except time-shifted a bit.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
You should try it before you rant.
I have actually signed-up as a beta and used it.
It is an incredible technical display of what can be done pushing SharePoint
technology to the limit and using AJAX or AJAX-like GUI tools.
However, web email still pushes you off to Hotmail/MSN style interface
the situation much better than the previous IMail fiascos,
that thankfully Kevin G here has made great strides in reducing the effects
of.
Darin.
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From: Robert E. Spivack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:28 AM
Subject: RE
We are fighting this too - our best defense is offense. We tell our clients
what the problem is (Comcast) and strongly encourage them to ask their
comcast friends to protest to Comcast.
We also politely remind people why using a carrier-supplied email address is
a bad thing to do versus having
Postini. Works and no management/admin
overhead.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Matt Warren
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006
7:55 AM
To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com
Subject: [IMail Forum] OT:
BrightMail
Slightly OT:
Anyone else
SmarterMail V3 has been just around the corner for months and months. Do
you really think it is only two weeks away now?
They still don't have port 587 auth-only support. Promised in v3,
but...
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So, what's your point?
That having real security is a PIA?
Sorry, the majority of the IT community has been begging for greater
security and welcomes these changes.
Sure, developers and admins will have to learn how to do things The right
way and stop being sploppy.
Of course, you can still
Support only IIS - but do it well.
Running a Windows Server implies IIS. It is not extreme to require both
Windows and IIS. Many other web apps we use have the same requirements.
OTOH - Throwing Apache into the mix, especially with a .NET app (are you
planning to re-write the app in PHP and
I disagree. I don't think you'll find anywhere near 100% consensus on this
point.
From our point of view IIS is a very stable and reliable web server. Just
like the OS, it is no less of a problem if it is managed and kept up to
date.
For a .NET application running on an Windows OS, it is not
No, but I wouldn't mind having even just 1/100'th of his net worth!
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oblio Leitch
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 6:09 PM
To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] webserver for 06
code under apache.
Kevin Bilbee
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert E.
Spivack
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:52 PM
To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] webserver for 06 install
I disagree. I don't
Webmail now goes through IMAP?
That sounds like a bad design decision. The kind of design a novice would
choose (clean and architecturally pure but totally flawed from a
performance/scalability perspective).
I haven't coded in a long time, by my perception is that IMAP is a good
protocol for
Two quick questions:
Will the terminology finally be fixed in WebMail? Will users be called
users and folders be called folders instead of mailboxes?
Will we be able to have two-character user names? We're really tired of
creating a two-character alias forwarding to a longer user name for
We use Lyris (commercial program) to providing mailing list / email hosting.
It's specifically geared for this (uses dedicated SQL Server database) and
generates foolproof unsubscribe links, tracks bounces, etc.
Our primary strategy to avoid blacklisting and complaints is to not host
questionable
are phishing for
passwords, confidential data and new and more effective ways to steal money
out of the pockets of end-users.
Bruce Barnes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert E. Spivack
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 19:51
To: IMail_Forum
Bruce,
Please stop trashing something that clearly you know nothing about. Maybe
if you download the free version of Visual Studio Express and SQL Server
Express and give it a real try, then you could comment about it.
.NET is not a graphics design language or layout tool like FrontPage,
For us, the problem is that the current version of Imail WebMail DOES work
from a Mac.
So if we were to upgrade to the new Imail and WebMail, the lack of Mac
support is a broken feature for our existing customers.
We have clients that own both Macs and PCs. Telling them they can't use the
same
Were looking at SmarterMail versus
Imail going forward and although the Imail overhauled webmail sounds
interesting, Im concerned about three things with what Im hearing
about Imail:
Brand new probability of bugs is
high (not their fault; but a fact of life for new software)
No or
What is your cost versus risk threshold?
In general, we never rebuild a server in-situ. There is just too much
possibility of a problem. Even pulling the drives out and using different
physical drives there is the risk that when trying to recover by
re-inserting the original drives something
We do this outside of Imail
by using Microsoft SharePoint. We have trained our users to put large
files in document workspaces and just pass a link around via
email.
From:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of richard thomas
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005
1:34
Will the new Imail webclient work with Macintosh clients?
We started taking a look at SmarterMail, but their online web demo doesn't
even work with Macs so that is very discouraging.
Although a small percentage, we have some Mac users and they resent being
2nd class citizens when it comes to
I hope that enhancements will include what most of us consider fixes:
Allowing 2-character user names. We have users that change from other
systems that allow 2-character names and we have to setup an alias trick to
allow their existing mail to still be received.
Change the terminology!
T-mobile has a clever approach. They dont
block port 25, but they dynamically remap it to their own outbound smtp
server. Actually a very nice method seems to be transparent to both the
end-user and the host and works without any special reconfigurations while
providing anti-spammer
If you just want to synchronize primarily for your own access from multiple
locations a nice cheat is to use Yahoo's free online email/calendar
service.
They have a synchronizing tool that will keep your Outlook PC
calendar/address book in sync with the Yahoo web version (it's a customized
Gee, if you're going to promote your own SharePoint hosting then can I point
out we offer a SharePoint Portal starting at only $14.95/month and not the
$49.95/month you charge?
www.voicegateway.com
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Woody
Not sure about VMware, but we have deployed several solutions using
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and we offer virtual machine hosting for our
clients to do the same - gives them the equivalent of a dedicated server for
a lot lower price.
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Remember Compaq?
They annoyed us with "Torx" screws so we couldn't open up the PC, then
"invented" IDE to try and force us to buy their over-priced hard drives.
We voted with our wallets and now they are in big trouble (again).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
Sorry! I have to step in here...
the "free PC" deal is the best thing in our industry. The "digital divide"
between the have Internet and have-nots is getting bigger and bigger. there
are many articles on this, but basically unless you are middle-class, you
probably don't have a PC or the
Woa!
Free PC's: That's a marketing gimmick invented by others that Microsoft is
simply "matching the deal" just like the neighborhood stereo store that says
"we will not be undersold.."
AOL (aka CompuServe) is heavily marketing it, so is eMachines now and
several others.
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I don't defend Microsoft or any one specific company, none-the-less, I do
respond to inaccuracies to wit:
1. Netscape, like most apps, probably has it's source code and user
interface copyrighted. Microsoft IE did not steal Netscapes code or user
interface. IE does not look the same (lawyers
so, just because someone offers something for free, everyone else should
throw in the towel or give it away too?
I guess I may be cynical, but if everything was free, a lot of what we now
have would not be available as not everyone is motivated simply to have
their name in lights as the author
Excuse
me, but am I missing something?
There
are a LOT of API solutions out there for generic POP3/IMAP/SMTP mail.
Scripting, ActiveX, Perl, CFMail, etc.
The
whole point (at least I thought it was) of an API to IMail is to gain
programmatic access to the IMail-specific features such as
I have a severe problem with IIS 4 running on NT 4. It keeps crashing
(inet.exe) with a Dr. Watson.
I believe the problem is partly self-inflicted (it started after some
"routine" software updating/maintenance over the long weekend).
I am in the process of preparing a complete new server
To build on comments, be clear whether you are trying to simply build a VPN,
or truly need trusted/secured end-to-end presentation layer information.
VPN -using the public Internet to create the equivalent of a private
corporate network
Trusted End-to-End: you need to verify that people are who
Unlike many here on the list, we provide E-Mail as a for-revenue service to
our customers which are either
webhosting accounts or outsourced corporate email systems.
As such, we provide basic POP3/SMTP/IMAP access and then charge a premium
for web based messaging.
Our customers would like to
One of my avid web users is complaining that he is having trouble printing
E-Mails from the web browser.
He says that everytime he prints a message, even if it is a single-line or
short email, he gets two pages on his printer.
The second page is always entirely blank except for a printout of
If you're on NT, consider upgrading to the FP2000 server extensions (free,
of course, from Microsoft).
All the ".ini" stuff is now available from within IIS "properties" sheet in
MMC, and you can both install
and remove FP extensions from there also. Much easier to configure/manage.
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