Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Best practice

2002-06-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Any idea if ipswitch is going to add an easier way to do routing in > the future? No idea offhand; in a post yesterday, I suggested this be manageable from the GUI using and use a dedicated MXHOSTS file or Registry key, rather than abusing HOSTS. It does work, though, so let's hope other

Re: [IMail Forum] looking for equivalents

2002-06-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> But I am always looking for bigger better cheaper. Not an appropriate Q for a vendor-hosted list, I think, esp. if you're happy. -Sandy Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-arc

Re: [IMail Forum] Best practice

2002-06-04 Thread Travis Carter
Thanks, this article worked. Any idea if ipswitch is going to add an easier way to do routing in the future? - Original Message - From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Travis Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 11:59 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Best pr

Re[10]: [IMail Forum] no message header

2002-06-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> hehe, i know. but still, i jsut cat seem to stop this activity, i > get hundreds a day emails to only within my company, just getting > sick of it. We all are. www.declude.com for Declude Junkmail (runs on Imail box), or IMGate.MEIway.com (dedicated box). -Sandy Please visit http://ww

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] DNS Resolution

2002-06-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> I check my IP and it is also missing a reverse DNS entry. If this is > a virtual domain on a hosting service and there are many domains > using the same IP, how can I fix this? You give the PTR to the Official Host Name. PTRs are intended to be one-to-one, so this is it. As discussed

Re: [IMail Forum] Best practice

2002-06-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> I would like to allow relaying for all domains we host and disallow > for any others? No matter what I try I keep getting 550 errors > unless I authorized open relay. Search for KB article "Imail as a Store-and-Forward server." -Sandy Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/maili

RE: [IMail Forum] Password decoding

2002-06-04 Thread Don Weber
i think its "imail plus", its available from the imail support page for third party utils, if you dont find it, let me know, i should have a copy somewhere. Don -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dale McDiarmid Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002

RE: Re[8]: [IMail Forum] no message header

2002-06-04 Thread Don Weber
hehe, i know. but still, i jsut cat seem to stop this activity, i get hundreds a day emails to only within my company, just getting sick of it. don > any ideas out there how to stop this type of activity. Not to be too 'Len,' but unplug your router. :)) -Sandy Please visit http://www.ipswitc

Re: [IMail Forum] DNS Resolution

2002-06-04 Thread John Beaver
I check my IP and it is also missing a reverse DNS entry. If this is a virtual domain on a hosting service and there are many domains using the same IP, how can I fix this? john - Original Message - From: "Rod Dorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 20

Re: [IMail Forum] looking for equivalents

2002-06-04 Thread Serhan Sevim
I don't understand what you're trying to find out ? As of email messaging server better than Imail? Serhan. - Original Message - From: "Bill Kaigler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 10:41 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] looking for equivalents > Hi, >

[IMail Forum] looking for equivalents

2002-06-04 Thread Bill Kaigler
Hi, I have been a very happy imail customer for about 2 1/2 years. But I am always looking for bigger better cheaper. Any one have any suggestions? thanks, Bill Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is availab

[IMail Forum] Best practice

2002-06-04 Thread Travis Carter
Looking for the best practice, we have a imail server running declude acting as a front end mailer (no users or domains) for another mail platform.   I would like to allow relaying for all domains we host and disallow for any others?  No matter what I try I keep getting 550 errors unless I a

Re: [IMail Forum] Adding authorized posters to list...

2002-06-04 Thread David Dodell
> Is there a way to allow postings from non-subscribed addresses without just > opening up the list to everyone? I'd like to add specific addresses that > would allow posting from those addresses, but they woudn't receive messages. I found the trick to doing this, but it is a pain. First you ma

Re: [IMail Forum] Version 6 List question

2002-06-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> Ihave noticed that the reply to email address is > [EMAIL PROTECTED]and the address that works is > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'m thinking it has to do with my aliases > somewhere but I'm not sure exactly where to look. It has to do with your official hostname being

Re[8]: [IMail Forum] no message header

2002-06-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> on this note, why does Imail allow an outside entity to connect and > send mail even if only internally, using one of my own email > addresses, i too have the auth turned on, and my users have to enter > their passwords before they can send mail No, they don't. Only if they are sending

Re[8]: [IMail Forum] no message header

2002-06-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
>>>Note that looking up sport158.com is useless--the EHLO is easily >>>forged. > Egad! so when I ping sport158.com the IP that comes back isn't necessarily > real?! No, I'm noting that the sport158.com in the header is not a reliable source of sender information, as it is not validated. -S

RE: [IMail Forum] DNS Resolution

2002-06-04 Thread Rod Dorman
Hartshorn, Joel wrote: > R. Scott Perry wrote: > > Hartshorn, Joel wrote: > > > When I do an nslookup on the IP it does not resolve, so I am assuming that > > > my ISP doesn't have the IP address in reverse DNS. > > > > That most likely is the > > case. http://www.DNSstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=2

Re: [IMail Forum] dumb question

2002-06-04 Thread R. Scott Perry
>what is the number (8366) at the end of this entry in the smtp log? > >m:\IMail\spool\Dcd7205960094d0fd.SMD 8366 It's the size of the E-mail (8,366 bytes). -Scott --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. ht

[IMail Forum] Repeat Message Proglem

2002-06-04 Thread Clark Dilley
Hello all:   I'm a real novice when it comes to SMTP, so I'm hoping that maybe one of you out there might be able to help me out with a small dilema I'm having. I had a user report to me that he attempted to send an email and both he and the person he was sending to received the email 7 tim

[IMail Forum] Password decoding

2002-06-04 Thread Dale McDiarmid
Hello... I run a corporate server for employees only. I'd like some way to retrieve the users' passwords. I seem to remember there's a third-party software that does this. Is this still available? Is it stable and reliable? Where can I get it? IMail 6.04 on WinNT4. Thx, D. Please visit ht

Re: [IMail Forum] DNS Resolution

2002-06-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
Joel, >When I do an nslookup on the IP it does not resolve, so I am assuming that my ISP doesn't >have the IP address in reverse DNS. You are still barking up the wrong tree; there may be an error in that area, but that is not the direct cause of your issue. Please (re)read the following messag

[IMail Forum] Version 6 List question

2002-06-04 Thread glens
I am running version 6 and have just set up several mailing lists. I (and others) can send to the lists just fine but when a user tries to reply, the message never appears to the list. I have the "reply to list" box checked. I have noticed that the reply to email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [IMail Forum] DNS Resolution

2002-06-04 Thread Hartshorn, Joel
Ok, What if I run my own DNS, will this help? If so, can I just use iMail's DNS Service? Thanks, Joel -Original Message- From: R. Scott Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] DNS Resolution >When I do a

[IMail Forum] dumb question

2002-06-04 Thread Imail Tom G.
what is the number (8366) at the end of this entry in the smtp log? m:\IMail\spool\Dcd7205960094d0fd.SMD 8366 Thanks, Tom Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_f

Re: [IMail Forum] IMail Log Analyzer Beta _HELP SOMETHING WRONG!!!!!

2002-06-04 Thread John Korsak
A new version is available that corrects the size reporting. It also groups "invalid user" errors by IP from STMPD errors in case of dictionary attack. The new install can be downloaded at: ftp://ftp2.ipswitch.com/pub/beta/IMailLABeta4.exe John Korsak Product Marketing Manager, IMail Server --

RE: [IMail Forum] Attempting Post to group...

2002-06-04 Thread Clark Dilley
Hello all:   I'm a real novice when it comes to SMTP, so I'm hoping that maybe one of you out there might be able to help me out with a small dilema I'm having. I had a user report to me that he attempted to send an email and both he and the person he was sending to received the email 7 tim

Re: [IMail Forum] DNS Resolution

2002-06-04 Thread R. Scott Perry
>When I do an nslookup on the IP it does not resolve, so I am assuming that >my ISP doesn't have the IP address in reverse DNS. That most likely is the case. http://www.DNSstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=209.206.239.100 shows that the mailserver you sent your E-mail from is missing a reverse DNS en

RE: [IMail Forum] DNS Resolution

2002-06-04 Thread Rod Dorman
Hartshorn, Joel wrote: > Per my 550 Can't relay issue, it appears that I may have found something. > > When I do an nslookup on the IP it does not resolve, so I am assuming that > my ISP doesn't have the IP address in reverse DNS. > > Does that sound right? Even if your ISP has it in their DNS

Re: Re[4]: [IMail Forum] no message header

2002-06-04 Thread Eric Shanbrom
IP's can be spoofed. The only defense against this is at your border router. It needs to be set so it doesn't allow addresses it recognizes as internal addresses to come from the external ports. Eric S - Original Message - From: "Ken Innes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent

Re: [IMail Forum] Anyone experiencing problems sending toMindspring lately?

2002-06-04 Thread Christopher Ulrich
But our messages from our server - which do have reverse DNS - have experienced similar problems Thanks At 10:28 AM 6/4/2002, you wrote: >>So any ideas what's up with Mindspring? I've had two remote clients >>with their own mail servers WITHOUT reverse DNS getting bounced >>(we can't giv

[IMail Forum] Attempting Post to group...

2002-06-04 Thread Clark Dilley
 

[IMail Forum] Shutting down a host

2002-06-04 Thread Jeff Demel
In IMail 6.06, how do you turn off a host without deleting it? -Jeff Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge B

Re: [IMail Forum] converting 6.06 users to 7.07

2002-06-04 Thread Hawk
At 01:12 PM 6/4/2002 -0700, Sheldon Koehler wrote: > > I am now ready to migrate my users from 6.06 to 7.07. What is the best >way > > since these are 2 different servers. > >I would strongly recommend upgrading your existing server to the new version >first. This will properly convert everything

Re: [IMail Forum] converting 6.06 users to 7.07

2002-06-04 Thread Sheldon Koehler
> I am now ready to migrate my users from 6.06 to 7.07. What is the best way > since these are 2 different servers. I would strongly recommend upgrading your existing server to the new version first. This will properly convert everything and you can make sure it is all working. Then follow this

RE: Re[6]: [IMail Forum] no message header

2002-06-04 Thread Ken Innes
>Is this the EXACT text (less the quote > marks)? If so, it looks Imail >is munging two copies of the same message together upon receipt. >Whether this is the result of a deliberate hack or some badly written >spam-blaster is not clear. I'm a little out of my depth here, so I don't know w

[IMail Forum] DNS Resolution

2002-06-04 Thread Hartshorn, Joel
Ok, Per my 550 Can't relay issue, it appears that I may have found something. When I do an nslookup on the IP it does not resolve, so I am assuming that my ISP doesn't have the IP address in reverse DNS. Does that sound right? Thanks, Joel Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing

RE: Re[6]: [IMail Forum] no message header

2002-06-04 Thread Don Weber
on this note, why does Imail allow an outside entity to connect and send mail even if only internally, using one of my own email addresses, i too have the auth turned on, and my users have to enter their passwords before they can send mail, how does someone else come in and send mail internally wi

Re[6]: [IMail Forum] no message header

2002-06-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
>>From <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue Jun 04 12:14:15 2002 > Received: from sport158.com [From <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue Jun 04 12:14:15 > 2002 > Received: from sport158.com [66.46.195.18] by ekos.com with ESMTP > (SMTPD32-7.10) id A754C232065A; Tue, 04 Jun 2002 12:14:12 -0400 > X-UIDL: 322766513] by eko

[IMail Forum] converting 6.06 users to 7.07

2002-06-04 Thread Hawk
Hi, I am now ready to migrate my users from 6.06 to 7.07. What is the best way since these are 2 different servers. I was thinking of zipping the user folder, extract to the new server and run convert.exe. Is there a better way? thanks in advance. --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Fr

RE: [IMail Forum] Message from list sent multiply times

2002-06-04 Thread Paul Ingram
Thanks Rich, 1. Are your users using Outlook ? No mostly OE...actually no one using Outlook has said a thing just OE users. 2. And after they logon do they click on Send/Receive ? Some say yes some no. I have told them on there first logon to not hit Send/Receive 3. It probably doesnt happen du

Re: [IMail Forum] Adding authorized posters to list...

2002-06-04 Thread Eric Shanbrom
The posters list will work on a subscriber's only list but will over-ride the subscribers in the current version. So for now you will need to have all the subscribers PLUS the additional addresses in this list. So from your webform you would need to populate the posters.lst file in the list's dire

RE: [IMail Forum] Anyone experiencing problems sending to Mindspring lately?

2002-06-04 Thread Rick Leske
2 cents: This is our first check, the lack of DNS, for spam control. ~Rick A lot of larger companies are cracking down on mailservers with missing reverse DNS entries. AOL's secret filtering (as opposed to their publicly acknowledged filtering) has been proven to use the missing reverse DNS

RE: Re[4]: [IMail Forum] no message header

2002-06-04 Thread Ken Innes
I have been experiencing the same problem (using Outlook), so I told Outlook to 'leave messages on the server' so I could read the header with the IMail client, and found the following: ___ >From <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue Jun 04 12:14:15 2002 Received: from sport158.com [From <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[IMail Forum] Webmail Attachments

2002-06-04 Thread Earl Baumgardner
I have a user who says that sometime when he sends an email via webmail It automatically attaches another email to it, as an attachment. Has anyone else seen this? This user has created several folders in webmail for his email. Ver 7.07 Using killer webmail templates Thanks- --

RE: [IMail Forum] Adding IP addresses.

2002-06-04 Thread Dave MacMillan
You can add the IP addresses to the IMail registry. This article will get you in the neighborhood: http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-19991007-DM02.htm IMail - How to change the IP address of a domain Dave In reply to 3 Jun message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >Indeed. This is a NT4 Box. Yes, this i

Re: [IMail Forum] automatic IP blocking?

2002-06-04 Thread Len Conrad
>of their proxy server and then contacting the SMTP server worked. My >question is does IMail automatically block IP addresses if there is too >much mail coming from one IP? yes, IMGate users have to turn that off, since IMGate (a single ip) can send a ton of mail to Imail very quickly. Len

[IMail Forum] automatic IP blocking?

2002-06-04 Thread Rob A
Hello, I have a group of users that sit behind a MS-Proxy server that access my I-mail server. Yesterday, they had problems using SMTP to send mail. They were able to receive mail and use web messaging fine. I have IMail 7.03, SMTP Auth enabled, relay for local addresses, and I am not block

Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Preventing Self-referential Spam

2002-06-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> This would also break the "Save a copy in sent folder" from web > messaging as well. Not really. If you're filtering correctly on headers, the envelope to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will not be relevant. -Sandy Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from

Re: [IMail Forum] Adding authorized posters to list...

2002-06-04 Thread Joe Wolf
I looked at the posters.lst, but to be honest I can't find any good info. on it. The knowledgebase has only one article and it says the posters.lst only works on moderated lists... I have no moderated lists. Does the posters.lst work on an unmoderated list? Do I have to manually put each and ev

RE: [IMail Forum] Message from list sent multiply times

2002-06-04 Thread Rich Lincoln
Paul 1. Are your users using Outlook ? 2. And after they logon do they click on Send/Receive ? 3. It probably doesnt happen during the day..just after they logon initially in the morning ? If so, tell them not to click on Send/Receive when they first open their mail in the morning. Just have t

Re: [IMail Forum] Anyone experiencing problems sending toMindspring lately?

2002-06-04 Thread R. Scott Perry
>So any ideas what's up with Mindspring? I've had two remote clients >with their own mail servers WITHOUT reverse DNS getting bounced >(we can't give it to them because we didn't give them their IPs - just >handle other services) A lot of larger companies are cracking down on mailservers with m

RE: [IMail Forum] Message from list sent multiply times

2002-06-04 Thread Paul Ingram
Hello, Has anyone seen where users keep receiving a message 10 and 15 time. Sent message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] currently 280 address and there has been about 20 who are having this problem. 1. Everyone received it some are receiving it 10 and 15 times (One user is actually receiving everything sin

Re: [IMail Forum] Adding authorized posters to list...

2002-06-04 Thread Eric Shanbrom
enable and use the posters list Eric S - Original Message - From: "Joe Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 9:59 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] Adding authorized posters to list... > We run several lists and have had to allow only postings from subsc

Re: [IMail Forum] Anyone experiencing problems sending toMindspring lately?

2002-06-04 Thread Christopher Ulrich
OK - the main IP does have reverse, so if the PTR and EHLO do not need to match, that should not be the problem. So any ideas what's up with Mindspring? I've had two remote clients with their own mail servers WITHOUT reverse DNS getting bounced (we can't give it to them because we didn't give th

[IMail Forum] Adding authorized posters to list...

2002-06-04 Thread Joe Wolf
We run several lists and have had to allow only postings from subscribers to cut down on unauthorized postings. The problem I have is that several list subscribers want to post from an address different than the one they receive the messages. Is there a way to allow postings from non-subscribed

Re: [IMail Forum] Preventing Self-referential Spam

2002-06-04 Thread Eric Shanbrom
This would also break the "Save a copy in sent folder" from web messaging as well. Eric S - Original Message - From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 11:05 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Preventing Self-referential Spam > > >This mi

RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Unable to connect to SMTP Server - Urgent

2002-06-04 Thread Robert Edgar
Thanks, Curious though, if there is no real problem in their relaying mail from say my PC for a domain that say is not any part of there IP block... well I was asked by a customer of ours for whom we send an email newsletter to have it with the FROM: being them ie FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather tha