In order to expand disk space to accommodate larger user disk allowances, Zimbra servers mail.his.com and dc.his.com will be taken offline briefly this weekend: mail.his.com – starting at 3 AM EDT, Saturday, April 6th – COMPLETED 5:20 AM April 6 dc.his.com – starting at 3 AM EDT, Sunday, April 7th – COMPLETED with no downtime.
We will be performing system upgrades at our Sterling, VA hosting location that will require reboots of some servers. Update: this work has been completed as of 12:00 PM 3/30.
mail.his.com will be rebooted on Sunday 2/10/2013 for maintenance at approximately 9 AM EST and will be unavailable for several minutes.
All Zimbra mail servers have been upgraded to Zimbra Network Edition 7.2.2, the current 7.x release.
This bogus email is making the rounds and seems to be slipping past spam filters at the moment. If you get one of these messages, delete it. The link in the message takes you to a form that asks you to enter your email address and password. If you do this, you can count on… Read More: Warning: ‘Webmail Account Warning’ message is bogus. »
We’re seeing a significant increase in the number of ‘phishing’ and malware email messages. Most of these are being stopped by Postini’s spam/virus filters, but some are getting through, and some are getting past our own spam/virus filters that we use to supplement Postini. These messages are well crafted and look like legitimate email from… Read More: Phishing/Malware email »
Over the past few months we’ve seen an enormous jump in the number of password-guessing attacks on our mail servers. The attackers are spammers who are trying to get access to legitimate accounts so they can send spam. We have software in place that identifies and blocks these attacks, but if a password is too… Read More: Using strong passwords »
There is a trojan making the rounds that masquerades as a Delivery Status Notification. It contains the line: Note: Forwarded message is attached. The attachment is an html attachment which carries various javascript browser exploits/trojans. Postini is aware of the situation, and Postini Spam Engineering continues to monitor for new variants and will release additional… Read More: Bogus “Delivery Status Notification” »
Some HIS customers reported getting emails pretending to be from his.com and containing a bogus alert message. From: “his.com support” <admin@his.com> Subject: his.com account notification or Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details From: domains@megginson.com We are blocking them on our SPAm filters. However, if you received one of those Do not click on any… Read More: Bogus emails from his.com »
We’ve received a number of reports from Verizon DSL customers that they’ve suddenly lost the ability to send mail. Verizon started blocking port 25 (the SMTP port, used to send email) for DSL and FIOS customers in some areas in 2009, and evidently they’ve now made this system-wide. There’s a Verizon writeup at: http://www22.verizon.com/ResidentialHelp/HighSpeed/General+Support/Top+Questions/QuestionsOne/124274.htm… Read More: Verizon blocking port 25 »