You could also do a telnet session to the mail server and see if any errors are returned. Best thing though is to look in the log on your IMail server.
Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:48 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Auto-deny possible hack attempts > > >Does anyone know how Imail implements the "auto-deny possible hack > >attempts" on the SMTP security? > > Yes. You check the box that says "Auto-deny possible hack attempts" on the > SMTP Security tab. > > >We have an IP number that is being refused access to port 25 on our Imail > >server. > >This IP number was assigned to a computer that received a virus. We have > >cleaned > >the virus and would like to unblock the IP number. Thanks for any help > >you can give me. > > I believe you can't see the IPs that get listed, but stopping and > restarting the SMTP service should clear the list (unlike the kill list, > which won't get reset with a SMTP stop/restart). > > However, I haven't heard of a virus that will trigger the "Auto-deny > possible hack attempts" (the Nimda one would, if it connected to the SMTP > port the same way it connects to the HTTP port, but it doesn't connect to > the SMTP port that way). So I would suspect there is another problem. You > might want to try having them do a ping or tracert/traceroute to your mail > server, and see if they can reach it at all. > > You may also want to see if your firewall is doing the blocking. > > -Scott > --- > Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for > IMail. http://www.declude.com > > > 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 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/
