Mike (I'll do you the honor of spelling your name correctly),
...one of the so called larger service companies who provide Imail
service and have been doing so for many years. Seems these Windows
experts can't keep the system running reliably at all.
Alas, there are experts in
This is hard to
explain and also be short - I'll try. My mail server has 2 IP addresses
and a call to tech support suggested that any mail directed to either IP will be
picked up and processed. If a blacklist is on one IP (.1)and not the
other (.2), mail can be directed inbound (to .2)and
hello,
has someone run the testvirus.org tests against imail too?
(http://www.testvirus.org)
they have a suite with 25 virus-tests and we did two test runs:
imail (mxguard/fprot): 5, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
imail (viruswall): 5, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25
the numbers are showing the failed tests.
is it possible to block fake helo prompts with imail (and mxguard)?
where fake means, helo showing the imail-servers own domain or ip address.
thanks.
matthias
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I faced the same error when trying the server in our LAN: My PC has LAN IP and
the traffic is NATed, if you have to run the server with a LAN IP, this solution
worked on my machine:
In the server entry: put the IP of the NameServer for the dns blacklist ?! OK,
i'll tell you, in the
First, we don't use Imail 8.11 yet, but, we faced the same problem (the spamlog
file didn't appear where it should be) there was an error in the configuration of
the dns blacklist information.
If the file is present, and you think that every think is OK, why don't you try
to run a sniffer (e.g.
Sandy
All areas of the industry are loaded with these so called experts who
tarnish the few experts really out there. In my own line of work, I either
design or re-engineer large organizations computer use or resolve and put
back on track different types of systems which have either failed or
Hi,
in imail 8.X it is possible, in the Antispam setting for the domain, there is
option [Verify HELO/EHLO domain].
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is it possible to block fake helo prompts with imail (and mxguard)?
where fake means, helo showing the imail-servers own domain or ip address.
Wow, to think I was deleting messages to this thread as I had nothing to
add. Little did I know some want-to-be-ego-head is trying to tell Sandy he
knows nothing.
Man, let me make some popcorn and sit back and watch the show.
John Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
eServices For You
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sorry, but no! it checks only the existence, but not if it has been faked.
[...]
HELO/EHLO Domain Verification
The domain passed during the HELO/EHLO is used to perform a DNS query to
verify that the domain specified has an A record or an MX record. If
this test fails, an X-Header is inserted
is it possible to block fake helo prompts with imail (and mxguard)?
where fake means, helo showing the imail-servers own domain or ip address.
I'm not aware of any program (IMail or any addon) that automatically blocks
HELOs that are a hostname on your server, or that are an IP on the
server.
hello,
has someone run the testvirus.org tests against imail too?
(http://www.testvirus.org)
they have a suite with 25 virus-tests and we did two test runs:
imail (mxguard/fprot): 5, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
imail (viruswall): 5, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25
the numbers are showing the
has someone run the testvirus.org tests against imail too?
(http://www.testvirus.org)
AFAIK, Declude Virus blocks them all.
they have a suite with 25 virus-tests and we did two test runs:
imail (mxguard/fprot): 5, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
imail (viruswall): 5, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25
Interesting.
hello,
has someone run the testvirus.org tests against imail too?
(http://www.testvirus.org)
they have a suite with 25 virus-tests and we did two test runs:
imail (mxguard/fprot): 5, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
imail (viruswall): 5, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25
the numbers are
All areas of the industry are loaded with these so called experts who
tarnish the few experts really out there.
Mike, there are two ways to be an expert. You can either proclaim yourself
as an expert (most of whom are the so-called experts to whom you refer),
or you can just do what you do and
thanks.
what i had in mind was:
i know the hostnames and ip-addresses of our own imail-server.
when a remote smtp-mta sends an helo followed by our own ip-address or
domain name this always will be a fake.
but AFAIK none of these informations is stored in the header, so i cant use
an (inbound)
Imail (assp/declude/fprot): 4, 5, 11, 14, 16, 17, 19, 18
Not an expert on virus signatures but Scott will probably chime in soon.
There's something seriously wrong there. The only thing that I can think
of is that ASSP is trying to fix up the headers somehow.
If you can contact me off-list, I
what i had in mind was:
i know the hostnames and ip-addresses of our own imail-server.
when a remote smtp-mta sends an helo followed by our own ip-address or
domain name this always will be a fake.
but AFAIK none of these informations is stored in the header, so i cant use
an (inbound) delvery
Hi All:
I'm running 6.06 on an NT4 box.
I'm going to upgrade to the latest and put it on a W2K3 box.
Gotcha's I need to be aware of?
We have been instructed to upgrade the NT4 box to the latest and then make
the move to the new box against a fresh install.
Thanks for any info on this upgrade.
Does anyone have any recommendation for a network analysis? Issue: I am
trying to determine my current 10BaseT performance and if I will need to
100BaseT.
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Greg Shepherd
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Can we drop this thread?
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From: R. Scott Perry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 7:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:RE: Re[6]: [IMail Forum] IMAIL services not restarting
All areas of the industry are loaded with these so called
Is that server receiving all 100K E-mails/hour? If so, IMail is a poor
choice. IMail does great for volumes in the mid-to-high 6 figures per
day,
but it is not designed for millions of E-mails per day.
Can we drop this thread?
Not when Mike comes on and attacks one of the most helpful
Matthias,
Thanks, that is a cool test.
Here's what I got from Imail 8.11 and IPSwitches standard virus program
(bitdefender).
3, 12, 16, 23, 24, 25 came through
3, 25 Outlook wouldn't allow me to open
16 appeared as garbled trash in outlook
24 outlook complained about but still was
Here's what I got from Imail 8.11 and IPSwitches standard virus program
(bitdefender).
3, 12, 16, 23, 24, 25 came through
Please, please, please report that to Ipswitch. If it can't catch #3,
there is probably a bug in the MIME decoding of IMail AntiVirus
Standard. Also, if it can't catch
I've tested with Imail v7, latest version of declude virus and f-prot. Not
one single test message come trough the filter. :-)
Markus
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Scott Wilkins
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5, 14, 16, 24, 25 Got through w/Imail v8.11 w/Imail anti-virus.
Jamie
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Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] testvirus.org test results
I've
WOW ... Imail 8.11 and Symantec AntiVirus for Imail.
Tests that made it:
#5
#12
#16
#20
#21
#23
#25
Christopher Checca
Packard Transport, Inc.
IT Department
24021 South Municipal Dr
PO Box 380
Channahon, IL. 60410
815 467 9260
815 467 6939 Fax
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www.packardtransport.com
Imail 8.10 and Declude Antivirus. None made it through the Declude.
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From: Christopher Checca
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Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 11:00 AM
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WOW ... Imail 8.11 and Symantec
We didn't make the large of a jump, but everything is working well for
us with IMail 8.11 and Windows 2003 Server.
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Santorine, Jr.
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 5:16 AM
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Subject:
I got the same reslults. I am also using Trend Micro OfficeScan Corporate
Edition on all workstations and that failed to detect the virus attachments
as well.
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I tested this on Postini which claims to have very good anti-virus
scanning. The following went thru the Postini virus trap: 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
12, 16, 17, 23, and 25. Postini did trap all the rest of them in the SPAM
trap, but they would be delivered to my inbox if I accepted them.
I may have
is it possible to block fake helo prompts with imail (and mxguard)?
I don't know those pgms (nor do I have any dissembling beliefs how they
work), but IMGate uses regular expressions to reject HELO containing
strings like:
A.B.C
A-B-C
mydomain.TLD.
localhost.
localdomain.
$domain
etc.
... as
IMAIL 7.07 with declude...
12,16,19 made it through with McAfee picking up 16,19...so 12 made it all
the way through...oops...
Shawn Faulkingham
Director of IT
Indoff Inc.
314-997-1122
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From: Plato, Art [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 10:04 AM
To:
Hi,
12,23,24,25 got through with IMail 8.11 and Antivirus Standard (Bitdefender)
3 was captured by my com-rule
Am Montag, 14. Juni 2004 um 17:04 schrieben Sie:
5, 14, 16, 24, 25 Got through w/Imail v8.11 w/Imail anti-virus.
Jamie
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Does anyone know of a place to get a FREE database of website
content ratings? Or maybe a site that can be query'd like ip4r sites (CBL, DSBL,
ORDB, SBL) that will return a content rating for an ip address?
Hi,
Is true, that attachment build on CLSID extension are always bad?
So far i remember, i never received an attachment like this.
Is it ok to set a filter, or ist too dangerous?
--
Mit freundlichen Grüssen
Merlin Consulting
Martin Schaible
I have always used the one built in IE. Its fee and works well for me.
Travis
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Behalf Of Doug Anderson
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:43
AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] OT-website
content
. Ipswitch
support was not able to provide a lot of feedback except that it may be a
marginal NIC.
20040614 115059 Socket Error - 69.209.129.68 Error while
writing sockect due to error 10054 or malicious connection type.
Thank You,
Joshua Moser
Webmaster
ISATonline, LLC
1.800.229.2029
Http
Is true, that attachment build on CLSID extension are always bad?
Yes -- and no.
Microsoft designed the CLSID extensions intentionally, so they must have
had a purpose for them. But I have never seen a legitimate use of them.
So far i remember, i never received an attachment like this.
Is it
I need something that can be queryied. Something online not
limited to the headers someone places in the html code. I already read the PICs
and decrypt them, but that's limited in that it depends on the web designer
putting the metatags in there.
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From:
I did the same test - only 19,20 and 21 made it past Postini (all malformed
and harmless I suspect). True some were trapped as virus and the others as
special offer email (trapped none the less). However you have the
opportunity to read these on the Postini web site without much chance of
harm
To Joshua and all, 86 the read receipt requests.
Time for all to review Ipswitch's Posting Etiquette for this forum:
http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20020802-DM01.htm
John Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
eServices For You
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This seems to be a very strange problem to me. I cannot seem to establish an external
SMTP connection to my mail server(v8.11). Which means, of course, that email programs
like Outlook cannot send mail and we are not receiving mail. The webmail is working
fine and mails are being sent out.
I've compiled the results so far from the people posting the results from
www.testvirus.org (in alphabetical order). Lower/fewer numbers are
better. Some that slipped through can be accounted to old versions or
configuration options that were altered (companies involved are welcome to
Hi Scott,
Thanks!
I created this rule: B~name=clsid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Am Montag, 14. Juni 2004 um 17:56 schrieben Sie:
Is true, that attachment build on CLSID extension are always bad?
Yes -- and no.
Microsoft designed the CLSID extensions
Scott
The Imail server in question, which is actually an 8.04 system, only
receives a burst of about 3500 emails within a few minutes. Some of the
receipients of these emails receive them immediately and others are not
receiving them until as much as 12 to 24 hours after they are sent. Which
is
This seems to be a very strange problem to me. I cannot seem to establish
an external SMTP connection to my mail server(v8.11). Which means, of
course, that email programs like Outlook cannot send mail and we are not
receiving mail. The webmail is working fine and mails are being sent
out.
On the IMail server try telneting to 127.0.0.1 25. If that doesn't
work, try restarting the SMTP service and check its config in IMail.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Bailey
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 9:22 AM
To: [EMAIL
Hi Scott,
Thanks for your compilation. It's good for marketing purposes ;-)
The interesting things is, that the cheaper anti virus solution from ipswitch works
slightly better as the expensive one.
I will do this test on a IMail server with very expensive sophos antivirus SMTP
gateway
The Imail server in question, which is actually an 8.04 system, only
receives a burst of about 3500 emails within a few minutes. Some of the
receipients of these emails receive them immediately and others are not
receiving them until as much as 12 to 24 hours after they are sent. Which
is
The Imail server in question, which is actually an 8.04 system, only
receives a burst of about 3500 emails within a few minutes. Some of the
receipients of these emails receive them immediately and others are not
receiving them until as much as 12 to 24 hours after they are sent. Which
is the
NIC card, but it
does not seem to be the case since we have upgraded to all new hardware.
Ipswitch support was not able to provide a lot of feedback except that
it may be a marginal NIC.
20040614 115059 Socket Error - 69.209.129.68 Error while writing sockect
due to error 10054 or malicious
Hi,
Here some other conditions:
If Mail Version 8.11 AND a large RULES.IMA ( 100 KB) will slow down the server and
needs tons of cpu power. Under this condition the IMail server will use more time to
manage the Queue.
Since version 8.11 the RegEx engine works much more better.
Adolph,
If you are running modified web mail pages, please note that you will have
to make some changes for them to work with 8.11.
Mike
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From: Adolph W. Santorine, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:15 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum]
I'm going to...put it on a W2K3 box.
Gotcha's I need to be aware of?
We have been instructed to upgrade the NT4 box to the latest and
then make the move to the new box against a fresh install.
This is a good method which keeps the new server feelin' fresh.
However, the most important
On Monday, June 14, 2004, 12:22:20, Patrick Bailey wrote:
... I cannot even telnet from the server to itself on 25. ...
Run netstat -a or TCPView (from www.sysinternals.com) on the server to
see if there is something listening on port 25.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] The avalanche has already
Declude Anti-Virus user.
25 / 25 blocked. None passed through.
Good Job, Scott
Scott Fisher
Director of IT
Farm Progress Companies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/14/04 11:22AM
I've compiled the results so far from the people posting the results from
www.testvirus.org (in alphabetical order).
John
1. Don't know.
2. We use our own DNS servers to identify known mail servers we send to.
3 4. Haven't seen what the Vendor who runs this system has in their log
files yet.
5 Can't say what the vendor is doing, but they are supposed to be doing
offsite filtering back to 3 email scanning
Does anyone have any recommendation for a network analysis? Issue: I
am trying to determine my current 10BaseT performance and if I will
need to 100BaseT.
Search the archives for 'network analyzer' and you'll find some old
threads.
--Sandy
Sanford
Does anyone know of a place to get a FREE database of website
content ratings? Or maybe a site that can be query'd like ip4r sites
(CBL, DSBL, ORDB, SBL) that will return a content rating for an ip
address?
I'm not aware of anything that like the comprehensive pay/proprietary
DBs
Hi there,
Imail has a features that checks if the sender email address
exists.. That means they connect with SMTP to the MX for the domain, they
send the MAIL FROM, and they send the RCPT TO, and if the server complains,
then they assume it is because the email does not exist.
I am using IMail on a Windows 2003 server.
I noticed your comment 'be sure to turn of EDNS (Google)' and didn't really
understand what that means so am guess I haven't done it. I use Simple DNS on the same
server for my DNS. Is that an issue for me?
On Monday, June 14, 2004, at 12:14PM,
On Monday, June 14, 2004, 14:09:20, Javier Albinarrate - Lnet.com.ar wrote:
...
Another nice feature, and simpler in fact would be to validate the
sender server, so if the email is incoming (not from an authenticated
local user), imail would make a search for the DNS of the domain, and
if
Cool, running IMail 7.07, Declude and F-prot and didn't see a darn thing.
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I noticed your comment 'be sure to turn of EDNS (Google)' and didn't
really understand what that means so am guess I haven't done it. I
use Simple DNS on the same server for my DNS. Is that an issue for
me?
No, it only applies to native W2K3 DNS.
--Sandy
Imail has a features that checks if the sender email address
exists.. That means they connect with SMTP to the MX for the domain, they
send the MAIL FROM, and they send the RCPT TO, and if the server complains,
then they assume it is because the email does not exist.
That sounded great
hello and thanks to all paticipating this.
(i got interesting and similar results from another mail-server (cgp) were
this discussion startet (for me).)
matthias
I've compiled the results so far from the people posting the results from
www.testvirus.org (in alphabetical order). Lower/fewer
I see that Ipswitch has a KB article on the SMTPD32.ACC at
http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20040413-DM01.htm. Does this finally mean
I can trust those utilities that insert addresses in there? I've been under
big time dictionary attack lately and have identified several hundred IP
addresses
I have a company that is running exchange 2000 and I would like to migrate
them to Imail, but they use a central calendar as a way of setting up
meetings and keeping track of jobs. Will Imail allow the same basic
functionality when using Outlook's calendar?
Keith
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Don't think so. Popular question but I don't think MS would like it to much
if their client worked with Imail so people didn't have to buy Exchange.
:)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 4:02 PM
To: [EMAIL
Nope. There are supposedly some third party add-ons coming that will allow
for calendar sharing, but at this point it doesn't exist. I use Group
Calendar from Opus Flow and it's works very well for us in a small office
environment.
Later,
Travis
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I can't find where to download the ManageAcc.exe program. Can someone
send me the URL?
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Normal calendaring works...shared doesn't.
If you set the outlook calendar to use ical for invitations, you can use
that, but as for a large shared calendar no.
I asked for it already. Imail's option for this is a 3rd party add on which
isn't available yet.
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I could answer that...since we left the big ms mx.
licensing costs.
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From: Anthony Polselli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 4:21 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Outlook calender intergration
Out of curiosity, why do you want to
JTL Then take the next step and share that information with Ipswitch. From all
JTL the posts about Intel OB NICs and Imail over the years, it is my opinion
JTL there is a real problem with Imail and Intel OB NICs. To date, most have
JTL fixed the problem by using a server grade 3Com NIC and
Answer: yes and not yet.
http://www.ipswitch.com/Products/IMail_Server/collaboration.html
Scott Wilkins
IT Manager
Tedford Insurance
Phone: 918.299.2345
Direct: 918.296.2913
Fax: 918.296.3346
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent:
I can't find where to download the ManageAcc.exe program.
Can someone send me the URL?
Sure.. http://www.famhost.com/support/ManageAcc.zip
~Rick
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Virus Scanned and Filtered by - http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System.
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From: Rick Klinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 15:54
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ManageAcc.exe
I can't find where to download the ManageAcc.exe program.
Can someone send me the URL?
Sure..
Hi,
Silly question: What is ManageAcc.exe ??
Am Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 um 01:01 schrieben Sie:
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From: Rick Klinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 15:54
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum]
Silly question: What is ManageAcc.exe ??
From what I understand it will allow one to manage the access control
list within Imail. Below it the summary help file:
===
Requirements: Imail Server, Windows NT 4 SP3 or greater / Win
2000
License: Free
Version: 0.0.1
Actually,
I think the problem is with the Intel NIC's or maybe with just the NIC's on
ANY Dell machine. I have had numerous problems with regular users (Win98,
Win2kPro, WinXPPro) losing connectivity to the network. It just drops away
and will come back on its own sweet time. The type of
I for one would like to see the logs for the time period of the mail blast
to see where the bottleneck might be... I have seen numerous times where
mail is off loaded quickly and is delayed after IMail gets rid of it and of
course IMail is the blame...Not always the case but sometimes it is IMail
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