Information: Announced deactivation of anonymous delivery via UNIX-Mail service „mailer.gwdg.de“ or „mailer.mpg.de“

Message-Id: 201512120900 Time: 16.12.2015, 9:00 am Affected: Users of UNIX-Mail servers “mailer.gwdg.de” or “mailer.mpg.de” (not Exchange!) Impact: Gradual limitation of Sending E-mails As previously announced, sending e-mail using our UNIX mailserver “mailer.gwdg.de” or “mailer.mpg.de” without authentification has been disabled today. Background: Due to an increase of attacks on and of the UNIX mail system and … Read more

Information: Restricting of UNIX-Mail service „mailer.gwdg.de“ or „mailer.mpg.de“ for general user operation

Sending of e-mails through UNIX-Mail server “mailer.gwdg.de” or “mailer.mpg.de” for general user operations will be gradually limited. As of 03/01/2016 12:15AM, this SMTP-service will be exclusively available for registered users. The Exchange service users are not affected with these changes, unless someone have explicitly configured his SMTP Outgoing-server to “mailer.gwdg.de” or “mailer.mpg.de”. Accordingly, the users … Read more

Information: Restricting of UNIX-Mail service “mailer.gwdg.de” or “mailer.mpg.de” for general user operation

Message-Id: 201512120900 Time: 16.12.2015, 9:00 am Affected: Users of UNIX-Mail servers “mailer.gwdg.de” or “mailer.mpg.de” (not Exchange!) Impact: Gradual limitation of Sending E-mails Sending of e-mails through UNIX-Mail server “mailer.gwdg.de” or “mailer.mpg.de” for general user operations will be gradually limited. In the future, this SMTP-service will be exclusively available only for the registered users. The Exchange … Read more

Information: Enhanced Spam- and Virus Filtering

Message-Id: 201512121500 Time: 15.12.2015, 3:00 p.m. Affected: Users of Spam- and Virus Filter Services, specially users with e-mail addresses “@gwdg.de” Impact: Enhanced Spam- and Virus Filtering To improve Spam- and Virus Filtering Services, new filtering instances have been set up by GWDG and DFN. All blacklisted senders are rejected by all instances. Otherwise, a spam … Read more

Information: Neuerungen im Spam- und Virenfilterdienst

Meldungsnummer: 201512121500 Zeitraum: 15.12.2015, 15:00 Uhr Betroffen: Nutzer des Spam-und Virenfilterdiensts, insbesondere alle Benutzer mit E-Mail-Adressen “@gwdg.de” Auswirkungen: Inbetriebnahme verschärfter Spam-Filterung   Zur Verfeinerung der der Spam- und Virenfilterung wurden zusätzliche Filter-Instanzen mit dem DFN aufgebaut. In allen Instanzen erfolgt die Spam-Ablehnung zuerst anhand von Sender-Blacklisten. Eingehende E-Mail von Sendern, die nicht auf Blacklisten stehen, … Read more