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hMailServer 4.4, Build 270 (Beta)

Post by martin » 2007-04-09 19:16

New beta available here:
http://www.hmailserver.com/?page=downlo ... loadid=138

Following changes have been made:
  • Administrator: Minor GUI problem in External accounts dialog.
  • Administrator: When adding a new DNS blacklist or SURBL server, it was possible to two objects with the same name. This had the effect that you got a "Duplicate key" error message and had to restart the service.
If no big problem is found in this build, it will be put up as a stable version.
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Post by mbreitba » 2007-04-11 17:17

Martin - Just wanted to let you know that we've upgraded our main server to B270 as of today. We did have a problem with B268 two days ago when it approached 1GB of memory used. It crashed hard, and restarted. It still tends to use a lot of memory, and still crashes when it nears 1GB of memory used, and around 1 million or so messages processed.

If you want, we had FULL logging turned on (everything except awstats) so I could get you that log if you wanted it.

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Post by martin » 2007-04-11 17:51

Alright. If you could send that log to me (at martin@hmailserver.com) it may be useful.

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Post by mbreitba » 2007-04-13 01:46

Martin,
Just wanted to let you know (in case you didn't see it already) that I emailed you a link to a bunch of logs. They're most likely overkill, but there appears to be about 2-3 hours of affected use. Hopefully there will be something in there that will be of use.

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Post by martin » 2007-04-13 19:03

Yes, I received it. I will analyze the logs to tomorrow to see what I can find.

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Post by mbreitba » 2007-04-13 19:04

No problem at all. Thanks for taking a look at it whenever you get a chance.

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Post by Slug » 2007-04-16 07:15

I have started getting the following error on B270. It has only been the last 2 or so days and it only seems to be with one ISP that rejects my mail. Error below.

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Sent: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:06:08 +1000
Subject: 829583460

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

xxxxx@tpg.com.au
Error Type: SMTP
Remote server (203.12.160.122) issued an error.
hMailServer sent: RCPT TO:<xxxxx@tpg.com.au>
Remote server replied: 550 5.7.1 <xxxxx@tpg.com.au>... recipient denied, because MX 0 'mail.mjbcontrols.com.au.' [203.171.76.46] for <xxxxx@yyyyy.com.au> did not accept the empty address, <>, as required by RFC 821, 1123, 2505, and 2821



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I havent touched anything for a very long time, and yes "allow empty sender address" IS ticked off.

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Post by Slug » 2007-04-16 07:22

Ok I think I have solved this. It looks like the ISP in question is listed on a DNSBL. So when it sends the back <> email to me it gets rejected because of the DNSBL

So to the ISP I don't accept empty sender addresses. hence they then reject my mail :shock:

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Post by martin » 2007-04-16 07:43

Correct, you need to enable "Allow empty sender address". This is enabled by default.

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Post by ^DooM^ » 2007-04-16 09:25

I had a similar issue a while back (Not on 270) where my boss wanted adding to a mailing list and it did some basic verification by connecting to the email address as <> to make sure it existed and of course it failed. I have since allowed empty sender addresses and all has been fine.

How dare they not all conform to my way of thinking :P

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Post by Slug » 2007-04-16 09:32

martin wrote:Correct, you need to enable "Allow empty sender address". This is enabled by default.
Hi Martin

As I said "Allow empty sender address" is and always has been enabled, it just that the other mail server is listed on a DNSBL.

I wonder how long it will be listed for ??? :?

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Post by martin » 2007-04-16 12:34

> yes "allow empty sender address" IS ticked off. >

> As I said "Allow empty sender address" is and always has been enabled

I understood that as it was "off", not ticked "on". :)

I guess you'll have to contact them and ask them to unlist themselves from the DNS blacklist...

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Post by Slug » 2007-04-16 14:33

martin wrote:> yes "allow empty sender address" IS ticked off. >

> As I said "Allow empty sender address" is and always has been enabled

I understood that as it was "off", not ticked "on". :)
Yes I could have worded it a little differant. Thants why I replied to you... :lol:

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Post by Frog » 2007-04-17 15:19

Slug - one thing I'd mention is that the UCEprotect blacklist you recommend using has been giving us a lot of false positives and 550 errors. Hope that may be of help.

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Post by Slug » 2007-04-18 04:05

Frog wrote:Slug - one thing I'd mention is that the UCEprotect blacklist you recommend using has been giving us a lot of false positives and 550 errors. Hope that may be of help.
Funny you should mention that, as it is UCEprotect that has them listed. All I can suggest is that one of their customers has got them listed.

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Post by Frog » 2007-04-18 04:46

UCEprotect also seems to be the cause of our 'message not sent/received from hotmail' problem!

Wonder if I can now de-hijack this thread :( Sorry OP + martin!

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Post by ^DooM^ » 2007-04-18 10:09

I had to remove UCEProtect to as it was flagging lots of my legit mail.

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Post by mbreitba » 2007-04-18 18:56

Martin - just had another crash. Going through logs right now to get the important parts trimmed down to send to you. Looks like it stopped doing SPAM protection about 1-1.5 hours ago (traffic to our SpamAssassin cluster dropped off completely). I'll get you everything I can.

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Post by Hosters.at » 2007-04-22 11:41

i dont know if that have somethinh to do with Hmailserver, but since 3 Versions now, my Php Mailscripts take very long to send mails........i have changed nothing on them, anyone have an idea?

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Post by ^DooM^ » 2007-04-22 11:43

Are you using clamwin?

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Post by Hosters.at » 2007-04-22 13:18

yes i am

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Post by ^DooM^ » 2007-04-22 13:35

I would suggest disabling it and trying your scripts again. I can 99% guarantee that is the cause of the slowdown.

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Post by Hosters.at » 2007-04-22 22:25

i have try it, its the same

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Post by ^DooM^ » 2007-04-23 01:46

Are you sure you have disabled it? Check task manager when your php scripts are running. Also how many worker threads have you set in hmail admin?

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Post by Hosters.at » 2007-04-23 06:52

where i can set this options`?

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Post by Hosters.at » 2007-04-26 18:27

i have tried arround but still the same problem. can you tell me your settings?

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Post by ^DooM^ » 2007-04-26 18:49

I don't scan my outbound emails from my php scripts. because of the slowdown clamwin caused. I setup a separate installation on a second hmail server purely for outgoing email.

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Post by Aldoir » 2007-04-27 00:30

DooM, you can speed up your setup with a Service version of clamav, there are some tutorials here

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Post by ^DooM^ » 2007-04-27 02:29

Yes I know ;) Clamwin works fine on my regular server. If it ever becomes an issue I will switch out to ClamAV but for now it will do and I have a dedicated outgoing mail server as well. It also helps doing it with 2 servers whereby I don't cause a huge queue for normal incoming and outgoing email at the same time as I am sending out newsletters ;)

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