It said the problem emerged during migration as it was copying all customer emails to Yahoo's mail servers.
Software.com's main business, on the other hand, is e-mail servers for service providers.
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Cognos, a software company ravaged by the Melissa virus, configured its mail servers to block incoming e-mail attachments exceeding 25KB.
And an incorrectly configured or maintained mail server (there are 14.8 million mail servers worldwide) can delay or even misplace mail.
It feared that enabling the encryption would slow down response times as data was scrambled and unscrambled on a PC and Google's mail servers.
Microsoft is trying to quash RIM's messaging service with a technology called ActiveSync that relays e-mails to phones directly from its ubiquitous Exchange e-mail servers.
Schrader noted that within six hours of the posting of the virus, tens of thousands of corporate users were unable to access their mail servers.
The company also plans to consolidate 97 e-mail servers into four.
Google, by contrast, does not keep any of its e-mail servers in China--and hence is in no danger of Beijing demanding personal information from the company.
Tech support personnel might have to go desk to desk to do fixes, or perform maintenance on e-mail servers that have become clogged with virus-generated messages.
But the novel worm spotted recently by Spamhaus routes junk via the mail servers of the net service firm that infected machines used to get online in the first place.
The group of hackers are partly based in Israel, according to one source within Anonymous, who also believes they used relatively simple hacking methods to gain access to the Syrian mail servers.
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When the Anna Kournikova virus was spreading wildly in 2001, it infected millions of computers and clogged e-mail servers by offering a racy picture of the teen tennis star to unsuspecting e-mailers.
Non-profit Spamhaus maintains what are known as "block lists" which many organisations use to spot sources of spam and other junk mail to stop them clogging mail servers and inboxes with unwanted messages.
While the technique of routing mail via mail servers of net service firms might cause problems for those that use blacklists and block lists it did not mean that other techniques for stopping spam lost their efficacy too.
This estimate includes the time it takes people to delete the messages, the cost of buying larger mail servers and storage systems to cope with inboxes flooded with the messages and the cost of having staff unclog networks overloaded by spam.
The aspiration of the company is to build a series of technologies that encompasses an electronic monitoring and alert engine for activity that occurs not only on its own e-mail servers, but also on third party solutions including AOL, Yahoo, Gmail and text messaging, and eventually on social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, too.
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Cloud based computing has centralized e-mail data onto the servers of companies who are well positioned to deal with spam.
This jars with the nine-year prison sentence recently handed down to Jeremy Jaynes, convicted in Virginia of sending vast amounts of spam e-mail through AOL's servers.
The Realtime Blackhole List blocks trash e-mail going to about 20, 000 ISPs, corporations and individuals with servers, 40% of all e-mail addresses.
These banner ad companies typically "hide" the recipient's e-mail address in the Web address of the graphic, so that their servers can later match the cookie to the recipient's e-mail address, Smith said.
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The neatest trick, however, could be the ability to get e-mail and calendar information directly from Microsoft Exchange servers.
The software is chock full of small details that help you do this, like allowing you to get e-mail and calendar information directly from Microsoft Exchange servers.
Corporate customers have installed some 40, 000 BlackBerry servers, which synchronize and relay e-mail and let data-processingdepartments remotely zap all the data from lost or stolen BlackBerrys.
To do that, Capellas says Compaq will slap its well-known brand name on a wide range of products: from portable organizers to the Himalaya servers that power AOL's e-mail system to products still in development that will blur the lines between computers and electronic appliances like cell phones and stereos.
Open source software such as Apache Web server and the Linux server operating system have become popular systems to run not only on network servers, but also on server appliances (servers dedicated to single tasks such as e-mail and Web site hosting).
Instead of sprawls of special-purpose computer servers--one for Internet applications, one for e-mail and so on--a virtualized system uses one machine to do all of these functions.
Telecom Italia cut back on the need for Sun servers by adopting the software of Critical Path for 10 million e-mail accounts.
When he found it, he quickly hacked into its corporate servers, sent a note to its CEO's unlisted e-mail address (both announcing the security breach and asking for a job) and then moved to New York to become its lead programmer.
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