Gfi mailessentials not processing email
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You should contact GFI Software support if you find that legitimate emails have been moved into the FailedMails folder. This may occur for corrupted emails, such as certain type of spam emails. PROP files in the FailedMails folder can be deleted as only the. EML files by running the command 'ren *.txt *.eml' in command prompt under the FailedMails directory. It is recommended to check using message tracking or in Microsoft Outlook to verify whether the email message has already delivered before re-processing the failed mail.
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If you use MailEssentials, you can test my theory by creating a similar EML file in notepad, then dropping it in the inetpub\mailroot\Pickup folder on your SMTP gateway. While normally if it happens once or twice its not a problem GFI reported there are currently 544 emails in C:Program Files (x86)GFIMailEssentialsEmailSecurityFailedMails. Exchange and Outlook ignore the x-sender and display the MIME information ( As long as the x-sender address passes SPF and blacklist checks, the e-mail will sail right through to the inbox. Recently in not really long time one of our Clients reported that GFI Mail Essentials started reporting that a number of emails failed to be processed by GFI MailEssentials. However, if I swap the top two lines so that From is below x-sender, MailEssentials will only parse the x-sender information. The following e-mail will get stopped by the antispoofing filter in MailEssentials because mail from is rejected unless it comes from a whitelisted IP address: From: wire transfer
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GFI MailEssentials is supposed to prevent this kind of spoofing, but after messing around creating EML files in Notepad I've figured out how it's happening.
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Someone in Nigeria is sending my CFO e-mails that look like they're from our CEO.