BC Mail vs Mail Hosted on Bluehost?

I have a client who wants to keep his email hosted on Bluehost ( they are moving from a wordpress site to BC). I'm against this plan because Bluehost is a shared and reseller hosting, which means there are other people using your mail server. This means that one spammer can get everyone on that IP address blocked by a blacklist. Does anyone know how the BC mail servers deal with spammers? I would like to assure the client that if he moves his email to BC, he won't have to worry about being blacklisted by someone else's bad behavior. Also, they are using Outlook for mail, I am assuming I can either make a copy of the .PST files and reinstall the data files on outlook when we set up the new email accounts? They don't want to lose the old email. Or I could upload his old mail at the server level to the BC server? Advice Please!

Hi there, unless you pay big bucks most mail systems are on the same servers. Methods, managability and derlirablilty are means to avoid one person harming things for all. This is common practise as all systems are a form of shared system or cloud system - how else do you think they work? You can get dedicated servers for a project but you will pay for that.
BC email is 3rd party and they manage and handle it the same as any other decent mail service and you can choose to use who ever you do. Personally, from history BC email is not that stable compared to dedicated email providers. Those providers can offer 24/7 suppport being dedicated as well.

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Domain name/"primary DNS" name/mail host name/mail server name/mx name

Hi,
I have registered my domain name (N.com) with an external dns server and created an MX record (mail.N.com) for it as well. My server sits behind a router and internet traffic is port(80)-forwarded to my server's fixed internal ip address (I can access my webpages from the internet just fine). When I initially setup the server I was asked to give it a "primary DNS name." I naturally assumed that N.com was supposed to be entered here, but that just caused all kinds of problems (though I still do not understand why). So I reinstalled and currently have server.N.com as the primary DNS name of the server (although it shows up in Server Admin and Workgroup Manager as server.local--why is that?)
I have had no luck getting any email from the internet with the default settings in mail services (domain name of N.com and host name of server.N.com). Having no luck with the defaults, I assumed that maybe I needed to change the host name to "mail.N.com" so that it matched the MX record. I also changed the user preferences in Workgroup Manager to receive mail from mail.N.com--but still no luck. Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong and how come none of the Mail Service literature mentions anything about what a mail "host name" is supposed to be? Is it supposed to be the same as the "Mail Server" name that Workgroup Manager asks each user for? and is it the same as the MX record name?
I am just needing some help to connect all these variously named, but undefined, dots.
Also, how come I can access webmail from the internet using www.N.com/webmail but can't do it from any computers within my physical network (I have to use IPaddress/webmail or server.local/webmail)?
Also, should my user email addresses be [email protected] or [email protected] (which is the current default)?
Thanks in advance and good luck!
John

I had been told by a friend that ... regular email coming in from the internet would go through port 80
Unfortunately you were misinformed.
My MX record needs the extra subname (such as "mail") in front of the domain name, right?
Not at all. A MX record for 'N.com' is entirely valid (expected, in fact).
An MX record tells remote mail servers where to send mail for any domain/subdomain. If you think about it, let's say you worked for Apple and you wanted people to be able to send email to [email protected], well then you need an MX record for 'apple.com'.
You can see if you dig MX apple.com that they actually have 9 MX records, but the point still stands.
Now, you might also have MX records for subdomains so that you can have [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc. Each of these subdomains would need a separate MX record.
So, in general, for any set of email addresses @[anything.]domain.com you have a MX record telling remote mail servers where to send that mail.
Of course the MX record name is mail.N.com, but I think you are implying that the in the Mail settings of Server Admin where it asks for domain name all I need to put there is the N.com, right?
What I mean is that you need to set the domain name to whatever domain name you expect to receive mail at.
If you want users to have email addresses in the form of [email protected], then you enter 'N.com'.
If you want users to have email addresses in the form of [email protected] then you enter 'mail.N.com'.
If you want both forms, enter one in the main domain and add the other(s) in the Advanced -> Hosting -> Local Host Aliases section.
Is there anything in the Mail settings that needs to have the full MX record name (mail.N.com)?
Yes. Either the 'domain name' or the 'Local Host Aliases' needs to contain the same thing as your MX record. That's because the MX record tells remote servers to send mail to this machine, but the machine won't accept the mail unless it is configured to do so.
What is the "host name" supposed to be?
This should be the name that remote servers see when this machine tries to send outgoing mail.
Ideally this should match the reverse DNS of your IP address, that way when it connects to a remote server it says "Hi, I'm $hostname" and the remote server can lookup the machine's IP address and see the same result. This will reduce the problem of remote servers thinking you're sending them spam.
If you only have a single IP address then this probably needs to be something like 'N.com'. If you don't have control over your reverse DNS then you're going to run into a problem.
Also in the user accounts (in Workgroup Manager) what should the "mail server name" be? Is it the host name or the domain name?
Off hand, I don't know.
Also, why are all the default user email addresses [email protected] (the name I gave the server at setup)? Why doesn't the user accounts create [email protected] as the default address?
Presumably because the mail server says it is 'server.N.com' and therefore any accounts on that machine would be [email protected]. Changing the domain name (as above) should fix that.

Set up reverse DNS for virtual mail hosting

I need a bit of server configuation advice.
I have a static IP and two public domains on a Snow Leopard server connected using NAT behind a firewall - with the necessary port forwarding to ensure all works.
1. abc.com is my primary domain on the server - server.abc.com
2. I have xyz.com set up as a virtual domain and also as a virtual mail host
This setup has worked well for a long time but I have found that emails to [email protected] are going missing. If I check my mx records using one of the web based tools it show an error on the reverse dns for server.xyz.com showing a reverse DNS of server.abc.com.
So the question - is it possible to have secondary 'virtual' DNS record on the server so reverse DNS works for the virtual mail host xyz.com? If not how do I handle the reverse DNS problem which i think is causing some external mail server to reject mail due to the inconsistency on the reverse DNS lookup?
Many thanks for any suggestions

SMTP requires a DNS A record.
A DNS A record is also known as a machine record.
A DNS A record inherently means that forward DNS and reverse DNS will match.
The forward translation translates the host name to the IP address.
The reverse translation translates the IP address to host name.
When the full translation produces the same host name, that's an A record.
DNS CNAME records are aliases, and are used for virtual hosts.
CNAME records inherently do not match the reverse DNS translations.
To get your configuration to work, your server must have an A record.
That means forward and reverse DNS will match.
Any of the virtual hosts within your mail server then all use an MX pointing at the A record host.
If you have your DNS hosted somewhere other than your ISP, then you'll need your ISP to set up a DNS PTR.
The DNS PTR is the reverse translation; address to name.
If you have your own DNS services within your network (as would be typical with a privately-addressed NAT'd network), set that up as a virtual host within SMTP.
Here is some related reading on external (public) DNS, as related to SMTP servers and such.

How to: Send out e-mails through a 3rd party mail host?

Hi,
We would like to send out e-mail campaign from our CRM system.
But we would not like to risc being blacklisted as spammer, so we would like to send out the e-mails using a 3rd party mail host provider.
Our sales department already use our CRM system for sending out their sales related e-mails.
They use our corporate exchange server for that.
So the scenario is:
I have created a smtp node in trx scot, and liked it to our domain *company.com
This node points to our corporate mail host. All our normal users use this domain.
All our campaign e-mails from CRM should be send using another mail host as described before.
According to note 455140, I don't see that I can create a new smtp node in scot.
And link this one to our new e-mail domain *company-news.com and the external mail host.
How do I send these e-mails to a specific mail host when the sender is a specific domain e.g. company-news.com?
My Exchange server guys say that they can't redirect specific mails send from our CRM system.
They can only redirect all mails that are send from our CRM system, but then all the e-mails from our sales reps are also send through a 3rd party mail host.
Does anyone have battled with this before, and how did you solve it?
best regards
Michael Wolff Knudsen

We bought a new Exchange server, version 2007 just for CRM. This Exchange version can tunnel the e-mail to our 3rd party vendor, and they can send out the e-mails so neither one of us gets spammed.

Settings of Mail Host and Mail Port in transaction: SCOT for the node: SMTP

Hi,
Could anyone please explain me the significance of Mail Host and Mail Port for the SMTP node in transaction: SCOT.
It says Mail Server to which outbound mails can be passed.
Can i specify my GMAIL ID in the field Mail Host and left blank the Mail Port so that the mail can be sent to my GMAIL Account.
Please let me know if further details are required from my side.
Thanks & Regards,
Goutham.

the below are the step to configure your mail server of anhy type ....
Steps to perform in SAP:
1. Transaction SM59 Setup an RFC Destination for the execution of the email transfer
a. Name: Internet Mail Gateway
b. Connection Type: T
c. Description: Internet Mail Gateway
d. Activation Type: Start
e. Explicit host:
i. Program: c:<dir>mlunxsnd (I used c:sapmail)
ii. Target Host: <Server_Name>
f. (MENU) Destination -> Gateway Options
i. Gateway Host: < Server_Name>
ii. Gateway Service: sapgw00
iii.<OK>
g. SAVE
2. Transaction SCOT Setup a default domain for your system
a. (MENU) Settings -> Default Domain
i. <Default_domain> (i.e. [email protected], Domain company.com)
ii. This setting gives a default to any user who does not have their email address maintained in the system. <user_name>@<default_domain>
3. Transaction SCOT Setup of the Node for queuing the emails before transfer to Exchange
a. Click on INT -> Create button
b. Give Default name (I choose EXCHG, as this was the node type for the Exchange Connector)
c. Give Description
d. Assign the RFC Destination previously created (Internet Mail Gateway)
e. Node: Internet
f. Address area: *
g. Supported address Types:
i. All formats except the fllw
ii. ALI, OBJ, OTF, SCR, URL
h. Choose Ok and Save
4. Transaction SCOT Setup a job to execute the send process on the queue.
a. (MENU) View -> Jobs
i. Select the Create Button
ii. Job Name: SAPConnect
iii. Put Cursor on Variant: SAP&CONNECTINT *As you created an INT Node, you need to run the variant for all of the INT sending. You can select SAP&CONNECTALL, but if you are not using any other node types, you can run with SAP&CONNECTINT.
iv. Select: Schedule Job Button
v. Schedule job for a periodic run approx. every 15 minutes
vi. Save
5. Transaction SU01 Maintain each users email address
a. Select users who require the ability to email from SAP
b. Under the address tab, in SU01, maintain their email address.
Steps to perform on the SAP system (operating System):
1. Create a directory for the SAP programs.
a. Create directory c:sapmail (Directory can be anything)
b. Unpack the ML*.CAR file from SAPs website
c. Alternatively, copy the ML* files from /usr/sap/../run/ directory. This ensures version compatibility with your SAP instance.
2. Create the directories for your sendmail program
a. http://emailrelay.sourceforge.net/
i. Download the emailrelay program
b. Create directory c:winntspoolemailrelay
i. Unpack the contents of the emailrelay zip into this directory
c. create Directory c:reskit (Used to make the emailrelay program run as a service
i. http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=197
1. www.tacktech.com had some great instructions for creating a service on the NT side. (Thank you Tacktech)
2. Use SRVANY to create the services, as documented below.
d. Open command prompt
e. Follow instructions for creating a service
i. cd reskit
ii. execute c:reskitinstsrv.exe "<SERVICE_NAME_Engine>" c:reskitsrvany.exe
1. This service is the engine
iii. execute c:reskitinstsrv.exe "<SERVICE_NAME_Send_Process>" c:reskitsrvany.exe
1. This service is the send process
iv. Modify the registry to represent the two new services
v. View instructions for Parameters and Application Creation under the services in the registry
vi. Command lines should be as follows:
1. <SERVICE_NAME_Engine> - c:winntspoolemailrelayemailrelay.exe --as-server --no-daemon
2. <SERVICE_NAME_Send_Process> - c:winntspoolemailrelayemailrelay.exe --no-daemon -hidden --forward-to (your_mailhost):SMTP --poll 5
vii. Start the services using service mgr.
f. cmd prompt cd sapmail
g. mlsomadm c:sapmailmailgw.ini (see below)
3. Create a mailgw.ini file (This file is used by the mlunxsnd program)
a. Open a command prompt
b. Change to the directory c:sapmail
c. Run command mlsomadm c:sapmailmailgw.ini
i. This creates the parameter file for the send process.
d. MAILGW.INI entries
i. System Name: [SID]
ii. Client: [000]
iii. Username: [MAILADM] no user required, as this is not being used for your connection
iv. Password: [*******] leave empty
v. Language: [E]
vi. Load Balancing: [N]
vii. Hostname: [app_server_name]
viii. System Number: [00]
ix. Gateway Hostname: [ ] you do not have to specify, it will use the default
x. Gateway Service: [ ] default will be used
xi. Use SAP Router: [N]
xii. Set Bcc Flag on Env..: [N]
xiii. Trace Level <In..>: 1
xiv. Trace file <In..> c:sapmailtracein.txt - Can be where ever you want
xv. Sendmail Command: c:winntspoolemailrelaysubmit -from <SENDER_ADDRESS>
xvi. A warning may come up that says to not use the t flag. IGNORE
xvii. Codepage: [ISO-8859-1]
xviii. Generate Notificat..: [N]
xix. Trace Level <Out..: [1]
xx. Trace File <Out..>: c:sapmailtraceout.txt - Can be where ever you want
xxi. Update File c:sapmailmailgw.ini [Y]
Steps to perform on the Microsoft Exchange System
1. Allow the SAP systems to enter on port 25 to send mails using Microsoft Exchange (SMTP Communication)
reward points ....
Girish

Mail host

Friends,
I am trying to configure the SAP system SMTP.
How to find the Mail host, port, default domain for the SAP system?

Hi,
Pls refer to notes 455140 - Configuration of e-mail, fax, paging or SMS using SMTP
Hope it helps
Regards,
Pole

Looking for Apple Mail hosting solution ...

All,
Not sure if this is the best place to post this, but I am looking for a good e-mail hosting company that knows how to deal with Mac users. I have a small consultancy with 5 people and we all use Mac's. I guess anyone can offer standards-based IMAP hosting, but a bonus would be to have a hosting company that could handle WebDav iCal calendar syncing.
Some have suggested MobileMe, but I don't thing that works for small businesses ... right?
Other suggestions?

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Why can't I delete mail or move mail to a folder. This started after mail host microsoft update to their exchange server

We recently moved our mail from an in-house server to an outside hosting service. It was working well until we returned after Christmas. The mail host explained that they had received a Microsoft update to their hosting servers. Now we get an "ERROR 12" code and cannot delete mail or move mail on any of the IMAP folders. I tested the theory on Outlook and the mail deleted fine and was able to move to folders and it synchronized without issue. How can we fix this on Thunderbird?

Outlook connects to the server using emapi Thunderbird uses imap. So a comparison is nothing more than a waste, or did you explicitly set up an imap account in Outlook?
Please create an IMAP log https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Logging
I did find an [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741374 old bug] that indicates fasthost had incorrectly configured servers (is that your provider?) with a workaround.
It is difficult to diagnose exchange imap issues because they do not use any of the standard error codes or messages. But a log should at least provide information on the command the server does not like and that makes a good starting point.

Virtual mail hosts: 255 character limit on SPF records

This one was a surprise to me, and caused a lot of headache, so I thought I'd pass it along.
I'm running multiple virtual mail hosts off of my doughty PowerMac single G5 1.8GHz running OS X Server 10.4.11. Some of the outgoing mail was being bounced as spam because a) there wasn't an SPF record on any of the domains and b) the domain of the mailserver didn't always match the domain of the sender. (Most often, it went out under the hostname of the server, cerberus.limbo.jcf.org—which is useless, since that's a LAN address.)
Trying to be a good citizen (and make sure that all of everyone's mail got through), I added SPF records that explicitly named each and every mailserver on the machine, just so that everything was clear and aboveboard—but they ended up being about 500 characters long.
Fastforward a week or two... and I was having problems with my DNS zones loading—I'd get errors that they'd timed out. After pulling my hair out for a while, I discovered that TXT records have a limit of 255 characters (including spaces, etc.) Some folks running servers on non-OS X Server machines have split the records over multiple TXT records (does that even work?), but you get exactly one TXT record per OS X Server machine: the Comment box.
I've now simplified the SPF records so that they read something like this:
+v=spf1 a mx mx:cerberus.limbo.jcf.org mx:cerberus.jcf.org mx:jcf.org ip:173.164.140.96/30 ip:207.58.140.213/30 include:comcast.businessclass.net include:comcast.com -all+
To translate:
• +v=spf1 a mx+ It authorizes deliveries from any IP listed in the DNS zone, and from any mailserver defined in the zone
• +mx:cerberus.limbo.jcf.org mx:cerberus.jcf.org mx:jcf.org+ It also explicitly authorizes deliveries from the server's main LAN and internet DNS names as well as the domain of the foundation for which I work (and through which emails are occasionally relayed)
• +ip:173.164.140.96/30 ip:207.58.140.213/30+ Next it authorizes the public static IP blocks for the server and the foundation's remote server
• +include:comcast.businessclass.net include:comcast.com+ Finally it includes the domain names of the ISP through which most of the mail are relayed
• -all The last item says that if the mail didn't originate from one of those addresses, it isn't ours.
(I think that I've got that right. If I've botched it anywhere, let me know, okay?)
That's 169 characters. The DNS zones loaded happily, and the mail seems to be going out without getting bounced. So far so good!
(There's probably a way to get the hostname on each email to match the domain from which it is being addressed, but I haven't gotten there yet.)
Message was edited by: David Kudler

Most often, it went out under the hostname of the server, cerberus.limbo.jcf.org—which is useless, since that's a LAN address.
You can control this via the myhostname setting in Postfix. This defines the name it uses to identify itself to remote mail servers, which sounds like it'll address a lot of your issues.
I added SPF records that explicitly named each and every mailserver on the machine, just so that everything was clear and aboveboard—but they ended up being about 500 characters long.
OK, this doesn't make sense. You don't need to list every virtual hostname for every domain.
All you need to do is add this specific mail server's address in each domain.
There's no requirement that the hostname of the mail server matches the domain name, so it's entirely valid to create an SPF record in domain1.com that lists mailserver.someotherdomain.com as authoritative. Then, as long as postfix's myhostname says it's mailserver.someotherdomain.com and your reverse DNS resolves to that address your problem is solved.
...but you get exactly one TXT record per OS X Server machine: the Comment box.
Unless you edit your zone file directly and add whatever other records you like. However, given the above, I don't think the 255-character limit should be an issue.
Even if you didn't want to mess with your zone files directly there's still a way around that - SPF allows for an 'include' record which basically tells remote servers to include the record from some other domain, so for each domain you could just tell it to include some other domain's record (which, in turn, could include another domain) allowing virtually unlimited record length (or, at least, 255 characters per domain you manage).
SPF Includes are covered here.
• include:comcast.businessclass.net include:comcast.com Finally it includes the domain names of the ISP through which most of the mail are relayed
Bzzzz. You've now allowed any other customer of comcastbusiness.net and comcast.com to send mail on your behalf. You probably don't want to do that. When you consider that 'comcast.com' includes every one of their residential customers you can see that you really don't want to do that.

Any known issues with SMTP server regardless of mail host?

I do tech support for a FiOS company and have had Mac users(new and old OS) calling in saying that they having problems getting the SMTP server online when using Mac Mail. Not many Mac users on the floor and I'm a fairly new Mac user, but not new to email protocols and implementation. We are advised to refer to OEM, which after the experience I've had with multiple mail hosts, I'm inclined to agree. However, I'd like to find a reason and/or fix for this. Personally, I have around 6 emails all from different hosts and the only one that always works is Gmail. I've tried Yahoo, Hotmail, Qwest(using MSN as a portal partner) and all have connection issues. I'm familiar with the ports and have set up each manually and with the automatic option. I've verified all ports, authentication settings, and servers for both incoming and outgoing. Has anyone had the same issue? I like my Mac but am not impressed with the default mail client, so I might change. I can't think of any reason why only the outgoing server would have issues connecting... perhaps some kind of port forwarding needs to be enabled on the routers? I'm not sure, but if that's the case it seems a bit much. Anyone have any idea how to get this issue fixed or a reason why it is happening? Normally, I would associate it with user error because that's the reason for most tech support calls, lol, but I have the same issue. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.

Ernie,
Thank you for the reply. I no longer have a Hotmail account after it was hijacked in January. Microsoft single-handidly decided to close my account, without offering any remedial actions. Mind you, they still keep me as a customer and I can access my profile. What is the purpose of keeping my info up to date if they do not want me as a customer? Apple and Mobile Me help centres were useless. I would not know how to use 5 SMTP servers, let alone one. I do need your help. Thank you
Etela

Farwarding Mails to other mail host

Recently we installed new Sun Java Enterprise Directory and Messaging Service, we rebuild the directory from scratch, and the mail domain is same.
Earlier we are using Netscape Messaging and Directory Service, which still exist as a good number of user are still unregistered with new Directory.
Now the mails are received by new mail host and the MAILS are REJECTED for those account which are missing in new directory but exist in previous one.
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Is any ONE mail server "authoratative" for your domain?
you can set a "domain smarthost", and Messaging Server will forward any messages that it doesn't recognize the users there. . .

Help with BC e-mail hosting for Muse site

Having a hard time finding our exactly how to set-up BC e-mail hosting on a Muse site. I see much information but am not sure half the time if they are referring to a muse site or bc site. Seems like everyone treats Muse as the ******* child. I have upgraded from WebBasic and added my domain name. Is there a page that spells out what I should do. I have looked but can't find it.
Thank you very much.

Hi,
Please note under webBasic you cannot host email with BC it'll need to be through an external mail service.
"What are the limitations of the Business Catalyst websites that come with Creative Cloud?
You will be limited to 100 MB of storage and 1 extra user (could be your customer). You are not entitled to emails, SMSes or newsletters for this web plan."
Instead you'll need to have an external mail service or if you decide to upgrade to a higher plan is only then will you be able to configure emails with BC.
Reference: http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-2152
Hope this helps clarify.
-Sidney

How to identify the name of my smtp-mail host dynamically?

Hi,
I want to send an email from my system which has an internet connection.
I don't know how to identify and mention the name of my smtp server ie; the smtp-host name that should be mentioned in my propetries object 'props' as props("mail.smtp.host","smtphostname");
I want this program to work on other systems also,ie; It should dynamically find out what is the smtp-email host for the computer on which the program is running and set the smtp-host name in the 'properties' object dynamically.
I will be thankful if anybody sends me code to solve this problem.
Thank u in advance,
Ravi.

Write a mail scan to look for typical settings
such as domain, mail.domain, smtp.domain, smtp.mail.domain
where domain is after @ in an email address
Have a SocketSearch class that uses non blocking via java.nio.channels.*
so it can be interruptable and scan for these typical mail settings on default port 25 - The code using these interruptable socket can each be threaded to find the host/port and should find it in seconds
Once found, store the settings in a configuration so you don't have to scan again unless it doesn't work anymore...
If can't find the socket host/port via typical settings, next use a Java class that does a nslookup based on MX records - For example if you type "nslookup -type=mx javasoft.com" and you get mail exchanger = mail.java.sun.com and if you "telnet mail.java.sun.com 25" - you can see the port is open for sending emails.
No expert in MX records for a domain to find the exact one and someone else can share some light on this...

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I have installed IMS 5.1 on solaris 8 . I could able to send mails internal users (in the same server) I could able to receive external mails. But I am unable to send mails to outside world. I have to send mails to corporate mails server. Pls can u help me out . My server Ip is 191.254.4.10 and 191.254.1.28 is corporate mail server.

What error message or messages are you getting when you try to send?
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We have a small office with a Windows SMB Dell server and 8 clients. I also have 15 outside sales people. Presently we host our own mail server in Win SMB
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"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
You're running a server, which means you own the configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting and archival processing for your data. And you get to own the security that you're seeking; preventing breaches, maintaining secure passwords and certificates, patching your software to current, etc. Mac OS X Server is rather easy to deal with as servers go, but it's still more than managing a client.
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