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This is our spam / virus filter update for customers on the mx1 / mx2.tnpw.net filtering cluster. The information is brought to you by our vendor, Spam Experts. What’s new this week: Catch-all aliases: You have long been able to set up aliases at a domain level, so that any mail @example.com gets redirected to the […]
This is our spam / virus filter update for customers on the mx1 / mx2.tnpw.net filtering cluster. The information is brought to you by our vendor, SpamExperts.  What’s new this week: Email user level whitelist & blacklists Over the last couple of weeks, we have been working hard on getting the email user level whitelisting […]
This is our spam / virus filter update for customers on the mx1 / mx2.tnpw.net filtering cluster. The information is brought to you by our vendor, Spam Experts. What’s new this week: Front-End: We have extended the “sub admin” functionality that we recently added, so that it is more flexible. Rather than an all-or-nothing option, […]
I have posted a number of tips to use DB2. If you haven’t used DB2 before, it is one of the best databases out there, and best of all, it is available completely free from IBM. Get your DB2 discovery kit from IBM. As Grant Allen puts it in Beggining DB2, “IBM has even thought […]
To deploy a Sametime environment with multiple levels of licensing, multiple Sametime servers with each respective license versions needed (Entry, Standard, etc.). The Sametime wiki has a number of useful resources to plan out a complex Sametime deployment: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/page.xsp?documentId=6F6353B28F5FB51185257775007AC431&action=openDocument http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/dx/1.3_Lotus_Sametime_product_family http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/xpViewCategories.xsp?lookupName=Learning%20Center And here are some documents that delve into the details: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/dx/Chapter_2._Planning_a_Sametime_8.5.1_deployment http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/sametime/v8r5/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.help.sametime.v851.doc/plan/plan_topol_deploy.html
It is likely that you need to turn off virus scanning of outgoing mail. Details how to do this for Norton AntiVirus 2002 on Windows XP: Start Norton AntiVirus (START|PROGRAMS|Norton Antivirus|Norton Antivirus 2002) Click on “Options” In the section “Internet” click on “Email” In the section “What to scan” remove ticks from “Scan outgoing Email […]
Even though Domino servers tend to be very stable, it may happen that every now and then there is a crash. In that case it is good to be able to provide appropriate details to IBM. Here are some recommendations form IBM tech support: Make sure gdb is installed on the OS (Unix OSs only) […]
Ever wondered how to exclude a string from grep? Last week I decided to dig until I find the answer, as I had to find a “lost” DB2 script in a pile of archives. It turns out that grep has a feature called “grep for all except”. Finally found that on a mailing list archive […]
Email Hosting Issue: email looping on cPanel (Exim) When your server’s email flow stops, it is like the lifeblood of a company that stops. As soon as an email issue appears we have to jump on them immediately and get to the core of the problem. Smart trouble-shooting is key. At this point, we have […]