Hello...
Beginning late last week we're experiencing periodic SMTP failures.
Error log shows: Faulting application SMTPd32.exe, version 8.11.6.0,
faulting module ntdll.dll version 5.2.3790.1830.
Ipswitch tech support updated my system to 10.02 (I was at 9.04 when
it all began). Declude
Well, at long last, after more than 10 happy years, we *may* have
outgrown IMail and are *considering* moving to Gmail Premium. No
decisions yet but I'd like to plan ahead, soo
Has anyone exported IMail 9.0.4 native mailboxes (not sql) to Gmail
Premium accounts? We're OK with starting
X-Mail-Filters-Spam : Spam [ID=-1]
Precedence: bulk
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com
Hi...
I'll be building a new server small corporate mail server with less
than 500 users and a few lists. I'll allow POP and web access.
Is it an advantage to go SQL or would
Hi...
I've been using iMail with Declude JunkMail for many years. I'm in
the middle of a server and software upgrade so I thought I'd
reexamine the anti-spam options.
Are there any sources that compare iMail's anti-spam with Declude
JunkMail? Or, can anyone recommend one or the other?
Hello...
I'm getting pressure from management to ban gif's as attachments.
They're tired of their attach folders filling up with these gif's,
most (if not all) come from spam. They're telling me that banning
gif's will kill two birds with one stone; reduce attach directory
clutter, and
Very nice. Thank you, I appreciate your help.
Thx,
D.
At 02:16 PM 5/26/2005, you wrote:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.htmlRFChttp://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html
2822 seems to say both are optional, but I'm not clear on the
differences, so I have two questions...
The
Hello...my apologies in advance for the off-topic...
I'm writing a database that downloads emails, processes them, and
replies. I notice that if I send an email from my Eudora to my gmail
account there's a header:
Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and if I send an email from gmail to my Eudora
Hello...
Using 8.05 on Win NT I need to move domain to a new partition on the same
server. Currently the Top Directory for this domain is c:\Imail. I do not
need to move anything except the users' directories. The IMail directory
with its spool, etc can stay where it is.
I have Declude
Apologies if this is a duplicate message. Never saw my first one come back
to me and haven't seen any replies...
Hello...
Using 8.05 on Win NT I need to move domain to a new partition on the same
server. Currently the Top Directory for this domain is c:\Imail. I do not
need to move anything
Thank you Scott. As always, I appreciate your straight answers.
Happy Holidays,
D.
At 04:52 AM 12/7/2004, you wrote:
About ten years ago we changed our ISP and got a new block of IPs to use.
Our domain name stayed the same. The old ISP never cleaned out the
contact information on the old block
Hello...
About ten years ago we changed our ISP and got a new block of IPs to use.
Our domain name stayed the same. The old ISP never cleaned out the contact
information on the old block of IPS.
Apparently someone is now spamming through our old block of IPs. Anyone
doing a whois on the old
Hello...
I've been getting a steady stream of automated emails generated by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(www.hendricom.com) accusing my server of allowing spam. The IP and domains
in the spam headers do not point to my domain and nothing in my logs
indicates the messages went through my server.
Is
Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dale McDiarmid
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 8:28 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello...
I've been getting a steady stream of automated emails generated by [EMAIL
these from a variety of sources...these are postmasters who don't
know what they're doing...and are contributing to the spam problem by
replying to forged spam/virus messages.
Darin.
- Original Message - From: Dale McDiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 29
Hello...
I've been accused of spamming in quite a few emails lately. There is
nothing in the headers of the supposed spam emails to connect them to my
domain or my ip. I have relay disable except for 2 private (10.0.0.x) IPs.
I'm including the text of two of the accusing emails.
The first is
, Dale McDiarmid wrote:
I've been accused of spamming in quite a few emails lately. There is
nothing in the headers of the supposed spam emails to connect them to
my domain or my ip. I have relay disable except for 2 private
(10.0.0.x) IPs. I'm including the text of two of the accusing emails
Hello...
I have my IMail 8.05 SMTP Security is set to No Mail Relay. I have a
database (Omnis Studio) that wants to send automated emails. These emails
are getting delivered to my server's domain, but are not delivered to
anyone outside.
By momentarily setting my server to Relay for anyone
Thank you...encryption method sounds interesting. I'll look down that path.
I'm mind-boggling new to this list, and a quick search of the archives
returned too many false-positives to be useful.
Thanks again,
D.
At 12:37 PM 9/16/2004, you wrote:
What EXACTLY is IMail expecting from email
Do you see you db failing SMTP AUTH in Imail log?
sys log is thus:
09:16 12:42 SMTPD(E32F024E) [64.119.37.242] HELO mail.mydomain.com
09:16 12:42 SMTPD(E32F024E) [64.119.37.242] MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
09:16 12:42 SMTPD(E32F024E) [64.119.37.242] RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
09:16 12:42
why don't you relay for address your db box?
My boss is reticent.
he thinks your db box is a spammer?
I changed my database smtp server from mail.mydomain.com to
10.0.0.[mailserv_ip], and then set IMail to relay for IPs; 10.0.0.[database_ip]
I'd prefer to have my database do authentication
Thank you, Scott. Appreciate it.
Downloaded it to \IMail and ran it once, then stopped and started the SMTP
service. That's all that's needed, correct?
Thanks again, and once again I'm grateful for this list.
D.l
At 06:36 AM 3/18/2004, you wrote:
During the past few weeks, virus writers have
The thread (Non-existent user able to send to localhost) brings up an
interesting point.
If anyone who claims to be in my domain (an existing user, or not) can send
an email to anyone in my domain without being authenticated (by using my
smtp server), then conceivably, a malicious stranger
Hello...
I'm surprised to find out that someone can create a user on their email
client for a non-existent user on my domain, and they're able to send
messages to other valid users on my domain.
Spoke to Ipswitch and their solution was to Verify Mail From Address and
then add a Trusted IP
Thank you, Scott. Just a few more questions...
At 03:03 PM 3/10/2004, you wrote:
I hope I'm describing this adequately. If not, let me know. I really need
to get this controlled. Seems to me a disgruntled employee can continue
using his email address to send messages to the company even after
Interesting...I knew all this, but somehow failed to understand how it
would applies to my current, specific, predicament.
As always, Scott, I greatly appreciate your help.
Thanks again. I'll look at SPF.
D.
At 04:38 PM 3/10/2004, you wrote:
I hope I'm describing this adequately. If not, let
At 05:52 PM 3/10/2004, you wrote:
On Wednesday, March 10, 2004,
19:22:19, Brad Morgan wrote:
...
Let me see if I have this right...
Dale says he's setup for no relay.
I believe that if you have no relay set then only users that
authenticate
can send mail through your server (to other
Hello...
I'm implementing a backup solution using Backup Exec 8.6 (Remote Agent) and
have 2 questions about Backup Exec's open file options.
1)
BE's interface gives me...
A checkbox for Use Open File Option if available, otherwise back up open
files:
4 radio buttons:
-Never
-With a lock
Ironically, I've usually found that it's the reply confirmation email that
causes the trouble . I usually generate one from scratch, which has as its
only text the unsubscribe line. The text in the instruction mail that
you're supposed to reply to gets in the way of the receiving service.
HTH,
Thank you. Do you leave the Use Open File Option if available... checkbox
un-checked?
Thanks again,
D.
At 10:00 AM 2/19/2004, you wrote:
-Without a lock
We had never Problems with this setup.
Also...I'm assuming I can't verify after backups since it's
almost certain
that mailboxes
At 10:15 AM 2/17/2004, you wrote:
Those are the ones that are responsible for the explosion of the Internet
and OUR JOBS.
On a good day I feel exactly the same way.
On a bad day I feel like paramedics must feel on New Year's Eve. I doubt
they say: 'drunk drivers are the ones that are
Hello...
I'm getting ready to upgrade from 6.0.4 to 8.0.5. Are there any issues I
need to be aware of?
It's a WinNT4sp6a machine with 4 small domains ( less than 250 users ) over
two partitions. One nic. Fairly vanilla setup.
Any suggestions?
Thx,
D.
PS: I waited so long because 604 was such
Hi...If anyone replied, could I have that reply resent. My filters trashed
any replies.
With apologies. Here's the original...
Hello...
I'm getting ready to upgrade from 6.0.4 to 8.0.5. Are there any issues I
need to be aware of?
It's a WinNT4sp6a machine with 4 small domains ( less than 250
Hello...
Some of my users are complaining that they sometimes get duplicate
downloads of their messages. It's as though IMail forgets when the last
time the user downloaded and gives them everything in the main.mbx.
Sometimes this will happen several times in a week or two.
This is a
Thanks for your quick reply. Appreciate it. I'll experiment with deleting
the index files on the server and clients, though if that's the source of
the trouble, I'd expect the trouble to be constant, not sporadic like we're
seeing. These users aren't accessing they'll accounts in other POP3
and will then be redownloaded the next time the user connects.
Or are you talking about when the users have elected to keep a copy of
all the data on the server?
Regards
Pat Hastings
-Original Message-
From: Dale McDiarmid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10 December 2003 17:02
To: [EMAIL
.
Or are you talking about when the users have elected to keep a copy of
all the data on the server?
Regards
Pat Hastings
-Original Message-
From: Dale McDiarmid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10 December 2003 17:02
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] Duplicate downloads
Hello
Very nice. Thanks!
At 12:01 AM 11/6/2003, you wrote:
In other words, we'd send an email to a person with a link in the
email. They'd click that link and the complete subscribe message
would be generated for them, and all they have to do is send it.
As you've described:
mailto:[EMAIL
Hello...
I've been asked to provide a one-click way to subscribe to a list serv. In
other words, we'd send an email to a person with a link in the email.
They'd click that link and the complete subscribe message would be
generated for them, and all they have to do is send it.
Are that
solution
Sincerely,
Randy Armbrecht
Global Web SolutionsR, Inc.
804-346-5300 ext. 1
877-800-GLOBAL (4562) ext. 1
http://globalweb.net
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dale McDiarmid
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 5:15 PM
To: [EMAIL
Hello...
I run a small corporate email server where every user is behind a WAN.
There are only three public IPs servicing all of our users. We have perhaps
a dozen employees who email from home outside the WAN or while travelling.
Is it safer for me to relay for these three addresses because
Thanks, as always, Scott.
D.
At 11:22 AM 1/14/2003 -0500, you wrote:
I run a small corporate email server where every user is behind a WAN.
There are only three public IPs servicing all of our users. We have
perhaps a dozen employees who email from home outside the WAN or while
Hello...
I'm getting a warning message a few times each week from Declude as it's
catching an outgoing virus. I'm not certain what it means, exactly. I've
included the text of the message below.
What is MAILER-DAEMON, and how is it sending a virus?
The to: MyUser (name changed to protect the
At 03:28 PM 11/25/2002 -0500, you wrote:
There are a few viruses that apparently pretend to send bounce
messages. MAILER-DAEMON is a term primarily used by Unix mailservers to
refer to the process that bounces E-mails.
Another possibility is that someone sent out a virus with your user's
Thanks, as always, Scott, for your excellent help.
Thanks also to John, for reminding me of the Declude list. I had forgotten
it, but something in the back of my head was nagging me. Now I know what it
was.
D.
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Hello...
Please forgive the off-topic question. Since ya'll are email experts and
afficianodos, I thought I'd ask here ;o)
I'm looking for an app that can sit on a WinNT/2k server which can easily
configure email messages to be sent on a pre-defined schedule. A sort of
email reminder service.
I know this is probably too on-topic for you--:)--but IMAILSRV's
digest scheduler, configured as Reply-To Sender: and combined with a
rules-based post-processor to handle certain response text, could fill
a lot of bills.
Sounds interesting. I've got IMail 6.04 on WinNT. I'll do some
Sorry for this OT, but it's Monday morning and the coffee hasn't kicked in
yet. ;o)
Googling for ebay email scam, and e-bay email scam, bring up some
interesting scams. One in particular is an email saying your ebay account
has been billed $1,460.50, and kindly includes a link to enter your
Hello...
Please forgive this off-topic post, but I thought with so many SysAdmins
and Webmasters here that I'd have a good chance of getting good info.
Can anyone point me to a nice site with good overview information on the
requirements and capabilties of internet filtering software?
Am I
Hello...
I'd like to research legal liability for email content. I administer a
corporate email server and am concerned about the content and possible
legal liability from the content from some of our employees.
Interested in slander and/or harrassment issues, not the release of
confidential
I apolgize to this group if my question seemed inappropriate. I did not
make it clear that I want to decode IMail passwords. I certainly do *NOT*
want to decode NT user passwords.
I was hoping to get the E-Mail passwords which I myself issued to my
employees. I am not attempting to hack NT
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dale McDiarmid
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 4:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] Password decoding
Hello...
I run a corporate server for employees only. I'd like some way to retrieve
Hello...
I run a corporate server for employees only. I'd like some way to retrieve
the users' passwords. I seem to remember there's a third-party software
that does this.
Is this still available? Is it stable and reliable? Where can I get it?
IMail 6.04 on WinNT4.
Thx,
D.
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Hello
I've been poking around SpamHaus, doing some *basic* research on spam
protection
Please note: I'm expecting mail client filters to do all of the work for
now, but I have a few basic questions about server-side protection
1) Is SpamHaus reliable, can I trust their integrity and their
Hello
Oddly enough, I'm pleased to know that the majority of spam these days is
in html format I'm pleased because this improves Mail *Client* filtering
since an html filter used in conjunction with other smartly laid-out
filters can dramatically (knock on wood) increase their overall
Hello...
Accept.txt allows exceptions to Relay For Local Users, but does it also
allow exceptions for Relay For Specific Addresses? The online help seems to
say no, but phone tech support seemed to say yes. If yes, must I enter an
address into accept.txt or can I enter a user.
Thx,
D.
Hello...
I'd like messages sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to arrive at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] That part's easy. My problem is
I want the header(s) to show TO = USER1 (and TO = USER2). Something like an
auto-redirect.
Forwarding, Lists, and Alias all make the headers show TO =
Hello...
It was my understanding that BadTrans arrived as an attachment. Now I'm
hearing that messages with no text, no attachment, and from-address
beginning with _ are Badtrans messages. My Declude/FProt is allowing
these to be delivered. Why would this happen? Anyting I can do about it.
I noticed my f-prot scheduler paused. This is not the first time it's
happened. The scheduler shows the RunTheUpdater process as daily, but the
NextScan showed a date from a few weeks ago. Simply openning the scheduler
and saving (though with no changes) resets the NextScan to today. No other
After udating to 3.11a, I get an error when clicking on the Updater
button...The procedure entry point InternetGoOnline could not be located
in the dynamic link library WININET.DLL
I suspect the updater is dead. Can anyone help? (Also contacting F-Prot
customer service).
NT4SP6
Thx,
D.
see also: cut throat
see also: egocentric
vbg
D.
At 11/28/2001 11:16 AM, you wrote:
cap.i.tal.ism (kp-tl-zm)
n.
An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are
privately or
corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and
reinvestment
of
Did they have an attachment? If so, it's the Badtrans virus.
D.
At 11/26/2001 01:29 PM, you wrote:
Suddenly this morning I got 4 blank e-mail messages... all headers and
everything were fine, but there was no body. All were from frequent
contacts, so I know the problem is somehow on my end.
Hello...
Trying to get my server protected from spammers. sys*.txt files look
suspicious. Here's my current setup. I'd appreciate any suggestions for
improving the system.
Relay for local users only = yes
Check valid sender = yes
AutoDeny possible hack attempts = yes
Disable SMTP VRFY command
Just a few more questions then...
You can see which spam databases you got listed in by going to
http://www.declude.com/tools and using the ip4r Spam Database Lookup
for 63.225.47.2.
Thanks
Relay for local users only = yes
Bad. That's how the spammers were able to send their mail.
At 11/12/2001 01:11 PM, you wrote:
Relay for local users only = yes
no, No, NO, *NO*.
Gottit. ;o)
The only anti-spam settings are 'No Relay' or 'Relay only for addresses'.
Manual says ...if all of your mail users send and receive mail from the
same host that IMail Server is on, ... you
I agree. I, too, administer a corporate server. My Declude/F-Prot have
obvious advantages, but I also use filters as additional brute-force
protection. I do not want my employees attaching 'fun' exe's and installing
them all over the place or catching an undefined virus, or using company
Hello...slightly off topic question.
Is there any such thing as a Declude-type app for a ftp server? something
that would scan a message uploaded to the server and deny any found
viruses? Haven't experimented, would just installing an antivirus program
on the server do it?
Thx,
D.
Just out of curiosity, what does this header indicate?
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fixme
Thx,
D.
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Hello...
Looks like I'm going with F-Prot with my Declude.
Would I get the same functionality (as far as Declude is
concerned) whether I use the DOS or Windows version? If so, then I'll get
the Windows and maybe use some extra licenses for use on some desktops.
IMail 6.04 on NT4
Thx,
D.
Hello...
I am considering installing Declude on my IMail 6.04 NT server. I'm trying
to decide on which anitivirus program to use. Declude's website mentions
that most IMail admins use Frisk's F-Prot or McAfee, then it says that
others use Kaspersky, Sophos, Norman or Dr Solomon.
Aside from
Hello..
I have some standard global filters (rules.ima at root of Imail folder) to
catch attachments with particular extentions. An employee received a
message from with a VCard attachment and a jpg attachment. She forwarded
the message and its attachments to another employee. The filters
Yes, I'm finding that combining the need to include filters without quotes
together with the fact that url's are not encoded, you're just asking for
false catches by filters, especially with unencoded url's and .com filters.
I've experimented with the \s parameter and find it has no effect on
If you open the %user%.mbx, you may find that the text string in that
message for the attachment does not include the quotation marks on either
end of the file's name, so your filter will not catch it. Sircam's a tricky
beast with its own smtp. I had to double up my filters; one set with
At 8/6/2001 01:44 PM, you wrote:
Would anyone know why these filters would catch attachments with a url
extention?
My guess would be that the filename with the URL extension has .com in
it, too.
Nope. Just plain-jane url's. No virus, no sircam, no secondary
extentions. In fact, I've looked
At 8/6/2001 01:44 PM, you wrote:
Would anyone know why these filters would catch attachments with a url
extention?
My guess would be that the filename with the URL extension has .com in
it, too.
Nope. Just plain-jane url's. No virus, no sircam, no secondary
extentions. In fact, I've looked
Hello...
Would anyone know why these filters would catch attachments with a url
extention?
B~filename=.*\.vbs:virus
B~filename=.*\.exe:virus
B~filename=.*\.com:virus
B~filename=.*\.bat:virus
B~filename=.*\.pif:virus
B~filename=.*\.scr:virus
B~filename=.*\.shs:virus
B~filename=.*\.vbe:virus
At 8/6/2001 12:22 PM, you wrote:
Would anyone know why these filters would catch attachments with a url
extention?
My guess would be that the filename with the URL extension has .com in
it, too.
Nope. Just plain-jane url's. No virus, no sircam, no secondary extentions.
In fact, I've looked
Hello...((sorry about that previous message, which probable got caught by
all your filters. My Monday-Morning-Brain was being a jerk g)) Here's the
question again, but with spurious X's...
Would anyone know why these filters would catch attachments with a url
extention?
What the best way to discover if anyone has ever used my server to relay spam?
Thx,
D.
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3 Global rules catching messages if the body text contains either
filename="*.*vbs"
filename="*.*exe"
filename="*.*com"
and sending to virus. (Each user has a virus.fwd pointing to user virusmaster.)
Sometimes, these rules catch a message which they shouldn't. Each time so
far it's been one of
I have a set of global rules to catch messages with extensions vbs, exe,
and com, and send them to "virus". (Each user has a virus.fwd pointing to
user virusmaster.)
Everything works fine, except sometimes these rules catch an html message.
(Not every html message gets caught.)
If I look at
I have a mail host rule to catch attachments and send them to a virus
mailbox. Then, each user (including myself) has a virus.fwd file to forward
these to user "virusmaster".
This all works perfectly except...
The rule does apply to me. Attachments sent to me are not caught by the
rule.
I have a mail host rule to catch attachments and send them to a virus
mailbox. Then, each user (including myself) has a virus.fwd file to forward
these to user "virusmaster".
This all works perfectly except...
The rule does apply to me. Attachments sent to me are not caught by the
rule.
I've set up rules for catching specific attachments, and sending the
messages to a virus mailbox. The result is each user gets a virus.mbx.
1) Is there a way for the messages to go into a single common mailbox?
2) Can I view these messages without using notepad? I'd like them to be
Perfect! Thanks!
At 3/9/01 , you wrote:
I was in the same boat years ago when I first installed v4 of
IMail. Dusty's site helped a lot
http://bbs.lynndust.com/imail/server.asp
Your need to create a forward file and put it in all user folders EXCEPT
the user (I use Abuse) where all the
I remember talk about a utility that could get me the passwords of all my
users. Can't find it in Archives. Anyone know if it?
How well does it work? Any pitfalls or cautions?
IMail 6.04 on NT4SP6
TIA,
D.
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Am I correct that IMail user's rules cannot "strip" an attachment from an
incoming message, but rather forward the entire message, (text et al), to a
pre-defined or nul mailbox?
Am I also correct that there is no convenient method in IMail (ver 4.02 on
NT4SP6a) or my email client (Eudora
Eudora 4.2 using Imail 6.04 on NT4SP6a
If my users have checked their mail at home and then check them again at
work, the messages at work are delivered as 'read'. This is different than
what they've come to expect from our pre-IMail days.
Is there a setting where 'Read' and 'Unread' is
I have a company mail server behind a firewall and prefer my employees, all
of whom use Eudora pop client, to set their smtp and incoming servers to
the private ip address instead of mailhost.company.com.
I notice the X-Sender for these messages displays as user@ip_address when
their Incoming
Correct. But, my boss still would prefer that recipients "not even know we
have a firewall", so I still would like to find a way to overwrite the add's.
D.
At 07:59 PM 9/15/00 -0400, you wrote:
Dale McDiarmid wrote:
I would prefer that recipients never see our private ip addres
I have a simple single server setup. What happens if my mail server freezes
or dies? Does incoming mail to my users keep trying to get to the mail
server until it's up and running again? Does incoming mail ever stop trying
to get through?
Thanks for answering such a basic, but worrisome
If administering IMail remotely, are there any security differences between
using web access, or using PCAnywhere running on the server?
Thx,
D.
PS...
I'm a newbie to IMail, but already love the program and the company.
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I'm not set up with my domain yet, so I can't test this scenario...
I have an employee who would normally use Eudora, but needs to be able to
use a web browser for those rare occasions when his Eudora is not
available. What would he see when web browsing? What would be in his Inbox?
His
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