I use Hermes as a home email server so I can separate out the various mailing lists I'm subscribed to, am able to count on a persistent email address is and...
I have windows 2000 pro, and I just installed a MS security update. I'm not sure if that's the cause, but I just noticed that Hermes isn't working anymore, and...
@ "francislu" <francislu@...> The only reason I can think of for this happening (as it seems odd that a windows security update would do this - and I...
Thanks Dave, I just fixed it. You were right, it wasn't the update. I changed one of the bind settings from "ANY" to the machine's IP. I think it was in the...
I keep constantly running into this error, and I can't seem to fix it, even with full uninstalls and reinstalls. Is there anything that might be causing it?...
Patrick, I'm very sorry to hear about your data loss. I'm copying your message to the Hermes user group in the hopes of identifying others with this problem....
Alex, what's to stop someone from just writing a script that would telnet and send mail through port 25? Couldn't this be done against any SMTP server, even...
Flu, Yes, that is a Denial of Service style attack... it can be launched effectively against ANY machine running ANY service. It can also effectively bring...
patrick, not to dwell on your misfortune, but when you say "My drive took 32 gigs of damage so I had to buy a new one" I don't understand. No virus that i know...
I've been using hermes for hosting my personal mail for several months now, but over the last few days a problem has developed. Now when I try to send mail, it...
I am in the process of writing a Hermes compatible log analysis tool. In the beta of today it can pick out attempts to relay email thru a unprotected Hermes ...
Well, no there isn't a way right now to check a connection during the SMTP handshake. The source is available and its not beyond my skill to add such a ...
Gul, Hermes will let you drop a connection based on a "banned IP Address" but the IP address must be the "peer" IP address of the connection, not something...
Sorry, my Delphi skills have been lost due to too much Perl. Is it possible that you could include in the code a checkup for an external "blacklist.txt" which ...
With the recent virus spammer (Sobig.f) I have found a constant: [29/08/2003 - 10:58:29] <SMTP ID 75:11280476> Accepted [29/08/2003 - 10:58:29] <SMTP ID...
Hello everyone just wanted to introduce myself, my name is Patrick and I'm going to be evaluating Hermes over the next week or so and hopefully going to...
Hello all. I am new to Hermes, but not new to mail servers or networking for that matter. I am moving away from RockCliffe MailSite. Although it works great,...
Dear gatep0st Let's just talk about the "abuse" mailbox. It will be the same for "postmaster". If you just create an "abuse" account, you can then receive...
Alex: Thanks for the clarification. You are right about it being onerous, but you gotta do what you gotta do. I don't mind trying new things (especially if...
Ok. I am still experiencing a little confusion. Not alot, just a little. My question in short: Do aliases handle the mapping of users to and from the proper...
Dear gatep0st, Sorry, your mail got lost in my pile... Yes, aliases are a cheap way to allow two different users to use the same public mailbox name for...
Hi If I send mail from one of my accounts to another account the Mail keep on hanging in the MQueue folder and is never written to the usermail folder and is...
If this is the only mail in process, you may be having a mail loop. What is the domain of the email address you're sending to, and what domains are in your...
... Hi thanks for your reply. servername : 10.0.0.199 (my DSL network card) DNS server : 195.3.96.67 SMTP server Bind Address : any / port 25 Pop3 Server Bind...