Ah, thank you! I have been trying to figure out why AOL users have been unable to use our Web Messaging for months! I just disabled this and will have to have some of them try it again!
Sincerely, Grant Griffith, Vice President EI8HT LEGS Web Management Co., Inc. http://www.getafreewebsite.com 877-483-3393 ||-----Original Message----- ||From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Setzer ||Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:02 AM ||To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Auto-deny possible hack attempts || || ||This feature blocks a user's request if the IP address that they orginated ||their Imail session from changes. This keeps a hacker from ||jumping in on a ||users sessions. You must turn this feature OFF if you have users on AOL ||that want to use web-mail since AOL uses rolling IP addresses ||(e.g. - an AOL ||user's IP address can change as often as every GET request. They ||don't keep ||the same IP for an entire dial-up session.) || ||David || || ||----- Original Message ----- ||From: "Martha Flugstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ||To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ||Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:39 AM ||Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Auto-deny possible hack attempts || || ||> We have already tried to telnet to port 25 from that particular ||IP number. ||> We cannot connect. We have also looked at the logs and cannot find ||> anything. We've also checked the Relay for addresses. Our ||whole block of ||> IP addresses is listed. The Imail server seems to be blocking any ||> connection to port 25 from that IP number. However, we can ||telnet to port ||> 110 (POP3) on the Imail server from that IP number. So far, we are ||baffled. ||> Thanks for your help. ||> ||> Martha ||> ||> -----Original Message----- ||> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eric Shanbrom ||> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:01 AM ||> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Auto-deny possible hack attempts ||> ||> ||> 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/ ||> ||> ||> 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/ || 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/
