Thanks Rob. The alternate recipient angle was what I was missing. Thanks to
everyone for the gmail advice and the invites. I was also trying to help out
my users that have aliases in two domains on our exchange server and sometimes
need to send as though from the parent company and other
Okay, backscatter is an annoyance at the very least. So I want to do
something about it. My messaging queue is 90% NDRs to domains and
subdomains with no MX records.
Of course the easy solution is to just uncheck allow Non-Delivery
reports in Internet Messaging formats within ESM. But my
by
the content of the message. A large percentage of connection attempts
are rejected before they start, because they come from known bad
addresses.
Bill Mayo
From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:25 PM
them.
The other response about tarpitting, you want to do that too.
Tarpitting doesn't do anything for you unless you've enabled the
recipient filtering for non-existent addresess.
Carl
From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:25
: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 2:00 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NDRs backscatter and such
Thanks for all the insight.
I am filtering recipients who are not in the directory, but the SMTP
queue is full of retrying
Does anybody have any strong opinions about how long to set your tarpit?
I've seen numbers as low as 5 seconds and as high as 30. What are the
drawbacks to using a longer tarpit?
Thanks for any feedback,
Bill
-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NDRs backscatter and such
Haven't used it, but I'd call it a major flaw if it causes non-existent
recipient filtering to be bypassed without providing a similar
replacement feature within its own realm.
Carl
From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra
Looks like some advice was designed for a larger enterprise.
See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283283
You may need to create a new temporary server. Do a swing migration, delete
the corrupt store and swing back.
Bill
From: Doug Rooney [mailto:d...@sonomatilemakers.com]
If you are a single server exchange operation, you can create an Outlook
rule that checks the header for @alanet.org and delete it or move it to
a spam folder. Real internal email won't have anything in the headers.
Of course that will also affect any legitimately spoofed email. (travel
As a meeting driven organization with a soho budget, we curse a lot.
But here are some resources that you can evaluate.
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/calendar.asp
Bill
From: David [mailto:blazer...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 3:53 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Does anybody know of a website/service that I can use to start an SMTP
session remotely? My ISP is claiming certain responses from my mail
server and I would like to verify it. I tried telneting in from home
but my home ISP blocks traffic on port 25. I can't test from inside my
firewall because
-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: remotely testing smtp
Ive used this.
http://www.zoneedit.com/smtp.html
From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:56 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: remotely testing smtp
Does anybody know
Subject: RE: remotely testing smtp
Can you log on to your mail server and telnet to localhost?
From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: remotely testing
using for a proxy? Can it be set to log the entire SMTP
conversation?
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 15:13, Bill Songstad (WCUL)
administra...@waleague.org wrote:
Close, but it won���t let me put in invalid dat�� The error m trying to
track down is:
Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified
Admin Issues
Subject: RE: remotely testing smtp
Can you get netmon, wireshark, or some other packet sniffer on your mail
server?
From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:28 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: remotely testing smtp
[reply to multiple messages from the same sender]
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Bill Songstad (WCUL)
administra...@waleague.org wrote:
Does anybody know of a website/service that I can use to start an SMTP
session remotely?
The problem is that most mass
The delete key is your friend for errors or useless addresses in your
NK2 file. When a bad or obsolete address shows up in the autofill, just
use the arrow key to highlight the bad one and hit the delete key. Gone
until the next time you type the whole thing in.
Bill
From: Steve
I know this isn't exactly an Outlook list, but I thought maybe the group
might have some collective knowledge. I had a user pile up 970 emails
in her outbox while doing an email merge with Word 2007 and Outlook
2007. She had send and receive automatically turned off due to a
problem with Word
I've taken a different tack when notifying my users. I set exchange to
notify them every 15 minutes twice a day. I give them a break in the
morning, and at the end of the day, but from 9:30-11:30 and 1:30 to 3:30
they get hammered. Very few people ignore the warnings for long. And
those that
I have to do something like this in my organization and I handle it like
this:
I created a Contact in AD, and assigned it the remote user's home email
address. Then on the users actual Domain Account, I set the Exchange
General Delivery Options Forwarding Address to forward to the AD
If I understand your issue correctly, on one windows profile you are not
prompted for credentials and on another you are when accessing the same
OWA mailbox. From my experience, the logon prompt is suppressed when
windows authentication is allowed on the OWA server and the OWA website
is in the
Not to try and hijack here, but are there security issues with Cached
Mode? Is the OST file encrypted? If the remote workers lose their
laptops, are all their emails available to the new owner?
Bill
-Original Message-
From: Don Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday,
Quick and easy. Use Word to compose a mail merge and merge to email.
Since my version of Word can't use outlook contacts for a mail merge, I
export my contacts to a spreadsheet, and point the mail merge wizard to
that file as my data source. Once you've completed the merge, it will
have outlook
room for but one
flag, the American flag.. We have room for but one language here, and
that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole
loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
Teddy Roosevelt; 1907
-Original Message-
From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL
the SMTP
virtual server or the SMTP connector?
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
MCSE/Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com http://theessentialexchange.com/
-Original Message-
From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 11:41 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin
on the spot. I much prefer taking my time to get the
steps right. Picking up somebody else's botched upgrade is a pain.
From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 4/11/2008 9:23 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: routing problem
Mike
I'm having a bit of a puzzler. I think it has to with DNS but I can't
seem to pin it down.
I added a second exchange 2000 server to a domain and moved one user
(user2) to the second server (server2).
User2 can send external mail fine. And can send mail to himself fine.
But, when user2
...
From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 4/10/2008 2:38 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: routing problem
I'm having a bit of a puzzler. I think it has to with DNS but I can't seem to
pin it down.
I added a second exchange 2000
the queue. All the normal queue locations were empty. Oh well, at
least the queue is empty...
Oh, turning on subject logging allowed me to see the subjects.
Bill Songstad
-Original Message-
From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:22 PM
I have a client with an exchange 2000 server with a couple thousand
emails stuck in the queue: Messages with an unreachable destination
There is only one recipient for all the emails in the queue, and that
recipient is an external address used for archiving something or other
in the company. The
We regularly email to around 3000 members of our organization. Normally
we use MS Word to create a mail merge from an Excel spreadsheet of
addresses. They all go out over our 512K pipe in about an hour or two.
We consider 40k the size limit that bogs down our internet connection.
But we target
I find myself needing to restore my entire datastore. The question is,
is it better to:
1) Restore the database directly to the First Storage Group or
2) Restore to a recovery storage group and use exmerge to bring the data
up to date or
3) Restore to a recovery storage group, dismount
Thanks for your feedback Michael and Tom. I really appreciate it.
Bill Songstad
~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
I use self signed certs for activesync on our phones, and the way I get
them installed on the phones is by exporting the cert from the server
and transferring them to the phones via usb cable. Double clicking the
cert on the phone installs it. Then activesync works. Not an option of
course, if
Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 7:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: shrinking font
I know this isn't a Mac forum, but it is the highest concentration of
messaging brains I can find. Hopefully someone can help me with this
annoyance.
I have
I know this isn't a Mac forum, but it is the highest concentration of
messaging brains I can find. Hopefully someone can help me with this
annoyance.
I have a user running Entourage 2004 (11.2.3) and whenever she sends
HTML email to one user (outlook 2002 sp3) on the same Exchange Server
It is my experience that is often more productive for the users to
choose their tools and let me learn how to support them than it is to
try to expect lusers to learn the solutions that I want to support. Of
course that falls apart when we are talking about significantly
complicated solutions.
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