Jeff,

Try removing the auto deny possible hack attempts check mark and see if it doesn't stop.

Matt



Jeffery Rehm wrote:

Spoke too soon.  Just happened again.


Jeffery Rehm wrote:

I found that if I allow access to a group and put IP in the setting appears to stick, or has so far anyway. I was doing it as a single IP and that wasn't working at all.






Sanford Whiteman wrote:

Ok,  now  this is getting annoying... IMail Access Control is set to
DENY  all computers except one particular machine. Three times today
I  have had to go back in and add the machine to the list of allowed
addresses.


While I don't know your exact topology, this particular requirement is
almost  always  better  met  by  blocking at the firewall or OS level,
rather  than at the application socket-discard level.

I  had a client a few weeks ago whose POP3D server was getting slammed
by a password-guessing attack (from a single IP, luckily). Their admin
had  added the IP to IMail's Control Access, but that only resulted in
the  service  crashing after a few minutes: remember, the socket still
gets  handed  "up"  to  IMail when you only use its internal controls.
While I didn't have access to their firewall, simply blocking the same
IP  using Windows built-in IP Security Policy stopped the attack dead.
Preventing IMail from servicing the socket at all should be your goal.

This  won't eliminate the published problems when you enable Auto-Deny
and  other  data-level  security  features,  but  if  you  trust  your
permitted IPs enough to let down your guard with these other features,
it's  a  lot better than Control Access. And frankly, running BlackIce
Server  ($299)  gives  you  much  more  security  than  using  IMail's
data-level inspection. Or there's Snort, etc.

--Sandy


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