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MAILING LISTS AND NEWSLETTERS IN NEW VERSION |
We've banged on about Mail Essentials many times, and the latest version is even better, not just offering anti-spam facilities but also additional mail management features such as:
Automated Newsletters
Easy to run Mailing Lists
Archive emails to database
Anti-Spam
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The anti-spam tools are impressive in their own right, using Bayesian filters that almost intelligently recognise spam (and Ham - that’s good email to you and me). There are also new tricks for recognising spam by the embedded mail information, not just the text.
Administration is simplified greatly with Version 10. With V10 users can simply mark mail themselves as good and bad, providing individual tailoring. Similarly users can add their own entries to blacklists and whitelists.
Whitelists can now also contain keywords as well as domains and addresses, a very useful new feature.
Newsletters and discussion lists
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Mail Essentials includes list server functionality. A list server is the best method for distributing company newsletters since it automates the process to subscribe and unsubscribe (required by anti-spam regulations). So far, list servers have been expensive and difficult to administer, and did not integrate with Exchange Server. The Mail Essentials list server changes all this as it is competitively priced and integrates with Exchange. It can use Microsoft Access or Microsoft SQL Server as the backend and supports both newsletter lists and discussion lists.
[Ed's note: basically we had stopped issuing newsletters because of the opt-in requirement for new subscribers, well Mail Essentials will handle that for us, hence the return of the newsletter!]
Mail archiving
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Mail Essentials can archive all inbound and outbound mail to a SQL Server database. You can then search for particular mail, or an entire email thread using the standard web interface.
About Mail Essentials for Exchange/SMTP
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MailEssentials offers spam protection at server level and eliminates the need to install and update anti-spam software on each desktop. It offers a fast set-up and a high spam detection rate using Bayesian analysis and other methods - no configuration required, very low false positives through its automatic whitelist, and the ability to automatically adapt to the email environment to constantly tune and improve spam detection.
Pricing is very competitive, as low as £10 per user depending on volume. The price is so low that the time you save in not having to deal with spam is definitely worth more than you pay for the product.
See http://www.c2000.com/products for more information
REVEAL THOSE FORGOTTEN PASSWORDS |
PassUnleash is a sneaky little program that reveals hidden passwords. Where you've got that list of "*******" indicating a password so tantalisingly close, just point PassUnleash at it and the hidden password is revealed.
This is a freeware program and seems to work fine, though I have seen $49 products that do exactly the same thing.
See http://www.c2000.com/software for more information
HELP - MY MACHINE IS TOO FAST! |
It's no good, you need to select a few lines below the end of the screen, as soon as you position the mouse over the bottom of the page Word whizzes off down the document and before you know it you've hit the end. From there it's impossible to get back 'cos Word will now whizz off and overshoot at the other end.
Here's the trick. Click where you want the selection to start - use the scroll bar or whatever to where you want the selection to end. Hold down the Shift key and click again.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
MOVING THE LOCATION OF MY DOCUMENTS |
Here's a trick I use often when there is a workgroup server available with proper backups and so on.
1) Right click on the "My Documents" icon and select Properties
2) Click on the "Move" button, find the new folder you want, click OK
3) Click OK again to move the files.
Note, all your files are moved, so you don't lose the original collection.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
GET RID OF THE "ASSISTANT" |
I hate the Assistant it's a slow, annoying and patronising piece of software and I would be glad never to see it again - what a piece of bloatware!
To get rid of the thing:
1) Right click the assistant
2) Select Properties
3) Deselect "Use the Office Assistant"
4) Click OK
It' gone!
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
EVENT LOG ERRORS YOU CAN IGNORE |
The trouble with the W2K event log is does collect chaff as well as wheat - while it's a valuable tool in investigating some problems you may also find large number of errors of the same type over and over again.
Here is a short list of some of those errors which are common in terminal server or multi-server environments, what they mean and why you can ignore them.
SYSTEM LOG EVENTS
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TermServDevices: An internal communication error occurred. Redirected printing will no longer function.
Can safely be ignored
This events occurs when a user logsoff - any printers they may have had on their machine (including shares) no longer are available to the system so it reports the event.
MRSCMB: The redirector failed to determine the connection type.
Can safely be ignored.
This message is given whenever a shared folder is mapped to a network drive, in many setups a user may connect several shared drives when they first login.
Server 2506: The value named IRPStackSize in the server's Registry key LanmanServer\Parameters was invalid. The value was ignored, and processing continued.
This is due to Norton Anti Virus overwriting the correct registry value: open the following registry key:
HKey_Local_Machine/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/lanmanserver/parame
ters
Set the IRPStackSize value to 6 or 11.
WINS encountered a database error. This may or may not be a serious error. WINS will try to recover from it.
You can check the database error events under 'Application Log' category of the Event Viewer for the Exchange Component, ESENT, source to find out more details about database errors. If you continue to see a large number of these errors consistently over time (a span of few hours), you may want to restore the WINS database from a backup.
FILE REPLICATION LOG
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The File Replication Service has enabled replication from W2K3 to W2K1 for c:\winnt\sysvol\domain after repeated retries. And all similar messages.
Can safely be ignored.
These messages nearly always result when one or more connected servers are re-booted. As the servers come back online they try and re-connect to each other, but of course different servers may be at different stages of the reboot (or still powered down).
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
WORD HAS A WWW WILL OF IT'S OWN |
By default, Word 2000 turns anything that is an email address or a web address into a live, working, clickable hyperlink. Click the link and your browser or email start up.
But, what if you've mistyped the address - it's now darn difficult to fix. Use the cursor keys to position the cursor somewhere on the link then right-click and select Edit Hyperlink.
And if you don't want it all - and really I can't see why you would in any printed document - you can turn it off. Select Tools, Autoformat and unselect the internet option.
You can still create a hyperlink manually, just select the text and press Ctrl-K
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
MAKING TCAP CHANGES TAKE EFFECT |
A common query is after updating the Tcap file to change effects definitions on screen there seems to be no change in the Uniplex display.
There are two steps you must then go through to make Uniplex pick up the effects
Firstly, the Tcap file must be re-compiled using the command:
syscomp [term-name]
Secondly, Uniplex must be re-started for the changes to take affect.
If you are still using Uniplex, we still provide hot-line support and consultancy for Uniplex users. If you have moved from Uniplex then don't forget we have tools to convert your old Uniplex data and applications.
See http://www.c2000.com/uniplex for more information
TEMPORARY INTERNET FILE SPACE |
Every time you visit a web page Internet Explorer caches the page contents to disk, so that the next time you visit the same page it is quickly pulled from file rather than slowly downloaded over the internet.
However, if you want to clear those files - because they are taking up a lot of space, or because you are worried about the content then you can do this simply through the IE Internet options tab.
1) In Internet Explorer, select Tools, Internet Options
2) Under the "Temporary Internet Files" section on the General tab, click Delete Files.
If you are low on disk space and want to restrict the size of the cache you can do this at the same place.
3) Under the "Temporary Internet Files" section click "Settings" and adjust the slider to the disk space setting you want.
Incidentally, deleting the temporary files can take a looooonnnnggg time. There can be thousands of small files there and Windows does not deal with lots of files well. This process can take many minutes so be patient.
ELECTRONIC TEXT CENTER |
This is one of those bookish things I know, but I still love the fact that the internet continues to delivery absolutely masses of valueable things for absolutely nothing. See, humanity does have a common spirit really.
Anyway, the Electronic Text Centre has 1,000's of texts in English and many other languages too. Just a random sample: Coleridge, Best Sellers 1900-1930, English Poetry database AD600-1900, Oxford English Dictionary 2nd Edition...
See http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ for more information
FREE TECHNICAL NEWSLETTERS |
One website you really should visit is www.freetechmail.org, where they have lists of hundreds of free email newsletters you can subscribe too. Ours is of course one of them, but there are so many good newsletters and covering some very niche areas.
Strongly recommend this web site.
See http://www.freetechmail.org for more information
ENHANCING DIGITAL PORTRAITS ON YOUR PC |
This is an e-book which covers all you need to know about taking your average pictures and turning them into magazine quality pictures.
It avoids all the boring nonsense about how to use your graphics program and gets straight to the point, how to make your pictures look better.
It comes on CD its so big with hundreds of pictures, diagrams and examples. The original images are all on the CD so you can try the techniques yourself.
See http://www.digitalwomen.co.uk for more information
QUICKLY MOVING AROUND OUTLOOK |
In Outlook you don't have to keep opening and closing windows to look at appointments, tasks, contacts or messages. Once you have the window open you can move up and down through the list using:
Ctrl + > Next Item in folder
Ctrl + < Previous item in folder.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
LINKING WORDS TOGETHER |
To make sure that words stay together (eg: "Mr Jones" or "Office 2000"), press Control Shift Spacebar between words in place of the usual space. This means that the words will never be split over the beginning and end of a line but will always appear directly next to each other.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
OUR ABILITY TO READ. |
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
See http://www.c2000.com/fun for more information
ADVICE ON LOGGING IN AS ROOT |
Topic: Re: Log in as root See http://www.c2000.com/fun for more information
From: Blinky the Shark
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Krishnan Nagarajan wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:56:10 +0100
>> How do I get Root to be able to log in using the login screen
>> at startup. All I have is one user showing and no root login?
> It is YOUR RIGHT to login as whatever user you feel like
> on a machine/system that belongs to you;
It's also his right to squeeze his own testicles until his pancreas shoots out the top of his head. That doesn't make it a good idea.
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