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by rjk
2015-01-23 21:18
Forum: General discussions
Topic: DNS error messages in log
Replies: 28
Views: 26305

Re: DNS error messages in log

Hey guys, I forgot to update this thread. After updating to the latest version, these no longer show in the log and I am a happy camper. Thanks martin!
by rjk
2014-12-03 20:58
Forum: General discussions
Topic: DNS error messages in log
Replies: 28
Views: 26305

Re: DNS error messages in log

Disabling STARTTLS on outgoing SMTP deliveries did not fix the problem for me. Was that what you guys did, or did you change a different TLS option?
As per normal, the errors went away after restarting the service, but came back a few minutes later.
by rjk
2014-11-13 17:38
Forum: General discussions
Topic: DNS error messages in log
Replies: 28
Views: 26305

Re: DNS error messages in log

I may have found a clue, not sure how valid it is. Look for the error code number on this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms740668%28v=vs.85%29.aspx (11004). The description says: WSANO_DATA 11004 Valid name, no data record of requested type. The requested name is valid...
by rjk
2014-11-11 20:19
Forum: General discussions
Topic: DNS error messages in log
Replies: 28
Views: 26305

Re: DNS error messages in log

As far as I'm concerned those are just informational log lines telling you what some other server has returned. So what I want clarification on is, are those lookups causing a good IP to be rejected and/or are they causing a bad IP to be allowed through. If the answer to both of those is NO then wh...
by rjk
2014-11-07 04:44
Forum: General discussions
Topic: DNS error messages in log
Replies: 28
Views: 26305

Re: DNS error messages in log

I changed my primary DNS from OpenDNS back to Comcast and I haven't had any of those errors since. Interesting. I noticed that after restarting the server they would go away for a while - be interested to know if your DNS change fixes it permanently. I don't use OpenDNS or any other resolver that h...
by rjk
2014-11-06 22:12
Forum: General discussions
Topic: DNS error messages in log
Replies: 28
Views: 26305

Re: DNS error messages in log

there was discussion about dnsbl and surbl logging. See: https://www.hmailserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=27040 resolution of this: https://github.com/hmailserver/hmailserver/issues/27 so I think this is just new logging that you are not used too seeing in older versions. They are not actual e...
by rjk
2014-11-04 18:47
Forum: General discussions
Topic: DNS error messages in log
Replies: 28
Views: 26305

DNS error messages in log

I get these errors for any DNS request that does not return an address: "SMTPD" 3040 0 "2014-11-04 00:04:26.106" "TCP" "DNS query failure. Query: 141.83.245.198.zen.spamhaus.org, Type: A/AAAA, DnsQuery return value: 11004. Message: The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was f...
by rjk
2014-10-23 23:21
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Spammers relaying through a NULL address
Replies: 9
Views: 6747

Re: Spammers relaying through a NULL address

I just figured out what's up. These sendouts are bounce messages. The original spam is being relayed by my server to a downstream server that has some of my users on it (also a server that I'm trying to switch to eventually - currently a split-domain setup). The downstream server has better spam fil...
by rjk
2014-10-23 22:53
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Spammers relaying through a NULL address
Replies: 9
Views: 6747

Re: Spammers relaying through a NULL address

OK, so this problem is still happening. :( I have disabled EXTERNAL TO EXTERNAL on all IP ranges, including internal and localhost IPs. Additionally, with the new version of hMailServer I am getting mail piling up in the queue occasionally, and the only fix is to pause/unpause or restart the service...
by rjk
2014-10-21 22:46
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Spammers relaying through a NULL address
Replies: 9
Views: 6747

Re: Spammers relaying through a NULL address

percepts wrote:checkout the full changelog

https://www.hmailserver.com/changelog
Ooh a heartbleed fix. Time to upgrade.
by rjk
2014-10-21 22:27
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Spammers relaying through a NULL address
Replies: 9
Views: 6747

Re: Spammers relaying through a NULL address

I see that I have a fairly ancient version of HM now. Are there any new features or bug fixes that I should be upgrading for?
by rjk
2014-10-21 22:25
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Spammers relaying through a NULL address
Replies: 9
Views: 6747

Re: Spammers relaying through a NULL address

in all of your your ip ranges untick "allow deliveries from external to external" or better yet click the ip-ranges default button and then in all ranges, except external to local, tick authentication required . Oops, I could have sworn it was that way already. Thanks for making me check it. I'll m...
by rjk
2014-10-21 20:57
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Spammers relaying through a NULL address
Replies: 9
Views: 6747

Re: Spammers relaying through a NULL address

One complete transaction: "SMTPC" 3752 30955 "2014-10-21 08:53:28.974" "987.654.321.987" "RECEIVED: 220 xxxxx.xxxx.eu ESMTP Postfix" "SMTPC" 3752 30955 "2014-10-21 08:53:28.974" "987.654.321.987" "SENT: HELO mail.mydomain.com" "SMTPC" 3792 30955 "2014-10-21 08:53:29.364" "987.654.321.987" "RECEIVED:...
by rjk
2014-10-21 20:54
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Spammers relaying through a NULL address
Replies: 9
Views: 6747

Spammers relaying through a NULL address

This is a new one that I found in my logs. Any idea how I can fix it? I'm getting a spammer that is using this: MAIL FROM:<> And it goes right through to any address and does not ask for authentication. Help! All other mail is working normally - if he tries MAIL FROM:<somebody@NOTmydomain.tld>, hMai...
by rjk
2014-07-16 17:15
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Anyone ever used "Scrollout F1" email gateway?
Replies: 1
Views: 3240

Anyone ever used "Scrollout F1" email gateway?

Supposedly it is an ASSP-like proxy setup that requires little to no configuration and is supposed to "just work". I noticed it recently because it showed up as a popular project on SourceForge, so I was wondering if anyone here has tried it and liked/hated it? Linky: http://sourceforge.net/projects...
by rjk
2014-07-03 17:28
Forum: Feature requests
Topic: Add support for VRFY with IP ranges limitations
Replies: 7
Views: 10613

Re: Add support for VRFY with IP ranges limitations

Bump. My backup mail service (rollernet.us) supports VRFY, and it would be superb to be able to use it with them. IP limited of course, and not open to the whole world. Any chance of a feature request to add this please?
by rjk
2014-03-18 22:31
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Yet Another Routes Question [rules not working as expected]
Replies: 7
Views: 8467

Re: Yet Another Routes Question [rules not working as expect

The only reason I needed this is because I intend to slowly migrate over and then decommission my hmailserver. Spam is just a pita to keep up with these days. To solve the problem, I'm going to migrate the one Google user over to Hotmail, and then I won't have to worry about the rules and I can migr...
by rjk
2014-03-17 02:53
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Yet Another Routes Question [rules not working as expected]
Replies: 7
Views: 8467

Re: Yet Another Routes Question [rules not working as expect

mattg wrote:Are you still using the version in your signature?
Sorry no, that's a little old. I'm running 5.4-B1947. I'm just checking the changelogs now, and it seems that version 1949 has some SMTP relayer changes, do you think they would affect this?
by rjk
2014-03-17 00:33
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Yet Another Routes Question [rules not working as expected]
Replies: 7
Views: 8467

Re: Yet Another Routes Question [rules not working as expect

I just noticed that the Rule I created doesn't seem to be saving the correct Route. It's using the first Route I created instead of the dummy Route that I want it to use. I was doing everything from within the web admin, the Rule saved successfully when I used the normal interface. However, this did...
by rjk
2014-03-17 00:27
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Yet Another Routes Question [rules not working as expected]
Replies: 7
Views: 8467

Re: Yet Another Routes Question [rules not working as expect

enable smtp, debug and application logging, try to send again, and post the logs here My guess is that the rule is not triggering initially Well, I was testing a few different ways, not sure which way you wanted me to test. This way is with no Rules at all: "SMTPD" 3344 22541 "2014-03-16 18:08:38.3...
by rjk
2014-03-16 23:30
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Yet Another Routes Question [rules not working as expected]
Replies: 7
Views: 8467

Yet Another Routes Question [rules not working as expected]

I've read several previous topics on this subject, but have been unable to get this working properly. Allow me to explain... I have several domains and several users on my local hMailServer. Thus far, I haven't had major spam issues except for one account, and to combat that I have a Route set up so...
by rjk
2011-10-04 15:22
Forum: Scripting
Topic: meet password complexity
Replies: 8
Views: 7870

Re: meet password complexity

There's been a few requests for that, have you had a go at searching the forums? If I remember right, there are some easy mods that can be made to the PHP code, but anything more would require some modifications to the hMailServer code. (Its possible, hMailServer is open source)
by rjk
2011-09-30 18:15
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Advice for implementing with Windows Server 2008
Replies: 52
Views: 33771

Re: Advice for implementing with Windows Server 2008

Ask him to prove it to you - I believe it will run 32-bit applications just fine. There is another stripped down windows version called Server 2008 R2 Web Edition, and it is even more restricted I think (only 2gb of RAM allowed, and other such limitations) and hMailServer runs fine on that. There ar...
by rjk
2011-09-26 22:53
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Purging Bounce Messages
Replies: 7
Views: 5264

Re: Purging Bounce Messages

I looked at the account's Advanced tab and found the 'Empty Account' action which sounded promising, but reading the documentation I wasn't sure it did what I wanted it to do. "Empty Account" will do exactly what it says, it will wipe out all data in an account including potentially legitimate emai...
by rjk
2011-09-15 23:18
Forum: User contributed hMailServer 5 scripts
Topic: Classic ASP WebAdmin - supports most common functions
Replies: 42
Views: 83838

Re: Classic ASP WebAdmin - supports most common functions

Ah, so it won't be "baked in". Still, consistency is a good thing - like you say, right now I have to offer my users 2 completely different portals for management, and having such a link would be nice. Unfortunately I don't have the coding chops to do it myself, so I'll just sit here and hope that s...
by rjk
2011-09-15 20:12
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Advice for implementing with Windows Server 2008
Replies: 52
Views: 33771

Re: Advice for implementing with Windows Server 2008

A network share on Windows 7 is as reliable as a network share on Server 2008, although the artificial limitation of 10 concurrent users does apply to non-server OS Network Shares. If I recall correctly, the 10 connection limit was removed in Windows 7, but I could be wrong about this. Ah, I just l...
by rjk
2011-09-15 19:52
Forum: User contributed hMailServer 5 scripts
Topic: Classic ASP WebAdmin - supports most common functions
Replies: 42
Views: 83838

Re: Classic ASP WebAdmin - supports most common functions

I'm planning to integrate AfterLogic webmail in the tool (already started working on that), to get a complete package. I hope you like the code, if you have any suggestions or additions, please mail me.l oo this will be an interesting project, a webmail with all the hmail administration stuff built...
by rjk
2011-09-14 22:45
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Advice for implementing with Windows Server 2008
Replies: 52
Views: 33771

Re: Advice for implementing with Windows Server 2008

+1 here for Server 2008 R2
See my sig for details
by rjk
2011-09-09 20:42
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Trouble connecting client to server
Replies: 7
Views: 6339

Re: Trouble connecting client to server

Looks good from here: OK - 24.113.113.153 resolves to 24-113-113-153.wavecable.com Warning - Reverse DNS does not match SMTP Banner 0 seconds - Good on Connection time Not an open relay. 0.468 seconds - Good on Transaction time If you are going to start using that as your main mail server, you may w...
by rjk
2011-09-09 20:14
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Trouble connecting client to server
Replies: 7
Views: 6339

Re: Trouble connecting client to server

Listening on 0.0.0.0 means that it is listening on all available IP addresses, which is fine. Next thing to check would be the IP range settings - are they at the default? If in doubt, there is a "Default" button that resets them. If you aren't sure, you can post a screenshot of the current settings.
by rjk
2011-09-09 19:52
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Trouble connecting client to server
Replies: 7
Views: 6339

Re: Trouble connecting client to server

For some reason I get disconnected immediately when connecting to any ports. mxtoolbox.com reports similar issues. This is likely due to a misconfigured firewall or NAT device - have you forwarded the ports correctly? It could also be due to a firewall on the machine itself. In any case, I am unable...
by rjk
2011-09-09 19:40
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Trouble connecting client to server
Replies: 7
Views: 6339

Re: Trouble connecting client to server

Help me get this straight - so you are trying to get Gmail to collect mail from your server? Or are you trying to fetch mail from Gmail using hMailServer's builtin POP3 fetch? Or perhaps you are trying to relay through Gmail? In any case, it looks like most of the logging functions are disabled - be...
by rjk
2011-09-09 16:26
Forum: General discussions
Topic: moving the mysql data folder
Replies: 7
Views: 3824

Re: moving the mysql data folder

What version are you running? It appears that you want to move the MySQL data, not the actual email data files. (hm_messages.MYD, hm_messages.MYI)
by rjk
2011-09-08 19:14
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Server time zone
Replies: 4
Views: 4294

Re: Server time zone

First time setting up an email server. Installed hMailserver and squirrelmail everything is working correctly except squirrelmail shows the mail server time is in the incorrect zone and I can't seem to find any way to change that. I used the built in database with hMailserver. Any help would be app...
by rjk
2011-09-08 14:38
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Can send to gmail & yahoo but could not receive from yahoo
Replies: 26
Views: 14412

Re: Can send to gmail & yahoo but could not receive from yah

Name Lower IP Upper IP Priority local 192.168.0.3 192.168.0.3 15 My Computer 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 15 Internet 122.3.158.69 255.255.255.255 15 This does not look like the default. Lower IP default for Internet Range is 0.0.0.0, ad that is likely why you are not getting connections all the time. Gmail...
by rjk
2011-09-02 17:51
Forum: User-submitted tutorials
Topic: HOWTO: Generating DKIM Data for HMS
Replies: 50
Views: 112799

Re: HOWTO: Generating DKIM Data for HMS

Download link does not work? Can someone please upload it again ? ftp://ftp.handymail.ch/pub/hmailserver/hMailServer_SSL_0_9_8j.zip Yes please. Or post the content of the bat file. Would help me a lot. Tnx I can't post the whole thing because of the attachment size limit, but zip included the follo...
by rjk
2011-08-27 00:28
Forum: Off-topic discussions
Topic: Can not Change my Password
Replies: 3
Views: 4886

Re: Can not Change my Password

Just set up the hMailServer's included PHPWebAdmin. Then users can log in by themselves and change anything within their accounts.

Roundcube Webmail also has a password changing plugin available
by rjk
2011-08-26 03:18
Forum: General discussions
Topic: hMail 5.3.3-b1879 mail stops flowing
Replies: 59
Views: 30930

Re: hMail 5.3.3-b1879 mail stops flowing

Can't say that I can help - my server is fully patched and isn't having any such issues.

If you can narrow it down to a certain patch, then that might help determine any root or underlying cause.
by rjk
2011-08-26 02:20
Forum: Feature requests
Topic: Apply IP Range connection policies per inbound port
Replies: 9
Views: 8813

Re: Apply IP Range connection policies per inbound port

I suppose there are some differing points, but if you ignore the bits about StartTLS, they are essentially the same (and something that would be useful even without StartTLS in any case)
by rjk
2011-08-23 00:30
Forum: General discussions
Topic: question about hmailserver
Replies: 1
Views: 2087

Re: question about hmailserver

So... do you like your spam raw or fried? :lol:
by rjk
2011-08-22 20:01
Forum: Development & alpha discussions
Topic: 5.4 Beta Error
Replies: 5
Views: 7465

Re: 5.4 Beta Error

Did you get this error before the upgrade, or after the upgrade to 5.4?
by rjk
2011-08-22 18:34
Forum: Feature requests
Topic: Require encrypted connection for SMTP authentication
Replies: 2
Views: 4836

Re: Require encrypted connection for SMTP authentication

This is interesting - perhaps it could be implemented as a tickbox: 'Allow authentication on this port'. And, if it is disabled and a client tries to Auth, hMailServer could disconnect them with an 'Invalid Command' message.
by rjk
2011-08-22 18:22
Forum: Development & alpha discussions
Topic: Do you use hmailserver 5.4?
Replies: 71
Views: 81908

Re: Do you use hmailserver 5.4?

And it includes 7zip! Tested and working great!
by rjk
2011-08-22 18:20
Forum: Feature requests
Topic: email delivery to single folder
Replies: 3
Views: 4091

Re: email delivery to single folder

This is by design, to prevent an excess of files in one folder. The automatic folder names are the first 2 letters of the GUID which is used in the name of the .eml file, so there will never be more than 256 folders per user. This behavior cannot be changed.
by rjk
2011-08-17 03:46
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Can I make senders connect to my hMailServer securely?
Replies: 25
Views: 17735

Re: Can I make senders connect to my hMailServer securely?

I understand what you're saying. But if the messages are sent by an authenticated user via SSL to my server, and all IMAP and POP connections to the server are encrypted, then theoretically it should never go to port 25 where it is unencrypted, right? I know that it won't do anything to protect ext...
by rjk
2011-08-17 03:43
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Service can only be run manually?!?
Replies: 4
Views: 3661

Re: Service can only be run manually?!?

Were the updates only Windows updates, or did you also install a newer/later version of MySQL? If there were table errors, perhaps a disk check could flag up some issues.
by rjk
2011-08-16 01:22
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Can I make senders connect to my hMailServer securely?
Replies: 25
Views: 17735

Re: Can I make senders connect to my hMailServer securely?

vinceanderson wrote:And lastly if the messages come in unencrypted over SMTP port 25, does it really do any good to use SSL for retrieving messages from the server?
The only reason to do this is to protect your users' passwords from being passed in the clear. This is a good reason to use it though.
by rjk
2011-08-11 15:13
Forum: Off-topic discussions
Topic: Forum DB is broken
Replies: 1
Views: 3505

Forum DB is broken

I tried sending Martin an email (martin at hmailserver dot com) but I got a bounce (Error: Host name: 83.169.11.240, message: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it). There are a few errors in the forum here - I can't read some topics and occasionally I cannot con...
by rjk
2011-08-04 19:49
Forum: Development & alpha discussions
Topic: I am alive
Replies: 32
Views: 27423

Re: I am alive

Bill48105 wrote:Thanks for that but might be better posted up in the scripting section maybe instead of as a response to here..
...
Anyway, as I said probably best to post this up in user contributed scripts or scripting section & we can discuss it there.
Thx
Bill
by rjk
2011-08-04 14:34
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Where to find log for mail sent?
Replies: 5
Views: 3912

Re: Where to find log for mail sent?

If you have a catch-all enabled, the spammer might be trying random combinations of addresses and you are getting the result of that. If you disable catch-all, the spammer will instantly get a 'user not found' message (or one to that effect), and they might be more likely to give up. EDIT: My bad, I...
by rjk
2011-07-28 14:31
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Rules not work
Replies: 31
Views: 15625

Re: Rules not work

It looks like your relay is IceWarp, but the problem is it is still on your network. You can correct your PTR, or you should go though an external relay such as one commonly provided by your ISP.
by rjk
2011-07-28 14:20
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Rules not work
Replies: 31
Views: 15625

Re: Rules not work

You might have missed it in the log, but Gmail gave you this error message: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10336 It appears that you will need to fix your reverse DNS (PTR) records to match your hostname before Gmail will allow you to send to them. As suggested by Gmail, you mig...
by rjk
2011-07-27 16:54
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Trouble
Replies: 1
Views: 2200

Re: Trouble

"SENT: 530 SMTP authentication is required." It is telling you right there that you need to be authenticated to send email. If your client does not have any way to authenticate, you might be able to create an IP range to allow it to send with no authentication. However you should use authentication...
by rjk
2011-07-27 16:51
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Rules not work
Replies: 31
Views: 15625

Re: Rules not work

There is a weird character showing on the gmail address after the d in that log. What is it? I suspect that is the cause of your problems. filipe.nanclarez@dgmail.com. I suspect since he is using telnet, that those characters are showing whenever he hits backspace to fix an error. That is an issue ...
by rjk
2011-07-27 16:47
Forum: Feature requests
Topic: Define where the user can send his emails
Replies: 7
Views: 6204

Re: request for feature

There is no such thing as "internal domain". I suspect that first choice was to restrict sending to own domain. Please note that there is no safe way to differentiate between "own domain" and "all local domains". You can't trust From:, if user is not authenticated. If connection is not authenticate...
by rjk
2011-07-25 21:20
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Successfull attack in progress
Replies: 2
Views: 2564

Re: Successfull attack in progress

Either someone has broken in to your SSH tunnel, or else external-to-external authentication has been disabled somehow.
by rjk
2011-07-25 19:43
Forum: General discussions
Topic: MySQL installation section may want to be upgraded?
Replies: 5
Views: 4612

Re: MySQL installation section may want to be upgraded?

tgp1994 wrote:Oh, CPanel does that? Yikes.
I haven't tried Cpanel on Windows, but on Linux you have to use a special Cpanel widget to create databases, you can't create them with PHPmyAdmin.
by rjk
2011-07-25 19:41
Forum: Development & alpha discussions
Topic: I am alive
Replies: 32
Views: 27423

Re: I am alive

Good to hear from you, Martin!
I think 7z would be a useful addition to 5.4.1 :)
by rjk
2011-07-25 14:44
Forum: General discussions
Topic: MySQL installation section may want to be upgraded?
Replies: 5
Views: 4612

Re: MySQL installation section may want to be upgraded?

Yes I have always wondered why it is like it is now. This might also help people with shared hosting or something similar to that, where they may not be able to create a database in the normal manner using the root credentials (Cpanel comes to mind)