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by g_attrill
Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:34 pm
Forum: MailEnable Standard Edition
Topic: MailEnable POP Service keeps stopping
Replies: 8
Views: 12162

I had the same error message (MEAISP.DLL not found) when installing the hotfix on version 1.98 - this is a somewhat serious bug because it crashes the installer and leaves not only the ME services stopped but also IIS/W3SVC.
by g_attrill
Fri Jun 09, 2006 12:28 pm
Forum: MailEnable Standard Edition
Topic: Which blackists are reliable?
Replies: 4
Views: 9329

Also change the Spamhaus domain to sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, the XBL is a very good list too.

Gareth
by g_attrill
Thu May 04, 2006 5:37 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Mail loop - possible bug?
Replies: 0
Views: 4564

Mail loop - possible bug?

Hi, I had some heavy load on a server today and found it was a mail loop (spamassassin was going nuts). It was triggered by what seems to be a broken message sent by a "NetPilot" device used by somebody we host email for. It is a PC based router/mailserver/firewall used by small businesses. I should...
by g_attrill
Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:36 pm
Forum: MailEnable Professional Edition
Topic: 1.74 - DNS Blacklisting - MAJOR ISSUE
Replies: 11
Views: 16283

I can't help with the specific problem, but I have always deleted the unused DNSBLs in the registry - there is an ordered list of names and then some keys with the parameters for each DNSBL. I only use Spamhaus and my own list of country zones (running on BIND), it seems to work pretty well. One sna...
by g_attrill
Thu Aug 25, 2005 3:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Recover Email from .MAI files
Replies: 5
Views: 21821

Another solution is to rename them from .MAI to .EML and Outlook Express will open them fine.

Gareth
by g_attrill
Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:02 am
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Processing of DNS blacklists
Replies: 2
Views: 7418

For blackholes.us lists I would recommend setting up Bind on the server and run the zones yourself - this is much more reliable and you can even set up a custom zone and add your own IP addresses to block.

Gareth
by g_attrill
Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:35 pm
Forum: Third Party Applications
Topic: Blocking China (spam)
Replies: 10
Views: 70748

This is easy - either add cn-kr.blackholes.us as a DNS blacklist or install ISC Bind DNS server and add the zone files from http://www.blackholes.us/

I block from about 6 countries so I copied all the zones into a single zone and run it as a single blacklist entry.

Gareth
by g_attrill
Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: SMTP delay when using blacklisting
Replies: 3
Views: 9524

Here are some entries from the log file. The W3 standard log file indicates that a valid RCPT command was received and that the remote server disconnected before ME validated the address. The annoying thing is that the manual DNS lookups seem to be returned very quickly but no good reason why it tak...
by g_attrill
Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:13 am
Forum: General
Topic: SMTP delay when using blacklisting
Replies: 3
Views: 9524

SMTP delay when using blacklisting

Hi, I have noticed that when blacklisting is enabled there is a large delay between RCPT TO and the "completed message", something over 10 seconds. This is when using any blacklist - even just one on BIND running on the local machine. I also tested it by running queries from nslookup and random SBL-...
by g_attrill
Mon Dec 01, 2003 9:10 pm
Forum: MailEnable Professional Edition
Topic: which blacklist should i use?
Replies: 15
Views: 24715

A domain hosted on my server had an attack - they were using "a_random_name@victimsdomain.co.uk" as the sender's address. I had a catchall set up on the domain but luckily noticed the attack early and switched it off! Last time I looked (a week ago, about a week afterwards) it was still getting 60/h...