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Keba

Why is this a feature request? SMTP receives on port 25. It's a port you only change if you don't expect anybody else in the world to be able to email you. Don't change it if you want anybody else to be able to send you email. Some ISP's stop people using port 25 with their hosting - you may need to...

Keba

Not sure if this will help, but one of the mods here (I think ^Doom^?) has an analyzer web page that might help: http://log.damnation.org.uk/

Keba

I couldn't find any relevant posts when searching so thought I'd ask - has anybody had any experience with using returnpath.net's white listing system?

http://www.returnpath.net/internetservi ... ation/faq/

Keba

add a sub-construct (array or similar) that contains all the rejection reasons/scores and you have a winner

Keba

One thing I have noted is the script-kiddie spammers that use lists of potential email address names in the hope they get an email through. Or they use a list of random 'from' addresses in the hope to get through. This happens even if they are being stopped by anti-spam rules, and wastes a ton of lo...

Keba

Personally I use a script to automatically archive (move) the last months logs into a zip file, and run that script once a month using scheduled tasks. If you don't want to archive the older files, then a simple script that just deletes the last months files would be really easy to do. No real need ...

Keba

Existing poll... http://www.hmailserver.com/forum/viewto ... 62&p=90417

Keba

For SPF, ~all is a softfail, not an actual fail. Try -all which is the actual fail directive for any other mail server other than your mx listed ones.

You can use greylisting and other anti-spam checks on a backup MX server. Best not to use them on redirected mail from that backup MX though.

Keba

I recently found hotmail server (or more!) were placed on some of the RBLs - as a result I've had to reduce the aggressiveness of my delete threshold and now I get a ton of spam again :( I'd actually forgotten that this request was already here, so I searched before posting a new one thankfully - ju...

Keba

Cheers - thanks for the update.

Keba

Martin,

How close to stable is build 1617 now? Its been a couple of weeks and no new builds on http://www.hmailserver.com/index.php?page=changelog so I'm hoping that's good news!

Cheers.

Keba

*shrug* I did read the whole thing. Our opinions on the article differ obviously. I also have owned and ridden motorbikes on nearly a daily basis (commuting) for the last 15+ years, averaging around 30k miles a year... Granted 5 of those years were using a bike that had a shaft rather than chain (an...

Keba

To be honest, that looks like a load of sales speak - it lacks a certain amount of professionalism, or good references to any research that backs their claims up. Personally on motorbikes that have chains (rather than belts or shafts), I use a ScottOiler http://www.scottoiler.com and their dual-inje...

Keba

It sounds like you would want to talk to your firewall administrator and get them to check the logs to see if the connection is getting that far or not.

This could be a routing problem or a firewall rule problem... Or something else altogether!

Keba

You mean like http://www.hmailserver.com/forum/viewto ... =2&t=15845 ?

Keba

It's possible you haven't filled in all the relevant options within the .net mail components when using them. You have to specify a valid 'from' and 'to' address using both name and email address for example (something Outlook will do automatically even if you only give it an email address). There a...

Keba

I know it was a remote chance blocking gmail et. al, but think it needs to be considered as the impact should it happen would be harsh. Low chance, yes, but still possible. I've been working on the (probably invalid!) assumption that spamhaus and spamcop already ensure that they do not add services...

Keba

I've yet to see any spam hit my delete threshold when the emails are via gmail/yahoo etc. My main increases are based on spamhaus/spamcop and spf though. I've purposely left surbl type hits lower (which I believe would be the only thing gmail/yahoo could trigger). I'm very agressive on spam as you w...

Keba

I'm getting a ton of spam attempts from the same IP's, where they try to spam multiple email addresses one after the other. When the different spam detection scores add up to the 'delete' threshold, all that happens is that email is rejected and the spammer tries again from the same IP to the next e...

Keba

I have 'external to external' authentication required and do not have the same issue - I would never recommend not having that particular option disabled... From what you have stated in your posts, our domains are configured the same way. We both want 'external to local' to work without needing the ...

Keba

I just did a similar test on my production server (so that I could see the debug logs which I don't have on very often!) and couldn't reproduce the error. The only main difference is that I get one extra line after the RCPT message (gmail have SPF records I guess!) "DEBUG" 2776 "2009-08-01 11:24:02....

Keba

I'm not having any issues with unauthenticated 'external to local' where 'local' is an alias address on the domain.

Post some logs - show us what is actually happening when an 'other smtp server' triggers the error on your server. Without logs, its really hard to guess what is going on.

Keba

Some log snippets (enable SMTP logging if you haven't already) would be useful to see what is actually going wrong here. Unless you are specifying the same domain in the 'from' field on the second SMTP server, it should not require authentication against the server that is accepting email on that do...

Keba

I've installed both of the out-of-band hotfixes on two different hMail production machines with no issues. I've not had to uninstall them.

1 server uses MSSQL 2005 Standard, and the other the inbuilt MSSQL 2005 express. Both are currently running hMail 5.2 b356.

Keba

Turn on SMTP logging and check the IP that is being used when you send mail.

In my experience, most programs when sending via the localhost actually use the external IP address, not 127.0.0.1

You may need to modify (or create) a different range to the My Computer one.

Keba

I get a decent amount of mail(mostly SPAM but some legit stuff) that has no date header. This causes me grief when sorting by date in both Thunderbird and Roundcube. Could a feature be implemented that if a message lacks the date field the server adds one with the date and time that the message was...

Keba

Search is your friend, honest!

This 'feature' has been changed so that a pop-up for yes/no comes up in the latest beta. I've not tried it myself, but then I'm very careful around delete buttons, no matter which tab I'm on

Keba

To check dns records, use nslookup.

To change dns records, use the control panel provided by your dns provider.

The search button (and Google!) are your friends. Use them

Keba

I've had a good search through and couldn't find this feature request anywhere - the only direct reference I could find was: http://www.hmailserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=47606#p47606 Have started to make some changes now. The columns in live log and undelivered message lists are now auto-sized t...

Keba

Defence in depth is always fun - Adblockplus + NoScript + Flashblock = very few ads or annoyances.

It can be slightly annoying when going to a new site, but I hardly ever do these days (at least I hardly ever stay on a site for very long or come back again unless it is actually useful!).

Keba

I've been thinking about this idea lately - I would like to see softfail SPF (or no SPF record which is the same thing in my book) be configurable as a SPAM score. Having the ability to either accept (negative score) or reject (large positive score) or mark as spam (low positive score) would be grea...

Keba

If a web admin is silly enough to make normal content look like ads, then they miss out on my business I guess. I can always put in a white-list for a site if needed to though, but haven't had to do that in a couple of years now. /. has given me the option to stop seeing their ads if I want to (damn...

Keba

There were adverts?

/me likes AdBlockPlus...

Keba

Ok, can I please get some clarification? Everything I can see so far in hMail seems to suggest it expects MX records to be pointed at it, and I can't find anywhere anything that would let me connect to my website email host via pop3, then grab the contents of a particular mailbox. You only have to ...

Keba

A number of support posts end up with the request for people to enable debug logging so that next time a crash happens, the log can be analysed. This feature request is for a memory based queue of the last (50? 100? whatever is sensible) DEBUG entries to be pooled during the operation of the service...

Keba

I upgraded my production sites a few days ago with 5.2.B354 and it hasn't crashed yet. I'm not using MySQL though (using MSSQL 2005 Standard) so didn't encounter any upgrade issues. Spammers really don't like me though - I upped my scores for spamhaus/spamcop, and 97% of all emails targeted at my ma...

Keba

Would it be worth creating a feature request to add a spool/queue of the last 50 or so debug entries (held in memory normally and overwritten as new entries come in of course) so that the 'prior' is then written to disk in the case of an application error?

Just a thought...

Keba

Currently the spam detection uses the following order (taken from http://www.hmailserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=14677&p=83467&hilit=spam+order#p83467 ) * DNS blacklist * HELO host * MX records * SPF * SURBL * DKIM * SpamAssassin Personally I would rather have SPF, HELO/EHLO and MX record chec...

Keba

Personally I use TCPView from sysinternals - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... 97437.aspx

Keba

If you have a static IP, use an IP Range (under the Advanced options in the admin console) to turn off authentication for that IP address.

Keba

Given the database holds meta data and not the actual messages (they are stored on disk as individual files) you will be very hard pressed to reach the 4 Gb limit... Normal operational monitoring should be put in place if you are creating that much database information, and that would catch the data...

Keba

Any idea on percentage of your mail that is going first to your backup MX instead of your primary? I know some systems target backups first just to get around stricter controls on primaries (not that I'm expecting you to have lesser controls on your particular backup

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Keba

But have you put the beta on a production system yet?

I want to, but I'm too chicken still

Keba

I'd turn on IMAP logging for a few minutes and test with the working blackberry to see if its actually using IMAP and not POP3....

Keba

I like the poll change

Keba

Usually the users of the mailbox would appreciate knowing that their email message (which they assume has gone through instantly) has not yet been delivered. Users aren't always tech-savvy, and sometimes put through time-critical information in emails. If they were notified of a delivery issue after...

Keba

Web browsers don't do reverse lookup checks against web servers - some (usually university) mail servers do against other mail servers.

Always set your reverse lookup (PTR) record to the same name as you use for your mail server. Quite simple really

Keba

I don't like the idea of an A record being allowed unless the domain owner has specifically stated as such (on the basis that the A record is different to the MX record of course!). If the IP matches the MX record, then that would be a great option to have just as SPF has been added as an option - h...

Keba

As long as the 'notify that message is in queue' time is configurable, this would be nice to have. I'd still prefer to have customisable intervals (different poll) first though - the main reason messages get put in a queue on my servers is on the rare off chance that other mail servers have greylist...

Keba

Downgrading from which version?

Keba

5.1 started the 'authenticate' option for local to local - but it only works for 'real' accounts. Previously to this I was getting spam through with the same from/to address. It's just the alias being considered as local change that is in 5.2 that will make a difference in the same from/to address s...

Keba

martin only included the option starting in version 5.1 (or was it 5.0? I think 5.1 though), so no, its not available in previous versions. I still get spam from alias -> real accounts, and version 5.2 should fix that issue as well.

Keba

Upgrade to version 5.1 and enable the authentication for local to local users.

If you are getting this spam on alias accounts, wait for version 5.2 to be listed as stable and use that instead (it treats alias accounts as local account as well, which previous versions didn't do).

Keba

It sounds like a firewall or network issue - contact the support for your remote server and ask them to take a look.

Keba

*shrug* you linked to a site that requests money in order to be listed - shouldn't have used them as the example if you weren't advocating them ;) Quite simple logic really! No skewing at all! No offence was intended even... After the various threads on SORBS (which I agree with - 'for profit' even ...

Keba

Could the headers be added to the body of the bounce message perhaps? That way the mail admin receiving the bounce would be able to see what actually happened rather than not having a clue...

I'd vote for having the option to add the headers of the original message in the body of the bounce message.

Keba

How is whitelisted.org any better than SORBS? Whitelisted may be up front about charging just to be whitelisted - and SORBS may be a bit 'hidden' about their charge to unlist if they receive a spam to one of their admin accounts. Money still dissapears from the mail owners hands though. In my opinio...

Keba

I'm fairly certain I subscribed using form on the home page for the newsletters, but have yet to receive any.

Am I remembering incorrectly, or are the newsletters not working? I never got anything about the last few releases for example.

Keba

iZero, While I agree it is a problem, I believe Martin has changed this in the latest (unstable?) alpha - ^Doom^ pointed out one of the threads, and I created a feature request a while ago due to a similar problem ( http://www.hmailserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15292 ). You could try the late...

Keba

Information being in one central location is much better than bits all over the place (so to speak).

I'd vote 'merge' on a poll

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