Originally Posted by HostGator

Reference: Monitor
Server: gator***
Domain: ultf.pollama.com
User: ***********
Email: PoLlama@gmail.com
Hello,

Our mail gateway has picked up on your account ******, gator233 server, as sending out more than 200 emails per our hour. This is in violation of our mail policy as found at http://hostgator.com/mailpolicy.shtml.

"There is a 200 hourly email limit per domain this limit is also applied towards mailman. If you send over this amount in any hour most of the e-mails will bounce back with a undeliverable error."

To prevent further messages from being sent out the following was disabled:

[root@gator*** ~]# chmod 000 /*****/******/*******/pollama
[root@gator*** ~]# chattr +ia /*****/******/*******/pollama


Please contact us as soon as possible to resolve this issue.

[root@gator*** ~]# cat /var/log/exim_mainlog | grep '2008-01-01 00' | grep cwd=/****/***** | wc -l
950

2008-01-01 00:04:04 cwd= /*****/******/*******/pollama 3 args: /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
2008-01-01 00:04:04 1J9aEO-0008FR-5h = *****@gator***.hostgator.com U=****** P=local S=*** id=200801010******7c321000@www.pollama.com T="Happy Birthday
from PoLlama Forums" from <******@gator***.hostgator.com> for graham.******@hotmail.com

Originally Posted by Myself

Hello,

I'd like to resolve this issue. This has never come up in the past and none of my e-mailing settings have changed either in the past 2 months. The subdomain included; " ultf.pollama.com", is not even used - is that a misprint? I've also sent a ticket to the makers of the forum software I'm using on e-mail send rates.

Originally Posted by HostGator

Hello,
It's not a misprint, it's just the first domain that our scanner picked up on. We cannot proceed until a legal license for vBulletin is purchased.

Originally Posted by Myself

Hello,

Alright, figured it would say "pollama.com" though.

My license is completely legal, what does that have to do with e-mail violations? Custom number is *********** - purchased september 4th, 2006 if I remember correctly, I'm not at liberty to give more than that.

Originally Posted by HostGator

Hello,
The copy of vBulletin that is on the account is unlicensed and looks to be pirated, hence the previous email:

[root@gator233 ~]# head -n 20 /*****/*****/****/pollama/index2.php
/*======================================================================*\
|| #################################################################### ||
|| # SmEdD's Portal # ||
|| # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # ||
|| # Copyright ?2006 Stephen "SmEdD" Medd # ||
|| # Welcome to smedd.com | stevemedd@gmail.com # ||
|| # This file may not be redistributed in whole or significant part. # ||
|| # ---------------- VBULLETIN IS NOT FREE SOFTWARE ---------------- # ||
|| # vBulletin? - Instant Community | http://www.vbulletin.com/license.html # ||
|| #################################################################### ||
\*======================================================================*/

// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'index');

// ################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ######################
[root@gator** ~]#

Jelsoft has a provided us a number of ways to verify legal copies of vBulletin without having to contact them directly and according to their methods, the version installed on your account is unlicensed and cannot be used.

Originally Posted by Myself

Excuse me?

That is a modification, a modification verified by vBulletin.org Forum - The Official vBulletin Resource! the official vBulletin modification site. On what grounds do you have to even accuse me of such, what does this really have to do with e-mail sending? I am not even using that I might add, I named it index2 to hold onto it.

Does this have anything to do with an e-mail limit or are you denying access to only harass me? Have you even contacted Jelsoft on this matter and inquired on my domain at all, such should be required before taking any action.

Originally Posted by HostGator

Hello,
Yes, it does have to do with the email issue since the forums were the cause of the email problem in the first place. As previously stated, we have directions *from* Jelsoft on how to verify legit installations and since yours lacked some of the proper characteristics, I was forced to bring this up. Since I can find a number of your files that can fail these checks (which are provided to us by Jelsoft), the burden of proof of ownership is not on us to provide. I have found your license key and am verifying this with Jelsoft.

However, I see that you have 3.7.0 and the solution to the email issue that we have -- found on vBulletin.org Forum - The Official vBulletin Resource! -- we cannot verify if this will work 100% since it's for the 3.6.x series.

Originally Posted by Myself

Hello again,

On the e-mail issue what needs to be done to re-activate my account. Since your company is so close with Jelsoft, I would think these e-mail issues would never happen as I didn't edit the e-mail system at all.

Otherwise, your telling me I am still locked out because you scanned the software I use with an outdated tool, and for some odd reason, it's bringing up license violations on unrelated files? It is not my responsibility to make sure the tools your company uses are up-to-date, and neither should it be my problem.

Sorry for the attitude but I'm wasting time over bull****. Even though my site is small, it does receive traffic, and I have an obligation to keep it online. No offense to you personally of course

Originally Posted by HostGator

Hello,
We're not using any tools to check for validity, we're checking the files manually according to what Jelsoft says. I found your files that did lack their validation according to their own documentation, we cannot help this but your files should have never failed the check since you do have a license but failed they did by Jelsoft's own validation. I know your license is valid, I've already had that checked, I'm just stating that your files are failing their validation checks.

The account is unsuspended. IF you feel that a modification for 3.6.x is going to work on 3.7.0B3 please check this out: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=133844 .