[ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box
Hi guys, I'm having trouble with adding a disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box. I'm using the EventSink with a .vbs to add the disclaimer. The box is configured with a default SMTP server and a SMTP connector which forwards all external email to the SMTP of the ISP. Anybody who has done the trick already? If so, can you please tell me the little secret for this? *g* Many thanks to all, Bart List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box
RedEarth Software policypatrol.com Wizard and GUI The SBS way There are instructions at www.smallbizserver.net (I think they are still in the free docs) ...but I'm blonde and GUI and policy patrol works. If you are cheap GFI's mail scanner ...install the trial version and when it expires the disclaimer stays (or last I heard) Bart Van den Wyngaert wrote: Hi guys, I'm having trouble with adding a disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box. I'm using the EventSink with a .vbs to add the disclaimer. The box is configured with a default SMTP server and a SMTP connector which forwards all external email to the SMTP of the ISP. Anybody who has done the trick already? If so, can you please tell me the little secret for this? *g* Many thanks to all, Bart List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx -- Letting your vendors set your risk analysis these days? http://www.threatcode.com If you are a SBSer and you don't subscribe to the SBS Blog... man ... I will hunt you down... http://blogs.technet.com/sbs List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
RE: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box
Loads of tools as Susan says, but just to note the GFI one no longer works - one of my engineers tried it a couple of months ago. Rob Robert Rutherford QuoStar Solutions Limited The Enterprise Pavilion Fern Barrow Wallisdown Poole Dorset BH12 5HH T: +44 (0) 8456 440 331 F: +44 (0) 8456 440 332 M: +44 (0) 7974 249 494 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: www.quostar.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: 02 August 2006 22:21 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box RedEarth Software policypatrol.com Wizard and GUI The SBS way There are instructions at www.smallbizserver.net (I think they are still in the free docs) ...but I'm blonde and GUI and policy patrol works. If you are cheap GFI's mail scanner ...install the trial version and when it expires the disclaimer stays (or last I heard) Bart Van den Wyngaert wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm having trouble with adding a disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box. > I'm using the EventSink with a .vbs to add the disclaimer. The box is > configured with a default SMTP server and a SMTP connector which > forwards all external email to the SMTP of the ISP. > > Anybody who has done the trick already? If so, can you please tell me > the little secret for this? *g* > > Many thanks to all, > Bart > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx > -- Letting your vendors set your risk analysis these days? http://www.threatcode.com If you are a SBSer and you don't subscribe to the SBS Blog... man ... I will hunt you down... http://blogs.technet.com/sbs List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box
We actually use a script at work after having tried a few products and having terrible performance problems. If you are interested, I'll ping one of the exchange guys and see if he can provide a little direction. Once you actually get it working from a plumbing standpoint, the script itself is actually a bit trickier to implement than the trivial sample MS shows. You have to decide if you are going to put HTML into HTML body parts, text into text body parts, both into messages that have both, and what to do about signed messages, as the disclaimer will change the data and invalidate the digital signature. You also need to be careful you don't screw up the encoding of messages in non-ASCII or ISO-8859-1 character sets. You can also decide if you want to add the disclaimer to messages that already contain it (sometimes mail routing may cause a message to hit the sink more than once) or not, and if you care about that, how do you decide if the disclaimer is in there? :) Ours still has some issues with a few of these points, but some of the problems were too tough to deal with for the people who were trying to solve them, so they just slid. Joe K. - Original Message - From: "Bart Van den Wyngaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ActiveDir" Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:41 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box Hi guys, I'm having trouble with adding a disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box. I'm using the EventSink with a .vbs to add the disclaimer. The box is configured with a default SMTP server and a SMTP connector which forwards all external email to the SMTP of the ISP. Anybody who has done the trick already? If so, can you please tell me the little secret for this? *g* Many thanks to all, Bart List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box
This is an SBS box. we may have performance problems.. but it's certainly not caused by a SMTP sink event on that Exchange server ;-) Remember at the most we're only hosting 75 users/devices on that server with a max of 75 gigs (remember no snickering from the Enterprise folks) of Store. (and reading his message.. see why I went with Policypatrol? Joe Kaplan wrote: We actually use a script at work after having tried a few products and having terrible performance problems. If you are interested, I'll ping one of the exchange guys and see if he can provide a little direction. Once you actually get it working from a plumbing standpoint, the script itself is actually a bit trickier to implement than the trivial sample MS shows. You have to decide if you are going to put HTML into HTML body parts, text into text body parts, both into messages that have both, and what to do about signed messages, as the disclaimer will change the data and invalidate the digital signature. You also need to be careful you don't screw up the encoding of messages in non-ASCII or ISO-8859-1 character sets. You can also decide if you want to add the disclaimer to messages that already contain it (sometimes mail routing may cause a message to hit the sink more than once) or not, and if you care about that, how do you decide if the disclaimer is in there? :) Ours still has some issues with a few of these points, but some of the problems were too tough to deal with for the people who were trying to solve them, so they just slid. Joe K. - Original Message - From: "Bart Van den Wyngaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ActiveDir" Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:41 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box Hi guys, I'm having trouble with adding a disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box. I'm using the EventSink with a .vbs to add the disclaimer. The box is configured with a default SMTP server and a SMTP connector which forwards all external email to the SMTP of the ISP. Anybody who has done the trick already? If so, can you please tell me the little secret for this? *g* Many thanks to all, Bart List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx -- Letting your vendors set your risk analysis these days? http://www.threatcode.com If you are a SBSer and you don't subscribe to the SBS Blog... man ... I will hunt you down... http://blogs.technet.com/sbs List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box
Sure, I saw the message and remembered that we were still using a disclaimer script for this, so I thought I'd offer some help, but a word of caution about the fact that the script can get tricky. With only that many users, many of those problems might never show up. We have a few more users than that (ok, 4 orders of magnitude!), so we see a lot of weird stuff that is hard to even imagine when you are testing the code. :) The product is probably a better choice, especially if it is cheap. We really did try to buy a product to do this as we wanted more features and fewer problems (or someone else to blame them on), but only the script had reasonable performance. Everything else brought our gateways to their knees and had to be disabled. I was shocked by this actually. :) Joe K. - Original Message - From: "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:24 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box This is an SBS box. we may have performance problems.. but it's certainly not caused by a SMTP sink event on that Exchange server ;-) Remember at the most we're only hosting 75 users/devices on that server with a max of 75 gigs (remember no snickering from the Enterprise folks) of Store. (and reading his message.. see why I went with Policypatrol? Joe Kaplan wrote: We actually use a script at work after having tried a few products and having terrible performance problems. If you are interested, I'll ping one of the exchange guys and see if he can provide a little direction. Once you actually get it working from a plumbing standpoint, the script itself is actually a bit trickier to implement than the trivial sample MS shows. You have to decide if you are going to put HTML into HTML body parts, text into text body parts, both into messages that have both, and what to do about signed messages, as the disclaimer will change the data and invalidate the digital signature. You also need to be careful you don't screw up the encoding of messages in non-ASCII or ISO-8859-1 character sets. You can also decide if you want to add the disclaimer to messages that already contain it (sometimes mail routing may cause a message to hit the sink more than once) or not, and if you care about that, how do you decide if the disclaimer is in there? :) Ours still has some issues with a few of these points, but some of the problems were too tough to deal with for the people who were trying to solve them, so they just slid. Joe K. - Original Message - From: "Bart Van den Wyngaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ActiveDir" Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:41 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box Hi guys, I'm having trouble with adding a disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box. I'm using the EventSink with a .vbs to add the disclaimer. The box is configured with a default SMTP server and a SMTP connector which forwards all external email to the SMTP of the ISP. Anybody who has done the trick already? If so, can you please tell me the little secret for this? *g* Many thanks to all, Bart List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx -- Letting your vendors set your risk analysis these days? http://www.threatcode.com If you are a SBSer and you don't subscribe to the SBS Blog... man ... I will hunt you down... http://blogs.technet.com/sbs List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box
Thanks all! Now the reason that I want to use the Event Sink way is because there is no more need then that... And like said, GFI is no longer. Neither the doc on Smallbizz. I know there is a manipulation needed on SMTP level, but I just don't see it. If somebody knows the little trick (was it an additional connector or virtual server)...? Thanks for the other inputs so far. Bart On 8/3/06, Joe Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sure, I saw the message and remembered that we were still using a disclaimer script for this, so I thought I'd offer some help, but a word of caution about the fact that the script can get tricky. With only that many users, many of those problems might never show up. We have a few more users than that (ok, 4 orders of magnitude!), so we see a lot of weird stuff that is hard to even imagine when you are testing the code. :) The product is probably a better choice, especially if it is cheap. We really did try to buy a product to do this as we wanted more features and fewer problems (or someone else to blame them on), but only the script had reasonable performance. Everything else brought our gateways to their knees and had to be disabled. I was shocked by this actually. :) Joe K. - Original Message - From: "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:24 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box > This is an SBS box. we may have performance problems.. but it's > certainly not caused by a SMTP sink event on that Exchange server ;-) > Remember at the most we're only hosting 75 users/devices on that server > with a max of 75 gigs (remember no snickering from the Enterprise folks) > of Store. > > (and reading his message.. see why I went with Policypatrol? > > Joe Kaplan wrote: >> We actually use a script at work after having tried a few products and >> having terrible performance problems. If you are interested, I'll ping >> one of the exchange guys and see if he can provide a little direction. >> >> Once you actually get it working from a plumbing standpoint, the script >> itself is actually a bit trickier to implement than the trivial sample MS >> shows. You have to decide if you are going to put HTML into HTML body >> parts, text into text body parts, both into messages that have both, and >> what to do about signed messages, as the disclaimer will change the data >> and invalidate the digital signature. You also need to be careful you >> don't screw up the encoding of messages in non-ASCII or ISO-8859-1 >> character sets. You can also decide if you want to add the disclaimer to >> messages that already contain it (sometimes mail routing may cause a >> message to hit the sink more than once) or not, and if you care about >> that, how do you decide if the disclaimer is in there? :) >> >> Ours still has some issues with a few of these points, but some of the >> problems were too tough to deal with for the people who were trying to >> solve them, so they just slid. >> >> Joe K. >> ----- Original Message - From: "Bart Van den Wyngaert" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "ActiveDir" >> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:41 PM >> Subject: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box >> >> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> I'm having trouble with adding a disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box. >>> I'm using the EventSink with a .vbs to add the disclaimer. The box is >>> configured with a default SMTP server and a SMTP connector which >>> forwards all external email to the SMTP of the ISP. >>> >>> Anybody who has done the trick already? If so, can you please tell me >>> the little secret for this? *g* >>> >>> Many thanks to all, >>> Bart >>> List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx >>> List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx >>> List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx >> >> List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx >> List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx >> List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx >> > > -- > Letting your vendors set your risk analysis these days? > http://www.threatcode.com > > If you are a SBSer and you don't subscribe to the SBS Blog... man ... I > will hunt you down... > http://blogs.technet.com/sbs > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box
Are you using the SBS's SMTP connector or using the http://support.microsoft.com/?id=317327 info there? Marette's instructions to remove the SBS's native smtp connection, build a new one that listens on port 26, the time it would have taking me to follow her instructions.. I saved the time and money in getting out my credit card and buying an event sink already done. Bart Van den Wyngaert wrote: Thanks all! Now the reason that I want to use the Event Sink way is because there is no more need then that... And like said, GFI is no longer. Neither the doc on Smallbizz. I know there is a manipulation needed on SMTP level, but I just don't see it. If somebody knows the little trick (was it an additional connector or virtual server)...? Thanks for the other inputs so far. Bart On 8/3/06, Joe Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sure, I saw the message and remembered that we were still using a disclaimer script for this, so I thought I'd offer some help, but a word of caution about the fact that the script can get tricky. With only that many users, many of those problems might never show up. We have a few more users than that (ok, 4 orders of magnitude!), so we see a lot of weird stuff that is hard to even imagine when you are testing the code. :) The product is probably a better choice, especially if it is cheap. We really did try to buy a product to do this as we wanted more features and fewer problems (or someone else to blame them on), but only the script had reasonable performance. Everything else brought our gateways to their knees and had to be disabled. I was shocked by this actually. :) Joe K. - Original Message - From: "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:24 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box > This is an SBS box. we may have performance problems.. but it's > certainly not caused by a SMTP sink event on that Exchange server ;-) > Remember at the most we're only hosting 75 users/devices on that server > with a max of 75 gigs (remember no snickering from the Enterprise folks) > of Store. > > (and reading his message.. see why I went with Policypatrol? > > Joe Kaplan wrote: >> We actually use a script at work after having tried a few products and >> having terrible performance problems. If you are interested, I'll ping >> one of the exchange guys and see if he can provide a little direction. >> >> Once you actually get it working from a plumbing standpoint, the script >> itself is actually a bit trickier to implement than the trivial sample MS >> shows. You have to decide if you are going to put HTML into HTML body >> parts, text into text body parts, both into messages that have both, and >> what to do about signed messages, as the disclaimer will change the data >> and invalidate the digital signature. You also need to be careful you >> don't screw up the encoding of messages in non-ASCII or ISO-8859-1 >> character sets. You can also decide if you want to add the disclaimer to >> messages that already contain it (sometimes mail routing may cause a >> message to hit the sink more than once) or not, and if you care about >> that, how do you decide if the disclaimer is in there? :) >> >> Ours still has some issues with a few of these points, but some of the >> problems were too tough to deal with for the people who were trying to >> solve them, so they just slid. >> >> Joe K. >> - Original Message - From: "Bart Van den Wyngaert" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "ActiveDir" >> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:41 PM >> Subject: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box >> >> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> I'm having trouble with adding a disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box. >>> I'm using the EventSink with a .vbs to add the disclaimer. The box is >>> configured with a default SMTP server and a SMTP connector which >>> forwards all external email to the SMTP of the ISP. >>> >>> Anybody who has done the trick already? If so, can you please tell me >>> the little secret for this? *g* >>> >>> Many thanks to all, >>> Bart >>> List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx >>> List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx >>> List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx >> >> List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx >> List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx >> List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx >
Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box
That's what I used, but in VBScript (the brother of the article you send). I indeed can bind that event sink to the default SMTP virtual server, but I don't see the disclaimers on external addresses. Then I saw that Marette had instructions involving some manipulation on SMTP in case you're using SBS. Which also kinda sounds strange. But when I went digging a little bit, I found that clients working with OL, will not have the disclaimer added (MAPI). Finally I'm having the impression that this is kinda made difficult while it should be easy by design... Or I'm a missing something on that point? It's not about the money, at least I don't pay it so don't care. From my point of view, it's the technical aspect that I want to know how it's structured and how to make it work really. That way I gain the knowledge :-) Bart On 8/3/06, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you using the SBS's SMTP connector or using the http://support.microsoft.com/?id=317327 info there? Marette's instructions to remove the SBS's native smtp connection, build a new one that listens on port 26, the time it would have taking me to follow her instructions.. I saved the time and money in getting out my credit card and buying an event sink already done. Bart Van den Wyngaert wrote: > Thanks all! > > Now the reason that I want to use the Event Sink way is because there > is no more need then that... And like said, GFI is no longer. Neither > the doc on Smallbizz. > > I know there is a manipulation needed on SMTP level, but I just don't > see it. If somebody knows the little trick (was it an additional > connector or virtual server)...? > > Thanks for the other inputs so far. > Bart > > On 8/3/06, Joe Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sure, I saw the message and remembered that we were still using a >> disclaimer >> script for this, so I thought I'd offer some help, but a word of caution >> about the fact that the script can get tricky. >> >> With only that many users, many of those problems might never show >> up. We >> have a few more users than that (ok, 4 orders of magnitude!), so we >> see a >> lot of weird stuff that is hard to even imagine when you are testing the >> code. :) >> >> The product is probably a better choice, especially if it is cheap. >> >> We really did try to buy a product to do this as we wanted more >> features and >> fewer problems (or someone else to blame them on), but only the >> script had >> reasonable performance. Everything else brought our gateways to >> their knees >> and had to be disabled. I was shocked by this actually. :) >> >> Joe K. >> - Original Message - >> From: "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: >> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:24 PM >> Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box >> >> >> > This is an SBS box. we may have performance problems.. but it's >> > certainly not caused by a SMTP sink event on that Exchange server ;-) >> > Remember at the most we're only hosting 75 users/devices on that >> server >> > with a max of 75 gigs (remember no snickering from the Enterprise >> folks) >> > of Store. >> > >> > (and reading his message.. see why I went with Policypatrol? >> > >> > Joe Kaplan wrote: >> >> We actually use a script at work after having tried a few products >> and >> >> having terrible performance problems. If you are interested, I'll >> ping >> >> one of the exchange guys and see if he can provide a little >> direction. >> >> >> >> Once you actually get it working from a plumbing standpoint, the >> script >> >> itself is actually a bit trickier to implement than the trivial >> sample MS >> >> shows. You have to decide if you are going to put HTML into HTML >> body >> >> parts, text into text body parts, both into messages that have >> both, and >> >> what to do about signed messages, as the disclaimer will change >> the data >> >> and invalidate the digital signature. You also need to be careful >> you >> >> don't screw up the encoding of messages in non-ASCII or ISO-8859-1 >> >> character sets. You can also decide if you want to add the >> disclaimer to >> >> messages that already contain it (sometimes mail routing may cause a >> >> message to hit the sink more than
Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box
http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Disclaimer-Fun.html Glutten for punishment aren't ya? Bart Van den Wyngaert wrote: That's what I used, but in VBScript (the brother of the article you send). I indeed can bind that event sink to the default SMTP virtual server, but I don't see the disclaimers on external addresses. Then I saw that Marette had instructions involving some manipulation on SMTP in case you're using SBS. Which also kinda sounds strange. But when I went digging a little bit, I found that clients working with OL, will not have the disclaimer added (MAPI). Finally I'm having the impression that this is kinda made difficult while it should be easy by design... Or I'm a missing something on that point? It's not about the money, at least I don't pay it so don't care. From my point of view, it's the technical aspect that I want to know how it's structured and how to make it work really. That way I gain the knowledge :-) Bart On 8/3/06, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you using the SBS's SMTP connector or using the http://support.microsoft.com/?id=317327 info there? Marette's instructions to remove the SBS's native smtp connection, build a new one that listens on port 26, the time it would have taking me to follow her instructions.. I saved the time and money in getting out my credit card and buying an event sink already done. Bart Van den Wyngaert wrote: > Thanks all! > > Now the reason that I want to use the Event Sink way is because there > is no more need then that... And like said, GFI is no longer. Neither > the doc on Smallbizz. > > I know there is a manipulation needed on SMTP level, but I just don't > see it. If somebody knows the little trick (was it an additional > connector or virtual server)...? > > Thanks for the other inputs so far. > Bart > > On 8/3/06, Joe Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sure, I saw the message and remembered that we were still using a >> disclaimer >> script for this, so I thought I'd offer some help, but a word of caution >> about the fact that the script can get tricky. >> >> With only that many users, many of those problems might never show >> up. We >> have a few more users than that (ok, 4 orders of magnitude!), so we >> see a >> lot of weird stuff that is hard to even imagine when you are testing the >> code. :) >> >> The product is probably a better choice, especially if it is cheap. >> >> We really did try to buy a product to do this as we wanted more >> features and >> fewer problems (or someone else to blame them on), but only the >> script had >> reasonable performance. Everything else brought our gateways to >> their knees >> and had to be disabled. I was shocked by this actually. :) >> >> Joe K. >> - Original Message - >> From: "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: >> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:24 PM >> Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box >> >> >> > This is an SBS box. we may have performance problems.. but it's >> > certainly not caused by a SMTP sink event on that Exchange server ;-) >> > Remember at the most we're only hosting 75 users/devices on that >> server >> > with a max of 75 gigs (remember no snickering from the Enterprise >> folks) >> > of Store. >> > >> > (and reading his message.. see why I went with Policypatrol? >> > >> > Joe Kaplan wrote: >> >> We actually use a script at work after having tried a few products >> and >> >> having terrible performance problems. If you are interested, I'll >> ping >> >> one of the exchange guys and see if he can provide a little >> direction. >> >> >> >> Once you actually get it working from a plumbing standpoint, the >> script >> >> itself is actually a bit trickier to implement than the trivial >> sample MS >> >> shows. You have to decide if you are going to put HTML into HTML >> body >> >> parts, text into text body parts, both into messages that have >> both, and >> >> what to do about signed messages, as the disclaimer will change >> the data >> >> and invalidate the digital signature. You also need to be careful >> you >> >> don't screw up the encoding of messages in non-ASCII or ISO-8859-1 >> >> character sets. You can also decide if you want to add the >> disclaimer to >>
Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box
"*NOTE:* For single server configurations there is an issue that may prevent the described method from working as expected. Microsoft had a KB article – Q288756: SMTP Transport Event Does Not Fire For MAPI Messages – which was retired because the provided workaround (creating a second SMTP Virtual Server) did not always worked in a reliable way. The problem occurs for mail that is sent by using a MAPI client, such as Outlook, which is not in SMTP format, therefore changes that are made by the event's code are not persisted. If you are in this situation, my advice is for you to use a third party product." FYI --- It may not work on a SBS box ergo why many of us say buy something. Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Disclaimer-Fun.html Glutten for punishment aren't ya? Bart Van den Wyngaert wrote: That's what I used, but in VBScript (the brother of the article you send). I indeed can bind that event sink to the default SMTP virtual server, but I don't see the disclaimers on external addresses. Then I saw that Marette had instructions involving some manipulation on SMTP in case you're using SBS. Which also kinda sounds strange. But when I went digging a little bit, I found that clients working with OL, will not have the disclaimer added (MAPI). Finally I'm having the impression that this is kinda made difficult while it should be easy by design... Or I'm a missing something on that point? It's not about the money, at least I don't pay it so don't care. From my point of view, it's the technical aspect that I want to know how it's structured and how to make it work really. That way I gain the knowledge :-) Bart On 8/3/06, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you using the SBS's SMTP connector or using the http://support.microsoft.com/?id=317327 info there? Marette's instructions to remove the SBS's native smtp connection, build a new one that listens on port 26, the time it would have taking me to follow her instructions.. I saved the time and money in getting out my credit card and buying an event sink already done. Bart Van den Wyngaert wrote: > Thanks all! > > Now the reason that I want to use the Event Sink way is because there > is no more need then that... And like said, GFI is no longer. Neither > the doc on Smallbizz. > > I know there is a manipulation needed on SMTP level, but I just don't > see it. If somebody knows the little trick (was it an additional > connector or virtual server)...? > > Thanks for the other inputs so far. > Bart > > On 8/3/06, Joe Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sure, I saw the message and remembered that we were still using a >> disclaimer >> script for this, so I thought I'd offer some help, but a word of caution >> about the fact that the script can get tricky. >> >> With only that many users, many of those problems might never show >> up. We >> have a few more users than that (ok, 4 orders of magnitude!), so we >> see a >> lot of weird stuff that is hard to even imagine when you are testing the >> code. :) >> >> The product is probably a better choice, especially if it is cheap. >> >> We really did try to buy a product to do this as we wanted more >> features and >> fewer problems (or someone else to blame them on), but only the >> script had >> reasonable performance. Everything else brought our gateways to >> their knees >> and had to be disabled. I was shocked by this actually. :) >> >> Joe K. >> - Original Message - >> From: "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: >> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:24 PM >> Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box >> >> >> > This is an SBS box. we may have performance problems.. but it's >> > certainly not caused by a SMTP sink event on that Exchange server ;-) >> > Remember at the most we're only hosting 75 users/devices on that >> server >> > with a max of 75 gigs (remember no snickering from the Enterprise >> folks) >> > of Store. >> > >> > (and reading his message.. see why I went with Policypatrol? >> > >> > Joe Kaplan wrote: >> >> We actually use a script at work after having tried a few products >> and >> >> having terrible performance problems. If you are interested, I'll >> ping >> >> one of the exchange guys and see if he can provide a little >> direction. >> >> >> >> O
Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box
I'm blessed I know :-) That article I didn't came accross last night actually. Although the info in that artcile I already did find. Performace isn't an issue btw (min. 10 users). Like I said before: I find this a real missing feature of Exchange... As the author states, it's the most commonly asked question and Exchange doesn't provide a nice GUI in which you can enable it. On 8/3/06, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Disclaimer-Fun.html Glutten for punishment aren't ya? Bart Van den Wyngaert wrote: > That's what I used, but in VBScript (the brother of the article you > send). > > I indeed can bind that event sink to the default SMTP virtual server, > but I don't see the disclaimers on external addresses. Then I saw that > Marette had instructions involving some manipulation on SMTP in case > you're using SBS. > > Which also kinda sounds strange. But when I went digging a little bit, > I found that clients working with OL, will not have the disclaimer > added (MAPI). Finally I'm having the impression that this is kinda > made difficult while it should be easy by design... Or I'm a missing > something on that point? > > It's not about the money, at least I don't pay it so don't care. From > my point of view, it's the technical aspect that I want to know how > it's structured and how to make it work really. That way I gain the > knowledge :-) > > Bart > > On 8/3/06, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Are you using the SBS's SMTP connector or using the >> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=317327 info there? >> >> Marette's instructions to remove the SBS's native smtp connection, build >> a new one that listens on port 26, the time it would have taking me to >> follow her instructions.. I saved the time and money in getting out my >> credit card and buying an event sink already done. >> >> >> >> Bart Van den Wyngaert wrote: >> > Thanks all! >> > >> > Now the reason that I want to use the Event Sink way is because there >> > is no more need then that... And like said, GFI is no longer. Neither >> > the doc on Smallbizz. >> > >> > I know there is a manipulation needed on SMTP level, but I just don't >> > see it. If somebody knows the little trick (was it an additional >> > connector or virtual server)...? >> > >> > Thanks for the other inputs so far. >> > Bart >> > >> > On 8/3/06, Joe Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Sure, I saw the message and remembered that we were still using a >> >> disclaimer >> >> script for this, so I thought I'd offer some help, but a word of >> caution >> >> about the fact that the script can get tricky. >> >> >> >> With only that many users, many of those problems might never show >> >> up. We >> >> have a few more users than that (ok, 4 orders of magnitude!), so we >> >> see a >> >> lot of weird stuff that is hard to even imagine when you are >> testing the >> >> code. :) >> >> >> >> The product is probably a better choice, especially if it is cheap. >> >> >> >> We really did try to buy a product to do this as we wanted more >> >> features and >> >> fewer problems (or someone else to blame them on), but only the >> >> script had >> >> reasonable performance. Everything else brought our gateways to >> >> their knees >> >> and had to be disabled. I was shocked by this actually. :) >> >> >> >> Joe K. >> >> - Original Message - >> >> From: "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> To: >> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:24 PM >> >> Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS >> 2K3 box >> >> >> >> >> >> > This is an SBS box. we may have performance problems.. but it's >> >> > certainly not caused by a SMTP sink event on that Exchange >> server ;-) >> >> > Remember at the most we're only hosting 75 users/devices on that >> >> server >> >> > with a max of 75 gigs (remember no snickering from the Enterprise >> >> folks) >> >> > of Store. >> >> > >> >> >
Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box
I've done this a couple of times, but on the exchange gateway servers, not on an SBS box. I've never seen SBS. Anyway, the easiest way to do this is to create a second virtual SMTP server and set it to listen on port 26 (and send on 25). Configure the first virtual server to send on 26 (its already listening on 25). Then register the sink on the second virtual server. The reason is that most of your clients are MAPI clients, so don't trigger the SMTP sink. If you're using a connector, you need to point the second virtual server at the connector (I think, it's been even longer since I did one where they had an SMTP connector). I'm afraid I can't give you the scripts as they're at customer sites, etc. One thing I will say is troubleshooting this is a real pain. On one problem I had Dev Support MSFT people help out. We took it from the bottom up. Unregistered all the sinks (that I'd registered, the VBS script you use to register allows you to view all sinks) and then registered a new one that simply created a text file on the D drive. As you're using VBS, not VB, ensure that you use absolute paths for things like text files, etc. as the script will run and not error without absolute paths but they won't work... --Paul - Original Message - From: "Bart Van den Wyngaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ActiveDir" Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:41 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box Hi guys, I'm having trouble with adding a disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box. I'm using the EventSink with a .vbs to add the disclaimer. The box is configured with a default SMTP server and a SMTP connector which forwards all external email to the SMTP of the ISP. Anybody who has done the trick already? If so, can you please tell me the little secret for this? *g* Many thanks to all, Bart List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box
Thanks Paul, as they are currently working (GMT+1), I will test again this evening and post my findings here. As you pointed out: troubleshooting is a real pain in the ass... Yes I'm using VBScript, I have more experience with that then VB itself and that makes it more easy for me. Indeed MAPI Clients => Outlook! What a wonderfull world we live in... I thought that they communicate with MAPI towards the Exchange server which sends out in SMTP format. So I have a real problem with understanding why MS didn't provide the feature themselves built-in. Perhaps it's an idea for them for the future releases. They are working on a lot of tools (ex. IMF) themselves to cut the need of third-party tools, but something essential like this (I think it's standard for a company to have a disclaimer, not?) is not available in GUI and needs quiet some manipulation. Additionally the exception of working with SBS and having the SMTP connector to be able to forward mail to the SMTP of your ISP. I know I keep hanging on that point, but I think I'm not the only one. On 8/3/06, Paul Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've done this a couple of times, but on the exchange gateway servers, not on an SBS box. I've never seen SBS. Anyway, the easiest way to do this is to create a second virtual SMTP server and set it to listen on port 26 (and send on 25). Configure the first virtual server to send on 26 (its already listening on 25). Then register the sink on the second virtual server. The reason is that most of your clients are MAPI clients, so don't trigger the SMTP sink. If you're using a connector, you need to point the second virtual server at the connector (I think, it's been even longer since I did one where they had an SMTP connector). I'm afraid I can't give you the scripts as they're at customer sites, etc. One thing I will say is troubleshooting this is a real pain. On one problem I had Dev Support MSFT people help out. We took it from the bottom up. Unregistered all the sinks (that I'd registered, the VBS script you use to register allows you to view all sinks) and then registered a new one that simply created a text file on the D drive. As you're using VBS, not VB, ensure that you use absolute paths for things like text files, etc. as the script will run and not error without absolute paths but they won't work... --Paul - Original Message - From: "Bart Van den Wyngaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ActiveDir" Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:41 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box > Hi guys, > > I'm having trouble with adding a disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box. > I'm using the EventSink with a .vbs to add the disclaimer. The box is > configured with a default SMTP server and a SMTP connector which > forwards all external email to the SMTP of the ISP. > > Anybody who has done the trick already? If so, can you please tell me > the little secret for this? *g* > > Many thanks to all, > Bart > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box
"Perhaps it's an idea for them for the future releases" The functionality has been implemented in EX2K7. Cheers, Victor - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Bart Van den Wyngaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Datum: donderdag, augustus 3, 2006 12:10 pm Onderwerp: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box > Thanks Paul, as they are currently working (GMT+1), I will test again > this evening and post my findings here. > > As you pointed out: troubleshooting is a real pain in the ass... Yes > I'm using VBScript, I have more experience with that then VB itself > and that makes it more easy for me. > > Indeed MAPI Clients => Outlook! What a wonderfull world we live in... > I thought that they communicate with MAPI towards the Exchange server > which sends out in SMTP format. So I have a real problem with > understanding why MS didn't provide the feature themselves built-in. > > Perhaps it's an idea for them for the future releases. They are > working on a lot of tools (ex. IMF) themselves to cut the need of > third-party tools, but something essential like this (I think it's > standard for a company to have a disclaimer, not?) is not > available in > GUI and needs quiet some manipulation. Additionally the exception of > working with SBS and having the SMTP connector to be able to forward > mail to the SMTP of your ISP. > > I know I keep hanging on that point, but I think I'm not the only > one. > On 8/3/06, Paul Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've done this a couple of times, but on the exchange gateway > servers, not > > on an SBS box. I've never seen SBS. > > > > Anyway, the easiest way to do this is to create a second virtual > SMTP server > > and set it to listen on port 26 (and send on 25). Configure the > first> virtual server to send on 26 (its already listening on 25). > Then register > > the sink on the second virtual server. > > > > The reason is that most of your clients are MAPI clients, so > don't trigger > > the SMTP sink. > > > > If you're using a connector, you need to point the second > virtual server at > > the connector (I think, it's been even longer since I did one > where they had > > an SMTP connector). > > > > I'm afraid I can't give you the scripts as they're at customer > sites, etc. > > One thing I will say is troubleshooting this is a real pain. On > one problem > > I had Dev Support MSFT people help out. We took it from the > bottom up. > > Unregistered all the sinks (that I'd registered, the VBS script > you use to > > register allows you to view all sinks) and then registered a new > one that > > simply created a text file on the D drive. > > > > As you're using VBS, not VB, ensure that you use absolute paths > for things > > like text files, etc. as the script will run and not error > without absolute > > paths but they won't work... > > > > > > --Paul > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Bart Van den Wyngaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "ActiveDir" > > Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:41 PM > > Subject: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box > > > > > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > I'm having trouble with adding a disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS > 2K3 box. > > > I'm using the EventSink with a .vbs to add the disclaimer. The > box is > > > configured with a default SMTP server and a SMTP connector which > > > forwards all external email to the SMTP of the ISP. > > > > > > Anybody who has done the trick already? If so, can you please > tell me > > > the little secret for this? *g* > > > > > > Many thanks to all, > > > Bart > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > > > List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > > > List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx > > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > > List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > > List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
RE: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box
The feature is in Exchange 2007. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bart Van den Wyngaert Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 6:10 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box Thanks Paul, as they are currently working (GMT+1), I will test again this evening and post my findings here. As you pointed out: troubleshooting is a real pain in the ass... Yes I'm using VBScript, I have more experience with that then VB itself and that makes it more easy for me. Indeed MAPI Clients => Outlook! What a wonderfull world we live in... I thought that they communicate with MAPI towards the Exchange server which sends out in SMTP format. So I have a real problem with understanding why MS didn't provide the feature themselves built-in. Perhaps it's an idea for them for the future releases. They are working on a lot of tools (ex. IMF) themselves to cut the need of third-party tools, but something essential like this (I think it's standard for a company to have a disclaimer, not?) is not available in GUI and needs quiet some manipulation. Additionally the exception of working with SBS and having the SMTP connector to be able to forward mail to the SMTP of your ISP. I know I keep hanging on that point, but I think I'm not the only one. On 8/3/06, Paul Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've done this a couple of times, but on the exchange gateway servers, not > on an SBS box. I've never seen SBS. > > Anyway, the easiest way to do this is to create a second virtual SMTP server > and set it to listen on port 26 (and send on 25). Configure the first > virtual server to send on 26 (its already listening on 25). Then register > the sink on the second virtual server. > > The reason is that most of your clients are MAPI clients, so don't trigger > the SMTP sink. > > If you're using a connector, you need to point the second virtual server at > the connector (I think, it's been even longer since I did one where they had > an SMTP connector). > > I'm afraid I can't give you the scripts as they're at customer sites, etc. > One thing I will say is troubleshooting this is a real pain. On one problem > I had Dev Support MSFT people help out. We took it from the bottom up. > Unregistered all the sinks (that I'd registered, the VBS script you use to > register allows you to view all sinks) and then registered a new one that > simply created a text file on the D drive. > > As you're using VBS, not VB, ensure that you use absolute paths for things > like text files, etc. as the script will run and not error without absolute > paths but they won't work... > > > --Paul > > - Original Message ----- > From: "Bart Van den Wyngaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "ActiveDir" > Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:41 PM > Subject: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box > > > > Hi guys, > > > > I'm having trouble with adding a disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box. > > I'm using the EventSink with a .vbs to add the disclaimer. The box is > > configured with a default SMTP server and a SMTP connector which > > forwards all external email to the SMTP of the ISP. > > > > Anybody who has done the trick already? If so, can you please tell me > > the little secret for this? *g* > > > > Many thanks to all, > > Bart > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > > List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > > List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box
Hoorah !! :-) On 8/3/06, Michael B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The feature is in Exchange 2007. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bart Van den Wyngaert Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 6:10 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box Thanks Paul, as they are currently working (GMT+1), I will test again this evening and post my findings here. As you pointed out: troubleshooting is a real pain in the ass... Yes I'm using VBScript, I have more experience with that then VB itself and that makes it more easy for me. Indeed MAPI Clients => Outlook! What a wonderfull world we live in... I thought that they communicate with MAPI towards the Exchange server which sends out in SMTP format. So I have a real problem with understanding why MS didn't provide the feature themselves built-in. Perhaps it's an idea for them for the future releases. They are working on a lot of tools (ex. IMF) themselves to cut the need of third-party tools, but something essential like this (I think it's standard for a company to have a disclaimer, not?) is not available in GUI and needs quiet some manipulation. Additionally the exception of working with SBS and having the SMTP connector to be able to forward mail to the SMTP of your ISP. I know I keep hanging on that point, but I think I'm not the only one. On 8/3/06, Paul Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've done this a couple of times, but on the exchange gateway servers, not > on an SBS box. I've never seen SBS. > > Anyway, the easiest way to do this is to create a second virtual SMTP server > and set it to listen on port 26 (and send on 25). Configure the first > virtual server to send on 26 (its already listening on 25). Then register > the sink on the second virtual server. > > The reason is that most of your clients are MAPI clients, so don't trigger > the SMTP sink. > > If you're using a connector, you need to point the second virtual server at > the connector (I think, it's been even longer since I did one where they had > an SMTP connector). > > I'm afraid I can't give you the scripts as they're at customer sites, etc. > One thing I will say is troubleshooting this is a real pain. On one problem > I had Dev Support MSFT people help out. We took it from the bottom up. > Unregistered all the sinks (that I'd registered, the VBS script you use to > register allows you to view all sinks) and then registered a new one that > simply created a text file on the D drive. > > As you're using VBS, not VB, ensure that you use absolute paths for things > like text files, etc. as the script will run and not error without absolute > paths but they won't work... > > > --Paul > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bart Van den Wyngaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "ActiveDir" > Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:41 PM > Subject: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box > > > > Hi guys, > > > > I'm having trouble with adding a disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box. > > I'm using the EventSink with a .vbs to add the disclaimer. The box is > > configured with a default SMTP server and a SMTP connector which > > forwards all external email to the SMTP of the ISP. > > > > Anybody who has done the trick already? If so, can you please tell me > > the little secret for this? *g* > > > > Many thanks to all, > > Bart > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > > List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > > List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
