Verizon blocks port 25. They'll have to use verizon SMTP server.
David
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We've been running 6.06 on same hardware for over a year at about 2-4%
processor utilization. We never needed to reboot the machine. In fact,
we'd reboot every 2 months just because we thought it was a good idea for a
W2K box.
We just added a new domain (fixed IP) with about 250 users and
You have to rename the domain's key in the registry and then go to the IP
(or virtual IP name) of that host and rename the host entry under that key.
WARNING: This worked for me but I don't pretend to understand why or what
other implications there are. Use at your own risk.
David
Please
ah, finally, a little practical sense in this thread. DROP CNAME's, use A
records everywhere.
Len
I can't do that because we have to display slightly different content to different
users and the only way we can distinguish the user is by what address they typed in.
If we use A records in
Hello,
This slightly OT so you can respond off list if you like.
I'm trying to set up a domain so that all http traffic is aliased to another
site and mail is delivered to our Imail server.
I want this in the record for domain2.
CNAME (same as parent) www.domain1.com
CNAME www
Hi Trent,
Yes, you're close, let me try to clarify:
If I understand correctly, this is what you are looking for:
DNS settings for domainname.com
domainname2.com
CNAME (same as parent) {IP address of web server}
CNAME www{IP address of web server}
As I understand CNAME is in the form
The zone setup for a DNS entry is
domainname1.com or
domainname2.com
No problem here.
mail.domainname1.com MUST be in the domainname1.com's zone
No problem here.
but,
the MX record for domainname2 can point back to mail.domainname1.com
Don't want to do this.
EXAMPLE
Zone for
Zone for domainname1.com
CNAME (same as parent) xx.xx.xx.100
CNAME wwwxx.xx.xx.100
A mail xx.xx.xx.120
MX mail.domain1.com
This is what we have except that the top 2 are A records, not CNAMEs
Zone for domainname2.com
CNAME (same as parent) xx.xx.xx.100
CNAME wwwxx.xx.xx.100
A
Hello,
I know this isn't the KWM list but I subscribed there and haven't ever seen
any messages (just tried subscribing again) and I know many admins here are
running KWM.
We just bought KWM and installed v. 1.52 on our Imail 6.06. Everything
works great with our domains that are registry
Thanks for the link. I'm not quite that far along yet. I've got html and
.asp guys here but neither know a bit about Javascript beyond cut and paste.
I'm completely ignorant here so any help is greatly
Here is what we are using now, this opens up webmail in new window and
transparently logs
Hi,
We have a client with a membership based site where all users have usernames and
passwords. We have created Imail host on dedicated IP using ODBC. Once a user has
logged in to the site they can click a link to log them straight into Imail web
messaging.
Everything is working great but
You can block any mail you want. I just don't want the unaware to believe
these blocking products are without liability. I am quite aware of much
of
the legislation, and litigation on this subject, and to be perfectly
honest
it just doesn't look good for censorship. Our society demands
Is there any legislation on junk faxes?
Yes, there is. Notice how you don't receive junk faxes like you do junk
email or telemarketing calls. I don't have it close by but I can look up
the statute if you'd like. We get 20-30 telemarketing calls and who knows
how much junk mail and junk email
Is there any legislation on junk faxes?
Yes, there is. Notice how you don't receive junk faxes like you do junk
email or telemarketing calls. I don't have it close by but I can look up
the statute if you'd like. We get 20-30 telemarketing calls and who
knows
how much junk mail and junk
Quite OT, but I thought with the problems many have had in this forum
delivering mail to AOL addresses some might find this amusing. Looks like
they were losing 2% of their own mail. ROFL!
http://www.msnbc.com/news/727898.asp
David
Please visit
All of our Imail apps are for secured extranet type sites where we must
maintain much info and acct. about our users so SQL is our ONLY option. We
would LOVE to be able to enjoy the speed of registry (we use it for our own
domain) with the flexibility and functionality of ODBC.
David
Please
2. The mentioned exploit is a configuration choice. If you
decide to Ignore source address in security check you'll
have that problem. Otherwise, you won't. You can do it in 4.07 and up.
You have to ignore source address if you want AOL (and any other dial-up
dynamic IP ISP) users to be able
We have been and still are running 6.06 since it came out. Haven't rebooted
in over a month.
David
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From: Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:10 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Most stable version of IMail Server 6x?
What
v7.06 now cause our system to go down a dozen times an hour instead of
only
5 times an hour. Version 6.5 was more stable than 7.0 and 7.0 was more
stable than the so called upgrades. I truely believe iMail absolutely
does
not test their product on an unlimted client. We have 200,000 users. I
I know bellsouth has some anti-spam measures on their systems. A few months
ago I got a BellSouth spam adverstising their DSL service. When I sent
their message back to them to complain about their spam, it got bounced with
a we don't accept UCE messsage.
David
- Original Message -
I know this is off topic but this group has a wealth of experience and I'm
sure someone out there knows how to help. (enough ass kissin'). Several of
my users (including myself) are getting our emails duplicated on our
desktops. I suspect Outlook 2000 (genius or what!) or the file server
Hello,
We're in the process of opening our Imail server up to our remote and
roaming users. With this setup, we will no longer be able to secure the
server using Relay Mail for Addresses. We do NOT want to use SMTP vrfy
because of the issues I've seen using that and ODBC and we do not want to
Oops,
Should have said SMTP Auth not SMTP vrfy
David
- Original Message -
From: David Setzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:04 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Open Relay Protection
Hello,
We're in the process of opening our Imail server up
We had a similar problem with v.5. Low loads factors and intermittent web
messaging shut down at least once a day. When we moved Imail off of our IIS
box it never happened again. I don't want to turn on IIS on our Imail box
now to see if that was it. I'm just happy it stopped.
My $.02
David
Sorry for what may be an obvious question, but I've been out for a week and
missed this discussion.
Has Ipswitch now released an API for Imail? Where do we get info on it?
Thanks
David
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however when the load gets heavy Imail starts freaking.
David
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From: Chris Bone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
PS - We're still using 6.06 and scared to upgrade.
David
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wish I had the magic dust you guys use, an imail system without
problems sounds like an imail system without users.
Unfortunately, I think you may be right. We have been using Imail for 2.5
years now and seen it be extremely stable. The only problems we've had
were:
1. Web Messaging
If you've got more than 20 or so domains, bulkregister is great. I don't
remember how many it took (we've got 180) now, but we got the rate down to
$10 for .com, .net, .org and it's $12 for .biz, .info (2 year minimum
though).
David
- Original Message -
From: Dean Zingle, Optrics Inc.
We're running v6.06 and have 2 large domains on SQL. Any time the SQL
service is stopped and restarted the web messaging for those domains stops
responding. To get it to work again we have to reboot the Imail box. Imail
and SQL are on separate machines.
Does this happen to anyone else? Is it
Sorry for the wrong subject in that last message.
David
- Original Message -
From: Daniel Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 7:39 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] IMail restore question.
Hello All,
The following epic tale is quite
This happens because SQL is stopped and webmessaging is trying to
autheticate and then crashes. Just use kill.exe from the resource kit to
kill iwebmsg.exe and then start the service. This does cause problems, so
why stop the sql?
Craig
We don't have to stop SQL often, maybe once every
How do you set-up DNS for this? In myotherdomain.com do you enter:
CNAME www www.mydomain.com
CNAME mydomain.com
MX mail.mydomain.com
Thanks
David
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From: Gaudin, Marius (Softec) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Asking? From previous question. Once you have aliasing in Imail (Alias for
mydomain.com = myotherdomain.net) how do you setup DNS for
myotherdomain.net?
Do you CNAME mail.myotherdomain.net to mail.mydomain.com or do you put an MX
in myotherdomain.net with the value of mail.mydomain.com?
to the SQL
server using the external NIC, failing, then trying the other one and that
this delay is too long for Imail to validate the users thus causing this
error. HOWEVER, I could be completely wrong. Any help or suggestions are
greatly appreciated.
Thanks
David Setzer
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This feature blocks a user's request if the IP address that they orginated
their Imail session from changes. This keeps a hacker from jumping in on a
users sessions. You must turn this feature OFF if you have users on AOL
that want to use web-mail since AOL uses rolling IP addresses (e.g. - an
Completely Agree. You can pick up a 512M chip on crucial.com for about $60
now. A year ago it was around $300-$400.
David
- Original Message -
From: William K. Raby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] System Specs
Hey, This sounds amazingly like one of Harry Sacks relatives. eh? :-)
Have great weekend everybody.
David
- Original Message -
From: Rick Peacock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: Re[4]: [IMail Forum] New IMail Anti-Virus ad
FYI - They won't tell you when they purge their database either! Could be
tomorrow, could be 90 days.
David
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From: IMail Admin at BC Web [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 1:41 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] OT: trouble with domain
Make sure you have ignore source address selected. AOL uses rolling IP
addresses so if you don't select this, Imail interprets the different IP
address as a hack attempt and denies the logon.
We had the same problem with AOL users until we discovered this in the KB.
David
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The big drawback is that if sheriff dead or alive shrub himself wants to
sent mail to your users, he will be blocked, too.
Hey Len,
As email lacks the normal clarification of tone, inflection, body language,
etc. how about a little clarification to this comment.
Thanks
David
Len
Title: RE: [IMail Forum] Declude virus, Mcafee or F-prot?
F-Prot will auto-update if you set it up in the
Scheduler BUT you can't log out, you have to disconnect from a TS session
instead of logging out. Little caveat we found out by trial and error but
it works great now.
David
-
F-prot itself doesn't have to be run as a service, it'll run fine without an
open session. It's the F-Prot updater/scheduler that should run as a
service because it won't work unless it's running in a session.
David
- Original Message -
From: R. Scott Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
I did the same thing, thought following the manual was the right way to go.
I set all my IP domains to
OHN = mail.domain.com
Alias = domain.com
We set our virtual domains opposite (helps us find them easily in
administrator)
So, Len, your saying that changing them all to
OHN = domain.com
So, Len, your saying that changing them all to
OHN = domain.com
Alias = mail.domain.com
Is a bad idea?
no, it´s the ONLY idea.
When I got Imail 2 years ago we set it up like the example in the manual.
Which is:
OHN=mail.domain.com
Alias=domain.com
But your saying I should go
Great Len,
Thanks for the clarification
David
- Original Message -
From: Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] domain name clarification
When I got Imail 2 years ago we set it up like the example
The is the new worm that works like Code Red but installs a
backdoor.
The is the original Code Red.
David
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From: Domain Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] New
Duh, We have to do that with almost all of our new users. Pretty much the
rest of the world uses the term mailbox to refer to an actual account and
folder to refer to sub-divisions of that box.
Sure wish Imail would change that terminology.
- Original Message -
From: David Stavert
OK, Maybe I'm COMPLETELY dense but I don't get it. Everything I see in the
Manual and KB implies that an alias can be set-up to forward to an address
on another domain. (i.e. - alias called postmaster on my client's domain
is given the value of [EMAIL PROTECTED]) But it doesn't work.
Can an
While we're one the F-Prot thread. I sent a support email 2 days ago and
haven't heard anything. Would anyone happen to know how to disable the
on-access scanner so that it must be re-enabled manually. Everytime I
log-off my Terminal Services session and log back on it has restarted and
mucked
Well, doesn't somebody wish he could just take that last message back. In
my haste I forgot to actually check MY domain and get rid of the
postmaster alias since I had set-up an actual postmaster box. That's
why nothing ever showed up in my postmaster box. DOH
David
- Original Message
Hi,
We just installed Declude and wanted to setup email notification templates.
Remember a recent thread with some excellently worded templates but I can't
come up with a search string in the archive to find them.
If anyone has them I would appreciate it, or if anybody can suggest an
accurate
or not.
Rick Davidson
Systems Administrator
Buckeye Internet Services, Ltd.
The cool thing about technology is that it keeps getting cooler.
- #3
- Original Message -
From: David Setzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail
Hello Rick,
Seen this post from MS IIS Newsgroup? Figured it out? They've tweeked that
patch! So, initial patching was questionable at best. That's why most of us
let these patches and hotfixes sit for a few weeks. (i.e. - Imail 7.02
Hotfix 1) (or was it 2.35887 :-)
David
just FYI
I have
For up-to-date info on this including some very good analysis and
correction procedures check out the following newsgroup:
microsoft.public.inetserver.iis
or if you don't want to join it, just do a deja.com search.
David
- Original Message -
From: Steve Polyak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Slightly off topic but I know alot of us are running IIS 5. This hit 5 of
our servers this am. Uses the same seed to generate random IPs for
additional targets so early infected machines get hit with each new
infectee. Patch seems to have worked. M$ support lines busy, hard to get
through.
Kevin,
Would appreciate any update you may find. We have about 2000 users that are
80% webmail. Haven't upgraded yet and don't have the staff to handle all
the complaining.
David
- Original Message -
From: Kevin Forte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 05,
that the webmail was
indexing
all the messages each time it logs in, he may be right. Let me try a test
account with a small amount of mail and I will let you know how fast this
is.
- Original Message -
From: David Setzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001
- Original Message -
From: David Setzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMail 7.02
Kevin,
Would appreciate any update you may find. We have about 2000 users that
are
80% webmail. Haven't upgraded yet
I had unfortunately assumed that. We were just hoping most issues would be
worked out before we started evaluating it. Imail has been a great set it
and forget it (for the most part) solution for the past two years. The 5
to 6 upgrade was a breeze but we didn't do it until 6.03.
BTW our
CDW has good pricing. I posted about a svc. agmt I just bought. Out of
stock but they guarantee the price. My post didn't make it to the list
though. We'll see if this one does. Info below: This guy is really
helpful. You can see if they have the user upg. on Imail.
IPS-IM-7000
Thanks for the order
David!
Joel Bohil
(877)567-7708
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David Setzer
- Original Message -
From:
Brian Goldman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 12:40
PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IMail Server
7.0 Upgrade Confusion
Unlimited Users - CDW - $348 - Ships in 4-5 days.
David
- Original Message -
From: Brad Kingsley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMail Server 7.0 Upgrade Confusion
Do these other companies provide good support?
Hi Chris
Heres my 2.5 cents.
My usual mantra is fresh intall. In fact, every so often with 95/98 I would
backup data, wipe drives and do a fresh install just to clean things up.
However, I have upgrade a number of 98/NT workstations to W2k and everything
went beautifully. When we ported the
Check the digest for the recent and lengthy thread covering this topic very
well.
David
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From: Oblio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 8:50 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] System crashing (LinkSys?)
Unfortunately, my blue screens
I concur, love linksys hubs/routers but had the same problem with a linksys
NIC on NT. Go with 3Com.
David.
- Original Message -
From: Todd Lahman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] System crashing
Use a 3Com 905c
Had the same thing happen. Linksys failed on the NT 4.0 machine and screwed
things up but no problems with the 3com. I like Linksys hubs but stick with
3Com or Intel on the Server NICs
David
- Original Message -
From: Patrick Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Hello,
I know this is an old thread but I wanted to check and see if you found any
resolution. I had the same circumstances a few days ago and I don't want to
just say outright No, you must have checked the delete all box (idiot). I
haven't been able to find anything suspicious.
Thanks
David
We just made 5 server switch in February (Web,
Imail, SQL, Media, Dev/Staging). Biggest advantages over NT is Terminal
Services and Ability to modify NIC settings without restart. Both of those
already saved enough time and rescources to make up for the upgrade
investment.
Definitely a
- Original Message -
From: David Setzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Official Host Name
Hello Daniel,
Thanks for your response. I think I understand. However am still a bit
- Original Message -
From: David Setzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Official Host Name
Thanks Daniel,
This is what I thought was the case but wasn't
Hi Kevin
Keep an eye on Dell's refurbished servers. Most of the time the prices
really suck compared to new ones, but watch at the end of quarter and end of
year. Call a rep and talk to them instead of just looking at inventory on
their site. A few months ago I called and got a Poweredge 4400
I'm hoping someone can help me with a bit of advice. In setting up a domain
I've always used the Imail recommendation (I don't know why just always done
it this way) of the Officical host name = mail.domainname.com (.net, etc.)
and the Alias=domainname.com. However, I remember a vauge reference
- Original Message -
From: David Setzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 2:31 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Official Host Name
I'm hoping someone can help me with a bit of advice. In setting
Thanks Scott,
What if I changed my setup to make the host name domain.com and the alias
mail.domain.com? (opposite the Imail default but apparently recommended by
this list).
Would that remedy this issue. This client would not accept the warning.
Thanks
David
- Original Message -
Hello,
One of our clients needs a secure cert. for their website. I understand the
concept but haven't implemented it yet and have two questions.
1. Can Imail share a certificate with a webserver on a different machine.
2. Are Thawte certificates compatible with Imail. (Read a thread in
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