Are you using the SBS's SMTP connector or using the
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=317327 info there?
Marette's instructions to remove the SBS's native smtp connection, build
a new one that listens on port 26, the time it would have taking me to
follow her instructions.. I saved the time and money in getting out my
credit card and buying an event sink already done.
Bart Van den Wyngaert wrote:
> Thanks all!
>
> Now the reason that I want to use the Event Sink way is because there
> is no more need then that... And like said, GFI is no longer. Neither
> the doc on Smallbizz.
>
> I know there is a manipulation needed on SMTP level, but I just don't
> see it. If somebody knows the little trick (was it an additional
> connector or virtual server)...?
>
> Thanks for the other inputs so far.
> Bart
>
> On 8/3/06, Joe Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Sure, I saw the message and remembered that we were still using a
>> disclaimer
>> script for this, so I thought I'd offer some help, but a word of
caution
>> about the fact that the script can get tricky.
>>
>> With only that many users, many of those problems might never show
>> up. We
>> have a few more users than that (ok, 4 orders of magnitude!), so we
>> see a
>> lot of weird stuff that is hard to even imagine when you are
testing the
>> code. :)
>>
>> The product is probably a better choice, especially if it is cheap.
>>
>> We really did try to buy a product to do this as we wanted more
>> features and
>> fewer problems (or someone else to blame them on), but only the
>> script had
>> reasonable performance. Everything else brought our gateways to
>> their knees
>> and had to be disabled. I was shocked by this actually. :)
>>
>> Joe K.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:24 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS
2K3 box
>>
>>
>> > This is an SBS box..... we may have performance problems.. but it's
>> > certainly not caused by a SMTP sink event on that Exchange
server ;-)
>> > Remember at the most we're only hosting 75 users/devices on that
>> server
>> > with a max of 75 gigs (remember no snickering from the Enterprise
>> folks)
>> > of Store.
>> >
>> > (and reading his message.. see why I went with Policypatrol?
>> >
>> > Joe Kaplan wrote:
>> >> We actually use a script at work after having tried a few products
>> and
>> >> having terrible performance problems. If you are interested, I'll
>> ping
>> >> one of the exchange guys and see if he can provide a little
>> direction.
>> >>
>> >> Once you actually get it working from a plumbing standpoint, the
>> script
>> >> itself is actually a bit trickier to implement than the trivial
>> sample MS
>> >> shows. You have to decide if you are going to put HTML into HTML
>> body
>> >> parts, text into text body parts, both into messages that have
>> both, and
>> >> what to do about signed messages, as the disclaimer will change
>> the data
>> >> and invalidate the digital signature. You also need to be careful
>> you
>> >> don't screw up the encoding of messages in non-ASCII or ISO-8859-1
>> >> character sets. You can also decide if you want to add the
>> disclaimer to
>> >> messages that already contain it (sometimes mail routing may
cause a
>> >> message to hit the sink more than once) or not, and if you care
about
>> >> that, how do you decide if the disclaimer is in there? :)
>> >>
>> >> Ours still has some issues with a few of these points, but some of
>> the
>> >> problems were too tough to deal with for the people who were
>> trying to
>> >> solve them, so they just slid.
>> >>
>> >> Joe K.
>> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bart Van den Wyngaert"
>> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> To: "ActiveDir" <[email protected]>
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:41 PM
>> >> Subject: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS
2K3 box
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> Hi guys,
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm having trouble with adding a disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3
>> box.
>> >>> I'm using the EventSink with a .vbs to add the disclaimer. The
>> box is
>> >>> configured with a default SMTP server and a SMTP connector which
>> >>> forwards all external email to the SMTP of the ISP.
>> >>>
>> >>> Anybody who has done the trick already? If so, can you please
>> tell me
>> >>> the little secret for this? *g*
>> >>>
>> >>> Many thanks to all,
>> >>> Bart
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>> > http://www.threatcode.com
>> >
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>> ... I
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