If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Rate Thread | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
VPN vs Thunderbird Mail
Probably not just thunderbird but any email or similar app. I had Thunderbird running in email mode. I started a VPN to access a newsgroup site that seemed to be blocking me. I made my benign post then noticed that all my email accounts had messages from GMAIL and MS that my email was under attack. Well it was just that Thunderbird was checking my email accounts with a very different IP address. So I am having to go to each account and tell them it was me. Remembering next time to shut off any email app while on the VPN. And now on the radio there are folks pushing Norton VPN etc and what chaos that will cause for email accounts. |
Ads |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
VPN vs Thunderbird Mail
On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 07:48:18 -0800, AIOLI wrote:
Probably not just thunderbird but any email or similar app. I had Thunderbird running in email mode. I started a VPN to access a newsgroup site that seemed to be blocking me. I made my benign post then noticed that all my email accounts had messages from GMAIL and MS that my email was under attack. Well it was just that Thunderbird was checking my email accounts with a very different IP address. So I am having to go to each account and tell them it was me. Remembering next time to shut off any email app while on the VPN. And now on the radio there are folks pushing Norton VPN etc and what chaos that will cause for email accounts. If you've never used a VPN or that specific VPN server, and the warning emails came not long after the VPN is used, chances are that the VPN server is monitoring your network traffic, and you've at least transmit or receive your user names using unsecured network protocol. e.g. HTTP instead of HPPTS. Or you're being specifically targetted by someone. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
VPN vs Thunderbird Mail
AIOLI wrote:
I started a VPN to access a newsgroup site that seemed to be blocking me. The OP has been violating the Aioe.org news server's terms of use and has had his IP address banned by the Aioe.org news server. [See the OP's thread in the XP newsgroup and the Aioe.org terms of use.] Now, the OP is going to screw it for other users of the VPN who share his VPN exit point IP address. REF: The OP's thread in the XP newsgroup https://groups.google.com/d/topic/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/HRUGdz-M3IU/discussion REF: AIOE Terms of use https://news.aioe.org/manual/termsofuse/ 1. Access rules * No more that four concurrent connections ... * No persistent connections ... * No more than 600 connections per day ... * No waste of system resources ... Any IP address that exceeds these activity thresholds is banned from the server. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.4 FWIW, a Windows XP user. |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
VPN vs Thunderbird Mail
What you say is absolutely NOT true !
The next day, after closing the Seamonkey tool on my PC, I was allowed to access AIOE no problem. I am not banned fro AIOE. AIOE was just keeping me from being logged in (Seamonkey keeps looking at each provider to see if any updates are present). Seamonkey is too busy peeking at the providers. I can turn that peeking off in Semonkey. But I would rather not and jut close Seamonkey when done although it would be nice to sit down at the computer and have all updates waiting for my perusal. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
VPN vs Thunderbird Mail
AIOLI wrote:
What you say is absolutely NOT true ! The next day, after closing the Seamonkey tool on my PC, I was allowed to access AIOE no problem. I am not banned fro AIOE. AIOE was just keeping me from being logged in (Seamonkey keeps looking at each provider to see if any updates are present). Seamonkey is too busy peeking at the providers. I can turn that peeking off in Semonkey. But I would rather not and jut close Seamonkey when done although it would be nice to sit down at the computer and have all updates waiting for my perusal. Usually USENET News servers have a "maximum number of connection requests per day" limit in their TOS. This means that persistent pests, like software that "checks for new messages" are not welcome. Manually checking for new messages is sufficient. If you dialed back the frequency, like check-in every 15 minutes, that would help. The servers also use "transient connections" at the best of times. If a TCP/IP connection has been quiet for a few seconds, the server drops the connection. This reduces the amount of RAM needed on the server, to handle hundreds and hundreds of active posters. The "size" of the server determines how many clients it can handle. Sometimes the OS would need to be modified to have larger tables for some of the stuff used. A well written TOS (Terms Of Service) on the News Server site, should alert you to these limitations. AIOE has more rules than most and I can't actually find a page now with the TOS on it!. Just the welcome page that says 40 messages a day. For fun, you can see who is banned by IP at the moment, and the reason. https://news.aioe.org/stats/banned-ips/ "1067 connections (22363.362 seconds), 460 connections when already banned" Paul |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | Rate This Thread |
|
|