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by fmaxwell
Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:22 pm
Forum: MailEnable Professional Edition
Topic: does ME support mail aliases?
Replies: 16
Views: 25881

Re: does ME support mail aliases?

Hi all, this is something i asked about a while back (before 2.0 was released). I'm wondering if 2.0 supports mail aliases? for example, if you have a gmail address of something@gmail.com, you can also use something+abc@gmail.com as your address. You can append anything after the plus mark and it w...
by fmaxwell
Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:35 pm
Forum: MailEnable Professional Edition
Topic: HELP! My domain is being "joe-jobbed"
Replies: 2
Views: 6150

HELP! My domain is being "joe-jobbed"

For the past two weeks, I've been getting bounce messages in my catchall address because some spammer is forging random addresses at my domain as his sender address. I cannot turn off catchall because I have given out hundreds of unique addresses by which I can be reached. Each unique address is pre...
by fmaxwell
Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:44 am
Forum: MailEnable Standard Edition
Topic: NDR/DSN messages not using null reverse path (<>)
Replies: 2
Views: 4648

Agreed!

I agree and would like to see this problem resolved.
by fmaxwell
Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:10 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Better spam filtering
Replies: 5
Views: 14177

How do you verify the domain existence with ME Pro? I get many spam messages with bogus from addresses like "great offer" or "great.offer", this check would help me get rid of them. There is a tab called "Security" in the SMTP connector properties. Under that tab, the option that you want is called...
by fmaxwell
Sat Nov 26, 2005 12:57 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Provide DNS Service as Part of MailEnable
Replies: 0
Views: 4204

Provide DNS Service as Part of MailEnable

How about providing a DNS-based blacklist service using something like rbldnsd* ( http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/rbldnsd.html ) as the basis for it? Creating a local DNS-based blacklist server based on rbldnsd format files would allow MailEnable to scrap proprietary code for processing SMTP Deny blacklist...
by fmaxwell
Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:44 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Better spam filtering
Replies: 5
Views: 14177

Re: Better spam filtering

one big thing is missing in the MailEnable Enterprise Edition. The integration of a good spam filter like SpamAssassin. That's a very bad spam filter because it is applied after the spam is received and it has already wasted your bandwidth. The idea when fighting spam is to block it so that your ma...
by fmaxwell
Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:57 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Need greater control over SMTP log file entries.
Replies: 0
Views: 3879

Need greater control over SMTP log file entries.

I currently have my DNS blacklists configured (via the registry entry) to deny on connect. I also have IP addresses in the SMTP-DENY.tab file. Dealing with a couple of persistent Asian spammers has revealed a problem: Each time that a connection is denied, an entry gets written to the SMTP activity ...
by fmaxwell
Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:40 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Need Ability to Comment and Sort IP Addresses
Replies: 6
Views: 10293

We have begun extending the schema for banned IP addresses to include a description, expiry etc (in fact it was commenced some time ago). The reason it was/has not been released is because some third party applications had issues with the extended schema. That's great news! As you know, I've been w...
by fmaxwell
Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:12 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Need Ability to Comment and Sort IP Addresses
Replies: 6
Views: 10293

MailEnable wrote:Which TAB file did you add this too?
I entered it right through the MMC interface for the SMTP properties under Access Control.

Thanks for the quick response, by the way.
by fmaxwell
Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:43 am
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Need Ability to Comment and Sort IP Addresses
Replies: 6
Views: 10293

It looks like comments can be used already!

As an experiment, I added a record to my access control list. It was:

Code: Select all

203.73.229.82 Taiwanese spammer. Won't go away.
It worked! Subsequent attempts by the persistent spammer were denied.

MailEnable team: Is this by design? Does this kind of commented entry pose any potential problems?
by fmaxwell
Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:21 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Indicate On Which Blacklist an IP Address Was Found
Replies: 4
Views: 10882

Actuall, that's a good suggestion. And as a developer, it's NO problem to put that in place... since there's already a check in place everything's in place to just output that data instead of doing nothing further with it. Nice!!! Thanks. I'm a developer, too (20+ years in embedded systems). I figu...
by fmaxwell
Mon Oct 03, 2005 4:11 am
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: New Option: No SMTP Service For IP Addresses on Blacklists
Replies: 0
Views: 4000

New Option: No SMTP Service For IP Addresses on Blacklists

There are currently two options for dropping connections after a DNS blacklist is found to list the IP address connected to the MailEnable server: 1. Drop after the RCPT to. This results in a "554 Message refused" response. 2. Drop at connect, which results in a "421 ESMTP Service refused connection...
by fmaxwell
Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:54 am
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Indicate On Which Blacklist an IP Address Was Found
Replies: 4
Views: 10882

Indicate On Which Blacklist an IP Address Was Found

When one changes the registry setting so that blacklisted IP addresses are dropped at connection time, the message that appears in the activity log after a drop is like the following example: 421 ESMTP Service refused connection at 10/02/05 22:40:58 because source IP (217.8.81.146) appears in blackl...
by fmaxwell
Sun Oct 02, 2005 5:25 pm
Forum: MailEnable Standard Edition
Topic: MMC Problem: Is it just my installation?
Replies: 3
Views: 4188

Thanks, Andrew, for that very quick investigation and reply.

I figured that it was probably not a cause for serious concern, but I just hate mysteries when it comes to computers.
by fmaxwell
Sun Oct 02, 2005 8:53 am
Forum: MailEnable Standard Edition
Topic: MMC Problem: Is it just my installation?
Replies: 3
Views: 4188

MMC Problem: Is it just my installation?

(Originally posted to Pro, but thought that it might also be applicable to Standard) While using the ME management console, I highlighted, in the left hand pane: MailEnable/MailEnable Management/Servers/Connectors/SMTP/Logs/Activity I then selected the "View" drop-down menu. There was a mysterious,...