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This is eerily similar to a problem I had a couple weeks ago.

Your company/organization have any kind of mail filtering service? We use Postini and it was rejecting emails towards me because it didn’t know my account existed and was filtering out any unrecognized addresses.

Not that I know of — I’ve inherited this situation, so am flying blind……………

Hmmm, 1&1 offers a very short list of .htaccess commands they promise will work. (1&1 Webhosting FAQ | Modifying Apache Webserver configuration.) Most of the commands in your example are not listed. But… there’s no harm in trying.

So I added this to an .htaccess file on a 1&1 Linux shared hosting account —

Code:

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

— and I got a 500 error. Whoops! That’s a bad sign. I got the same error with:

Code:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css

That’s pretty discouraging. It suggests that the reason the following do not have any effect —

Code:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css

Code:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css

— is that the module is not loaded.

You might be able to confirm that with customer service. I’m not sure why they don’t load that, just as I disagree with their rationale for defaulting to PHP4. Their philosophy with shared hosting appears to be to be as backwards compatible as they can at the expense of users who want more advanced features. Considering their prices and the possible costs of support, I guess that is necessary to make their business model work. But it is frustrating!

Thanks — that is exactly what happened to me — I guessed the module wasn’t loaded, but there are places on the Internet that mention THEY have a 1and1 *shared* account (like me) and are using compression…………….. Ccustomer Service was a complete waste of time — the guy had absolutely no idea what I was talking about

;-(

Thanks – done – it *says* everything is fine and finishes with okay — except when it locks up it does not seem to write to the log.

Thanks – but even though that page’s title says multi-line, all these phones are single line… I’ll check into AT&T brand – thanks for the recommendation.

Agreed – and I love the quote in your signature – you made my day!

I know, I know — I guess I’m being a bit of a socialist (???) or such by thinking that if several organizations started blocking irresponsible IP ranges, at some point, those IP ranges would be irrelevant…
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It really sucks that you can have somebody impersonating your organization — and likewise tarnishing your name — and there does not seem to be anything you can do about it. As I stated earlier, I have tried to contact the ISP of these IP ranges, but the contact info is bogus. That’s what got me all (over-reacting, I know) annoyed…

Of course I’m not talking about blocking the sending of e-mail — I would like to put something in place that anything coming from a particular IP range is refused.

John, I need to check into Hexamail Guard — sounds like you are doing what we are talking about — I hate to say it, but we get nothing useful from Korea, Russia, etc. Man, I never thought I would be the “protectionist” type, but this is just @#$!% me off. If Korea et al can’t get their e-mail under control — we’ll just block them.

Thanks – I am familiar with the .htaccess file, however that only prevents them from visiting the website – I believe they can still e-mail –TO– the website, can’t they? If not, then that is what I will do. My point is to get these IP ranges to tighten up how they run things — I know it is probably a few people causing problems for the many, but still – having a fake or inactive email for the IP range contact (“for abuse contact”) is either sloppy or devious…

Oh wait. Major brain fart.

This works:

—BAT start—
@ECHO OFF
CD firstdir
CD secondsubdir
blah.exe
—BAT end—

The key was NOT using the leading symbol.

Thanks!

When I try that BAT file, it flashes a DOS window then is gone. I can’t see what the error (if there is one) is.

Logically this makes sense — I’m not sure what is wrong.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaah — that makes sense! I guess my random/generic address wasn’t random enough. I’ll have to keep this in mind for the future. Thanks; good idea…

This new e-mail is not used anywhere. From the spam I’m getting, I would be a bit horrified if Earthlink is somehow partners with these organizations. No, the Earthlink account is not associated with my domain name (I set up a @earthlink account). It is just waaaaaaayyyy too weird that a brand new made up e-mail address starts getting spam hours later.

I will be deleting this account anyway (it was just a temporary thing to test stuff on my end) but still odd…

Thanks! That’s a good idea. I went the firewall blocking route, and it seems to be working — however this is a more solid approach. Thanks!

I know there is some policy setting somewhere… Just where to find it… I should be able to say that users belonging to the “Remote Desktop Users” group cannot browse the network…
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I did the quick and dirty to handle this. I set the IP address on the Win 2003 machine to a fixed IP, then blocked that IP on all of the other machines via their software firewall. Probably not the prettiest solution, but seems to work.