Really? It shouldn't have let me install it their then... Oh bloody hell this software is truly becoming pathetic. I'm moving on.. Thanks guys.

There is a removal form here:

http://barracudacentral.org/rbl/removal-request

Make sure MercuryS is set to use strict relaying restrictions before removing.

/Rolf

Ok, I actually take that last post back...

It works to an extent.

So far it only works with Yahoo and other normal email providers, however i tried using "mynumber@vtext.com" and it keeps giving me connection error.

 I configured mercury on my local system. However, when I try to send mail it get struck in 'pending' mode.

Answer Section:
    guerrillamailblock.com, A, 184.154.136.50
    guerrillamailblock.com, MX, 0, guerrillamailblock.com
    guerrillamailblock.com, NS, ns2.jobboardhosting.com
    guerrillamailblock.com, NS, ns1.jobboardhosting.com

This is a valid host with a valid MX record.  The first thing that comes to mind is that you are trying to use MercuryE to send the mail and you do not have a valid fixed IP address and registered host name.  The other very good possibility is that your ISP is blocking port 25.  Convert to MercuryC and use your ISPs SMTP host as a relay host.

Hey guys, thanks for the reply.

What I did was copy the MAIL, LOGS and SESSIONS folder over to the new installation directory, and just reconfigured everything manually (as there may be new settings in the newer version).

Everything is tip top. Thank you. :)

[quote user="dilberts_left_nut"]

Maybe I'm missing what you are trying to achieve.

How often would the rule need to be modified?

I would either modify the source template and regenerate the rules, or use something like the following to replace the rule in each .rul file.

for %a in (*.rul) do copy /y %a temp && cat temp | sed "s/oldstring/newstring/" > %a

This uses 'cat' (probably inappropriately, but I'm fuzzy on the sed syntax ;)) & 'sed' from Gnu tools for windows, but there may be a (nastier?) way to do it with native tools.

[/quote]

It's for a high school, I'll have many rules whose 'root' won't be modified ('root' is for me the top of the rule where is the filtering process), the only thing that will be modified is the forward addresses, but it will be completely renewed once a year. That's why I would have prefer to have all this filtering process (same for all rules: check if the sender is allowed) in a separate rule that could be ran from within the main rule, if I want to modify the filtering process I'd just have to modify one rule.

BTW I won't do it via  batch but vbscript.

Regards

Hi,

 I'd like to configure ClamWall to ban e-mails with ZIP files that contain EXE files (or other dangerous file types).

Any tips on how to do that?  Or (if not possible with ClamWall) block them with Mercury filtering rules?

Thanks

Ron

Please note Thomas' recommendation to change the password to something that hasn't been published on the Internet! Otherwise the server will soon be relaying lots of spam and become blacklisted.

/Rolf

[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]

If 'user' (local address 'user@mydomain.me') has an alias on

'user@outside.you' and receives a mail whose to: field was only 'user'

it is not redirected to the alias address.

How could I change

this? I've a lot of aliases and I would prefer to have a setting on

Mercury saying: if there is no domain name in the To: field then add

'@default.domain' and check the aliases.

Since an alias test is a string match using the e-mail address in it's simplest form the only way I can see to do this is to setup the alias user == user@outside.you.  [/quote]

If there is no solution within Mercury that's what I'm going to do, a script to add 'user  == user@outside.you' when there is a line 'user@mydomain.me == user@outside.you' and modify the way I process the datas when a user creates his/her own alias.

[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]

If you are using a system address book though you might be able to setup the user "USER" with an e-mail address USER@mydomain.me so when a user used this e-mail address is would be resolved in the address book to a full e-mail address. 

 [/quote]

But not all my users are in an AB (too many users, too difficult to script it when I create/remove a user), and there is not only PM which generates emails, our copying machines send some also...

Thanks for your help

The From header in the autoreply message will be the address the original message was sent to. Mercury won't attempt to normalize it in any way.

If you want to control this in some special way you can use a templated autoreply file, which will allow you to specify headers yourself. Have a look in Mercury help for more information about this.

/Rolf

When running Mercury as a service a newer version of the HTTP server should be used. This version communicates with Mercury via a command interface daemon, and works with Windows session 0 isolation. It can be downloaded here:

http://downloads.serieguide.se/webtools.zip

There isn't any support for mailing list settings, unfortunately. 

/Rolf 

Hello to all

As the subject suggests I'm trying to find a way of detecting multiple numbers of 'to' address's in the incoming CC field. If this is possible I want to reject a message, send it back to the originator with a message saying something like 'to many addresses in the CC (or to) field etc. and suggest they use Bcc. My reasons for hoping to adopt this are that sometimes the number of addresses in the to or CC field are larger than the actual message itself, it's bad etiquette regarding peoples privacy and it can be haven for harvesters I understand.

Many thanks in advance

Regards

Ron

Have a look at Petr Jaklin's POPwatch daemon here:

Additionally, Mercury 4.73 will introduce some new security functionality to prevent brute force hacking of POP3 accounts.

/Rolf 

I expect that is more or less what will happen. Still, those parts of the code that relies on random numbers will have to be identified and tested, so it will need some time even if existing number generator code is used.

/Rolf 

AHA, Mr Stephenson, you ever bubbling fountain of knowledge.

I had been looking for this feature, but searches on "delay" and "schedule" came back fruitless. I was familiar with it in the old NOVEL day, but thought that it had fallen by the wayside since then.

This is just what I need to make it all work.

Many thanks

> Hello, on first, sorry for my English, i come from Spain.
> I have installed mercury with a SMTP of Gmail. It works correctly, but i received the messages from my account of Gmail.
> I'd like to have several webpages with sendmail, and id like to hide my email address and put "From Webmail" or something similar.
>  How can i do it ???

GMail does change the From address to the address of the GMail account.  You can create a new GMail account with the address you want.

GMail though should be able to send using other addresses that you have authorized in the GMail options under Accounts and Imports "Send mail as".  From the GMail help:

I'm a Gmail or Google Apps user sending from an external address.

    Sign in to Gmail.
    Click the gear icon in the upper-right and select Gmail settings and select the Accounts and Import tab.
    Under Send mail as, click Add another email address.
    In the 'Email address' field, enter your name and alternate email address.
    Choose one of two options:
        Use Gmail's servers to send your mail (this is easier to set up)
        Use your other email provider's SMTP servers (we recommend this option for professional mail accounts or domains). Note for Google Apps users: Depending on your domain type, this feature may be disabled by default. Talk to your administrator if you have any questions.

Sorry, I'm not sure what you are trying to do. Unless you own the domain example.com there is probably not much to gain from trying to use it in the mail server setup. If Outlook is running on the machine as Mercury just specify 127.0.0.1 as POP3 server address in Outlook to receive messages.

/Rolf 

After getting some advice from James Haley, previously a server admin here, I went ahead and edited the lists.mer file and copy and pasted the entries from the previous mlf file to the new one. It appears that is working.

[quote]The TRANSFLT.MER file looks like this:

H, "*xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx*", R, "554 Action not allowed."

I'm not sure if you are giving an example of a specific IP address

here.  One useful filter is to put your own IP address in here - nobody

else should be using your IP in a helo greeting.[/quote]

This is indeed my own IP address Paul.

[quote]H, "*GET*", R, "554 Action not allowed."
H, "*AUTH LOGIN*", R, "554 Action not allowed."
R, "*AUTH LOGIN*", R, "554 Action not allowed."
H, "*EHLO windows*", R, "554 Action not allowed."


These are unnecessary as all the examples you have shown have been

blocked by other means. (And the first might be harmful as it blocks

any helo with those three letters in it.)

These are the most useful lines I use:

# just a number
H,"HELO [0-9]+??", RS, "550 Invalid response"
# no dot
H,"*.*", RSN, "550 Invalid response"

The first rejects helos which just consist of digits, and the second rejects those with no dot in it.[/quote]

Thanks for that, I'll remove the last 4 lines and replace them with your useful ones instead. Still weighing up the pro's and con's of Graywall, now I know it's not 'serious' but more annoying and the bandwidth isn't suffering I feel a bit better about it.

Thanks again for taking the time to get back and advise Paul, much appreciated

Regards

Ron 

Hi Chris,

Further to discussion we had here in 2009, when you were considering Blackberrys and I was trying to get IMAP working on my E71, I installed Profimail (licence cost £15-20) on our E71s and it's much nicer than the Nokia client, which I haven't attempted to use since. So I can;t say what might be wrong, but it may be worth trying the 30 day free demo of Profimail - at worst, it would confirm whether the E72 hardware is OK.

Chris