Need help with setup...
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Category: Spam Filter ISP
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Forum Description: General support for Spam Filter ISP
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Topic: Need help with setup...
Posted By: douglogan
Subject: Need help with setup...
Date Posted: 06 March 2006 at 6:10pm
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Ok i have the Evaluation copy of SF. I had it working (it was checking emails and logging them or moving them to the QD) but I had it on my mail servers ip address. So i setup another ip address dedicated just to SF and its working at least it is allowing emails to pass through (the header of the email registers it passing through SF) but when i have the SF console open it registers nothing it doesnt show any activity and shows nothing in the quaratine database. Help!
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Posted By: sgeorge
Date Posted: 06 March 2006 at 8:00pm
Hi Doug, I'm not an expert myself, but hopefully my suggestions might help.
From the sounds of it, you seem to be saying that even your activity log is blank. If that indeed is the case, and you are still receiving email, I can only see a few possiblities:
- Mail is going directly through the old i.p. address, and not through the system with your new SpamFilter first.
- Or SpamFilter is monitoring the wrong port on the new system. Double check that it is monitoring port 25.
Here's a quick telnet check that should give you some helpful information. Take the public hostname or i.p. address of your mail server. And connect to it from outside your intranet on port 25:
> telnet (my mail server hostname) 25
If all is well, you should get a response from SpamFilter instead of your protected mail system. This is the response that I get:
220 mail.msandyou.org Welcome to SpamFilterISP SMTP Server v2.7.1.511 - Unlicensed Evaluation Copy
Good luck, and certainly let us know if this doesn't give you any leads.
Stephen
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Posted By: LogSat
Date Posted: 06 March 2006 at 9:29pm
Doug,
I'm including the answer to another post in case it applies here (See section in bold)
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SpamFilter ISP can be run in two different ways. The first is as a Windows service (the most common - SpamFilterSvc.exe), the second is as a standalone application using SpamFilter.exe. The latter is mostly used for troubleshooting, even though several users have asked to be able to run SpamFilter in non-service mode.
If you are already running SpamFilter as a service, subsequently running the standalone application (SpamFilter.exe) will open a new instance of SpamFilter, it will not be the GUI for your service. Please note that the service does show display a GUI (launched from an icon in the tray bar), but if accessing a Windows 2000 server remotely using Terminal Services will not be able to display the GUI. This is because Terminal Services in Win2K is not able to display the server's physical console. Looking at the physical server's screen, or using a product like PCAnywhere, DameWare, VNC etc that display the actual screen will reveal the console. Microsoft fixed this in Windows 2003, where Terminal Services instead does allow RDP to connect on the Console 0. Some Terminal Services clients have a checkbox in their settings to connect to the console. In the XP Remote Desktop, Microsoft (in)conveniently decided to not make it available. You'll need to invoke Remote Desktop from the command line as follows to enable this:
mstsc -console
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Roberto Franceschetti
http://www.logsat.com" rel="nofollow - LogSat Software
http://www.logsat.com/sfi-spam-filter.asp" rel="nofollow - Spam Filter ISP
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Posted By: douglogan
Date Posted: 17 March 2006 at 7:05am
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Thanks! That last post was the problem!
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