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sgeorge ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 23 August 2005 Status: Offline Points: 178 |
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Hello, I would much appeciate some assistance/advice on how to generate an up-to-to date AuthorizedTo list for my domain - which uses Active Directory. Ideally, I'd like the capacity to:
Cheers, Stephen |
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caratking ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 13 March 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 79 |
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I can probably provide you with some code for this. We had the same problem. I put together some code that will run as a windows script file, connect to active directory and extract all email addresses. It dumps that information to a text file, and then connects to each of our mail servers (we have a cluster) and updates the list of email users. This way the majority of bogus email addresses that spammers try and use never hit our exchange server - saving TONS of processing power. Without this, we could not handle the volumes of spam we get every day. Drop me an email if you would like me to send you the code, unfortunatly it was not done for redistribution purposes so there is no documentation... but if you can program in VB you can probably figure it out. |
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sgeorge ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 23 August 2005 Status: Offline Points: 178 |
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That would be fantastic, thanks very much. I can definitely see that taking advantage of the AuthorizedTo list would save our servers a lot of cycles. I've sent you a pm with my email address. Thanks again,
Stephen |
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kspare ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 26 January 2005 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 334 |
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can you fire me a copy to kevin_pare_ca Thanks! |
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caratking ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 13 March 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 79 |
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Send me a PM with your email address and I will send you a copy of the script. |
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sgeorge ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 23 August 2005 Status: Offline Points: 178 |
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...Just wanted to mention that caratking sent me his script and it's working out great for me!
Thanks! Stephen |
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Alan ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 06 May 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 43 |
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Caratking, for those who are not using AD, will your script still work? If not, what changes need to be made to make it work?
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caratking ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 13 March 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 79 |
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The script is designed to pull the addresses out of Active Directory,
if you are not using active directory I don't think it would work.
What type of email server are you running? |
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Alan ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 06 May 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 43 |
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Using Exchange 5.5 on NT4 SP6.
I actually found code specifically to work with Exch 5.5 but am still getting an error "ADODB.Connection: Provider cannot be found" Checked for current MDAC (on 2.8) but still having same problem. |
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caratking ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 13 March 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 79 |
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Hi Alan,
If you can send me the link to that, I would like to take a look at that script as well. I don't have a use for it right now, but I would like to see it work. |
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Alan ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 06 May 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 43 |
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It's not a public link but I can send you the code via private msg if you like...
FYI, I did finally get it working. Yeah! |
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jerbo128 ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 06 March 2006 Status: Offline Points: 178 |
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Alan, Would you mind sharing that code with me in a PM? Thanks jerbo128 |
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Marco ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 June 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 137 |
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hey Alan, i have the same setup as you, i also might have a use for this code, can you please send it over pm? thanks Marco |
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Anyone who is capable of getting himself made president, should on no account be allowed to do the job. D.Adams
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AJ ![]() Guest Group ![]() |
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FYI we stopped using the AuthorizedTo because if someone sends a legit email to multiple users but misspells one of the email addresses nobody receives the email |
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sgeorge ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 23 August 2005 Status: Offline Points: 178 |
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AJ, that is true... but luckily, when a misspell occurs in an email
sent to multiple recipients to your domain(s), the sender receives the
following type of message, by default:
It's my experience that people are able to identify that they've misspelled by this error. However - your point brings a thought to mind - the sender doesn't know that other recipients at the domain didn't receive the message either. I think I'm going to change customize my error message (for "Response if relaying is restricted") to:
Stephen |
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-AJ- ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 09 August 2006 Status: Offline Points: 2 |
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try this program to extract the email addresses... it's easy and free |
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-AJ- ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 09 August 2006 Status: Offline Points: 2 |
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I'll try changing the error message and see how it goes
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