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Lex,

I am trying to identify attachments in incoming mail. For instance, if an incoming mail has an attachment "SAMPLE.PDF", I would like to simply add a header. So, I have the following statement in RULES.MER:

If attachment ExtnPart contains "pdf" AddHeader "SpamCheck: !PDF!" 

The message is not moved / copied in filtering process. But this does not add any header as I want.

Also, the following command

if body contains ".pdf" weight 31 

in content control file SPAMBUS.DAT does not generate the weightage.

What may be the cause?

I am not receiving email from this topic. Why?

Francisco 

[quote]Mercury will presumably blacklist the IP of the local proxy, causing itself to not receive any mail anymore for the time of the short-term blacklisting (30 minutes AFAIK).[/quote]

Good point.  I'll watch out for that.

Of course, I would rather have the patch out now than wait for all the bells and whistles.

thanks for that will try it later

[quote user="Tons0fun"]Ok, I am indeed running a dynamic IP system using dydns to redirect all traffic to my server. Unfortunately the email relay service is a little rich for my blood, any suggestions?
[/quote]

 1.   Set both a PTR and MX host record for this host name and try again.

 2.    Use MercuryC and send via the ISP's SMTP host.

Yeah, might be my avast doing that. It does pop up when I launch IE and shows Script blocker... but the software is good :).

10 minutes later: Thanks :)! I disabled scan outgoing mail, and now I can send mail :). Thank you :)!

20 minutes later: I can send, but I can't telnet into port 25 :D lol, I sent a test mail successfully, but I can't telnet... Could not open connection to the host, on port 25...

But thanks anyways, I have gotten it working now :)! 

Confirmed that mx ip and not hostname that has A-records.

You can easily use:  to check on any domain you have problems with. Their report is mostly accurate and very informative. DNS report in this case says: "MX is host name, not IP" which is somewhat misleading.

From what I understand the client issued a FETCH FLAGS command to get a listing of all messages in the Inbox, and this is part of the reply. There appears to be no request to download message headers or body in this log extract, though.

Do you get the same result with another email client than Outlook Express?

 /Rolf
 

Thanks

Found the problem...

 I'd ran out of disk space!!!

It still leaves my query about unread messages but, as it is un-related to this topic I'll open a new thread.

 
Cheers
 

Yes the decision is that we do want to use our company logo in our signature.   We can do it in the client but if we did it in the server it would be easier to enforce.

great to hear. // I just used a batch to test various settings - in Mercury I'll naturally go with the commandline straight into Nod32.

Thanks for your help.

Hi,

I did a few suggestions, i did enter my IP inside the range as an ipadres allowing to send through this mailserver.

I for some reason put a slash between the name and the password, i corrected that (don't know why i did that) and from this point on i put the options on

I did turned the settings in connection control on from top to bottom....

If i turn the last one (Only authenticated...) then the top two option grey out, doing so resulted in this reaction from the Mercury server...

Connection from 80.126.108.7, Sat Jan 12 20:10:55 2008
EHLO [10.11.12.1]
MAIL FROM:<> SIZE=483
RCPT TO:<myname@gmail.com>
553 We do not relay without RFC2554 authentication.
QUIT
1 sec. elapsed, connection closed Sat Jan 12 20:10:56 2008

Connection from 122.126.239.29, Sat Jan 12 20:11:15 2008
HELO 80.126.108.7
554 Invalid HELO format
1 sec. elapsed, connection closed Sat Jan 12 20:11:16 2008

I turned the bottom option off, and from that point everything seems to work fine....

I hope it stays this way, Gentelmen, thanks for your advise and patience... a lot of patience i guess...

Anne

Understood, thanks for the link.

A.

I also have problems with this.

I found another post  http://community.pmail.com/forums/post/3553.aspx
but noboby helped

That's one reason I should never use Mercury in my own organization. Nobody is able to reply to a simple question and help files are useless.

anyone please? Why the option "disable header stripping" is not working? Is there a way?

When someone sends an email to list@mydomain.com and to: john@mydomain.com and cc:mike@mydomain.com. Why Mercury strips john@ and mike@ and makes impossible the recipient reply to all. is there a way?

Anyone please? Mercury developer?? anybody home??
 

All over the news here today is the new US wiretap law. Quite a few internet spokesmen here in Sweden see this as a coming police state. More english backround here:

Now on to my question: Is it possible to incorporate personal and individual encryption onto Mercury? Meaning that users can collaborate their own encryption methods at the maildrop level instead of at the client?

Agreed, I have seen the same issues with some mail servers that treat 45x responses as a failure and NEVER retry.

Also, I did a bit of research when I tried out GrayWall and found that some of the spambots, spam relays and proxies have now been updated to retry when they see a 45x error. This means that the spammers and malware authors are starting to adapt once more.

If you want to see my blog posting about my initial results using GrayWall it can be found here:

At the moment I have disabled GrayWall. I may give it another go later this year to see if the bad guys and girls have adapted their creations any further.

Hope this is of interest?

Regards,

Martin

[quote user="PaulW"]

Another configuration that has been used with success when you do not have the backup servers under your control, is to have the highest MX the same as the primary MX.  Malware will be stopped as usual by the primary, while the real backup servers will be relaying mainly good mail.

[/quote]

I've just tried this with my domain and it seems to be pretty effective.  I usually have about 150-200 spams in the spam account each morning and the last two days this has been reduced to about 80.  I color the spam that comes in via the MX host and that is much reduced.  On the negative side, more and more spammers are retrying and so get through the Graywall. ;-(