https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/ 2026-05-06T12:37:26+00:00 https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/ https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/_media/wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:imap4?rev=1542192349&do=diff Using IMAP4 with VPOP3 Enterprise VPOP3 Enterprise supports IMAP4 email clients (VPOP3 Basic does not). With IMAP4 the email folders and messages are stored on the mail server. The email client then synchronises with the server. Also, unlike with POP3, several things can access the same mailbox at once. text/html 2026-04-06T17:59:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:mail_not_downloading_from_isp?rev=1775498387&do=diff Mail Not Downloading From ISP This normally happens because you have told VPOP3 to Leave Messages On Server (on the Mail Connectors -> Mail Collectors -> (name) -> POP3 General tab). If you do this, VPOP3 will leave messages on the ISP's mail server for several days, and remember that it has already downloaded them. Then, the next time it connects it will see that there are some messages waiting, but it may find that it has already downloaded them, so it won't download them again. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:whitelist_blacklist?rev=1542192349&do=diff Spamfilter Whitelist & Blacklist The VPOP3 spamfilter has a whitelist and a blacklist for sender addresses. It also has a whitelist and blacklist for words/phrases. You can view these lists in the VPOP3 settings by going to Settings -> Spamfilter -> text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/faq:imap4?rev=1542192349&do=diff IMAP4 Mail Protocol IMAP4 (Internet Mail Access Protocol version 4) is a more advanced protocol than POP3. With IMAP4 your mail is stored and manipulated on the mail server. So, if you move a message from one folder to the other, the message is moved on the server. If you send a message, your mail client will (usually) put a copy into your 'Sent Items' folder. If you delete a message, it is deleted from the server, and so on. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:550_not_permitted?rev=1542192349&do=diff 550/553 Not Permitted error from BT Internet's mail servers BT Internet's mail servers only allow messages to be sent from 'approved' email addresses. If you try to send messages from other addresses BT's mail servers may return a '550 Not Permitted' error, a '553' error, or may silently discard the message depending on what their server feels like doing today. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:filtering_attachments?rev=1542192349&do=diff How to filter attachments VPOP3 can filter attachments in several ways. The most general is to use the Settings -> Attachment Processing -> Filtering tab as described below. VPOP3 can also filter attachments using the content/spam filter, or by using an integrated virus scanner. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:handling_mail_for_multiple_incoming_domains?rev=1542192349&do=diff Handling mail for multiple incoming domains VPOP3 can easily handle mail for several incoming domains. Exactly how you do it depends on the exact situation. All domains are 'aliases' If the domains are aliases of each other, for instance, you have 'mycompany.com' and 'mycompany.org', both of which are the same, so each address at mycompany.com also exists at mycompany.org, and the emails go to the same people regardless of which domain is used, then you simply configure the domains in the ma… text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:incoming_smtp_feed?rev=1542192349&do=diff Incoming SMTP Feed An incoming SMTP feed is where incoming mail is sent directly to your mail server without going through your ISP's POP3 mail server on the way. Advantages An incoming SMTP feed has several advantages over going via a POP3 mailbox: text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:limit_size_of_sent_mail?rev=1542192349&do=diff How to limit size of sent mail There are several ways to limit the size of mail which can be sent * Limit the size of mail accepted by the SMTP component of VPOP3 * Limit the size sent for a particular user * Limit size based on 'rules' * Limit size based on text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:restore_a_backup_of_vpop3?rev=1542192349&do=diff How to Restore a backup of VPOP3 The instructions below are to restore a full backup. You may also be able to recover deleted messages if you do not need to restore a full backup. Version 5 or later If you just need to restore a database backup, see steps 4 to 7 below. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:sending_mail_from_different_email_addresses_or_domains?rev=1542192349&do=diff Sending mail from different email addresses or domains VPOP3 does not (by default) place any restrictions on which email addresses or domains you can send mail from. However, there may be external restrictions on which email addresses/domains you can send from. For instance, if you send mail through your ISP's mail server, they may only allow you to send mail from specific addresses, or the domain you send mail from may have a sender policy defined, such as text/html 2020-07-22T10:32:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:signing_outgoing_mail_with_dkim?rev=1595413960&do=diff Signing outgoing mail with DKIM DKIM, also known as DomainKeys Identified Mail, is a form of email authentication that digitally signs emails to prove that they were sent from authorized domains and aren't fake emails. Companies like Google and Yahoo use DKIM to sign their emails and it is becoming ever more popular. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:vpop3_status_monitor_problems?rev=1542192349&do=diff VPOP3 Status Monitor Problems The VPOP3 Status Monitor is the program which shows the little (usually red) postbox icon in the Windows task tray. This usually launches automatically from the Windows startup group. This program is VPOP3Status.EXE on the disk, or can be run manually from text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/faq:encryption?rev=1542192349&do=diff Encryption There are several different encryption methods used on the Internet which are relevant to VPOP3. Current versions of VPOP3 Basic will be able to connect to other POP3 or SMTP servers using either SSL or TLS. This allows you to use VPOP3 to access services such as GMail which require SSL/TLS. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/faq:gdpr_for_vpop3?rev=1542192349&do=diff GDPR for VPOP3 self-hosted software VPOP3 is an email server program, it is not a service, so if you use VPOP3 on your own computer we are not a “data controller” or a “data processor” under GDPR rules as we never see any of your data (unless you give us permission to remotely connect to your PC for technical support purposes). text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/faq:how_do_i_get_support?rev=1542192349&do=diff How do I get support? You can get support for our software products in several ways. By telephone * You can purchase an annual priority support contract. The cost depends on your current VPOP3 licence, and costs 50% of the licence price per year (with a minimum of £100) per software licence (+VAT if applicable) . This entitles you to software upgrades, remote support and telephone support during UK office hours and priority email support where we aim to respond to your email within 3 hours … text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/faq:vpop3av?rev=1542192349&do=diff What is the VPOP3 Antivirus solution? “VPOP3 Antivirus” is a new product to replace the avast! for VPOP3 product which will no longer be supported after the end of 2012. VPOP3 Antivirus uses the popular 'ClamAV' virus scanner to scan incoming and outgoing messages for viruses. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/faq:what_is_postgresql?rev=1542192349&do=diff What is PostgreSQL? PostgreSQL is an SQL database engine. VPOP3 and PostgreSQL In VPOP3 2.x, VPOP3 uses a database engine called SQLite for its database needs. SQLite has limited locking facilities, so on busy systems we encountered problems where databases would need very frequent updates, and the lock limitations would cause the updates to take a long time. For this reason we added optional support for PostgreSQL to later versions of VPOP3 2.x. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/faq:which_ports_does_vpop3_use?rev=1542192349&do=diff Which Ports does VPOP3 use? If you want to use VPOP3 through a firewall, you will need to open up some TCP ports in the firewall. VPOP3 uses several ports, for the different services it provides. The best way to see the ports it uses is to go to Services text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:10061?rev=1542192349&do=diff Socket Error 10061 - The attempt to connect was forcefully rejected Error 10061 means that the computer which VPOP3 was trying to connect to (probably at your ISP) refused the connection from the computer running VPOP3. There are several possibilities that can cause error 10061: text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:calendars_on_em_client?rev=1542192349&do=diff Calendars on eM Client If you have used CalDAV calendars on Mozilla Lightning/Sunbird, then the eM Client configuration is quite different, but simple. To add a CalDAV account to eM Client * Go to Tools -> Accounts * Click New Account... * Open the text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:copy_outgoing_mail?rev=1542192349&do=diff Copy Outgoing mail Sometimes people need to copy outgoing mail for various reasons. There are several ways of doing this in VPOP3 depending on your exact requirements: * Message Monitoring - this copies all outgoing, incoming and/or internal mail sent by/to specific users to another specific user text/html 2025-09-11T13:02:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:database_issues?rev=1757595765&do=diff Database Issues VPOP3 version 3 and later use the PostgreSQL] database server. This is an open source enterprise level database server. Several VPOP3 problems are due to problems with the database service. * Database & Disk Caching * Software conflicting with database * VPOP3DB Service not starting * Database Size Database corruption If VPOP3 won't start even though the process is running, then that is often because the PostgreSQL service is not running. If the PostgreSQL service won… text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:database_size?rev=1542192349&do=diff VPOP3 Database Size The VPOP3 directory is stored in the VPOP3\pgsql\data folder and subfolders. If you are concerned about the size of the VPOP3 database, there are several factors which may make the database larger than you would expect: * The VPOP3 database contains a lot more information than just messages in mailboxes. This can include settings, outgoing messages, historical logging information, statistical information for the spamfilter, information about archived messages, etc. Also,… text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:encrypt_sessions?rev=1542192349&do=diff How To Encrypt Sessions VPOP3 Enterprise 2.6 and later supports SSL/STARTTLS encrypted sessions to VPOP3 itself. So, the email client or web browser will encrypt the data passed to VPOP3 so it cannot be intercepted. This requires an SSL Certificate to be created for VPOP3. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:error_message_handling?rev=1542192349&do=diff Error Message Handling VPOP3 will normally send an error message to the Main Administrator every time it encounters an error. We recommend you leave it like this in most cases - if an error message occurs repeatedly, then it usually means there's an underlying problem which needs resolving rather than ignoring. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:forwarded_emails_not_arriving?rev=1542192349&do=diff Forwarded Emails Not Arriving If you are having problems having VPOP3 forward incoming messages to an external address, but sending messages directly to that address works OK, and forwarding internal messages to that address works OK, then the problem may be the SMTP return address which VPOP3 is using. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:full_text_search?rev=1542192349&do=diff Full Text Search In VPOP3 Enterprise v7.0 a facility for full-text-search on message content was added. Because the full-text-search indexes can be quite big, this facility is optional. For several reasons, the full-text-search is stored in a separate PostgreSQL database. This means that it is not backed up with your standard backups. After a restore, the full-text-search index can be rebuilt from the raw message content. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:how_to_tell_vpop3_some_users_in_the_local_domain_are_not_to_be_handled_by_vpop3?rev=1542192349&do=diff How to tell VPOP3 that some users in the local domain are not to be handled by VPOP3 In some situations you will have a situation where most of your users are handled by VPOP3, but several users will collect their mail directly from a separate POP3 account on your ISP, even though they may have an email address on the same domain as other users. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:locked_accounts?rev=1542192349&do=diff Locked Accounts VPOP3 has a security feature which will lock out an account after it has had several failed login attempts. This feature is to make it harder for an attacker to use a brute force or dictionary password attack on an account. The default settings are that after more than 3 attempts to log into an account with an incorrect password, VPOP3 will lock the account for 30 minutes. You can change these settings on the text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:moving_messages?rev=1542192349&do=diff How to move messages between users There are several ways to do this, depending on your exact needs Via Administrator Console You can view a user's 'Inbox' messages by clicking on the message count on the Users list, then select the messages, choose the target user, and press the text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:no_transport_provider_is_available?rev=1542192349&do=diff Outlook/Windows Messaging reports "No transport provider is available" If Outlook or Windows Messaging reports No transport provider is available when trying to connect to VPOP3, it can mean several things. (This must be a contender for “the world's most meaningless error message text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:obtaining_error_logs?rev=1542192349&do=diff How to Obtain Error Logs As part of diagnosing a support issue our support team may ask you to send them various log files. This page explains how to obtain the right files at the right time. How Logging Works Under its default settings VPOP3 logs a minimal amount of information about what it is doing to various files in the main VPOP3 directory. When investigating a support issue it is often the case that we will need you to switch on logging to extra files or increase the level of detail be… text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:stop_vpop3?rev=1542192349&do=diff How to stop VPOP3 You can stop VPOP3 by going to the Services applet in Windows, find the VPOP3 Email Server service and stop it, or, if you have the VPOP3 status monitor running with appropriate permissions, you can right-click that and choose 'Shutdown Server' text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:upgrade_vpop3?rev=1542192349&do=diff How To Upgrade VPOP3 Note: if you are upgrading to VPOP3 version 5 or later from version 4 or earlier, please see How To Upgrade VPOP3 to version 5 Upgrading VPOP3 is a straightforward process. Download VPOP3 from our web site and ideally back up your current installation just in case something goes wrong. Then simply run the installer that you downloaded and install it over the top of your existing VPOP3. All your settings and mail will be preserved. text/html 2019-11-08T15:37:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:upgrade_vpop3_to_version_5?rev=1573227472&do=diff How To Upgrade VPOP3 to version 5 or later Upgrading VPOP3 is usually a straightforward process. Download VPOP3 from our web site and back up your current installation just in case something goes wrong. Then simply run the installer that you downloaded and install it over the top of your existing VPOP3. All your settings and mail will be preserved. text/html 2019-11-12T16:09:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:v3_-_move_to_a_new_pc?rev=1573574948&do=diff Move VPOP3 Version 3 or 4 to a new PC Moving VPOP3 Version 3 or 4 to a new PC is slightly different from moving earlier versions, because of the database system. The summary of steps is: * Stop VPOP3 on the original PC * Manually make a backup of the database on the original PC text/html 2026-04-21T11:12:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:v5_-_move_to_a_new_pc?rev=1776769960&do=diff Move VPOP3 Version 5 (or later) to a new PC Moving VPOP3 Version 5 or later to a new PC is slightly different from moving earlier versions, because of the database system, which was introduced for version 3 and modified for version 5. The summary of steps is: * Stop VPOP3 on the original PC text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:vpop3_access_security?rev=1542192349&do=diff How To Setup VPOP3 Service Security VPOP3 can be configured to restrict access to its various services depending on the client computer's IP address. This is useful if you want to allow access from only certain IP addresses (eg within your LAN) and prevent access from other IP addresses (eg the Internet). text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:vpop3_historical_logger_backlog?rev=1542192349&do=diff VPOP3 Historical Logger Backlog This problem is primarily related to VPOP3 versions 2.5 -> 2.6. Theoretically it could happen on later versions, but would be extremely unusual (see the note at the bottom if you are using version 3.0 or later) You get an error message with subject text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:vpop3_is_responding_slowly?rev=1542192349&do=diff VPOP3 Is Responding Slowly If VPOP3 is responding slowly to users there are several common causes: * The VPOP3 server disk may be badly fragmented. Defragment the server disk(s). Note that sometimes the Windows defragmenter will say that the disk doesn't need defragmenting even if it does, so it is best to do it anyway. Also, there is a better free defragmenter available called text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:vpop3_sending_high_volumes_of_unrecognised_mails?rev=1542192349&do=diff SMTP Relay Protection in VPOP3 SMTP Relay Protection should be used on ALL SMTP mail servers (such as VPOP3) which have a permanent connection to the Internet. You may also want to use it on servers which are only connected occasionally via a dial-up connection. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/how_to:vpop3_xxxxx_server_access_not_allowed?rev=1542192349&do=diff VPOP3 Server Access Not Allowed If you get an error like: -ERR VPOP3 Server access not allowed! when trying to access VPOP3, then this means that the relevant server's IP Access Restrictions defined in VPOP3 do not allow access from your client computer. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:bulk_add_users?rev=1542192349&do=diff Bulk Add Users VPOP3 contains a feature to quickly create several users, with default settings. From the Administration Settings -> Users page, you can click Bulk Add Users to launch a new window. You can then enter up to 10 users at a time, by specifying their usernames and passwords. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:download_rules?rev=1542192349&do=diff Download Rules Download rules are a facility in VPOP3 where it can look at message summary information before downloading a message from an ISP POP3 mailbox (they do not work on incoming SMTP messages - use SMTP Rules for that) To edit download rules, go to text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:listserver_settings?rev=1542192349&do=diff ListServer Settings Settings -> ListServer Settings In VPOP3, the ListServer is an automated 'user' which handles mailing list requests, such as subscribe & unsubscribe commands. Anyone can send an email to the ListServer to subscribe to (public) mailing lists, or unsubscribe from mailing lists they are on, or see a list of public mailing lists etc. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:logdb?rev=1542192349&do=diff LogDB database schema The LogDB database schema contains historical logging information for reports etc. Entries are added to this by several components of VPOP3, and the 'reporting' section uses the data here. The LogDB database is only populated if the ' text/html 2019-08-27T16:13:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:lua_monitor_script?rev=1566922420&do=diff Monitor Scripting (Added in V6.15) This script has three functions: * MonitorIncoming * MonitorInternal * MonitorOut The functions are similar, except they are called when different messages are to be monitored (incoming, internal and outgoing messages respectively). text/html 2025-05-08T08:23:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:lua_smtp_server_script?rev=1746692615&do=diff SMTP Server Lua Scripting The SMTP Server Lua Script is called SMTPSVR.LUA and can be edited from the Settings -> Scripts page in the VPOP3 settings. This script is called whenever an instance of the VPOP3 SMTP server is launched - ie whenever someone opens a connection to port 25 on the VPOP3 server to send it a message, whether from a local user or an incoming SMTP message. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:management_scripting?rev=1542192349&do=diff Management Scripting In VPOP3 Enterprise, from version 6.17 there is the facility to run Lua scripts manually or according to a schedule. These scripts can do things like access mail folders & messages and perform some maintenance on them. Creating a new script text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:mappings?rev=1542192349&do=diff Mappings In VPOP3, Mappings are a way of explicitly linking an email address to a user or list. They can also be used to indicate that an email address is remote, even though it would otherwise appear to be a local email address. In other email servers, a similar feature may be called 'aliases' text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:message_headers?rev=1542192349&do=diff Message Headers This article describes some of the headers which VPOP3 can add to messages. Note that some of these may be added by customisable scripts used by VPOP3, so may not match exactly, but the descriptions below are for the defaults distributed with VPOP3. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:misc_dns?rev=1542192349&do=diff Misc -> DNS Tab Settings -> Misc Settings -> DNS The DNS tab lets you specify which DNS servers VPOP3 will use. DNS (Domain Name System) is a system which converts Internet host names (eg www.google.com) into a numeric IP address (eg 1.2.3.4), because all connections on the Internet are actually performed using numeric IP addresses, but it is easier for people to remember names. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:spamfilter_rule_weights?rev=1542192349&do=diff Spamfilter Rule Weights To edit the spamfilter rule weights, go to Settings -> Spamfilter -> General -> Rule Weights The VPOP3 spamfilter contains several rules which test for certain things, eg 'adult words', or entries in real-time blacklist databases, or whitelisted email addresses etc. text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:spamrules_db_comparator?rev=1542192349&do=diff Spamfilter database comparators Several Spamfilter DB statements allow comparators which are listed below If the value specified in the statement is numeric: * = or == compare numeric values for equality * <> or != compare numeric values for inequality text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:spamrules_statement_dbqueryone?rev=1542192349&do=diff Spam Filter Rules: DBQueryOne Statement DBQueryOne Version 6.16+ Purpose Queries the spam filter database for a single record/aggregate The DBQueryOne statement performs a query on the spam filter database and returns a single value which is either the value of a record or an aggregate of several records. text/html 2023-08-14T16:01:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:spamrules_variables?rev=1692028861&do=diff Spam Filter Rules: Variables The VPOP3 spam filter script language supports simple variables. In most places these are specified as ${<variable name>}, but in some places they are just specified as <variable name> - for instance where a statement always puts its result into a variable. text/html 2023-03-27T10:32:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:user_routing_script?rev=1679913138&do=diff User Routing Script If there is a <username>/user_redirect.lua script, this Lua script can override VPOP3's message routing options. You can edit this either in the Settings -> Scripts page in the settings, or via the 'Routing' tab in the user's settings in the VPOP3 administration console. This script affects how VPOP3 will handle how messages text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:users?rev=1542192349&do=diff Users The Users page shows the list of users, as well as giving you some actions which you can perform use the user list. * Import users from file * Import users from Windows * Export users to file * Bulk Add Users * Edit User Welcome Message * Send Admin Message * Edit a User User List Outgoing Messages Just above the main user list is an entry Outgoing Message Queue. Clicking on this will let you see which messages are waiting to be sent out, and you can delete/ text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:using_tables?rev=1542192349&do=diff Using tables/grids Many VPOP3 settings pages use grids to show you a set of data, for instance on the Users, Mappings and Lists pages. These have several standard features which are described below. * Most of the grids are 'delayed-fill'. This means that they don't fill up with data immediately when the page is loaded, this is to speed up the page load times. Only the first (visible) section of the grid is filled at first (sometimes there may be a short delay before this is filled, if the da… text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/reference:whats_new_in_version_5_webmail?rev=1542192349&do=diff What's new in version 5 webmail? This is a list of some of the most noticeable changes to VPOP3's webmail interface for version 5. For a more detailed list of changes, view our bugtracker. [VPOP3 Version 5 - mobile compatible webmail] Mobile compatible webmail If you access version 5 webmail from a mobile device, you will probably be redirected to the mobile compatible version. It is a cut-down version of Webmail, which retains the key features, but doesn't utilise the extra features which w… text/html 2018-11-14T10:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.pscs.co.uk/troubleshooter:accessing_settings?rev=1542192349&do=diff Problems accessing the VPOP3 settings There are several ways to access the VPOP3 settings. The most common are through the VPOP3 Status Monitor task tray icon, or the Windows Start menu (Start -> Programs -> VPOP3 -> Configure VPOP3). You can also go directly to the VPOP3 settings in your web browser, by going to