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No problem on the help, thats what we are here for. One thing, could you tell me what made you think the welcome email was spam? Just trying to prevent mistakes like this from this happening in the future. Thanks

mitzibear - HELLO!!!! PHOTOS PLEASE??? We have a new TCH Family Member!!! Love, hugs and congrats to you and your family mitzibear. Bill & Patty Kish

Magenta - We dont filter emails based on the "from" address field. Our exim filter only looks for attachments and then only looks at the extensions of those attachments. Matters not where the email is from. It is possible that for some reason MSN is no longer sending emails to your domain, IP or server. Not sure why, but its possible. We can take a look at this for you if your submit a help desk ticket.

The exim filter looks at header information, this is where most of its filtering abilities come from. Copyright Violations are Copyright Violations.

Thats right! In fact here is a top secret classified photo of Server26. Enjoy.

I learned many years ago that I cant educate my family or friends on computer use. They just dont want to learn! As far as Viris emails, bring em on! Im ready!

I choose not to hide my personal email address from my friends, family and coworkers. That is why I run a hardware firewall and the best AV software $ can buy.

Thanks for the nice review. I did get a giggle out of your last statement. "If I had any really, really small complaint - I might have chosen a different address for the company - totalchoicehosintg.com takes a while to type in." It's not how long it takes to type the domain name in, its how long you stay once you get here.

Today alone on my personal email account, I had 19 infected emails hit my inbox. Stinks!

Your on Server26, thats in the EV1 DataCenter. Information can be found here... http://totalchoicehosting.com/southern-dc.html

This will not work. The auto responder services are very strict and have designed there mail servers to disallow this very thing. Here is what happens. You set up a forwarder to forward any mail from abc@****** to go to abc@freeautoresponder.whatever The email arrives at the TCH server. The email header is created with 1 layer of tracking information. However, the moment it is auto-forwarded out of our server a 2nd layer of tracking information is embedded into the header. This tracking information is required! When that email arrives at the bot, it is rejected instantly. They simply /dev/null the inbound email, as it is viewed as spam attempts. In every instance where I have investigated this issue, the bots will auto-reject the email. What makes this so bad, is the auto responder companies have no clue that the software they bought (its mostly all canned software) will do this. Bill

Bodhi, I have resent your welcome email to the email address you listed during signup. Let me know if you got it. Bill

Paco! I am very sorry I missed your email(s). We are going to start offering a new plan with 35GB of bandwidth and a larger allotment of disc space. I have dinner plans with family tonight (My wifes family is Italian and they are big on the dinner thing). However, my promise to you is this. When I return tonight, I will have determined the package details for the new plan, and I will add it to our plans pages and it will be available as a upgrade and as a new account purchase. I have also asked Mitch to look at your current bandwidth consumption for this month if your close to going over, I have told Mitch to increase your bandwidth by 5GB. This will be at no charge and your account will rollover back to the default bandwidth on the 1st. Thanks, I will update this thread when I have added the new plan. Oh, wondering what to call this new plan? Maybe the Super Duper Expert Plan? Well that will need some work. Thanks and sorry I missed your emails. Thats not like me. Bill

You can always route your email thru your ISP. I have watched this debate for several months now, and nothing has convinced me that we should change any setting on our servers. The antivirus.exim filter works well. It will remain on the servers. Bill

Well its been a while since the parts arrived and the new AMD was built. I have to say, its been flawless so far. Not one crash! Windows 2000 is loving this new system.

sicilychick would not approve. Glad I could help!

Ok i just installed phpnuke in cpanel for you. Login to your cpanel... Find Add-On Scripts... There you will now find phpnuke. One click autoinstaller. Hope that helps! Bill

Checking something.... Be right back..

You just gave them a link...lol edited out by me..

Cool!

Excellent Job! Congrats on work well done!

Not sure yet Jack. Ive been in contact with cPanel just as of this morning asking the same questions. I will update when I know more.

From slashdot Osirusoft Blacklists The World Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 26, @11:15PM from the wildcard-matches-for-evil dept. ariehk writes "As of today, Osirusoft, distributer of the SPEWS and open relay blocklists, among others, is no longer operational. Servers using these lists (including the FTC) are currently rejecting ALL email. This shutdown seems to be in response to a several-week-long DDoS attack on Osirusoft, SPEWS and others, resulting in both sites being down. This has caused much discussion on n.a.n-a.e, including the suggestion that the attack is somehow related to the SoBig worm. The spammers must be hurting if they can devote these kinds of resources to attacking blocklists." Read on below a related submission. NSXDavid writes "Earlier today our site mysteriously ended up on Joe Jared's Osirusoft SPAM blacklist which is used by lots of antispam software (like SpamAssassin and sendmail). Since he is currently under a serious DDoS attack, there was no way to appeal this decision. We contacted Mr. Jared by phone who informed us that 'everyone needs to stop using Osirusoft and that he's going to be shutting the service down.' Then he says he's going to blacklist 'the world' (aka, ban *.*.*.*) to get his point across. Later on this evening, he apparently went ahead and did just that. Succumbing to lawsuits and DDoS, a once great blacklist is dead. SpamAssassin is removing it from their config in the next release (rc3) and email admins around the globe are reconfiguring their mail servers." This will most likley be corrected on the next update of cPanel.

We are not currently planning any smaller hosting plans. However, there has been talk about introducing a email only variant. Bill

I have never installed wiki. Perhaps you could submit a support ticket and I can escalate it to our lead admin for review. Alan may have installed it. Sorry thats about all I can offer you at this point. Bill