Thanks to a tip from Sikko2Go (an interesting monicker, to be sure.), I was able to get the comments emailed again. For those of you keeping score at home the relevant changes are:
Change "CDONTS.NewEmail" to "CDO.MESSAGE"
Change "mail.Body=MailBody" to "mail.htmlBody=MailBody"
Take out the next line "mail.importance=1". - I'm not sure if there's something you can change it to but I made the first two changes and this line was throwing up an error about "importance" not being a supported item so I took it out completely and everything works fine and dandy.
I'm still resolving to the old host at home and work, emails seem to be going to both places depending on the sender and comments are a bit wonky depending on which one you're resolving to, (including Angela's comments which are hosted here) so again, don't expect too much blogging for a few days! Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark|
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Over the next couple of days this site is going to be moving to a different server. I know of one thing that will break, but nothing that you all will notice. (The feature that emails the comments to me uses CDONTS, which is not available in Windows 2003. That won't work until I figure out how to switch the code to use CDOSYS, if I ever do. *L*)
As Dana pointed out, this is an interesting article about Microsoft adding a built-in virus scanner to Windows XP SP2. I'm torn, obviously. On one hand, for all those home users who never seem to be able to use AV properly, maybe this isn't such a bad thing. Although many still won't remember to update it, is it going to be automatically self-updating? If so, is that necessarily a good thing? I can see arguments either way. On the other, is it going to be like the firewall or zip utility that's built in to XP now, where they aren't as good as other products on the market? And is that going to force out the better products?
I also need more information on these incompatibilities with SP2 and other AV products. There's no way the built-in virus scanner could replace all the functionality I get from Symantec Corporate Edition, but if Symantec won't even work with SP2, I'm not going to be installing the service pack to begin with until that's fixed. I get the feeling this is going to bear keeping a close eye on over the next few weeks and months.
The reports I can pull include a report on traffic by recipient, which includes email addressed to accounts that don't exist. The woman who used to be listed as our website's contact when you did a Whois search hasn't worked here in almost 4 years. Her address was last accesible by doing a Whois more than 3 years ago. There have been over 800 emails addressed to her that came in this last week. Her email address has been undeliverable for almost 4 years, yet she still gets more spam than anyone else here who's address is active. This shows me two things:
One, that Whois information, at least before safeguards were put in place, was a popular place to collect addresses for spammers.
This article really says it all about virus alerts coming from email gateways.
After blocking a flood of Mydoom e-mails, it spams users with alerts that create a general panic.
That's true even in small offices. You've got other email gateways sending back virus warnings in response to emails with spoofed "from" addresses as well as virus warnings coming from our own gateway about incoming infections. Despite numerous explanations and warnings about what these are, the first instinct of an end user is to call the IT Department. When you are the guy getting those calls and emails, you get swamped very quickly. Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark|
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Monday, February 23, 2004
Palm question
So Angela's parents were staying with us this weekend, and her dad brought his Palm with him. Now, ordinarily he uses this to sync notes and other things and he hasn't, in the short time he's had this one, made any attempts to use the built-in wireless. Since we have wireless running around the house, we thought it would be a good opportunity to show him how to use it. Only one problem, that took some time to figure out, the Palm's default settings are to use a VPN connection. The only way to get it to connect to our wifi network was to go through a number of option screens until I finally found the option to disable VPN. What's up with that? Is that a default Palm setting or something specific to this manufacturer? And why is it a default? Just the curious ramblings of a non-Palm user.. Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark|
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False negatives
Andy, in the comments on those Postini posts I made late last week, asked about false negatives, email that got blocked as spam but really wasn't. I told him that since I don't use my email account to get newsletters or other "bulk" type emails, my account may not be the best measurement of how that's working. After a few days of having all the accounts loaded in there, it appears that of the 1,077 messages blocked by Postini, only 13 have been manually delivered by users, so we're talking about 1.2% of all messages. I suspect that after some use, some initial identification of what are legit newsletters and whitelist creation by users that number will all but disappear.
Some of you may have noticed that tomorow is my wife's birthday. Since she gets up earlier than I do to head out to work in the morning, I'm posting this tonight so she'll see it in the morning. I hope you have a happy birthday today sweetheart, can't wait to see you tonight and take you to my secret place for your birthday dinner. I love you!
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