RE: Recommendation

2001-08-30 Thread Randal, Phil
That's a maximum of 12.5GB of data in your mailboxes. Is there any compelling reason not to do a full backup every night? Cheers, Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Vinny

RE: Storage warnings

2001-08-30 Thread Randal, Phil
What the FAQ are you on about? ;-) - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Bueffel, Scott M - CNF [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 August 2001 17:27 To: Exchange Discussions Subject:

RE: Urgent!

2001-09-11 Thread Randal, Phil
BBC News reports attacks on the Pentagon and White House too - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Martin Tuip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 September 2001 15:04 To: Exchange

RE: OT -- Nostradamus' prediction on WW3:

2001-09-13 Thread Randal, Phil
Oi! Who are you calling an old lady? :-) Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Choi Rex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 September 2001 14:39 To: Exchange Discussions

RE: OWA Admins - Heads Up

2001-09-18 Thread Randal, Phil
It looks like someone's used the Code Red backdoor to install a new worm. The attacks seem to be coming from IIS servers... Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Great Cthulhu

RE: Dr. Watson (was New Virus / Worm??)

2001-09-19 Thread Randal, Phil
You stop the .eml files by getting all the (attacking?) PCs on your network virus scanned with up to date antivirus software with today's virus patterns. Also shut down your IIS services if you think they may have been compromised. Cheers, Phil -

RE: today's admin backwards virus

2001-09-20 Thread Randal, Phil
indeed, but the software vendors could do better. microsoft in particular should provide more efficient update processes and some decent security tools. maybe even software that's secure out of the box. dan Too right! If ever there was a time for Service Pack 7 for NT 4.0, now is it...

RE: MS Easybake Oven

2001-09-21 Thread Randal, Phil
Gosh, that info is hard to find on www.microsoft.com... NT4 server: 486/33, 32MB RAM if running IIS 4 Win 2K Prof: Pentium 133, 32MB RAM min, 64MB recommended Win XP Ready: Win2K capable with at least 128MB RAM Gave up looking at Microsoft's site having gleaned that much info. Phil

RE: MS Easybake Oven

2001-09-21 Thread Randal, Phil
Shouldn't that be cold? - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Ronald Mazzotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 September 2001 15:07 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: MS Easybake

RE: MS Easybake Oven

2001-09-21 Thread Randal, Phil
The practice of rotating tyres was routinely used long before Milton Keynes was ever thought of. Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Neil Hobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: Nimda

2001-09-21 Thread Randal, Phil
Try here: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/63/nimda.shtml Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Ronald Mazzotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 September 2001 16:28 To:

RE: MS Easybake Oven

2001-09-21 Thread Randal, Phil
Just don't take them out with an automatic weapon - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Les Bessant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 September 2001 16:32 To: Exchange Discussions

RE: Nimba virus

2001-09-21 Thread Randal, Phil
Go to http://www.incidents.org/react/nimbaprint.php and digest what it has to say there. Then visit http://www.microsoft.com/security and follow the Nimba link. Digest well. Panic. Have a cup of coffee and then devise a sensible plan to roll out all those updates and patches you never got

RE: Nimba virus

2001-09-21 Thread Randal, Phil
Yet another reason to use Mozilla! McAfee's Nimba cleaner found readme.eml in Mozilla's cache on my PC :-) Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: MS Easybake Oven

2001-09-24 Thread Randal, Phil
to us. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Randal, Phil Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 5:54 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: MS Easybake Oven Microsoft's minimum specs are ludicrous to start with. I just double what

RE: MS Easybake Oven

2001-09-25 Thread Randal, Phil
, MCSE Network/Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems, Inc. -Original Message- From: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 5:12 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: MS Easybake Oven Have you tried running Win2K on a PC which

Just when you thought you were safe...

2001-09-25 Thread Randal, Phil
MS has posted a possible scenario for IE6 that would leave it vulnerable to Nimda... http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/ topics/NimdaIE6.asp - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK

RE: Understanding Non Delivery Message

2001-10-19 Thread Randal, Phil
Take a good look at RFC 2821 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html). If there is a delivery failure after acceptance of a message, the receiver-SMTP MUST formulate and mail a notification message. This notification MUST be sent using a null () reverse path in the envelope. The

RE: Groupshield For Exchange Version 4.5

2001-10-30 Thread Randal, Phil
In a nutshell, yes. Make sure Exchange is patched to at least SP4. Beg, borrow, or steal Hotfix 7 for Groupshield and apply as soon as possible. This is a critical update, needed for core functionality of the product. I would not try to run Groupshield without it. Actually, I did, which is

RE: EX5.5 Server just froze up - would post SP4 patches help?

2001-10-30 Thread Randal, Phil
Taking the subject of RAM tests by the horns, I'd recommend using MemTest86 (from www.memtest86.com). It's free, runs from a boot floppy, and is thorough. Cheers, Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original

RE: Trend Micro Medium Risk Virus Alert - PE_NIMDA.E

2001-10-30 Thread Randal, Phil
The attachment is now sample.exe The dropped dll is httpodbc.dll Worm is dropped into system directory as csrss.exe (was mmc.exe). McAfee says it will be detected by existing DAT patterns. Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council

RE: OT - flirtatiousness on THIS list??

2001-11-09 Thread Randal, Phil
Glad to hear someone's getting it! - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Elizabeth Farrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 November 2001 19:22 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE:

Flirtatious Haiku Friday

2001-11-09 Thread Randal, Phil
To flirt on this list Is really out of order I am a culprit Phil :-) - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK _ List posting FAQ:

RE: OT - flirtatiousness on THIS list??

2001-11-09 Thread Randal, Phil
Two stroppy ladies clashing on the list today Oh how amusing - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Jim Helfer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 November 2001 16:18 To: Exchange

RE: It's not Microsoft's fault because....

2001-11-12 Thread Randal, Phil
Netscape's invention, actually. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2001/04/06/js_history.html Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Black, Nathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: I need help with edb*.log files

2001-11-12 Thread Randal, Phil
They are the transaction logs created since the last full backup of your exchange databases (by exchange-aware backup programs). They normally get deleted after a successful backup. Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford,

RE: OT - Latin Lesson

2001-11-14 Thread Randal, Phil
Computer Weekly in the UK published this gem a few weeks back. A senior editor from Bristol Classical Press, inspired by his fallible spell checker, wrote: Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea Eye strike a quay and

RE: Outlook freezing up on certain items

2001-11-15 Thread Randal, Phil
We run Groupshield 4.5SP1 here, and had the same problems. The fix is to increase OpenRetryDelay as detailed here: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q264/7/31.ASP We use 0x800 as our value. It's also worth hounding NAI for hotfix 7 for Groupshield 4.5 too and applying it. It

RE: Badtrans and SirCam

2001-11-30 Thread Randal, Phil
A publically accessible web server I set up this week (Apache, not IIS), is getting hit by Nimda scans 5 times a day. Some folks never learn. Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From:

RE: Haiku Friday

2001-11-30 Thread Randal, Phil
You've obviously drunk too much booze already not proper haiku - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Butler, Simon (London) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 November 2001 15:32 To:

RE: Server why, why me

2001-11-30 Thread Randal, Phil
Also try memtest86 from www.memtest86.com - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Alverson, Thomas M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 November 2001 17:50 To: Exchange Discussions Cc:

RE: Badtrans and SirCam

2001-12-03 Thread Randal, Phil
Corporate policies may or may not allow all users to access WindowsUpdate, or if they are using WinNT / 2000 / XP they might not have local admin rights. Not quite as simple as your glib assertion would have it. Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer

RE: Badtrans and SirCam

2001-12-03 Thread Randal, Phil
I had fun explaining to a naive-user in the weekend why antivirus software was essential. If it is that essential, why doesn't it come with Windows XP? Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK p.s. I do part time

RE: Spurious attachment permissions issue...

2001-12-04 Thread Randal, Phil
What Antivirus software is running on the exchange servers? Is http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q264/7/31.ASP relevant? Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Paul

RE: Spurious attachment permissions issue...

2001-12-04 Thread Randal, Phil
Out of curiosity, does anyone know why Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided to make Temporary Internet Files a property of the user (i.e. in their profile) as against just one directory per PC? The case of diskless workstations is a trivial one, so we can ignore that and look for deeper

RE: Spurious attachment permissions issue...

2001-12-04 Thread Randal, Phil
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Randal, Phil Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 7:42 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Spurious attachment permissions issue... Out of curiosity, does anyone know why Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided to make Temporary

RE: Spurious attachment permissions issue...

2001-12-04 Thread Randal, Phil
, UK -Original Message- From: Robert Moir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 December 2001 15:43 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Spurious attachment permissions issue... -Original Message- From: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 December 2001

RE: Spurious attachment permissions issue...

2001-12-04 Thread Randal, Phil
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Randal, Phil Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 7:53 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Spurious attachment permissions issue... Given the negative side effects of this (huge amounts of disk space

RE: Spurious attachment permissions issue...

2001-12-04 Thread Randal, Phil
-Original Message- From: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:42 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Spurious attachment permissions issue... Out of curiosity, does anyone know why Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided

RE: New Virus outbreak

2001-12-04 Thread Randal, Phil
Yessir! We all read your now (in)famous list. Didn't we? ;-) Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 December 2001 17:05 To:

RE: Exchange 5.5 AVAPI (Anti-Virus interface)

2001-12-04 Thread Randal, Phil
The fix is to increase OpenRetryDelay as detailed here: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q264/7/31.ASP We use 0x800 as our value. If you're using Groupshield, get hotfix 7 from http://b2b.mcafee.com (follow the download links for product updates, login, and look under patches

RE: Exchange 5.5 AVAPI (Anti-Virus interface)

2001-12-04 Thread Randal, Phil
oops, brain not in gear.. http://www.mcafeeb2b.com/naicommon/download/upgrade/login.asp Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Randal, Phil Sent: 04 December 2001 17:29

RE: New Groupshield install.

2001-12-05 Thread Randal, Phil
: (501) 801-0457 Fax: (501) 801-0421 www.audiointl.com -Original Message- From: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 5:06 AM To: Exchange Discussions

RE: Exchange 5.5 AVAPI (Anti-Virus interface)

2001-12-05 Thread Randal, Phil
Look at http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q264/7/31.ASP we use 0x800 for openretrydelay here. Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Loftus Greig [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: New Groupshield install.

2001-12-05 Thread Randal, Phil
Some admins don't have that choice, alas :-( Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 December 2001 14:08 To: Exchange

RE: Is there a workaround to use both MAPI and AVAPI with NAV fo r Ex change 5.5?

2001-12-06 Thread Randal, Phil
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q264/7/31.ASP Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Alverson, Thomas M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 December 2001 14:29

RE: UK Data Protection law changes affect Exchange Administrators

2001-12-13 Thread Randal, Phil
It would make my life as an Exchange Admin a bit easier if we could just wipe all emails more than a year old and then blame the Data Protection Act :-) Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original

RE: NDR's filling my mailbox

2001-12-18 Thread Randal, Phil
RFC 2821 states that MTAs must accept all mails from , as they are delivery notification messages. Bouncing them, as a lot of mailers do, is not RFC compliant and a bloody nuisance :-) Cheers, Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council

RE: Server memory?

2001-12-20 Thread Randal, Phil
That server should be more than adequate. User demand for mailbox space will grow, though, unless you have limits enforced. Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Olds, Dominic

RE: Groupshield and Exch 5.5 sp4

2002-01-02 Thread Randal, Phil
After installing Groupshield 4.5 SP1 install Hotfix 7 (from www.mcafeeb2b.com). Then consult Microsoft's knowledgebase Q264731 and increase the value of OpenRetryDelay (we use 0x800 here). Don't forget to install the message body scanning addon either (also from mcafeeb2b.com). Phil

RE: Groupshield and Exch 5.5 sp4

2002-01-03 Thread Randal, Phil
To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Groupshield and Exch 5.5 sp4 We just installed GS4.5.1, but in attempting to install Hotfix7 - it's saying we need Hotfix 5. Did we do something wrong? Thx -Original Message- From: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02

RE: Basic Exchange 2K questions

2002-01-03 Thread Randal, Phil
The M: drive (M for Mail) just has to be a throwback to the old Microsoft Mail days. Someone on the Exchange team got a little nostalgic, perhaps? Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message-

RE: Outlook Rules Problem

2002-01-31 Thread Randal, Phil
And what happens to you when someone auto-replies to your auto-reply??? BAD IDEA! Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Bowles, John L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 January

RE: Could not open one or more attachments!

2002-02-04 Thread Randal, Phil
The fix may be to increase OpenRetryDelay as detailed here: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q264/7/31.ASP We use 0x800 as our value. It's also worth hounding NAI for hotfix 7 for Groupshield 4.5 too and applying it. It fixes some rather major bugs. Phil

RE: Could not open one or more attachments!

2002-02-04 Thread Randal, Phil
Message- From: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 February 2002 15:20 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Could not open one or more attachments! The fix may be to increase OpenRetryDelay as detailed here: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q264/7/31.ASP

RE: haiku friday

2002-02-08 Thread Randal, Phil
I have to ask you if there are any more jobs with cars where you work Lucky devil! Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Atkinson, Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08

RE: haiku friday

2002-02-08 Thread Randal, Phil
Subject: RE: haiku friday Phil, Please rewrite line 2 Haiku should be five seven five Your line is one short Denny At 03:21 PM 2/8/2002 +, Randal, Phil wrote: I have to ask you if there are any more jobs with cars where you work Lucky devil! Phil

RE: OT Microsofts Knowledge Base

2002-02-12 Thread Randal, Phil
Just use www.google.com and prefix your query string with site:microsoft.com (without the quote marks). Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Chuck Parkey [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: File Version Check Utility?

2002-02-15 Thread Randal, Phil
Get KiXtart from www.kixtart.org Then use the getfileversion function in a common KiXtart login script to check, etc. Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Michel, David

RE: Alert:Microsoft Security Bulletin - MS02-012

2002-02-28 Thread Randal, Phil
I think the two patches are independent of each other. Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Orr, Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 February 2002 12:22 To: Exchange

RE: Alert:Microsoft Security Bulletin - MS02-012

2002-02-28 Thread Randal, Phil
Eeek, wasn't that the buggy one? ;-) Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 February 2002 12:42 To: Exchange Discussions Subject:

RE: Public Folders

2002-02-28 Thread Randal, Phil
Why??? Favorites is extremely useful. Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 February 2002 16:47 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Public

RE: Ram upgrade NT4 SP6

2002-03-01 Thread Randal, Phil
Try running memtest86 from www.memtest86.com on it to see if it's a hardware problem. Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Tener, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 March

RE: testing relay

2002-03-04 Thread Randal, Phil
Read http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html and digest carefully. Emails with a From: header are delivery notification messages. RFC2822 says mailers must accept these messages (they can, if I recall correctly, do what they like with them). There are an awful lot on non-RFC2822-compliant mail

RE: testing relay

2002-03-04 Thread Randal, Phil
Oops, rfc2821... Slip of the finger and brain... Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 March 2002 17:10 To: Exchange Discussions

RE: Transaction Logs

2002-03-19 Thread Randal, Phil
I've seen this once before after switching from circular logging. What I noticed was a discontiguous range of log file numbers. After carefully examining the log file date / timestamps I deleted the oldest (leaving at least 2 days worth as we do daily full backups) and rebooted the server

RE: Transaction Logs

2002-03-19 Thread Randal, Phil
That looks fine to me. If the number of log files keeps growing and older logs aren't being deleted then you have problems. Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: ExchDiscList

RE: ever seen this?

2002-03-19 Thread Randal, Phil
30 secons with google gave me this: http://www.madras.fife.sch.uk/maths/descriptive6.html Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Woodruff, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: Haiku Friday

2002-04-26 Thread Randal, Phil
I wish that they would Do that to everyone With dodgy boxes - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Orr, Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 April 2002 15:46 To: Exchange Discussions

RE: Cerification question

2002-05-02 Thread Randal, Phil
Go on, tell us, and we can put it to the test :-) Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: missy koslosky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 May 2002 16:05 To: Exchange Discussions

RE: Mail Exchangers for NT based systems

2002-05-10 Thread Randal, Phil
Don't forget David Harris's Mercury/32 from http://www.pmail.gen.nz Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 May 2002 14:39 To:

RE: Mail Exchangers for NT based systems

2002-05-10 Thread Randal, Phil
based systems Did I read this right? FREE? -Original Message- From: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 10:17 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Mail Exchangers for NT based systems Don't forget David Harris's Mercury/32 from http

RE: STORE.EXE--CONSUMING TOO MUCH MEMORY

2002-06-21 Thread Randal, Phil
What a helpful response... This might be more helpful. What versions of Virusscan Groupshield? If GS 4.5, is hotfix 7 applied? I'd recommend upgrading to GS 5.0 if you're stuck with McAfee (we are :-( ) Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer

RE: STORE.EXE--CONSUMING TOO MUCH MEMORY

2002-06-21 Thread Randal, Phil
As one of Microsoft's patented Virus propagation engines? Yup, very helpful. Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Ely, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 June 2002 14:15

RE: STORE.EXE--CONSUMING TOO MUCH MEMORY

2002-06-21 Thread Randal, Phil
- From: Aristotle Zoulas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 June 2002 14:30 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: STORE.EXE--CONSUMING TOO MUCH MEMORY We are running 4.5.572.171 -Original Message- From: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:23

RE: STORE.EXE--CONSUMING TOO MUCH MEMORY

2002-06-21 Thread Randal, Phil
Well, one could put a Real AV solution in place versus some piece of shite SW that does nothing useful, but cause stress Quit yer whinin... We get enough of that from Precht! -Original Message- From: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9

RE: Alternative Exchange Server Clients

2002-06-21 Thread Randal, Phil
Precisely because they do. Except they don't work the same. MS's virus propagation engine has been removed :-) Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Jon Butler (Mailing Lists)

RE: Installing GroupShield Exchange 4.5

2002-06-24 Thread Randal, Phil
Groupshield 4.5 has been superseded by Groupshield 5. If you must use McAfee software, I'd skip GS 4.5 altogether and go straight to GS 5.0. You can get it from here http://www.mcafeeb2b.com/naicommon/download/upgrade/login.asp (requires your NAI support grant number). Otherwise you'll need

RE: Catch All...

2002-06-27 Thread Randal, Phil
from rfc2821 6.1 Reliable Delivery and Replies by Email When the receiver-SMTP accepts a piece of mail (by sending a 250 OK message in response to DATA), it is accepting responsibility for delivering or relaying the message. It must take this responsibility seriously. It MUST NOT

RE: Catch All...

2002-06-28 Thread Randal, Phil
- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Mark Rotman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 June 2002 18:13 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Catch All... ... stuff snipped

RE: Does anyone have a site that you can test to see if your exch ange is receiving outside mail?

2002-07-01 Thread Randal, Phil
http://vger.kernel.org/mxverify.html is a good one and checks some RFC compliance issues too. Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Jeffrey A. Beckham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: Groupshield 5.0 vs. Sybari

2002-07-12 Thread Randal, Phil
From my experience, Groupshield 5 is a much better product than its predecessors. Have you had experience of Groupshield 5, Missy? Cheers, Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From:

RE: Question regarding ñ and other characters

2002-07-25 Thread Randal, Phil
I'm too busy to look, but is this clarified in RFC 2821/2822? Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Mark Rotman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 July 2002 18:11 To: Exchange

RE: Any new hotfixes for Exchange 5.5

2002-08-09 Thread Randal, Phil
Oh, just run Exchange Optimizer and force it to use no more than 256MB of RAM. Then get the boss to explain to all the users why it is running slower. Phil ;-) - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original

RE: spoolss.dll

2002-08-22 Thread Randal, Phil
A google search for SPOOLSS.DLL found it in a few seconds. Sighs... Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Earl, Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 August 2002 12:15 To:

RE: Tracing Computers making repeated Logon Requests

2002-09-11 Thread Randal, Phil
ping workstation_name ??? - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Charles Carerros [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 September 2002 14:19 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: OT: Tracing

RE: Latest NAV for Exchange 5.5 ??

2002-09-11 Thread Randal, Phil
Do a KB search for OpenRetryDelay. It might solve your problem. Cheers, Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Alverson, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 September 2002

RE: Revisiting offline defrag question

2002-09-13 Thread Randal, Phil
The 1221 report on your ISPRIV is what counts, as that's the amount of whitespace in the database. Are you running Mailbox Manager on the server? We use it to purge old Deleted Items and Journal entries, and it helps a lot. Configuring Outlook / office not to journal helps too, if you don't

RE: Revisiting offline defrag question

2002-09-13 Thread Randal, Phil
: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 9:11 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Revisiting offline defrag question The 1221 report on your ISPRIV is what counts, as that's the amount of whitespace in the database. Are you running Mailbox Manager

RE: POLL

2002-09-26 Thread Randal, Phil
That's one use for all your junk emails! Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Exchange.ListServe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 September 2002 14:08 To: Exchange

RE: Mail Relaying Originator

2002-11-07 Thread Randal, Phil
RFC2821 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html) section 6.1. Such mails can be swallowed or ignored, but they should never be bounced. You can check your mail server's compliance here: http://vger.kernel.org/mxverify.html Phil - Phil Randal

RE: Postmaster reply address

2002-11-07 Thread Randal, Phil
Wrong! See http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html section 4.5.1. postmaster is required. Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Tom Meunier [mailto:Tom.Meunier;courts.state.tx.us]

RE: Opinions on the best message format.

2003-01-09 Thread Randal, Phil
Plain text. Nothing more, nothing less. Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Darrin J. Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 January 2003 16:03 To: Exchange Discussions

RE: Files zipped when sent out

2003-02-21 Thread Randal, Phil
NDA with fries? Yummy! - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 February 2003 15:21 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Files

RE: JScript

2003-03-20 Thread Randal, Phil
More to the point, JScript is DANGEROUS! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS 03-008.asp Cheers, Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Roger

RE: Open Relay Help

2003-05-30 Thread Randal, Phil
On the subject of emails from , RFC2821 says your mailer must accept them. It neededn't do anything with them, though. There's a surprisingly large number of misconfigured mailers which bounce them, alas. Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer

RE: Open Relay Help

2003-05-30 Thread Randal, Phil
Relay Help Sooner or later I need to start using these guys: http://www.rfc-ignorant.com/policy-dsn.php -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message- From: Randal

RE: Brick level backups

2003-06-18 Thread Randal, Phil
1: Nobody ever reads them 2: Nobody ever reads them 3: People read the message, and forget to read the disclaimer 4: go to 1 Phil - Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Tony Hlabse

RE: best linux av?

2003-07-04 Thread Randal, Phil
For one, email-borneviruses originating from within your organisation (especially those with recipients within your organisation) will be trapped that way. Don't forget that the first thing some of these pesky viruses do is disable the desktop PC's antivirus software. Perimeter fence security

RE: best linux av?

2003-07-04 Thread Randal, Phil
Nope, wrong. Once again you're assuming that all your desktops are happily protected and working fine, in fact that every link in the chain is in place and secure. With viruses you cannot ensure that. You have to attack viruses robustly on ALL fronts, with as few assumptions as possible. The

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