[IMail Forum] OT: MS Passport ID # discover

2006-02-18 Thread Dave Riddle
Anyone know of a tool oo hack to discover what a MSN Passport ID number might be? I have a client with an issue that has caused Microsoft to say they are no longer going to be deleting Hotmail accounts that appear to be unused. ...Regarding this specific issue, I have contacted our Product Lead.

[IMail Forum] It's been fun...

2006-02-14 Thread Dave Riddle
It's been fun running Imail (since 1995) and being on this listserv (since 2004) but we are moving on. Will be migrating to SmarterMail + Declude. Besides purchasing direct from both can anyone recommend a lower cost vendor like you can do with IMail at CDW? To Unsubscribe:

[IMail Forum] OT - Contact for Microsoft Passport Network

2006-01-13 Thread Dave Riddle
Does anyone know how to contact - meaning call - tech support for Microsoft Passport Network / Hotmail. I have a client that installed an update from them and now is unable to login to their service. We emailed their support and explained that the service is either not recognizing his

[IMail Forum] Not updated - word and phrase lists for Anti-spam

2006-01-11 Thread Dave Riddle
Anyone else notice that Ipswitch ONLY updates the Anti-Spam word and phrase lists when someone complains that they have not updated. On 11/9/05 I complained on the list that they had not updated and they announced within 20 minutes of that posting that an updated list would be out the next

Re: [IMail Forum] IMail and Antispam...

2005-11-09 Thread Dave Riddle
Is this why you guys seem to have abandoned updating the filters for people not paying for the premium anti-spam or using Imail 8.1x http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20030513-DM01.htm Last time these filters were updated was nearly two months ago on 10/12/2005 At 06:11 PM 11/8/2005, you

[IMail Forum] OT: Backup recommendation

2005-10-12 Thread Dave Riddle
Look for a good complete backup piece of software to run on a workstation that really can fully restore a system to working condition. Anyone with experience with: Backup MyPC www.stompsoft.com/backupmypc2.html Novabackup 7.2.8 novastor.com To Unsubscribe:

Re: [IMail Forum] 2006 Web Message Client updated screen shots

2005-10-05 Thread Dave Riddle
Kinda nice. Now if only Ipswitch would reconsider and allow a separate standalone version of IMail that could run that new interface without having to run the bloated ICS. But since they won't we should be migrating to Smartermail by the end of the year. At 07:43 AM 10/5/2005, you wrote:

Re: [IMail Forum] White List versus Black List

2005-09-19 Thread Dave Riddle
What version of IMail? In version 8.1x the whitelist is processed first (actually second if you count the connection tests). You could always add a user email to the whitelist to have it bypass the filters (other than the connection filter) At 08:35 AM 9/19/2005, you wrote: I have a

RE: [IMail Forum] Recovering deleted accounts

2005-09-18 Thread Dave Riddle
You can always try to undelete the folder/files. I have had fantastic luck with this software. Easy to use recovers deleted partitons - even multiple deleed partitions. Very low cost. http://www.software-recovery.com/ At 08:57 AM 9/16/2005, you wrote: Unfortunately there is no way to recover

RE: [IMail Forum] User configurable spam filter

2005-09-18 Thread Dave Riddle
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Fix your Outlook settings to STOP sending those stupid winmail.dat files. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;196784 or http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;197064 or

RE: [IMail Forum] User configurable spam filter

2005-09-18 Thread Dave Riddle
Access 2003, not from the client. Keith From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dave Riddle Sent: Sun 9/18/2005 3:48 PM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] User configurable spam filter PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Fix your Outlook settings

Re: [IMail Forum] User configurable spam filter

2005-09-18 Thread Dave Riddle
: Curious... I'm not seeing them. Darin. - Original Message - From: Dave Riddle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 8:59 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] User configurable spam filter Yep. This message had one too. Another reference http

Re: [IMail Forum] copyall fee?

2005-08-27 Thread Dave Riddle
]]On Behalf Of Matrosity Tech Support Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 3:28 PM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] copyall fee? so you take ownership and responsibility for their email as a value add? Dave Riddle wrote: We don't charge for this At 02:47 PM 8/26/2005, you

Re: [IMail Forum] copyall fee?

2005-08-26 Thread Dave Riddle
At 08:36 AM 8/26/2005, you wrote: What are you guys charging (if anything) to customers for a copyall service? It appears you can really only do this for one domain as well. You should be able to do this for any and all domains that you want.

Re: [IMail Forum] copyall fee?

2005-08-26 Thread Dave Riddle
We don't charge for this At 02:47 PM 8/26/2005, you wrote: everyone seems to be ignoring the question of cost for providing this? Kevin Bilbee wrote: Caopy all will caopy all mail in the IP even virtual domains you will need to setup a rules on the copy all account to sort the messages by

Re: [IMail Forum] copyall fee?

2005-08-26 Thread Dave Riddle
storage/hr/whatever needs. Additionally we do NOT advertise this service, but if a client asks about the possibility of doing it we say sure. At 03:28 PM 8/26/2005, you wrote: so you take ownership and responsibility for their email as a value add? Dave Riddle wrote: We don't charge for this At 02

[IMail Forum] Domain and User validation issue

2005-08-24 Thread Dave Riddle
I have run into a problem with the first ever report from one of our users that our spam filter settings had deleted an email when it was received. Our Connection filter settings are set to delete after two matches. The server that is being affected is not found on any of the four

Re: [IMail Forum] Slightly OT: Need some server/virus/spyware help

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Riddle
Have you tried scanning it with the following apps in Safemode to keep most of them from actually running? This order process of free apps has always worked for me even with heavily infected consumer machines used by teenage children. YMMV I run the applications in this order. You will need to

[IMail Forum] How to determine rejected listserv user

2005-08-21 Thread Dave Riddle
I have a user on one of my lists that is reporting that if he tries to post to the list he gets a reject message telling him he is not authorized. He is receiving emails so he is certainly on the list. I suspect that something in his email client config (I do not yet know what client he is

[IMail Forum] Stop Outlook from sending that STUPID winmail.dat file

2005-08-04 Thread Dave Riddle
Probably the nicest thing that users of that worm/virus magnet program called Outlook could do would be to turn OFF that stupid winmail.dat setting. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;278061 At 12:17 PM 8/4/2005, you wrote: Hi Dan, Is that an option that is supposed to

[IMail Forum] OT: Remote Control

2005-07-27 Thread Dave Riddle
Sorry for the off topic post but this is a good networking knowledgeable group. I have a client that currently uses pcAnywhere 11.5 to allow +5 of its employees to access the internal network with pcAnywhere to a specific group of older notebook computers, residing in their server room, that

[IMail Forum] This would certainly end spam

2005-07-25 Thread Dave Riddle
A tad bit excessive but certainly effective in ending spam or at least spammers. http://mosnews.com/news/2005/07/25/spammerdead.shtml To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge

Re: [IMail Forum] Spam black lists not available

2005-07-08 Thread Dave Riddle
If you had gone to the link in Scott's original messge you would have had NO need to try and Google any SPAM database websites! http://www.declude.com/Articles.asp?ID=97 Here is a link to our settings and the databases that we consult. http://www.summitinternetservices.com/tests.htm At

Re: [IMail Forum] Delete after 2 matches

2005-07-06 Thread Dave Riddle
At 09:15 AM 7/5/2005, you wrote: we just use spamcop and spamhaus and delete after one match. no sense in checking all of those for every message. If you're listed on those two then you're a spammer in our book. I agree that you do not need to check mail against that many databases.

[IMail Forum] Spam on a GMail account

2005-06-24 Thread Dave Riddle
I got an email from Google today warning me that my GMail account had been dormant and was at risk of being closed. I had never actually used the account which I opened last year in August. I logged into the account and saw the Welcome message from GMail (still unread) in my In-box. Funny

RE: [IMail Forum] Spam on a GMail account

2005-06-24 Thread Dave Riddle
I don't know if anyone would be in a position to comment as to why but maybe if u didn't use the account but still published your email. Might be a virus Nope... Never sent an email from that account - not even to myself, never advised anyone that I even had the account. The account was

RE: [IMail Forum] advancedhiring.com

2005-06-22 Thread Dave Riddle
At 05:07 PM 6/21/2005, you wrote: sorry...I use 14 actually on a relatively busy server. It works great. I can post the rules here if anyone is really that interested. I would like to see your rules to compare with ours. Any help in the spam battle is always good. To Unsubscribe:

RE: [IMail Forum] Dictionary Attacks

2005-05-24 Thread Dave Riddle
Tis' better to take small steps and ensure that they are on solid ground than take large steps and not know what is under the surface. I always thought that was the purpose of Alpha and Beta testing... Drop and restart in Alpha, test drop and time delay in Beta and finally release code that

[IMail Forum] Funny - AOL MX listed on SpamCop

2005-04-23 Thread Dave Riddle
HeHe... 205.188.144.208 listed in bl.spamcop.net (127.0.0.2) If there are no reports of ongoing objectionable email from this system it will be delisted automatically in approximately 6 hours. Causes of listing SpamCop users have reported system as a source of spam less than 10

Re: [IMail Forum] Allow only SMTP AUTH with IMAIL...

2005-04-02 Thread Dave Riddle
Is 8.2 going to be available to current 8.15 users for FREE or will we have to step up to a new SA - which means ICS? If it will be available to all 8.15 users good. If I have to purchase an SA to get these desperately needed updates then the move to another platform is coming sooner rather

RE: [IMail Forum] Imail Spam Feature

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Riddle
Todd, Feel free to duplicate our Imail anti-spam config. http://www.summitinternetservices.com/tests.htm I do not use the URL Blacklists that Ipswitch supplies, instead I use the on that William Van Hefner has made available. http://www.vantekcommunications.com/spam/ At 02:21 PM 3/30/2005, you

[IMail Forum] Even consultants don't understand origin of SPAM

2005-03-25 Thread Dave Riddle
I was flipping through the new issue of NetworkWorld that arrived in the mail today and the columnist/consultant that has the column on the back page called BackSpin is an absolute idiot! Someone needs to warn him not to run with sissors. Here is the link to the full article:

Re: [IMail Forum] reverse DNS

2005-03-23 Thread Dave Riddle
At 07:56 AM 3/23/2005, you wrote: A message from one of my users was rejected. The 550 reply included a link. The page gives this as the explanation: 1. Are you sure (by examining the headers) that the message in question actually came from your user? Wonder if the actual message was from a

Re: [IMail Forum] Domain Spam List

2005-03-21 Thread Dave Riddle
At 08:12 PM 3/21/2005, you wrote: It's the 'url-domain-bl.txt' , that we get from Ipswiitch , Just wanted to know how someone gets onto this list in the first place.? From Ipswitch's website... http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/blacklist_policy.html ...How we create our URL Domain Black

[IMail Forum] Exmerge from Echange 5.5

2005-03-16 Thread Dave Riddle
Does anyone on the list have a copy of Exchange 5.5 and can email me the Exmerge files. I have a client with Exchange 5.5 that had a crash. Their .edb files are fine - no damage, but their Exchange 5.5 CD is missing and the copy that I have of 5.5 was in case of CD's that were stolen from my

Re: [IMail Forum] ipswitch.com not resolving?

2005-03-16 Thread Dave Riddle
At 07:45 AM 3/16/2005, you wrote: Is anyone else able to resolve ipswitch.com, or am I having DNS trouble on my end? They must be having problems... DNS Lookup: ipswitch.com A record Generated by www.DNSstuff.com How I am searching: Searching for ipswitch.com A record at c.root-servers.net

Re: [IMail Forum] Email only delivered to registered contacts

2005-02-22 Thread Dave Riddle
This is real easy to shoot down and show your clients why they will not want this solution. Question: What happens when your clients gets an automated email from a hotel/airline reservation system? An automated email from their stock trading company? Confirmation of an order from Amazon, etc,

Re: [IMail Forum] Ideal sequence for email/spam processes

2005-02-22 Thread Dave Riddle
At 04:05 PM 2/22/2005, you wrote: Does someone know the sequence of spam filtering processes that a message goes through in Imail server 8.15? I mean, which spam or virus filtering processes follow one another related to the standard steps of the SMTP service? I have what I believe to be the

[IMail Forum] Viewed web email show up as new when downloaded

2005-02-22 Thread Dave Riddle
This issue started showing up back around one of the 8.0x updates. It used to be that when a message was viewed via the web (while I was out and about) and then downloaded into Eudora (when I got back to the office) the message would NOT appear as new, but rather as one that had previously been

Re: [IMail Forum] Email only delivered to registered contacts

2005-02-22 Thread Dave Riddle
Secondly log all incoming email addresses. You don't have to look at it, but it would be there to review in case someone told you that they had sent you an email and it was rejected. It would allow an easy manner,(via search) to find that persons email address and then add it to your list.

[IMail Forum] Test

2005-02-22 Thread Dave Riddle
Just testing. Delete To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/

RE: [IMail Forum] Mail disappearing from Outlook...

2005-02-16 Thread Dave Riddle
At 08:54 AM 2/16/2005, you wrote: I will give that a try, but what about the virus scanning causes them to be deleted? 1. Email comes in and the infected attachment file is in the spool 2. Spool places the infected file in the mbx in your user account 3. Real-time virus scanner sees that your mbx

Re: [IMail Forum] Mail disappearing from Outlook...

2005-02-16 Thread Dave Riddle
At 10:13 AM 2/16/2005, you wrote: If they are quarantined yes...if deleted no If deleted maybe do you have an undelete/unerase utility to work on the server? To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive:

Re: [IMail Forum] MyMail server is listed on spam list!!!

2005-02-13 Thread Dave Riddle
At the bottom of the page you referred to is a link to follow: Dispute Listing If you are the administrator of this system and you are sure this listing is erroneous, you may request that we review the listing. Because everyone wants to dispute their listing, regardless of merit, we reserve the

[IMail Forum] AOL TOS Notifications

2005-01-31 Thread Dave Riddle
Windows Eudora Version 6.2.0.14 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:45:30 -0700 To: Undisclosed Recipients From: Dave Riddle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: January 2005 Newsletter posted -- Thanks! To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail

Re: [IMail Forum] AOL TOS Notifications

2005-01-31 Thread Dave Riddle
something? Bill Dave Riddle wrote: Anyone have advice how to determine by checking the mail servers logs who an email was sent to at AOL since AOL removes the address in their notifications? For example: I sent out on a subscription list for our local car club an email notifying our members

Re: [IMail Forum] AOL TOS Notifications

2005-01-31 Thread Dave Riddle
use mxguard so it is listed as 'X-mxGuard-Spool-ID' Bill Dave Riddle wrote: Anyone have advice how to determine by checking the mail servers logs who an email was sent to at AOL since AOL removes the address in their notifications? For example: I sent out on a subscription list for our local car

[IMail Forum] Is the Imail Daily Report ALWAYS wrong?

2005-01-27 Thread Dave Riddle
I never really paid attention to this report before beyond receiving it and plugging the numbers into a spreadsheet that we maintain showing the volumes that are reported during a two week moving window. Then yesterday it hit me that the SPAM reported numbers appear to be completely bogus.

Re: [IMail Forum] IMail 8.15 has been released

2005-01-11 Thread Dave Riddle
At 01:20 PM 1/11/2005, you wrote: Well done, It is good to get some positive news from IpSwitch. Huh? What good news? Allow me to parse the Ipswitch response to see if I can find this good news. 1. We know that there is a serious flaw in our webmessaging 2. We don't know how to fix it. 3. We will

Re: [IMail Forum] IMail 8.15 has been released

2005-01-11 Thread Dave Riddle
At 03:37 PM 1/11/2005, you wrote: Is it true that our next upgrade will be priced at $5-10k http://www.ipswitch.com/Purchase/products/ics.html What are they thinking? Were gonna be RICH! And I'm thinking, damn, now I need to find a more reasonably priced email solution Check the archives.

RE: [IMail Forum] Corrupt Hard Drive on NTFS on Email Server.

2005-01-03 Thread Dave Riddle
I used to use Partition Magic, but the version the works with Windows Server is very expensive. Just a little FYI, you CAN do this on Server partitions with the basic copy of Partition Magic too. Pull the drive from the server and connect it to a Workstation system as either a slave drive

Re: [IMail Forum] rule for blocking .com attachment

2004-12-25 Thread Dave Riddle
These are the rules for attachments that I use and I can't remember the last time I had a false positive. B~name=.{1,30}\.(bat|chm|cmd|cpl|exe|ex_|hta|lnk|shs|scr|sc_|theme|pif|vbs|job):[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 03:16 AM 12/25/2004, you wrote: best way to do this with the least amount of false

RE: [IMail Forum] [IMail_Forum DIGEST]

2004-12-22 Thread Dave Riddle
--=_NextPart_000_001C_01C4E79E.D65525D0-- -- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:15:44 -0700 From: Dave Riddle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] Services like SpamLion Reply-To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com I had a client ask me today to turn on an email

[IMail Forum] Services like SpamLion

2004-12-21 Thread Dave Riddle
I had a client ask me today to turn on an email confirmation request service like SpamLion (http://www.spamlion.com/) The bounce message that SpamLion sends is: -- An e-mail you have just sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is being held until you complete a simple one-time-only registration. To

Re: [IMail Forum] OT: DNS registrars

2004-12-15 Thread Dave Riddle
Tucows is horrible. I have a guy that wants to move his domain to us. His current/former host is/was also a reseller for Tucows. That hosting company has gone out of business. The domain is locked so we can not move it and can not change any of the registration info. I have called the Tucows

RE: [IMail Forum] url-domain-bl.txt

2004-12-06 Thread Dave Riddle
Also the issue could be that something else triggered the email to be quarantined. IMail will take action on the FIRST matching condition. It does not find a match and keep looking for additional matches and then decide what to do. What does your log show? At 08:41 AM 12/6/2004, you wrote:

RE: [IMail Forum] Lycos goes limp

2004-12-06 Thread Dave Riddle
At 06:28 PM 12/6/2004, you wrote: There has to be other ways to win, just a matter of finding what really works. Strong legislation against those who allow it is what I wish for. Who's legislation? As the article posted to the list earlier today clearly said... ...Although the campaign was

Re: [IMail Forum] Plaxo

2004-12-04 Thread Dave Riddle
At 05:45 PM 12/4/2004, you wrote: All, I am not sure how on-topic this is, but would appreciate your feedback. Has anyone out there had any significant experience with a company called Plaxo? Here is a snippet of the text I send back to people that I know that use that service. -

RE: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-12-01 Thread Dave Riddle
At 03:46 PM 12/1/2004, you wrote: That is like saying since someone on a bus shot at you, it's ok to blow up the bus and kill innocent people. Your analogy is entirely wrong. The better comparison to what Lycos is trying to do would be to force the bus to drive very slowly until the bus driver

RE: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-12-01 Thread Dave Riddle
will be sure to get the ones that are doing the crimes? Absolutely not, we just need to have a better plan that what Lycos is doing. They need to at least notify the web hosting company they plan to attack and give them a chance to make things right before they do it! If Lycos was seeking to DoS

RE: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-12-01 Thread Dave Riddle
At 04:14 PM 12/1/2004, you wrote: I agree and will try to stop commenting on this :) What we have here is a difference of opinion. What the pro Lycos supporters are doing is much like the KKK mentality. Narrow minded thinking with misguided thoughts about the You sir are an ASS. Yes, we have a

Re: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-12-01 Thread Dave Riddle
(83.241.136.230) but nolonger. Think they are being ddos'ed or did their lawyers shut 'em down? I think as was reported earlier they are being DDoS'd. The spam gangs certainly control enough zombie machines to flood Lycos's site to death. To Unsubscribe:

Re: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-11-30 Thread Dave Riddle
At 08:12 AM 11/30/2004, you wrote: It looks as though their site has already been hacked. www.makelovenotspam.com Thanks for the link, I took the opportunity to actually go visit the site which appears to be up and running. Based on comments made by most on this list they too have not actually

RE: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-11-30 Thread Dave Riddle
The first legality, has no precedent. Not only is it nearly impossible to prove that the traffic - traffic they welcomed with their spam - is legit or a DDoS, there appears to be no laws in place relating to such activity. One cannot yet state with all certainty that what Lycos is doing is

RE: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-11-30 Thread Dave Riddle
It's not applicable at all, because the picket line is a protest that allows strike-breakers to cross the picket lines. A DDoS welds shut the factory gates. 100% DENIAL of service. Len You need to READ both what he was responding to (my comments) as well as the original material on the

RE: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-11-30 Thread Dave Riddle
I need to go back and read what they've said... do they actually mention the term DDoS in their docs? Took a bit to bring their site up (maybe they are undergoing a DDoS attack from the spammers). But nowhere do they say they are launching a DDoS attack. Of course ...a rose by any other

Re: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites

2004-11-29 Thread Dave Riddle
Yet another problem is that spammers can now do much more damage to a website they are trying to DDoS. They can just send out spam with the URL of the website in it. It's a shame to see Lycos getting sucked into something like this. The saving grace for what Lycos is describing may be...

Re: [IMail Forum] OT: Funny I just couldn't pass this up

2004-11-29 Thread Dave Riddle
After enjoying that product from Amazon try these two which were also on the Target website and got pulled off for the same reason. 1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305810559/102-6197405-2992924?%5Fencoding=UTF8m=n=asin=6305810559qid%5F=1101409101qid%5F=1101409101 2.

[IMail Forum] Was OT: Now basic unanswered question

2004-11-08 Thread Dave Riddle
At 07:36 AM 11/8/2004, you wrote: Hi All, I believe that we have made it clear on a number of occasions that we intend to enhance and support the core IMail product as it is central to ICS. Features like SPF will absolutely be added to IMail and will be available to those users who have IMail

RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Need to Vent - SPF

2004-11-08 Thread Dave Riddle
So Jill, your (Ipswitch) answer seems to be let us string you along as long as we can. Between my question and David's question we have boiled down the last remaining issues as to whether IMail will remain a dead product. A case-by-case answer is ridiculous. Do we need to get a secret decoder

[IMail Forum] OT: Need to Vent

2004-11-05 Thread Dave Riddle
Excuse the OT rant but I guess it puts tech support from Ipswitch into perspective. Even with all the issues associated with calling Ipswitch tech support / customer service they are nowhere near as bad or unhelpful as the fine folks at Symantec (man I hate that company). This evening I have

Re: [IMail Forum] multiple names in LIST thru web interface

2004-11-01 Thread Dave Riddle
The addresses on the listserv is a simple text file. Edit the Text file with notepad (etc) instead of going through the web interface. At 11:38 AM 11/1/2004, you wrote: Hi All, 1. Is there a way to add multiple names to the list through the web interface ?? It allows me only 1 name at a time

Re: [IMail Forum] Ipswitch Blacklist

2004-11-01 Thread Dave Riddle
At 12:02 PM 11/1/2004, you wrote: Heads up! Ipswitch's Oct 22 Anti-Spam update included an URL domain blacklist that listed kodak.com. Looks like we've been filtering out a few hundred legit messages... They also filtered out mortgage application in the phrase list file-- luckily I caught it

Re: [IMail Forum] IMail Replacement compilation

2004-10-29 Thread Dave Riddle
Oh that's good Len. Bring up politics. That is certainly less incendiary. Leave it to Len to throw gas on a fire rather than try and cool things down. At 07:22 AM 10/29/2004, you wrote: as protesting outside their front door. Since when is that legal? Try that at a shrub or Repug rally or RNC

RE: [IMail Forum] IMAIL // ICS // Support Policy

2004-10-29 Thread Dave Riddle
That to me says that they will only provide tech support on version 8.1x through 1/23/2005. Your existing SA's will simply provide patch update access from that point forward. Or am I reading this wrong? At 10:03 AM 10/29/2004, you wrote: I felt the need to interjet on this as this describes

[IMail Forum] Ipswitch has spoken - ICS is the future - PERIOD

2004-10-29 Thread Dave Riddle
I don't understand people continuing to ask Ipswitch if they are going to reconsider. The statements from them posted to this list have been FIRM and UNAMBIGOUS. On Wednesday, Oct 27 - Two days into this debacle their Senior Marketing Manager, David Karp stated: ...I encourage all of you to

RE: [IMail Forum] QUESTION TO IPSWITCH

2004-10-28 Thread Dave Riddle
Good grief! Yet again it looks like Ip$witch is not seeing the forest for the trees I read his email (and I pretty sure most people that read English as either a first or second language read it the same way) to say hey we bought the small business version one month ago with the understanding

RE: [IMail Forum] QUESTION TO IPSWITCH

2004-10-28 Thread Dave Riddle
Isn't that what Yugo dealers said about their excess inventory? At 09:38 AM 10/28/2004, you wrote: I can still Sell any Imail product thought November 25 2004. 1-888-564-4267 Regards, Eric Hébert Network Admin Intrasoft Solutions Int'l T:(450)581-2297 F:(450)581-3815 Web: www.intrasoft.net

Re: [IMail Forum] QUESTION TO IPSWITCH

2004-10-28 Thread Dave Riddle
According to Ip$witch the choises are ICS (what-ever user level) or they say to go use someone elses product. At 09:51 AM 10/28/2004, you wrote: Hi Dave, English is not my mother language, but do i understand it correct? The small business version is also no more available?

Re: [IMail Forum] Collaboration is now available :(

2004-10-27 Thread Dave Riddle
no, because what is in the middle is probably weaker than Imail, which is at the top, the reason it's been the market leader for Windows integrated mail software for years. That WAS certainly the case. However I think Ipswitch got too complacent and the competition was hungry. Looking at the

RE: [IMail Forum] Cross-grade concerns addressed (NEW SVC AGREEMENT PRICES)

2004-10-27 Thread Dave Riddle
He has to take advantage of the Incentive to existing users by: Limited-time offer until December 31, 2004 Special offer for IMail Server and Ipswitch Instant Messaging customers (You will be required to enter your valid serial number or service agreement number during your purchase. Offer

RE: [IMail Forum] Cross-grade concerns addressed (NEW SVC AGREEMENT PRICES)

2004-10-27 Thread Dave Riddle
while simultaneously knowing that there won't be any. Also, the strong impression was made that the collaboration stuff would be an add-on. Not just a strong impression. Jill stated it as fact when you look at her emails in their entirety and she implied it again as recently as 10 days prior

RE: [IMail Forum] Collaboration tools exposed

2004-10-27 Thread Dave Riddle
At 03:43 PM 10/27/2004, you wrote: What would be even more interesting is to have WorkgroupShare come out with their own mail server! They already have one. http://www.softalk.ws/ Unlimited WorkgroupMail Enterprise: $1,995.00 Unlimited WorkgroupShare: $6,950.00 Total

Re: [IMail Forum] Fw: Setting rules to delete potential attachment viruses

2004-10-26 Thread Dave Riddle
Copy mine. Very, very rare that I see a false positive At 09:51 AM 10/26/2004, you wrote: I guess this got lost in the ICS heat ... Can someone please help ! - Original Message - From: Shreemad Infotech To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 6:59 PM Subject:

Re: [IMail Forum] Fw: Setting rules to delete potential attachment viruses

2004-10-26 Thread Dave Riddle
Weird. It is the link again http://www.summitinternetservices.com/rules.ima At 10:23 AM 10/26/2004, you wrote: Hey Dave, Thanks for replying, but where are your rules ? -K - Original Message - From: Dave Riddle To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:18 AM

Re: SV: [IMail Forum] Cross-grade concerns addressed

2004-10-26 Thread Dave Riddle
We will be. I was talking to a neighbor that does tech support for an ISP that as I understand it is a sister company to SmarterMail. I went to his house and he showed me a demo of the app by logging into one of their servers. Way cool. Everything you would want (however, does not yet

Re: [IMail Forum] blacklists

2004-10-25 Thread Dave Riddle
Since we are not using a true weighting system like Declude we have opted to set our spam detection to auto delete if a message is found to have originated from at least two of the servers found on the following list. sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org bl.spamcop.net list.dsbl.org dnsbl.ahbl.org At 07:57 AM

RE: [IMail Forum] Collaboration is now available :(

2004-10-25 Thread Dave Riddle
What the h*** Unlimited seats $9,995 Who are they kidding! For that price I will happily learn *nix and run an open source app. I would say that the VAST majority of us do not want the Collaboration or Instant Messaging. Also, have the fixed the anti-spam so that it actually works without

Re: [IMail Forum] Collaboration is now available :(

2004-10-25 Thread Dave Riddle
Would the last one to leave please turn off the light? To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/

Re: [IMail Forum] Exe files now getting through

2004-10-07 Thread Dave Riddle
Try rewriting your rules. Here is how ours our written and we have not had a single reported instance of an banned file type making it through. http://www.summitinternetservices.com/rules.ima At 09:41 AM 10/6/2004, you wrote: Hello, I have the latest version of iMail but clients as complaining

Re: [IMail Forum] DNS Blacklist Speed

2004-10-05 Thread Dave Riddle
At 07:36 AM 10/5/2004, you wrote: We are seeing a slight 30-60 second delay on incomming email, which I've tracked down to the DNS blacklist lookups. I have a couple of questions regarding how to fix this, if possible. Granted, I do have 14 rules, which I suppose I could cut back on. 1. Why

RE: [IMail Forum] OT: backup software for small network

2004-10-04 Thread Dave Riddle
Of course the problem with relying on a Snap drive (or using a similar type philosophy of backing up to a hard disk located within the network) is what do you do should you have a fire, break-in, etc? You have to have someway of getting the backup off-site. We still primarily rely on Tape

Re: [IMail Forum] Unable to delete messages in Web Msg. following mass deletion

2004-10-04 Thread Dave Riddle
Are you out of disk space? I have seen the problem you are describing occur when that happened. At 08:41 AM 10/4/2004, you wrote: All of a sudden, over a dozen of our web messaging (webmail) users began reporting the exact same problem. In every case, the scenario goes like this: The user

RE: [IMail Forum] WSFTP Server

2004-10-02 Thread Dave Riddle
I agree with WarFTP. We have used it since 1996 and have been very happy with it. At 11:57 AM 10/2/2004, you wrote: There is a freeware one we have used for a few years now and really like it; WarFTP (www.warftp.org). Very flexible. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [IMail Forum] OT: backup software for small network

2004-10-01 Thread Dave Riddle
Have you looked at the new REV drives from Iomega? http://www.iomega.com/na/products/family-save.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=16006169ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=63191bmUID=1096664186068 I just order four of the USB drives along with 4-pak media bundles for some of our clients earlier today. Fast than

RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Primary Name Server

2004-09-10 Thread Dave Riddle
Len, I don't mean to come between you and Scott's regular disagreements but I for one generally consider that the phrase security vulnerability would concern sensitive information. I would also venture to guess that Scott probably knows the vulnerability you are referring to but chose to use

[IMail Forum] Blacklist effectiveness

2004-09-08 Thread Dave Riddle
I finally got around to checking a random log file from the past two weeks and evaluating the effectivness of the various Spam Blacklists that we are using. Checking emails received between the one hour period between Midnight and 1am on that particular log (a Wednesday) I found the following:

Re: [IMail Forum] 8.13 Patch

2004-09-03 Thread Dave Riddle
?? Did you read the release notes that were both mailed to the list as well as the link to them posted here: http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20040902-DM01.htm At 05:03 PM 9/3/2004, you wrote: Anyone have details on the patch? The site doesn't seem to say a whole lot. Dave To Unsubscribe:

Re: [IMail Forum] Postmaster Accounts?

2004-09-02 Thread Dave Riddle
I had a client this week that had an email from a friend of his get caught in our spam filter. Checking the cause I saw that the ISP that sent the message out was on a few spam lists which is why it got caught by us. I did the neighborly thing and fired off an email to the postmaster account

[IMail Forum] Queue Listen Pipes

2004-08-18 Thread Dave Riddle
I had kept my Queue Listen Pipes at the default of 4 for many years, But ever since aggressively using the anti-spam filters I have seen that the amount of time it takes to process an email (check it against 8 spam databases) is taking an long time - sometimes is will be as long as ten minutes

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