You don't have to read slashdot to know that. I had to apply special rules
to get rid of this mailbox polution. Spammers have found my domainname to
be interesting as From: they make up names in the form or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I know ppl who had to give up the use of their domainname because it
You've lost me. The only South Park I ever heard of is a comedy. I hope you
don't find it fun that ppl are getting NDR's because spammers feel like
forging the FROM.
B.
At 23:56 21-12-2003 -0800, you wrote:
For those wondering. It's actually from South Park Season 3.
No I don't think it's fun that spammers are forging FROM address, but what
are you going to expect from a 20+ year old protocol that wasn't designed to
verify who the sender is?
There is no way you can reliably check who the sender is. At least not
without modifying the protocol. That would take
The Exchange 2000 server is behind a NAT and I have looked into the
possibility of this. I have been out on the spamcop site and for the
life of me cannot find a way to make them check the server again to see
if it is closed relay like ORDB does.
Any ideas or comments
http://www.sbsfaq.com/
One of the big advantages over this is that it will allow ppl to subscribe
and unsubscribe and let something like Mailman handle all bounces. By the
way, I would prefer Mailman over Majordomo.
B.
At 08:22 03-09-2003 -0500, you wrote:
[1]I've sent such things though Exchange before... no
Or:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sbs2khttphttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/sbs2k://groups.yahoo.com/group/sbs2k
Almost the same question has been asked and answered quite recently at that
particular list. It has an archive too..
.
B.
At 15:20 29-06-2003 +0100, you wrote:
Refer this to the MS
The Postini sales pitch tells you specifically that absolutely no email
, unless identified as SPAM and therefore quarantined, ever gets written
to disk anywhere in their system. Not sure if it's totally believable
but that's what they say.
Then they need quite a few servers.. Or they stop
www.google.com
search: mailinglist to newsgroup gateway
produced 12.000 hits.
B.
At 23:55 22-03-2003 -0500, you wrote:
Many year ago when I was first on the internet MIT ran a server that
would turn news group into mailing lists that I can read and post to
Usenet via e-mail. Does anyone know
At 17:47 23-03-2003 +, you wrote:
I recommend qmail, which is not only highly secure - it has
NEVER had a security breach - but is also at least 4-5 times
as fast as Sendmail, and much, much easier to set up and configure.
I know this question always stirs up a bit of a hornets nest amongst
fairly straightforward to get the basics working.
http://advosys.ca/papers/printable/postfix-filtering.html seems fairly
idiot-proof for the spamassassin filtering?
regards
Paul
- Original Message -
From: B. van Ouwerkerk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday
This has nothing to do with the POP3 connector, you are receiving mail from
the internet right?
So it has to do with the SMTP sending part.
Are you using SMTP(DNS) to deliver directly or are you using your ISP's
SMTP server. Did you setup the SMTP connector too?
Check the ISP to find out if
set up my SMTP connector to send my mail and make my default reply
address my [EMAIL PROTECTED] address.
Thanks, I'll also check Yahoo.
Joshua
Joshua Morgan
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message-
From: B. van Ouwerkerk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 8:46
At 08:38 21-03-2003 -0600, you wrote:
anybody have any information or tried Postini for their spam control. we
have looked at all the major players and we are thinking about surfcontrol
but these people called us up and gave a good pitch. I guess we point our
mx records to them, which i'm not
Not only stupid disclaimers, but also stupid filters.
I wonder what triggered the filter, love or mushrooms :)
B.
At 22:57 21-03-2003 -0800, you wrote:
Guess they don't like the shitake mushrooms.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from PSTs and
Just found out.. they don't like love
Now.. who wants to work for a company where love is a forbidden word.
To prevent others from reading their policy they didn't put it on the place
where they say it is.. smart move if you want to do business..
B.
At 08:08 22-03-2003 +0100, you wrote:
Not
Ouch.
There are several utils to test HP servers, use one to test your server.
I have seen one HP netserver which was behaving badly, turned out to be bad
RAM.
By now that box has been almost completely renewed. Only the PSU and case
or original..
B.
At 09:57 19-03-2003 -0500, you wrote:
Hi
Tell them they get an additional coffee break.. it's the same but you don't
have to change your clothes every time the server goes down :-)
B.
At 11:58 19-03-2003 -0500, you wrote:
thank you everyone for great ideas!
Gotta go put my flame retardant suit on and tell the users their server
will
Start using Sendmail and you'll find out more then you ever wanted to know
about DNS.
You'll have to learn it sooner or later so it'll better be sooner..
B.
Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it
needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
--
GRIN
They will find out..
Sooner or later...
Probably when it's to late...
/GRIN
B.
At 10:47 17-03-2003 -0800, you wrote:
Well they should - mail uses it.
Erik L. Vesneski
Sr. Systems Specialist
www.pmigroup.com
Ph#: 925-685-6161
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message-
From: Roger
At 10:17 14-03-2003 -0500, you wrote:
I guess we're kind of lucky. Our ISP filters all our mail before
delivering it to our Exchange server AND he doesn't charge us for it
(makes sense if you think about it - he's saving bandwidth as much as we
are). I don't know of all the rules he uses but there
At 10:46 13-03-2003 -0800, you wrote:
Sendmail isn't easy to setup, or administrator. We ran Sendmail for years
out in the DMZ, so I speak from much experience. If you must run
Sendmail, then I recommend the commercially supported Sendmail Switch,
which will run on Windows 2000, and is
It's ok to be a newbie but it's not OK to play stupid.
If someone is not clever enough or to lazy or whatever_you_want_to_call_it
to do a search on google or on a knowledgebase then how do they have the
guts to come to a list where ppl are who have spend time to educate
themselves and ask
If you follow these guidelines:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
You'll never get flamed. Not even on high tech Linux lists..
I've seen way to much questions which one could have answered easy by using
google, alltheweb or norhernlight. And within less time then to way for an
It's related but I'm not sure it will solve your problem.
Had an issue once with an W2K box running Exchange 2000. May was received
alright but wasn't delivered. I don't know the error the sender got back..
I didn't install that box in the first place but was called in because the
other
At 11:29 24-02-2003 +, you wrote:
Anyone got any comments, recommendations etc for server based SPAM filters?
Search the archive.
I think this is amongst the top 10 of the most asked questions on this list.
B.
_
List posting
Been there, done that. Most ISP's don't bother.
However, check to see a domainname and find out who is hosting it. I had
some success closing down the offenders website..
--B.
At 09:10 07-02-2003 -0800, you wrote:
trace the header ip's to track down the originator and get in contact with
the
3th party product, see archive.
--B.
At 13:32 10-02-2003 +, you wrote:
Is there any way of getting an Exchange 2000 server to collect pop3
email from other sources and deliver it to specific exchange mailboxes?
I mean all automatic from the server...
Perhaps you're an open relay. Check your settings, you could also use one
of the online services.
Use SMTP logging.
Did you scan het messages inside the queue? If a few of your users are
infected it might look the same.
--B.
At 10:26 24-01-2003 +0200, you wrote:
Dear all,
When I check the
One of my customers thought they were smart and bought Popbeamer. They got
a fixed IP and everything needed to use SMTP e-mail..
Popbeamear seems to work pretty well for them. No reports of lost email..
Before MS came with their own POP3 connector for NT SBS there was a product
from (IIRC)
Information in the headers..
If my memory serves me right, June was the time of one of the large virus
outbreaks no? if so then the messages might have been sitting at someones
queueu (AV).
A problem I've seen on a Exchange box was that the DNS could not resolve
the domain and the message
. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity
Atlanta, GA
-Original Message-
From: B. van Ouwerkerk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:16 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Re: (Very) Delayed delivery
Information
Something like this:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2002-07/0196.html
Other SMTP servers: www.google.com
--B.
At 14:03 15-01-2003 -0800, you wrote:
From time to time my users receive the error listed below when attempting
to send mail to that specific domain. Occasionally
for connections from Exchange server, to which he replied that they did not
use any antispam programs on Linux.
- Original Message -
From: B. van Ouwerkerk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: messages frozen in an SMTP queue
The Linux box might have some protection in place to prevent spam.
Blacklist, Sendmail configuration ( like sender domain does not resolve),
others.
Be nice to the Linux guy and ask if that might be the case.
I don't believe in many problems while communication between Exchange and
Linux. I'm
It's not up to you to tell what is or is not against a company policy.
You don't have to understand it..
--B.
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.
No artist ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
-- Jean Giradoux
You could use logging to see if the user is sending such mails. Anyway it
will tell you if such mails are send from your network or at least via your
server.
Make sure your server is not an open relay.
If it was up to me I would check the queue's too. Spammers usually don't
send just one
At 15:06 09-12-2002 -0800, you wrote:
I was curious as to how hard it is to set up Exchange for Sending and
Receiving faxes. Is it worthwhile? Would a standalone fax machine be
better? Are there a lot of headaches involved?
Been there done that.
Installed ZetaFAX. It integrates nicely with
IMHO filtering should be done server-side. All mail send to my own company
has to pass through several filters before it hits any real mailbox. About
98% of all spam and virusses are caught.
The mail that didn't make it is inspected manually.
Blocking based on domainname is a bad idea. Wouldn't
I just re-read his original posting. I really don't understand why he's
called rude.
I think he should have added that some RBL's don't even know what an RBL is
supposed to do. And they're clueless about the damage they can do when not
operated in The_Right_Way. Spews is a good example of a
Saw this product announced today:
http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/suse_business/openexchange/
So what are peoples opinions on this. Haven't there been other exchange
replacements in the past that tried and failed?
Don't think one should talk about exchange replacements. Without
I don't think this or any other tech related list is hostile towards
newcomers. On Linux related lists (about 98% of all lists I'm subscribed
to) it's usually enough to tell what you did to solve your problem. Explain
you did search the archives, used google, searched the M$ KB (for M$
related
of interesting though.
Jeff
-Original Message-
From: B. van Ouwerkerk [mailto:ouwerkerk92;zonnet.nl]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 6:35 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: RBL's - Please Get over it
I don't think this or any other tech related list is hostile towards
newcomers
Fifth - Im not even going to bother with your comment regarding my
abilities as an admin because im too serious as it has no relevance to
one's ability to do anything except, possibly, standup comedy. (OK, so I
guess I did bother...).
Let me rephrase:
FInd and replace: you -- someone. How
Seen something simular. It had nothing to do with the server..
I moved the temporary internet files (or whatever that particular system
called it) to another disk. I think the registry had still a setting to
drive C while the folder was moved to drive D. The first problem was
reported about 2
My question to the group is: is there anyone using a product out there that
they are pleased with and that is preventing SPAM from getting to the end
user, that does not send additional mails to the user telling them that
their SPAM has been deleted?
Any advise and or guidance on this topic
Hi,
Could you fine ppl please prevent your mailclient from sending out of the
office replies when the message comes from a list
The original subject of this messages was out of the office replies.. but
that got rejected..
TIA,
B.
A guy from another corp managed to sell and install a W2000 server with
Exch 2000 enterprise to a customer with a dailup (SBS2K would have done).
Anyway, SMTP connector status goes to unavailable and I seem to be unable
to figure out how to force it back to available. Even worse, it doesn't
dail
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