RE: [IMail Forum] Defragging Disk Drives.

2007-01-12 Thread Markus Gufler
3th: all logging. (use a separate logging pgm if Imail/windows isn't flexible enough), or even send the logging a syslog server. A simple way to solve natural logfile fragmentation is to save logfiles to one drive (for example Imail's spool folder) and move them on a hourly schedule to

RE: [IMail Forum] Increasing Spam

2006-11-29 Thread Markus Gufler
My question was, if other people habe also more (of course captured) spam. yes! This are the reports from our server for the past two months (hourly values). The red part is what is arriving to our spamfilter, the green part is what we deliver as legit messages to our customers mailboxes.

RE: [IMail Forum] 550 not local host error

2006-11-09 Thread Markus Gufler
Nice subject line, Chris! It was an eye-catcher for me. I've can see a similar issue in some rare cases since I upgraded from 8.15 to 8.22. The messages are comming in from remote MTA's and even if the local virt.Domain and the recipient mailbox does exist and anything seems correct Imail does

RE: [IMail Forum] Update for SMTP vulnerability in 8.22

2006-10-28 Thread Markus Gufler
Matt, I think that it would be wise for Ipswitch to reevaluate their approach to vulnerability patches. ... As a result, Ipswitch has lost goodwill, whereas if they had provided the patch back then, they would have gained goodwill. In my opinion Ipswitch has choosen to definitively

RE: [IMail Forum] move users to new server

2006-10-19 Thread Markus Gufler
For such tasks it's always a good idea to consider the knowledge base: http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-19980116-JB11.htm Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Richards Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:58 AM To:

RE: [IMail Forum] QM stopping for some reason

2006-01-05 Thread Markus Gufler
Title: Message Why do you write such a long and informative answer like "yes"? No: in order to prevent a flood of unnecessary messages that come also to thousand of other people please: 1.) try to give more information! yes? yes what? 2.) maybe write directly to Tripp and post the

RE: [IMail Forum] Imail 2006 upgrade nightmare!

2005-12-04 Thread Markus Gufler
Looking at the file and the line from the error message below I can see oProducts = Server.CreateObject("IpsGlobal.IpswitchProductCollection.1"); So it shouldn't be a problem with MDAC, the Filesystemobject or anything else what is part of your OS. Looks morelike it's not possible to

RE: [IMail Forum] Imail 2006 upgrade nightmare!

2005-12-04 Thread Markus Gufler
Thanks, -Joe - Original Message - From: Markus Gufler To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 2:04 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Imail 2006 upgrade nightmare! Looking at the file and the line from

RE: [IMail Forum] IMail Feature Requests to Ipswitch...

2005-11-17 Thread Markus Gufler
I would like to see the ability to load a text file/xml of email addresses for gateway domains for envelope rejection. Also, the ability for this file to be re-read without restarting any services. Great idea! Markus To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html

RE: [IMail Forum] IMail Feature Requests - message volume limits

2005-11-17 Thread Markus Gufler
Travis Rabe asked Question: If I have a relay/gateway server installed and this occurs for me. Does the DOS feature stop accepting mail from my gateway? How does Imail know that the gateway server isn't the one sending the mail?? This sounds like a big problem that you may have

RE: [IMail Forum] Delete after 2 matches

2005-07-06 Thread Markus Gufler
Also note this warning from Spamhaus since you are using sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, cbl.abuseat.org and opm.blitzed.org http://www.spamhaus.org/xbl/index.lasso ...Mail servers already using cbl.abuseat.org and opm.blitzed.org should NOT also use xbl.spamhaus.org or you will be making

RE: [IMail Forum] Trusted DNS Black Lists (immediate deletion)

2005-07-05 Thread Markus Gufler
Title: Trusted DNS Black Lists (immediate deletion) XBL, CBL and SPAMCOP seems to be very reliable by having only a few false positive rate of around 0.3% (compared to the total number of processed messages) But all this lists are far from beeing perfect in catching spam. In the last 24

RE: [IMail Forum] send error 10053

2005-06-09 Thread Markus Gufler
Can you see this connection timeouts and 10053 errors around the clock and to many different servers or only to certain remote servers? If yes, can you measure the link speed between this machines? If no, what's your own connection type and speed? Markus -Original Message- From:

RE: [IMail Forum] send error 10053

2005-06-08 Thread Markus Gufler
Regarding NIC issues and connection timeouts maybe this will help you if your server is under a relative high load (100.000+ msgs/day) http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum@list.ipswitch.com/msg96372.html Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Too much traffic on an IMail box, why ?

2005-06-07 Thread Markus Gufler
Do you have a firewall to block incomming and outgoing traffic for all non used ports? If port 25 and 110 is bound to Imail and you can telnet on this port it shouldn't be probable that another service is using the same port. Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: Too much traffic on an IMail box, why ?

2005-06-07 Thread Markus Gufler
we have a Linux-IP-Tables Firewall. Yes. Isn't it possible, that an internal (hidden) process sends/receives data on unpreveliged ports not bound to IMail ? Not if the firwall before the Imail-box deny in- AND outgoing traffic for this unpreveliged ports. But before some other questions:

RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Mail relaying change IP in hosts file

2005-06-02 Thread Markus Gufler
Not quite right. If you're running it on port 25 on another IP, just set the MX for the gatewayed domains to hit that other IP directly. No need to have the messages spool twice. ...except we do realy for this messages only because we're scanning them for viruses and spams ;-) I'll try to

RE: [IMail Forum] Mail relaying change IP in hosts file

2005-06-01 Thread Markus Gufler
Sandy, thank you for your answer. Seriously, that's why you set your queue lifetime for gatewayed domains to a much longer timeout than the lifetime of general outbound mail. As this Imail-Server is only gateway but this for 200k msgs/day for another Mailserver near to this

[IMail Forum] Mail relaying change IP in hosts file

2005-05-31 Thread Markus Gufler
Maybe someone has had this to solve before and so can help me a little bit: Our Imail Server does relay (and filter) messages for another MTA. So we've added the other MTA's IP to the relay for IP-list and to the hosts file. Now the question is: What can we do if the other MTA has a longer

RE: [IMail Forum] What the future holds for some of us

2005-05-25 Thread Markus Gufler
THE FEDERAL Trade Commission (FTC) has decided that people who have unwittingly had their computers turned into spam zombies should have their machines switched off from Internet access. should? what does that mean? does the FTC have enforcement/punishment in place? or is this some

RE: [IMail Forum] What the future holds for some of us

2005-05-25 Thread Markus Gufler
4. block port 25. BTW: I know not any large ISP can just do it but some little networks protected by a firewall can prevent outgoing SMTP-traffic and allow it only to certain hosts without any problems. We do this on any FW we set up for our customers and explain that if they need to connect to

RE: [IMail Forum] German Spam Email

2005-05-16 Thread Markus Gufler
For people using Declude Junkmail Pro they can set up a filter file that will catch one of the ~30 known subject lines but only in combination with another spamtest (commandspace) that each of this sober.q generated messages will fail. Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [IMail Forum] Survery responses - PHP

2005-04-25 Thread Markus Gufler
Are you really running IIS on hundreds of domains? With ASP!?? Ronald, Mabe you're not able to do this. Numerous admin's are doing this successfully for years. Believe me! Markus To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive:

RE: [IMail Forum] Survery responses - PHP

2005-04-25 Thread Markus Gufler
Just now getting to see these survey questions, but we generally prefer to keep scripting languages to their primary platform - ie. ASP and ASP.NET for IIS, and PHP for Apache. I fully agree with David. In my opinion you can expect a larger percentage of Imail-Admins able to develope and

RE: [IMail Forum] Survery responses - PHP

2005-04-25 Thread Markus Gufler
Funny that most of the responses have answered NO to question #5. That indicates to me that most of the admins here are either already familiar with PHP or are happy to become familiar with it. Tyran Maybe you haven't understod what I've meant before. For shure there are admin's who

RE: [IMail Forum] Connection Problema

2005-03-22 Thread Markus Gufler
could it be that your IP-configuration has the wrong netmask? I've seen exactly the same this morning after switching to another NIC and setting up a netmask of 255.255.255.0 instead of 255.255.255.240 hadn't had time to check why but as it'sthe same I've seen today maybe it will help

RE: [IMail Forum] Different helo's

2005-03-13 Thread Markus Gufler
Title: Message HELO should be always the string from the host connecting to your server. So messages send from your clients contain the sending workstation's name, and messages coming in from other SMTP servers contain the sending server's name (usualy the FQDN) Markus From:

RE: [IMail Forum] Different helo's

2005-03-13 Thread Markus Gufler
Title: Message No, not exactly an SMTP-connection is always between two hosts. As the names say the sending host (client) send the message to the SMTP-Server. If the sending host is a workstation (for example running MS Outlook) then this client will send the windows machine name as HELO

RE: [IMail Forum] To anyone who bought a 3Com Nic

2005-03-05 Thread Markus Gufler
as we do per server, be interested in what you have your defaults at. Thanks for the time. Keith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Markus Gufler Sent: Tue 3/1/2005 12:10 PM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Cc: Subject: [IMail Forum] To anyone who bought a 3Com

RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] To anyone who bought a 3Com Nic

2005-03-05 Thread Markus Gufler
Listen pipes listen for connections from SMTPD to QM (or Declude/mxGuard to QM), not connections from Internet to SMTPD. I suspect you're thinking otherwise. The socket bottleneck at SMTPD makes increasing listen pipes beyond 64 useless. Delivery threads are QM

RE: [IMail Forum] To anyone who bought a 3Com Nic

2005-03-02 Thread Markus Gufler
Get TCPView from sysinternals.com Hmm, some years ago I've had to leave my office, sit in my car and drive to the datacenter in order to take control of my not more reachable server running TCPView for some minutes. The tool is nice but while making tests between 12pm and 04am I preffer to not

[IMail Forum] To anyone who bought a 3Com Nic

2005-03-01 Thread Markus Gufler
Note: maybe this is not new for certain people on this list but as it was not easy for me to resolve it, and also neither Ipswitch seems to know this. So I want to tell you what happened me with our brand new server: Our new Win2k3 Dell server with Dual Xeon CPU's, 2 Intel and 2 Broadcom Nic's

RE: [IMail Forum] To anyone who bought a 3Com Nic

2005-03-01 Thread Markus Gufler
these are great band-aid settings, but the problem remains Well said, but not under my control ;-) btw, 60 seconds is still VERY patient. The busier your server is, the less patience it should have with slow MXs. I suggest you experiment with 15 or 30 seconds. 30 is the min.

RE: [IMail Forum] To anyone who bought a 3Com Nic

2005-03-01 Thread Markus Gufler
One of the reasons Unix system appear to work better than windows is they have better defaults. ... I use 30 for my time wait and 65534 for my max port and do not have any errors occurring. So in order to have run Imail/Windows as a stable and reliable pair there should be somewhere

[IMail Forum] Delete messages by date automatically?

2005-02-24 Thread Markus Gufler
Does anyone know if there is a way to delete messages from an Imail mailbox by date (for example 3 days old) automatically. Maybe a command line tool, script or similar... Thanks in advance Markus To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive:

RE: [IMail Forum] Delete messages by date automatically?

2005-02-24 Thread Markus Gufler
messages by date automatically? Have you seen the Message Expunger? http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-2616-DM01.htm Have a good one, Christian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Markus Gufler Sent: Thursday, February 24

RE: [IMail Forum] Imail client crashing

2005-01-13 Thread Markus Gufler
We have a tool for checking IMail registry hives. Contact support for this as I don't have a copy here..as of this point I have stopped using the IMail client to manipulate mailboxes on the server (other than looking at them, no transferring/deleting) Ok, I will contact the support.

RE: [IMail Forum] nobody alias issues

2005-01-12 Thread Markus Gufler
Use MS File Explorers Search functionality and search in all imail folders for files named "forward.ima" containing "aol.com" Markus From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Beach ComputersSent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 3:44 PMTo:

RE: [IMail Forum] Imail client crashing

2005-01-12 Thread Markus Gufler
Just checked with my home box from here at the officeNo problems with the client...opened a 60 MB spam folder with no issues...Check permissions on the registry and file structure Eric, there is definitively some bug in the v8 Imail client. If you want I can provide a terminal server

RE: [IMail Forum] CN and KR Netblocks

2004-12-27 Thread Markus Gufler
I list entire class A netblocks in SMTP access. All non US assigned ones and some others. Holy cow god save America! Markus 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:

RE: [IMail Forum] Somewhat OT, Spam and Bandwidth

2004-12-02 Thread Markus Gufler
Title: Somewhat OT, Spam and Bandwidth Glenn, I have a Folder containing 45.000 Spam messages (45k IMail D.SMD and 45k IMail Q.SMD files) All files has a total size of 250 MBytes. So any message (Message + Queue file) has an average size of 2,78 kBytes. Assuming that the queue file has a

RE: [IMail Forum] Somewhat OT, Spam and Bandwidth

2004-12-02 Thread Markus Gufler
Title: Somewhat OT, Spam and Bandwidth 70-80 Users can create a lot of traffic. Much more then a 256 kBit line can handle. Depends on what customers are doing. Are this all users working 8 hours a day on the computer or does some/all of them browsing and mailing only sometimes? As

RE: [IMail Forum] Somewhat OT, Spam and Bandwidth

2004-12-02 Thread Markus Gufler
Seems like this OT thread becomes OT another time :-) The initial question was not whats the best way to measure line usage but if incomming spam can create so much traffic that it comes to a noticeable reduction. In my opinion spam alone shouldn't create such a big reduction, because one single

RE: [IMail Forum] Need a small test from you guys...

2004-11-29 Thread Markus Gufler
If some of you could help me... One of my customers tells me that he cannot even get the welcome screen at: http://mail.kuthula.com:8383 Maybe he's trying to open mail.kuthula.com:8383 Keep in mind that using the non standard http port requires using http://... so that the browser knows

[IMail Forum] Subject line report in this mailing list

2004-11-25 Thread Markus Gufler
Looks like there are a lot of discussions about dictionary attacks tcp probes blackice killfile antispam idea but I can see nothing about collaboration issues. Or ICS is working simply great and nobody has any problem with it, or ... no one is using it. At least it's more then clear that many

RE: [IMail Forum] Possible Exploit: Did 8.14 fix this?

2004-11-16 Thread Markus Gufler
I've read it another place (german) http://www.tecchannel.de/sicherheit/reports/4465.html It's a buffer overflow in IMAP4D32.exe. So only who has open IMAP-ports to the internet would have a problem. Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [IMail Forum] Delcude Anti-Virus

2004-11-16 Thread Markus Gufler
Title: Delcude Anti-Virus cheaper you can choose your favorite scan engine(s) custom notifications to sender/recipient by differentiating if sender is local or remote (want you blame your own users on remote side if they really send out an infected message?) Skip

RE: [IMail Forum] Roles/Group Based Permissions and Access?

2004-11-14 Thread Markus Gufler
There is only one global group now: All users must use the built in virusfilter and groupware functionality or at least buy it. Look at their website. It's called "ICS" and incredible low priced ;-) Markus From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wolf

RE: [IMail Forum] Pricing Change - Ipswitch IMail

2004-11-08 Thread Markus Gufler
Some years ago here in the north of Italy a winter sport zone has offered the season subscription for around 400 USD. There was not many subscribers and also not many people on the tracks. The entire concept was near to collapse. Then someone has had the idea to lower the price down to around 50%

RE: [IMail Forum] A Quick Note from the Ipswitch Executive Team = C/R systems are bad

2004-10-31 Thread Markus Gufler
then blacklist us, please, because, with the exception of any correspondence via this list, we've never sent or received a message to or from your domain in more than 5 years - I just scanned 5 years worth of logs to verify that. no skin off my back. my customers want ZERO SPAM and

RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] A Quick Note from the Ipswitch Executive Team

2004-10-31 Thread Markus Gufler
Yes, but that includes a year of Symantec A/V for an unlimited number of users. If you -want- Symantec, which is, after all, the market leader, it's actually quite a good deal, as many users have already concluded. However, if you -don't- want Symantec bundled in, as it currently is in

RE: [IMail Forum] Collaboration tools exposed

2004-10-28 Thread Markus Gufler
Now imagine WorkgroupShare suddenly discontinuing the product you are using in your ICS (with literally NO WARNING!) and coming out with a new IPSwitch, you should realy try to immagine this, and... I myself have recommended Imail to at least 10 customers in the past 3 months. Never

RE: [IMail Forum] A Quick Note from the Ipswitch Executvie Team

2004-10-28 Thread Markus Gufler
Bill, Ipswitch has increased the price overnight by factor 10 and we can only assume that some calculation let you come to the conclusion that this is usefull for your company. Question: Why not increase it by factor 100? I'm sure there will by at least 1% of current customers ready to

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

2004-10-26 Thread Markus Gufler
I recall your post, Gufler - I think that when I saw your post I did not realize it would REPLACE the stand alone. I assumed (oops!) that this was a new product - on it's own. Bhandari and John, There was maybe too much summary in my last week post. The information I've received has said

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

2004-10-26 Thread Markus Gufler
The end result is that even if Ipswitch product management realizes their disastrous mistake, wises up, and recants, continuing to offer the base product, many customers are now looking elsewhere that may not have otherwise. So no matter what happens, Ipswitch will lose sales. Exactly

RE: [IMail Forum] Cross-grade concerns addressed

2004-10-26 Thread Markus Gufler
To fix this situation, you need to offer IMail as a baseline package, by itself, with no add-ons, at a price comparable to what it was. If you are losing money at the current pricing level, just say so, and raise the prices to a point where money will not be lost. Not more again!

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

2004-10-25 Thread Markus Gufler
I just spoke with IPSwitch Customer service and I am not happy Imail will no longer be availabel as a seperate product. I'm working with Imail from v4 on. v8 was already a naughtiness. Pricing and functionality for spam- and virus-filtering was and are far away from what I can accept for my

[IMail Forum] Imail v9 = Collaboration Suite

2004-10-19 Thread Markus Gufler
Following to the german news on http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/52288 the next Imail version will be released as Collaboration Suite on october 25. So far so good. But what's about: The smallest Collaboration Suite license (25 Users, and Bitdefender AV Engine) will cost 1295 Euro +

RE: [IMail Forum] JPEG virus now in the wild

2004-09-29 Thread Markus Gufler
I think Scott and David are just trying to prepare us for the presidential debates. I think they really were just chatting to each other on the phone and laughing it up and are playing off each other as a combined publicity stunt. ;) Beside some humor that's never wrong, back to the

RE: [IMail Forum] What do I need to quickly reinstall Imail?

2004-09-09 Thread Markus Gufler
Title: What do I need to quickly reinstall Imail? Best thing would be to backup the entire imail folder as it usualy contains all usermailboxes, list files, user settings and so on. Maybe keep the logfiles in the spoolfolder out from this backup. A copy of the registry wouldn't be enough to

RE: [IMail Forum] Declude detects less...

2004-08-26 Thread Markus Gufler
Isn't there any tool that does this all automatically? Nika, On http://www2.spamchk.com/public.html you can find a weekly report about the quality of different declude spam tests. Hope this helps. Markus To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive:

RE: [IMail Forum] Imail Declude

2004-08-24 Thread Markus Gufler
Sorry Scott that was a typo, we are on 7.15HF3. I have at least 2 SMTP crashes per month requiring a reboot. Any ideas? I've running 7.15HF3 and Declude 1.79 and can't remember the last SMTP outage. How much messages per day are processed by this server? What NIC is in the Server? What

RE: [IMail Forum] Imail Declude

2004-08-24 Thread Markus Gufler
How much messages per day are processed by this server? 40 k - 50 k Ok, but at this level with declude behind the SMTP-service you have a cpu-usage of 2% ? What NIC is in the Server? 3Com 3C905 That's fine What is in the logfile before the service crash? nothing strikingly

RE: [IMail Forum] Declude detects less...

2004-08-24 Thread Markus Gufler
I'm interested in this SURBL list mentioned below. I searched the archives for SURBL and come up empty. It's a Declude topic so try to search the declude list archives. Markus To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive:

RE: [IMail Forum] [Fwd: IpSwitch IMail Server = ver 8.1 User Password Decryption]

2004-08-17 Thread Markus Gufler
This assumes that the intruder has access to the IMail machine's registry...IMHO if this is so I would think you have bigger problems than just grabbing passwords.. Eric S Is it true that extractusers.exe will not work anymore above Imail v7.xx ? If not, with this code it should be easy

RE: [IMail Forum] Spam Attack (I think)

2004-08-10 Thread Markus Gufler
Fortunately we have found a way to ward off these distributed dictionary attacks for a very modest investment (an old Pentium and several hours of my time). So if you bought Imail the solution is: Buy Declude Buy a second server hardware Install IMGate on it Just to clarify. Markus To

RE: [IMail Forum] Spam Attack (I think)

2004-08-09 Thread Markus Gufler
I don't expect any anti-spam software like Declude to do the sort of greylisting I'm talking about. Clearly this has to be the MTA. ... I'm not bashing IMail, nor am I bashing Declude. Each solution has its place. It's just that I can see how putting this functionality into IMail

[IMail Forum] statement from large IMail-Installation needed

2004-08-06 Thread Markus Gufler
Is there someone (maybe a known name) who can provide us a statement that his IMailserver is running great by processing around 200.000 msgs/day ? Thanks in advance Markus

RE: AW: [IMail Forum] statement from large IMail-Installation needed

2004-08-06 Thread Markus Gufler
we have no problems with 150.000 a day 150K delivered, or 30K delivered and 120K rejected? We expect 200k in total and a hold-rate of 65% with a peak value of 10 msgs/second (or 36000/hour) So 200k scanned messages and 70k relayed. (Server will act as gateway only. No Mailboxes, Webmail ...)

RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Whats going on with five-ten?

2004-08-04 Thread Markus Gufler
(If I have something wrong please let me know...) All correct. Hope this helps, Definitely! Now I have something to put beside the reports, to explain what they mean. As you can see my english it's not the best so many thanks for this explanation. Practically I can't let access all the

RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Whats going on with five-ten?

2004-08-04 Thread Markus Gufler
Again thanks to Pete for the explanation, his ideas and promising work. On http://www2.spamchk.com/public.html I've added the explanation and additional information. This static website from now on will be updated weekly every Sunday. So you can follow what's going on with five-ten and many

RE: [IMail Forum] Whats going on with five-ten?

2004-08-03 Thread Markus Gufler
Anybody knows whats going on there? FIVETEN-tests are not bad but as Scott said absolutely NO NEVER a 100% indicator of spam. On http://www2.spamchk.com/public.html I've prepared a list of spamtests and how they've worked on our server last week. As you can see FIVETEN-tests has a relative

RE: [IMail Forum] OT: SAV Intelligent Updater

2004-07-28 Thread Markus Gufler
can you try to run this script from another IP. Maybe SAV is blocking certain IP's for example if they connect to often in a certain timerange. Markus From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott SmithSent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:38 PMTo: [EMAIL

RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for July 2004

2004-07-14 Thread Markus Gufler
I've patched a dozen servers and no problem here. (Server must reboot after patch) Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Rabe Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:23 AM To: Imail User Forum Subject: [IMail Forum] OT:

RE: [IMail Forum] Blocking Spam Source

2004-06-30 Thread Markus Gufler
I know it would be best to get professional tools like Declude JunkMail Pro, yet I'd like to explore first to see if there's anything can be done within the iMail. FYI: There is a nice tool (HELOISIP) looking for IP-like strings in the HELO string (not only cmIP-ADD-RE-SS.hkcable). It's

RE: [IMail Forum] Imail Webmail does not speak german (it tries hard but fails complete...)

2004-06-23 Thread Markus Gufler
Why does Imail provide such poor language Packs for Webmail? Which version? I've translated the v6 and v7 templates to german (without help files). Don't ask me why IPSwitch has published only v6 on their website. I've provided them both versions. The v7 templates are completely separated

RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Imail Webmail does not speak german (it tries hard but fails complete...)

2004-06-23 Thread Markus Gufler
The v7 templates are completely separated (HTML and words/phrases) So anyone can translate it easily in any other language (around 1500 lines) They are so poorly translated that it is in many cases impossible to get the right meaning from the german and you have to compare it

RE: [IMail Forum] testvirus.org test results

2004-06-14 Thread Markus Gufler
I've tested with Imail v7, latest version of declude virus and f-prot. Not one single test message come trough the filter. :-) Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Wilkins Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 4:06 PM To: [EMAIL

[IMail Forum] program alias and remote execution

2004-05-26 Thread Markus Gufler
Hi IMail-Admins anyone has a solution on how to execute a batch file on a remote server (reachable trough TCP/IP) if an IMail program-alias receives a certain command? Server1: IMail: Program Alias Server2: Batch file (the Batchfile should run on Server2 and not on Server1) Markus

RE: [IMail Forum] program alias and remote execution

2004-05-26 Thread Markus Gufler
Title: Message Thanks. looks likeSC is included in Windows 2003. As I can understandSC does not allow like RCMD to execute a batch file on a remote server, but it will allow to start and stop services. (the batch file at the moment includes only NET START/STOP commands) So I think SC will

RE: [IMail Forum] Null bodies

2004-05-25 Thread Markus Gufler
We have the same thing, except that we have an sender and a subject. Are the spammers to stupid to send mails or is it a technical porblem? I asume this is something like a verification and DB cleanup mailing. We can also see this typ of messages in the last days/weeks. The idea behind

RE: [IMail Forum] Auto deny possible hack attempts

2004-05-24 Thread Markus Gufler
Name Surname [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not the server's fault that you're not validating form input and allowing a broken SMTP envelope command, is it? Imail's docu talks about extra long commands (512 bytes) and not about malformed recipient addresses. The validation was for having at

RE: [IMail Forum] Favorite black lists

2004-05-23 Thread Markus Gufler
SPAMCOP CBL XBL DSBL Catches most spam by having a very small FP rate. Markus From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe ScharbroughSent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 2:37 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [IMail Forum] Favorite black

RE: [IMail Forum] Favorite black lists

2004-05-23 Thread Markus Gufler
Do you mean "xbl.spamhaus.org" if so according to Declude's list "...This contains the same data as the CBL test..." From 05/01/04 on our server has processed 183721 messages. In this time range CBL has helped to catch 54948 spam messages by having also a false positive resultfor 481 legit

[IMail Forum] Auto deny possible hack attempts

2004-05-22 Thread Markus Gufler
After having a problem with this SMTP security setting (Auto deny possible hack attempts on the SMTP-Security tab) I want to write this informative message: We've running several webservers beside our imail server (v 7.15) and from one of this servers a user has send a message from a web-form

RE: [IMail Forum] Spam phrase question

2004-05-19 Thread Markus Gufler
If I have loan rate or low rate or any combo with rate as a spam phrase- will it also filter just rate? I don't have rate in my phrase list, but emails are being filtered for rate. Rate shows nowhere in any rules or filters. ...and this is good so! rate can also be part of

[IMail Forum] italian KWM Templates

2004-05-13 Thread Markus Gufler
Someone has already translated the Killer Webmail Templates to italian language? Markus

RE: [IMail Forum] Spam Challenge

2004-04-13 Thread Markus Gufler
We will probably move from Imail to Merak then. I don't think IpSwitch will forget that market I'm a part of. Pierre, I have to strongly agree with Scott! If you want to integrate a C/R system several people will consider this as spam. (exactly the opposite you want in your inbox!) Some of

RE: [IMail Forum] Spam Challenge

2004-04-13 Thread Markus Gufler
The antispam feature of Imail is unsecure, and my customers urge me to provide them a spam challenge system. I don't know the Antispam features offered by Imail v8+ but maybe give a 30day free try to Declude available under www.declude.com It's like a swiss army knife. Markus To

RE: [IMail Forum] Spam Challenge

2004-04-13 Thread Markus Gufler
No it's real. Since that law, spam coming from EU countries have almost completely stopped. Of course I'm in Belgium, I can't say it is the same in other EU countries... But I think it is the same in most of them. Italy speaking here and I can confirm this. Spam comming from local or

RE: [IMail Forum] Spam Challenge

2004-04-13 Thread Markus Gufler
tons of IPs all over .it, .fr, .de, .uk, .pl, .be, .nl, .es Mostly subscribers on cable/dsl/dialup netowks. As I said: zombies ...and the controllers of this zombies sits... who knows? I mean there are practically no more messages comming from the own or neighbor countries sending marketing

RE: [IMail Forum] Spam Challenge

2004-04-13 Thread Markus Gufler
My point isn't that I can prove that spam laws aren't worthwhile. However, if you believe that once legislation is passed all of the spammers will think to themselves, The party is over. Time to give up spamming and volunteer at an Aids hospice., you are incredibly naïve. Even if

RE: [IMail Forum] Spam Databases

2004-04-12 Thread Markus Gufler
Any recommendations on which anti spam databases to use that actually work? http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg82556.html and http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg82612.html Markus To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List

RE: [IMail Forum] March 2004 Spam Statistics

2004-04-06 Thread Markus Gufler
Thank you Marcus for the very informative analysis. I see that we're not using some of the more accurate tests (because our global.cfg file is a little out of date). A number of these tests are not defined in Declude's example glogal.cfg file. Can you supply a global.cfg (or part of

RE: [IMail Forum] March 2004 Spam Statistics

2004-04-05 Thread Markus Gufler
Beside Scott's monthly stats showing up which test can catch more spam I wondered what each single test can contribute to catch as many spam as possible by having as few false positives as possible. (on a MTA processing legit messages from over 1000 mailboxes) The calculation is based on the

RE: [IMail Forum] Smart A$$ remarks

2004-03-16 Thread Markus Gufler
The question often comes off looking like I'm too lazy to find the answer myself but I know there's a bunch of people whose time is worth less than my time so I'll ask them. I agree. The cause: For any question - even if posted 1000 times - there will be some reply with a complete

RE: [IMail Forum] Smart A$$ remarks

2004-03-16 Thread Markus Gufler
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Would it be possible to make every new subscribber click on I agree and understand after each paragraph of this article before he can post a message? Markus ;-) To Unsubscribe:

RE: [IMail Forum] Webmail in ASP

2004-03-10 Thread Markus Gufler
Does anyone else have interest in having the Webmail in ASP to make it easier to integrate with an existing site, or to simply customize? Just curious of the interest level so that Ipswitch may take notice. We use KWM with images hosted on an IIS-Webserver and are happy with this

RE: [IMail Forum] DNS Black Lists ... my list ... comments...

2004-03-09 Thread Markus Gufler
any comments on these or suggestions on lists to add? At the moment I'm working on a automated rating for different test types. Attached you can find a first result for Ip-Blacklists. A short explanation: The results are based on 73000 messages processed on a tipical small ISP Mailserver. The

RE: [IMail Forum] Spam Statistics

2004-03-08 Thread Markus Gufler
2) False positive If your Server is smart enough to know what is a FP, why it was hold as spam? Or in other words: The only way to identify FPs is to check manualy your hold messages, or at least log files. Markus To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List

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