Here’s the method: Boot to a Linux LiveCD (Miles recommends Zorin: “Very Windows-ish”) Go to the \windows\system32 folder on your HD Perform the following steps (exactly how you go about this will depend on which LiveCD you use): Rename UTILMAN.EXE to UTILMAN1.EXE Copy CMD.EXE to UTILMAN.EXE Shutdown and restart Windows When asked for a password, click …
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Installing Surgemail SSL certificate
Surgemail instructions for installing SSL certificate: https://www.digicert.com/ssl-certificate-installation-surgemail.htm To test SSL cert installation: https://www.digicert.com/help/ http://certlogik.com/ssl-checker/ Ended up needing to install both the sm1.dimentech.com.crt and bundle.crt into surgemail. One important item was that there couldn’t be any spaces between each certificate block.
Updated Synology NAS
Updated Synology NAS from a very old version. Had to apply updates in a specific order for the DS210j that I have: 3.0-1534 3.1-1594 3.2-1922 4.0-2228 4.1-2668 4.2-3211 4.3-3827 5.0-4493 Updates were obtained from http://ukdl.synology.com/download/DSM/
New WPD Officer Justin Crotty
Per Ron Carter email dated 8/12/14, Justin Crotty is a new officer. He needs a server account and an email account. Email account jcrotty@warner.nh.us has been created. Will schedule site visit for 8/14/14 to create server account.
Town Hall Konica Minolta scan-to-email stopped working
Scan-to-email was described as not working. Turned out the scans were going to the TDS Google spam folder. The reason turned out to be that SPF for warner.nh.us did not include the IPv6 address of my mail server vps1.dimentech.com. Changed TXT record to be: “v=spf1 a mx a:rvps1.dimentech.com ip4:216.170.230.0/24 ip4:204.246.1.0/24 include:aspmx.googlemail.com ~all” Tests after this …
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Email account hacked: mwatts@dimentech.com
Got a warning from surgemail about mwatts@dimentech.com sending over 500 messages. Uh oh 🙁 Hacking started at: 2014-05-15 07:12:51.00 [786463] Rcpt 31.25.142.51 <mwatts@dimentech.com> <270098@tearoha-college.school.nz> 0 “” 2014-05-15 07:12:53.00 [786463] Rcpt 31.25.142.51 <mwatts@dimentech.com> <26612974@qq.com> 0 “” 2014-05-15 07:12:54.00 [786463] Rcpt 31.25.142.51 <mwatts@dimentech.com> <81silvia@live.com.ar> 0 “” 2014-05-15 07:12:56.00 [786463] Rcpt 31.25.142.51 <mwatts@dimentech.com> <a.schaefer@ritter-starkstromtechnik.de> 0 “” 2014-05-15 07:12:57.00 …
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Surgemail added to logwatch
Added logging of surgemail errors and activity to logwatch. The info@timberwoodcommons.com account had gotten compromised about a week earlier. There was massive amounts of spam being sent from servers in Australia and elsewhere. This got our server onto the spamcop blacklist. The following are the files that were modified/created: vi /etc/logwatch/scripts/shared/applystddate vi /etc/logwatch/conf/logfiles/surgemail.conf vi /etc/logwatch/conf/services/surgemail.conf …
FTP not working for Brown Family Realty and FTP over IPv6
After the move to the new server at Rackspace, Brown Family Realty tried to use FTP and it didn’t work. One problem was that I did not have iptables rules to allow FTP. I also needed to run: modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp I’m now trying to get ftp to work via IPv6 and not having any luck. …
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QT webmail problems
Becky writes: Hi Dan – I have been unable to login to webmail since late yesterday afternoon, and continue to get the following error message when I try: There was a fatal error in the program. If you continue to receive this error, please contact customer support. Ref #: 1390927583.91 I’m not sure exactly where …
Pagemaker stopped working
Mary called yesterday (1/6/14) saying her installation of Pagemaker had stopped working. She had not installed any new software. Rebooting did not help. I recommended she re-install the software. She did that today (1/7/14) and it fixed the problem.