RE: Email Signature
Hi Stuart, You might want to check out GFI Mail Essentials and Security at www.gfi.co.uk too, you can download 30 day evaluations from the site. I deployed this a couple of months back and found it to be the best for what I wanted, but price was a major factor, you might have more of a budget than my bunch! James. Hi Stuart. This is a common question and the answer depends on what version of Exchange you are running. For both Exchange5.5 and 2000, the easiest to deploy would be a third party app that does it for you. http://www.mimesweeper.com/ http://www.exclaimer.co.uk/ http://www.disclaimit.com Otherwise for 5.5: Microsoft provides imsext.dll http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q258206; For Exchange 2000: You write an SMTP transport event sink: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q317680 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q288098 The FAQ: Exchange5.5: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Exchange2000: http://www.swinc.com/resource/e2kfaq.htm William -Original Message- From: Stuart Tonge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 2:11 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Email Signature Hiya. Does anyone know what product can add a paraghaph of text to every email that leaves my exchange server ie: a disclaimer Thanks Stu. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.380 / Virus Database: 213 - Release Date: 7/24/2002 List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: STORE.EXE CPU Usage
Hi Robert, I noticed Karen works for the NHS, as we all know they have the cash to upgrade to Arcserve 2000 :-) Arcserve and CA products take a real bashing on this list and in my opinion rightly so. Unfortunately the implementation of their products pre-date my employment at my company and we aren't too rich at the moment so I'm stuck with it! I use 6.61 like you and I think SP2 is the last service pack. Regards, James. --_=_NextPart_001_01C206FF.6AB1A790 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 No. ARCServeIT 6.61 for Windows NT. Regards, Rab. = Robert JacksonPhone: +44 (0) 141 332 7999 Software Engineer Fax: +44 (0) 141 331 2820 Walker Martyn Ltd 1 Park Circus Place Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glasgow G3 6AH, Scotland Web: http://www.walkermartyn.co.uk http://www.walkermartyn.co.uk/ = -Original Message- From: Lynn Karen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 May 2002 11:48 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: STORE.EXE CPU Usage ARCserve 2000? - SP3 is the latest. Karen -Original Message- From: James Gosnold [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: 29 May 2002 10:23 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: STORE.EXE CPU Usage Hi Robert, Try stopping the Backup Agent RPC Server service, this is the service installed by the Arcserve Exchange Agent, see if that makes any difference. Also the latest service packs for Arcserve are worth trying (SP2 last time I looked). James. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Outlook Security Administrative Package
Dear all, I've installed this from the Office XP installation disc and by following the readme.doc instruction document have managed to modify security settings for Outlook 2000 and 2002 users on Windows 2000. In the instructions there is a registry addition on Windows 2000 to make so Outlook will then look for these policies in the public folder location. However most of our clients are still on Windows 98 (running Outlook 2000) and the instructions do not seem to refer to 98 clients. I tried importing (merging) the registry change into 98 and manually adding the key and value but none of this has worked. Any ideas on how I can implement this or can it simply not be done on Windows 98 boxes? Our Exchange server is 5.5 by the way. Kind regards, James. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Deletion of Messages
You can also add a 'Read Receipt Requested' column to Outlook, when you do this Outlook will inform you the sender has requested an RR and ask you if you want to send one or not. I love using this on out HR dept! James. Forgot about that one. I doubt it in this situation though because it was a whole bunch of messages all at once. Thx, Ken - Ken Leyba Windows/Exchange System Administrator California State University Dominguez Hills -Original Message- From: Dillon, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 2:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Deletion of Messages Read the msg in preview pane then delete -- no read receipt: deleted w/o reading or some such. Nice, huh? -Original Message- From: Ken Leyba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 5:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Deletion of Messages One of our [l]users apparently while using the mailbox of another user (I hate when they allow this) swears he didn't delete any messages (yea right) but one of the VP Assistants started receiving notifications of messages not being read with the read receipts requested. Now they are asking me why this happened, naturally. So the only way I can think of is a) he actually deleted the items or b) if the Deleted Items folder Auto Archive properties is set to permanently delete old items and he chose yes to an auto archive request. Is there any other way this could have been caused? Oh, yea Exchange 5.5 SP4 on Win2K SP2/SRP1 with Outlook 2000. Thx, Ken P.S. How ironic that the spell check corrects [l]users to louses. - Ken Leyba Windows/Exchange System Administrator California State University Dominguez Hills 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: STORE.EXE CPU Usage
Hi Robert, Try stopping the Backup Agent RPC Server service, this is the service installed by the Arcserve Exchange Agent, see if that makes any difference. Also the latest service packs for Arcserve are worth trying (SP2 last time I looked). James. My humble apologies. The ARCServe Exchange Server Backup Agent is in use (it would help if I got my facts right in the first place!!). McAfee NetShield is currently being run on the server as well as McAfee GroupShield. Whenever I turn the McAfee/Network Associates services off, there is no difference to the CPU usage of STORE.EXE. Regards, Rab. = Robert JacksonPhone: +44 (0) 141 332 7999 Software Engineer Fax: +44 (0) 141 331 2820 Walker Martyn Ltd 1 Park Circus Place Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glasgow G3 6AH, Scotland Web: http://www.walkermartyn.co.uk = -Original Message- From: Andrew Philips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 May 2002 15:46 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: STORE.EXE CPU Usage What happens when you stop the AV software? If you are backing up your Exchange data with the server online - you must be using the agent -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 8:08 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: STORE.EXE CPU Usage And this started all of a sudden? Any Anti-Virus installed? Anything in the event logs? The high CPU usage is holding steady? -Original Message- From: Robert Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 8:31 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: STORE.EXE CPU Usage Exchange SP4 Used also as a domain controller Shared Directories for File Sharing. No changes that I am aware of. Regards, Rab. = Robert JacksonPhone: +44 (0) 141 332 7999 Software Engineer Fax: +44 (0) 141 331 2820 Walker Martyn Ltd 1 Park Circus Place Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glasgow G3 6AH, Scotland Web: http://www.walkermartyn.co.uk = -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 May 2002 12:36 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: STORE.EXE CPU Usage What Exchange SP on you on? What else do have running on that box? Any recent changes made? -Original Message- From: Robert Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 2:04 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: STORE.EXE CPU Usage Hi All, We've got a problem with an Exchange Server running Windows NT4.0 Server. If I have a look at taskmgr, I find that STORE.EXE is running away with 50% of CPU usage. I've had a look at the Microsoft Knowledgebase. Article Q243950 states that this problem can arise if using ARCServe Agent for Exchange Server Backup. We are using ARCServe but I don't think we are using the Exchange Server Agent. I cannot find the registry key that this article talks about. Can anyone please help? TIA, Rab. = Robert JacksonPhone: +44 (0) 141 332 7999 Software Engineer Fax: +44 (0) 141 331 2820 Walker Martyn Ltd 1 Park Circus Place Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glasgow G3 6AH, Scotland Web: http://www.walkermartyn.co.uk = The information in this internet E-mail is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access, copying or re-use of information in it by anyone else is unauthorised. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Walker Martyn Ltd or any of its affiliates. If you are not the intended recipient please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm -- The information contained in this email message is privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copy of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify Veronis
Exchange repair
Dear all, I'm after some general advice about our Exchange database. It's gotten to about 5GB in size, I'm sure many of you administer far bigger ones, I'm starting to get some errors with it and wonder if I am facing an impending crash/corruption and what should I do about it? First started about a month ago when trying to restore the database to a lab environment I just couldn't get it to restore at all, even following procedures I had used successfully in previous attempts. For other reasons I have had to put that on a backburner but now in the last 2 days our backup has gone from taking an hour or so to 12 hours (!!!) and the Arcserve log is showing over 50 errors all relating to the information store not opening. The server is Exchange 5.5 (SP4) on an NT 4.0 (SP6) box, fairly decent Compaq Proliant Raid 5 server. Should I be looking at using the isinteg or eseutil utilities (or both) to repair/defrag the database? If so do any of you have some definitive instructions as to the steps I need to take to do this, there seems to be too many articles on the MS site about them for me to make a decision as to exactly what I should do. Thanks in advance, James. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Exchange repair
Hi William, I know your feelings about CA products, you sent me your pictures before :-) I do feel the same as you about them to AND I'm fortunate enough to still be using InoculateIT as our AV 'Solution' too!! No chance of changing either, company is just too poor, I've made my feelings clear on the subject to those who are important and re-iterate them every now and then, not much more I can do! Anyway, onto the matter at hand, I see nothing much in the Application log on the Exchange server, except for the 'Agent' account (used for Exchange backup) successfully logging onto various mailboxes. You see this information store error is not pertaining to ALL mailboxes, just some of them and even then not just mailboxes but sub-folders people have created, stuff like that so I don't think it's a password/account problem. When I was trying to restore a backup last month I did get quite far into trawling through technet and some other resources because I was getting all kinds of errors when trying to start up the Information Store and when running eseutil after the restore, most pointed me towards having a corrupt IS and needing to run Isinteg to repair it. I couldn't because as far as I know Isinteg creates a copy of the IS and the lab server I've been given didn't have a big enough Hard disc! So I probably didn't explain as well in the first message, I think what I'm after is exactly what procedure I should follow using isinteg on our production server to get our Information Store back to some semblance of normality? James. I was with you up until Arcserve log If the information store is not opening, there may be entries in the application event log of NT that might help us. I would consider reasserting the username/password combinations granted AcrServeIT for Exchange access. By reasserting I mean re-entering the username/password combination. I hope you are at least at ArcServeIT 6.61. Are there any warnings in the application event log around the normally occurring online maintenance period? Any consideration to a more effective backup solution? www.clarksupport.com/whynotca.htm William -Original Message- From: James Gosnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 1:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange repair Dear all, I'm after some general advice about our Exchange database. It's gotten to about 5GB in size, I'm sure many of you administer far bigger ones, I'm starting to get some errors with it and wonder if I am facing an impending crash/corruption and what should I do about it? First started about a month ago when trying to restore the database to a lab environment I just couldn't get it to restore at all, even following procedures I had used successfully in previous attempts. For other reasons I have had to put that on a backburner but now in the last 2 days our backup has gone from taking an hour or so to 12 hours (!!!) and the Arcserve log is showing over 50 errors all relating to the information store not opening. The server is Exchange 5.5 (SP4) on an NT 4.0 (SP6) box, fairly decent Compaq Proliant Raid 5 server. Should I be looking at using the isinteg or eseutil utilities (or both) to repair/defrag the database? If so do any of you have some definitive instructions as to the steps I need to take to do this, there seems to be too many articles on the MS site about them for me to make a decision as to exactly what I should do. Thanks in advance, James. 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-routing mail for certain domains?
Just a silly one here really Currently using a quiet period in work to have a mess about with Exchange 2000 Our internet server fires all incoming SMTP mail to our Exchange 55 server We have a couple of redundant domain names which I wanted to use for testing purposes so how can I route SMTP mail for just those domains from our Ex 55 box to my test Ex 2000 box? I thought this would be done through the re-route options on the IMS but I can't seem to get it to work If for example I select mail coming into abccom to be rerouted to testcom all the Ex 55 box seems to do is strip abccom from the e-mail address and replace with testcom and then obviously not find the recipient The mails are never reaching my Ex 2000 box I think this is obviously down to my lack of understanding of how SMTP and DNS work but any little pointers would be greatly appreciated Thanks, James List Charter and FAQ at: http://wwwsunbelt-softwarecom/exchange_list_charterhtm
Re: second smtp domain name
Assuming all the SMTP forwarding is set up with the ISP then you simply need to add the new domain name to the list of accepted inbound domain names on the routing tab of your Internet Mail Service. Then when you require a user to have an e-mail address with this domain name open their mailbox properties in Exchange Administrator, go to e-mail addresses tab and add a new Internet Mail Address. hi all, we have a registered domain name for example abc.com,so mail addresses have been created like [EMAIL PROTECTED] format... we need to use second domain name like services.abc.com,how will i implement this system so that some users will have a second e-mail address like [EMAIL PROTECTED]?.. MAIL SYSTEM:Exchange Server 5.5 with SP 4 OS:MS Windows NT with SP6a List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Removing Exchange
Hi Steve, Sorry, already tried that, still didn't work. When the server re-booted I re-ran the install and it just ran a new one and failed at the end of it! Seems ridiculous having to re-install NT just to get Exchange off the server. James. I'd manually delete all the exchange directories and then disable all the exchange services, reboot, and try again... :) not exactly what you asked for but this worked in my test lab once. Let us know how you get on. -Original Message- From: James Gosnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 February 2002 10:49 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Removing Exchange Dear all, Just a quick one I'm sure somebody will be able to point me in the right direction for. I am currently 'messing' around with a development server (NT 4.0) which I am trying to restore our Exchange Server to. I join it to our network as a BDC and then take it off-line, restore the backup thus demonstating my ability to deal with a disaster and then also practice upgrading to 2000 e.t.c I am experiencing problems restoring the database but this is another issue involving the wonderful Arcserve. My problem is that every time I botch up a restore it basically corrupts the Exchange installation and I don't really seem to able to remove it properly. Therefore a new resote won't work, I can't re-run setup so I keep re-installing the server! Basically the state I have at the moment is only 4 Exchange services installed, if I run setup (to hopefully get the uninstall option) it doesn't detect the current installation and attempts a new one which then fails! I think what I am asking is does anyone know where to find the article for manually doing a total removal of Exchange 5.5? Thanks, James. 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: Outlook/Exchange problem
Hi Martin, I recall reading a few threads on this list discussing some issues/problems with SP4. As ours isn't the biggest or most complex network Exchange shouldn't really be dealing with the compatability issues that a server in a large enterprise might so I figured I would hold off for a while, especially as we had no problems with what is a very important tool for the company. Perhaps this is a lesson to me to apply latest service packs asap. By the way, it was me that uses the Hellspawn that is CA's av product. What is AVAPI that you mentioned? James. I cant think of a single reason why you would have waited this long for SP4. -Original Message- From: James Gosnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 9:49 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook/Exchange problem Hi Dave, Thanks for the suggestion, sounded like the sort of thing I was looking for but unfortunately I just tried it and it never worked. One of the pc's in question never even had the file and on the other it was oly 2k in size, deleted it but it never helped. I also un-installed the AV software just in case but this didn't work either. It's a shame because I would love to get to the bottom of it, re-installing a pc just because an app is running poorly seems excessive but spending an hour with a Windows 98 CD or spending 10 hours messing around with every setting under the sun with a frustrated user is a no brainer! I think I will give SP4 a go on the Exchange box, have been holding back on it until now. Cheers, James. You may want to look at the outcmd.dat file on the machines having a problem. I have found that when this file grows to large that the performance becomes extremely slow. Typically I begin noticing this when the file gets to be 6-700KB in size. With Outlook closed the file can be deleted and will be recreated the next time Outlook opens. If there are multiple OL profiles you will have a DAT file for each. -Original Message- From: James Gosnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 10:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook/Exchange problem No. The main reason being is that I have a real belief that the issue is on the client side. When the user has experienced these problems I have also opened up their mailbox from a Terminal Server session at the same time and there is no problem at all. Have you looked at your Exchange server with performance monitor? -Original Message- From: James Gosnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 3:27 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook/Exchange problem Think what I might do first on one of the clients is un-install the AV software first and see if that makes any difference (although I cannot imagine that a CA product would cause a system to crash :-), then go for the Exchange SP4. Thanks for the suggestions guys. James. It could be. My advise would be to get your Exch box up to SP4 first. See if that helps, then check out the AV as well. -Original Message- From: James Gosnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 4:11 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook/Exchange problem Yes, you'll like this! Both the Exchange server and the clients run the one, the only, premier anti-virus product in the universe, ladies and gentleman.. Computer Associates EjaculateIT!! Sorry I meant InoculateIT. You think this could cause an issue? Any antivirus? -Original Message- From: James Gosnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 06:01 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Outlook/Exchange problem Dear all, Bit of a strange one which has caused me a problem of late. We use Exchange Server 5.5 (sp3) as our mail server and all clients who connect use Outlook 2000 on Windows 98. In the last fortnight approximately 8 clients have begun to experience serious performance problems with their Outlook software. Their mailbox fires up with no problems but then, intermittently, Outlook will lock up, sometimes for up to 10 minutes, when they open up a message, try to attach something to a message, in fact just about anything can freeze it up. Go away make a cup of tea and when you come back it's fine, until the next time. Now on a couple of these clients deleting the user profile on the pc and re-creating has solved the issue leading me to think there is some kind of corruption with the Outlook/Exchange local settings. However I also now have 3 pc's which it looks like I am going to have to re
Outlook/Exchange problem
Dear all, Bit of a strange one which has caused me a problem of late. We use Exchange Server 5.5 (sp3) as our mail server and all clients who connect use Outlook 2000 on Windows 98. In the last fortnight approximately 8 clients have begun to experience serious performance problems with their Outlook software. Their mailbox fires up with no problems but then, intermittently, Outlook will lock up, sometimes for up to 10 minutes, when they open up a message, try to attach something to a message, in fact just about anything can freeze it up. Go away make a cup of tea and when you come back it's fine, until the next time. Now on a couple of these clients deleting the user profile on the pc and re-creating has solved the issue leading me to think there is some kind of corruption with the Outlook/Exchange local settings. However I also now have 3 pc's which it looks like I am going to have to re-install because I have tried absolutely everything in my knowledge (which in fairness is not much!) with no success. Nothing has changed on the network in recent weeks, there are no name resolution issues, nothing recorded in the Exchange server event log, and all other clients are ticking over quite nicely. Any ideas where I can even begin to start troubleshooting such a problem? Thanks in advance for any ideas, James. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Outlook/Exchange problem
Yes, you'll like this! Both the Exchange server and the clients run the one, the only, premier anti-virus product in the universe, ladies and gentleman.. Computer Associates EjaculateIT!! Sorry I meant InoculateIT. You think this could cause an issue? Any antivirus? -Original Message- From: James Gosnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 06:01 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Outlook/Exchange problem Dear all, Bit of a strange one which has caused me a problem of late. We use Exchange Server 5.5 (sp3) as our mail server and all clients who connect use Outlook 2000 on Windows 98. In the last fortnight approximately 8 clients have begun to experience serious performance problems with their Outlook software. Their mailbox fires up with no problems but then, intermittently, Outlook will lock up, sometimes for up to 10 minutes, when they open up a message, try to attach something to a message, in fact just about anything can freeze it up. Go away make a cup of tea and when you come back it's fine, until the next time. Now on a couple of these clients deleting the user profile on the pc and re-creating has solved the issue leading me to think there is some kind of corruption with the Outlook/Exchange local settings. However I also now have 3 pc's which it looks like I am going to have to re-install because I have tried absolutely everything in my knowledge (which in fairness is not much!) with no success. Nothing has changed on the network in recent weeks, there are no name resolution issues, nothing recorded in the Exchange server event log, and all other clients are ticking over quite nicely. Any ideas where I can even begin to start troubleshooting such a problem? Thanks in advance for any ideas, James. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Re: Can you run OWA 5.5 on W2k Server
Hi Dan, I run OWA on a Windwos 2000 member server in an NT 4.0 domain. No special requirements as far as I know, just latest service packs e.t.c. James. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Re: Spam question
Dear all, Please ignore this message, just realised the spammer got the addresses from our website. Doh! Cheers, James. Dear all, more of a curiosity question than an outright problem, we received a big spam mail last night, most of you have probably seen it, it's the one where the president of some Nigerian bank wants to do a deal with you resulting in your imminent wealth. The message has been doing the rounds for at least 3 years. The thing that puzzled me this time is that as the Internet Mail service administrator, I received the mail for almost half of our users mailboxes, it had the [EMAIL PROTECTED] part totally correct, the only thing was it had the e-mail addresses pre-fixed with 6 random (or they appeared to be random) digits. My question is how did the spammer get all these e-mail addresses? Surely they would only be resident on our Exchange server? It is an Exchange 5.5 server on our internal network. Regards, James. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Spam question
Dear all, more of a curiosity question than an outright problem, we received a big spam mail last night, most of you have probably seen it, it's the one where the president of some Nigerian bank wants to do a deal with you resulting in your imminent wealth. The message has been doing the rounds for at least 3 years. The thing that puzzled me this time is that as the Internet Mail service administrator, I received the mail for almost half of our users mailboxes, it had the [EMAIL PROTECTED] part totally correct, the only thing was it had the e-mail addresses pre-fixed with 6 random (or they appeared to be random) digits. My question is how did the spammer get all these e-mail addresses? Surely they would only be resident on our Exchange server? It is an Exchange 5.5 server on our internal network. Regards, James. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Exchange 5.5/Arcserve backup
I am a fully signed up member of the CA bashing bandwagon and for the same reason as William, I have to use their products every day. The ArcserveIT Exchange agent at our HQ has never ever given me a clean backup in a year, there is always an error message or some small glitch. I do restore fairly regularly so it does work (although it's very tricky to restore as well) but it's so inconsistent. There is a Service Pack 2 for ArcserveIT 6.61 which I assume you are using? You can get it from the CA site or I can mail it to you (11MB zip file), you have to run it on both the backup server and the server with the agent on it. James. Warning: Unhelpful, but very therapeutic, rant: I don't have much in the way of useful assistance here, other than, don't use ArcServeIT. The exchange agent is crap. It's worse than a buttload of POP connectors. Is this opinion from the bandwagon of Computer Associates bashers? No, it's from using the poorly written product for a few years. I no longer support nor intend to jeopardize important information such as email with any CA product as a result of working with the Exchange Agents. They do make some good software, but not in this department. Again, though ignored multiple times before, I invite Computer Associates to join this forum of peers and defend their applications to the people that actually use them. Because, last I checked there is no Computer Associates MVP programme, and frankly you don't have enough money to afford me to look up the answer. Otherwise, it would seem you need sufficient rights to install this software, and you don't have such. Some thoughts... Exchange server 5.5 SP2 Why only sp2? I hope you at least have the post-sp2 IMS fixes applied or you do not have this connected to the internet. I suspect the Exchange Administrator account is corrupted. Not the likely target. I logged into the Service Account and made sure I was Administrator there too. I'm not sure I understand that. When I tried to install A/V software I couldn't log in as Exchange Administrator either. That must have been the other frustrating piece of crap software known as EjaculateIT. Personally, I'd go with grisoft's product (www.grisoft.com), as Warren has done, if I could. The above thoughts are solely my own. William Lefkovics, MCSE, A+, ExchangeMVP -Original Message- From: Warren Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 6:12 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 5.5/Arcserve backup Can anybody offer any words of wisdom on this? -Original Message- From: Warren Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: October 29, 2001 7:46 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: ARCSERVE for IBM 1/2 DAT 35/70MB drive...Administrator rights on Exchange 5.5. I can't seem to get ARCServe to back up my (WINNT 4.0 SP6) Exchange server 5.5 SP2 data files. I get an error message that tells me that the files were not copied onto tape and that I should check to make sure I have Administrator rights on the files. I tried to log into Exchange Server under the same administrator password and there's no problem. I logged into the Service Account and made sure I was Administrator there too. But, When I tried to install A/V software I couldn't log in as Exchange Administrator either. Where do I look to resolve my password problems? I suspect the Exchange Administrator account is corrupted. Also, one of my users lost his word functionality and even though I've scanned his machine with two different antivirus programs, I can't find any viruses or worms, which brings me back to Exchange Server. Unfortunately, I can't install an A/V program for MS-exchange until I resolve the Exchange Administrator account which won't let me install the A/V software. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Warren Walker List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Re: 552 Header Line is ridiculously overlong
Sorry just a bit more info about the NDR, it comes back listing each recipient like so: The following recipient(s) could not be reached: Bob Smith (E-mail) on 31/10/01 10:49 Unable to deliver the message due to a communications failure The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=GB;a= ;p=ORG;l=MAIL_SERVER-011031104908Z-8524 MSEXCH:IMS:ORG:SITE:MAIL_SERVER 3552 (000B099C) 552 Header line is ridiculously overlong Thanks, James. Dear all, One of our users is receiving this NDR (as am I as the IMS Admin) when he tries to send an e-mail to Mailshot distribution list he created. First he added each individual name in the 'To' field and it failed. Then we created a distribution list (actually 2 of them to split them up) and it failed again. There are around 160 e-mail addresses in total. Technet is no help, a search on google found a couple of articles but they were a bit vague, due to one article we also tried putting the list into the CC field but alas this was also in vain. There are no restrictions on the users mailbox either. The server is 5.5 sp3 by the way. Any ideas my fellow Exchange administrators? Thanks. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: 552 Header Line is ridiculously overlong
Thanks Simon, that did the trick. Strange that I could no reference to this on the MS Site? Cheers, James. Hi James This happens when the header is more that 8192 bytes long and is by design. I suggest that the user use bcc to send the mails off. Cheers -Original Message- From: James Gosnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 October 2001 12:04 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: 552 Header Line is ridiculously overlong Sorry just a bit more info about the NDR, it comes back listing each recipient like so: The following recipient(s) could not be reached: Bob Smith (E-mail) on 31/10/01 10:49 Unable to deliver the message due to a communications failure The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=GB;a= ;p=ORG;l=MAIL_SERVER-011031104908Z-8524 MSEXCH:IMS:ORG:SITE:MAIL_SERVER 3552 (000B099C) 552 Header line is ridiculously overlong Thanks, James. Dear all, One of our users is receiving this NDR (as am I as the IMS Admin) when he tries to send an e-mail to Mailshot distribution list he created. First he added each individual name in the 'To' field and it failed. Then we created a distribution list (actually 2 of them to split them up) and it failed again. There are around 160 e-mail addresses in total. Technet is no help, a search on google found a couple of articles but they were a bit vague, due to one article we also tried putting the list into the CC field but alas this was also in vain. There are no restrictions on the users mailbox either. The server is 5.5 sp3 by the way. Any ideas my fellow Exchange administrators? Thanks. 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: How can you reject messages in Exchange 5.5?
I actually have a similar issue. Do any of you know if there is a parameter that I can enter into an SMTP address (something like *.domain.com) for a mailbox on our server that will catch all mail addressed to a particular domain? We have a domain registered that we bought from another company for which I receive literally hundreds of notifications for per week. We don't actually use the domain name but it would be handy to point all mail addressed to that domain to a mailbox which I could review once a week and clear out. Any ideas? Thanks, James. This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --_=_NextPart_001_01C15737.08AAE5C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Always a good thing to think, especially if it reduces your workload/aggravation quotient. -Original Message- From: Toni, Randy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 10:27 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How can you reject messages in Exchange 5.5? That's a good idea (I'll create it but then just won't tell anyone else - theoretically still busy) Now that's 2 people on this list that have made me think today. Is this a good thing? :-) -Original Message- From: Don Ely [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: October 17, 2001 11:59 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject:RE: How can you reject messages in Exchange 5.5? Because if I create a Black Hole I/we don't have to do anything... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 8:31 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How can you reject messages in Exchange 5.5? why don't you create a public folder, make it visible, add those smtp addresses into it and set it to clear itself out every day. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 October 2001 15:56 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How can you reject messages in Exchange 5.5? if you think it's subscriptions, then you can try to unsub them. I've had some success doing so. Sometimes you have to view the source document, and cut/paste the url. -Original Message- From: Toni, Randy [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 7:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How can you reject messages in Exchange 5.5? me too. In a previous post I asked if a message could be rejected if it had a bogus username (no NDR, no nothing - just kill it in the initial SMTP conversation). The kind folks here informed me recently that Exchange will only check the domain and not really check the entire address against the GAL (although I think the docs on securing an Exchange relay are a bit ambiguous in that regard), so the fake username gets in. I'm trying to find the time to evaluate some content inspection products - hopefully one of them will be able to look at the Exchange userlist and drop incoming based on that criteria. It is nice for legit users to get an NDR - God knows how many honest typo's are made every day. But it would be cool if you could tell your IMS to track NDR's and if enough are going back to the same sending domain or server, maybe start to drop any incoming from them (or someting like that...). That way legit NDR's would go out to the legit senders, but the flood of NDR's to these junker systems could be killed. In other words, AFAIK a lot more control over handling non-deliverables at the server would be great. randy -Original Message- From: Steve Jacobson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: October 17, 2001 9:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How can you reject messages in Exchange 5.5? I am receiving messages, directed to my Exchange server that are in my domain name (dji.com), but have no corresponding mailbox on the system. Yes, I have secured Exchange against open relay. My suspicion is that someone (single or multiple people) are registering with opt-in (or out) commercial sites that send out
