Thanks Sandy. Believe me, I don't mind the wait. You definition of wait
is not bad! This isn't an emergency anyway, just something I'm hoping to
utilize to fine-tune things and make HAM results useful.
Keep up the good work!
Geoff
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Geoff Varney
Network Support
FYI from the Full Disclosure mailing list- re: WMF
Preliminary testing reveals that emails containing WMF files can be
blocked by filtering for the MIME-encoded WMF header. This approach
works even if the file is called WORD.DOC. The string to check for
is:
183GmgAA
These 8 bytes appear
That would be this posting:
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-January/041032.h
tml
I'm willing to bet that this information is not to be trusted, Dave.
I'm confident enough and lazy enough that I'm not going to test it.
Preliminary testing reveals that emails containing
The exact source of the problem was a limit in threads in MS SMTP,
which is something like 20 per processor (not sure if hyperthreading
counts in this case). . .
This isn't an accurate claim. It sounds like you just haven't tried to
tune MS SMTP appropriately for load/resources/growth.
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Sandy, you have such a delicate way with words...
I am only passing on what I was told by Peter from VamSoft. There is a
whole thread on this where Peter confirmed the affect on FTP (but not
IIS) in VamSoft's o.e.support newsgroup, which I see you found after
sending this message.
I
This may be of some use...These are two of the things
checked by theMicrosoft Exchange Best Practices Tool (sorry, there is no KB
listed):
1) How to restrict the size of the bounce messages
you generate (just like the big boys do with their postfix and sendmail MTAs,
but it's possible that
I am only passing on what I was told by Peter from VamSoft. There is
a whole thread on this where Peter confirmed the affect on FTP (but
not IIS) in VamSoft's o.e.support newsgroup, which I see you found
after sending this message.
Peter is very smart developer, but not a systems guy.