If you’re doing desktop troubleshooting of end user mail clients and you want to make sure that a persons’ account is able to use SMTP Authentication properly, you to do this with a telnet client but it will take a little work. If you do a google search for “troubleshooting SMTP Authentication”, you will find [...]
Even though it is very rare that we use this command line, it can be a very interesting command line when troubleshooting connectivity issues. The Pathping, along with its features, also groups the Ping and Tracert features. So how does it work? Pathping sends packets to each router on its path to destination and then [...]
Ever wondered how to test and maintain your mailbox without an email client? This quick guide on the manual POP3 commands will help you out. Below is a list of frequently used POP3 commands. In order to perform the following commands, all you will have to do is connect to the mail server using Telnet [...]
Should you use POP3 or IMAP? The first thing you need to do before making a decision is to understand what POP3 and IMAP are. Secondly, you need to understand the differences between the two. The product: Both POP3 and IMAP are email protocols that companies or ISPs use to receive email, be it to [...]
Your everyday routine routine includes sending and receiving mail flawlessly with Outlook/Outlook Express/Windows Mail. Inevitably, once you have become too comfortable to this problem free email software, an unidentifiable, puzzling and un-invited error pops up. If the unexplained error does not go away, only a log can help. Outlook can create a detailed list of [...]
Before any Network Administrators start thinking about installing the Microsoft Exchange server 2013, there are a couple of points that need to be taken into consideration. Exchange 2013 cannot be deployed on server 2003R2 or server 2008 Exchange 2013 can only be deployed on new hardware; upgrade of a local system is not permitted. Be [...]
This scenario could happen to anyone of us: You receive an email from someone you know (friend, colleague, sister, brother, etc…) with whom you might have exchanged emails before. Surprisingly enough, when you open the email you notice that it’s SPAM and is not actually from the person you had expected. At this point, it’s [...]
To begin here is an explanation of a Spam Complaint. When someone marks a message as spam, their email client uses a feedback loop to tell us a complaint was made. We find different forms that represent how the “mark as spam” buttons look in different email clients. These can represented as the Junk folder [...]
The first week of February 2013 marked a noticeable uptick in email spoofing, specifically from Yahoo servers. The spooky part is the lists used are 3 to 4 years old, which has resulted in some awkward situations… Users have reported receiving emails from their ex-girlfriends, or worse, from dead people! Now think about that. You [...]
If you’re a sys-op you’re always busy taking care of everyone else’s computers and systems. If you’re in the IT industry you’re often too busy coding or testing to take care of your own set-up. BUT…It’s important to take the time to clean up your system, check your parameters; update your spam filters and clear [...]