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johndow

Or a network / firewall issue, which may well be still your problem... No firewall inside the customer network. They have a UTM as Borderline and inside nothing between client and server. Network has been tested and has no problem. Switches have been changed approx. 6 Months ago. Can you change the...

johndow

Hi Mattg, I have tried with wireshark. The emailrelay at my customer is sometimes not responding to a smtp request from the software. There is nothing in the server log at my customer. Wireshark shows smtp request was send. server log shows nothing was received. Couriousity? Well, it looks like a se...

johndow

The customer software works only with hardware equipment which costs around 200,000 GBP. No Testsystem/Simulation mode available. I can't test it offsite without the hardware equipment. Without 2 lorries no way to transport the equipment... I have hmailserver on my notebook but it hasn't shown any p...

johndow

Hi to all, I need a temporary installation of Hmailserver on a customer system to run some diagnostics. My customer has a problem that from time to time one emailsender is not recognized from their email relay for a few hours and than it works again without problem. Problem is, the email relay does ...

johndow

Just making sure that you realise (Not picking on your post at all) that the built in MS SQL CE that is included, was included because for a few versions hMailserver was closed source, AND that the MS SQL CE database is not to be used in a commercial environment as per it's EULA. ie that users are ...

johndow

Hi, here are my long-term suggestions: Replacement of the internal MSSQL Database with SQLite. ...less licence restrictions... Adding of iCAL Calendar Server. ...with iCAL it would be a perfect replacement for me. I am using exchange only because it has a calendar function. If Hmailserver would have...

johndow

How I do it: Install new Hmailserver on new server, same version as on the old server Make backup from old server and restore it at new server. ONLY Serversettings without messages. Upgrade new Hamailserver, if wanted. Use an Imap Software like imapsync (must be paid, but is usefull and cheap) -- Co...

johndow

Really? Better get him to stop using Java too. Our company has some products with software. We are changing the database and have asked Oracle about MySQL commerical licensing. After 3 Months nobody has respond to our requests with a usefull statement. 2 Answers, 3 Opinions. My Boss has decided not...

johndow

I have autobanning set as follows Max attempts = 3 Minutes to reset = 30 Minutes to autoban = 10080 (10080 is 7 days) I typically have between 2 and 15 autobanned IP ranges, more on some servers than others. Is there a rule available to add the following: Restart counter if new attempts done in aut...

johndow

ups...

Is Postgresql to slow, to instable or what is the reason why?

I don't want to downsize a working installation.

My boss has some issues with MySQL because its owned by Oracle.

johndow

I will change our Hmailserver installation from the MySQL Database to Postgresql.

Which Postgresql Version is better for Hmailserver and a later update vom 5.3 to 5.4? Better the 9.xx Version or 8.xx Version?

Thank you.

johndow

Thank you for the information, but I have tested this software.

It has had problems with messages and large attachments (over 10 MB) and with folders with many messages (over 7.000).

Any other software idea?

Best
JD

johndow

I have talked to my boss. He told me that he want to have a full syncronized copy on the second location for the required email accounts. If needed he will rent a second DSL Line, even it has only 1MBit. Any idea which kind of syncronization software works with Hmailserver on an account to account b...

johndow

In my opinion, I think you are barking up the wrong tree here. That's why I am asking for other ideas. Maybe a software who can syncronize two or more IMAP Servers very 1-2 hours. I would simply setup a single email server (hMailServer), with clients from all locations, connecting directly to it. M...

johndow

Hi to all, I am planning to do the following kind of "Cluster" with Hmailserver and need your help to find out if this is possible with hmailserver or if anybody else has another idea how to do this. Here are my planning: We have two different office locations, connected via VPN. At the moment we ha...

johndow

Some are using an external pop and/or smtp relay: check connection to pop server / check connection to smtp server Database check - not for messages but for the rest of the settings. Test account: To test a new installed email client you could use a pre-definied account which do nothing else as ret...

johndow

We would never ever find a perfect / suitable / for a all welcome database engine... Many people have many opinions. My suggestion: SQL Syntax is in most parts similar as long as you don't use stored procedures etc. Sybase, MS - both are talking in a TSQL Slang. MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, etc. - I don...

johndow

The problem is that determening current account size is a fairly heavy operation. It could take some time if there's many accounts. Maybe it would be good to disable the functionality if there's more than ~10 accounts or so. :-\ What do you think about a button like "Calculate Account Size" for eac...

johndow

are you sending emails with a software like outlook or are you using the webmail, which means sending email with Internet Explorer or Firefox?

johndow

Clamwin is a "on demand" or "sheduled" scanner. No resident shield for files which are comming over the network. Try the following: Avast (was possible in the past, don't know actual) Comodo (when you install the free firewall it asks for antivirus, should be a resident shield) If it does not work, ...

johndow

Don't want advice just a yes or a no. Would you say the company I work for should be archiving or not based on the following statements. OK, personal opinions only... It's a US based company. SOX (Saban Oxley) says: Archive email for a more friendly IRS... The servers are in the Netherlands. Most e...

johndow

I personally think it's a privacy violation full stop and I'm glad I don't have to do it. Correct me if I am wrong but i did hear that if your servers are based outside of the EU countries that are participating in this stupid archiving system then you would not have to archive the messages? You do...

johndow

Hi MBecker, here some information: i guess i remember to read elsewhere that archiving with rom or worm media a granted alternative to an DMS, also it is allowed an to make an hardcopy like an printout and archive it like good old paper documents, isn't it? Documents with an electronic origin like e...

johndow

And so no-one within the business is able to read these messages, and yet they are required to provide read access to other external officers..? Each user can read the emails he has received or send but not the emails from any other emailadress/person. Sorry for confusion that I have forget this li...

johndow

Hi MBecker, your idea would not work. I am from Germany and certified for privacy audits etc. (Certification for this is required since 2004 in Germany.) and have some experience with this issue and what can happen if you don't keep the law. The reguations and the opinion from the german tax authori...

johndow

go to the german webpage and click on the button the EN field.

I have the free home version and it looks fine...

johndow

In the forum are some questions about "How can I archive emails with Hmailserver to fit governmental rules"... Well, most of the solutions are hardware based or very expensive. It takes time to find a cheap solution on search engines. Because Hmail is for fee, I feel to place here a free/cheap solut...

johndow

Come on... "Martin has a mirror function"? The software is named hMailServer - not Martin. I'm not a piece of software. =) Sorry, but a good sample whats happen when I am writing to early in a morning. :lol: Would take somewhere between 4 and 20 hours. Anyway, I'm not so sure it sounds like a good ...

johndow

Just my two cent on archiving: Martin has a mirror function to send every mail from hmailserver to a second email adress (local or somewhere else). Curently I use this function and copy manual each month the emails via IMAP to a montly Subfolder. Question to Martin: How much work would it be to modi...

johndow

Situation in Germany (Just for information) Archive: Tax Law say: Any email with a "possible" tax relevant content must be stored/archived for at least 6 years. If your archive only the relevant emails you have to backup all other emails to show that you have not forget some relevant mails... :roll:...

johndow

No, this does not work because my customer uses only the POP3 retriever to get the mails from the ISP. The Mailserver is not connected permantently to the Internet. His ISP does not change the MX entry when my customer does not use Exchange. A direct connection with SMTP is earlies possible when he ...

johndow

I have a customer who wants to block all Domains using a specific MX Entry. He has some unwanted mails and know that the relevant people uses the MX entry from some freemailer. So he wants to block them. If have found only filter rouls to block mails which contains a specified text in the "from" fie...

johndow

Here we can set the max. size of messages to be scanned for virus.
Currently we have set this to 200K.

My customer and myself scan every attachmend. The size does not matter.
Security comes before performance. Maybe a little bit to strict, but as long as it works nobody would change it.

johndow

Here a little config-sample Users: 40 Protocoll: IMAP ONLY Incomming Messages: 500/week CPU 1.8 GhZ Celeron RAM: 512 MB HDD: 80 GB IDE; No Raid, OS: Windows 2000 Server SP4 Other Software: MYSQL 4 Kerio 6.1.2 (40 Users) (approx. 2000 Messages/week) MSSQL 2000 Clamwin MCAFEE Antivirus Plugin for Keri...

johndow

I think the problem is that Ramana tries to work with thunderbird in the most common way, to get mails via POP3. Using of IMAP would make it possible to get the mails everywhere in the company on every computer, but the most would be to create the user accunts on all computers. I would suggest to Ra...

johndow

a little workaround - not a real solution but it gives you some more time to react: make the log folder to a compressed folder. The logifles can be compressed by Windows 2000 (or higher) to approx 40% of the original size. It is a plain text file so the compression is somewhat helpful. to read such ...

johndow

was going to ask if you could do a backup by just copying over the whole hmail folder. You can change it to whatever you want. But you MUST stop the Server and MYSQL first. Otherwise you wouldn't get all needed files and the database will be corrupt on restore.... If you want to copy the backup add...

johndow

I am using hMail 4.1-B136 on Windows 2003 server with MSSQL 2000 database and Thunderbird 1.0.6. Just to make sure: Windows 2003 Server has a build in SMTP Server. If you have it installed with the standart options you have strong internet security activated and maybe SMTP and IIS Components (depen...

johndow

Johndow: I doubt MySQL tables used by hMailServer will get corrupt if you run defrag... Never happened to me at least. Windows treates this files as locked and doesn't touch them.. There is a undocumentated problem with the combination executive defrag software, RAID Controller from Silicon Image a...

johndow

Personally, I don't see why you would want this instead of just being able to point out the backup file, selecting the message / IMAP folder to restore and click OK. This solution sounds a lot more complicated to me. Both to implement and to use by the server administrator.. :-\ No, sorry. I don't ...

johndow

If you use windows defragmentation: Yes. an active server can not be handled by this version of defrag. Only the server version from the original manufacturer can this. Because this defrag software is poor and on our blacklist I help no more with it. Professional defragementation: Raxco. Nothing els...

johndow

There is a discussion in the alpha forum http://www.hmailserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2650&sid=61ef8b9ec0ed2ddc2728c5aef5e98df4 about restoring mails when a lazy user does not take care... To prevent requests for changing the whole storeage structure of hmail here my request: Add a delete-timer ...

johndow

My opinion: NO, Never Why: I have a nice customer who has long directory and file names. If it is to long you get in the restrictions of NTFS. This customer knows about and doesn't take care about. what will you do on a long "spam" subject like solution for sales problems and customer who are not wi...

johndow

- store every email in a single file to prevent loses if the containerstorage from Netscape or Outlook. - get the mails automatic without the need to start netscape, outlook or whatever - send outoing mails to the mailserver and send to the receiver when the laptop is back online - just to have it -...

johndow

I haven't make the application or the installation.

Everything comes from the company who has installed the telephone system at my customer.

So I see only the result of it...

johndow

Please no SQLite!!! I have a telephone system which stores all calls in and out with a SQLite Database. There are currently 65.000 calls stored. If you want to seach for a specific phone number (internal or external) it needs some time. Best is to make a coffee and wait. Hardware and Software: Windo...

johndow

Update with .ini Backup net stop hmailserver net stop hmailservermysql xcopy /M /Y /S c:\programme\hmailserver\data c:\tmp\hmaildata xcopy /M /Y /S c:\programme\hmailserver\mysql\data c:\tmp\hmailmysql xcopy /M /Y /S c:\programme\hmailserver\bin\*.ini c:\tmp\hmailbin\*.ini net start hmailservermysql...

johndow

Are _all_ the messages on that account downloaded twice or just some of them?

no, approx 25 % are downloaded twice.

I have modified the deletion time vom 10 days to 1 day. lets see what will happen.

johndow

t's probably easiest if you turn on POP3 logging. The next time hMailServer downloads a message from the external account, check if hMailServer is really deleting the message. Hmmmm, I have selected to delete a downloaded message after 10 days. Is it a problem using this function and to delete a me...

johndow

What email client are you using? Kerio Mailserver 6.0.10. He deletes after POP3 call every mail on hmailserver. (Tested and monitored for 24 hrs.) How do you know that they are downloaded twice from he external POP3 server? I see the mails in the log from Kerio with two different download date and ...

johndow

If you lower the time it could happen that some ISP will block you because they do not like automatic retriever. If you want to have 5 minutes and not hosted on a freemailer it could mostly (only mostly) be OK to increase to 5 min. To be sure that you are not blocked please ask your ISPs which is th...

johndow

Version:
hmailserver 4.0 build 125

Try this:
external accounts -- delete messages after xxx days

Try to enter a value with more as 11 digits.

Your receive:
Run-time error 6
Overflow

(nobody would realy do this, but I want to let you know)

johndow

Software and settings: - hmailserver 4.0 build 125 - Domain -- accounts -- (accont name) -- external accounts -- delete messages after (10) days Clients: POP3 download on hmailserver with deleted the retrieved messages on hmailserver. Result: Messages on one account are downloaded twice. 18 accounts...

johndow

This is a minimal installation Windows 2000 system with OE5 and no Office apps. Which office version is the .doc file? Wordpad can open mostly all .doc versions up to Office 2000 only I must make a correction to my first post. I'm NOT using the latest stable build, but I'm using 4.0 build 125. Is a...

johndow

what client are you and the sender is using? I have this problem every time when I receive a message from an outlook/outlook express sender which has made the text in html format. I use Netscape 7.1 and my receiver has only sometimes this problem when he open an attachmend on my htmp emails... Try t...

johndow

For everybody who can't wait for a backup and restore. Save the following text as .bat files and let it run manual or by taskplaner: hmail-backup.bat net stop hmailserver net stop hmailservermysql xcopy /M /Y /S c:\programme\hmailserver\data c:\tmp\hmaildata xcopy /M /Y /S c:\programme\hmailserver\m...

johndow

Woudln't it be possible to authenticate on the relayer using one account and then send the email from another address? Or what happens when you do that? Tested with GMX.NET Answer from SMTP: Access denied. User Account is not equal to sender/from ID! No way to do this. Not at GMX. Not at Freemailer...

johndow

nd in my opinion hMailServer could handle GMX-mail-accounts if hMailServer has somewhere the ability or will get the ability to authenticate every single GMX-user with the related username and password. But I think this means major changes to the relay capabilitys of hMailServer... thats it. To wor...

johndow

I know the problem with GMX. Use the following workaround: SMTP settings: not hmailserver. Use directly the gmx account. When you use IMAP the sended message will be copied afterwards to the send folder. Works better, because gmx see directly the client and not hmailserver at first. GMX (Part of Uni...

johndow

It was never tested together with Kerio. So when you wrote the first part, you were pretty much not telling the truth? It's a bit hard to help you if you don't bother to give the correct facts. when you read this together Kerio Mailserver 6.0.10 Client: integrated Webmail client never tested with ne...

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