Installation of Imail on a Win2003 Enterprise server was really a no-brainer -
had no problems at all.
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Based on my own log files, fully 75% of spam comes from "unknown" and I fail
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And if I use the name servers provided by, say GoDaddy.com, just how do I set
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IMHO that SPF is not really going to go very far as long as the name servers
operated by most of the domain name registrars do not implement it, or even
have a methodology for adding it to name services for their clients.
For instance one can purchase domain names from a registrar, and purchase a
rver side
: technology...
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: -Luis Arango
:
: > -Original Message-
: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum-
: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug White
: > Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 6:23 PM
: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Convert this to English
There are two rather widely separated camps regarding handling of unwanted
email (UBE) and unsolicited commercial email (UCE) One side willingly
provides the connectivity and resources to accept all spam, choosing only to
flag it and deliver as usual. The other does not wish to allow spammers
in
Manually update your definitions. Most all the A/V vendors now identify these
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latest MyDOOM search engine use
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Our mail server is being slammed by mail similar but all have virus
attachments - I think this is a new one, because none of the virus vendors have
any mention of it. Most are crafted to appear to be a bounce, but they are not
really bounces.
We are receiving approx 70 100 per hour on our server,
See below:
- Original Message -
From: "Marc A. Funaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 1:23 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Beating the Microsoft Cost
Perhaps I have misunderstood what the $50 per month, per server charge is from
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Title: Message
I use the following:
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bl.spamcop.net
cbl.abuseat.org
brazil.blackholes.uscn-kr.blackholes.us
dnsbl.njabl.org
dnsbl.sorbs.net
list.dsbl.org
sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
followed by Spam Assassin, then content filtering, then A
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How do you get remote users to access your Webmail via non-routable IP
numbers? If they are all internal, I guess it will work ok.
It is so much easier to administer if the domains are set up as virtual,
and the user is required to use their fully qualified email address. Th
:
: But for a long while Spamcop also included the domains in URLs
: contained in submitted messages. In that case someone can be
: listed for having done absolutely nothing.
:
:
I have never seen this with spamcop - not in the 5 years I have been using
them.
To Unsubscribe: http:/
The main thing to consider when using blacklists (blocklists?) is that not all
of them are suitable for everyone. Some of them are waaay too aggressive, and
some as not so aggressive at all. It is solely up to you which will fit your
needs, if any at all.
As for me, I try to strike a balance, an
While I don't consider our system as being too strict, we do use bl.spamcop,,
spamhaus and a few others in addition to SpamAssassin.
Our "official" position is that if a client gets themselves listed (on any of
them) it is their problem to get de-listed. As I understand it, spamcop lists
spammers
I took a chance and re-installed the hotfix that deals with long domain names,
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I have multiple virtual domains set up on Imail version 8.05 and have never
had a problem with sending and receiving mail.
I added a new virtual domain, and for this new domain I am receiving "send
error 10054"
and refused to deliver mail to the domain users.
According to the knowledgebase this
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IMHO situations such as those occurring at the Kennedy Space Center mail
servers, is simple evidence of the arrogance of system Administrators in
believing they "own" the mail boxes of those receiving the spew of unwanted
email messages, known as spam.
When any admin neglects to respond to
The problems with delivery to hotmail is being discussed all over the net,
on many list servers.
The problem is compounded when more than ten hotmail addressees are in a
particular mail, but that is not the only problem.
Last week it was blamed on a Level3 router that went down for three d
SBC is doing this because of thousands of complaints being sent to them from
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First, turn off your return receipt request when posting to a list server.
Second DNSBL blacklist do not search the body of a message to determine spam,
it only checks the origin IP number.
Third, No black list will be always completely current, as new proxies are
turning up every day, and the sp
If you are cleaning funwebproducts from your system, remember to do a search in
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: - Original Message -
: From: "Doug White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 6:09 PM
: Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] ANNOUNCEMENT FROM IPSWITCH - Update on 8.11
:
:
: > For seve
, but I don't have a
: tool to do that (suggestions?).
: >
: > Brett
: >
: > -- Original Message --
: > From: "Doug White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: > Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:42:53 -0500
: >
: > Fea
Feature request:
Support for partial domain name in the access list.
as an example, if I wanted to block all mail from Mexico, I would only have to
enter mx or dotmx in the access list. example"mx REJECT"
In the Linux mail systems, entering the mx in the access table for Postfix will
block a
But not a very good solution. That would block business connections and SOHO
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> Did SPAM become legal overnight or something?
> I had about a 400% jump overnight.
> Anyone else see this? New virus?
>
> Dave
>
Possibly you just got lucky - With all the new virus/worm infections every
Friday, the spammers have more open proxies than they know what to do with.
Seems they a
:
: Does anyone know of a good service for outsourcing your outgoing mail?
Basically what we are looking for is a service that we can smarthost all out
outgoing mail to. We need a company who is in the bussiness of making sure they
are compliant with current spam regulations and unofficial spam
This latest round of MS hotfixes has caused problems in several areas. One of
them will not even install on my Win2k Adv Server. This has been submitted
back to MS and a "Fix of the fix" is in the works.
Very regular defragging, and weekly chkdisk /r, and periodic running of
regclean.exe seems t
Maybe the spammers paused for Spring Break!
yesterday's messages
36298 received
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I do the converse of what you are trying to do. my imail server is my [EMAIL
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SMTP Mailer.
The reasons is that it is all-in-one as opposed to the modular approach needed
to set up Sendmail on Linux boxes.
All my incoming mail is received by Linux servers running Postfix, and
amavis-ne
[ snip]
? Hold on, just had a thought, you could mod the web templates
not to include that option.?
Yep! You got it!
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.i
> > If an network operator's MTA relays spam to my MX that
> > originated from one
> > of the network operator's subscriber IP's and PCs, my MX is
> > being spammed
> > by the network operator's MTA.
After reading my reply, let me explain the problem a little more as I
don't think you understood
I have occasions where the abuse desk or support desk for a blocked domain will
wish to communicate concerning blocking or configuration.
As it is, when a domain or IP is blacklisted, none of their mail can get
through, that is unless they send from a email address that is not blocked.
Is there a
There are two camps in the anti-spam effort.
One is that mail identified as spam is tagged and routed to the recipients
spam folder.
The other is simply rejecting the message at the mail server.
This last method saves server resources and disk space but risks rejecting
the occasional leg
The way Imail list serv works is that you can append a footer message to every
mail sent to that list,
That footer can contain a mailto: link to unsubscribe the recipient which will
remove them from the mail list, not maintain a separate "do not send" list.
The mailto would be like this: TO [EM
The volume is increasing, as more and more virus/worms are released, almost on a
daily basis, and infecting unprotected machines at an ever increasing rate.
These infections are converting the machines into open proxies, and by the time
the blacklists get them blocked, the spammers have moved on to
Title: Message
I have used the free version for several years - works ok in conjunction
with the built-in defragger.
It does run slow tho, and will not defrag very large file, such as a 5
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Don't hold your breath while waiting for a reply.
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I am asking from a newbie standpoint, but are you having better success with
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Did I leave anyting out? Is there an additional
Imail feature request:
The ability to filter by country of origin.
On the Linux platform, (both Sendmail and Postfix servers) if is relatively
simple to filter senders based on the country of origin. I would like to see
this capability incorporated in imail.
A Postfix example is at http://www.cli
The FQDN is in the TCP/IP settings in the network tab on the server. It uses
the machine name as the default, and you add the domain name under the advanced
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Please send one in zip format to me - thanks
Doug
- Original Message -
From: "Paul Blank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 9:01 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] advanced spam check .rar file
:
: I'd be glad to email anyone a .zip version of the .rar f
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- Original Message - Roar
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi
all,
just wanted to let
You are having a network or connectivity problem which is fairly common when it
happens sporadically. It just meant at the moment of your contact attempt, there
was a problem. The causes can be one or a combination of many, such as an
overloaded router,somewhere on the net.
When you cannot connect
Of Sanford Whiteman
: Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 1:24 PM
: To: Doug White
: Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] logging/legal issues etc
:
: > If you are privately held, then you must do as your boss dictates...
:
: Private corporations are subject to plenty of regulations; SEC and
: HIPAA just
Hopefully you are not a publicly held Corporation which must maintain all logs
as well as copies of all email under the provisions of HIPAA.
If you are privately held, then you must do as your boss dictates, under the
axim of:
"He may not be always right, but he is always the boss!"
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Good thought - I have gone into F-Prot and listed as exceptions the .smd/mdx/lst
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BTW all my incoming with exception of one domain comes in via a gateway server,
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already s
My F-Prot is quarantining the .SMD files which are containing viruses, hence
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They are mal-formed messages from a Virus engine trying to propagate the virus -
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24.51.20.39 is from Adelphia.net and 66.34.190.239 is cihost.
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Can you pack it in zip format? I am having a problem
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It seems there was a hotfix which addresses that panel layout problem - don't
remember the name of it offhand, but when I applied it sometime back it cleared
the problem of the layout.
Until you can get that done, your changes are possibly not being saved the way
you want them to
Also click on th
That is just a list of the worst offenders. I apologize that it is in
Sendmail/Postfix format. I assume it would need to be converted in some way to
work on an Imail system.
When doing blocks, I usually prefer to use IP numbers or IP blocks, due to the
fact that so many domain names are spoofed,
I would love to see it
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I use a Linux/Postfix gateway sitting in front of my Imail server which
handles all incoming mail only.
On that gateway, I have a few selected blacklists, plus one that I maintain
myself. Additionally I use an anti-virus scanner, a few custom rules and
SpamAssassin.
This gateway not only han
Why does that link give me a:
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: > 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
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: message?
:
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There need not be any
First, you are not being selected out of the millions of internet users. This
spam is widely distributed.
Second, this is a well known and prolific stock scam spam. The spammer is paid
by a company wishing to unload stock, using the theory that increased buying
makes the price go up. All the dis
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You mean This ISN['T the marketing list for Declude?
On the other hand, one usually doesn't need to drive a greyhound bus for their
daily commute.
I took an otherwise retired computer, loaded Linux and Postfix on it and use it
as a gateway for my Imail server. Works, just great.
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Why am I getting this message when trying to post to the forum?
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Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 9:38 PM
Subject: Mail delivery failed for "Doug White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: <[EMAIL PROTECTE
When using virtual domains the login is required to be the full qualified email
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So the forum server is overloaded?
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:
: ** Sor
Internet > gateway server (does the DNSBL, > amavis-new
w/spamAssassin & ClamAV > relay to the Imail server.
With that set up, you can rturn off the DNSBL in Imail (It runs slow
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Symantec releases them anywhere from noon (PST) to 8 PM (PST)
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