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PM's Runing Slow or Failing to Get Sent

c0ldshadow

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i have found the likely cause of the issue

LPF has firewall rules that will drop any packet and send an email alert to me, that it detects as having spam-like patterns in it. this generally has very few false positives but after checking a few alerts from today, it appears the IP addr of the users who had problems accidently triggered a few of the firewall rules

if a member has like 0 posts and firewalls one of these spam alerts triggers, i sometimes will autoban the account. but here these looked like 100% false positives and nobody did anything wrong lol

sorry for any troubles caused but overall this has been helping a lot find new users that signed up just to send a PM spam or post spam or anything else

note that this system will impact any type of spam including PM spam or post spam

signs that u accidently triggered an alert (after posting some data anywhere on LPF, the page just hangs or times out)

generally i only get a few of these alerts triggered per day.


take care everyone and have a good weekend
peace
-ave
 





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Could it possibly be the PL link?

I had trouble again this morning when I tried to show someone a picture stored there?

Peace,
dave
 
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for anyone that had a fail:

what exactly happens: does page timeout, or does it refresh to next page and everything appears to work but doesnt get sent?

if it timesout, the ;potential cause could be firewall rules to prevent spam (if this is the case plz email me the exact text u were trying to send)

if it was not timeout, im not sure what the cause was. perhaps i was doing a forum backup at that time and b/c the site was in maintenance mode it interfered

plz let me know which one of hte 2 situations happened for u /etc and full details
 
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Mine problem: I receive a PM, then I answer it (reply), the person don't get the reply, and after ~3 minutes the person receive the reply, and I receive the first pm AGAIN!

the whole thing is SLOW at lpf, pages timing out etc.
 
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All PMs here sent & received ok as of now... maybe fixed or a personal computer issue(?) Life & its ongoing existence is a mystery Dave, far more than just these webz thingz :D
 
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c0ldshadow said:
for anyone that had a fail:

what exactly happens: does page timeout, or does it refresh to next page and everything appears to work but doesnt get sent?

if it timesout, the ;potential cause could be firewall rules to prevent spam (if this is the case plz email me the exact text u were trying to send)

if it was not timeout, im not sure what the cause was. perhaps i was doing a forum backup at that time and b/c the site was in maintenance mode it interfered

plz let me know which one of hte 2 situations happened for u /etc and full details
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I've restarted since then. Since it didn't "send" there is no copy of it in my computer. I've emailed my memory of it :crackup:

If it happens again, I'll be more responsive

danefex said:
All PMs here sent & received ok as of now... maybe fixed or a personal computer issue(?) Life & its ongoing existence is a mystery Dave, far more than just these webz thingz
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Not true! I had life all figured out when I was just 16 years old :crackup:

Of course, I've forgotten most of it in the last 40 years :yabbem:

Peace,
dave
 
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daguin said:
Not true! I had life all figured out when I was just 16 years old :crackup:

Of course, I've forgotten most of it in the last 40 years :yabbem:

Peace,
dave
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You wouldn't happen to have any notes from that time lying around now, would you? :beer:
 
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I noticed this problem with the slow PM's started yesterday right
after cOld did an update or whatever he dose when the board says BRB in 10 min.
As far as I could tell every thing was working fine befor that !
 
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c0ldshadow said:
for anyone that had a fail:

what exactly happens: does page timeout, or does it refresh to next page and everything appears to work but doesnt get sent?

if it timesout, the ;potential cause could be firewall rules to prevent spam (if this is the case plz email me the exact text u were trying to send)

if it was not timeout, im not sure what the cause was. perhaps i was doing a forum backup at that time and b/c the site was in maintenance mode it interfered

plz let me know which one of hte 2 situations happened for u /etc and full details
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Sorry Avery I should have given my particulars to you sooner. On Sunday afternoon 2/6 I was sending a PM to Dave and it just sat there with the send icon rotating for about 10 minutes so I just hit stop on my cornputer and logged out and logged back on. No problem after that. I guess I thought it could have been my system but not so sure now if its still happening.
Thanks:yh:
 
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@Tonga
Happened to me too. When I sent PM with read confirmation for 3 members at same time. I closed the page, and after looking my pm's page, I saw it was sent.
 
c0ldshadow

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@dane, I have searched your IP and compared to the firewall alerts and found the match

for your example i'm 100% sure the filtration worked properly. there was a certain phrase in the PM which caused the firewall to drop that packet.

u didnt do anything wrong but i can verify from my end the matching did work properly in this case
 
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