Debug log for all add-ons is a good idea - will try that...

And you are right, David will most likely be the only one who could tell what is going on. He should introduce a new feature "write the stack trace in case of a crash to the disc" in the next version. Every major server software has that and with that you can see exactly what code crashed ;-)

Thanks for your feedback!

Konrad

[quote user="pnchurch"]

Hi All

This is my first post I believe on this forum. Being a reasonably technical user I have been using Pegasus and Mecury on and off since 1996.

 I am in the process of trying to move all my existing email users from another mail server to Mercury and am using my email account as the guinea pig. I am having some problems with authentication that I really need to iron out before I can make the system live.

 I would like to have the options of either POP or IMAP available. I have a static IP address range which is allocated to the server.

 I have POP and IMAP configured with SSL certificates from Mercury.

I am now having the following error message displayed when using Pegasus:

*] Connection established to 87.127.57.70
>> 0061 +OK <>, POP3 server ready.
<< 0006 STLS
>> 0034 +OK Begin SSL/TLS negotiation...
22: Error -41 activating SSL session (locus 6014, type 4, 'No data was read because the remote system closed the connection (recv() == 0)ÌÌ')[/quote]

What is in the MercuryP session log? Do you get the same problem using IMAP?

[quote]If I turn off SSL I can logon no problem from Pegasus but not from other mail clients. I cannot logon from other mail clients when using SSL or non-SSL. I need to be able to let clients logon from Outlook 2010 and Apple Mail to make this live.

 Any suggestions as to what I should check or further details that I could upload that would help diagnose this?[/quote]

This seems to be a completely different problem if it happens without SSL.  Again the session log is needed to diagnose this.

Note: before posting session logs here, blank out any username and password - even if they look encrypted.

For folders you can use the mbxmaint or mbxmaint_ui utilities that are included with Mercury to find and fix errors (the first one is a command-line tool, the second one has a normal user interface). For the mailbox structure the best is to have Mercury recreate it (if not multi-layered). If just renaming the HIERARCH.PM file didn't do it, you could try something like this:

- Make sure there are no open connections to the mailbox.

- Rename or move away HIERARCH.PM, STATE.PMJ and IMAPSUB.PM (if it exists).

- Connect to the mailbox with an IMAP client, and check the new HIERARCH.PM file that was created. You could do it with Pegasus first, just to exclude the possibility that Outlook or Thunderbird does something unexpected.

/Rolf 

... and you DON'T need a telnet SERVER!

You can use the telnet CLIENT to test a (unencrypted) connection to smtp, pop or imap servers.

Hi,

Thanks all for the help.  This should work out great. 

MP

Hi,

Sometimes my Mercury/32 stuck and must be closed and server restarted.

Sometimes (after this) all old e-mail that users has allready downloaded (but not deleted) are suddenly resent, causing problems when they are some hundred or thousand.

I does not figure where put hands to understand the origin of problem, so ask for hints ...

Thanks.

ALex.

ClamAV 0.97.8 is available.

From the announcement:

"ClamAV 0.97.8 addresses several reported potential security bugs. Thanks to Felix Groebert of the Google Security Team for finding and reporting these issues."

Windows files available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamav/files/clamav/win32/

I missed the part about the IP interface restrictions, sorry about that. It's rarely a good idea for a server to only respond to traffic from the server itself. But did you actually get any response on port 25 on server1.thosforums.com when connecting with Telnet? It just times out when I try it.

/Rolf 

Thanks for the clarification Brian.

I'm needing to check so many messages for the same reason as you, checking the Spam account for false positives.

Regards

Richard

Thanks for the replies... I got this .net when my .com was being blasted by spam... The .net was clean for 2 years til this so they found me again and I wanted to know what they found so I could be proactive...

Thank you everyone for this Wonderful mail server and all your dedication!!!

If using MercuryE for SMTP delivery Mercury will rely on the routing settings in Windows for reaching external destinations. Any firewall or proxy server will need to be set to allow traffic through port 25. Additionally, the Internet provider must not be blocking port 25. If port 25 for some reason can't be used the alternative is to use MercuryC and relay outgoing messages through the Internet provider's SMTP server.

/Rolf 

Thanks Paul and Rolf and sorry for the delay to reply, too much work these days.

[quote user="PaulW"]

But how can you avoid creating backscatter - sending a reply to a 'spoofed' address?

[/quote]

Sure, but the alternative is too have wrong addresses mails not sent back to the senders, then the sender may think that his/her mail was received.

I tried to link a rule to the 'misc' mailbox but it is not seen as a mailbox linked to a user by Mercury, it 's just seen as a garbage folder.

I'm trying to write a program  that would process the .cnm files recorded in this folder and would send back a bounce message to most of them (but not to the bounce messages senders, ie mailer-daemon) and then would delete those files, the program would run each hour as a scheduled task.

Regards

[quote user="Konrad Hammerer"]

At the moment, I'm just thinking about a secured connection, not a secured content.[/quote]

I've always wondered what the purpose of that is for server to server connections?

I'm not using that part of list handling either but two things to check could be that the unsubscribe message was sent as plain text (not HTML) and that the sender was in fact registered as a member of that list.

/Rolf 

Well, something in the message didn't agree with Outlook, Mercury, Exchange or some antivirus software that may have been someplace in between, but it's unfortunately rather impossible to say more than that without examining the message itself.

/Rolf 

The idea behind such messages is to trick a reputable mail server to re-send a spam message (as part of the non-delivery notification) to the real recipient, placed in the reply-to header of the message. This rather common phenomena is known as backscatter.

/Rolf 

I guess that this has the same effect as the debug switch in the clamd config file and I already tried that. Did not result in any more useful information...

Konrad

Failed to mention that my first rule is one that stops filter processing if the message originates from our local domain.  I don't want to disable it in the production environment so need to figure out another option.  I haven't taken time to look at it since my initial test.  It may be a mute point since I haven't received one of these crasher messages in several days.  I'm hoping so.

I'am agree with Phil..you can use Pegasus Mail to search very easy [*-)]

Many thanks!