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  • Anti-Spam Software

    Spam Assault! v1.2 [1.0M] W9x/2k/XP US$9.90
    Spam Assault! filters and blocks junk e-mail by detecting bogus
    Reply To addresses, filtering spam keywords (such as "free" or
    "bankrupt"), blocking an unlimited number of identified spam
    senders, and by blocking an unlimited number of identified spam
    domain names. The program maintains a Save List of valid
    addresses. Each time you receive a message from a valid sender,
    mark it for the Save List. Any future e-mail from that address
    will be automatically saved, regardless of any "filtered" content.
    SpamAssault! will remove about 90% of spam within two weeks of
    daily usage.

    http://www.gnomedownloads.com/Internet/EMail-AntiSpam/spam-assault.html

    SpamPal v1.06 [777k] W9x/2k/XP FREE
    I hate receiving spam, but then, who doesn't? You hear a lot about spam-fighting products like Spam Assassin, which is a great product as long as you modify the base configuration.
    Otherwise, you could (with the base configuration) say goodbye to your Lockergnome newsletters along with most other HTML-based newsletters, because Spam Assassin is based on points... and HTML e-mails rack up a ton of points. Some ISPs only give you the
    choice of turning Spam Assassin on or off, but you can't configure it not to block respectable publishers like Lockergnome. Don't worry. I have a solution for you in the form of SpamPal. "SpamPal is a mail classification program that can help separate your spam from the mail you really want to read." You set up SpamPal to check your e-mail against any number of the freely-usable "blocking lists" (DNSBL lists). You control the "whitelist," so you can approve anyone you want to receive e-mail from, regardless of whether they are on a blocking list or not. People and mail servers with whom you correspond frequently are Automatically Whitelisted - without you having to lift a finger! If someone isn't on any of your blocking lists but you think the e-mail should be blocked, then just add them to your local "blacklist." If you don't want to automatically delete the spam then you can have the program put "**SPAM**" in the subject of the message so you can set a mailbox rule to filter your possible spam from the rest of your Inbox. These are just some of the features and if you hate spam, then I would certainly encourage you to download SpamPal.

    http://www.spampal.org.uk/
     
  • Spell-Checkers of OWA

    http://www.messageware.com
    http://www.spellchecker.com

Exchange and Outlook Tips

  • After I installing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 a my domain
    controller (DC), the will DC take a long time to shut down

    Exchange relies heavily on Active Directory (AD) and uses several
    services to optimize AD communication. One of these services is the
    DSAccess service, which provides a cache of information from AD to
    various Exchange components, including the Information Store (IS), the
    Message Transfer Agent (MTA), and any other component that requires AD
    information. By recovering cached AD information, Exchange requires
    fewer direct queries to the DCs.

    When you shut down a Windows Server 2003 DC, its services stop very
    quickly--faster than Windows 2000 services shut down, which is why
    this problem appears to be new to Windows 2003. An example of one such
    affected service is the Local Security Authority Subsystem (LSASS).
    DSAccess uses this service heavily. Because this service stops before
    DSAccess can stop cleanly, the DSAccess service goes through several
    timeouts before the system can shut down (these timeouts are set to 10
    minutes by default). Other Exchange services have a similar problem,
    causing even longer delays.

    To resolve these delays, you can create a script that you manually run
    before stopping your computer, and the script will stop each Exchange
    service cleanly because AD is still running. Sample content for the
    script might include

    net stop msexchangeis
    net stop msexchangemta
    net stop msexchangemgmt
    net stop msexchangesa
    net stop resvc
    net stop smtpsvc
    net stop w3svc
    net stop httpfilter
    net stop http
    net stop iisadmin
    net stop winhttpautoproxysvc

    You can also add the Shutdown command to the end of your script to
    automate the whole shutdown and restart process.

    Another approach is to change the amount of time Windows 2003 waits
    before killing a service that's not responding. To adjust this timeout
    period, perform the following steps:
    1. Start a registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe).
    2. Navigate to the
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control registry subkey.
    3. Double-click WaitToKillServiceTimeout.
    4. Change the value from the default of 600000 (10 minutes) to
    something else (e.g., 20000 for 20 seconds), then click OK.
    5. Close the registry editor.

    Be aware that changing this registry value will change the wait period
    for all services to stop, so setting this value too low might cause
    problems with services if the OS is killing them before they can
    cleanly finish.
  • Outlook Personal Folders Backup Add-in
     
  • Using a Shortcut to Generate a Message

    You can I add a shortcut on my Send To menu to send a file as an email attachment to a particular person. As you probably know, Windows generates the Send To menu from a group of shortcuts in the user's SendTo folder, which usually is a subfolder of the user's Windows profile folder. To create a Send To shortcut that displays a message to a particular person, create a Windows shortcut in the SendTo folder that uses as the target the command

    "C:\program files\microsoft office\office\outlook.exe" /c ipm.note /m somebody@somewhere.com

    where the path to outlook.exe is adjusted to fit your system and you replace somebody@somewhere.com with the actual name or address of the person you want to send to. If the name or address contains spaces, enclose it with quotation marks. The shortcut lets you generate a mail message by right-clicking any file.
     
  • Problems with PST file burnt to a CD-ROM

    If you export Outlook data to a Personal Folders (.pst) file, but you might find that you can't import from that .pst file back into Outlook. You will get a pop-up message that says "Properties for this information service must be defined prior to use," followed by a second pop-up message that says "File access is denied. You do not have the permission required to access the file.This situation typically occurs when a user burns a .pst file to a CD-ROM for safe long-term storage. Outlook requires write access to a .pst file; otherwise, you'll see those two pop-up messages. The solution is to make sure the .pst file is on a drive on which the user has write access, then check the file's properties to make sure it isn't marked for read-only access.
     
  • Microsoft connects Outlook to Lotus Domino

    This weekend, Microsoft released a software update for Microsoft Outlook 2002 email and personal information manager (PIM) software that lets the product connect to servers running IBM's Lotus Domino, the major competitor to Microsoft Exchange Server. The Microsoft Outlook 2002 Connector lets Outlook users access email, calendar, address book, and task information stored on servers running Lotus Domino Release 5. Microsoft created the product with the cooperation of developers at IBM.

    "Many of our customers with Domino servers have told us they would like to give their employees the opportunity to use the latest version of Outlook," said Ralf Harteneck, corporate vice president of the Communication and Meeting Services Group at Microsoft. "Microsoft strives to make Office and its family of applications as valuable as possible in a variety of IT infrastructures. The Connector is one way we're doing that and addressing the needs of those customers."

    Any Outlook 2002 (or Office XP) user can use the Outlook 2002 Connector. The update is a free download available from the Microsoft
    Web site.

    http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/journ/outxpcon.htm
     
  • ADDING A RECIPIENT TO THE SEND TO MENU

    As you probably know, Windows generates the Send To menu from a group of shortcuts in the user's SendTo folder, which typically is in the user's Windows profile folder. To create a Send To shortcut that points to a particular person, create a Windows shortcut in the SendTo folder that uses as the target the command

    "C:\program files\microsoft office\office\outlook.exe" /c ipm.note /m somebody@somewhere.com

    The path to outlook.exe should reflect that file's location on your system, and somebody@somewhere.com is the name or address of the person for whom you want to add a shortcut. If the name or address contains spaces, enclose it with quotation marks. You can then right-click any file, choose the recipient's name from the Send To menu, and send the file to that person.
  • How can to  remove the M drive from Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server


     
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