RE: [IMail Forum] Is this a bug or a "feature"?

2002-04-06 Thread Norman J. Nolasco
> I would suggest not letting your users use usernames with hyphens at ALL. Didn't think of that. That would definitely be better. I kept trying to filter out the words "Draft" and "Sent". Duh. >... but just because you can play in the street, doesn't mean you should. My MIDDLE name is Dange

Re: [IMail Forum] plug in or patterns ...

2002-04-06 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> is it possible to have the opportunity to replace some special text, > in the body of a mail sent in a mailing list, by some special > "variables" such as the rcpt email, or to process messages before > they are sent with a plug in or a specific dll ? Yes, Program Aliases can be

Re: [IMail Forum] Is this a bug or a "feature"?

2002-04-06 Thread NetQuick Mail Administrator
Same here, but if I may point out a bit of a problem externally. I have a friend who uses [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it was an annual military exercise we both used to participate in, shame on you for thinking other wise) to which he receives a lot of email that is actually intended for [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [IMail Forum] Is this a bug or a "feature"?

2002-04-06 Thread Bob Ferguson
Finally, I win an award (smile)! Yeah, I guess I'm going to have to work with our customers to get rid of the periods and set similar rules as yours. One question, any problems with "_"? I have quite a few that use that and haven't seen any problems (boy, am I asking for it with that statement

Re: [IMail Forum] Is this a bug or a "feature"?

2002-04-06 Thread Michael Thomas
Norman, I was just posted a remark about "mailing a draft to save it in the draft folder". The issue I ran into is similar as follows: Set a forward on an account. Edit a draft message and click save... The draft message is not saved in the draft folder as "expected". Instead it is sent to the f

RE: [IMail Forum] Is this a bug or a "feature"?

2002-04-06 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
Award Granted. :-) I don't allow punctuation at all in usernames, but I know a lot of servers do, so I figured I'd throw that in there as possibly a good alternative to the hyphen for you. My local rules are: 3-30 characters, all lower case, can contain numbers but must start with a letter, no

Re: [IMail Forum] Alaises

2002-04-06 Thread Rick Leske
tnx _M, rick Madscientist wrote: > We use this. Imail creates a temporary file that contains the entire > message and then passes that as a parameter to the program. > _M > > | -Original Message- > | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Rick Leske > | Se

RE: [IMail Forum] Is this a bug or a "feature"?

2002-04-06 Thread Bob Ferguson
This brings up another question -- I've had intermittent problems with email names that have periods in them when the user accesses iMail via the Web interface. And, sometimes, even with Outlook 2K. The weird part is that it doesn't ALWAYS happen. But, sometimes the account is suddenly not avai

RE: [IMail Forum] Is this a bug or a "feature"?

2002-04-06 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
Hi Norman, I would suggest not letting your users use usernames with hyphens at ALL. According to the Imail Help file, it IS allowed... "The user ID must be unique for this mail host. It must be between 3 and 30 characters and cannot contain spaces. You can use hyphen, but you should be aware tha

[IMail Forum] Typo in Help File

2002-04-06 Thread Norman J. Nolasco
FYI, There seems to be a small typo in the Help File. Filename: cs_TableC.html Lines: 342-343 Original text: Displaying Messages Headers Should read: Displaying Messages Headers <0.02> BTW, just another suggestion. If you could paramatrize (is that a word?) "IMAIL Web Messaging" in

[IMail Forum] Is this a bug or a "feature"?

2002-04-06 Thread Norman J. Nolasco
This may have been covered already, I've found a couple of references to this in the KB. However, I haven't found any mention of this being a security problem. So, in the interest of protecting others with the same setup out there, here goes... I just realized that when I save a draft message th

RE: [IMail Forum] OT: DNS MX & CNAME

2002-04-06 Thread Tony Gray - Network Administrator
Assuming your mail server is at 10.0.0.1 in domain1.com's zone file: mailIN A 10.0.0.1 in domain2.com's zone file: mailIN A 10.0.0.1 If a browser types in "http://mail.domain1.com";, he will go to the web server located at 10.0.0.1, sending the host header in

Re: [IMail Forum] Registry Value: LastLogin -- what is storedin this value?

2002-04-06 Thread Michael Thomas
Hmmm, 287 minutes is close to 300 minutes. Are you in the Eastern Time Zone? Are you seeing the difference between EST and GMT? Mike - Original Message - From: "Christopher Ulrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:01 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Foru

RE: [IMail Forum] OT: DNS MX & CNAME

2002-04-06 Thread David Setzer
>ah, finally, a little practical sense in this thread. DROP CNAME's, use A >records everywhere. > >Len I can't do that because we have to display slightly different content to different users and the only way we can distinguish the user is by what address they typed in. If we use A records i

Re: [IMail Forum] Registry Value: LastLogin -- what is storedin this value?

2002-04-06 Thread Christopher Ulrich
That's what I thought, but I've been experimenting in Cold Fusion and I'm not getting the right date The number seems to be off by approximately 287 minutes. To get the right result (within a few seconds), I used: /// Add this number of seconds to Midnight, 1/1/70 /// This subtracts 287

RE: [IMail Forum] Is your email watching you?

2002-04-06 Thread Madscientist
What I can say is this... I have tried and seen it tried... And it typically fails. The user wants to drag their graph, word content, etc... Into their email, cut and paste seemlessly, have their status reports show up in nice pretty navigable graphs in an email... They do not want to open this a

[IMail Forum] 2K terminal service

2002-04-06 Thread Desale Beyne
Guys I need your help on win 2K server terminal service I have about 6 people who need an accesses to Microsoft word and a folder to save their work. The question is how can just to Microsoft word and the assigned folder (prevent them from seen the entire C drive and the network)? Please visit h

Re: [IMail Forum] How to run backup mail server with dup useraccounts in failover ..

2002-04-06 Thread R. Scott Perry
>Ok .. so here is what I need to do .. I need to run two mail servers >with a MX of 10 and 20 for failover .. That is easy. In DNS, have the MX records with preferences of 10 and 20. The preference of 10 acts as the primary mailserver, the preference of 20 acts as a backup. You're done. >h

[IMail Forum] plug in or patterns ...

2002-04-06 Thread Yannick Simon
Hi, is it possible to have the opportunity to replace some special text, in the body of a mail sent in a mailing list, by some special "variables" such as the rcpt email, or to process messages before they are sent with a plug in or a specific dll ? thank you Yannick Simon RueDuCommerce CTO

RE: [IMail Forum] Is your email watching you?

2002-04-06 Thread Tyran Ormond
On 09:08 4/6/2002 -0500, it would appear that Madscientist wrote: >I can tell that what you stripped was a really good flame and I >appreciate your effort. Sorry to spark that, but here's the counterpoint >to your argument: "no legitimate user really needs HTML email"... > >We have many corporate

RE: [IMail Forum] Alaises

2002-04-06 Thread Madscientist
We use this. Imail creates a temporary file that contains the entire message and then passes that as a parameter to the program. _M | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Rick Leske | Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 12:10 AM | To: [EMAIL P

RE: [IMail Forum] Is your e-mail watching you?

2002-04-06 Thread Madscientist
I can tell that what you stripped was a really good flame and I appreciate your effort. Sorry to spark that, but here's the counterpoint to your argument: "no legitimate user really needs HTML email"... We have many corporate users who now regularly rely on HTML formatted reports, analysis, and p

RE: [IMail Forum] off topic question

2002-04-06 Thread Madscientist
We use declude pro (spam & virus), McAffee as the virus scanner, and a little help from Message Sniffer (www.sortmonster.com). Great results all around! _M | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of J.R. Dobyns | Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002