RE: [IMail Forum] Anti-Virus Options

2004-01-21 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
Well, yeah, but you can't buy just one. :-) - Tony >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kami Razvan >Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:22 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Anti-Virus Options > > >Andy: > >I thought the $5

RE: [IMail Forum] New "BAGLE" virus in the wild!!

2004-01-18 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
FYI, my F-Prot/Declude is catching it now - just caught my first one - before that I blocked a few today because of .exe blocking. ### Message Details ### Date: [01/19/2004] Time: [00:19:05] Subject: [Hi] Virus Description: [ W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] in attachment [cbk.exe] - Tony Gray Intouch Inter

RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Auto check new ISP bandwidth

2003-02-20 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
http://www.mrtg.org/ This IS the industry standard for monitoring just about any data. Ported to just about any OS too (I've run it on both BSD and NT/2000 without issue). - Tony >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Tolmachoff >Sent:

RE: [IMail Forum] Timeout Problem with Dial-In / Webmail

2003-02-12 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
3 minute idle? Yikes. My first suggestion would be to find another ISP. That could make TONS of online functions almost worthless (unless you are a REALLY FAST typer). - Tony >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dietmar >Bussmann >Sent:

RE: [IMail Forum] OT: DNS/ISP redundency

2003-01-10 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
>>I host my own primary nameserver here. My question then, is, how is the >>best way to handle a quick tranfer of DNS? >> The backup ISP would provide >>us with several static IP addresses, however, all our DNS points to our >>current addressing scheme. ESPECIALLY if you are an ISP (i.e. 100s if

RE: [IMail Forum] Imail - Platypus integration problems - WAS:hooray! ...sort of....

2003-01-02 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
>Wonder why Boardtown hasn't mentioned that? I know they know of this >problem... I know they do about it as well, I helped them develop the current setup, but My guess is that they just do not consider this to be a mission critical priority (only a very small percentage of Plat users use Ima

RE: [IMail Forum] Imail - Platypus integration problems - WAS:hooray! ...sort of....

2003-01-02 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
>> FWIW, I have not setup Imail 7.x and Plat, my install is still 6.06 + >Plat. >> I can tell you that I had to do some custom stuff to make everything work >> correctly, the Boardtown provided stuff was not 100% functional >out of the >> box. I do not know if the 7.x stuff works any better. Last

RE: [IMail Forum] hooray! ...sort of....

2002-12-31 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
>> C: If a user enters their "Information", i.e. first name, >> last name, it >> updates Imail and kills the account, how can we prevent this? >> I notice in >> Imail Admin that first name matches the userid for the e-mail. We use >> Platypus for our billing, and if you edit your info on the we

RE: [IMail Forum] Browser/FTP Issues

2002-12-26 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
Title: RE: [IMail Forum] Browser/FTP Issues  FYI, I have seen this also (Win2kSP3 / Imail 6.06 / Declude JunkMail-Virus-HiJack1.60 / F-Prot for Windows (on demand only install) / Intel Pro-100s Server NICS).  Seems to be after the machine has been up for awhile.  I had always attributed this

RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Exchange2000 & ETRN with Imail spooling.

2002-12-18 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
also: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324704 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/maintain/featusability/gets tart.asp - Tony >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin Coveney >Sent: Wednesday, December 1

RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Exchange2000 & ETRN with Imail spooling.

2002-12-18 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;302548 Instead of attempting to spool mail and transfer to a dialup exchange server using ETRN, etc., we have always had much better luck using the POP3 connector. Basically it works like so: - add the domain to Imail, create a single user m

RE: [IMail Forum] IMail Server 7.13 Hotfix 2

2002-12-18 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
Check your firewall settings(?) Got it fine here (unless of course they just fixed it). :-0 - Tony >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bryant Nielson >Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:28 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [IMail F

RE: [IMail Forum] Windows Update Q328310

2002-12-18 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
I also agree. 6.06 user here. - Tony >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jorge Barosa >Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:06 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Windows Update Q328310 > > >I have the 6.06 version, and c

RE: [IMail Forum] Windows Update Q328310

2002-12-13 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
Also affecting 6.06 on 2k Server SP3! -Tony >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Horne >Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:06 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Windows Update Q328310 > > >THANKS!!! I was going crazy t

RE: [IMail Forum] Securing Imail

2002-11-19 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
YOur only safe relay options are 'no relay' or 'relay for addresses' (along with a list of KNOWN TRUSTED ip addresses). Anything else is easily spoofable and will cause you to be an open relay. Please search the archives, there are REAMS of info on this one. Link to archives is at the bottom of

RE: [IMail Forum] Goldmine Problems

2002-10-29 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
You may try user%domain.com, which Imail will accept, and hopefully Goldmine won't mess with. Some versions of Netscape have this same issue. Other characters are allowed besides "@" and "%", KB has these listed. - Tony >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:IMail_Forum-o

RE: [IMail Forum] webmail problem...

2002-10-16 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
Dan,   you CAN run IIS and Webmail on the same box, but NOT on the same port.  If you want webmail to run on port 80, you must tell IIS to run on a different port.  If you got the default 2k "under contruction" page, that means that IIS is running on the port you tried to go to.    Change

RE: [IMail Forum] Changing the directory that we log to?

2002-10-16 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
>Not sure if you can do this is version 6 (been a long time since I >looked at >it). Set the logging to the SysLog server and set the IP address of the log >server (in Imail Admin) to the IP of the machine you want to log to > >Eric S Just to confirm: Imail 6 WILL successfully log to a standard

RE: [IMail Forum] Disable mail domain

2002-10-10 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
See the manual RE: making your server simply a backup mail spooler for their domain OR if you don't want to be a backup mail spooler, remove all traces of their domain from your server. You CANNOT leave the domain/users setup local on your system, or they will get delivered, well, locally. - To

RE: [IMail Forum] New Files with asp Extension

2002-10-09 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
X-Note - Total spam weight of this E-mail is 5. Precedence: bulk Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Dear Guy, >thanks for you, but what I did is returning the IMail to the port >8383 and creating a new site in IIS which redirecting the user to my mail >server URL (mail

RE: OSRELAY:[IMail Forum] New Files with asp Extension

2002-10-09 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
X-Note - Total spam weight of this E-mail is 5. Precedence: bulk Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Run it on another box. According to the I-Mal tech I spoke with when I >set up ours IIS should not run on the same box. IIS and Imail CAN run on the same box, but they CANNOT

RE: [IMail Forum] No IWEBMSG access

2002-10-04 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
Are you trying to run IIS on the same server/port? >Can not display page when attempting to access IWEBMSG login. Users can not >access the login page from anywhere(home,office or elsewhere). > >Snippet from Log. > >IWEBMSG (816) Info - Normal TCP listener exiting > >I find nothing referring to t

RE: [IMail Forum] BugBear

2002-10-03 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
I wouldn't say "clobbered" (it's still not surpassing Klez - at least not here) but it is definately on the spread. - Tony >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Smith >Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 1:53 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >S

RE: [IMail Forum] OT: DNS and IMAIL

2002-10-03 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
>1) I know that as an email admin, I need to know much more about DNS, >and specifically how to configure it. I have seen posts, both here and >elsewhere, that argue the superiority of BIND over MS-DNS. I don't know >if that is true, since I have also seen posts that argue the opposite >(well, i

RE: [IMail Forum] NT2000 server

2002-10-01 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
Only one service/program can listen to a certain port on the same machine. If you have a need/reason to run both of them on the same machine, you need to move one of them to a different port. - Tony >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of >[EM

RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Declude's website

2002-09-24 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
That can't be good: Ping to www.declude.com Generated by www.DNSstuff.com Pinging www.declude.com [216.58.174.203]: Ping #1: * [No response] Ping #2: * [No response] Ping #3: * [No response] Ping #4: * [No response] Done pinging www.declude.com!

RE: [IMail Forum] Smtp fails and spool keeps growing

2002-09-23 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
FWIW,   I had similar results with Imail 6.06 (all latest 6x patches applied).  I found the problem was my DNS server(s), not in my Imail server.  Mail is VERY dns intensive (especially when throwing stuff like Declude in the mix, which requires extra DNS lookups for certain spam tests), if

RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Domain Names that should be available but are not...

2002-09-19 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
I agree with the quality of Tucows. They are not the cheapest, but you get what you pay for. They actually just call me once in awhile out of the blue - "Hi, How's it going, is there anything else we can do for you?" - How many have received a call like that from Netsol??? Tucows customer servi

RE: [IMail Forum] Junkmail Trial

2002-09-18 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
And if you ask for opinions - your email box will get flooded with positive feedback. :-) - Tony >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry >Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:45 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [IMail F

RE: [IMail Forum] SMTP Auth - Cisco PIX

2002-08-28 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
SMTP auth will NOT work. Here's a little more reading about the Fixup (a.k.a. the Pix's MailGuard feature): http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/110/22.html If you need to use SMTP auth thru the PIX, you will have to "no fixup protocol smtp 25" - Tony >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROT

RE: [IMail Forum] MSSQL and Views

2002-08-22 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
My $0.02 about views: - If you don't need to integrate Imail with another application that already stores it's data in SQL, you should probably just stick to the registry database. - If you DO need to integrate with another app (billing, provisioning, etc.), then views are the best way to integra

RE: [IMail Forum] Quick Question....

2002-08-15 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
quick answer ;-) give him a 3 letter username. I believe this is something encoded deep within Imail that might not be worked around well. I also have a few customers that insisted on having a 2 char username, the only limitation that I've found is the issue of changing their password from webma

RE: [IMail Forum] Bug and SECURITY issue on Imail7 (Webmail)

2002-07-25 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
Tested here (on 6.06 / HKSI Classic web templates): - When I log in normally, I get a blank popup window. - when I log in with the "Check here if this is your private computer and you want to use cookies to store your log-in information", I get a popup "userkey=some big long encrypted garbage lin

RE: [IMail Forum] New User Creation

2002-07-24 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
The IPs and Tables are NOT related in any way. No matter whether you have all your hosts on 1 IP, or all on seperate IPs, makes no difference to keeping your users in SQL. Either way, Imail EXPECTS to see each host's users in seperate SQL tables. You can put them all in one table, but if you do

RE: [IMail Forum] New User Creation

2002-07-24 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
Userid is userid - it is the stuff left of the @ sign: "userid"@"domain" You would just use user1, user2, etc. in your userid SQL field. You either have to: 1) put each domain in a seperate table, OR 2) you can put several domains in the same table, and use a seperate view for each domain (this

RE: [IMail Forum] OT - Ports

2002-07-23 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
>So, it can be summed up like this: > >If you are blocking packets with a router, you have to be EXTREMELY >careful. You can, without realizing it, either block packets you don't >mean to block, or allow packets through that you don't mean to let through. And so like has happened many times befo

RE: [IMail Forum] OT - Ports

2002-07-23 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
>>If blocking ports via your router, be aware that your server will need to >>send traffic outbound on ports other than 25. For example, if a remote >>server sends incoming packets on port 25, your responses back to >the remote >>server will be on a random port > 1024. If you only let 25 back ou

RE: [IMail Forum] Ports

2002-07-23 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
>Typically when we setup servers that are directly connected to the >internet we explicitly deny all ports except the ones that are needed >for the application of the server. Smart Idea... >I wanted to make sure and see if there was a technically valid reason >that I should allow ICMP traffic to

RE: [IMail Forum] Windows 2000 DNS and IMail

2002-07-18 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
>From personal experience, I can second that... - Tony >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Nice >Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 9:46 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Windows 2000 DNS and IMail > > >Bind 9.2.1 is s

RE: [IMail Forum] Attn IPswitch, calendaring reminders don't work in 7.10 ?

2002-07-12 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
How does that go, saw it on an infomercial in fine print at the bottom - "Individual results may vary, not representative of the average results" :-) I have had terrible results, but I know of others who have had excellent. In my own case, if it wasn't for this list, Imail would have been gone a

RE:OT - Ethernet NICS - was originally: [IMail Forum] New mail server

2002-07-12 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
<$0.02> Both the Intel and 3Com cards are excellent equipment, but I have found that in many cases, if you use Cisco Switches, you will have issues with 3Com cards. If you use 3Com switches, go with the 3Com cards. If you use Cisco switches, go with the Intel cards. 3Com does some proprietary st

RE: [IMail Forum] Windows 2000 DNS and IMail

2002-07-12 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
I'd say it could be, as telnetting to 63.236.237.239 and issuing a "ehlo mail.cws-gr.biz" without the trailing period seems to work fine   220 bacon.sagestone.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 5.0.2195.4453 ready at  Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:12:20 -0400>> ehlo mail.cws-gr.biz 250-bacon

RE: [IMail Forum] How is this one getting by?

2002-07-11 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
Look at the forwarding/autoresponder/message rules on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] account... >X-Persona: >Received: from SMTP32-FWD by peake.com >(SMTP32) id A0151; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:21:43 -0400 ... If I'm not mistaken, this first Received: line is indicative that you may have some forwarding/m

RE: OSRELAY:RE: [IMail Forum] Controlling Imail Mail Relay behind a firewall - RESOLVED

2002-07-11 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
Assuming the pix is setup correctly otherwise, in config mode enter: no fixup smtp >From the documentation to provide a little better idea of what Cisco is doing: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/pix/pix_62/cmdref/df.h tm#xtocid12 "fixup protocol smtp The fixup protocol smtp

RE: [IMail Forum] How to Trigger a notify message upon receipt of a form message

2002-07-02 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
NEVER send CC info via email. Even though the webmail session to your client is encrypted, the SMTP session from your web server to your Imail server is not, and if the session is sniffed, everything is there in plain text, and next thing you know - you're on the evening news as one of those guys

RE: [IMail Forum] Imail Admin ODBC Create Table

2002-07-01 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
>Ok, please indulge me here with an FYI, a question and a rant. :-) >1. FYI - If you are adding a new ODBC host in Imail 7.1 and you have >manually created a View that your host will be based on and there is an >error in the setup of your view, Imail will create its own table with the >same nam

RE: [IMail Forum] SQL SVR licencing with IMail

2002-06-21 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
It will probably work just fine, but it appears that you will be in violation. See: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/servercal.asp http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/multiplexing.asp "Use of such multiplexing, pooling, or related hardware and/or software does not reduce the number of CALs

RE: [IMail Forum] IMail security issue?

2002-06-13 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
the answer to your question is YES. -T >Jason > > >- Original Message ----- >From: "Tony Gray - Network Administrator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 11:26 AM >Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IMail security iss

RE: [IMail Forum] IMail security issue?

2002-06-13 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
If you don't have national dialup like us, you end up having some users who occassionally connect via AOL while out of our coverage area, or we have corporate accounts that have that have employees with AOL or cable at home. They expect to be able to use webmail to get to their email, no matter ho

RE: [IMail Forum] IMail security issue?

2002-06-13 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
gt;John Tolmachoff >IT Manager, Network Engineer >RelianceSoft, Inc. >Fullerton, CA 92835 >www.reliancesoft.com > > >-----Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tony Gray - >Network Administrator >Sent: Thursday,

RE: [IMail Forum] IMail security issue?

2002-06-13 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
As long as you don't have webmail users on services like AOL, Prodigy, or Starband, you can uncheck 'ignore source address'. If you do, though, you might as well rename that checkbox "Do not let AOL, Prodigy or Starband Users use webmail". Unfortunate for security's sake, but true. - Tony >---

RE: [IMail Forum] New virus: W32/Fretham-Fam

2002-06-12 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
FYI, Sarc.com has had 3 or 4 different variants of this virus listed for a few days now. http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tony >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry >Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 9:21 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subje

RE: [IMail Forum] external DB and first & last name

2002-06-11 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
If always storing first and last name in seperate columns is something you need to maintain for other purposes, I would create an SQL view that combines both the first and last name into the 'fullname' column that Imail expects to see. You could get unexpected results if they try to change it via

RE: [IMail Forum] IMail server and Platypus Database

2002-06-11 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
I'm using Plat with Imail with no issues.  What versions of Imail, Plat, and Boardtown's Plat->Imail integration are you using?   Are you using the stock Imail DLL, or the Platypus provided DLL?      I was very closely involved with Boardtown making the switch to using an SQL view, and a

RE: [IMail Forum] Sending mail Problems via POP

2002-05-02 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
"COULD BE UNRELATED" There are several issues that arise when you have a user (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) with only a 2 character username. Imail's docs call for a username from 3-30 in length. - Tony >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of flo

RE: [IMail Forum] Is this a bug or a "feature"?

2002-04-06 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
iMail 7.04. Anyone seen this? Or, do I get an award for >the odd error today? > >Bob Ferguson >Sound Data, Inc. > >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Gray - >Network Administrator >Sent: Saturday, April 06

RE: [IMail Forum] Is this a bug or a "feature"?

2002-04-06 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
Hi Norman, I would suggest not letting your users use usernames with hyphens at ALL. According to the Imail Help file, it IS allowed... "The user ID must be unique for this mail host. It must be between 3 and 30 characters and cannot contain spaces. You can use hyphen, but you should be aware tha

RE: [IMail Forum] OT: DNS MX & CNAME

2002-04-06 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
Assuming your mail server is at 10.0.0.1 in domain1.com's zone file: mailIN A 10.0.0.1 in domain2.com's zone file: mailIN A 10.0.0.1 If a browser types in "http://mail.domain1.com";, he will go to the web server located at 10.0.0.1, sending the host header in

RE: [IMail Forum] Spam Mail Bouncer for IMail

2002-04-04 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
Chances are so/so - the chance that all of the spammers would honor it would be even slimmer. :-) If spam advertisers were respectable, professional, "law abiding netizens", we wouldn't have the spam issue in the first place. Kinda like "If we outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns". It wou

RE: [IMail Forum] BIND help me Len, please

2002-03-29 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
"DNS and BIND" from O'Reilly - I've found this to be a priceless reference for setting BIND up. The latest version covers both 8 and 9 I believe. And you're right, with BIND, except for a few path changes, Win32<->Linux<->BSD<->whatever is pretty much the same, so you can do it on whatever is yo