I have been having a frequent problem. When one of my users or listserv's
sends a mail to a bad or non-existent address
do you have any specific examples to show us?
, It often spawns multiple SMTP.exe processes in NT which keep running
till I reboot the machine.
this doesn´t happen if
:) Len will get you where you need to go.
- Original Message -
From: Matthew Lohr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] ORBS
Help! My list is crashing my server as we speak. I am trying to handle it
and keep it
Apparently, iMail's SMTP Auth works for you.
It doesn't work for us, even with all of the latest patches. Running Win 2K
certified hardware, only iMail 6.05 on it, no CPU, RAM or disk issues. Just
a software package with problems.
I'm so disgusted with this problem and all of the problems it
We've
moved our server fron an old machine to a brand new one.
Following KB "rules" we've got no problem but the
iwebmsg.exe keeping on dyeing with
Dr.
Watson saying: " Exception: access violation (0xc005), Address: 0x0024868f
"
This
happens as soon as a connection with the right UID
Hi,
I am just setting IMail up for the first time and have created a user
called glenh.
IMail is receiving mail OK but I keep getting the following error:
ERR mail.cooeeonline.com Lock fail (C:\IMail\mail_cooeeonline_com\Users\glenh
I can't find any help in Knowledge base or documentation.
I am just setting IMail up for the first time and have created a user
called glenh.
IMail is receiving mail OK but I keep getting the following error:
ERR mail.cooeeonline.com Lock fail
(C:\IMail\mail_cooeeonline_com\Users\glenh
I can't find any help in Knowledge base or documentation.
I
As sure as someone has an email address they're gonna get junk mail.
I get junk mail sent to me at my home address too, if it's not mail that's
been posted its a flier put through the door.
I can only speak for myself but I like to make my own choices. Spam is a
nuisance but all I have to do
We've moved our server fron an old machine to a brand new one.
Following KB rules we've got no problem but the iwebmsg.exe keeping on
dyeing with
Dr. Watson saying: Exception: access violation (0xc005), Address:
0x0024868f
This happens as soon as a connection with the right UID PWD is
Hi, I
had the same problem,
It was
down to the domain name server address which was wrong, check this in Imail
manager 6+ localhost -smtp it may sort the problem.
Jez
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roy
ChildersSent: 05
I found all of them as well. Pity that none of them relate to my problem sigh
At 20:48 5/06/2001, you wrote:
I am just setting IMail up for the first time and have created a user
called glenh.
IMail is receiving mail OK but I keep getting the following error:
ERR mail.cooeeonline.com Lock
Is the pb only for one mailbox or all of them?
I haven´t had this so can´t speak from experience. The sleepy bears will
be arising soon.
Len
I found all of them as well. Pity that none of them relate to my problem
sigh
At 20:48 5/06/2001, you wrote:
I am just setting
The problem is growing!
Now I can't even add user with Imail Administrator after inserting UID
it closes by itself.
What's happening.
I already double checked every little thing.
Should I start praying?
Best thanks
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Has Anyone had luck getting declude virus to report the name of the virus
using f-prot?
You just need to add /REPORT=report.txt to the SCANFILE option, and add
REPORT Infection. For further information, you can check the manual. If
you are having troubles getting it set up, you can send
I can only speak for myself but I like to make my own choices. Spam is a
nuisance but all I have to do is hit delete and it's gone
With 18 billions spams sent a year, and an estimate of 4 seconds to
determine that an E-mail is spam and delete it, you would need over 6,000
people working full
Daniel,
I tried turning 'Refuse Null Senders' off, and tried a test message,
and I still didn't get the email off site, nor did I receive a bounce
message.
Also, the list I'm using for testing this has just 4 addresses in the
list, and they are complete email addresses with around them. All
Have you checked the permissions on the directory? I ran into a problem
yesterday with a database not being able to create a lock file because the
user didn't have full access to the directory.
-Original Message-
From: Glen Harvy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001
i think I probably get over 10 telemarketers a day...
in fact i find those far more obtrusive than spam email. i have to
stand up to answer the phone
There are some virtually foolproof ways to deal with telemarketers:
[1] When standing up to telemarketers, be sure NOT to say I'm not
Ronnie,
Since the list is quite small, and you used the web interface, how about
trying IMail Administrator to view the list settings and make all changes
via it, at least for a while! Remove all the addresses from the user.lst
file and then subscribe via email, a couple of addresses. Test now.
Look everyone! ORBS is dead. Lets get on with IMail support for those users of IMail that are having problems and need our help. What about it?
On 6/3/01, Arriba penned:
Does the phone company filter the phone calls you get? I believe that is a
good analogy.
Absolutely. BellSouth does. I have to pay for the service, but if the
caller has his phone number blocked from caller ID NULL SENDER LOL,
then before my phone rings he must
I just installed this I-mail server, its working fine i m using Jmail
component for accessing mailbox. Now i want to Add new user from my home
page without administrative rights using ASP or cold fusion , can someone
tell me how to add new user from an asp page. i m very thankfull to
him/her.
There was a patch for this problem in version 6. It sounds like it may not
have been applied to his installation.
David Daniels
System Administrator
Starfish Internet Service
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Clicking my fingers to the bone
- Original Message -
From: Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
I know I'm not making any friends here - but you would say that you're
selling a product that filters mail.
Out of interest what is your source for those stats.
Don't get me wrong I think spamming of all kinds is 100% wrong. I just
believe that blocking email is wrong.
The Question is:
Except that Scott's product, Declude, does not stop mail unless I set it
that way. I usually add headers or other warning messages to the messages
and let the users set up their own filters. Scott's product also allows
domain rules in addition to server rules.
- Original Message -
I know I'm not making any friends here
G Debating is OK, just so long as everyone realizes that different
people have different opinions, and there is no one right answer.
- but you would say that you're selling a product that filters mail.
Yes.
Out of interest what is your source for
It is fundamentally wrong for somebody other than a mail recipient to
decide
whether the mail recipient should or shouldn't receive an email.
It's fundamentally wrong for anyone but the person who own the medium by
which it is delivered to decide what gets transported. If spammers rang your
http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-19980116-DM01.htm
IMail - How to use IMail as SMTP Gateway for another e-mail server
Dave
In reply to 05 Jun message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello folks,
is there an option with the Ipswitch IMAIL Server , where I
can tell him to forward ***incoming*** mails
Any Ideas ?
Jim
- Original Message -
From: Jim Jones, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 4:35 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] smtp auth not working...
I have Imail 6.06 authenticating to a database... some of my domains are
ip-less and some have their
Last night's Microsoft issued Critical update from Microsoft broke my
Outlook 2000! Be forewarned.
I went ahead and let it install the Critical Update package that the
notifier told me was now available. Since then, some messages get to me
fine, others have the body and subject stripped when
Same trouble here!
Imail 5.x, 200 users all on Outlook Express and/or Web Messaging. All IP-based
domains, no virtuals. Suddenly on June 1st, SMTP Auth quits. Using relay for
addresses, local LAN users are back up (by removing auth requirement) but remote users
(including owner of co.) must
- Original Message -
From: Barry Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 5:58 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] ORBS - blacklist not the answer
As sure as someone has an email address they're gonna get junk mail.
I get junk mail sent to me at my home
I am wondering if the Imail web server has any hacking issues.
Can people hack into it and compromise the server like can be done with IIS?
Has anybody been hacked regarding this yet?
I am kind of surprised I have not read anything on this as it would be
suprising to me that Imail is so secure
I had the same problem last week and IMail Support told me to open IMail Administrator at the server and click on localhost then the SMTP Security tab and remove the check from Disable SMTP AUTH reporting and stop and restart SMTP services. This fixed my problem and I have separate IP addresses
Of course I'm bitter! And so would anyone else that properly secures
their SMTP servers and still gets listed. What in the hell does 40k
delivers/hour have to do with mail-abuse.org?
-Mark McDonald
Siteserver Account Executive
EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Voice: 800.610.9856 Ext 231
Cell:
Hello everyone,
I was wondering if anyone out there has some advice for a guy trying to get
his Imail 6.06 server to use a MySQL database for users and
authentication. Links, anecdotes, files, rants would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Jason Staph
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Glen,
Were you logged in as 'Administrator' when you installed IMail? What version
of NT and what Service Pack are you at?
Does the problem occur on another account?
Daniel Donnelly
- Original Message -
From: Glen Harvy [EMAIL
I tried turning 'Refuse Null Senders' off, and tried a test message,
and I still didn't get the email off site, nor did I receive a bounce
message.
FYI, if you use the Refuse NULL Senders option, you will NOT receive
bounce messages, you will NOT receive return receipts, you may annoy other
Go here.
http://sooner.pldi.net/imail/
It works great but I and one other person get an error logged each time an
e-mail is received. Neither of us have figured out what is causing it and
it works fine so we haven't been killing ourselves looking for the cause.
Dan
-Original Message-
We are in the process of upgrading to the latest version 6.06 from 6.02.
Any know issues or problems with this upgrade they anyone can point us
toward?
Casper Naegle
mobileDATA Technologies
817.264.7460
817.264.7466 (helpdesk)
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I didnt have problems.
From: Casper Naegle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Beth Tomsic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] Imail Version 6.06
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 08:13:55 -0500
We are in the process of upgrading to the latest version 6.06 from
Hi Everyone,
I am new to Imail so be kind. Is there a way to send back a
email response to a sender that has sent an email with bad content or
attachments. This email would let the sender know he or she has sent a
bad
email and it was deleted.
Thanks
Jerry FreundInformation Systems
Actually 6850 (6849 and a fraction... :)
There are on average 2000 work hours in a year (50 with 2 weeks paid
vacation at 40 hours per week). That makes the total hours wasted (in this
scenario) or 13,700,000 man hours. At a cost of $6/hour, you're looking at
$82,200,000 per year to deal with
Yup, that fixed my problem, but then there were
more... all of a sudden, my netscape users could not send email...
it seems that netscape requires a username for
outgoing mail and so it doesn't work...
jim
- Original Message -
From:
Ken
Anderson
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did you run through the install on the new machine?
Check the path in \winnt\iwebmsg.ini?
Dave
In reply to 5 Jun message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
We've moved our server fron an old machine to a brand new
one. Following KB rules we've got no problem but the
iwebmsg.exe keeping on dyeing with
There
may be an easier way,
But I
have rules/filters set up on each domainthat forward to either a "Virus
Box" , or an "Improper file attachment" box. That box has an auto
responder set up letting the people know that we don't accept that type of
email. It seems to be working fine for me
Actually, all the phone company did was enable you to do the filtering.
Bell South does no filtering of any kind. They simply give you some tools in
which you can individually implement filtering that effects no one but
yourself.
JR
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Hello,
I have not posted to this list before so I hope this goes through :)
I am looking for a way to find which accounts are disabled on a particular
domain. Is there some indicator that can be spotted in the registry or
elsewhere? or with a third party app?
I want to be able to identify
At 23:24 5/06/2001, you wrote:
Glen,
Were you logged in as 'Administrator' when you installed IMail?
Yes.
What version
of NT and what Service Pack are you at?
MS W2K Advanced Server SP2
Does the problem occur on another account?
Yes.
Daniel Donnelly
I would try opening that mailbox with the IMail Client on the server. If
you cannot send a message to yourself then I would delete the files in
the C:\IMail\mail_cooeeonline_com\Users\glenh directory. (This will be a
good time to make sure that this directory exists.)
Dave
In reply to 05 Jun
By hack I mean compromising anything on the server beyond the intentions of
what the web server is supposed to do. For example hacking to a command
prompt, modifying files on server, taking down services, etc.
I am suprised to hear that this software has not been hacked into.
Is there anyone
If someone is using outlook and sending mail I only want them to be
able to send to X amount of people at once.
This would prevent them from using our servers to send SPAM.
Is that correct??
It's sort-of correct.
You can make a change to the registry that will tell IMail to limit the
I've done the same conversion, and I decided to just lose the dates rather
than figure this one out. It can definitely be done, but it will be tricky.
It's been a while since I did it, so I'd have to do a bit of research, but
it seems the date is on a different line, so you would need to read
I am suprised to hear that this software has not been hacked into.
Is there anyone out there who's server has been compromised or has
investigated these issues?
There are security companies that keep databases of known issues (such as
ntbugtraq). You will see IMail occasionally there, but
Click start run then type regedit
Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SMTPD32\Parameters
Create a string variable named MaxRCPTPerMessage
Set the DWORD value to the desired maximum number of recipients. 0 means
unlimited. Example: if you set the DWORD value as 64
No. Check your postal mailbox lately? I hate spam but these
mathematical figures everyone comes up with are quite humorous. It
takes me about 10-15 seconds to go through my EMail in the morning and
tag all the obvious SPAM messages (from the subject line) and delete
them. Figure another 30-40
I hate spam but these mathematical figures everyone comes up with are
quite humorous.
More humor is needed then! :)
It takes me about 10-15 seconds to go through my EMail in the morning and
tag all the obvious SPAM messages (from the subject line) and delete
them. Figure another 30-40
Len,
Have you tried re-applying the last Service Pack? Remembering the 'rule'
someone posted in the past, about doing this after installing any software.
Should not hurt, except the time it takes (and maybe your ego, if that fixes
things!).
Can you make any correlation to the time of the web
If anybody is running this version, the zone transfers are broken.
Upgrade to BIND 8.2.4 NT2 on my site
Len
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Mike,
Kind of a WAG (Wild A**ed Guess), but I have heard of some problems with
NICs and W2K and IMail and was wondering what kind this new server has? Can
you try a different NIC in this server?
Yea, that Winsock error number and its message are rather cryptic and there
are other places that
Speaking of unwanted email...
Can we stop this?
Or would you like me to add up how long it's taking me to delete this
thread.
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The last thing I want to say/ask about this is when you have a large mailing list are
some people so stupid as to not know how to type unsubscribe. I have halted all
mailings from my list until such point i can remove these people manually. I am
trying but getting frustrated. I have heard
test
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I should mention that as a small preventative measure, when ever asked I
make sure to enter only the minimum of information and then always at the
low end (ie, income: 0-12,00 per year, occupation: Other, etc) It makes
you a less desireable target.
Kevin Childers
It's like I've always said,
i have 12 email accounts.
i'm not your average dialup user. i'm an admin, as such i know that if i can't
unsubscribe, even before i get the bounce msg, i know that i tried to unsub from
the wrong account. most dialups are relative newbies with less than 10
years experience. in fact, what i
I just installed IMail 6.06 on drive D: of our Win2K server. Everything
works fine except that when I try to send a large attachment ( 1.5 meg) to
a mailbox I get this error:
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The original message was received at Tue,
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- Original Message -
From: R. Scott Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 7:53 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ORBS - blacklist not the answer
I hate spam but these mathematical figures everyone comes up with are
quite humorous.
More humor is
Holy Cow Batman. Put your glasses back on,
and make your font a litter smaller, it's going to make me go
blind.
- Original Message -
From:
Patrick Mathews
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 9:06
PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] ORBS -
blacklist
i gotta see wut eyem typin
ova heah, hey buddy, deahs peeples trine-ta runna ISP ova heah
awreddy...
- Original Message -
From:
Todd
Lahman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 12:50
AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] ORBS -
blacklist not the
Hi,
I'm using Outlook Express and one problem occur when everytime i try to send an email.
This is the error.
Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this
include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account:
'Webmaster',
I'm sorry for those of you who have grown weary of this subject, but obviously some
list memebers have not, nor have they thought this through completely.
Anti-Blocking Orgs Advocates,
I would start with . . . I hope that you have never needed the services of the Better
Business Bureau or
At 10:02 PM 06/05/01, you wrote:
i
gotta see wut eyem typin ova heah, hey buddy, deahs peeples trine-ta
runna ISP ova heah awreddy...
Yes, that's very cute. Thank you.
My apologies,
Sorry I posted on a dead horse.
Hadn't read the consensus on dropping the subject.
Sorry,
Barry Elk
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