Practically once a week we are helping someone out there undo the damage caused by a "we are from Microsoft" Phone Scam. They call up purpoting to be from Microsoft and that they've noticed there is something wrong with your computer. The show you the 'errors' but unbeknownst to you, most of those same errors are in most computers. It's ridiculous how hard these guys work to get a few dollars from your pocket!
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So you gave it a lot of thought, you know that old WinXP computer is going to surely let you down when you need it most. What to do? Our suggestions are easy:
- Get the most computer you can for your money You don't want to do this again right away
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Monday 12:10pm Email works! SPAM filter doesn't. So Ignore the links to mailguard.
EMAIL is fouled up!!!
The current security certificate won't work any longer, so I am forced to move the entire mail storage to a different server.
For now, until it gets moved, you can access email at: https://www.syix.com/roundcube or click the SYIXmail link above.
Once it gets moved (Friday night it will probably will be done) then back to your usual method
SPAM and VIRUS filtering will be off for a while, be patient!
6:11PM, most of the messages are transferred. Need to sort them and reset the file locations, this is the slow and tedious part. More info to follow.
9:50pm, mail moved to new platform. now to put it where it belongs. will take a while.
7:58am. still at it. mail is moving but server spam handling is broken still. Gotta get some sleep. SET ALL AUTHENTICATION stuff back on if it was turned off before.. incoming and outgoing server names should be mail.syix.com for now.
11:18am. Yes, I know. some of you are still unable to send mail. Working on it still.
11:27am. SSL/TLS is working in and out. (look at the settings screen on the mail, its there) SPAM is crazy bad, let me get sleep and I'll work on that tonight.
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If SYIX Mailguard is keeping you are arms length, this is the fix:
- Open Mozilla Firefox (to download use this, https://getfirefox.com)
- on the address bar (very top of the screen), type "about:config" and hit enter
- Click the "accept..." bar
- On the Search Preference Name box, type "security.tls.version.enable-deprecated" (or just tls, it gets you close)
- Double Click on the line "security.tls.version.enable-deprecated", It should become BOLD and the false should change to true, and then close the screen, Mailguard will open again.
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Around 7:30am today the power failed in this part of Yuba City, our system dropped back to batteries, and ran until 7:50am or so, at which time the batteries ran dry. After everthing came back up around 8:40, 1 of the servers here suffered a hard drive failure, and the mail server came up in a failed state. Mail is currently rebuilding its array, and should be fine shortly, and I have moved services off the other machine. Its still running just slowly, but that repair won't affect you guys.
So, 10:27am, mail is almost done rebuilding, and the other server (virtual host 01) is getting fixed soon.
Power is my curse lately. Sorry again!
10:35am, the mail server is happy again
(oh yes, wanted to add, Since last week I have been working on a new mail server, with new fancier features. I think the old server knows it)
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Email is (was) broken!!!
Yes, Sunday morning, at around 05:23 the mail server power backup failed. Yes, second one in 2 weeks.
So, when it was brought to my attention around noon (sorry!!!) I ran down to the office and started repairs. These servers aren't very happy if the power fails, and recovery can take a while, but its moving forward now.
I have added additional notification methods to my "is it broken" system, next time this happens (It better not!!!) things will be caught much sooner.
(4:08 pm the last of the mail has cycled through, all services are back to normal)