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Title Date Comments
Kerio Troubleshooting   2012 05 
- There are only a very few things that will completely prevent Kerio Mailserver from starting. Usually this would come from a confused or mangled configuration file, but there are other conditions that can cause Kerio to refuse to start. -
Kerio Mail Server Spam Filtering   2012 05  2012/05/24 TonyLawrence
- Kerio Mail Server has several configuration options to protect against spam email. For maximum protection, you should investigate and set all appropriate items. -
Android phone crashes email account   2012 05  2012/05/18 Kanti
- A misbehaving Android phone caused a user to send duplicate messages - hundreds of them. We stopped that quickly by deleting her account on the phone (it's easy to recreate), but two weeks later her email stopped working -
Troubleshooting Outlook KOC problems on new Windows 7 machines   2012 05  2012/05/04 TonyLawrence
- Troubleshooting can lead us down strange paths. Join me as we watch new Windows 7 machines act up after joining a domain. -
Hosted vs. Cloud vs. In House Applications   2012 05  2012/05/21 NickBarron
- Is cloud computing a better choice than in house servers for applications like email? Are in-house servers and apps antiquated? What factors do you need to consider when making a choice? -
Kerio Connect Administration API - setting user quotas   2012 04 
- The Kerio Administration API can help automate tasks that would otherwise be time consuming and perhaps error prone. Learn how to set user's quoatas with this simple example. -
Kerio Connect 7.4 due this month   2012 04 
- The 7.4 release of Kerio connect adds new tablet and smart phone support, improved spam filtering and user assigned access control to specific protocols. -
Your Kerio Connect mail server test drive   2012 04 
- Kerio makes it very easy to test drive all their products. Learn how to set up an internal test of Kerio Connect mailserver with this detailed guide. -
Why does Google want Google Apps resellers?   2012 04  2012/04/23 TonyLawrence
- I recently attended a Google Apps Reseller recruitment presentation. I don't think it's a good fit for me, but I'm cranky and hard to get along with, so I could be way off base. See what you think of my take away. -
Building contact lists from IMAP searches   2012 04 
- Did you ever think of data mining your emails? Your business emails are a rich source of information that can be used for compliance checking, building contact databases, spotting trends and so on. Use this simple code as inspiration for your own ideas! -
A Kerio Firewall transplant causes mail problems   2012 04  2012/04/06 TonyLawrence
- Moving a Kerio Control firewall to new hardware shouldn't be any trouble at all. In fact, it was not, but some red herrings led me to think that something had gone mysteriously wrong. -
Implementing a second level Spam folder with Kerio Connect   2012 03 
- Spam is spam, but some spam is spammier than others. We can use a Perl script to sort out second level spam. -
 
 
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Troubleshooting a scanner with an email gateway   2012 03  2012/03/28 NickBarron
- After an email conversion, the only problem was a scanner that could not send email. That should have been a simple fix, but we were led far astray. -
Using Kerio public folders in place of mail groups   2012 03  2012/04/01 Ralph
- While mail groups are one way to handle generic addreses like 'sales', Kerio's Public folders offers another method with more features. -
Import Contacts to Kerio Webmail   2012 03 
- Importing contacts for use in Kerio Webmail is not difficult. Here are two ways to do that. -
Kerio Connect Webmail as an alternative to Outlook   2012 03 
- Kerio Connect Webmail certainly isn't for everyone, but many users will find it to be far more than just 'adequate'. It is actually a powerful and easy to use mail client worthy of consideration. -
Synchronizing Kerio Connect mail folders for off-line use   2012 03 
- Kerio mail server is happy to be an IMAP server or be seen as an Exchange server (free connector needed for Outlook) but synchronization is entirely dependent on the client. -
Kerio Connect vs. Microsoft Exchange: mail storage   2012 03 
- Microsoft and Kerio use very different methods to store mail files. Learn what that difference means to you. -
Adding a new mail domain with Kerio Connect   2012 03  2012/03/24 TonyLawrence
- Acquiring another company can create many complications and email is just one of them. Here's how to handle the email portion with Kerio Connect Mailserver. -
Misconfigured router causes open SMTP relay   2012 03  2012/03/10 NickBarron
- The last thing you want is an active mailserver acting as an open relay. Learn how a misconfigured router caused that on an innocent Kerio server. -
Simple outgoing email for SCO Unix (and Linux)   2012 02  2012/02/27 TonyLawrence
- Configuring MMDF or Sendmail on SCO Unix was never fun and it only gets worse as fewer people care about any of it. Here is a simple fix for scripted outgoing email -
Email Archiving   2012 02 
- The legal necessity of email archiving has expanded in recent years. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires public companies to keep email archives for seven years and specific industries (health care, financial investments) may have other requirements. -
Kerio Connect Archive Script   2011 11 
- This script for the Kerio Connect mailserver (7.3 and up) creates subfolders of INBOX and moves older email into these. Kerio's automatic indexing will fix these up overnight. -
Kerio Connect Automatic Index Maintenance   2011 11  2011/11/22 TonyLawrence
- The latest Kerio Connect Mailserver release includes both on demand and automatic reindexing of users mail folders. I decided to abuse that and see what happens -
Kerio Connect Mailserver version 7.3   2011 11 
- Kerio Connect Mailserver version 7.3 is scheduled for release in early November 2011 and adds important features, including a few that I suggested and lobbied for earlier. -
Email addresses still matter (for now)   2011 09 
- Email: it has helped kill the post office, is the primary source of spam, is critical to many businesses and, after malware, is probably the single largest source of user difficulties. Every internet user has at least one email address and many of us have several. Email is ubiquitous and very important. It's also threatened: many people use services like Facebook and Google+ for most of their daily communication. Somewhat ironically, you typically need an email address to sign up for these services, but the deficiencies of email have even caused some to try to eschew it completely and only use alternatives like those. That trend may continue; in a decade or so, "email" may be as antiquated as "gopher" and "uucp" are today. -
Common email problems   2011 08  2011/09/02 ed
- Yesterday I talked about why you shouldn't send Word attachments in email. Today I'll continue with more attachment related issues and also touch on some other common email glitches. -
Why you shouldn't send Word attachments   2011 08  2011/08/31 BigDumbDinosaur
- As I continued my walk, I thought about how email issues are likely the most common mysteries my neighbors have with their computers. Notice that I said "mysteries" and not "problems". That's because most email issues are from misunderstanding and confusion, not necessarily any real problem. A virus infection is a problem. A dead hard drive is also a problem, but email is usually simple confusion or lack of knowledge. -
Let's NOT have an email discussion about this!   2011 08 
- This is a less than ideal way to truly have a discussion. If Bill replies to me and I reply to him and then we have to get Stephanie's input and she and Bill l have a little side conversation, things get messy, confused and hard to follow very quickly. There are better ways to handle this. -
Mysterious calendar in Kerio Webmail   2011 07 
- Troubleshooting a Kerio calendar: His calendar in Kerio also displays items from M's Google Calendar. This seems straight forward, except neither J or I set this up and both of our users c laim they don't know how it got set up this way. -
Using fail2ban with Kerio Connect mailserver   2011 06  2011/07/14 Pat
- Fail2ban is fussy about dates in log files; Kerio's security log does not meet its standards -
Helping my sister-in-law with Gmail   2011 06  2011/06/02 TonyLawrence
- I'd rather send pictures or a move than take control of their computer. They can refer back to what I sent over and over again. -
Sendmail VRFY   2004 09 
- In the process of doing some testing of a mail server, I noticed a piece of spam mail delivered to an address that no one should have known about. This disturbed me greatly, because the only place that address appeared was in the mail alias file on my server. Had my server been compromised? -
SpamCheetah as it stands today   2011 03 
- SpamCheetah is a greylisting spam control technique and it is more of a spam blocker rather than a spam filter since it really does not filter anything. -
Basic DNS: PTR records and why you care   2004 07  2011/05/02 BigDumbDinosaur
- A PTR record (sometimes called a "host PTR record") is what lets someone do a "reverse" DNS lookup - that is, they have your IP address and want to know what your host/domain is. -
How can I send email attachments from the command line?   1997-2003  2011/02/01 anonymous
- Sending attachments from the command line with mutt, uuencode and other methods. If it's just arbitrary text or a file you want to send, and don't care about it looking like a real attachment, you can use ordinary "mail" ("mailx" on some Unixes) at the command line. However, that's NOT a mime attachment - it's just your file mixed in to the mail message. However, some mail clients will see it and treat it as a real attachment, so this may be "good enough": -
How do I test a smtp mail connection?   1997-2003  2010/09/01 alain
- How do you manually test an SMTP connection? All you need is "telnet" and these instructions. -
How do I test an imap server?   1997-2003 
- How to test imap from command line. The "abc1" etc at the begining of each command is just a tag you make up. Supposedly it should be unique for each line; I've found you can actually use the same tag over and over again. -
Why run your own mail server?   2002 11  2010/04/10 darksider
- Indeed, why would you run your own mail server? Obviously it must cost more, at least for small companies with just a handful of mail accounts.. You have to buy hardware, and probably mail server software itself, and you have to maintain it, and feed it electricity. It seems like a dumb idea, right? Nope. It's actually a very good idea, and here (at last) are some of the reasons why. -
Google's Gmail   2004 06 
- Why is this so good? The problem all heavy email users have is organizing and searching our mail. It isn't the instantaneous reading and sending that is our major concern; it's finding records of conversations. In traditional email applications, we do that by dumping messages in folders, and tagging messages with labels or color codes. Gmail has a better way. -
Configuring a News Server   1999 01 
- iGuide to install and configure an INN 2.0 news server -
Understanding MX records   2005 12  2011/01/16 anonymous
- Mail Exchange records exoplained -
Fixing Large Kerio Mailboxes   2008 05  2011/11/29 TonyLawrence
- I bet you have customers who never delete anything out of their Inbox, or if they do, they never empty their deleted items folder. If they are using Outlook PST files, they will sooner or later crash. -
CleanCode Email   2003 11 
- Using Cleancode email client -
Gmail vs. in-house Mail Server   2007 10  2011/07/06 TonyLawrence
- Well, in fact I can recommend this for some cases. It may not be for everyone - there are some disadvantages - but it can make a lot of sense and the price is reasonable, especially for very small organizations. -
Mac OS X Mail Client   2002 12 
- Mac OS X Mail Client -
Using the spooler to print to email   2003 12 
- First define a new spooler destination using the dumb interface script and /dev/null for the device. Give your new spooler destination a name - I called mine email displaying a deficit of imagination. Next, change directory to /usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/interfaces and edit email if that's what you called it. I use and like vi for editing but you can use whatever editor you like. Finally, I added a line, changing the FILTER to get the emailing done. -
Network Troubleshooting   2010 03  2010/03/16 AndrewSmallshaw
- As it turned out, the problem was very physical: a light fixture had fallen down and loosened some connections to a long forgotten ethernet switch. -
sendmail setup guide   1997-2004 
- To thwart the ever-growing problem of junk and spam email, which in many cases cripples systems and daily, business operations it will be necessary to convert a growing number of systems to newer and more secure methods of mail deliver. Methods to implement include the blocking of mail relaying through systems. Checks of who is sending mail and who is authorized to do so. Creation of blacklisted senders from which mail will always be rejected. Creation of white lists specifying each individual who is allowed mail access while denying all others. Using new techniques of identifying sources of spam email such as real time black hole lists and content filtering such as spamassassin. -
Kerio Mailserver vs. Microsoft Exchange   2009 03 
- I sell Kerio because I like the product and the company. I do not like it because I sell it. -
 
 
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Using Free Google Gmail with your Domain   2009 01  2011/10/13 TonyLawrence
- shifting your hosted email domain to the hands of Gmail -
Kerio Mail Server with Spamassassin   2006 07  2011/02/04 TonyLawrence
- Cross platform ( Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX) mail server: Before we get into the details, let me say that I was very impressed. This is well done, and they have paid attention to important details. I have a few minor nit-picks here and there, but over all I can highly recommend it. -
Lan sniffing with a DualComm port mirroring switch and Windump   2010 01  2010/01/23 TonyLawrence
- Using Dualcomm Port Mirroring switch and Winump -
Kerio Pricing   2007 12 
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ClamAV on Mac   2006 06 
- Clam AV on Mac OS X with Kerio Mailserver -
Kerio Webmail   2009 03 
- webmail with full functioned drag and drop, includes calendaring, scheduling, shared folders -
Spamassassin on Mac OS X   2003 03 
- Spamassassin on Mac OS X -
Installing Spamassassin   2005 12 
- The word 'Spam' as applied to email means Unsolicited Bulk Email ('UBE') or Unsolicited Commercial Email ('UCE') -
mail carriage return newlines -->Re CarriageReturns????   1997-2004 
- mail carriage return newlines -->Re: CarriageReturns???? -


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