I would suggest opening UDP port 53. DNS runs over UDP port 53 except in
rare conditions!! That should fix it. I would not open port 113. Someone
correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe it's necessary for the
operation of Imail!!
-Russ
-Original Message-
From: Parimal Mohilé
Hi,
I was just looking at the C:\Imail\Users folder and noticed a few files in
there that I can't place. For three users there are 2 files that have the
name: mailboxname.ext and mailboxname.~xt
I can not find any info at the IMail support site about these files. These
files are very old,
1.ban all
2.permit TCP port 25 (smtp) both directions
smtp: in to tcp/25, out on tcp/1024
3.permit TCP port 110 (pop) both directions
in on tcp/110, Imail doesn't do pop client afaik
4.permit port TCP 53 (dns) bot5h directions
in on udp/tcp 53, out on udp/tcp 1024
After
--On Wednesday, March 05, 2003 7:41 AM -0500 Uhte, Russ RussU@RP-L.com wrote:
I would suggest opening UDP port 53.DNS runs over UDP port 53 except in
rare conditions!!
I agree.UDP is preferred for DNS.
would not open port 113.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe it's
Kris,
I used to have this problem frequently with Imail V 6. When I upgraded to
7, The problem ceased to exist.. To be honest, Upgrading was my last
alternative to resolving the problem. I should have just done it first to
save myself aggravation..
Anton
At 12:44 PM 3/4/2003 -0600, you
I agree. UDP is preferred for DNS.
RFC calls for UDP + TCP access. Blocking TCP can cause some pretty obscure
problems.
would not open port 113.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe it's necessary for
the operation of Imail!!
Port 113 probably does not need to be open for
What is the verdict of this issues?. Are we waiting for a fix from Ipswitch?
cheers
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From: Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 4:19 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Second MX ignored in IMail 7.14
Hmmm... I searched the
Here's what Ipswitch says.
http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-19980513-ES01.htm
No port 113
Mike
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Keen
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Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IP
Security
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s.BRBRSincerely,BRMichael=20
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What is the verdict of this issues?. Are we waiting for a fix from Ipswitch?
If you read the entire thread, you'll see that the verdict is that the
issue is dependent on how one reads the RFCs, so there Ipswitch is not
obligated to fix this.
In this case, the problem is that there is a domain
I get this error message sometimes using Outlook Express 6 over an IMAP
connection to our IMAIL server (running V7.07):
A time-out occurred while communicating with the server. Subject 'Fw: May we
add a mailbox please?', Account: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', Server:
'mail.maxweb.com', Protocol: SMTP,
You will get this when the sending domain is in your kill list
Eric S
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From: Darryl Koster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 11:55 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Log question
I just found this
03:04 03:47 SMTPD(303800FE)
Is there a way to import the addresses of an IMAIL list to an individual
user's online address book?
Specifically, we keep an all employees mailing list. I have set up a
generic user email account for the scheduling of our conference room,
for use with the web calendaring feature (ok, yes, new
I know that this has been discussed to some extent on this forum. I want to
make sure that the server that I am building will have the drives setup
correctly.
4 Drives Raid 0+1 for Mail Boxes only
2 Drives Raid 0 For OS/Programs
1 Drive for spool and logfiles
Does this look correct? Or do I
That's almost right.
You have 0 and 1 confused. 0 is striping... so you want 2 Drives Raid 1
for OS/Programs ... that gives you fault tollerance.
Raid 0 gives you back your speed in the 4 drive 0+1 setup.
Hope this helps,
_M
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This is actually on a clients servers, but your information otherwise deeply
applies.
Thanks all for the information and allowing me to rant.
Up to know, it was supposed to be my boss that handled all policies and
such. That is going to change now.
John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA
IT Manager, Network
Hi all,
I'm new to IMail Server and this group (less than 24 hours) and don't want to create waves.I've reviewed Len Conrad's web sites and have great respect for what he's accomplished with IMGATE.(I'm considering getting it to augment my IMail and Norton Antivirus for Gateways.)
--On
I believe that email address book per user exist in that user's directory
and is called aliases.txt so maybe you can do the following manually.
This trick MAY work. Try on a test account first. Copy all addresses from
the user.LST file from your list into that users aliases.txt located in his
I believe that email address book per user exist in that user's
directory and is called aliases.txt so maybe you can do the following
manually. This trick MAY work. Try on a test account first. Copy all
addresses from the user.LST file from your list into that users
aliases.txt located in his
Michael,
Wednesday, March 5, 2003 you wrote:
MK I'm new to IMail Server and this group (less than 24 hours)
Welcome.
MK and don't want to create waves.
Surfs already up anyway - a few waves never hurt anyone.
MK Steve Gibson of GRC.COM is very well respected in Internet
MK
I've never heard of an MTA using IDENT to accept/refuse mail. A lot of
security people have a hard time justifying why 113 is worth allowing
access.
I can state with authority that I've personally seen SMTP servers that I
run fail to connect to other remote SMTP servers (or connect only
When I telnet to my mail server, this is what I get..
220 todhunter.com (IMail 7.14 2989-2) NT-ESMTP Server X1
According to the RFC, what is it supposed to be?
I was looking at the dnsreport warning but I don't quite understand
where this in violation?
TIA,
Sharyn
We are the worldwide
I believe you need the FQD name for your server
example.todhunter.com
Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sharyn Schmidt
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] IMAIL greeting
When I telnet to
Hi Terry,
--On Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:30 AM -0600 Smart Business Lists ourlists@int04.smartbusiness.net wrote:
http://grcsucks.com/
I'm now tempted to register inksitesucks.com just to prevent somebody else from doing it. :)
Well, Steve Gibson may in fact be a tool, but his text on
To be perfectly clear,
It must be mail.todhunter.com in your case. Which your MX records goes to.
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From: Jim Bruner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:52:19 -0600
I believe you need the FQD name
When I telnet to my mail server, this is what I get..
220 todhunter.com (IMail 7.14 2989-2) NT-ESMTP Server X1
According to the RFC, what is it supposed to be?
I was looking at the dnsreport warning but I don't quite understand
where this in violation?
It is best for it to be a fully qualified
it seems to usually two of my users. I do open a telnet to the smtp port to
make sure the remote server is available, but I thought the problem was with
my iMail server, as it is the one acting as if my user didn't exist properly
on our own server? am i misunderstanding the error message? I'v
how about scheduling a batch file that looks like this?:
dele path to user folder\aliases.txt
copy path to list folder\users.lst path to user folder\aliases.txt
Eric S
- Original Message -
From: Sharyn Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:30
how about scheduling a batch file that looks like this?:
dele path to user folder\aliases.txt
copy path to list folder\users.lst path to user folder\aliases.txt
Eric S
Thanks, this should work great! :)
Sharyn
We are the worldwide producer and marketer of the award winning Cruzan
Single
However, there doesn't seem to be any widespread usage of the hostname
here, so I wouldn't worry about it too much -- in your case, the
greeting
would be clear to a human (or many computer programs).
-Scott
OK, twist my arm, I won't worry
We had a client complain that using web messaging (Imail v. 7.07) they
could not embed images into their messages. Personally I hate the embedded
images, but the customer is always right.
I tried it myself and it certainly does not seem possible to do so. Am I
correct? Or am I overlooking
but other email servers seem to handle it correctly.
Anyone from Ipswitch can officially reply to this?
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From: R. Scott Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Second MX ignored in IMail 7.14
This should be a real easy question.
I want to delete accounts from a Host on my Imail 7.x server. Can I just
delete the directories on the server or do I have to use the IMail
Administrator to delete accounts?
Thanks!
Samantha
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but other email servers seem to handle it correctly.
No -- they handle it *differently*.
For example, if the RFCs say Send the E-mail user's name, should the mail
client send Joe or Joe User? Just because one mail client uses Joe
doesn't mean that is right and the mail client sending Joe User
Samantha,
Wednesday, March 5, 2003 you wrote:
BS I want to delete accounts from a Host on my Imail 7.x server. Can I just
BS delete the directories on the server or do I have to use the IMail
BS Administrator to delete accounts?
It you delete only the directories and files then you still have
Title: Message
Hi
I am a
bit fuzzy on the rule nomenclature.
For
example I have rules that are to stop the word Fre* ie Get your Fre*
DVD etc. Yet the rule stops the words - fre*dom and
Fre*mantle
How to do I use the rule to only
stop fre*
replace the * with the letter e in case some
At 10:50 AM 3/5/2003 -0800, Orin Wells wrote:
Further it appears impossible to view an image via web mail if it is
embedded in the message body. Is this also correct? Or, again, am I
overlooking something?
I then tried using Eudora 5.2 to embed a jpg image. I sent it to myself
on another
Title: Message
Put a \s after the *. This will look for a space
after the word. You might want to do this at the beginning of the word so you
don't catch words like "carefre*" etc
Eric S
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From:
James Robb
To: Imail Forum
Sent: Wednesday, March 05,
Title: Message
Try: Fre\*
The "\" tells the rule processor to use the next character
literally, notits special
meaning.
Mike
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RobbSent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 2:17 PMTo: Imail
How come I can send mail to hswcorp.com with other email servers but not
with IMail 7.14? I can telnet to the hswcorp.com email server just fine..
but IMail won't send.. just rejects..
~Rick
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Hi
Thanks
for the info, makes sense now
James
How come I can send mail to hswcorp.com with other email servers but not
with IMail 7.14? I can telnet to the hswcorp.com email server just fine..
but IMail won't send.. just rejects..
http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/[EMAIL PROTECTED] shows
that the MX records for hswcorp.com are seriously
I realize this Scott.. honestly.. but how come I'm still able to use a
hotmail.com account to send mail to the broken mx?.. and not IMail? Is
there a way I could force IMail to auto send to there secondary server?
Thank you,
~Rick
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I realize this Scott.. honestly.. but how come I'm still able to use a
hotmail.com account to send mail to the broken mx?.. and not IMail? Is
there a way I could force IMail to auto send to there secondary server?
You're confusing this issue (a broken MX record) with the other secondary
MX
I was deleting a lot of emails from my inbox in bulk. Some of my deleted
email was sent to another user as coming from me. The subject was
populated but the massage was empty. I never heard of this before any
one else seen this? Any ideas? I am using imail 7.13 and MS outlook
But this will wipe out any entries they make themselves.
-- Original Message --
From: Sharyn Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:32:50 -0500
how about scheduling a batch file that looks like this?:
dele path
If a user is forwarding their mail to another directory it is stored
in a forward.ima file in that user's directory under \imail\users.
If you had a large number of users and wanted to find out which ones
were forwarding their mail to an outside address, how would you go
about that on IMail 7.13
use this as a batch file making your changes. it begins life in your imail directory
and gfpsadmin is a folder I have in the Imail directory for this type of stuff
--start bat file
@echo off
echo.
echo This batch looks for the file named forward.ima in each users
echo
But this will wipe out any entries they make themselves.
True, but this is for a generic user account that will only be used for scheduling the
use of the conference room in-house, via web calendaring. I anticipate that the people
using this are going to be upper level management who are not
I need to review the outgoing mail of a select group of users
(starting with a single one). What is the best method to accomplish
this? The copy all is not an option (too much mail to process) so I
need to be able to do this on a user by user basis.
Any help?
Tried the search thing but couldn't
I was deleting a lot of emails from my inbox in bulk. Some of my deleted
email was sent to another user as coming from me. The subject was
populated but the massage was empty. I never heard of this before any
one else seen this? Any ideas? I am using imail 7.13 and MS outlook
I would be very
There is a discussion going on another list I am a member of regarding
connecting to an Exchange server at the ISP and a question has arisen that I
would like to ask the members of this forum:
How many Exchange servers (IMHO none) are out there in use by ISPs or
hosting providers to provide
How many Exchange servers (IMHO none) are out there in use by ISPs or
hosting providers to provide e-mail services to multiple/general clients on
the Internet? (Not in a corporate environment.)
IIRC, the per-mail-domain pricing made Exchange DOA for ISP's.
Len
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I have the following in my log files. I searched all over the place looking for an
explanation to these entries and I cant find
any information on them.
20030305 221426 127.0.0.1 SMTP (01B02C28) [x] looking up yahoo.com in HOSTS and
MX
20030305 221426 127.0.0.1 SMTP (01B02C28
I have been hit with someone loading a program called xscan until my
Imail server several times. It appears to be a port scanner looking
for security holes on other remote machines.
I can't find anything on the net on how this is being done, and what I
should be blocking to prevent this.
Anyone
Is there a way to create account setting templates for quick creation of a
new virtual imail server?
This would include all necessary pop/alias accounts for administration and
default lists.
Thanks,
Michael Cole
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I just did a test update from 6.06 to 7.13 using an external database. The upgrade
went smooth but it never asked me if I wanted to add the extra lines to the database.
When I go to look at the users there are none. If I update the database for a domain
addin gthe missing lines it will show
http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/db/x/xscan.asp
but all in all I would assume the server had been compromised and perform a
fresh/fdisk/format reinstall of the o/s and applications.
~Rick
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From: David Dodell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Imail Mailing List [EMAIL
John,
IMHO.. never walk away from an Exchange server...
run like HELL :-)
We've been converting an Exchange 5.5 2002 'all' week to IMail..
I had posted a question earlier and it was the consensus that the MX
records were amiss and most or our corporate clients can't afford
to staff 1 person
Wednesday, March 5, 2003, 9:31:11 PM, Rick Leske wrote:
http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/db/x/xscan.asp
but all in all I would assume the server had been compromised and perform a
fresh/fdisk/format reinstall of the o/s and applications.
That's all fine and good, but it still doesn't help
Yes.. true.. so I'm assuming that because I can send from 3 other email
domains, like hotmail.com, then they might also have us blacklisted. The
bounce recieved was that the user didn't exsist such as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
which would surely bounce. Either way I did catch the earlier posts
I would suspect that the administrative or Root password had been
compromised. A malware program could have been installed. A trojan could
have been downloaded via email. The possiblities are endless on 'how' the
program got installed and by whom. Ensure that your operating system has
all
Wednesday, March 5, 2003, 10:17:23 PM, Rick Leske wrote:
I would suspect that the administrative or Root password had been
compromised.
I changed it this earlier this evening.
A malware program could have been installed. A trojan could
have been downloaded via email
There is no email
Here's a start.. still searching..
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/incidents/2002-11/0115.html
feel free to email me direct if you want to move it off list.
~Rick
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From: David Dodell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Rick Leske [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March
MK Well, Steve Gibson may in fact be a tool, but his text on port 113
MK seems to make sense.
Only if you think inside his box. This is basic TCP/IP commonsense
we're talking about here. The points are very clear: letting through
113 at any level is (1) unnecessary for mail delivery, and
ES dele path to user folder\aliases.txt
ES copypathto list folder\users.lst path to user
ES folder\aliases.txt
SS Thanks, this should work great! :)
Better yet, and dynamically synchronized: use an NTFS hard link.
-Sandy
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JB Just wondering if anyone has heard of any news on weather IPswitch
JB is ever going to include a global address book feature in there up
JB and coming versions?
No inside news, but have you looked at the tweak in the KB that lets
you include a static text file in each user's address book?
KM 4 Drives Raid 0+1 for Mail Boxes only
KM 2 Drives Raid 0 For OS/Programs
KM 1 Drive for spool and logfiles
KM Does this look correct?
Correct is certainly subjective, since we don't know your budget and
more spindles will certainly bring more performance.
You want to dedicate as many
HP it seems to usually two of my users. I do open a telnet to the
HP smtp port to make sure the remote server is available, but I
HP thought the problem was with my iMail server, as it is the one
HP acting as if my user didn't exist properly...
No, it's not an IMail server
JB I need to review the outgoing mail of a select group of users
JB (starting with a single one). What is the best method to
JB accomplish this? The copy all is not an option (too much mail to
JB process) so I need to be able to do this on a user by user basis.
If you mean
BS This should be a real easy question.
It is.
BS I want to delete accounts from a Host on my Imail 7.x server. Can
BS I just delete the directories on the server or do I have to use
BS the IMail Administrator to delete accounts?
If you delete the directories on the server, IMail will
Another good site with articles and info is: http://secinf.net/
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From: Rick Leske [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: Re[4]: [IMail Forum] xscan?
Here's a start.. still searching..
Hello Sandy,
Thanks for the welcome.
MK Well, Steve Gibson may in fact be a tool, but his text on port 113
MK seems to make sense.
Onlyifyouthinkinside his box.
Actually, Mr. Gibson's position on port 113 is that it is best NOT to expose the port but that it might be necessary to
MK As I stated in an earlier post, it was my own personal experience
MK that an SMTP server I operated was unable to forward mail to a
MK small number of recipients until I opened port 113...
Trust us, you don't have to worry about that anymore; perhaps you were
dealing with a group
isn Problem is we have over 400 domains and I really do not want to
isn update each one. anyone know a way to fix this easily?
Easily...well, depends on your SQL knowledge/interest. :) You can
certainly loop through the user tables, reading the names from your
system tables, and alter
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