Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Nathan Findley
On 08/14/2012 10:44 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:19:22 +0900 Nathan Findley nat...@zenlok.com wrote: First of all, a deferred status is really out of my hands correct? Most likely. Aug 8 11:52:18 asp sendmail[13710]: q772pt1H016314: to=***@*.co.jp,

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread WBrown
Nate wrote on 08/17/2012 05:29:51 AM: Is it generally accepted as being ok to directly contact the other servers email administrator in order to try to resolve an undelivered email? I am finding myself being berated by the other systems admin for my unconventional methods in trying to

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 8/17/2012 5:29 AM, Nathan Findley wrote: Is it generally accepted as being ok to directly contact the other servers email administrator in order to try to resolve an undelivered email? I am finding myself being berated by the other systems admin for my unconventional methods in trying to

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:29:51 +0900 Nathan Findley nat...@zenlok.com wrote: Is it generally accepted as being ok to directly contact the other servers email administrator in order to try to resolve an undelivered email? Absolutely. I am finding myself being berated by the other systems

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 17.08.2012 11:29, schrieb Nathan Findley: Is it generally accepted as being ok to directly contact the other servers email administrator in order to try to resolve an undelivered email? Of course. I am finding myself being berated by the other systems admin for my unconventional methods

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-08-17 4:29 AM, Nathan Findley wrote: Is it generally accepted as being ok to directly contact the other servers email administrator in order to try to resolve an undelivered email? I am finding myself being berated by the other systems admin for my unconventional methods in trying to

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread WBrown
Ben wrote on 08/17/2012 12:39:45 PM: Not a whole lot you can do for them. Lately, my attitude runs towards Just because you can install Exchange doesn't mean you know what you're doing. Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments may contain confidential or

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-08-17 12:05 PM, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: Ben wrote on 08/17/2012 12:39:45 PM: Not a whole lot you can do for them. Lately, my attitude runs towards Just because you can install Exchange doesn't mean you know what you're doing. And I've run into those types... They're scary. -Ben

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread WBrown
Ben wrote on 08/17/2012 01:07:46 PM: And I've run into those types... They're scary. And they tend to resent when you point out their problems. Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged information, and is intended only

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:05:36 -0400 wbr...@e1b.org wrote: Lately, my attitude runs towards Just because you can install Exchange doesn't mean you know what you're doing. snark Proficiency at installing Exchange is *inversely* correlated with competence. /snark Regards, David.

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Jon Rowlan
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:05:36 -0400 wbr...@e1b.org wrote: Lately, my attitude runs towards Just because you can install Exchange doesn't mean you know what you're doing. snark Proficiency at installing Exchange is *inversely* correlated with competence. /snark Wow ... where did all this come

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:41:15 +0100 Jon Rowlan jon.row...@sads.com wrote: [DFS] snark Proficiency at installing Exchange is *inversely* correlated with competence. /snark Wow ... where did all this come from? Years of customer support for lots of small businesses who use Exchange. Pop

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-08-17 12:41 PM, Jon Rowlan wrote: As I run exchange and sendmail/MD systems I thought I would see why the exchange bods were being bashed again ... Did I miss something? Sort of. And it's because you run sendmail/MD systems (most importantly, not exchange). My best story on

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread WBrown
Jon wrote on 08/17/2012 01:41:15 PM: As I run exchange and sendmail/MD systems I thought I would see why the exchange bods were being bashed again ... Running exchange is not proof you don't know what you're doing, but not knowing how to run a mail system seems to correlate closely with

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 8/17/2012 1:49 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: Proficiency at installing Exchange is *inversely* correlated with competence. Wow ... where did all this come from? Years of customer support for lots of small businesses who use Exchange. Now you missed the perfect snarky moment to tell Jon we were

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-08-17 12:41 PM, Jon Rowlan wrote: Did I miss something? I forgot to conclude... For YOU: you sort of did miss something.. but not in a bad way. You have experience far beyond your Exchange brethren. It's a good thing. I wouldn't be upset I didn't get that one... -Ben p.s. I also

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:08:34 -0400 Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com wrote: A) Microsoft's Active Directory Domains pre-date the general concept of Internet Domains. When the two got combined it causes a lot of issues and especially causes issues when an AD thinks it is named, for example,

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Jon Rowlan
Well some of us are not quite so stupid as we choose Linux/Sendmail/MimeDefang/SpamAssassin as well as Exchange. It's a case of horses for courses .. For usability, I have never seen anything that competes with Outlook integrated with Exchange for workgroup collaboration. For relaying email I

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Todd Aiken
-Original Message- From: Jon Rowlan jon.row...@sads.com Reply-To: mimedefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com mimedefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com Date: Friday, August 17, 2012 2:33 PM To: mimedefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com mimedefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:33:15 +0100 Jon Rowlan jon.row...@sads.com wrote: I can see the benefits of both sides, my question was simply, why is there an assumption that the problem is caused by a badly managed Exchange system? Ah, sorry. I was replying snarkily about the competence of most

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:08:34 -0400 Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com wrote: A) Microsoft's Active Directory Domains pre-date the general concept of Internet Domains. Not possible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory I had an official internet email address in 1989 when I was on

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-08-17 1:52 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: If you pick a random Exchange admin from the whole population, you're more likely to end up with an incompetent one than if you try the same thing with Sendmail admins, for the simple reasons that Sendmail is less popular than Exchange and it

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread John Nemeth
On Jan 7, 7:40am, Ben Kamen wrote: } } These were seasoned/experience MAIL ADMINs... Some people have ten years of experience, others have one year of experience repeated nine times. Or, in this case, one month of experience repeated 119 times. }-- End of excerpt from Ben Kamen

[Mimedefang] ADMINISTRIVIA: Re: Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread David F. Skoll
Hi, all, I've had a request to end this thread as it's off-topic and I tend to agree. Let's let it go. Thanks, David. ___ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
Curiosity question for Todd and Jon, At this point in the game with people moving to very web based mail operation, are there any compelling reasons are there to stick with Exchange in the future? (other than legacy setup and a new learning curve?) And have your companies considered moving to

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-08-17 2:08 PM, John Nemeth wrote: On Jan 7, 7:40am, Ben Kamen wrote: } } These were seasoned/experience MAIL ADMINs... Some people have ten years of experience, others have one year of experience repeated nine times. Or, in this case, one month of experience repeated 119 times.

Re: [Mimedefang] ADMINISTRIVIA: Re: Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Kamen
On 2012-08-17 2:09 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: Hi, all, I've had a request to end this thread as it's off-topic and I tend to agree. Let's let it go. I thought it was interesting - but agree. I have a couple more emails queued before this one. This will be my last on the subject. Cheers,

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread John Nemeth
On Jan 7, 8:44am, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: } On 8/17/2012 1:49 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: } Proficiency at installing Exchange is *inversely* correlated with } competence. } Wow ... where did all this come from? } Years of customer support for lots of small businesses who use } Exchange. } Now

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread WBrown
Ben wrote on 08/17/2012 02:58:05 PM: I had an official internet email address in 1989 when I was on GEnie Information Services. I was bka...@genie.geis.com According to the grasshopper book, RFCs 882 and 883 were released in 1984, which defined DNS, which replaced a centrally managed

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Jon Rowlan
Curiosity question for Todd and Jon, At this point in the game with people moving to very web based mail operation, are there any compelling reasons are there to stick with Exchange in the future? (other than legacy setup and a new learning curve?) And have your companies considered

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread John Nemeth
On Jan 7, 2:08pm, Jon Rowlan wrote: } } Well some of us are not quite so stupid as we choose } Linux/Sendmail/MimeDefang/SpamAssassin as well as Exchange. And, some of us use *BSD/sendmail/MIMEDefang/SpamAssassin, but let's not get into an OS war. :- } But you have to consider that not

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 8/17/2012 2:58 PM, Ben Kamen wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:08:34 -0400 Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com wrote: A) Microsoft's Active Directory Domains pre-date the general concept of Internet Domains. Not possible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Actually, I'm talking

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread John Nemeth
On Jan 7, 8:45am, Ben Kamen wrote: } } Curiosity question for Todd and Jon, } } At this point in the game with people moving to very web based mail } operation, are there any compelling reasons are there to stick with } Exchange in the future? (other than legacy setup and a new learning }

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Ben Kamen bka...@benjammin.net wrote: Curiosity question for Todd and Jon, At this point in the game with people moving to very web based mail operation, are there any compelling reasons are there to stick with Exchange in the future? (other than legacy setup

[Mimedefang] The .local TLD (was Re: Mail Admin Qu...)

2012-08-17 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:27:37 -0400 Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com wrote: I consider .local to be officially grandfathered as an internal-use TLD akin to non routing IPv4 space like 192.168.X and 10.X albeit not as based in standards. This is interesting reading:

Re: [Mimedefang] Mail Admin Question

2012-08-17 Thread kd6lvw
--- On Fri, 8/17/12, David F. Skoll d...@roaringpenguin.com wrote: ... Microsoft markets its products as easy to use and to set up.  That's probably true on a superficial level so you end up with thousands of admins with only superficial knowledge. Too bad that they don't create their