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petemurphy Member 226 Posts 8/01	Posted - Jul 2 2009 : 2:44AM I haven't received an email in my "adultdvdtalk.com" account since 6-25-09. I sent a test email from my regular email account but didn't receive it. Then I sent a test email from my "adultdvdtalk.com" account to my regular account and that went through fine, so it appears that I can send but not receive. Anyone else having trouble? [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jul 2 2009 : 7:33AM I'll check it out. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jul 2 2009 : 8:38AM It was broken. Your mail should start coming in now. It was all queued up but not delivered to the web interface. [Link]
petemurphy Member 226 Posts 8/01	Posted - Jul 12 2009 : 4:18AM It appears to be malfunctioning again. No email in 3 days. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jul 12 2009 : 9:54PM Mail should start rolling in again. [Link]

astroknight Questionable Moderator Tastes so good... 4187 Posts 11/99	Posted - Jul 12 2009 : 10:12PM Thank you, Drew. "I do not as a rule seek advice about food from thin people..." - Jeffrey Steingarten [Link]
morbidthoughts All-Star Member Big cats scare me but... 3628 Posts 1/03	Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 1:10AM Drew, I'm getting this weird error trying to send: An error occured while sending your email: "Unable to send email: SMTP: Authentication failed: 535 Login incorrect -ERR admin@adultdvdtalk.com password wrong or not a valid user ". [Link]
Redish Poetic Moderator Long and Cursive road to the Ivory Pagoda in the province of Loraine 4076 Posts 12/03	Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 1:44AM Me as well, An error occured while sending your email: "Unable to send email: SMTP: Authentication failed: 535 Login incorrect -ERR admin@adultdvdtalk.com password wrong or not a valid user ". [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 12:24PM I'll look into it. [Link]
Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00	Posted - Jul 30 2009 : 1:59AM Are PMs working? Several non received messages in the "International Trading Forum" make me think that might be the case... [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jul 30 2009 : 2:31AM Our email was down for about 8 hours today. [Link]
Bob All-Star Member 5516 Posts 3/03	Posted - Aug 18 2009 : 1:28PM I'm only receiving in-coming e-mails about twice a week, and then they come in a flood. To troubleshoot, I sent myself an e-mail from another account two days ago, and still it hasn't shown up in my ADT inbox. On the other hand, I sent myself an e-mail from my ADT account to another account at the same time and received it in my other account immediately. So my incoming ADT mail is a problem but my outgoing ADT mail isn't. [Link]
petemurphy Member 226 Posts 8/01	Posted - Aug 19 2009 : 10:06PM I haven't received any email since 8-15-09. Sorry to be such a PITA. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99	Posted - Aug 20 2009 : 7:34AM I'm going to shut down the ADT mail account service at some point. 30 days, maybe 60 days left. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99	Posted - Aug 20 2009 : 10:12PM The my.adultdvdtalk.com email service will be terminated on 10/31/2009. At that time we will no longer accept or send emails for my.adultdvdtalk.com email addresses. Your existing my.adultdvdtalk.com email will be saved until 12/31/2009. We will completely remove the email accounts soon after that. We sorry for the invonvenience but the amount of spam being received and sent by users of the system has become too much of a burden on our server and is hampering the availability of other services @ Adult DVD Talk. [Link]

Redish Poetic Moderator Long and Cursive road to the Ivory Pagoda in the province of Loraine 4076 Posts 12/03	Posted - Aug 20 2009 : 10:40PM Moving stuff now ... [Link]
Bob All-Star Member 5516 Posts 3/03	Posted - Aug 21 2009 : 1:15AM Me too. It's sad that spammers have ruined such a nice gift from Steph & Drew -- it has been a luxury. [Link]
Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01	Posted - Aug 21 2009 : 2:31AM Thanks for continuing it as long as you did. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99	Posted - Aug 21 2009 : 8:19AM The major problem with the whole system is the way it processes inbound email. All messages are received by the mail server. A typical mail server will deny/drop/bounce a message intended for an invalid email address almost immediately in the SMTP protocol. Our software doesn't do that. It receives the complete message, valid recipient or not. A separate batch process sorts the inbound mail and delivers it to the user's webmail inbox. This system wouldn't be a problem if spammers weren't constantly trying to harvest email addresses by sending mail to a dictionary of names. Some days we get 25 messages per second to invalid addresses like :john@my.adultdvdtalk.com, john2@my.adultdvdtalk.com, johns@my.adultdvdtalk.com, john_s@my.adultdvdtalk.com, etc. The receipt and subsequent processing of these junk messages can be a significant load on the server. [Link]
Bob All-Star Member 5516 Posts 3/03	Posted - Aug 21 2009 : 3:06PM Over the last year, the e-mail in my ADT inbox has become 95% spam. That's not even counting the stuff that goes directly to "trash". What a fucking drag! [Link]
Jordan1 Member Fishing, a fun hobby! 490 Posts 7/08	Posted - Aug 21 2009 : 3:21PM Drew, since I have no knowledge of this issue, please forgive me if my suggestion makes no sense. What about using CAPTCHA? Wouldn't that knock down spammers attempt to screw up your system? [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99	Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 10:05AM Captcha won't help. [Link]
Jeff @ IAFD Webmaster IAFD.COM 931 Posts 6/00	Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 12:45PM I would make a quick case for setting up a small VM to be a gateway. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the ESVA application -- http://www.global-domination.org/ESVA.php -- which basicially is a front-end spam/virus scanner that runs in a VMWare environment. The server is prebuilt and largely set it and forget it once you walk thru the initial config. Since it's based on Postfix and SpamAssassin it's tweakable to the nth degree, but I use Postfix's ability to reject based on RBL weightings and non-valid addresses. The only thing I maintain on it is the user list which immediately solved ALL of my dictionary attacks; as the bad mail never made it to my internal mail server. I have scripts that run every so often that dump out the userlist and they get imported into Postfix (most of my mail servers are pretty static in terms of adding/deleting users, so I don't have to run the script often -- only when I change users; but others run it every 10 minutes or something...) It doesn't need much to run -- I think I dedicate 256MB of RAM to it in VMWare... [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99	Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 2:32PM Unfortunately I don't have a system available to run something like that. I don't have a VMware box available and I don't think it's wise to go through the aggravation of reconfiguring one of our existing systems just to be able to continue to provide a free service. ADT is simply in a downsizing mode. Only a few dozen people currently use the my.adt mail service. It's hard to justify setting up another system to be a mail scanner. We currently have two servers that are almost 4 years old. I plan to consolidate them into a single system next year when our lease is up with the hosting company. [Link]
RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06	Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 6:01PM Drew. Were you still planning on a PM system or is that off the menu as well? It would be really nice if it isn't too much trouble. Edited by - randomprecision on 8/23/2009 6:02:06 PM [Link]

Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99	Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 12:45AM Most of it is already written. I guess I should finish it someday. It's been difficult to dedicate time to ADT tasks for a while. I've got a couple of other projects keeping me busy lately. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99	Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 10:05AM I think I'm going to create individual POP accounts for all of the current users instead of using a catch-all account. This will leverage the anti-spam provisions of our mail server and alleviate some of the load. Everyone will get to keep their mail accounts too and we won't need to cancel the service. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99	Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 10:50AM I setup individual POP accounts for all of the my.adt email accounts. This way dictionary attacks and spam can be rejected at the mail server instead of simply accepting everything. You should see a drastic reduction in the amount of spam making it to your account. We'll run with this for a while to see how things go. Hopefully we won't have to cancel the service. [Link]
Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01	Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 12:40PM Thanks Drew. [Link]
Bob All-Star Member 5516 Posts 3/03	Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 3:49PM Thanks, Drew. I appreciate your efforts and generosity of time. [Link]
Savoy All-Star Member Sucker for Sinners 1844 Posts 12/06	Posted - Aug 27 2009 : 2:42AM Thank you, Drew. [Link]
Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01	Posted - Aug 30 2009 : 12:09AM I don't wish to complain but my ADT mail hasn't gotten anything since you switched to the pop account. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99	Posted - Aug 30 2009 : 10:28AM Have you tried clicking the Check Mail icon near the top of the page? It looks a bit like this: [Link]
Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01	Posted - Aug 30 2009 : 1:14PM Wow, I feel dumb now. Sorry. That was the issue. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99	Posted - Aug 30 2009 : 9:34PM It's a new thing. When I switched the way we handle inbound mail that icon appeared. I guess I should send out an email to everyone using the system to alert them to the new feature. It can take a little while for it to fetch your mail. It's essentially doing the same thing that Outlook Express would do when fetching email from a POP3 server. [Link]

Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00	Posted - Aug 30 2009 : 10:24PM Drew Black wrote: It's a new thing. When I switched the way we handle inbound mail that icon appeared. I guess I should send out an email to everyone using the system to alert them to the new feature. Click to expand You have a bit of a catch-22 there. If they don't know about the new feature that lets them get to their email, how will sending them an email about the new feature help them find it? If they can read the email, then they have already figured it out for themself. If they haven't figured it out for themself, then they won't be able to get to the email to read about the new feature. [Link]
ChodeMasterJ Perpetual Marxist 5405 Posts 4/03	Posted - Aug 30 2009 : 11:52PM ^ [Image not found DB] I couldn't resist. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99	Posted - Aug 30 2009 : 11:59PM Bill wrote: You have a bit of a catch-22 there. Click to expand Not quite. There's an admin function in the webmail software that inserts messages directly to their mail boxes bypassing the fetch-from-POP-account mechanism. [Link]

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