[IMail Forum] SMTPd32.exe failing. Faulting application ntdll.dll

2009-01-26 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Export to Gmail Premium?

2008-08-25 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] SQL or not to SQL

2007-05-17 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Spam: iMail anti-spam vs Declude

2007-05-11 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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?

[IMail Forum] Banning gif attachments as anti-spam method?

2006-01-19 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] OT: Return-Path vs. Reply-To

2005-05-27 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] OT: Return-Path vs. Reply-To

2005-05-26 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Moving domain to different partition

2005-01-14 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Moving domain to different partition

2005-01-14 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] In danger of being blacklisted?

2004-12-07 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] In danger of being blacklisted?

2004-12-06 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Sp@mX

2004-11-29 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

RE: [IMail Forum] Sp@mX

2004-11-29 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] Sp@mX

2004-11-29 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Accused of spamming

2004-11-02 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] Accused of spamming

2004-11-02 Thread Dale McDiarmid
, 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

[IMail Forum] Automated emails refused due to relay settings

2004-09-16 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] Automated emails refused due to relay settings

2004-09-16 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [Spam?] Re: [IMail Forum] Automated emails refused due to relay settings

2004-09-16 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [Spam?] Re: [IMail Forum] Automated emails refused due to relay settings

2004-09-16 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] Virus wars heat up: Bagle.Q can't be detected as a virus by mailserver virus scanners

2004-03-18 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Sender Auth versus Email as legal document

2004-03-11 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Non-existent user able to send to localhost users

2004-03-10 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] Non-existent user able to send to localhost users

2004-03-10 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] Non-existent user able to send to localhost users

2004-03-10 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] Non-existent user able to send to localhost users

2004-03-10 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Backups: Backup Exec's open file options

2004-02-19 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] getting off this list?

2004-02-19 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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,

RE: [IMail Forum] Backups: Backup Exec's open file options

2004-02-19 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] New virus Tanx; may spread fast

2004-02-17 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Upgrading 6.0.4 to 8.0.5

2004-02-04 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Upgrading 6.0.4 to 8.0.5

2004-02-04 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Duplicate downloads

2003-12-10 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] Duplicate downloads

2003-12-10 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

RE: [IMail Forum] Duplicate downloads

2003-12-10 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

RE: [IMail Forum] Duplicate downloads

2003-12-10 Thread Dale McDiarmid
. 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

Re: [IMail Forum] One-click list subscription

2003-11-06 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] One-click list subscription

2003-11-05 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

RE: [IMail Forum] One-click list subscription

2003-11-05 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Relay: addresses vs none

2003-01-14 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] Relay: addresses vs none

2003-01-14 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] MAILER-DAEMON sending virus?

2002-11-25 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] MAILER-DAEMON sending virus?

2002-11-25 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

RE: [IMail Forum] MAILER-DAEMON sending virus?

2002-11-25 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive:

[IMail Forum] OT: Automated Email app

2002-10-18 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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.

Re: [IMail Forum] OT: Automated Email app

2002-10-18 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

OT: Re: [IMail Forum] Suspicious Ebay email

2002-10-07 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] OT: Internet Filtering Software

2002-07-30 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] E-mail content: Legal liability

2002-07-11 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

RE: [IMail Forum] Password decoding - explaination

2002-06-05 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

RE: [IMail Forum] Password decoding

2002-06-05 Thread Dale McDiarmid
-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

[IMail Forum] Password decoding

2002-06-04 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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. Please visit

[IMail Forum] SpamHaus, and Open Relay Blocklists

2002-03-04 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] OT: HTML Spam

2002-03-04 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] accept.txt

2002-01-04 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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.

[IMail Forum] Auto Redirect

2001-12-06 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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 =

[IMail Forum] BadTrans

2001-11-30 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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.

[IMail Forum] F-Prot Scheduler

2001-11-30 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Another F-Prot issue

2001-11-30 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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.

Re: [IMail Forum] OT: IMail AV vs. Declude

2001-11-28 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] Blank Mail Messages

2001-11-26 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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.

[IMail Forum] Relay Spam vs sys*.txt logs

2001-11-12 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: SPAMCOP:[IMail Forum] Relay Spam vs sys*.txt logs

2001-11-12 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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.

RE: [IMail Forum] Relay Spam vs sys*.txt logs

2001-11-12 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] blocking attachments for certain email boxes

2001-08-30 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] OT: Declude for FTP?

2001-08-30 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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.

[IMail Forum] Delivered To

2001-08-27 Thread Dale McDiarmid
Just out of curiosity, what does this header indicate? Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fixme Thx, D. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at:

[IMail Forum] F-Prot: DOS vs Windows

2001-08-24 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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.

[IMail Forum] Declude antivirus program

2001-08-23 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Filter failed once

2001-08-21 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] filter catching url's

2001-08-09 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] Rules.ima passing files

2001-08-08 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] filter catching url's

2001-08-07 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] filter catching url's

2001-08-07 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] filter catching url's

2001-08-06 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] filter catching url's

2001-08-06 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] filter catching url's

2001-08-06 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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?

[IMail Forum] Discovering spam relayers

2001-03-29 Thread Dale McDiarmid
What the best way to discover if anyone has ever used my server to relay spam? Thx, D. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/

[IMail Forum] Rules sometimes catching more than they should

2001-03-26 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Attachment rules catch html messages sometimes

2001-03-21 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum]

2001-03-13 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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.

[IMail Forum] global rules

2001-03-13 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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.

[IMail Forum] retrieving from alternate mailboxes

2001-03-09 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] retrieving from alternate mailboxes

2001-03-09 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] password decoder

2001-03-09 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from

[IMail Forum] Stripping attachments

2001-02-13 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Messsages delivered as 'read'

2000-10-09 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Alias X-Sender

2000-09-15 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

Re: [IMail Forum] Alias X-Sender

2000-09-15 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] newbie concern

2000-08-22 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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

[IMail Forum] Web Access Admin?

2000-08-04 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be

[IMail Forum] Newbie: IMAP4 vs POP3

2000-08-04 Thread Dale McDiarmid
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