[qmailtoaster] Long connect times

2013-07-18 Thread Dan McAllister
watch) are 5-9 seconds! Both of these are abysmal... any ideas? (BTW: I know your knee-jerk reaction will be DNS -- but I run my own BIND caching-nameserver, and I've also tried running with a PowerDNS resolver... no significant change.) Baffled in Florida Dan McAllister QMT DNS/Mirror Admin

Re: [qmailtoaster] Long connect times

2013-07-18 Thread Dan McAllister
On 7/18/2013 11:51 AM, Dan McAllister wrote: Greetings all: I am curious -- I have a brand new toaster installed (COS6, if you must know), and I am experiencing some rather long SMTP and even longer SUBMISSION connection times. SMTP Connect times (as measured by mxtoolbox) are 7-10 seconds

Re: [qmailtoaster] Cannot create Email account for deleted email account

2013-08-04 Thread Dan McAllister
First guess is that the account was deleted in MySQL, but the folder still exists Check for the existence of the folder at: /home/vpopmail/domains/domainname/username - or - /home/vpopmail/domains/0/domainname/username If either exists, remove or rename it and try the add again. Dan

Re: [qmailtoaster] vqadmin on centos 6.4 x64

2013-08-12 Thread Dan McAllister
allow SSL connections on your SMTP, you'll want that 128MB option on ALL SMTP daemons, not just the ones on ports 587 and/or 465! And now, at least as far as I have tested lately, you're finally ready to rock! Go forth and EMAIL in 64-BIT CENTOS 6!!! Best Regards, Dan McAllister QMT DNS/Mirror

Re: [qmailtoaster] Dovecot SSL question

2013-08-19 Thread Dan McAllister
this helps... Dan McAllister QMT DNS/Mirror Admin On 8/16/2013 1:50 AM, rich...@avits.ca wrote: Hi all: I am experiencing issues with Courier IMAP in that Thunderbird takes forever to clear saving copy to sent folder, so I am considering a move to Dovecot. Do I need to do anything special with my

[qmailtoaster] SpamDyke MBL_349876.UNOFFICIAL

2013-08-21 Thread Dan McAllister
you remove it? Thanks, Dan McAllister -- PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF OUR NEW ADDRESS === IT4SOHO, LLC 33 - 4th Street N, Suite 211 St. Petersburg, FL 33701-3806 CALL TOLL FREE: 877-IT4SOHO 877-484-7646 Phone 727-647-7646 Local 727-490-4394 Fax We have support plans

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: SpamDyke MBL_349876.UNOFFICIAL

2013-08-21 Thread Dan McAllister
, how did you remove it? Thanks, Dan McAllister Yeah, others on the sanesecurity list are reporting this as well. One person put it in the local.ign file (to ignore it), and another chose to delete the pattern. Then there was this, posted 35 minutes ago on the sane list: quote MBL sigs

Re: [qmailtoaster] bounce back

2013-08-22 Thread Dan McAllister
This is a CLAMAV problem -- one of their vendors (MBL) released a pattern that essentially matches anything with a :// in it -- or any URL. It will also almost always match any attachment with a real message. The fix is to either wait out CLAMAV (or manually update with a freshclam start

Re: [qmailtoaster] Email Server access is very slow

2013-08-22 Thread Dan McAllister
Assuming a stock QMail Toaster install, your problem is with those giant mailboxes the default courier IMAP that the toaster comes with. While the project as a whole will be jumping to DoveCot soon, you're going to need to jump the shark a bit early. Courier IMAP has many known issues

Re: [qmailtoaster] lots of failed imap attempts - fail2ban setup

2013-08-22 Thread Dan McAllister
logins a DAY, they'll move on -- because the time to reach success becomes CENTURIES instead of DAYS or WEEKS. Just my 2-cents worth... Dan McAllister IT4SOHO QMT DNS/Mirror Admin On 8/22/2013 7:58 AM, Peter Peltonen wrote: Hi, I've started to notice lots of failed imap attemps for nonexisting

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: CNAME lloup fail

2013-08-26 Thread Dan McAllister
Eric, et. al.: My feelings about PDNS are that: - PDNS is as good a resolver as there is, but as a project we shouldn't play favorites - PDNS would make an excellent OPTIONAL package -- but shouldn't necessarily be a pdns-toaster package... I would prefer that we just tell people how to

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: CNAME lloup fail

2013-08-26 Thread Dan McAllister
... just give me a moment, as it is a very fine high horse I'm on just now! :-) Dan McAllister QMT DNS/Mirror Admin -- PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF OUR NEW ADDRESS === IT4SOHO, LLC 33 - 4th Street N, Suite 211 St. Petersburg, FL 33701-3806 CALL TOLL FREE: 877-IT4SOHO

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: How to remove cached and buffer memory in Centos server

2013-08-27 Thread Dan McAllister
Eric is spot-on it is a DNS issue (usually because the DNS name you use [or IP address] in the SSH client command to connect, doesn't resolve backwards). The easiest fix is on the server end: Change the default SSHD setting to NOT attempt DNS reverse lookups. The file is:

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: How to remove cached and buffer memory in Centos server

2013-08-27 Thread Dan McAllister
to a No - The command in COS to restart the sshd service is: *service sshd restart* Dan On 8/27/2013 9:59 AM, Dan McAllister wrote: Eric is spot-on it is a DNS issue (usually because the DNS name you use [or IP address] in the SSH client command to connect, doesn't resolve backwards

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: How to remove cached and buffer memory in Centos server

2013-08-27 Thread Dan McAllister
On 8/27/2013 10:35 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: I just did this, but I'm sorry to say that it didn't solve my problem entirely. After a few tests, it appears that every other login is quick, and every other login has a delay (20 seconds or so). Seems persistent in that regard (I did a dozen or so

[qmailtoaster] SPF, DKIM, and now DMARC... a discussion?

2013-08-28 Thread Dan McAllister
error reports if they're available! Open to discussing this with the rest of the group -- security (and SPAM control) are both topics we should banter around periodically! Ciao! Dan McAllister IT4SOHO QMT DNS/Mirror Admin -- PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF OUR NEW ADDRESS

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Mailer -daemon failure notice

2013-08-29 Thread Dan McAllister
You list several messages -- each a different reason for failure... see embedded below: On 8/29/2013 12:14 AM, ChandranManikandan wrote: Hi All, Again i received below message when we send email to any one and getting bounce with unwanted emails are showing also. I have to mention other

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: a dns patch maybe

2013-09-01 Thread Dan McAllister
I generally agree with Eric's responses below -- however your current resolve.conf doesn't JUST identify dns servers; it ALSO defines a default domain to search. *IF* you install pdns-resolver (and I agree with Eric that you should), you should make your resolv.conf look like: search

[qmailtoaster] DNS Best Practices for QMT

2013-09-01 Thread Dan McAllister
-access to the DNS settings, in which case PDNS has a GUI frontend that's reasonable for that). The end result from my experiences is that PDNS BIND are /each /good options, so long as you use each *appropriately*. Dan McAllister IT4SOHO QMT DNS/Mirror Admin PS: The master authoritative DNS

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Squirrelmail is not working after replace courier to dovecot

2013-09-01 Thread Dan McAllister
your vpopmail MySQL databases, but by default it uses Linux usernames passwords. Dan McAllister On 8/31/2013 12:36 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 08/31/2013 04:43 AM, ChandranManikandan wrote: Hi All, I have done replace courier to dovecot through wiki and setup squirrelmail as wiki mentioned

Re: [qmailtoaster] Avoid auto Bounce message

2013-09-05 Thread Dan McAllister
.*__*COM*__* *_Along with *_MXTOOLBOX.COM_**, *its just one of those tools that I wouldn't want to live without (as a mail admin, at least) Dan McAllister IT4SOHO QMT DNS/Mirror Admin PS: Can you see why I was chosen to be the DNS Admin for this project? :-) ___ _On 9/5/2013 1:09 AM, Nicholas

Re: [qmailtoaster] CNAME Lookup failed

2013-09-06 Thread Dan McAllister
a wide variety of tests available, including SMTP connection tests. Many of these tests will FAIL if the MX record for the domain is a CNAME Good luck to you! Dan McAllister IT4SOHO QMT DNS/Mirror Admin

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: CNAME Lookup failed

2013-09-06 Thread Dan McAllister
I can't argue with the point about replacing your resolver if it handles an anomaly better -- but IME, BIND handles oddities far better than PDNS. I still say: - If you're a newbie, or just want it to work hands off, out of the box then pdns-resolver will not steer you wrong -- it's a good

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Can I disable CRAM-MD5 authentication for submission service?

2013-09-12 Thread Dan McAllister
, or make my users import my self-signed certificate. Once you're connecting on ports 587 or 465 over SSL, the AUTH method is less important -- it's all encrypted in the SSL connection. Just my thoughts... Dan McAllister On 9/10/2013 9:59 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 09/10/2013 02:34 AM, Johannes

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Can I disable CRAM-MD5 authentication for submission service?

2013-09-12 Thread Dan McAllister
to the admin user. (NOTE: You still have to have write permission to that field from the vpopmail user so that updates/changes can be recorded). Just an idea... Dan McAllister On 9/10/2013 12:39 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 09/10/2013 08:06 AM, Johannes Weberhofer wrote: P.S. Just to be clear

Re: [qmailtoaster] Fwd: ezmlm warning

2013-09-12 Thread Dan McAllister
new, so there are some odd implementations out there), but haven't heard back. In the mean time, I gave qmailtoaster.com its own DMARC record in the DNS and I believe that will settle the issue. Dan McAllister QMT DNS/Mirror Admin (NOT the mail admin! -- but now you see how dependent we

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: how to move all failure notice message to one email address

2013-09-12 Thread Dan McAllister
they don't have a clue which ones actually get delivered. An alternative (if you're worried about valid mis-directed mail) is to setup a special catchall account -- but be prepared to get a lot of mail in there! I hope this helps Dan McAllister On 9/11/2013 12:36 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 09

Re: [qmailtoaster] DENIED_RDNS_MISSING and DENIED_OTHER

2013-09-12 Thread Dan McAllister
) for my attorney clients so that legal service emails are not processed for SPAM content. My thoughts, my ideas... if you like them, keep them as your own... if not, kindly discard them in an environmentally friendly manner! :-) Dan McAllister On 9/11/2013 1:12 AM, Linux wrote: Hi All, I

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: how to move all failure notice message to one email address

2013-09-12 Thread Dan McAllister
are hard failures and you're asking receiving servers to reject failed messages This'll get you started! Dan McAllister On 9/12/2013 1:13 AM, ChandranManikandan wrote: Hi Eric, Thanks for your help. I understand my problem now. My domain is hosting with my service provider. But our email and web

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: how to move all failure notice message to one email address

2013-09-13 Thread Dan McAllister
of those GFI mail servers, but if not any of those, REJECT the message as being false... Hopefully this makes sense to y'all (I'm Southern -- even though this IS Florida!) :-) Dan McAllister IT4SOHO On 9/13/2013 5:00 AM, ChandranManikandan wrote: Hi , My domains spf record below. v=spf1

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Can I disable CRAM-MD5 authentication for submission service?

2013-09-13 Thread Dan McAllister
admin!) Dan McAllister -- PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF OUR NEW ADDRESS === IT4SOHO, LLC 33 - 4th Street N, Suite 211 St. Petersburg, FL 33701-3806 CALL TOLL FREE: 877-IT4SOHO 877-484-7646 Phone 727-647-7646 Local 727-490-4394 Fax We have support plans for QMail!

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Your reverse DNS entry contains your IP address and a country code. ##

2013-09-19 Thread Dan McAllister
not white-listing - it is setting a proper PTR record -- usually SOMETHING that resolves in the other direction back to that same IP address. E.g.: mail.qmailtoaster.com. IN A1.2.3.4 4.3.2.1-inaddr.arpa.IN PTRmail.qmailtoaster.com. Dan McAllister IT4SOHO QMT DNS/Mirror

Re: [qmailtoaster] Compromised passwords.

2013-09-23 Thread Dan McAllister
Tony, The vpopmail tools in /home/vpopmail/bin are your friends! In this case, call upon the vpasswd command -- which will allos you to set the password on the command line (vs. challenge/response). So write your script reset those passwords! Dan On 9/22/2013 7:04 AM, Tony White wrote: Hi

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Outgoingip / Outgoingips

2013-09-25 Thread Dan McAllister
) -- I'm just not sure I can do it with 2 instances of eth0). Dan McAllister IT4SOHO -- PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF OUR NEW ADDRESS === IT4SOHO, LLC 33 - 4th Street N, Suite 211 St. Petersburg, FL 33701-3806 CALL TOLL FREE: 877-IT4SOHO 877-484-7646 Phone 727-647-7646

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Windows 8 mail client and courier-IMAP SSL woes

2013-10-04 Thread Dan McAllister
problem)... fix those issues, and you'll be fine! FWIW: I used to have all of my users connect with IE to my SquirrelMail FIRST -- to install the certificate AND to create the special folders (Sent, Trash, Drafts) that otherwise seemed to be missing all the time. Good Luck! Dan McAllister

Re: [qmailtoaster] Stop the domain

2013-10-04 Thread Dan McAllister
it to *SUSPENDED* -- but they don't know that!) In your case, just do it for all of the users in the domain. You can re-permit them one by one! Dan McAllister IT4SOHO On 10/4/2013 2:00 AM, Linux wrote: Hi All, I have 14 domain configured on qmail toaster, I need to stop temporary mailing from only

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: DENIED_RDNS_RESOLVE

2013-10-07 Thread Dan McAllister
to 86.96.226.151/ That's at least a start... Dan McAllister IT4SOHO On 10/5/2013 2:46 AM, Linux wrote: 10-05 10:51:58 spamdyke[5624]: DENIED_RDNS_MISSING from: sp...@anta.ae to: om...@miceplanners.co.in origin_ip: 86.96.226.151 origin_rdns: (unknown) auth: (unknown) encryption: (none) reason

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Simscan disappeared

2013-10-07 Thread Dan McAllister
as schedule an FSCK as soon as possible. The simscan executable is stored in a root-protected area of the filesystem. Thus, any disappearance has to have been root-controlled. (Do you access your system as root a lot?) Good Luck! Dan McAllister IT4SOHO On 10/7/2013 5:01 AM, Tom Keyser wrote: OK

Re: [qmailtoaster] Where does VQADMIN get domain list from?

2013-10-09 Thread Dan McAllister
database file in there... Dan McAllister IT4SOHO On 10/9/2013 3:32 AM, Sebastian Grewe wrote: Have you checked the /var/qmail/control folder? Maybe it's in there still. Not sure what other places it would look, might have to check the source if nobody has an idea :) Cheer, Sebastian On Oct 9

Re: [qmailtoaster] How to install qmailtoaster packages in centos 6.4

2013-10-09 Thread Dan McAllister
to make that work! Dan McAllister IT4SOHO PS: I have a script for a 64-bit install that covers nearly all of the changes... check the wiki, or if need be, I'll tune it up again and re-post. On 10/9/2013 1:17 PM, Peter Peltonen wrote: Hi, On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Chandran Manikandan

Re: [qmailtoaster] I cannot see new folders in outlook email client

2013-10-22 Thread Dan McAllister
There are SIGNIFICANT and HUGE problems with Outlook 2013 and IMAP. Microsoft, in their INFINITE wisdom, completely re-designed the IMAP interface into Outlook 2013 -- among other things, IMAP data is now stored locally in an OST file (vs. a PST). Further, Outlook 2013 will decide for you what

Re: [qmailtoaster] Old Mails download again

2013-10-22 Thread Dan McAllister
On 10/22/2013 5:23 AM, Nicholas Chua wrote: But I did not make any type of changes in mail server or in outlook, and it happening with more than 10 users. Are you experience bandwidth issue? Looks to me you are experiencing bandwidth issue. All email clients have an anchor to mark

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: SpamAssassin Working?

2013-11-04 Thread Dan McAllister
they haven't been updated in SOOO long (though he did update the (C) notice to 2013 grin) in any case, I'm afraid if I point out problems he may take the site (or the scripts) down... and I've only just begun to mine the plethora of stuff he's got on there... Just my thoughts... Dan

[qmailtoaster] Message Tracking - sharing my favorite tools

2013-11-04 Thread Dan McAllister
a client with users who love to get us blacklisted, it has saved me countless hours! Just my ideas... Dan McAllister IT4SOHO QMT DNS/Mirror Admin (at least for as long as there are still mirrors) -- PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF OUR NEW ADDRESS === IT4SOHO, LLC 33 - 4th Street

Re: [qmailtoaster] plague caused by virus

2013-11-04 Thread Dan McAllister
On 11/4/2013 3:27 PM, Nicholas Chua wrote: Hi, I am receiving an average of 13 new virus each day. Due to these virus, email accounts passwords are stolen and caused massive spams from the server. Valuable time is wasted to delist our IP and to maintain a private list of a virus database

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: how to disable local delivery for one virtual domain

2013-11-06 Thread Dan McAllister
-- except you're probably breaking your own SPF rules, so make sure the IP address of this server (the QMT server) is in the SPF record as a valid sender for the domain, even though the only place it will actually send TO is the Office365 server. Good luck! Dan McAllister IT4SOHO QMT Project DNS

Re: [qmailtoaster] plague caused by virus

2013-11-06 Thread Dan McAllister
it useful... Dan McAllister IT4SOHO QMT DNS/Mirror Admin On 11/4/2013 9:00 PM, LHTek wrote: Dan, I'm curious in this script you run every 15 minutes... Is that something you can share? Thanks, Denny *From

Re: [qmailtoaster] wasn't able to deliver

2013-11-08 Thread Dan McAllister
that if he wanted my business, he'd either have to drop MXLogic or intervene on my behalf, but I wasn't going to do business with him if I couldn't send him emails he wound up dropping MXLogic. Just my thoughts and history on the matter. Dan McAllister IT4SOHO QMT DNS/Mirror Admin On 11

Re: [qmailtoaster] Bounce back even I am not sent mail

2013-11-12 Thread Dan McAllister
Sebastian is mostly right - what you're getting is backscatter see *_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(email)_* But there IS something you can do about it -- especially with */mail.ru/*: and that is to properly configure your SPF and/or DomainKeys (the /former /is far easier). If you

Re: [qmailtoaster] wasn't able to deliver

2013-11-12 Thread Dan McAllister
post done some google searching -while results are thin... the bottomline is : MXLogic is a lump of crap ... but then it is from MacAfee [ how DO they stay in business?) On 11/8/2013 12:35 PM, Dan McAllister wrote: MXLogic is McAfee's anti-spam product (like Symantec, they just purchased

[qmailtoaster] IMAP Connection Limit

2013-11-13 Thread Dan McAllister
Greeting Family/Team: Question from a client that I haven't been able to answer: - Is there a limit to the number of simultaneous IMAP connections on a QMT solution? - If so, where is it controlled? Thanks Dan McAllister -- PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF OUR NEW ADDRESS

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Blocked.

2013-11-22 Thread Dan McAllister
(the 2nd I'm trying to work through) to explain this in detail. Dan McAllister QMT DNS/Mirror Admin PS: Had fun the other day when a client got a QMAIL reject when sending a message to one of their clients they assumed the reject came from our server, but it turns out at least some of GoDaddy's

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Blocked.

2013-11-22 Thread Dan McAllister
-mail was easy -- it's only the USERS who think it's easy! :-) Dan McAllister IT4SOHO QMT DNS/Mirror Admin On 11/22/2013 11:49 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: We're planning to move the stock QMT in the direction as Dan describes. On 11/22/2013 09:01 AM, Dan McAllister wrote: and I enforce SPF with a 3

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Common Email signature with all mails

2013-11-25 Thread Dan McAllister
On 11/25/2013 1:11 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: The problem has to do with electronic signatures. Any sort of signing that's done needs to happen after the footer is added. Having the server add a footer would break gpg that's implemented by the client. There might be a suitable way to add a

[qmailtoaster] Re: Outlook 2013 IMAP folder rename problem - Outlook 2013 is just plain BROKEN

2013-12-02 Thread Dan McAllister
re-synch the account (e.g.: re-build the OST file from scratch). A ROYAL pain, I know -- but its the only method I've found yet that actually makes Outlook 2013 get it right (at least until something else changes on the server that the Outlook client doesn't recognize). I hope this helps. Dan

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Load-balancing in SMTP route

2013-12-02 Thread Dan McAllister
Load balancing on outbound traffic is most commonly done with iptables. See: http://blog.khax.net/2009/12/01/multi-gateway-balancing-with-iptables/ for some help... Dan McAllister IT4SOHO On 11/29/2013 6:11 AM, Pak Ogah wrote: On 10/29/2013 2:24 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: I think Amit's

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Outlook 2013 IMAP folder rename problem - Outlook 2013 is just plain BROKEN

2013-12-02 Thread Dan McAllister
from scratch. Eric On 12/2/2013 9:33 AM, Dan McAllister wrote: Sorry I'm so late on this one -- I took a 4-day weekend for the Thanksgiving holiday! :-) I have bad news RE: _*Outlook 2013*_ and IMAP -- its _*broken*_, and MS hasn't given any real signs (yet) that they're keen on fixing it. I'm

[qmailtoaster] SQL Server Change for QMT

2013-12-04 Thread Dan McAllister
to do what I think I want to do, I need the smtpauth (qmail-auth, vpopmail auth, or whatever) to connect to an external MySQL database server. How would I go about doing this? Thanks, Dan McAllister -- IT4SOHO, LLC 33 - 4th Street N, Suite 211 St. Petersburg, FL 33701-3806 CALL TOLL FREE

Re: [qmailtoaster] SQL Server Change for QMT

2013-12-04 Thread Dan McAllister
'@'remote_address' identified by 'SsEeCcRrEeTt'; NOTE: If you haven't previously, you should change the vpopmail default password AWAY from SeEeCcRrEeTt :) That should do it! Dan On 12/4/2013 4:02 PM, Dan McAllister wrote: Greetings all: I have 2 QMT servers that need to share a SQL (user

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: yum repos - beta testing, list server migration

2013-12-19 Thread Dan McAllister
Eric: I suggest that we create a GROUP install for QMT -- that way a single yum command can take care of things, ala: yum groupinstall qmt-base yum groupinstall qmt-dovecot yum groupinstall qmt-antispam etc... Dan McAllister BTW: All of the other qmt-x groups would necessarily

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: yum repos - beta testing, list server migration

2013-12-20 Thread Dan McAllister
On 12/19/2013 7:45 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: Of course you're welcome to do an iso if you'd like. I'm not thrilled with the idea of an iso for QMT though. First, there would be a large download involved that I'd like to avoid from our mirrors. (I trimmed 35M from clamav because I thought it was

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: How to update PHP higher version without affect qmailtoaster

2013-12-23 Thread Dan McAllister
OK, I see 2 topic here that I want to comment upon: _*PHP 5.3 and COS5*_ PHP 5.3 on COS5 is not that hard -- but the packages are named *php53*, not /php5/ (but you probably already knew that) -- NOTE: I did the update/upgrade AFTER installing QMT, and when packages had to be

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: How to update PHP higher version without affect qmailtoaster

2013-12-23 Thread Dan McAllister
On 12/23/2013 11:59 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 12/23/2013 08:17 AM, Dan McAllister wrote: PS: You might note that Eric and I often disagree on tech issues -- personally, I think this makes our project stronger, as we challenge each other. I know that MY installations and procedures have been

Re: [qmailtoaster] Suddenly shows the error message

2013-12-30 Thread Dan McAllister
not POSITIVE about vqadmin, but I do know for sure that squirrelmail fixes PHP compatibility in version 1.4.22 (the current version Enjoy! Dan McAllister PS: Happy New Year! On 12/30/2013 1:15 AM, Nicholas Chua wrote: I didn't have time to track down the issue, all I can say is php53 broke my

Re: [qmailtoaster] Pdns error: 127.0.0.1: Address already used

2014-01-03 Thread Dan McAllister
either remove the script or try something like *chkconfig filename off* Unfortunately, since DJBDNS is usually built and installed locally, the exact methods to turn it off can only be guessed at from here... I hope this helps... Dan McAllister IT4SOHO On 1/3/2014 1:20 AM, Marco

Re: [qmailtoaster] Q about the smtp banner

2014-01-09 Thread Dan McAllister
SMTP Server Make the domain name in the smtp greeting match the me value (also in your control) value as well as your RDNS value... and you should be good to go. Dan McAllister On 1/9/2014 1:39 AM, L. A. wrote: Hi. 1. Is adresses from this test are real? I try check some of it and all failed

Re: [qmailtoaster] ezmlm warning

2014-01-13 Thread Dan McAllister
I received the same exmlm warning this morning... I'll look into it with Eric. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. Dan McAllister QMT Mirror/DNS Admin On 1/13/2014 8:09 AM, Mike Tirpak wrote: It seems that spamcop is stopping 162.213.42.64 and some messages from qmailtoaster.com

Re: [qmailtoaster] qtp.qmailtoaster.com name resolution

2014-01-15 Thread Dan McAllister
Thanks for bringing this to my attention - I am working on it with the provider. I'll post to the list, as well as to Wicus directly once we have it resolved. Dan McAllister QMT DNS/Mirror Admin On 1/15/2014 10:26 AM, Wicus Roets wrote: *Hi,* ** Is anyone else battling to resolve

Re: [qmailtoaster] squirrelmail time stamp issue

2014-01-23 Thread Dan McAllister
. Dan McAllister IT4SOHO -- IT4SOHO, LLC 33 - 4th Street N, Suite 211 St. Petersburg, FL 33701-3806 CALL TOLL FREE: 877-IT4SOHO 877-484-7646 Phone 727-647-7646 Local 727-490-4394 Fax We have support plans for QMail!

Re: [qmailtoaster] of PTR smtpgreeting and spf

2014-01-31 Thread Dan McAllister
systems, you should have a DUPLICATE TXT record... That is: theppsgroup.com. IN SPF "v=spf1 a mx -all" theppsgroup.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx -all" I hope this helps. Dan McAllister QMT DNS/Mirror Admin On 1/31/2014 5:45 PM, Cec

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Spamming via valid vpopmail account

2014-02-16 Thread Dan McAllister
). This STOPS spammers from connecting on your port 25 interface and sending all kinds of messages through an authenticated work around. Of course, it doesn't stop the same hacker from just switching to ports 587 or 465... but I haven't seen them use those ports YET. Just my thoughts Dan McAllister

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Spamming via valid vpopmail account

2014-02-16 Thread Dan McAllister
Wicus - On port 25 CURRENTLY: - If the connection is for a LOCAL address (that is: the RECIPIENT address is one that is local to the server), the message is accepted -- regardless of whether you are authenticated or not - If the connection is for a REMOTE address (that is: the RECIPIENT

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Spamming via valid vpopmail account

2014-02-16 Thread Dan McAllister
like a good stop-gap treatment for this insidious issue. *From:* Dan McAllister q...@it4soho.com *To:* qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com *Sent:* Sunday, February 16, 2014 12:33 PM *Subject:* Re

Re: [qmailtoaster] re: hack attempts

2014-02-20 Thread Dan McAllister
On 2/20/2014 7:57 AM, Angus McIntyre wrote: cj yother wrote: Is anyone else experiencing a rise in attempted account access over the past 24 hours? Over the past week or so, I've seen very large numbers of password-guessing attempts: other hosts trying to authenticate against SMTP. They seem

Re: [qmailtoaster] Clamav reinstall - help please

2014-03-13 Thread Dan McAllister
RPM with a --nodeps to make it re-install (depends on how you installed the QMT into your COS6 environment). Dan McAllister -- IT4SOHO, LLC 33 - 4th Street N, Suite 211 St. Petersburg, FL 33701-3806 CALL TOLL FREE: 877-IT4SOHO 877-484-7646 Phone 727-647-7646 Local 727-490-4394 Fax We have

Re: [qmailtoaster] How to block unknown user with our domain name

2014-03-19 Thread Dan McAllister
the information there with your log files to determine the true source of the message. Best of luck! Dan McAllister IT4SOHO On 3/19/2014 1:10 AM, Chandran Manikandan wrote: Dear All, I have received one email from spammers which is not that email box in our domain. but they are mentioned

[qmailtoaster] Curious Problem -- Unauthorized Access, not enough logging info

2014-03-27 Thread Dan McAllister
OK, here's a known security issue, but now that I'm being exploited, I don't know how to debug. It appears (see quoted log file entries below) that someone is logging in as a valid user, then sending messages with OTHER mail addresses in the FROM section. In the log entry below, this is

Re: [qmailtoaster] Curious Problem -- Unauthorized Access, not enough logging info

2014-03-27 Thread Dan McAllister
available, just limited access! Dan On 3/27/2014 7:45 PM, Dan McAllister wrote: OK, here's a known security issue, but now that I'm being exploited, I don't know how to debug. It appears (see quoted log file entries below) that someone is logging in as a valid user, then sending messages with OTHER

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Curious Problem -- Unauthorized Access, not enough logging info

2014-03-27 Thread Dan McAllister
required). I also posted a note in the devel list -- I think we should at least TRY to plug the security hole wherein an authenticated user can send as anyone. Dan On 3/27/2014 8:22 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 03/27/2014 04:59 PM, Dan McAllister wrote: So, I'm looking in my SMTP logs

Re: [qmailtoaster] How to restrict mail sending limit to perticular user

2014-04-03 Thread Dan McAllister
, but are allowed by tcprules. Dan McAllister On 4/3/2014 2:45 AM, Linux wrote: Hi, Please refer my subject line and guide me. Regards, Vivek Patil system admin -- IT4SOHO, LLC 33 - 4th Street N, Suite 211 St. Petersburg, FL 33701-3806 CALL TOLL FREE: 877-IT4SOHO 877-484-7646 Phone

Re: [qmailtoaster] How to investigate emails that have been silently lost (allegedly).

2014-04-23 Thread Dan McAllister
The first place I would look is the SMTP and SEND log files. (Yes, there is a SEND log entry for inbound messages too -- they are just sent locally). If you know who they're supposed to be FROM, the SEND log will tell you if it was delivered... if it doesn't appear in the SEND log, check the

Re: [qmailtoaster] Centos6 VM

2014-04-23 Thread Dan McAllister
not to impact anyone that I'm aware of yet... Dan McAllister QMT Mirror/DNS Admin On 4/23/2014 1:39 PM, Richard Whittaker wrote: On 2014-04-23 11:17, Dave M wrote: Might be faster so I created a torrent https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/10026921 Would these images be something we want to push out

Re: [qmailtoaster] How to investigate emails that have been silently lost (allegedly).

2014-04-24 Thread Dan McAllister
wrote: I cannot find any traces of those emails in our system. If our backup MX had issues forwarding to the main, will QMT show it on the logs? I'm guessing that there might be cases where it won't even show up. Thank you so much for the replies On 2014-04-24 00:45, Dan McAllister wrote

Re: [qmailtoaster] A rudimentary question for multi-domain hosting

2014-04-25 Thread Dan McAllister
Kelly: Absolutely fine for mail.example.com (DNS and PTR agree) to serve as mail server for multiple domains. Only real issues arise when you want to use SSL -- either pay out the nose for a generic cert, or have all domains connect to your mail.example.com server and buy just the one

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: A rudimentary question for multi-domain hosting

2014-04-28 Thread Dan McAllister
On 4/25/2014 6:08 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 04/25/2014 02:58 PM, Dan McAllister wrote: Whatever you decide to put into /var/qmail/control/me, just make sure its valid. - say you put mailhost.example22.com in there - First, make sure that mailhost.example22.com resolves to that host's IP

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: libev

2014-04-28 Thread Dan McAllister
On 4/28/2014 1:02 PM, DNK wrote: On Apr 28, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: On 04/27/2014 04:54 PM, DNK wrote: Hi all, I am giving a go at installing the new toaster packages following: https://github.com/QMailToaster/qmailtoaster-util/blob/master/README.install Now

Re: [qmailtoaster] stripped attachments

2014-04-28 Thread Dan McAllister
Eric: Any chance the recipient who is not getting the attachments is on Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2013? I ask because both of these versions of Exchange will silently strip in-line attachments. Thus, depending upon how the attachment was inserted, Exchange may be the culprit. Dan On

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: MX configuration for anti-spam

2014-04-28 Thread Dan McAllister
OK, I'm johnny-come-lately to this discussion, but let me add my 2-cents worth in here: FIRST: Users who want to switch mail providers or mail server technologies -- but have no changes on the client end are /*dreaming*/. I tell my clients that I can minimize the changes, but the more I

[qmailtoaster] A rudimentary question for multi-domain hosting

2014-04-28 Thread Dan McAllister
Kelly: While Eric's reply is clear about the fact that the MX record has to use an A record reference (vs CNAME), I think the answer you need here is simply that the A-record has to point to the correct IP address. What name you put in the MX record is of little import, so long as it

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: A rudimentary question for multi-domain hosting

2014-04-28 Thread Dan McAllister
On 4/28/2014 2:46 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: Nice write-up, Dan. I'd like to make a few additional points, inline. On 04/28/2014 10:55 AM, Dan McAllister wrote: Kelly: While Eric's reply is clear about the fact that the MX record has to use an A record reference (vs CNAME), I think the answer

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: SSL

2014-05-02 Thread Dan McAllister
have to adjust the softlimit variables when I enable SSL. (and FWIW, I use 128 MB -- same as Hassan recommended :)) Dan McAllister On 5/2/2014 1:39 PM, Dave M wrote: Hi Eric, I thoght that was weird to Out put of dovecot -n : # 2.2.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6

Re: [qmailtoaster] How to avoid this kind of emails

2014-05-05 Thread Dan McAllister
as a flaw, Eric has correctly pointed out that this feature also helps QMT function as a smart-host. Look in your SMTP/Submission logs for instances where the login name/domain don't match the FROM address... Dan McAllister -- IT4SOHO, LLC 33 - 4th Street N, Suite 211 St. Petersburg, FL 33701-3806

Re: [qmailtoaster] building another one to replace my old one

2014-05-08 Thread Dan McAllister
are worth it. I just re-built one of my backup mail servers, and ran Eric's install scripts flawlessly. THANKS FOR ALL THE GREAT WORK, ERIC! Dan McAllister QMT DNS/Mirror Admin (and official pain-in-the-project-part) On 5/8/2014 1:03 PM, Jim Shupert wrote: Friends, I have happily been running

[qmailtoaster] Quick Question - IMAP (Courier)

2014-05-13 Thread Dan McAllister
Greetings all Exactly where is it that we set the 40 connection limit for courier IMAP? I've got an older server that runs over 250 domains and for some reason the TCPserver log is saying we're using 40 out of 40 connections. (I need this to be more like 200!) Thanks Dan McAllister

Re: [qmailtoaster] Quick Question - IMAP (Courier)

2014-05-14 Thread Dan McAllister
On 05/13/2014 16:52, Dan McAllister wrote: Greetings all Exactly where is it that we set the 40 connection limit for courier IMAP? I've got an older server that runs over 250 domains and for some reason the TCPserver log is saying we're using 40 out of 40 connections. (I need

Re: [qmailtoaster] Quick Question - IMAP (Courier)

2014-05-15 Thread Dan McAllister
://www.globalgate.com.ar Viamonte 723 5to of 22 Tel (Buenos Aires): (011) 5218 4242/44 FAX: (011) 5218 4245 Tel (Córdoba): (0351) 571 0351 Tel (Corrientes):(0379) 464 0042 Intl: Tel: +54 11 5218 4242 Fax: +54 11 5218 4245 On Wed, 14 May 2014, Dan McAllister wrote: Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 10:40:20

Re: [qmailtoaster] to catch all or no

2014-05-19 Thread Dan McAllister
that they prefer... and while all work, none are the login name for the user (nor the mailbox name). Just food for thought. Dan McAllister On 5/19/2014 9:15 AM, Jim Shupert wrote: Friends, 1st let me say that i have asked this forum for advice on my battele with spam and I can say that I

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: to catch all or no

2014-05-20 Thread Dan McAllister
would have FAILED if people hadn't bent, poked, prodded, and occasionally broken things over the years in the name of improvements! Dan McAllister IT4SOHO Anyone else remember ROT13 as a way to encode NSFW content? Abj vf gur orfg gvzr! :) On 5/19/2014 5:05 PM, Tonix - Antonio Nati wrote

Re: [qmailtoaster] Roundcube Survey

2014-05-28 Thread Dan McAllister
Roundcube to the 'stock' QMT. It's been long overdue. No, I don't use RC with nginx (don't use nginx for anything else either). Lastly, I think RC would be an excellent addition to QMT -- I run it in tandem with SquirrelMail on all of my servers. Dan McAllister QMT DNS/Mirror Admin -- IT4SOHO

[qmailtoaster] Log issues

2014-07-17 Thread Dan McAllister
than this, but my log file is so full of them I'm considering filtering them :) qmailctl queue says there is nothing in any queue qfixq says there are no issues with my queues (they're empty at 11PM -- shockingly?) Any ideas? Dan McAllister -- IT4SOHO, LLC 33 - 4th Street N, Suite 211 St

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