RE: CA becoming more responsive
I got an email too. Forcing their employees to watch friends is like training them to format 360K floppies...in about ten years, they'll be good at supporting the Windows NT version. But they are monitoring this list, which means, someone, somewhere from CA is OUT THERE. Warren -Original Message- From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: November 16, 2001 12:26 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: CA becoming more responsive I think he's going through the archives, he contacted me too. -Original Message- From: Bob Peitzke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 12:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: CA becoming more responsive Was that Michael Duncan? Yup. Contacted you too, I presume. Seems like a step in the right direction. :o) Bob -Original Message- From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 5:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: CA becoming more responsive Was that Michael Duncan? Isn't it amazing what they'll do when sales start dropping? William -Original Message- From: Bob Peitzke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 5:16 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: CA becoming more responsive Hi, all, Thought I'd share with you my notes on this (surprising) new contact i just had with the Computer Associates VP of Technical Support. Though I had been a vocal critic of CA's tech support in the past, even back when I was an SE, I thought I was a lightweight when it came to CA-bashing on this list. So I was surprised when I got a call from their VP/TS, especially since he was calling from the east coast. Anyway, let me just hit the high points for you ... I told him my main complaints with CA products (ARCserve Inoculan) were lack of real-time tech support, and the nightmare of RegIT. He agreed. Here are a few of the things he told me: - CA has relaxed their registration code, so that now it does not disable the service. - They have beefed up their support staff, with an office in India with 100 techies, and now 80%+ of their calls actually get answered by a real tech support person. Wow! I used to get the take a number, we'll call you back someday runaround. - Their knowledge base has been beefed up. I recall it used to be pretty thin. I haven't checked it out yet. Well, I was impressed that a high-level guy from CA is actually reaching out to customers and people in the industry, and trying to respond to criticisms. Maybe they have turned over a new leaf. I won't have the opportunity to really evaluate them as we are a Backup Exec / Sophos / Antigen shop, and being happy with these I'm not changing horses ... but maybe some of you out there will revisit CA products and give them a fresh chance. FWIW Bob Peitzke Information Systems Manager Sander A. Kessler Associates Santa Monica, CA, USA List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.295 / Virus Database: 159 - Release Date: 11/01/01 List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Information Required about best approach for exchange solution
Hi all I am new to this list and would like help or a point in the right Direction with regards to a change in my current exchange server environment. Current environment Shared network with a Single Windows NT 4 domain serving two companies with one Exchange 5.5 organization with two sites one for each company. Exchange of course works fine but Domain administration is a problem due to different policies within each company. New environment Partly implemented Other company with old domain on windows NT 4 and exchange 5.5 - my company with Windows 2000 Server on a new domain with a domain Trust to the other domain. What I want to accomplish is to have an exchange site within my own domain on either exchange 5.5 or exchange 2000 with a shared address book with the other exchange server in the old domain. 1. Do I have to leave my new exchange server in the old domain and what version of exchange can I run. 2. Can I create a new organization within my new domain and still get access to the address book from the other domain via the trust or some kind of site connector. I appreciate that more information is probably required but if anyone can help me or direct me on or off list I would appreciate it. Thank You Stuart McClean IT Manager Resort Properties Tenerife, Canary Islands List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Relaying - background?
You know what I mean. Steve Martin Some people have such a way with words. Other people.don't have way /Steve Martin -Original Message- From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 8:52 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Relaying - background? Don't you mean the other way around, that they have to come from your domain. And or be in your domains IP range. You MTA has to be able to send to anyone. It is a matter of who can send. And what they have to do to send. Kevinm M WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, CKWSE -Original Message- From: Arnold, Jamie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 5:19 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Relaying - background? Isn't it more of a domain restriction than a user restriction? I close the realyin on mydomain.com, you telnet to my box and try to send to somwhere other than mydomain.com and you're restricted. I could easily be wrong. J -Original Message- From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 11:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Relaying - background? Non open Relaying requires a user to login to the server, have an account on the server and have rights to that account. So only Joe can send email from Joe, when Joe is logged in as Joe. The other method is to restrict based on Ip so Joe can only send email if he lives on a 10.0.0.x ip range else he can't sent nothing. Open relay means the server does not care it will send anything from anyone. Joe can send messages from sally to anyone he wants to. The server is purely a MTA. Does that help? Kevinm M WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, CKWSE -Original Message- From: Bob Peitzke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 2:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Relaying - background? Recently one of my users forwarded me a couple of NDR messages she got, containing stuff like recipient name is not recognized, 550, Relaying denied, user unknown. Our Exchange 5.5/SP3 server is not an open relay, and we are cool with all the ORDB ~ databases, FWIW. This got me wondering about how relaying really works. I know that incoming mail destined for addresses in our domain go to our server, identified by the MX record in our ISP's DNS tables. I know that outgoing mail from our server goes to a mail server at our ISP, which forwards it to other servers in the appropriate domains - but I don't know how our server knows which mail server at our ISP to send stuff to. Our IMS is set up to use DNS for message delivery, not to forward to a specific host. Another part I don't understand is how SPAM works - if our server was an open relay, how would a spammer send messages to our server, but have them addressed to recipients in a different domain? I.e. where is the separate information on mail server to send to and ultimate recipient? I've dug around some in Technet and various knowledge bases, but haven't been able to find any illuminating background on how relaying and spamming works. I'd love to read up on it, if anyone has a pointer to a relevant article. TIA have a nice weekend! Bob Peitzke List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: errors
I'm having some also. I'm not including anything from the logs, nor the actual error message itself. In fact, I'm not even going to tell you which application I might be running. But rest assured.I am having errors. Many errors. -Original Message- From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 8:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: errors You know what I meant.. Are you having any errors??? Kevinm M WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, CKWSE -Original Message- From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 3:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: errors any one getting any errors Constantly, but I try to learn from them. I am getting some Congratulations! -Original Message- From: Kevin Miller To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: 11/16/01 9:10 PM Subject: errors any one getting any errors I am getting some? Kevinm M WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, CKWSE List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
