You definitely should maintain the humidity around 45%. What kind of
'server room' is this? Your CRAC units really should have humidity
controls built into them.
-Jay
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John T (Lists)
Sent: Monday, January
Just to clarify regarding your average disk queue length, ideally the
actual value of this performance metric will be less than or equal to 1
* X, where X is the number of spindles associated with that partition.
Daniel's reference to '20' I believe was in regards to the how this
metric is graphed
FWIW, SmarterMail does provide an archiving feature.
http://www.smartertools.com/Products/SmarterMail/Features.aspx. However, you
should be able to accomplish this by using iMail's copyall with some rules:
http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-2602-DM01.htm
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Jay Sudowski //
Hi Dan -
A much more cost effective option than packeteer might be a Cisco
3550/3560 along with PRTG Enterprise Edition, which can accept netflow
stats. You can use the Cisco for your routing, rate limiting, QoS, ACLs
and use PRTG for reporting.
I still think it would be helpful if you could des
Ultimately, what is the real issue you are trying to solve by
implementing some sort of QoS or rate limiting? How are you currently
IP addressing your tenants in your building? What type of reports are
you looking for? Most management GUIs for switches suck ...
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From:
Hi Greg -
We all face budget constraints. It is important to be a cheerleader for
your cause within your place of employment. Windows NT 4 is a dead dog.
January 1, 2007 all support for this platform will cease.
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/ProductInfo/Availability/Retiring.asp
You shou
4. A firewall is a firewall. You can setup rules for either interface.
Since this server is a hosting a web site as well, I assume he requires
FTP access to modify his web content. Regardless, most firewalls are
only layer 4 aware and thus allow you to only close or open ports for
access; they do
Remove the 'administrator' account from your 'administrators', set the
password to something ridiculously difficult, and then disable the
account.
While you're at it, block ports 135,137-139,445.
Disable your NULL NetBIOS sessions too.
Is it even possible to run a secure NT4 server exposed to th
4. The server is behind a firewall.
5. Apparently it is throwing up some red flags, because he bothered to
post a question asking for help here.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John T (Lists)
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 4:02 PM
To: Imail_
I don't see how round robin DNS will be effective here. If one of the
gateway servers is down, DNS will still respond with the A records for
that server.
-Jay
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of P. Guethlein
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006
inst versions.
John T
eServices For You
"Seek, and ye shall find!"
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Imail_Forum-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Sudowski - Handy Networks
> LLC
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:07 AM
> To: Imai
In typical IPSwitch fashion, no information is provided about the extent
of this issue on previous versions of iMail (8.x, 7.x, etc). Are these
versions vulnerable?
-Jay
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matti Haack
Sent: Tuesday, March 14,
He's getting 'attacked' on port 25. You block port 25, and you block
all SMTP. At that point, you might as well as just turn the box off
because it's no longer functional as a mail server.
-Jay
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Bo
With regards to item 1 - This is very easy to solve. Just add a :8383 host
header using the IIS MMC.
Thanks!
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Jay Sudowski // Handy Networks LLC
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth Nutt
Sent: Sunday, December 04
this feature? I tried checking the KB, online help,
archives - couldn't find anything helpful.
Thanks!
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Jay Sudowski // Handy Networks LLC
Director of Technical Operations
Providing Shared, Reseller, Semi Managed and Fully Managed Windows 2003
Hosting Solutions
Tel: 877-70 HANDY x882 | Fa
Hi All -
Recently, I upgraded a few servers that were still running iMail 8.05 to
iMail 8.15HF2 due to the recent vulnerabilities found. All is well,
except on one server the Queue Manager server is pretty much
non-functional. The service itself runs, but it doesn't actually do
anything - messag
FWIW, I've had bad experiences with O&O defrag about 2 yrs ago on an
existing server that was badly fragmented. It couldn't even analyze the
drive - DK worked fine. Things may be different now, but that was my
experience then.
-Jay
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMA
With regards to SmarterMail, ensure that you have at least 1GB of RAM if
you plan on hosting a lot of domains. We host about 3500 domains on one
SM server, and the process itself takes up about 200MB of ram, and IIS
takes up another 100-200MB for the webmail. However, aside from that,
SmarterMail
The fact that you UPS each server is killing you ;) We just picked up a
dozen APC7390's, which is a very nice zero U, 24 port remote reboot
switch. It is not really available after market, but the cost per port
is comparable to buying used 8 port APCs.
-Jay
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From: [EMA
>3. Something to try.
>
>If you're having problems with sockets not being closed by the OS for
>what seems like ages, try this Registry tweak:
>
>HKLM_SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\KeepAliveTime
>
>REG_DWORD 6 ( = 1 minute)
>
>Some, if not all, abnormally ended clie
Delete the nobody. They should get a bounce message with the invalid user, or
they will get an error in the MUA telling them which user is invalid (if they
are sending to local recipients).
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of T
At one point, I tried loading that individual's custom block list
because of some dictionary attack issues, and it immediately caused
SMTPD32 to use up about 250MB of memory. Not such a good thing ...
-Jay
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
On Friday night, our mail server BSOD for the first time ever, and I believe it
was because of BlackICE. BlackICE has been disabled since then, and the server
has been stable.
Thanks!
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Jay Sudowski // Handy Networks LLC
Director of Technical Operations
Providing Shared, Reseller, Semi
f john cesta
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 12:50 PM
To: Jay Sudowski - Handy Networks, LLC
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Blackice
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:37:40 -0700, Jay Sudowski - Handy Networks, LLC wrote:
> I'm not sure it's working flawlessly for me. After a period of
> time, th
I'm not sure it's working flawlessly for me. After a period of time, the
application starts reporting the intruder address as 0.0.0.0 and the count
increment on that event goes up, and up, and up. I'm not sure if this is
simply a GUI bug or not. It's bugging me regardless.
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m Terminal Server or something.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Sudowski -
Handy Networks, LLC
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 9:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Blackice
Their web site makes no mention of
email you a link to download the file. There's no charge for this, and
they are open 24x7.
Thanks!
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Jay Sudowski // Handy Networks LLC
Director of
Technical OperationsProviding Shared, Reseller,
Semi Managed and Fully Managed Windows 2003 Hosting SolutionsTel: 877-70
HANDY x882 |
Their web site makes no mention of Windows 2003 being a supported
platform:
http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry10?V1=313036&PN=1&SP=1002
3&xid=26412&CID=0&DSP=&CUR=840&PGRP=0&CACHE_ID=0
Whereas, their other products make full note that they are Windows 2003
compliant / supported:
http
Note that BlackICE is not compatible with Windows 2003 Server.
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Jay Sudowski // Handy Networks LLC
Director of Technical Operations
Providing Shared, Reseller, Semi Managed and Fully Managed Windows 2003
Hosting Solutions
Tel: 877-70 HANDY x882 | Fax: 888-300-2FAX
www.handynetworks.com
TFile.Delete
fso.DeleteFile "c:\imail\spool\" &
f.name
wscript.echo "-- Deleted (D&T)"
end if
You should be able to configure this at the network level. Only allow
inbound SMTP connections from 63.171.93.5 at their network firewall.
Thanks!
-
Jay Sudowski // Handy Networks LLC
Director of Technical Operations
Providing Shared, Reseller, Semi Managed and Fully Managed Windows
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>Jason H.
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>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matti Haack
>Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 5:37 PM
>To: Jay Sudowski - Handy Networks, LLC
>Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Possible Exploit: Did 8.14 fix th
ersion
are vulnerable, then they need to release that info ASAP.
-
Jay Sudowski // Handy Networks LLC
Director of Technical Operations
Providing Shared, Reseller, Semi Managed and Fully Managed Windows 2003
Hosting Solutions
Tel: 877-70 HANDY x882 | Fax: 888-300-2FAX
www.handynetworks.com
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Could you pleae point me to the URL / document specifying this? We are
in the SPLA, but I honestly don't recall ever realizing that free
support is included.
-Jay
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Galerneau
Sent: Thursday, October 28,
SmarterMail in fact uses XML files as a repository for its user
database.
I admin several installations of iMail, SmarterMail, and MailEnable.
The only reason why I remain with iMail is because of the superior
functionality Declude offers in spam and a/v management.
I feel that SmarterMail is a
SmarterMail's web interface is completely .NET based. Therefore, it is recommended
that you run it on a full IIS server, as opposed to the stripped down web server
that's included with SmarterMail. Doing so will allow you to simply have more and
better control over the WebMail site, and it wil
Same experience here. They went out of their way to send us a somewhat
personal email asking us to renew our service contract. It's a good
thing we didn't. Their actions are borderline fraudulent - enticing
customers to signup for a service contract that's promising free
upgrades, when they know
Of course you didn't know. IPSwitch calls the vulnerability a denial of
service attack, when it's in fact a remote code execution attack. Any
remote code execution attack, especially against a service running in
the LocalSystem Context by default is going to be severe.
In this day and age, it's
Sadly, I spent about 3 hours updating servers on Tuesday (or Wednesday?)
night, when it should have taken an hour, tops. All of my servers sit a
on 100Mb/sec connection, and I times I was getting connection speeds to
Microsoft's servers that were slower than dialup downloads.
-Jay
-Original
From my point of view, IPSwitch should just get with the program
and allow all of its services to be bound to any combination of IPs on the
server. People have been complaining about this for years, and other
competing solutions do not have this problem.
-Jay
From: Panda
Based on cost and the location of the company offering it, I would avoid
this program. The way that the program scans emails is bizarre, and I
can imagine quite a few situations where viruses could get through.
Declude Virus is proven, efficient, effective, and affordable. If you
are thinking abo
I wonder why iMail is incorrectly reporting the nature of the bug - they
are saying it is a DoS, when it's really a remote code execution
exploit, two very different things. Maybe I'm missing something?
-Jay
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From: Rick Klinge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday,
Is this an automated process? If so, care to share the details? Sounds
like something I'd be interested in implementing.
-Jay
-Original Message-
From: Kevin Bilbee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 2:15 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ASSP
I am no expert on this, but I believe your problem is trying to use
iMail as your gateway server. You probably should look at using
something along the lines of IMGate - http://imgate.meiway.com/
It'd also probably do some good if you did some checks to those top IPs
connecting to your server aga
Then all of you have to do is follow the directions.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 3:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Share
Wow. Doing this should really not even be considered. Exchange is a
resource hog. Running any other sort of services on an exchange box is
just asking for problems.
-Jay
-Original Message-
From: John Calhoun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 3:34 PM
To: [EM
Windows Web Edition ships with SMTP, POP3, FTP and DNS services straight
from MS. They work fine and so should competing SMTP, POP3, FTP and DNS
servers. I know this from practical experience.
-Jay
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From: Todd Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 1
If you do not need access "on demand", and can let manage letting users
initiate the session, then something like www.desktopstreaming.com might
work well. It's from the same company that makes GoToMyPC, but geared
more towards companies that need to support a large number of remote
clients.
-Jay
I have noticed that it takes much longer to enumerate virtual hosts in
iMail under Win2003. However, our mail server is not nearly as beefy -
only Dual 866. Under Windows 2000 things would load in a reasonable
amount of time - maybe a minute max. Under Win2003, it takes about 4
minutes to load a
Use your *entire* email address as the username.
-Original Message-
From: Michael M. Wiseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 10:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] [IMail 8.03 Express] FINALLY able to progress
past the initial screen, but no
Read the archives. It's been a much discussed topic recently.
IIRC, the 100 address limit was confirmed by IPSwitch.
-Jay
-Original Message-
From: Mike Staley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 3:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] ACL reject
Wow. That must be some monster server. What are the hardware specs? Are you running
any spam filtering / virus scanning? Have any front end SMTP servers to ease the load
(ala IMGate)?
-Jay
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From: Shad Pulley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 200
If this is the case, then it should be fairly easy to write some sort of
VBScript that will extract the values and email them to a specified
address.
-Jay
-Original Message-
From: Tripp Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 12:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subjec
Our iMail server has 1GB of RAM and it moves along just fine. In fact,
it's memory utilization never moves much beyond 250MB. Telling someone
to upgrade to 2GB of RAM, when he says memory utilization is less than
5%, is a bit off the mark.
Defragging that system, OTOH, would probably be a good s
Regarding HIPAA - In most cases, you probably signed some sort of waiver
that gave the doctor permission to make these calls. It's all in the
fine print.
-Jay
-Original Message-
From: Karen D. Oland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 5:49 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTE
Why is it that iMail updaters can not be run over a UNC path? It's a
very annoying problem. Is there any chance that this will ever change?
-Jay
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not downloaded to the client side. If I have export all the
mailboxes
> to
> > the .pst file, can I just put in Imail server ? thanks.
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Jay Sudowski - Handy Networks, LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
You will likely need to use exmerge to export individual mailboxes to
pst files. If you are using IMAP4 with iMail, you'll then need to mount
the PST using outlook and then copy the files up to iMail. If you are
using POP3, just setup outlook to use the individual PST files on the
individual work
On servers with multiple IPs, we could regularly experience stack
connect failures. We applied the workaround indicated at
http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-19981110-DD02.htm and haven't had the
problem since.
-Jay
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From: Andrew Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: T
>>XBox doesn't run Playstation CDs, does it?
It does not, but if Xbox was capable of running Playstation CDs, but the
EULA said it was prohibited, then you have a parallel situation to
Win2003 Web Edition.
-Jay
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Wow. So much for having redundant systems
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From: Cory Coddington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 3:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Domian Name Server Addresses and SMTP
Delivery
I just spoke with tech support on
Kaj -
You might be interested in PerlDesk (we use this, it's OK, but could be better)
http://www.perldesk.com or Kayako eSupport
(http://www.kayako.com/?_a=products&_m=esupport.features) . I have never used Kayako
eSupport personally, but it comes highly recommended from someone I know that ha
I would personally recommend *avoiding* O&O defrag. They are based in
Germany, so getting support is nearly impossible. I could never get
their product to defrag one of our web servers, whereas Diskeeper would
work with no problems.
-Original Message-
From: Imail Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE
Thought this would be of some interest, even though it is OT.
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From: Jeffrey Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 4:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: reports of DCOM worm on the loose...still waiting on MS for DOS
patch for W2K w/ MS03-026 ap
He means that the disk could be overloaded. We occasionally see this
problem ourselves on our busier servers - we will receive a burst of
email at once (200-300 messages) and the SMTP servers will actually
become non-responsive for a few minutes. When this happens, telnet to
port 25 fails, but CP
Hi Dustin -
I hope for the sake of the non-profit that they aren't skimping on
software / computer infrastructure to save a few hundred dollars. I
know that every expense must be analzyed, justified, and weighed against
other options, but the costs of actually getting a virus are exponential
whe
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