You should not have to touch every end user workstation to make such a
simple config change.
Windows, Outlook, and Active Directory can be controlled via scripting.
(Yes, I'm going out on a limb and guessing you're in the 90% of
businesses that run all three for end users and their
Stephen Schaff wrote:
I just moved my super-fantastic spamd soekris in front of a new mail
server that requires SMTP Auth to send mail... and it broke. No one
can send mail from that server.
My old server didn't require SMTP Auth and it worked fine.
i have spamd setup at work and have users
have your smtp-auth people use port 587/465[1]. That will also solve
the problem of traveling users being blocked at public access points.
[1] smtp+sasl or smtp wrapped in ssl, depending on the client. Don't
forget to enable this in your MTA.
On 2007 May 22 (Tue) at 10:22:19 -0600
Since having users change their settings can be problematic in many
environments, instead change the MX record. This way you can
implement spamd right away and your users will not have to change
anything. Though I would suggest moving the users to 587/465 in the
future so that they don't
Trust me - bit the bullet and change to 587/465 anyway.
we had to for road warriors because 25 is blocked in so many
places anyway from walkups. You're better just getting your
users to switch.
* Chad M Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-22 12:46]:
Since having users change
That's a really good point. However we have about 200 users we'd have
to get to switch their mail settings - 99% of don't know what mail
settings are of course.
Changing ports could prove very painful. I will definitely consider
it though, given how painful email is without greylisting.
Write them step by step instructions, with screenshots for the client
they use. Tell them they have 30 days (for example), remind them at 15
and the day before.
I've done the above at several work sites (400ish and 50ish), and once
management was on board, it was very simple. A tiny bit of
Stephen Schaff wrote:
That's a really good point. However we have about 200 users we'd have to
get to switch their mail settings - 99% of don't know what mail settings
are of course.
Changing ports could prove very painful. I will definitely consider it
though, given how painful email is
arlo guthrie
...
We walked in, sat down, Obie brought up the the help desk page with
the twenty seven 800 x 600 colour glossy screenshots with circles and
arrows and a paragraph below each one explaining what each one was to
be used to show Windows users what to do. Luser came in and
Ah, yes. That refers to normal instructions, usually by corporations
that charge you obscene amounts of money to send you gibberish. But it
is possible to write instructions that people can follow. And if you get
mgmt to agree, you can require people read your instructions. Do this,
or your
On Tue, 22 May 2007 16:08:10 -0600, Bob Beck wrote:
arlo guthrie
...
We walked in, sat down, Obie brought up the the help desk page with
8snip
And you can get anything you want at Bob Beck's Restaurant,
as long as it's moose!
Loved it Bob!
You are not just a good coder.
Thanks, the
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