[IMail Forum] Windows 2000

2000-03-10 Thread R. Scott Perry
We are planning to go live with an Imail system, but want to run it on Windows 2000. Are there any known issues with Windows 2000? The latest information in the knowledge base doesn't say whether or not IMail will perform normally on 2000, although the sales page says that IMail supports 2000.

RE: [IMail Forum] 6.03 Patch not working

2000-03-10 Thread R. Scott Perry
> I installed it fine, but then lost my IMonitor List Administration > capability from port 8181. Have an active trouble call with > Ipswitch on it right now. I lost mine too when upgrading from 6.02 to 6.03, I figured it was something I did. What I noticed was that if you telnet to port 8181

RE: [IMail Forum] Web Administration

2000-03-10 Thread R. Scott Perry
> I'm running IMail 602 and I configured it to enable web > administration via port 8181, but when I go to my browser > to go to it...it comes back with "The page cannot be > displayed -- Cannot find server or DNS Error Internet > Explorer" type error message. Make sure that the IMonitor service

RE: [IMail Forum] Mail Recieved From incorrect in headers. Why?

2000-03-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Received: > from undah.com > (mail.brokenstorefront.com [151.204.34.6] (may be > forged)) by > > undah.com is the real mail domain that is set in the > mail client software. That "Received:" line is the one generated by the mail machine that is connecting to yours. The "undah.com" comes from t

RE: [IMail Forum] Getting Spammed to death...

2000-03-15 Thread R. Scott Perry
> With that kind of technology at their disposal, the counter > attack must get far more sophisticated. When it reaches this point (lots of mass spammers each using lots of open relays, modifying message content, etc.), the best solution would be the law. If these people get hit with enough laws

RE: [IMail Forum] Getting Spammed to death...

2000-03-15 Thread R. Scott Perry
> > When it reaches this point (lots of mass spammers each using > > lots of open relays, modifying message content, etc.), the best > > solution would be the law. > > Oregon's fairly fangy anti-spam law just this week got struck down as > anti-constitutional. > > Any more suggestions? vbg IIRC

RE: [IMail Forum] Getting Spammed to death...

2000-03-15 Thread R. Scott Perry
> The result being that vast numbers of advertisers would > be regularly violating any laws as a matter of course... > numbers so vast, in fact, as to make the laws unenforceable. Just as speeding on highways is so common that it is unenforceable. But if you get the spammers in question (the on

RE: [IMail Forum] Getting Spammed to death...

2000-03-15 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Is there a way to change Imail's header? Yes, at least with IMail v6 (see p.244 of the manual). You need to add a registry key. -Scott Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list.

RE: [IMail Forum] Getting Spammed to death...

2000-03-16 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Being slightly involved in the legal system, a quick > question. The last series of attacks came out of Denmark, > what good would a US law have with Denmark? That's where the Internet gets to be such a fun place legally. If the spammer is in Denmark, I doubt any U.S. law could do anything ab

RE: [IMail Forum] Login.cgi

2000-03-16 Thread R. Scott Perry
Title: Re: [IMail Forum] Login.cgi > yeah, I've looked for the login.cgi file too, it's not on the server I don't get it.  But it references an image that I > want to change and I can't find the file to change it.   There is no login.cgi file, if I understand the IMail web interface correctl

RE: [IMail Forum] Netscape users problems

2000-03-16 Thread R. Scott Perry
> It's definately a bug in IMAIL, why else would start and > stopping the smtp service clear up the issue ... That doesn't necessarily mean that it is an IMail bug. Someone had mentioned that if the Netscape user rebooted, it also fixed the problem. It may be a TCP/IP connection that doesn't g

RE: [IMail Forum] Imai full administration with SQL7.0 ?

2000-03-21 Thread R. Scott Perry
> ... We bought it primarily for the Web Messaging. If any of you are > using the Web Messaging you probably know what I mean. The 'templates' > that ships with Imail are absolutely a joke and don't work let alone > look half decent What doesn't work with the web interface? I'm curious, beca

RE: [IMail Forum] Missing Files

2000-03-22 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Hi, I'm using Version 6 of Imail, and I'm setting up the web > mail feature. > The thing is that I couldn?t find the login.cgi file to > modify it, couldn?t find the messages.ini file either. There is no such file. A URL with "login.cgi" in it is interpreted by IMail, which then returns the ap

RE: [IMail Forum] Missing Files

2000-03-22 Thread R. Scott Perry
> The thing is that I've modified those files but when I enter > an unexisting user or password, it shows me the template page, > not my modified page. The easiest way to figure out the problem is probably to look at the HTML source for the page you want to edit. Near the top of the source for t

RE: [IMail Forum] IMail Server 6.03 Patch Now Available

2000-03-23 Thread R. Scott Perry
> v6.03 > = > o Corrects problems authenticating with Win2K advanced server. How does authentication with Windows 2000 work? Can IMail, running on Windows 2000, authenticate using the Windows 2000 Active Directory? Does it requre the Advanced Server? Is there anywhere where any information

RE: [IMail Forum] HTTP Redirection

2000-03-27 Thread R. Scott Perry
> I have NT4 and Imail 6.02. While reviewing my web message > logs, I found that someone is using the web messaging server > to redirect html request to other servers. What shows up in the log? Do you know how are they getting the redirects in there? -Scott Please vis

RE: [IMail Forum] JavaMail API

2000-03-28 Thread R. Scott Perry
> I am evaluating IMail for an education portal that my company > is building. I need to know whether or not I can use the JavaMail > API to access and/or execute certain functions... It appears that JavaMail interacts with the POP3/IMAP/SMTP servers, in which case there would be no problem conne

[IMail Forum] Setting From:'s Reply-To:'s

2000-03-28 Thread R. Scott Perry
Is there any way to set the "Reply-To:" field for multiple accounts easily, or do you have to do it by hand? Our IMail server is being set up with the official host name as the computer name (mail.domain.com), and the real domain name as a host alias (domain.com). IMail seems to automatically se

RE: [IMail Forum] Setting From:'s Reply-To:'s

2000-03-28 Thread R. Scott Perry
Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, it seems as though the "Set Reply To" only works with the IMail database. Using the IMail database, I can see how the "Set Reply To" is supposed to work (after closing and restarting the IMail Administrator, it reflects the changes on all users). But, using t

RE: [IMail Forum] Reply to address

2000-03-29 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Not sure why Ipswitch made it so hard to change the official host name > for a domain, as it is VERY common to set it up as > "mail.something.com" > and then change your mind later, as you have done. The reason it is so common is that the installation instructions make it VERY clear that you MU

RE: [IMail Forum] 572 Relay not authorized

2000-03-29 Thread R. Scott Perry
> What does this 572 relay not authorized mean when we are sending > mail to their server. That's because you aren't sending the mail to their mail server, you are sending it to a different machine. It sounds like the MX lookup is failing, so the A record is being used. The MX record points to

RE: [IMail Forum] dll initialization problem again

2000-03-29 Thread R. Scott Perry
  > SMTP32.exe - DLL Initialization Failed > Initializing of the dinamic link library C:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.dll failed. The process is terminating > abnormally.   My understanding is that this means that the SMTP32.EXE file uses functions from the KERNEL32.DLL (and COMCTL32.DLL from yo

RE: [IMail Forum] login Issue- need help

2000-03-30 Thread R. Scott Perry
> We could probably put a form with hidden fields and use the > login URL for imail when our users want to view their mail. > However, we would have to expose the password on the html page. > > Is their any direct way of doing this through a URL with just > the username? As far as I know, IMail

RE: [IMail Forum] Trying to relay?

2000-03-31 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Does this look like someone is trying to use my server for > relay? ... Plus I know this user doesn't exist on my server... > 03:29 18:47 SMTPD(017F014A) [209.191.134.31] MAIL > FROM: 01.thestreet.com> > 03:29 18:47 SMTPD(017F014A) [209.191.134.31] RCPT > TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 03:29 18:47 SM

RE: [IMail Forum] Dead SMTP32.exe processes

2000-03-31 Thread R. Scott Perry
> I think we have the same problem. I wrote it here before. > SMTP32.exe causes dll initialization error. I believe this is a different problem -- which seems to be caused by some resource (such as number of threads or memory) running low. The DLL initialization error comes from Windows, not IMa

RE: [IMail Forum] Trying to relay?

2000-03-31 Thread R. Scott Perry
> They have been trying a couple of times a day for the last 4 days. If it is just that one user, then it is probably a mailing list, and the user isn't getting removed from the mailing list when the E-mail bounces. Each new E-mail that is sent out will cause another attempt to deliver the me

RE: [IMail Forum] Sending via command line from another machine?

2000-03-31 Thread R. Scott Perry
> I can go to the server, use imail1.exe and send a message no problem. > When I sit at a workstation, whether it is win9x or Win2k (with a drive > mapped to the Imail server and full drive access), the same command > line gives me and erro that says Bdy Queue c:\mail\spool\D0349a27.gsc. > My ques

RE: [IMail Forum] Setting up for an SMTP Gateway

2000-03-31 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Ok here is what I would like to do I have Imail running as an internal email system, I would like it to be able to send to the > internet by having my NT box periodically dial up and Imail send. I understand that Imail does not schedule the dialups, > this is not a problem. My problem is

RE: [IMail Forum] Setting up for an SMTP Gateway

2000-03-31 Thread R. Scott Perry
I thought of that one already, Yes I am connected to the internet. Thanks for the suggestion tho. If I were you, I would try to telnet to the gateway machine on port 25.  See if you can connect to it through telnet.  If you can't, you'll be able to eliminate IMai

RE: [IMail Forum] delayed delivery

2000-04-03 Thread R. Scott Perry
> I'm also not sure where 10.10.10.10 is coming from either. Can anyone give > me hand with this? Thanks. > > 04:01 10:24 SMTPD(00770280) [10.10.10.10] connect 10.10.10.10 port 2852 > 04:01 10:25 SMTPD(007A0280) [10.10.10.10] connect 10.10.10.10 port 2856 > 04:01 10:26 SMTPD(007D0280) [10.10.10.10

RE: [IMail Forum] Fw: hi

2000-04-03 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Can someone tell me why if in our rules.ima > file we have the following line: > B~ hot young girls :NUL > > > Looking for some hot young girls?... I'd try taking out the space after "girls", to look like: B~ hot young girls:NUL -Scott Please visit http://www.ipswi

RE: [IMail Forum] User Info..

2000-04-03 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Good question.I wish that Ipswitch would use a industry standard web server so we could do a > little more with the web interface.   What are you looking to do with it?    -Scott

RE: [IMail Forum] web based mail

2000-04-05 Thread R. Scott Perry
> I have a number of users who use web based Imail. Access is via > www.domainname:8383 > > Is it possible to alias the 8383 to something such as mailbox? No, it is not. The 8383 is a port, and ports can only be numbers. There is no convention (that I am aware of at least) on the Internet that

RE: [IMail Forum] Eudora

2000-04-05 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Eudora works fine with MS-EXCHANGE and Sendmail 8.10 > > you draw the conclusions In reality, the problem is whoever can most easily be convinced to solve the problem. When you are dealing with client software and server software made by two different companies, it gets tricky. If one is foll

RE: [IMail Forum] Plain Template and IE3x

2000-04-06 Thread R. Scott Perry
What is the full error message that you get? The plain template does not work with IE3.x I still get invalid function when trying to reply.

RE: [IMail Forum] Plain Template and IE3x

2000-04-06 Thread R. Scott Perry
Unfortunately, "Failed Invalid Function" doesn't give enough information to solve the problem effectively.  If that's the extent of the error message (not even a line number or function name), Microsoft is really to blame (very easy to do!).  To find the problem would require trial and error

RE: [IMail Forum] Eudora SMTP AUTH ISSUES

2000-04-07 Thread R. Scott Perry
I'm running 6.03, and just tested it.  Sending AUTH CRAM-MD5 does send a response with NO CRLF at the end of it.  According to RFC2554, under "Formal Syntax", "continue_req" is defined as:  "334" SPACE [base64] CRLF.  There is no room for interpretation there; IMail is at fault.    

RE: [IMail Forum] imutil.exe ... protocol question

2000-04-07 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Does anyone know the specs for the imutil program? What port does it > connect to? What commands are used? I am trying to find a way to > progmatically access the imutil resources without using the dialog > based imutil program. Any suggestions? Get a packet sniffer, and you can easily see wh

RE: [IMail Forum] Imail Mailing Lists, Sender: field, and Outlook 2000

2000-04-10 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Thanks for replying. You were the only one -- I've been > watching the list carefully. Actually, I got this one on Friday. Maybe it's that problem a couple of people have complained about where the listserver is missing a few people? -Scott ---

RE: [IMail Forum] How does the mail server know that a message has been read?

2000-04-11 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Looks like I might be able to compare these strings if I can see how > multiple messages are treated.. > yup...here's multiple messages. Here is what you would need to do, from what I can tell, to be able to display "You have 5 unread messages". Without access to the IMail source code or s

RE: [IMail Forum] DoS vulnerability on Imail 5.x/6.x

2000-04-11 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Still no word on a fix? With all these IPSwitch people answering the > small/easy questions why isn't the BIG one being resolved or even > acknowledged? How about explaining where the DOS possibility lies? I have been following this for a while now. I can see where IMail breaks the RFC (it do

RE: [IMail Forum] DoS vulnerability on Imail 5.x/6.x

2000-04-11 Thread R. Scott Perry
> > How about explaining where the DOS possibility lies? > > Have you been on Venus? j/k :-) > > It is listed on SecurityFocus.com even. It is a Known > issue... and it needs fixed. But, I have yet to see that there really is a problem to the server. Yes, there is a problem (IMail doesn't follow

RE: [IMail Forum] DoS vulnerability on Imail 5.x/6.x

2000-04-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Here is the trick: > Let's say I want to render someone's Imail server Useless for > a few days. > All I have to do is use Eudora 4.3 and set it to log in to > the Imail server. > > As this SINGLE function locks the entire AUTH service, no > other user can send mail via that Imail server, until

RE: [IMail Forum] Reply to?

2000-04-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
> My 'set reply-to' seems to do nothing. I change my reply for > what seems to be the existing users and it does nothing. I > check by adding a new user... nothing. The global "Reply-To" only works on the IMail database. If you are using the NT or external database, it will let you set it... but

RE: [IMail Forum] Reply to?

2000-04-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
> H... is there a way around this? What are the > consequences of changing > the fully qualified name to domain.com from mail.domain.com? > > This is a need for obvious reasons... Despite the evil warning when you install (that you MUST use the real machine name as the official host name), Ip

RE: [IMail Forum] automatic login

2000-04-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
> I have a web portal where a user can only check their email > if they have already logged in to the portal. Therefore, > because they have already logged in and been validated to > the portal, I do not want to force them to supply their > username and password again in order to login to email.

RE: [IMail Forum] DoS vulnerability on Imail 5.x/6.x

2000-04-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Yes, if you have Eudora 4.3 and you use SMTP AUTH, you will > reproduce this. Well, I downloaded Eudora 4.3.1 and couldn't get this problem to occur. Eudora 4.3.1 will properly not use CRAM-MD5, since IMail says it doesn't accept CRAM-MD5 (is there a way to get it to accept it? the SMTPD32.EXE

RE: [IMail Forum] DoS vulnerability on Imail 5.x/6.x???

2000-04-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
> > Is Eudora 4.3 different from 4.3.1, and if so, is there somewhere where it > > can be downloaded? Does anyone know how this can be reproduced without > > Eudora (what commands to send)? This is starting to sound like an urban > > legend, but if there truly is a vulnerability, I'd like to kno

RE: [IMail Forum] IMail 6 and Primary DNS on the same Windows 2000 Server machine, it is possible?

2000-04-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Does anyone know if IMail 6 will work on the same > machine that has Windows 2000 Server > configured to be a Primary DNS controller? Go to Start Menu -> Programs -> Administrative Tools -> Services Scroll down to the service named "Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP)", and double-click it.

RE: [IMail Forum] ODBC problem & How to utilize ASP with IMail

2000-04-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
> 1. I would like to use IIS to host Imail's html template, but there is > IMAIL.XXX special tag in it, as IIS doesn't understand. The goal is to > make my own ASP to make IMAIL more powerful, with my own/additional > user profile. How to reach such my goal? You can't use IIS to host IMail HTML t

RE: [IMail Forum] attachment issue in Web mail

2000-04-14 Thread R. Scott Perry
> some of my users sent me nasty emails and told me that they > will stop using it if the problem is not fixed within a week. > If ipswitch can't help, can anyone in the forum help? I doubt that anyone in the forum can help. The only way I could see to "fix" the problem outside of Ipswitch maki

RE: [IMail Forum] iradmin XUSR login question...

2000-04-14 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Any hint to the encryption scheme? Sure. I don't want to give it away (what fun would that be?), but when IMUTIL tries to log me on as user "Scott" and password "test", it sends: XUSR Scott-IMUTIL and then: QBTT!uftu (followed by CTRL-N and CTRL-K) If you need more clues, just let me kno

RE: [IMail Forum] iradmin XUSR login question...

2000-04-14 Thread R. Scott Perry
> The iradmin.exe program seems to do it's work via the POP and PASSWORD > services. The login to access these services is different in > that iradmin seems to login with the XUSR [EMAIL PROTECTED] > command. The problem is that after that command is issued via telnet, > the server response is s

RE: [IMail Forum] attachment issue in Web mail

2000-04-14 Thread R. Scott Perry
> if i use forward as in-line text, i see something like this > > > <> <> <> > > ATTACHMENT part 2.2 image/jpeg name=DAD_LIKE.JPG > > ATTACHMENT part 2.3 image/jpeg name=PET.JPG > > ATTACHMENT part 2.4 image/jpeg name=PORTERS.JPG > > how can we forward the attachement that is readable?? > > Is

RE: [IMail Forum] ODBC Issue

2000-04-17 Thread R. Scott Perry
Steve-   You have a virus.   Anyone else reading this should make sure they didn't get it. -Scott -Original Message-From: Steve Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 1:51 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subj

RE: [IMail Forum] ODBC Issue

2000-04-17 Thread R. Scott Perry
FYI, the replies containing the virus do not necessarily indicate that the sender has the virus.  If someone replies and includes the original "text" (HTML message -- another reason not to use HTML in E-mail!!!  Text-only can NEVER contain a virus), the virus gets copied in the reply.  That'

RE: [IMail Forum] ODBC Issue

2000-04-17 Thread R. Scott Perry
To clarify, I was refering to the REPLIES.  The original message certainly did come from a machine that was affected by the virus.  However, some of the replies contained the virus (because it was quoted in the reply), even though the machines sending those messages may not have been affecte

RE: [IMail Forum] SMTP AUTH Issue -- list new KB articles

2000-04-18 Thread R. Scott Perry
> I just searched the KB and archives of this thread and > haven't seen anything else posted on this SMTP Auth issue... > I don't want to have our email server going down just because > a Eudora user logs on. Despite all the talk about the problem here, it has been almost completely about the pro

RE: [IMail Forum] ODBC Issue

2000-04-18 Thread R. Scott Perry
> Everyone using html for email please stop responding to this > virus infected email, you keep propagating it by replying, if > you must reply, do so in plain text. This must die. Unfortunately, Microsoft Outlook has a nasty habit of not being able to reply to an HTML E-mail using plain text.

RE: [IMail Forum] ODBC Issue

2000-04-19 Thread R. Scott Perry
> If you go to Tools/Options/Send and uncheck the box for Send > replies in the format they were sent and make sure that plain > text is checked below that you should have no problems. Yes, but only if you are running a version of Outlook that has that option. Mine doesn't (Outlook 98). Hopefull

[IMail Forum] How to create user directories?

2000-04-20 Thread R. Scott Perry
I have 800 accounts on an NT database, and have to create directories for them, so that I can change their Reply-To: addresses. Not a fun task, but I have to set the Reply-To: addresses to something other than the default. I tried using MAILALL, however that screwed up royally. It ended up send

RE: [IMail Forum] Did Imail 6.02 change the pop3 response codes?

2000-04-26 Thread R. Scott Perry
> All of a sudden I am getting "+OK X1 NT-POP3 Server mail.centrimed.net > (IMail 6.02 31434-1)" from a STAT command instead of the expected "+OK > " > > Any ideas? I'm using 6.03 (which says 6.02 when I telnet to it, so it probably is the same version as yours), and it responds properly to the

RE: [IMail Forum]

2000-04-26 Thread R. Scott Perry
It sounds like your problem is that when you send E-mail to a user that does not exist on the IMail server, no reject/bounce message is sent. The only thing I can think of that would cause this is that you have a "nobody" alias set up to receive such E-mails. In that case, no bounce message shou

[IMail Forum] Web Messaging: No link for attached pictures?

2000-04-26 Thread R. Scott Perry
When I receive an attachment via IMail web messaging, it normally shows up as a link. If it is a text file, you have the option (in preferences) to either have a link, or display the text in the message. However, when I receive a picture (.GIF, .JPG, or .BMP all do this), the picture displays wi

RE: [IMail Forum] Aliases vs Mailbox

2000-04-26 Thread R. Scott Perry
> I do have a nobody alias pointing to my mailbox on the > server. Would that not send any email not delivered or > reject/bounce messages to my mailbox for me to see??? The "nobody" alias should get all E-mail that is addressed to people who *should* be on your server, but are not. For example,

RE: [IMail Forum] Daft Webmail Question

2000-04-26 Thread R. Scott Perry
> I am using Imail 6.03 with the Gold Brick Template, and i > want to remove the > following item's from the front logon screen: > Top Left Remove the name of the Server > Then put the the following Text at the Top accross the Centre: > Science International Webmail You want to edit the "login.ht

Re: [IMail Forum] bad MX record?

2001-04-18 Thread R. Scott Perry
>I've been trying to send an email to a particular domain. Everytime I try >to send an email it sits in the queue and goes no where. I checked the >logs and it shows an SMTP_DELIV_FAIL message on that email (it's trying to >connect to the A record IP address that the domain itself resolves t

Re: [IMail Forum] different relay options

2001-05-11 Thread R. Scott Perry
>I was trying to determine which option should be the best to close the >open relay that my mail server has. I know I MUST do it NOW... Good! Open relays *need* to be closed. > but I have a lot of accounts created all over the world and I can not > close by IP. You can use "Relay mail for

Re: ORBSSRC: RE: [IMail Forum] Time to fix "Refuse NULL <>Senders" option!

2001-05-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
>I have null senders blocked at my mail server. About 80% of the spam I get >has null senders. Really? Out of the last 19 E-mails that came into our spam traps, not a single one was sent with a NULL sender. >This keeps me from receiving them. RFC compliant or not, >it is staying the way it

RE: [IMail Forum] Mailbox will not delete mail after x days

2001-05-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
>New problem is now the 56k modem and cable modem machines are set to check >messages every 10 minutes and to leave messages on server for 2 days, but >the messages are not being deleted. You can check the IMail logs to see at each connection how many messages were downloaded and how many were

RE: [IMail Forum] [Imail Forum] Time to fix "Refuse NULL <> Senders" option!

2001-05-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
>We also block the null senders to stop the spamming. But it also stops the >return receipt with Outlook. If anyone knows away around this please let me >know. As mentioned in the E-mail, you may find you can't get E-mail to some servers if you are breaking the RFCs this way. Also, you will

RE: ORBSSRC: RE: [IMail Forum] Time to fix "Refuse NULL <>Senders" option!

2001-05-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
># but no longer are. Same with refusing <>. It causes other postmasters ># troubles. >It only causes the postmasters that allow their mail users that SEND mail >with null headers problems the way I see it The problem arises if you send an E-mail to a non-existant user on one of our domains.

Re: ORBSSRC: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Time to fix "Refuse NULL<> Senders" option!

2001-05-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
>To be honest, I am willing to take the risk to block the spam. I've just checked some of our spamtraps from 05/01/2001 through today. During that time, we received just 1 spam (going to 4 of our spamtraps) using the NULL sender. That's well under 1% of all the spam that we get. Is it wort

RE: ORBSSRC: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Time to fix "Refuse NULL<> Senders" option!

2001-05-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
>And, also like I said, I'm not spending a buttload of money on some spam >filtering software. > >If there were a free option that worked reasonably well, I would probably >consider it. But, at the moment, the Open Source stuff isn't up to the >level of quality I would like. If you don't want t

Re: [IMail Forum] Is this Spam?

2001-05-12 Thread R. Scott Perry
Let's take a look at this log snippet, breaking it into logical segments: >20010512 143324 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (109E00FA) [205.178.180.13] EHLO >whnt931.webhosting.com >20010512 143324 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (109E00FA) [205.178.180.13] MAIL >FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >20010512 143324 127.0.0.1

RE: [IMail Forum] Is this Spam?

2001-05-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
>It's really interesting. There are hundreds of names (addresses) coming >into my server in this fashion. It's happening in several waves. Don't >know how long it's been going on. You might want to try using the "nobody" alias. If you do that, you will be able to get all those E-mails and a

Re: [IMail Forum] No. of recepients in Mail list

2001-05-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
>I am managing Imail list with a subscriber base of about 3000 at the >moment and this will grow in future. To send mail to all the recepients >shall I set no of recepients to 120 as per the IMAIL Guide(total # of >recepeitns/25) or I can put figure like 5000. Will it crash the sever or >crea

Re: [IMail Forum] [Imail Forum] Time to fix "Refuse NULL <>Senders" option!

2001-05-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
>RFC = Request For Comment. It's a suggestion submitted to be considered for >new industry standards to be established. Actually, that's not quite correct. The name is very misleading, as you noticed. The RFCs *are* the "laws of the Internet". Different RFCs have different "weights" (IE som

Re: [IMail Forum] Attachments

2001-05-14 Thread R. Scott Perry
>Since we have upgraded to the version 6.06, we have noticed that Imail will >automatically delete any email that has an MP3 attached. What do we need to >do to fix this? Have you checked to see if you have a filter set up that might account for it? Or possibly a file size restriction? I've n

RE: [IMail Forum] Homepage virus and Outlook Attachments

2001-05-14 Thread R. Scott Perry
>I had the same problem so I filtered on the Body text 'You've got to see >this *page! It's *really cool ;O)' without the * and quotes. I checked the >Match Case option. This rule is not as dynamic as the rules to check the >'name=' way but it works until someone changes the text in the Body. .

Re: [IMail Forum] Question about Failure Notice I received.

2001-05-14 Thread R. Scott Perry
>Subject: failure notice > >Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.somedomain.net. >I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. >This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it

Re: [IMail Forum] Mail Server Problems

2001-05-14 Thread R. Scott Perry
>Does anyone have a clue what is going on here? What does the MX >connect fail mean? The IP 216.217.115.1 is my gateway machine. >05:14 12:18 SMTP-(08C4) MX connect fail "63.67.231.252" >05:14 12:18 SMTP-(08C4) MX connect fail "63.67.231.253" That just means that you are trying to se

Re: [IMail Forum] Many instances of smtp32.exe in the task list

2001-05-14 Thread R. Scott Perry
>I have written a program followed the following instructions and have Many >instances of smtp32.exe in the task list. Any ideas??? Are you passing on the same arguments that your program receives? Are you remembering to unlock the mail file? You might want to write to a log file the exact st

Re: [IMail Forum] corrupted attachments

2001-05-15 Thread R. Scott Perry
>Fairly regularly when we send an attached .doc or .pdf file using Outlook >2000 through Imail the receiver ends up getting a screwed up file. i.e. >Test.doc will show up in another users mailbox as YPTB8ULY.unq. Have you checked to see if the name filename is also different if you download via

Re: [IMail Forum] Question on subject modification on forwardrule...

2001-05-15 Thread R. Scott Perry
>Question for the I-mail vets out there. I have a user that want >to know if there is any way she can configure a subject line >modification rule on mail that is forwarded out of her I-mail >account to her corporate account. I'm not aware of a way to do that with IMail.

Re: [IMail Forum] IMail as a secondary server

2001-05-15 Thread R. Scott Perry
>Add the new domain (pbi.ab.ca) to the existing one (webmail.pbi.ab.ca) as >a host alias. Then click on users and then click "Set Reply To...". Then >type in the new domain. If I recall correctly, the "Set Reply To" will change existing users to use that domain, but not users that are crea

Re: ORBSIN: [IMail Forum] How to stop spammers without harmingdialup users

2001-05-15 Thread R. Scott Perry
>... So I have one user of mail.zxycorp.com calling in with >Earthlink, One with AOL the next with USAWEBNET.NET and another on a cable >modem. How can I possibly input all the allowed ip addresses. >Should I make everyone use "my server requires authenticated" in their >outlook? and use no rela

RE: [IMail Forum] corrupted attachments

2001-05-15 Thread R. Scott Perry
>It may be that Outlook is using one of their proprietary protocols, such as >the winmail.dat file that will encode things in a way that only another >Microsoft product will be able to decode them. >Could you elaborate on that? The Outlook 2000 clients are set up to pull the >mail via POP so it

Re: [IMail Forum] server not accept my RCPT TO: command. Itsaid 550 not local host

2001-05-16 Thread R. Scott Perry
>Note: Server mailer1.superlink.com.eg. claims to be host X1. This warning is OK; IMail sends out "X1" as the host name. Technically it isn't correct, but it won't do any harm (many firewalls block out the host name). >Server mailer1.superlink.com.eg. would not accept my RCPT TO: command. It

Re: [IMail Forum] Alais's and smtp32.exe errors

2001-05-16 Thread R. Scott Perry
>I have recently created an Alias that points to a text file with e-mail >addresses. After I created it we received this message from the Web >server when trying to send a test message. The message is as follows: > > smtp32.exe - Application Error > The instruction at "0x0041dff0" ref

Re: [IMail Forum] Question on spam with numbers in subject

2001-05-16 Thread R. Scott Perry
>I see a lot of Spam with numbers in the subject. Usually some text then a >lot of spaces then some numbers. > >Has anyone been successful in filtering on this characteristic? > >Maybe something like this: Reads Subject contains at least 10 but less then >100 spaces (whitespace) followed by at le

Re: [IMail Forum] Is this possible with Imail?

2001-05-16 Thread R. Scott Perry
> I have a client that would like to be able to have certain > people not send mail outside the domain if possible, like an internal > mail system. Worst case, is it possible to set it up such that mail can > come in and they are blocked from sending period? I'm wonderig if it can

RE: [IMail Forum] Question on spam with numbers in subject

2001-05-16 Thread R. Scott Perry
>Most of the spam that I receive with that type of subject line has this (or >something similar) at the end: [hyte2]. I used a subject filter of >S~[.] and that has caught a lot (but not all) of those messages. I look >at the logs to see if any valid mail has been caught with this filter a

RE: [IMail Forum] ETRN and dynamic IP

2001-05-16 Thread R. Scott Perry
>I'm curious who his ISP is. Most ISP contracts for dynamic IP >addresses specifically state you are not to run as a server. There was an ISP that we almost used last year that offered a $19.95/mo dialup account, and allowed you to run a server and be connected 24x7. If I recall correctly, t

Re: [IMail Forum] retreiving email addresses

2001-05-16 Thread R. Scott Perry
>I have someone on my server that says they have never used their email >address but have received spam at their unused email address. I know >there is a way to get a list of emails from the imail list serve. Is >there a way through imail to get a list of all the emails on your server >or f

Re: [IMail Forum] More blathering on IMail rules

2001-05-17 Thread R. Scott Perry
>By the way, you should remove all the rules that are searching for attachment >information in the header (e.g., H~filename=".*\.xxx":virusbox). Actually, there are cases where a file name will be only in the headers. It is rare, as it only occurs when there is no message body, but it does ha

Re: [IMail Forum] 505 not local host, not gateway, NOT WORKING

2001-05-17 Thread R. Scott Perry
>When sending mail from Outlook Express, I get error code >505 not local host domain.com, not gateway Is this sending mail to your IMail server, or to a remote server? >SMTP Security is set to No Relay (per email from ipswitch tech supp). In that case, if it is outgoing mail, IMail is doing th

Re: [IMail Forum] Name resolution problem

2001-05-17 Thread R. Scott Perry
>2. 451 4.1.8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...Domain of sender address >[EMAIL PROTECTED] does not resolve Your DNS has problems. First, your mail server's IP address doesn't have a reverse DNS entry. That's strike number one. Then, your primary DNS server doesn't seem to be responding. Finally, you

RE: [IMail Forum] Virus Programs

2001-05-17 Thread R. Scott Perry
> >Declude and McAfee desktop (not server) version. Great combination. >yeah, use the mcafee on a desktop machine that has ntfs admin priv on the >target mail server. map drives, it doesn't seem to work well with unc's. >scan the mapped drives as if they belonged to the workstation. FYI, Declu

RE: [IMail Forum] One more thing about DNS

2001-05-18 Thread R. Scott Perry
>Still, this situation has given me the idea that the best way to get a job >done right >is to do it yourself. I figure running my own DNS will give me the >ability to affect >instantaneous corrections and additions rather than waiting for an ISP to >get around to it. One thing to remember i

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