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July Newsletter: A Castle in the Clouds – Google Apps

July 27th, 2010

MxToolBox July 2010
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A Castle in the Clouds – Google Apps

Of all the technologies that you use to run your business, chances are good that none have a greater impact than the office productivity suite including email, documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Many small companies are daunted by the task [...]

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Blocking Non-Delivery Report (NDR) spam with HTML Attachments

July 9th, 2010

We have posted a few helpful hints for users that are experiencing problems with Password Reset requests, UPS, Western Union, Youtube and other forms of spam. However, it looks like the spammers are altering the message to adapt to the changes that Postini and other vendors are making, so more updates to the filters are [...]

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Malware, and Spam, and Viruses! Oh, my!

July 6th, 2010

MxToolBox June 2010
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Malware, and Spam, and Viruses! Oh, my!
We have started to see a wave of spam emails containing links to sites hosting malware which are getting past the filters of even the best anti-spam services. Some of these emails have a customized subject with [...]

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Youtube Spam with Malware Links

July 1st, 2010

Yesterday we highligthed an issue of spam from several different sources that when a user clicked on the included links they were brought to a site with malware on it. Today we have another version of this spam, and they are impersonating Youtube. For our Postini customers we have created a custom filter to block [...]

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Postini Spam with Malware – Reset your “domain.com” password

June 29th, 2010

We have started to see a wave of spam emails coming in to some of our Postini customers. This email has a customized subject with a claim that you need to reset your password. The link appears to be to your own domain, but in fact it goes to a site that [...]

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May 2010 Newsletter – Web Security with Webroot

May 20th, 2010

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MxToolbox has worked since 2004 to provide free tools to help people diagnose problems with email and to monitor their email servers. MxToolBox also offers paid services to small and medium businesses to help manage and protect their email traffic. With the proliferation of email defense products in use, many [...]

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What does the Bounce Message – “Unable to Relay” Mean?

May 7th, 2010

If your customers are receiving an error message like below, there are 2 settings that may need to be adjusted.

‘name@domain.com’ on 9/15/2006 11:11 AM
550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for name@domain.com

Configure your Exchange Server to accept mail anonymously for your domain
The directions below are for Exchange 2007, but most mail servers should have similar settings.

Please confirm [...]

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Spam and Virus Trends from Google Postini

April 27th, 2010

Editor’s note: The spam data cited in this post is drawn from the network of Google email security and archiving services, powered by Postini, which processes more than 3 billion email connections per day in the course of providing email security to more than 50,000 businesses and 18 million business users.
In 2009, the security community [...]

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April 2010 Newsletter – Ping Tool

April 23rd, 2010

MxToolBox April 2010
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MxToolBox Ping is one of the free tools provided by MxToolBox to help you determine if Inbound and Outbound mail flow is working.
As System Administrators, most of us are familiar with using the ping command as a tool to see if a [...]

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Ping Tool Reporting Wrong IP

April 20th, 2010

This morning we released our April Newsletter and let everyone know about one of our favorite tools. Unfortunately for about 30 minutes if you sent an email to ping@mxtoolbox.com it was not returning the correct Outbound IP. This has been corrected and we apologize for any problems this may have caused.
UPDATE: This issue was resolved [...]

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