Re: Setting up Email to allow web forms
Make sure you get a modern version and check for vulns! The venerable formmail.pl is an ancient exploit vector. - Durf On 5/20/08, Michael B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Google for formmail.php and allow relaying from 127.0.0.1 (localhost). There > are also versions of formmail.asp and formmail.pl (perl) that don't require > relay capabilities. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > MCSE/Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > > From: Jonathan Gruber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:19 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Setting up Email to allow web forms > > > > I've tried googling this but I'm not even sure what to search for. Several > web sites we host are wanting to use PHP forms on their sites. So far I've > been unable to get the forms to work as I get a "relaying is prohibited" > response on the page. By relaxing the settings on the exchange server I can > get the form to work but I'm basically an open relay which I can't allow. > Can I setup the server to allow these forms and not be an open relay or > should the php code be written differently to be able to authenticate? > > > > Jonathan Gruber > > Network Administrator > > J.B. Long Inc. > > 610-944-8840 x.213 > > 484-637-1978 direct > > > > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Super fun question
Two words: Constant Contact. They do exactly this - legitimate mass emails - and that's all they do, and they are very good at it. Strongly recommend you look in to outsourcing the email. If it works once and you pull it off, then you own it forever. -- Durf On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Troy Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok our BRILLIANT marketing team just called and said they have a list of > 290K email addresses they want to send a mass email to (supposedly these are > 'lds'). I said fat chance as I don't want to deal with the fallout of > landing on a BL. Management kickback is, "How many email do you think we > can send at once without risking any type of negative backlash?" > > From their mouths, these are opt-in people who submitted their email to our > company requesting more info (yeah right, 290k people want to know more > about a $700,000 motorhome.) > > What do you all think? I say that our corporate mail systems are not > designed for this type of behavior and don't really feel comfortable with > any large amounts of mass email (but using a 3rd party marketing company > costs money...) > > Anyone else deal with this? > > -Troy > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ > -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Phone System
I spotted an integrated 3Com Asterix device at the Network world expo that looked interesting. On 8/18/08, David Baca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I am looking at options for a phone system for a > relatively small office. Currently about five or six people. I am > interested in VOIP options available. I have had some experience with > asterisk and polycom phones but wanted to see what others are > doing/using for small offices. > > > Regards, > > > David > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Syncing Iphone to a Shared Contacts Folder
The new Chapura product will allegedly do this, I hear from a co-worker. Failing that, Add2Exchange...although that solution is like using a Buick to swat a fly. -- Durf On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Clyde Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Customer is using Exchange Server 2003 and now wants to sync the contacts > on their Iphone to a shared contacts folder instead of their default > contacts folder. Has anyone dealt with issue before? Any 3rd party software > products out there yet that will support this? > > Clyde Bennett, President > Clyde Bennett and Associates > 1011-A S. Congress Ave. > Austin, Tx 78704-1126 > Voice (512) 442-3744 > FAX (512) 442-4014 > > > > -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Syncing IPhone to a Shared Contacts Folder
The product is called FolderMirror, and it looks like it may be similar in concept to the Blackberry Desktop Redirector in that it seems to be a desktop product that monitors Outlook, and not a server-side product: http://www.chapura.com/foldermirror_works.php So that's a shortcoming, but for the people who really need it might not be too serious. -- Durf On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Tim Vander Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Add2Exchange scares the Dejesus out of me. We tried it here a year or so > ago to do exactly what the OP is asking about. It promptly created duplicate > calendar and contact items for everyone it had been implemented for. Their > support amounted to them stating that their product couldn't possibly do > what I was saying, so they wouldn't help at all. They were kind enough to > refund my money. Thank goodness for Outlook Deduplicator. > > On a related note, I spoke at length about this (in my eyes) shortcoming in > Exchange, 2 years ago at TechEd and their response at that time was that > they had no intention of ever exposing Public Folders via Windows Mobile > because Microsoft intends to kill off PFs at some point in the foreseeable > future and they didn't want to waste development time and money on something > that would be obsolete soon. Their answer was to use SharePoint via your WM > device. I pointed out that SharePoint in "mobile" mode drops all photos > which is the really nice "extra" that Contacts have over GAL browsing on a > mobile device, to which their answer was "Huh? Never thought of that." > > We ended creating a process where users have to manually copy over the > contents of a Public Contact Folder to their personal Contacts folder to get > updates. We do have categories created so that it is very simple to delete > the old copy before importing a new version, but it is far from perfect. > Unfortunately Microsoft has no interest in fixing this gap. > > If Chapura does work, I will a very happy dude. > > Tim > > > > *From:* Durf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:25 PM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Syncing Iphone to a Shared Contacts Folder > > > > The new Chapura product will allegedly do this, I hear from a co-worker. > > Failing that, Add2Exchange...although that solution is like using a Buick > to swat a fly. > > -- Durf > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Clyde Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Customer is using Exchange Server 2003 and now wants to sync the contacts > on their Iphone to a shared contacts folder instead of their default > contacts folder. Has anyone dealt with issue before? Any 3rd party software > products out there yet that will support this? > > > > Clyde Bennett, President > > Clyde Bennett and Associates > > 1011-A S. Congress Ave. > > Austin, Tx 78704-1126 > > Voice (512) 442-3744 > > FAX (512) 442-4014 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > -- > Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. > Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! > > > > > -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Semi OT: Suspected Outlook client issues
Right, there's a way on the server side to accomplish this as well, with a special Public Folder entry, no? It has been a dog's age since I've had to do so, so I don't have the reference handy. -- Durf On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Michael B. Smith < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There ARE ways to get around this. However, they aren't simple. > > I've recommended ClickYes for years. I still do. It's a reasonable price > and > IT WORKS. > > The free version MAY work for you. No promises. > > Regards, > > Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP > My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael > Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange > > > -Original Message- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 6:43 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Semi OT: Suspected Outlook client issues > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Michael B. Smith > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OBVIOUSLY, you haven't updated your Outlook 2000 to current versions!!! > > Well, we're getting there - at least we're getting folks to 2k3, anyway. > > > http://www.contextmagic.com/express-clickyes/ > > E. > > I was hoping for a reg entry or something like that to allow an > exception for this particular program. > > Of course, absent good programming practices, or at least decent > support, from Epicor, this may be our only alternative. > > Kurt > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ > -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Hundreds of NDRs
3. Establish SPF records (OK, it doesn't do a lot) 4. Change everyone's SMTP address (the only way to be sure). -- Durf On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Brumbaugh, Luke < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rule to send to delete folder or permanently delete. > > This would calm the user. > > > > Anyway to prevent? > > 1. Kill spammer. > > 2. Keep user of sites that collect email addresses. > > > > > > > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:08 PM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Hundreds of NDRs > > > > Exchange 2003 SP2. We occaisionaly have users who get a few NDRs over a > couple of days from reipients they did not send to because of spammers > spoofing their email address. At 12:15 I have a user who began getting > hundreds of NDRs obviously as a result of a spammer sedning out a bulk email > package. These are coming in so fast the user is having a hard time keeping > up with the deleting. Anyway to prevent this crap? > > Thanks. > > > > > > ** > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted in this message is > intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may > contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, > dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other > than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, > please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this document. Thank > you. > > Butler Animal Health Supply > > ** > > > > > -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Dump Exchange Address Book from hosted server
Hi all; I've been tasked with migrating a customer from a hosted Exchange solution which we do not have console access to and support is poor and slow. Anyone know if there's a script or method to dump the Exchange Address Book directly without reading the attributes from Active Directory? Thanks, Durf -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Dump Exchange Address Book from hosted server
I'm trying to check their list of SMTP aliases, distribution groups and so on for completeness so we can migrate them to another solution. Normally I'd run a script that dumps all that from Active Directory, but in this case I don't have access to the AD as it is a hosted solution. -- Durf On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Michael B. Smith < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you used cached mode on a user, they'll have it in their mailbox. > > > > Not quite sure what you are aiming for here, more than that… > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP > > My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael > > Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange > > > > *From:* Durf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Friday, October 10, 2008 11:10 AM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Dump Exchange Address Book from hosted server > > > > Hi all; > > I've been tasked with migrating a customer from a hosted Exchange solution > which we do not have console access to and support is poor and slow. Anyone > know if there's a script or method to dump the Exchange Address Book > directly without reading the attributes from Active Directory? > > Thanks, > Durf > > -- > -- > Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. > Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! > > > > > -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Dump Exchange Address Book from hosted server
De - one of my field engineers just suggested something much simpler: Create a new Contacts folder for the user. Then go to the address book. Tell Outlook to keep personal contacts in the new folder. Select one and then holding shift select them all. Right click and add to contacts. It will populate them and then you can go in there and select all and do a drag and drop to a public folder. I just tested it. It's a bit ghetto but I think it will do. Thanks all for the input. -- Durf On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Michael B. Smith < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know the source hosting company, but most hosting companies today > offer a control panel for the HE solution that can provide you access to > that information. If the source company doesn't, then you don't really have > any choice but to use the contents of a user's mailbox. > > > > Uh, I supposed one could write a webdav/webservices application to pretend > to be OWA to get that same info, but that would likely be more difficult. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP > > My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael > > Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange > > > > *From:* Durf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Friday, October 10, 2008 11:19 AM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Dump Exchange Address Book from hosted server > > > > I'm trying to check their list of SMTP aliases, distribution groups and so > on for completeness so we can migrate them to another solution. Normally > I'd run a script that dumps all that from Active Directory, but in this case > I don't have access to the AD as it is a hosted solution. > > -- Durf > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Michael B. Smith < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you used cached mode on a user, they'll have it in their mailbox. > > > > Not quite sure what you are aiming for here, more than that… > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP > > My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael > > Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange > > > > *From:* Durf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Friday, October 10, 2008 11:10 AM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Dump Exchange Address Book from hosted server > > > > Hi all; > > I've been tasked with migrating a customer from a hosted Exchange solution > which we do not have console access to and support is poor and slow. Anyone > know if there's a script or method to dump the Exchange Address Book > directly without reading the attributes from Active Directory? > > Thanks, > Durf > > -- > -- > Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. > Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! > > > > > > > > > > > -- > -- > Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. > Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! > > > > > -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Move Mailboxes vs. Move Store
Hi all; I have a client with a large Exchange 2003 message store, and we want to both move the location of the store and defragment, as many mailboxes have already been moved out of it and there's substantial whitespace to be reclaimed. In terms of time and effectiveness, which strategy is preferable: 1. Move the store via ESM, then defrag. - or - 2. Create new store, then Move Mailboxes into the new store, remove old store. The option that minimizes downtime would be preferable. We're migrating from local SCSI to iSCSI if it matters in the equation. Thanks, Durf -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Move Mailboxes vs. Move Store
That's what I thought. Time to go collect $$ from junior engineer now. :) -- Durf On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Michael B. Smith < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Option 2. Downtime: zero. Effective: 100% > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP > > My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael > > Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange > > > > *From:* Durf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Saturday, November 08, 2008 8:37 AM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Move Mailboxes vs. Move Store > > > > Hi all; > > I have a client with a large Exchange 2003 message store, and we want to > both move the location of the store and defragment, as many mailboxes have > already been moved out of it and there's substantial whitespace to be > reclaimed. In terms of time and effectiveness, which strategy is > preferable: > > 1. Move the store via ESM, then defrag. > - or - > 2. Create new store, then Move Mailboxes into the new store, remove old > store. > > The option that minimizes downtime would be preferable. We're migrating > from local SCSI to iSCSI if it matters in the equation. > > Thanks, > Durf > -- > -- > Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. > Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! > > > > > -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Bulk mail services?
I doubt this is CC's fault. If they allow you to send directly to their SMTP servers, ISA is probably taking too long to drop the connection. --Durf On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Eric Wittersheim wrote: > A little side note about constant contact. We use ISA 2004 as our proxy > here and we can only have one person logged into CC at a time (even with > separate CC accounts). The session somehow gets screwed up and one persons > session will log out the other persons session. I have spoke to CC and they > claim there is not a work around for this. I personally think that is crap > but what do I know. We have 4 separate CC accounts and each person has to > "schedule" a time slot to work with CC. Pain in the butt. > > > > *From:* Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 31, 2008 7:56 AM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Bulk mail services? > > > > Constant Contact usually gets the highest vote count when this question is > asked. > > > > Our company chose to go with Exact Target and has been satisfied. > > > > > > > > Roger Wright > > Network Administrator > > Evatone, Inc. > > 727.572.7076 x388 > > _ > > > > *From:* Moss, Sue [mailto:sm...@cas.org] > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 31, 2008 8:14 AM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Bulk mail services? > > > > Hello and Happy New Year! > > > > I'm looking for any feedback anyone has on bulk email services they have > used. I'm googling for candidates, but it'd be nice to narrow the playing > field a bit with real life experiences. Anyone? > > > > TIA > > > > > > > > > > > -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Mass emailing?
Unless you have a *very* sanitized mailing list and more than a T1 worth of bandwidth, I would expect sending out a mass mailing like that to have a good change of bringing down your Internet line and/or your SMTP virtual server, depending on your bandwidth and how 'clean' your mailing list is. Look up Constant Contact, and mention to Nancy Freitag that Connor referred you. They do an amazing job. All they do are (verified, non-spam) mass mailing, and are extremely professional. -- Durf On Feb 7, 2008 1:29 PM, Steve Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We're a printing company and we're facing a large increase in the price of > paper, which is huge compenent of our costing. Our sales department has > asked me to come up with a way to send an email to about 1000 of our biggest > customers, explaining the increase and the price increases that will result. > The recipients are all existing customers, but I'm concerned nonetheless > with running afoul of spam lists and such. > > Is there a commonly accepted way to do this? > > We're on Exchange 2007. > > Steve > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ > -- -- Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a minute. But set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Mass emailing?
Yes, when the following conditions are true:(which they usually are for our average small business client who doesn't alert us first that they want to do this) * Untuned smtp server * T1 or less bandwidth * Unsanitized contact list * 1000+ contacts ...then yes, you can very easily swamp the SMTP server and the oubound bandwidth. Exchange itself is usually find for internal-internal emails, but the queues, firewall and outbound traffic are often swamped. I've seen this about five or six times in the last 5+ years; it's usually the first (and only) time a client tries to send a mass email out to their entire contact list they've painstakingly build up in an Exchange public folder (or multiple, given the limits on Exchange address lists...) -- Durf On Feb 7, 2008 4:21 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 7, 2008 2:49 PM, Durf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unless you have a *very* sanitized mailing list and more than a T1 > worth of > > bandwidth, I would expect sending out a mass mailing like that to have a > > good change of bringing down your Internet line and/or your SMTP virtual > > server, depending on your bandwidth and how 'clean' your mailing list > is. > > I've had occasion twice over the past six months to send out a mass > mailing to about 360 addresses. We've got a fixed-wireless feed we > use for SMTP and VPN. 512 Kbit/sec CIR, 1.5 Mbit/sec MIR. I just > dumped the message body into Sendmail on our Linux Internet gateway > (rather than going through our Exchange server first). All but about > 15 addresses were delivered (or bounced) in under 15 minutes; the rest > were in queue for later retry due to unreachable servers. That's with > no special planning/configuration, and regular SMTP and VPN traffic > still going. > > While 1000 is obviously almost three times as many recipients, I'm > still surprised to hear Exchange on a full T1 would fold under the > load. Are you sure of that? > > -- Ben > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ > -- -- Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a minute. But set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Sendio
Agree - only one I ever saw was quickly replaced with a 'cuda. - Durf On 2/21/08, Jason Gurtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.sendio.com/ > > Suppose to block 100% of all spam with zero false positives! > > This appears to be a product that does Challenge/Response based blocking. > Doing this is a good way to end up on blacklists. The reason being that > most spam is forged, so the challenge is sent to a person that never sent > the mail in the first place. Hey, thanks for dropping *your* spam problem > in my lap! ;) > > ~JasonG > > -- > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Conference room calendar auto accept agent?
You don't need to grant Calendar permissions to use the AutoAccept agent, that's the whole point - it's accepting the meeting, not directly writing requests to the calendar as with Resource Booking. -- Durf On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:49 PM, David Mazzaccaro < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So if I use the Auto Accept Agent, users simply invite the resource as > an attendee. The resource will check if it is available, and if so, > will accept the meeting. > However, what is there to stop users from directly opening the resource > and booking a meeting? > > In Outlook: > File>Open>Other user's folder>"resource" > > Thx > > > -Original Message- > From: Don Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:25 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Conference room calendar auto accept agent? > > Works great - we have several hundred setup that way working fine. > > -Original Message- > From: Scott Abel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:18 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Conference room calendar auto accept agent? > > Don't mistake the AAA for Resource Scheuling. As stated before the > AAA can do more things than Resource Scheduling. I switched from > resource scheduling to the AAA and it is much better. Especially > when someone tries to book a conference room forever. By default > the AAA will only allow up to 12 months I believe. The other great > thing is that when you cancel a meeting it is removed from the > resource calendar automatically which I do not believe is done when > doing resource scheduling > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ > -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Conference room calendar auto accept agent?
What Rob said - When you create a Resource Account, it's a standard User on your domain. So, unless you've set default permissions such that all users have permissions to each other's calendar, just stop there and you're all set. You don't have to do anything to prevent it, just don't explicitly share and/or grant permissions to the calendar. -- Durf On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:02 PM, David Mazzaccaro < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't' "need" to grant permissions… So CAN you prevent users from > opening the resource calendar and directly entering meetings? > > Thanks, > > Dave > > > -- > > *From:* Durf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Friday, February 22, 2008 12:56 PM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Conference room calendar auto accept agent? > > > > You don't need to grant Calendar permissions to use the AutoAccept agent, > that's the whole point - it's accepting the meeting, not directly writing > requests to the calendar as with Resource Booking. > > -- Durf > > > -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Moving an Exchange Server
Oh, damn. *sigh* ... ... ... Oh yeah, your server will be fine. --Durf On 3/11/08, Michael B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A.E. van Vogt. > > > > The World of Null-A. > > > > I have a signed first edition. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > MCSE/Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > > From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:18 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Moving an Exchange Server > > > > That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is not that so? > > > > _ > > From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:56 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Moving an Exchange Server > > How very true... > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Campbell, Rob > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alas, what should be and what is don't always line up. > > > > _ > > From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:53 AM > > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: Moving an Exchange Server > > > > > > > > ** > Note: > The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential > and > protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended > > recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message > to > the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you > > have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by > replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. > > ** > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Exchange 2007 and Virtual Server
Can you clarify where you were mounting the volumes? Host or guest? I'm very curious as to which works better, and if you can effectively mount iscsi volumes in the vm. --Durf On 3/12/08, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Until I simplified my setup at home (noise...) I had ESX using iSCSI mounted > remote vmfs stores with Exchange also storing db's on iSCSI mounted volumes. > Worked well for over a year without a single issue. > jlc > > > -Original Message- > > From: Scot Parsons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:06 AM > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 and Virtual Server > > > > I've been running Exchange 2007 on VMWare with databases and logs on our > SAN. > > I've been live for two months, and so far, everything is running great. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:02 PM > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 and Virtual Server > > > > Lots of people are putting Exchange 2007 on VMWare. ESX is VMWare ESX > > Server. > > http://www.vmware.com/landing_pages/exchange_solution.html > > > > 16,000 Mailboxes on one server with VMWare > > http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2008/03/16000-exchange.html > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT) > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:09 AM > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 and Virtual Server > > > > Thanks for the info. I was looking at a mostly high side Dell Optiplex > tower > > or a precision workstation as the basis. By the time I get home I should > > have a full TechNet DVD set waiting for me. Letting it blow up and rebuild > > on a regular basis will give me some experience in virtual disaster > recovery > > as well. > > > > I am very much of the old school training, one server one > > application/service. Virtual machines are a whole new area for me to wrap > my > > head around. > > > > Anyone know of a good list I can subscribe to that's centered around MS > > virtual server? > > > > Please define ESX for me? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > John H. Matteson, Jr. > > Systems Administrator/ITT Systems > > FOB Orgun-E > > Afghanistan > > DSN - 318 431 8001 > > VoSIP - (308) 431 - > > Iridium - 717.633.3823 > > Roshain - 079 - 736 - 3832 > > > > "A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group > in > > America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to > > trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and > > Stripes." Woodrow Wilson > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:25 PM > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 and Virtual Server > > > > I run about a 8-12 vm ESX server with a win2k3r2 dc and exchange 2007 on a > > win2k3r2 64 bit server. My dc has 512meg ram and my exchange server has > > ~1.5gb. > > This is all off a core 2 duo 1.8 GHz (slow) and I think 6gig ram. There > are > > a few other vm's running windows, CentOS and FreeBSD on it... > > > > It runs reliably. > > > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ > -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Exchange 2007 and Virtual Server
Thanks, that's indeed what I was wondering - whether the proper thing would to have the data volume mounted by ESX, and then mounted by the VM as a 'raw disk' (if that's still the correct term), or whether it's just as effective to have the VM do the mount via iSCSI in virtualization. -- Durf On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The vm itself (C drive for example) resides on a store created by an iSCSI > mapped volume that ESX handles (Architectural requirement of esx), in other > words by esx's own ini. The Exchange vm has a D drive where all the db's and > logs reside which is on an iSCSI mapped volume that the Windows ini handles. > There is no point to go through esx for this second volume when windows can > handle this itself. > > jlc > > > -Original Message- > > From: Durf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:27 PM > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: Exchange 2007 and Virtual Server > > > > Can you clarify where you were mounting the volumes? Host or guest? > > I'm very curious as to which works better, and if you can effectively > > mount iscsi volumes in the vm. > > > > --Durf > > > > On 3/12/08, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Until I simplified my setup at home (noise...) I had ESX using iSCSI > mounted > > > remote vmfs stores with Exchange also storing db's on iSCSI mounted > volumes. > > > Worked well for over a year without a single issue. > > > jlc > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: Scot Parsons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:06 AM > > > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > > > Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 and Virtual Server > > > > > > > > I've been running Exchange 2007 on VMWare with databases and logs on > our > > > SAN. > > > > I've been live for two months, and so far, everything is running > great. > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:02 PM > > > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > > > Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 and Virtual Server > > > > > > > > Lots of people are putting Exchange 2007 on VMWare. ESX is VMWare > ESX > > > > Server. > > > > http://www.vmware.com/landing_pages/exchange_solution.html > > > > > > > > 16,000 Mailboxes on one server with VMWare > > > > http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2008/03/16000-exchange.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT) > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:09 AM > > > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > > > Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 and Virtual Server > > > > > > > > Thanks for the info. I was looking at a mostly high side Dell > Optiplex > > > tower > > > > or a precision workstation as the basis. By the time I get home I > should > > > > have a full TechNet DVD set waiting for me. Letting it blow up and > rebuild > > > > on a regular basis will give me some experience in virtual disaster > > > recovery > > > > as well. > > > > > > > > I am very much of the old school training, one server one > > > > application/service. Virtual machines are a whole new area for me to > wrap > > > my > > > > head around. > > > > > > > > Anyone know of a good list I can subscribe to that's centered around > MS > > > > virtual server? > > > > > > > > Please define ESX for me? > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > John H. Matteson, Jr. > > > > Systems Administrator/ITT Systems > > > > FOB Orgun-E > > > > Afghanistan > > > > DSN - 318 431 8001 > > > > VoSIP - (308) 431 - > > > > Iridium - 717.633.3823 > > > > Roshain - 079 - 736 - 3832 > > > > > > > > "A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national > group > > > in > > > > America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among > you to > > > > trade upon yo
Re: OT: Thursday Funny: Computer gender
You know, a little while in Walter Reed might help fix that problem. Oh, wait - VA care was gutted by your beloved president, and Walter Reed is a horrorshow. Well, Semper Fi, dude. Good luck with the puppy-throwing skillz instead, hope it helps you cope. -- Durf On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Tom Strader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike > English, > nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. > > 'House', for instance, is feminine: 'la casa.' > > 'Pencil,' however, is masculine: 'el lapiz.' > > A student asked, 'What gender is 'computer'?' > > Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two > groups, male and female, > and asked them to decide for themselves whether 'computer' should be a > masculine or a feminine noun. > > Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation. > > The men's group decided that 'computer' should definitely be of the > feminine gender ('la computadora'), because: > > 1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic; > > 2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is > incomprehensible to everyone else; > > 3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for > possible later retrieval; and > > 4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending > half your paycheck on accessories for it. > > (THIS GETS BETTER!) > > The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be Masculine > ('el computador'), because: > > 1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on; > > 2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves; > > 3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they > ARE the problem; and > > 4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a > little longer, you could have gotten a better model. > > The women won. > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ > -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~