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by simondsmason
2011-10-15 15:55
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

Thanks. I have folders set up with spam in them. Is there anyway to select the files in these folders through a script or something and then put all files in there for teaching?
by simondsmason
2011-10-15 05:01
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

What is the syntax for running the sa-learn command against an hmail folder?

sa-learn --showdots --mbox --spam spam-file
by simondsmason
2011-10-11 13:12
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

I don't think I am using Bayes. I have been googling around to figure out how to implement this. It seems that this is on the client side?
by simondsmason
2011-10-09 15:56
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

OK, I added this flag. I get the following in a SPAM email now (below). I think I was able to successfully upgrade to the latest SpamAssassin but I am not sure that I have it running optimally. Any pointers here would be good. Thanks. Spam detection software, running on the system "jeeves3", has ide...
by simondsmason
2011-10-04 20:43
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

I went ahead and tried it anyway! I appeared to get it working using the SpamAssassin wiki installation instructions under windows. One comment however: A number of the modules required in the installation on the wiki were not found. I upgraded my Active Perl to the version that they tested on the w...
by simondsmason
2011-10-04 02:52
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

As I said, it was a long time ago that I set it up - but let me try to figure this out. I did go through all of the learning steps - but I don't recall specifically which ones. I execute SA through the eventhandler.vbs script - cmd = "cmd /c perl -S -T -w spamassassin < """ & testfile & """ > """ & ...
by simondsmason
2011-10-02 23:43
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

I use SpamAssassin and the builtin spam detection. I do find that the builtin spam detection does flag quite a few messages that SA misses. However, my SA installation is out of date - 3.2.4. I would upgrade it but it is ages since I installed it and I have no idea how to go about it! I am afraid I ...
by simondsmason
2011-10-02 14:28
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

I have it entered without the quotes - I just used those to make it clearer in the post. I will try the other options. How does one output the raw SQL values? I would be happy to do this if it helps. Also, to clarify - is it the name that appears in the RECEIVED: EHLO line that I have to whitelist? ...
by simondsmason
2011-10-01 16:15
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

I am still working on this. I have an email coming from livingsocial.com. I have in the whitelist entry the following : "*livingsocial.com" and IP range 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255. As I understand it this will whitelist everything coming from an email ending in "livingsocial.com". According to the l...
by simondsmason
2011-09-24 02:24
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

What domain should I whitelist from the message below? I am learning how to read the headers and pull out the right info. *@yahoogroups.com does not work. Thanks. Return-Path: simondmason+caf_=simonm=themasons.net@gmail.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on jeeves3 X-Spam-Le...
by simondsmason
2011-09-18 14:38
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

Thanks for spelling it out. I did some investigation into the logs. One one day I had three emails from individuals that were in the whitelist - I removed the whitelist entries and added them back in and it seems to be working. There are three other emails coming from companies that fall into the ca...
by simondsmason
2011-09-17 22:47
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

I have 84 entries in the whitelisting option in hMail config. For what it is worth the reason seems to always be "Rejected by DKIM" when it tags a message in the whitelist. Forgive me for being dense - but where do I set the envelope from vs. header from? I only see four fields - name, email address...
by simondsmason
2011-09-17 19:50
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

It didn't seem to solve the problem. hMail is still spamming some messages from email addresses in the whitelist. Bug?
by simondsmason
2011-09-15 03:25
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

I just checked it and it is definitely in there.

I also tried to take a screen grab of it and upload it but it wouldn't let me - board file attachment quota reached!
by simondsmason
2011-09-15 02:38
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

Here is the message... I don't know how to interpret everything in the details - does this help? Return-Path: simondmason+caf_=simonm=themasons.net@gmail.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on jeeves3 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-103.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_...
by simondsmason
2011-09-15 00:45
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

What level of debug do I need to have set in order to diagnose this problem? I just received an email today that got tagged as SPAM despite the fact that the email was included in the whitelist. I have debugging set to Application, SMTP, Debug. I don't see anything that helps me diagnose the problem...
by simondsmason
2011-09-13 04:53
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

I have hmail setup to tag the subject in a certain way. And I have spam assassin set up in a different way. So I can see which spam checker is tagging which emails. I haven't seen it do it again but I have the logging turned on so I am just waiting for an email to set it off and then I can perhaps s...
by simondsmason
2011-09-11 15:35
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

I am using the built in whitelisting in hmail. I add the entries one at a time and leave the ip range from 0 to 255. Does it make sense that an email whitelisted this way should get tagged as spam under these circumstances?
by simondsmason
2011-09-11 15:04
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Re: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

Thanks for the reply. I have logging disabled so I will turn them on and check them out. What flags in the logging should I turn on to help diagnose this? I am not using the built-in SpamAssassin integration. I am calling SpamAssassin from my eventhandlers script. I call it in OnDeliverMessage so I ...
by simondsmason
2011-09-09 16:07
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting
Replies: 41
Views: 22762

Help with diagnosing apparent failure of whitelisting

I have recently noticed that a number of incoming emails from addresses that are in the whitelist are getting marked as SPAM. I am running 5.3.3-B1879. I have not updated or altered anything in the configuration in a long time. I have searched around on the forum and could not find anything specific...
by simondsmason
2011-05-08 17:41
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Moving to another machine - questions about database
Replies: 3
Views: 3212

Re: Moving to another machine - questions about database

Thanks, copying the ini file seems to have solved the problem.
by simondsmason
2011-05-08 15:56
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Moving to another machine - questions about database
Replies: 3
Views: 3212

Re: Moving to another machine - questions about database

Well I thought I would try this approach. I installed a 4.x version, then upgraded to the same version 5 running on my current mail server. I then copied the data files. Then I stopped both installations and copied the mysql directory. I used the same passwords and everything on the new server but I...
by simondsmason
2011-05-08 15:18
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Moving to another machine - questions about database
Replies: 3
Views: 3212

Moving to another machine - questions about database

I am in the process of cleaning up my hmail installation and moving it to another server. I am following the directions in the documentation on moving. My previous installation is up to date but uses the mysql internal database. Would it be easiest to install version 4 on the new system and then upg...
by simondsmason
2011-04-26 13:29
Forum: General discussions
Topic: IMAP testing question
Replies: 11
Views: 7333

Re: IMAP testing question

After looking up what this means, It seems reasonably clear that this is the issue. I cannot find anything in the manual for the router that I am forced to use by my ISP. It is not permanently broken - it works on and off. I have seen other posts on the ISP forum that the NAT is very small and that ...
by simondsmason
2011-04-26 00:12
Forum: General discussions
Topic: IMAP testing question
Replies: 11
Views: 7333

Re: IMAP testing question

I just made a discovery on this issue and wanted to see if anyone can shed any light on it. If I telnet to my mailserver using the local windows machine name inside the network it is fine. If I telnet to the mailserver from outside my network (using a remote desktop connection to my office) using th...
by simondsmason
2011-04-16 20:26
Forum: General discussions
Topic: IMAP testing question
Replies: 11
Views: 7333

Re: IMAP testing question

That's a good idea. I have to use the router provided by Verizon FIOS and it is a piece of you know what! I'll check this out.
by simondsmason
2011-04-16 17:20
Forum: General discussions
Topic: IMAP testing question
Replies: 11
Views: 7333

Re: IMAP testing question

I don't think the server is getting overloaded because I can connect to it locally within my network with no problems. This is a tiny installation - I run the mail server for my family so there are less than 10 accounts in active use. This outages occur sporadically and while it was happening I want...
by simondsmason
2011-04-16 14:58
Forum: General discussions
Topic: IMAP testing question
Replies: 11
Views: 7333

Re: IMAP testing question

Right now just "telnet server 143"
by simondsmason
2011-04-16 14:39
Forum: General discussions
Topic: IMAP testing question
Replies: 11
Views: 7333

Re: IMAP testing question

No, I am testing from two locations. The issue seems to be happening on and off and only for short periods. I am guessing the ISP but I wanted to test and find something more definitive?
by simondsmason
2011-04-16 14:18
Forum: General discussions
Topic: IMAP testing question
Replies: 11
Views: 7333

IMAP testing question

I am having intermittent issues with my IMAP connections - probably related to my ISP. I test the connection locally to hmail and it is fine. I do it externally through telnet and it connects but I don't get the welcome message. Then when I type any key it immediately disconnects. I don't see any me...
by simondsmason
2011-04-16 14:16
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Repeated Message undeliverable emails
Replies: 10
Views: 7212

Re: Repeated Message undeliverable emails

I checked everything and cannot find any obvious suspects. It hasn't happened again so I guess I will sit back and wait at this point. Thanks for the help.
by simondsmason
2011-04-04 19:17
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Repeated Message undeliverable emails
Replies: 10
Views: 7212

Re: Repeated Message undeliverable emails

Yes I do. I have email coming into simon and then I forward it to my gmail account which forwards it back to simonm. I do this because I have been using this email address since before Al Gore invented the Internet and the spam level is very high. I have found that despite my best efforts with SpamA...
by simondsmason
2011-04-04 14:36
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Repeated Message undeliverable emails
Replies: 10
Views: 7212

Re: Repeated Message undeliverable emails

I did turn on debug logging in the middle of this, I have attached some snippets below. I see the errors but I don't know enough to understand what is going on? Thanks. "ERROR" 3204 "2011-04-02 14:12:41.015" "Severity: 3 (Medium), Code: HM5026, Source: PersistentMessage::_WriteDataToMessageFile, Des...
by simondsmason
2011-04-02 23:39
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Repeated Message undeliverable emails
Replies: 10
Views: 7212

Re: Repeated Message undeliverable emails

Thanks for the reply. This is the weird thing - I have the data directory excluded from my external virus scan. This has never been a problem before - just started happening this morning. After a couple of thousand messages it stopped and now everything is working fine. When I checked the data direc...
by simondsmason
2011-04-02 18:52
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Repeated Message undeliverable emails
Replies: 10
Views: 7212

Repeated Message undeliverable emails

On one account on my mail server I just started getting these messages over and over today. I have checked a couple of the messages and the .eml files are not deleted, they are in place and they are not zero byte. So I am not sure why I am getting these messages? I am sure there is more information ...
by simondsmason
2011-03-27 18:22
Forum: Scripting
Topic: Scripting help with copy command
Replies: 9
Views: 6577

Re: Scripting help with copy command

Thanks for the help - I looked at this again and realized I wasn't using the pointer to the folder, only the number created when looping through the folders. I inserted the following code and everything appears to be copying. Set OldEmailFolderNum = Account.IMAPFolders.ItemByName("OLD EMAIL") I am n...
by simondsmason
2011-03-27 17:42
Forum: Scripting
Topic: Scripting help with copy command
Replies: 9
Views: 6577

Re: Scripting help with copy command

I have a loop running that goes through each of the folders.

For IMAPFolderNum = 1 To IMAPFolders.Count

when it finds the OLD EMAIL folder it stores the number of that folder.

OldEmailFolderNum = IMAPFolderNum.

In the test case this is an integer - 8. I assumed this was the folder id?
by simondsmason
2011-03-27 17:16
Forum: Scripting
Topic: Scripting help with copy command
Replies: 9
Views: 6577

Re: Scripting help with copy command

Thanks for the feedback. Is my copy command actually correct? It doesn't appear to be working.
by simondsmason
2011-03-27 14:59
Forum: Scripting
Topic: Scripting help with copy command
Replies: 9
Views: 6577

Re: Scripting help with copy command

Thanks for the responses. I have tried every conceivable format for the copy command (except the correct one)! Can someone put me out of my misery and advise me on the correct syntax of the copy command? In the code snippet below I am going through all of the users IMAP folders and trying to copy ev...
by simondsmason
2011-03-26 20:38
Forum: Scripting
Topic: Scripting help with copy command
Replies: 9
Views: 6577

Re: Scripting help with copy command

So what is the syntax for copying one message from one folder to another? Thanks.
by simondsmason
2011-03-26 15:15
Forum: Scripting
Topic: Scripting help with copy command
Replies: 9
Views: 6577

Scripting help with copy command

I am writing a script to move old messages into a folder called OLD EMAIL. I have made sure that the OLD EMAIL folder exists. I have searched all over for the syntax of the copy command but I can't find anything definitive (probably not searching for the right thing!). Can someone look at the snippe...
by simondsmason
2011-03-23 23:15
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Moving hMail to another drive - steps?
Replies: 3
Views: 2456

Re: Moving hMail to another drive - steps?

Thanks, I am not that SQL savvy so I will have to proceed carefully here. Am I right in assuming that if I create a new data directory on another drive and follow the instructions here: http://www.hmailserver.com/documentation/v5.3/index.php?page=howto_change_data_directory then all new mail will be...
by simondsmason
2011-03-22 23:37
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Moving hMail to another drive - steps?
Replies: 3
Views: 2456

Moving hMail to another drive - steps?

I am running out of space on the drive that hMail is installed on. I am going to move it to another drive on the same machine (different drive letter). Any thoughts on the best way to do this? Thanks.
by simondsmason
2011-03-05 16:03
Forum: Off-topic discussions
Topic: Spamassassin upgrade question
Replies: 0
Views: 3066

Spamassassin upgrade question

I know this isn't a SpamAssassin forum but I have posted twice on the spamassassin nabble forum and got nothing back - plus the people on this forum know what they are talking about! I was running spamassassin v3.2 something through perl command line. I am switching my installation over to the lates...
by simondsmason
2011-02-20 15:47
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Clamwin external scan flagged files in hmailserver\data
Replies: 4
Views: 3992

Re: Clamwin external scan flagged files in hmailserver\data

I have clamwin scanning the directories - when I saw this happen I added an exclude for this directory - I used to have it there and must have forgotten to put it back in an upgrade in the past. I do not have clamwin deleting or quarantining files - only flagging them. I do this because clamwin deli...
by simondsmason
2011-02-20 14:58
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Clamwin external scan flagged files in hmailserver\data
Replies: 4
Views: 3992

Clamwin external scan flagged files in hmailserver\data

I have clamwin enabled within hmail setup. I also run a daily scan on the machine using the clamwin scheduler. Today, for the first time, the clamwin scheduler flagged to viruses in the hmailserver\data folder, specifically in two files ending in ".eml.tmp". This has never happened before. I assume ...
by simondsmason
2011-01-31 00:18
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Spamassassin eventhandler vs. internal call
Replies: 3
Views: 2308

Re: Spamassassin eventhandler vs. internal call

Thanks for the response. My question was not whether I could do it, it was whether I should do it? Do the two methods produce the same end result - or is there any difference. For example, a difference in performance? Thanks.
by simondsmason
2011-01-30 16:09
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Spamassassin eventhandler vs. internal call
Replies: 3
Views: 2308

Spamassassin eventhandler vs. internal call

I have been using Spamassassin successfully for years through a call from eventhandler.vbs and executing it through ActivePerl on the command line. I am now getting around to upgrading my spamassassin (it is running 3.2.4 currently) and I was wondering if I should be moving to the internal hmail "Us...
by simondsmason
2011-01-10 00:33
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Error editing one email account on server
Replies: 12
Views: 5792

Re: Error editing one email account on server

It's weird because I didn't create that alias recently. I see that hmail prevents you from creating an alias for an email account that already exists in the domain. However, I must have created this sometime ago and perhaps this error check was not there?
by simondsmason
2011-01-09 20:39
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Error editing one email account on server
Replies: 12
Views: 5792

Re: Error editing one email account on server

That's it! Thank you - this was driving me crazy.
by simondsmason
2011-01-09 19:52
Forum: General discussions
Topic: IMAP ERROR Server Reached Maximum Simultaneous Connections
Replies: 10
Views: 10504

Re: IMAP ERROR Server Reached Maximum Simultaneous Connectio

I have the same with one PC. The user is connecting to IMAP from three places - Blackberry, Apple iTouch, and laptop. Thunderbird on the laptop keeps warning that the number if IMAP connections MAY have been exceeded and the client does not get mail. I am trying other clients - this issue seems to b...
by simondsmason
2011-01-09 18:42
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Error editing one email account on server
Replies: 12
Views: 5792

Re: Error editing one email account on server

bump - any help please? I cannot recreate this account because it says the object already exists in the domain.
by simondsmason
2011-01-06 14:54
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Error editing one email account on server
Replies: 12
Views: 5792

Re: Error editing one email account on server

Yes, rebooted the whole machine.
by simondsmason
2011-01-06 05:49
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Error editing one email account on server
Replies: 12
Views: 5792

Re: Error editing one email account on server

I was following the instructions in the link where it instructed me to repair a file. I still have the issue with the account. It is deleted and it will not let me add it again. What do I need to do to resolve this? Thanks
by simondsmason
2011-01-06 03:47
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Error editing one email account on server
Replies: 12
Views: 5792

Re: Error editing one email account on server

Thanks - I got this all working. Which file do you think I need to repair? Is there a way to check the integrity of the files and figure it out? Thanks.
by simondsmason
2011-01-05 23:08
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Error editing one email account on server
Replies: 12
Views: 5792

Error editing one email account on server

I have one email account on the server that I cannot edit - it gives me the error: "Changes could not be saved. Failed to save object. Another object with the same name already exists in the domain". As far as I can tell the issue is limited to this one email address. I tried deleting it - and this ...
by simondsmason
2010-02-06 21:33
Forum: General discussions
Topic: How to diagnose port issue?
Replies: 8
Views: 7596

Re: How to diagnose port issue?

I don't think I can bypass their router - it is Verizon FIOS. It also routes the signals to all of the TV's in the house.
by simondsmason
2010-02-06 21:18
Forum: General discussions
Topic: How to diagnose port issue?
Replies: 8
Views: 7596

Re: How to diagnose port issue?

I think you may be right - all signs appear to be pointing to the router. It is working fine right now and nothing has changed. I am using an ISP that requires the use of their own router (I had a perfectly good router in there before I switched ISPs). I am using the firewall in the router so I can'...
by simondsmason
2010-02-06 18:57
Forum: General discussions
Topic: How to diagnose port issue?
Replies: 8
Views: 7596

Re: How to diagnose port issue?

I am still having random issues with this and was hoping someone could help me diagnose this. Using Thunderbird I can access my mail server fine most of the time (inside and outside of my network). Occasionally (such as right now) it will not work. As it is random I suspect the ISP or something like...