Here is how to archive mail using some popular email clients…

Apple Mail

• From the Mailbox menu in Mail, choose “New Mailbox…”
• You will get a prompt asking you for the name of the new mailbox, and a location menu. Give the mailbox a name and set the location to “On My Mac”  For example….

• Once the mailbox has been created, you can drag messages from your Inbox over to the local folder which appears at the left side of the Mail window.

Thunderbird

• At the bottom of the mailbox list on the left side, you will see “Local Folders”.
• Right-click  (on Control-Click on a Mac) on “Local Folders” and select “New Folder”
• Give the folder a name, and leave “Create as Subfolder of” to “Local Folders”
• Once the new folder has been created, you can drag messages over from your Inbox to the new local folder, thereby removing them from the server.

Microsoft Outlook (version 14)

• On the left side of the screen, where the list of mail folder are, right-click on “Outlook Data File” and select “New Folder”
• Give the folder a name, the folder should contain “Mail and Post Items”, and Select “Outlook Data File” as the place for the folder.
• Once the new folder has been created, you can drag messages over from your Inbox to the new local folder, thereby removing them from the server.

• Open your browser and go to “http://192.168.1.1/admin”
• Login as “admin”, password “admin” (unless you have changed the password yourself)
• Click the “Wireless” link on the left side. Here is where you can change the wireless network name (SSID)
• Click on the “Security” sub menu on the left. Here is where you can see or change the wifi password.
• Click on the “Advanced” sub menu of the left. You can change the channel # to avoid conflicting networks at your location.
• Click the “Apply/Save” button

While you are logged into your router, you can check on what your DSL connection speed is.

• Click “Device Info” on the left side, then “Statistics”, then “xDSL”.
• Your sync speed is in the “Rate (Kbps)” row.

For more information, refer to the SmartRG gateway manual

Postbox is a new email client for Mac and Windows. It’s not free, but it’s not expensive ($10) and has many nice features. There is a 30-free trail available from their website

Here is how to configure it to work with the Lmi mail server…

• Open Preferences (under the Postbox menu on a Mac; or on Windows, choose Options under the Tools menu)
• Click the Accounts icon at the top, then click the + sign at the lower left to Add Mail Account…
• Enter your name, email address, and password, then click the “Manual Setup” link.

• Fill in the manual setup box as shown.. The username would be the same as your email address (if yoru email is @lmi.net then you don’t need to type “@lmi.net).

• If you want to use POP instead of IMAP, the Port number would be 995

Here’s how to access the web GUI:

1. Attach your computer directly to the DSL modem using an Ethernet cable (i.e. bypass a router if you have one)
2. Open your network settings, and set your IP address manually to 192.168.1.10. Set subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 and the default gateway (router) address to 192.168.1.1
3. Open your web browser, and enter this in the address bar:  http://192.168.1.1
4. You should get a login prompt. The user name is “admin” and the password is “admin”
5. The resulting screen will show you the current speed that the modem is in sync at.
6. After checking, you will want to restore your computer’s network settings to obtain an IP address automatically using DHCP.

You can generate a key in Mac OS using the ssh-keygen command. You should run it in Terminal. You will be asked for a file in which the key should be saved to and for a passphrase (password) for the key:

user@localhost: ssh-keygen -t dsa
Generating public/private dsa key pair.

Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/user/.ssh/id_dsa): id_dsa

Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):  XXXXXXXX

Enter same passphrase again: XXXXXXXX
Your identification has been saved in id_dsa.
Your public key has been saved in id_dsa.pub.

Under Windows using PuTTY

You can generate an SSH key on Windows using the free PuTTY SSH client.

To generate a key with PuTTY, you should:

1. Download and start the puttygen.exe generator.

2. In the ”Parameters” section choose SSH2 DSA and press Generate.

3. Move your mouse randomly in the small screen in order to generate the key pairs.

4. Enter a key comment, which will identify the key (useful when you use several SSH keys).

5. Type in the passphrase and confirm it. The passphrase is used to protect your key. You will be asked for it when you connect via SSH.

6. Click “Save private key” to save your private key.

7. Click “Save public key” to save your public key.

• Open your browser and go to “http://192.168.1.1/admin”
• Login as “admin”, password “admin” (unless you have changed the password yourself)
• Click the “Wireless” link on the left side. Here is where you can change the wireless network name (SSID)
• Click on the “Security” sub menu on the left. Here is where you can see or change the wifi password.
• Click on the “Advanced” sub menu of the left. You can change the channel # to avoid conflicting networks at your location.
• Click the “Apply/Save” button

While you are logged into your router, you can check on what your DSL connection speed is.

• Click “Device Info” on the left side, then “Statistics”, then “xDSL”.
• Your sync speed is in the “Rate (Kbps)” row.

For more information, refer to the SmartRG gateway manual

Macintosh users should check out the free NetSpot app.

Once you see what networks are in your area, pick a network channel (1, 6, or 11) that has the weakest signal, then use that one.

In order to access your shell account you will need to have an ssh application on your computer (telnet connections are no longer supported). If you are running any version of Macintosh OS X, just open the Terminal application and type “ssh shell.lmi.net” . If you are using Windows, you will need to download an SSH client. We recommend the free application putty.

Getting mail on the shell server

Many people prefer to use a text-based email client such as pine. You can use our webmail interface to redirect your email to your shell account (user@shell.lmi.net). Here’s how to do this:

• Login in https://webmail.lmi.net with your email username and password
• Click the Filters link at the top of the page.
• Click the “Add a New Rule” button.
• Click in the left-most pull down menu under condition. It says “Header”- change this to “All”.
• Click the “Less…” button to remove the unnecessary second rule.
• In the Action box below, click the button to “Redirect to the following email address”
• Enter the shell account address (i.e. “user@shell.lmi.net)
• You can optionally elect to to keep a local copy so you can access your mail account using webmail, or another mail client.
• Click the “Add New Rule” button at the bottom to finish.

Creating a personal webpage

Our shell server is also a web server. To post a web page, first create a new sub directory inside your shell account home directory called www. You can then FTP your content (HTML files, pictures, etc) inside that directory. You can also use the vi or pico texy editors to manually edit your HTML files. Your URL will be http://users.lmi.net/username

Technical Details

Our shell server is running FreeBSD 4.11. Below is a partial list of tools available on the shell server. If you need something that isn’t installed, please send a request to support@lmi.net. We will do our best to install it for you.

-pine
-elm
-mutt
-vi
-mtr
-pico
-traceroute
-c compiler (gcc)
-perl
-talk
-lynx
-working man pages! :)

Viruses are programs that can inflict actual damage to you computer by deleting or corrupting software, but are often used to so open up access to your computer so that spammers can use your network to relay junk mail.

Spyware (also knows as Adware) is software that generates pop-up advertising windows on your screen.

Malware is very pervasive: If you have a PC with Windows* and use the Internet, antivirus software is essential to prevent infection. Because of this, the network security software business is very lucrative. One company is so big they named the Oakland football stadium after themselves. One has to wonder if the creators of these malware programs are somehow getting kick backs from the software vendors.

The problem with many of the popular anti-malware programs is that they are so big, they make your computer run slowly. There are some exceptions, however. We recommend the following programs:

AVG This is the only free protection software that really works, is updated frequently, and doesn’t expire after a trial period. This free version lacks some of the features of the “Pro” version, which you may want to upgrade to if you like the software.

NOD32 This is also very good anti-virus software, and doesn’t use up a lot of overhead. After the 30 day trial is up, you need to pay $60 to continue to get software updates. (since new malware is bing created daily, any software you choose should have a mechanism to update itself regularly)

SpyBot Search & Destroy This free software only works with Spyware, but it does so very effectively. This should be used in conjucntion with an anti-virus software package.

If you need help removing the virus or recovering lost data, LMi provides professional consulting, in our Berkeley office or on-site. We’ve removed, literally, thousands and thousands of viruses. In most cases, we can remove all of yours. Contact us for details.

^{*For Mac OS X, there are no viruses “in the wild.” In the opinion of our Mac consulting professionals, antivirus software for the Mac is at present unnecessary.}

What you’re seeing are bounce messages from forged headers sent in spam or viruses, called “backscatter”.

Note that it does *not* mean someone has “hijacked” your email; merely that someone is lying about the reply-to address for emails they’re sending out.

Backscatter is most commonly seen as an effect of a particular type of virus that effects Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express. The way it works is this: A computer becomes infected when the user opens an email that contains this virus. This computer will then mail out copies of the virus to a list of email addresses generated from the address book of the infected computer. It then selects another email address from the inbox of that same computer and uses it as the return address. So the email appears to be coming from someone else. Many email systems are now protected against this virus, so some of the emails that the infected computer is sending out are rejected by the recipients server, and bounces back to the sender, which in this case appears to be you!

So by getting these messages, it does not mean that your computer is infected, just that you have probably sent email to someone else who’s computer WAS infected.

Unfortunately, there isn’t anything you can do to prevent the emails from coming to you, short of changing your email address. We recommend just setting up a filter (aka Mail Rule) in your email client software to automatically delete any messages coming from “Mailer-Daemon” or “Mail Delivery Subsystem”

Please see also http://spamlinks.net/prevent-secure-backscatter.htm