19/04/2009 by Paul.

The following KB covers how to use Telnet to communicate directly with SMTP servers.

How To Test SMTP Services Manually in Windows Server 2003

These steps are excellent to help understand issues with mail flow.

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23/02/2009 by Paul.

If you are suffering from delayed messages or you need to better understand the message path for inbound mails the place to look is the SMTP message header.

In outlook you can get this by right clicking on the message and choosing properties. In the window displayed the header information is in a box towards the bottom.

The text in here can be very difficult to follow - especialyl if it passes through several time zones.

The following website allows you to paste the header data directly in and then it will show you each server that touched the message and the time between each stage.

http://www.mxtoolbox.com/EmailHeaders.aspx

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19/03/2007 by Paul.

Here is some useful information on SCL levels in IMF as well as a good way to report on the SCL levels of the mail processed by your exchange system

SCL Info -

http://www.exchangeinbox.com/articles/001/imftune2.htm

Reporting through Perfmon

http://www.exchangeinbox.com/articles/021/imf_perfmon.htm

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24/01/2007 by Paul.

This blog shows how to view exchange public folder data within a sharepoint page.

This could be very useful to aid email archiving for projects as the public folder can be mail enabled.

Also this would allow a public calendar to be updated in Outlook but displayed in sharepoint - this is the opposite from what happens when you mount a sharepoint calendar into outlook.

http://weblogs.asp.net/wkriebel/archive/2004/10/28/249195.aspx

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22/01/2007 by Paul.

If you require all outgoing messages to include a confidentiality statement there are three options.

1 - Safe and Simple - Add the text onto the end of the Business Signature. If you don’t already have a Business Signature now is a great time to get one setup and do the confidentiality message at the same time.

2 - Get some software - PolicyPatrol - This software offers automation of Confidentiality statements and Signatures. The cost of this software is about $250 for a 25 user network.

3 - Get your hands dirty - KB317327 - This gives you the code to write your own .DLL file and attach it to the SMTP feed of your exchange server. As I can’t even begin to think about attempting this I really can’t recommend it unless you know what you are doing. My rule is normally - “If YOU can’t fix it - don’t do it.”

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16/01/2007 by Paul.

If you need to book out shared resourses and keep track of requests and time tabling why not use Exchange 2003 to look after this for you.

Click here for the full article

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