[xmail] SMTP Authentication for SMTP Relay in mailproc.tab

2007-10-03 Thread John Kielkopf
Any way to get Xmail to use authentication when relaying mail with smtprelay in mailproc.tab? --John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[xmail] Default mailer threads

2007-05-24 Thread John Kielkopf
What's the default number of mailer threads in Xmail 1.22 and 1.24? Didn't see that in the documentation. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[xmail] Re: 1.25-pre06 ...

2007-04-18 Thread John Kielkopf
so it is easier that temporary network problems end up being hidden by its caching. - Davide But why should a temporary network problem cause any issue in the first place, unless that problem is a bad DNS entry? Network connectivity issues during a DNS query should at most cause a

[xmail] Re: 1.25-pre06 ...

2007-04-17 Thread John Kielkopf
Davide Libenzi wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, John Kielkopf wrote: I'm probably missing something here, but falling back to the A record after timeouts would seem to be the wrong course of action. Couldn't a temporary connectivity issue caused Xmail to incorrectly fall-back

[xmail] Re: 1.25-pre06 ...

2007-04-17 Thread John Kielkopf
Davide Libenzi wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, CLEMENT Francis wrote: Possible it's a dns server problem Who does xmail response on a timeout after dns query ? Who many retries = ? And final decision on dns timeout ? A record tries ? I ask this because, I noticed that dns timeouts are

[xmail] Re: Receiving Mail multiple times

2007-03-22 Thread John Kielkopf
are the only other apps). Francis: You had mentioned you thought it might be connectivity, however the web client app and the XMail server are running on the same box... On 3/21/07, John Kielkopf john@webifi.com wrote: Davide can correct me if I'm wrong, but the POP3 server shouldn't delete

[xmail] Re: Receiving Mail multiple times

2007-03-21 Thread John Kielkopf
Things to check: 1) Thoroughly check network connectivity to the mail server from the problem clients. 2) Any possible file locking conflicts? Is there anything running on the server, possibly antivirus software, that might be locking the email in the server's mail directory? Thought of

[xmail] Re: Receiving Mail multiple times

2007-03-21 Thread John Kielkopf
issue anyway. Ivo Smits wrote: - Original Message - From: John Kielkopf john@webifi.com To: xmail@xmailserver.org Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:41 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: Receiving Mail multiple times Also, you sent this message the list 4 times. Did you intend this? I

[xmail] Re: Makes a snowball and tosses it at Davide

2007-01-16 Thread John Kielkopf
It's 2F (-17C) now and it'll get down below -5F (-21C) tonight but that's warm for this time of year, in central Minnesota. Norbert Doeberlein wrote: Okay, define cold. ;-) -12C (11F) is f'ing cold according to my friend in northern Germany. I still wear short sleeves and a spring

[xmail] Re: Poll ...

2006-10-30 Thread John Kielkopf
I would. Davide Libenzi wrote: How many would appreciate per-RCPT SMTP filter capabilities? - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[xmail] Re: XMail Broken Mailer Filter ...

2006-07-12 Thread John Kielkopf
I thought it was mainly the transparent proxies in AV software that choked on null bytes. The funny thing is, since moving off the windows version of Xmail to linux, I can't say I've seen this problem come up. Harald Schneider wrote: There are some spam mails flying around, which have

[xmail] Re: filters

2006-06-28 Thread John Kielkopf
Helio Cavichiolo Jr wrote: Sorry to repost, but how nobody answered, I supposed my explanation or my English wasn't that clear. I'm using xmail with courier-imap and this is working fine. I also included spamassassin to filter spams, and this is also working fine. Now, I would like

[xmail] Re: Listen on specific IP addresses?

2006-06-26 Thread John Kielkopf
Use the -SI command line option. From: http://www.xmailserver.org/Readme.html#command_line -SI ip[:port] Bind server to the specified ip address and (optional) port (can be multiple). --John Kay Seljeseth wrote: We have been running XP and Xmail Server without any problems for a long

[xmail] Re: Listen on specific IP addresses?

2006-06-26 Thread John Kielkopf
for verification, in case I'm wrong. Rob :-) _ Note To Self: Remember to put something witty here later... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Kielkopf Sent: Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12

[xmail] Re: External POP3 on SSL

2006-06-15 Thread John Kielkopf
While I've never used Stunnel for a SSL POP3 client, a quick search brings these instructions: For [*nix] e-mail clients which don't support SSL: 1. install stunnel on the client machine; 2. if you want to check the server certificate (optional, but recommended), copy the server

[xmail] Re: restart server via email

2006-04-01 Thread John Kielkopf
Your last two emails, and your test came through here fine. I'm not sure what you're asking exactly, but if it's for an opinion; I don't think restarting via email is a great plan. Surely, if you have the need to reboot your server like this, there are other issues with the server that need

[xmail] Re: restart server via email

2006-04-01 Thread John Kielkopf
, John Kielkopf john@webifi.com wrote: Your last two emails, and your test came through here fine. I'm not sure what you're asking exactly, but if it's for an opinion; I don't think restarting via email is a great plan. Surely, if you have the need to reboot your server like this, there are other

[xmail] Re: RCPT TO smtp filter.

2006-03-07 Thread John Kielkopf
-Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de John Kielkopf Envoyé : lundi 6 mars 2006 18:25 À : xmail@xmailserver.org Objet : [xmail] RCPT TO smtp filter. Davide, How difficult would it be to add filters that are triggered for each RCPT TO, similar

[xmail] Re: RCPT TO smtp filter.

2006-03-07 Thread John Kielkopf
Davide Libenzi wrote: Just don't ask me to call out filter for every input char next time! :) Damn, and I was just going to ask for that! ;) -John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the

[xmail] RCPT TO smtp filter.

2006-03-06 Thread John Kielkopf
Davide, How difficult would it be to add filters that are triggered for each RCPT TO, similar to smtp pre-data filters? Does functionality like this already exist in Xmail? It would be helpful in the case of greylist and blacklist filters to add more granularity than all or nothing when

[xmail] Re: XMail + Imap II

2006-02-24 Thread John Kielkopf
Lars wrote: Hi, i'm using now dovecot as an imap-server. it works good, but there is a behaviour which went me crazy. if i made a new folder an move some mails there, the pop3-account collects this (old) mails as new mails and i get the mails twice. is there a better way? Use dovecote

[xmail] Re: XMail + Imap II

2006-02-24 Thread John Kielkopf
Lars wrote: John Kielkopf schrieb: Lars wrote: Hi, i'm using now dovecot as an imap-server. it works good, but there is a behaviour which went me crazy. if i made a new folder an move some mails there, the pop3-account collects this (old) mails as new mails and i get the mails

[xmail] Re: Spammers - How to block them.

2006-02-13 Thread John Kielkopf
Doesn't SMTP-MaxErrors in server.tab help with this? Henri van Riel wrote: Hi all, I've got a peculiar problem. My domain (a sub-domain of my ISP) receives a lot of (spam) email. I'm talking more than 15,000 emails per day (about 10mb/hour). All these emails are for recipients *not* defined

[xmail] Re: No CustMapsList for specified domains

2006-02-08 Thread John Kielkopf
I'll try to find time this weekend to isolate and post it then Don t be afraid to pester me if I let slip my mind. --John Rob Arends wrote: Please do, if you wouldn't mind. Filip Supera wrote: Hello, John Kielkopf a écrit : I wrote my own pre-data list filter to solve

[xmail] Re: No CustMapsList for specified domains

2006-02-07 Thread John Kielkopf
I wrote my own pre-data list filter to solve this, and stopped using xmail's CustMapsList. I have my doubts that Xmail's CustMapsList granularity comfortably fits most of us with more than one domain. --John CLEMENT Francis wrote: You have the option to install another instance of xmail on

[xmail] Re: No CustMapsList for specified domains

2006-02-07 Thread John Kielkopf
Filip Supera wrote: Hello, John Kielkopf a écrit : I wrote my own pre-data list filter to solve this, and stopped using xmail's CustMapsList. Does your filter query Maps lists ? And if yes would you mind sharing an example ? My current filter is in PHP, and as such isn't

[xmail] Re: imap

2006-01-24 Thread John Kielkopf
You can, however, use another Imap/pop3 server, like Dovecot, and then just use Xmail for smtp. This isn't too tough to do under Linux, but on Windows it may be a bit more involved. Mike Harrington wrote: XMail doesn't support IMAP. - Original Message - From: Erwin Meulensteen

[xmail] Re: imap

2006-01-24 Thread John Kielkopf
I use Dovecot for Imap and POP3, but on Linux. If you can get Dovecot running under cygwin on Windows, you probably have a chance of getting a similar set-up working. Erwin Meulensteen wrote: Is there a way with the help of other software to manage since xmail is using a folder structure

[xmail] Re: Misdirected Bounces

2005-12-30 Thread John Kielkopf
Shiloh Jennings wrote: SpamCop is blocking servers based on misdirected bounces. SpamCop wants all legit email servers to suppress bounce messages. Is there any way to prevent XMail from sending nondelivery messages? I realize this violates an RFC, but SpamCop is blocking servers based on

[xmail] Re: Misdirected Bounces

2005-12-30 Thread John Kielkopf
Bill Healy wrote: If so then maybe you should look into a filter that can validate delivery addresses before accepting a message. I would think that just doing virus scanning in a post-data filter on the secondary MX should be enough to limit a good majority of misdirected bounces that

[xmail] Re: Misdirected Bounces

2005-12-30 Thread John Kielkopf
I agree, it is best to have the secondary/scanning server know what accounts are real or not, but this isn't always practical to enforce. Still, in the case that the secondary does attempt delivery to a non-existent account, as long as it's already decided that it's not a virus, the mailbox

[xmail] Re: Misdirected Bounces

2005-12-30 Thread John Kielkopf
Bill Healy wrote: The majority of the messages my servers turn away are pure spam and most are addressed to accounts that have never existed, so it's not like the addresses have been harvested from someone's infected computer. It's become common now to just try long lists of common names

[xmail] Re: CLAMAV is the culprit... WAS Sending to multiple recipients

2005-12-14 Thread John Kielkopf
Hey Dale, One problem with filtering in filters.in.tab, is that you'll end up scanning the message once for every recipient on the list... so you could end up scanning the same message a number of times over. I prefer to do it in a post-data filter, allowing the message to be scanned once,

[xmail] Re: CLAMAV is the culprit... WAS Sending to multiple recipients

2005-12-14 Thread John Kielkopf
They should be near the same, however, I don't know if the spool files accessible via normal mail filters (filters.in.tab/filters.out.tab) have the {ra=real-address} info on the RCPT TO: line like you get with smtp message filters. They may, but I honestly haven't used them much since Davide

[xmail] Re: CLAMAV is the culprit... WAS Sending to multiple recipients

2005-12-13 Thread John Kielkopf
I've been using clamav for some time now and haven't had a problem with it that I know of. I use my own filter for it. If you want to give it a shot, see: http://www.webifi.com/xmail/xmclam.tar.gz --John Dale Qualls wrote: Thanks Davide and Don for the help. I had previously remmed out the

[xmail] Re: SMTP-Relaying only from Authorized Destinations?

2005-12-06 Thread John Kielkopf
The mail-auth setting in server.tab may be what you're after, but I don't know if it overrides smtprelay.tab or not. -John Achim Schmidt wrote: Hello List, because of the amount of Virus-Emails we are facing a major problem now. First let me explain our current MX-Constellation: - Mail for

[xmail] Re: Add/Delete/Change password for users

2005-11-11 Thread John Kielkopf
Chris L. Franklin wrote: Pooling for changes that might or might not have been made to the mailusers.tab is just a plain waste. When in the end you could just push the changes. Polling for changes to mailusers.tab takes relatively no resources, and can be done in very few lines of code:

[xmail] Re: Add/Delete/Change password for users

2005-11-11 Thread John Kielkopf
Does this still work if you want to keep xmail using it's mailusers.tab for pop/smtp authentication? Mike Harrington wrote: It's already available (although a bit limited). Look in the documentation under External Authentication and look closely at the useradd, useredit, userdel, and

[xmail] Re: Add/Delete/Change password for users

2005-11-11 Thread John Kielkopf
Chris L. Franklin wrote: And people gave me the 3rd degree about my idea. I'm sorry if you took my response as the 3rd degree, but I simply stated a reasonable workaround that gets the same job done for me in a relatively simple way, that kept me from asking Davide for the same thing.

[xmail] Re: Add/Delete/Change password for users

2005-11-10 Thread John Kielkopf
To sync Xmail users with dovecot (for imap), we simply have a script that sits in a loop waiting for mailusers.tab to change. When it sees a change, it fires off a another script that syncs the changes. -John Adrian Hicks wrote: As far as syncing goes we're using LDAP here. It's now

[xmail] Re: still on clamav and xmail...

2005-10-21 Thread John Kielkopf
I'm not sure if this is what he's refering to, but most (all?) of the ClamAV filters I've seen posted for Xmail will not catch all test virus samples from places like http://www.webmail.us/testvirus In order to catch all of them, the filters need to strip Xmail's special header information

[xmail] Re: still on clamav and xmail...

2005-10-21 Thread John Kielkopf
Sorry, forgot to add: you also need to detect and repair a bad End Of Header (ie: no double crlf between the start of the body, and end of the headers). John Kielkopf wrote: I'm not sure if this is what he's refering to, but most (all?) of the ClamAV filters I've seen posted for Xmail

[xmail] Re: messages to yahoo and or hotmail does not get delivered

2005-09-01 Thread John Kielkopf
I think most web browsers will cycle through A records until it finds one that works. I see no reason why an MTA shouldn't. RFC 2821 Section 5 says: When the lookup succeeds, the mapping can result in a list of alternative delivery addresses rather than a single address, because of multiple

[xmail] Re: messages to yahoo and or hotmail does not get delivered

2005-09-01 Thread John Kielkopf
Ok, it looks like we may be having this problem as well. Running 1.21 on linux. We're having trouble sending mail to greenbaycc.org greenbaycc.org has an MX record of mail.greenbaycc.org, that points to an A record of 67.39.138.28. There is no A record for greenbaycc.org, however Xmail

[xmail] Re: messages to yahoo and or hotmail does not get delivered

2005-09-01 Thread John Kielkopf
-Server = intergraonline.com Again, intergraonline.com has an MX record: ix2-mail-gw.new.net So why is XMail trying intergraonline.com?? --John John Kielkopf wrote: Ok, it looks like we may be having this problem as well. Running 1.21 on linux. We're having trouble sending mail to greenbaycc.org

[xmail] Re: messages to yahoo and or hotmail does not get delivered

2005-09-01 Thread John Kielkopf
Davide Libenzi wrote: greenbaycc.org. 86400 IN NS taadns02.taiasp.net. greenbaycc.org. 86400 IN NS taadns01.taiasp.net. ;; Received 88 bytes from 204.74.112.1#53(TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET) in 58 ms greenbaycc.org. 3600IN NS taadns01. ;;

[xmail] Re: Post data filter

2005-08-30 Thread John Kielkopf
I had some trouble scanning larger messages with filters.post-data, so I opted to scan anything = 1MB with post-data and anything 1MB with filters.in. --John Rob Arends wrote: IIRC pre/post-data filters only work on incoming smtp (someone correct me if wrong) So it is a perfect place to

[xmail] Re: messages to yahoo and or hotmail does not get delivered

2005-08-30 Thread John Kielkopf
We used to run Xmail on windows with MS DNS for some time. I don't recall ever having this problem. Shiloh Jennings wrote: We run XMail on Windows, but we use Bind on Windows instead of Microsoft DNS. I do not think we have had any problems with yahoo and hotmail. Were the people seeing

[xmail] Re: Post data filter

2005-08-30 Thread John Kielkopf
Leonardo, Sorry to go off topic here, but have you tried the tests at: http://www.webmail.us/testvirus Using clamdscan in post-data, what tests to you fail on, if any? Leonardo Fogel wrote: The smtp session will be longer. So, maybe you will need to raise the max number of smtp threads. I

[xmail] Bad end of header.

2005-08-30 Thread John Kielkopf
Davide, When mail is sent with a bad EOH, (no double CRLF separating the header from the message body), it appears that the message file available to a post-data filter doesn't have this corrected. When the message ends up in the maildir, Xmail seems to have corrected the problem. It it

[xmail] Re: Post data filter

2005-08-30 Thread John Kielkopf
Leonardo Fogel wrote: --- John Kielkopf wrote: Sorry to go off topic here, but have you tried the tests at: http://www.webmail.us/testvirus Using clamdscan in post-data, what tests to you fail on, if any? Oops. I forgot to mention that in my previous mail. It fails tests #5, 12, 16

[xmail] Re: Official 'Powered by XMail Banner' ...

2005-08-26 Thread John Kielkopf
Sönke Ruempler wrote: Please note: This is no logo contest! _PLEASE_ let the logo as it is: http://www.xmailserver.org/logoxmail.gif We don't want to invent a new logo, do we? And no 3D-tele-tubbie effects on the logo pls :) The fact remains that at smaller sizes, the existing Xmail logo

[xmail] Multi line SMTP error response.

2005-08-25 Thread John Kielkopf
Any way to sense if an ehlo was used and return a multi line error response in smtp message filters using @@FILE.rej? Something like: 550-Line1 550-Line2 550 Last line --John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[xmail] Re: Official 'Powered by XMail Banner' ...

2005-08-25 Thread John Kielkopf
Try lightly applying a sharpen filter. Sönke Ruempler wrote: Nope - because it's a logo and we don't want to change it in any way except resizing :) Maybe you prefer the updated one: http://regelt.com/powered_by_xmail.png (light grey bgcolor and diagonal 'powered by' - - To unsubscribe from

[xmail] Macros in SmtpMsgIPBan

2005-08-10 Thread John Kielkopf
Any way to have macros like @@REMOTEADDR in the SmtpMsgIPBan messages? --John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[xmail] Re: Malformed message can cause POP3 timeout

2005-08-09 Thread John Kielkopf
Michal Altair Valasek wrote: I think that it may be some bug in Xmail - message is accepted as valid at input, but is not valid at output. I am not C programmer, so I cannot investigate the source. I would try to collect offending messages and find exact cause. Some messages have text, which

[xmail] Xmail filter with ClamAV

2005-08-04 Thread John Kielkopf
Anyone else scanning mail with ClamAV? With just telling ClamAV to scan the message file supplied by Xmail, It'll miss a number of the test from http://www.webmail.us/testvirus If I build a new temp file to scan doing the following: - Strip MAIL-DATA and everything before - Add a

[xmail] Re: Xmail filter with ClamAV

2005-08-04 Thread John Kielkopf
, and it caught them quite well, but that was all I had to test with. Improvements are welcome. John Kielkopf wrote: Anyone else scanning mail with ClamAV? With just telling ClamAV to scan the message file supplied by Xmail, It'll miss a number of the test from http://www.webmail.us/testvirus

[xmail] Re: Xmail filter with ClamAV

2005-08-04 Thread John Kielkopf
Jeff Buehler wrote: Hi John - I use clamSMTP - it is c based proxy that is very lightweight and easy to use. I also use ASSP in front of this for anti-spam (so sender - ASSP - clamSMTP - XMail - sendee). As it turns out, after testing, the emails didn't even reach my anti-virus because

[xmail] Re: Xmail filter with ClamAV

2005-08-04 Thread John Kielkopf
Jeff Buehler wrote: I simply disallow email of greater than 5 mb (that was my cutoff exactly!) - email is not ideal for large file transfers for a number of reasons, so I discourage it. I agree, however some of my users may say otherwise ;) I was thinking about scanning all messages 2MB

[xmail] Re: Stange mail clogging up POP.

2005-05-31 Thread John Kielkopf
Sönke Ruempler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Friday, May 27, 2005 2:58 AM: On Thu, 26 May 2005, John Kielkopf wrote: =20 Have a strange problem here. =20 Users that have Norton Internet Security or Mcafee Spam Killer active have trouble with mail clogging up their systems from

[xmail] Re: Stange mail clogging up POP.

2005-05-27 Thread John Kielkopf
Sönke Ruempler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Friday, May 27, 2005 2:58 AM: On Thu, 26 May 2005, John Kielkopf wrote: =20 Have a strange problem here. =20 Users that have Norton Internet Security or Mcafee Spam Killer active have trouble with mail clogging up their systems from

[xmail] Re: Stange mail clogging up POP.

2005-05-27 Thread John Kielkopf
John Kielkopf wrote: Sönke Ruempler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Friday, May 27, 2005 2:58 AM: On Thu, 26 May 2005, John Kielkopf wrote: =20 Have a strange problem here. =20 Users that have Norton Internet Security or Mcafee Spam Killer active have trouble

[xmail] Re: Stange mail clogging up POP.

2005-05-27 Thread John Kielkopf
CLEMENT Francis wrote: I had the same problem when using symantec av smtp gateway and some = clients too with some avs ... First, note that a pure mta have nothing to do with the message itself (expect to add its own Received from, etc, in the header part) and have = not to control it. The pure

[xmail] Stange mail clogging up POP.

2005-05-26 Thread John Kielkopf
Have a strange problem here. Users that have Norton Internet Security or Mcafee Spam Killer active have trouble with mail clogging up their systems from time to time. Disabling the products lets them receive the mail. Although these users complain that they never had these problems with any

[xmail] Re: Problems with hotmail.com

2005-03-12 Thread John Kielkopf
I usually use the spam database lookup on http://dnsstuff.com/. It seems a little more thorough than ordb.org. Edinilson's subnet appears to be listed on JAMMDNSBL... though I doubt hotmail uses that list. --John null wrote: Greetings all, I couldn't agree with you more on ALL counts. I

[xmail] Re: Graylisting ...

2004-12-18 Thread John Kielkopf
I agree. This would be nice to have as part of xmail, and not force its implementation in a filter. I'm honestly surprised we're the only two on the list that has run into the need for it. That said, we all know Davide has a full plate at the moment, so using a filter as an interim solution

[xmail] Re: Graylisting ...

2004-12-17 Thread John Kielkopf
Actually, double taping won't work unless they add a substantial delay in sending the next mail. Any server that tries again too soon is badly configured, or a spammer. It then gives you times to let that spammers IP get propagated on some of the black lists. Shiloh Jennings wrote: If this

[xmail] Re: Outlook error 0x800CCC0F

2004-12-16 Thread John Kielkopf
Is the other smtp server in a different location than the xmail server? Is it possible the other smtp server in the first scenario is just delivering the message to the client faster? Could be something as simple as the difference in available bandwidth. --John Jason J. Ellingson wrote:

[xmail] Re: Forced SMTP auth per port

2004-09-13 Thread John Kielkopf
Davide Libenzi wrote: A pre-data filter can work just fine here. Yes, but being able to set something like mail-auth 0.0.0.0:587,... in server.tab would be better ;) -John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[xmail] Re: Forced SMTP auth per port

2004-09-10 Thread John Kielkopf
like 26 that seen only from the lan and does require auth smtp. But still have port 25 visable from the wan/lan and have it still require Auth-smtp. -- Chris L. Franklin -- Veeresh Khanorkar wrote: John Kielkopf wrote: Is it possible on Xmail to force SMTP auth based on the port

[xmail] Re: OT: Spam SPF

2004-09-09 Thread John Kielkopf
I think this: http://spf.pobox.com/faq.html#churn explains it well. It certainly complicates spamming... and that can't be a bad thing. -John Michael Luke wrote: Mike Harrington wrote: Hey guys, just read these articles about spammers using SPF. Thought you might find them interesting as

[xmail] Forced SMTP auth per port

2004-09-09 Thread John Kielkopf
Is it possible on Xmail to force SMTP auth based on the port the connection was established on? Currently, I accept connections on port 25 (SMTP) and port 587 (MSA). I want port 25 to accept mail for local accounts without auth as normal, but I want to require auth on port 587... The more I

[xmail] Re: DNS Issue

2004-07-27 Thread John Kielkopf
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=209.12.136.106 Yeah, looks like you have no PTR record visible. Your bandwidth provider should be able to create it for you, or delegate a reverse lookup zone to you. -John Jeffrey Laramie wrote: Hey Folks, I just had an email bounced back saying my

[xmail] Re: Problems with POP3

2004-07-20 Thread John Kielkopf
Noor Dawod wrote: Hello, I run XMAIL 1.20 which I installed few days ago. We have few POP accounts for the company, and the domain's MX records of course point to this XMAIL box. We all use Microsoft Outlook 2000 or XP to fetch from the POP3 server. I have a weird case that I'm seeing for few

[xmail] Re: Spammers / viruses bypassing MX records?

2004-07-14 Thread John Kielkopf
Kirk Friggstad wrote: Hey all: We've recently installed a Barracuda (rack-mount spam firewall based on Spam Assassin, also does virus scanning) on our network in front of our XMail system, and pointed our MX records to deliver mail to the Barracuda instead of directly to our server. This change

[xmail] Re: get a handle on Sober.H spam ?

2004-06-16 Thread John Kielkopf
lac wrote: --- Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't speak for anyone else, but I've found that denying service to dynamic addresses (based on RDNS patterns) to be a very effective tool for reducing both spam and virus traffic. Since most (not all, as has been pointed out here in the

[xmail] Re: Error message since updating to 1.20

2004-06-15 Thread John Kielkopf
Davide Libenzi wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have ALWAYS had to make those DIR manaually. Xmail has never made them for us. Only the numbered ones does it make. Yes, the numberred ones. Tell me again why would you remove directories from the XMail

[xmail] Re: Error message since updating to 1.20

2004-06-15 Thread John Kielkopf
Davide Libenzi wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, John Kielkopf wrote: For us that have been using Xmail for a lng time, the directory for each domain under *cmdaliases* doesn't always exists, since they weren't created by older versions of xmail... This only causes problems when removing

[xmail] Re: Error message since updating to 1.20

2004-06-15 Thread John Kielkopf
Davide Libenzi wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, John Kielkopf wrote: Davide Libenzi wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, John Kielkopf wrote: For us that have been using Xmail for a lng time, the directory for each domain under *cmdaliases* doesn't always exists, since they weren't

[xmail] Re: Error message since updating to 1.20

2004-06-15 Thread John Kielkopf
Yes, but older versions of Xmail ( 1.2 ) didn't, so many of my older domains don't have these directories. Ok, I'll put a check in 1.21 ... Thanks! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help:

[xmail] Unable to create/remove directory

2004-06-02 Thread John Kielkopf
On one of my Xmail servers (win32 1.18) with ~50 domains, when adding or removing a domain I always seem to get an error. When adding (using ctrl) I get -00017 Unable to create directory, when deleting, I get -00018 Unable to remove directory. However, in both cases, the directory _is_

[xmail] Re: Unable to create/remove directory

2004-06-02 Thread John Kielkopf
Davide Libenzi wrote: On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, John Kielkopf wrote: On one of my Xmail servers (win32 1.18) with ~50 domains, when adding or removing a domain I always seem to get an error. When adding (using ctrl) I get -00017 Unable to create directory, when deleting, I get -00018 Unable

[xmail] Re: Unable to create/remove directory

2004-06-02 Thread John Kielkopf
Jun 2004, John Kielkopf wrote: Well, now you have. Any ideas? Well, the fine OS returns error on RemoveDirectory(), but then deletes the directory. Isn't it sweet? Many OSs implement the delayed removal feature, but returning error and deleting the directory after that sounds screwy

[xmail] Re: Unable to create/remove directory

2004-06-02 Thread John Kielkopf
Davide Libenzi wrote: On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, John Kielkopf wrote: AVG was installed, but not set to run in any on-access way (was used for scanning mail, until we switched to McAfee command line scanner). I uninstalled AVG and re-started the machine, but no change. This happens when

[xmail] Re: Unable to create/remove directory DOH!

2004-06-02 Thread John Kielkopf
John Kielkopf wrote: Davide Libenzi wrote: On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, John Kielkopf wrote: AVG was installed, but not set to run in any on-access way (was used for scanning mail, until we switched to McAfee command line scanner). I uninstalled AVG and re-started the machine

[xmail] Xmail Administrator 0.26

2004-06-01 Thread John Kielkopf
Xmail Administrator 0.26 is out and adds support for Xmail 1.19/1.20 http://www.webifi.com/xmail Sorry I didn't get this out earlier. -John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in

[xmail] Re: XmailAdmin for Windows

2004-06-01 Thread John Kielkopf
Sorry, It's fixed now. http://www.webifi.com/xmail -John Shiloh Jennings wrote: The XmailAdmin tool from http://www.webifi.com/xmail/ worked great with XMail 1.17, but crashes with XMail 1.20. When I click on the server = name to bring up a list of domains, it says Run-time error '5':

[xmail] Re: XmailAdmin for Windows

2004-06-01 Thread John Kielkopf
Sorry, It's fixed now. http://www.webifi.com/xmail -John Peter Lindeman wrote: Davide Libenzi wrote: I think in 1.18 the format of a CTRL command changed. Let me see ... yes, aliasdomainlist. Maybe this screw up the tool. Pls contact the author. 1.18 still worked with the tool.

[xmail] Re: Xmail Administrator 0.26

2004-06-01 Thread John Kielkopf
This is concerning our admin people ;-) Kind regards, Fr=E9d=E9ric - Original Message - From: John Kielkopf To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:55 PM Subject: [xmail] Xmail Administrator 0.26 Xmail Administrator 0.26 is out and adds support for Xmail 1.19/1.20 http

[xmail] Re: Xmail Administrator 0.26

2004-06-01 Thread John Kielkopf
- From: John Kielkopf To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:55 PM Subject: [xmail] Xmail Administrator 0.26 Xmail Administrator 0.26 is out and adds support for Xmail 1.19/1.20 http://www.webifi.com/xmail Sorry I didn't get this out earlier. -John - To unsubscribe from this list

[xmail] Re: Xmail Administrator 0.26

2004-06-01 Thread John Kielkopf
Version: 1,2 now!! (version 1.2 dates from November 12, 2001 and is a whole lot different from 1.20!) I know these issues are not critical, but such things are nevertheless important for the overall image of your application. :) Kind regards, Frederic - Original Message - From: John Kielkopf

[xmail] Re: 1.19-pre06 ...

2004-05-27 Thread John Kielkopf
Davide Libenzi wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2004, Rob Arends wrote: Davide, 1.19 pre06 running ok on W2k sp4. Low volume, with filters that were running on 1.17, Avfilter, XAV, and another that I wrote myself. Also checked POP3link, in/out bound smtp and pop3, all ok for 20 minutes now. No plans

[xmail] CustMapsList question

2004-05-22 Thread John Kielkopf
Are the DNS queries by xmail for CustMapsList performed in parallel? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[xmail] Re: CustMapsList question

2004-05-22 Thread John Kielkopf
Davide Libenzi wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2004, John Kielkopf wrote: Are the DNS queries by xmail for CustMapsList performed in parallel? Multiple threads can issue parallel request, but a single SMTP connection (thread) does it in a serial way. Thanks for the quick answer. Anyone

[xmail] Re: Mail loop detected - Can't seem to find the problem.

2004-05-13 Thread John Kielkopf
Francesco Vertova wrote: At 12.11 12/05/04 -0500, you wrote: Why Xmail decided to use the A record from the next DNS it was able to talk with is beyond me. My dns reports MX information for bioenergy.com as Non-authoritative. It seems - I've seen this other times - that in such a

[xmail] Re: Mail loop detected - Can't seem to find the problem.

2004-05-12 Thread John Kielkopf
Davide Libenzi wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, Bill Healy wrote: You have an A record that points back to yourself bioenergy.com. 3580IN A 207.67.28.220 Don't know why xmail is giving preference to the A record when an MX record exists. Interesting bioenergy.com.

[xmail] Re: 1.19

2004-05-05 Thread John Kielkopf
Inside @@FILE, is RCPT TO:... resolved to the real address (if applicable)? If not, is there an easy way to do this without having my filter use the admin protocol? ATM it's not resolved, but I asked Davide, too. And the admin protocol is to slow for the filter at SMTP DATA stage and

[xmail] Re: 1.19

2004-05-04 Thread John Kielkopf
Davide Libenzi wrote: Ok, I added @@USERAUTH, @@REMOTEADDR and @@LOCALADDR Inside @@FILE, is RCPT TO:... resolved to the real address (if applicable)? If not, is there an easy way to do this without having my filter use the admin protocol? -John - To unsubscribe from this list: send

[xmail] CustMapsList / Allow mail

2004-02-03 Thread John Kielkopf
Any easy way to get Xmail to not refuse mail from servers listed in a black list on a per domain or per user basis, without putting those domains on a different server, and without using a filter that has to wait for the entire email to be received before refusing it? Thanks, -John - To

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