Are you having email problems this morning? If you are getting bounce backs referencing SORBS, read on my friend. It appears that the Real Time Blacklist (RBL) SORBS made a critical error yesterday that is causing almost all email users havoc. (Internet Storm Center) Sometime yesterday, the SORBS anti-spam blacklist (their site is currently suffering [...]
Postini is Updating Virus Engine to Address Zero Hour Viruses
August 12, 2010 By
We have been alerted that multiple zero hour viruses are passing through the Postini filters. Postini has issued an alert that they are updating the Virus filtering to address the latest variant of this attack. However, while Postini continues to make changes to their filtering to adapt to this new threat we are recommending to [...]
Email Continuity Customers – Mail Delays [RESOLVED]
August 6, 2010 By
MxToolBox Email Continuity customers experienced mail delays the morning of August 6, 2010 from 7AM-11AM Central Daylight Time. Spam and Virus, and Hosted Email customers were not effected. Forged NDR messages were caught in the Continuity Engine and replicated quickly into a large volume of mail that caused legitimate messages to be delayed. We put [...]
SMTP Diagnostic Tools Updated
August 2, 2010 By
I have added some additional information to the SMTP Diagnostic test tool so that we can better troubleshoot Server Down alerts when customers are puzzled because they saw no outage. I have added the full SMTP transaction transcripts to the SMTP Diag Alert emails. I also configured it to include the actual timeouts for “Timeout [...]
MxWatch Monitor Service Upgrade Announcement
August 2, 2010 By
MxWatch Service Upgrade Announcement In order to keep your Monitoring Service account active you must log in to MxWatch before August 31, 2010. There you can use the migration wizard to move your service over to the new version. Earlier this year we updated the MxToolBox website with a new look, some new tools, and [...]