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by Chris Miller at 10:04:08 PM on Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
Problem

What is Sender Policy Framework (SPF)? Does Lotus Domino support SPF?

Content


Supporting Information:

Domino 7.x, 6.5.x, and 6.0.x do not support SPF.  An enhancement request was submitted to Quality Engineering as SPR# RCE5XZQTT; however, there are no plans to address it in the Domino 7.x or 6.x code stream.

Formerly known as "Sender Permitted From," SPF, an open source code, is an extension of SMTP.  Because standard functionality of SPF has not yet been published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), SPF occupies an experimental stage.  A number of competing methods share the goal of preventing SPAM via these sending server-identification records.


by Chris Miller at 05:39:39 PM on Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
I have a brief complaint, when getting in and out of your airplane seat, is there some hidden requirement that I am unaware of that you must use the seat in front of you to pull instead of using your own to push?  For example, you get up and instead of standing and pushing off the back of yours, you grab the headrest of said person in front of you, who then gets slingshot forward at Mach 7 when you let go.  Forget if they were sleeping, eating or anything that involves a drink near the mouth.

Some people do need the assistance, I really understand that, but I am sure not everyone else has the requirement.  Sorry, long flight.........

by Chris Miller at 02:34:00 PM on Monday, February 27th, 2006
This was in the January/February 2006 issue which you can get in PDF here.  I thought this would be a rather large article to read, not the total of one page that it filled around a half page shadow picture and an ad for a conference (wow I just noticed it was the same conference the author is charman of). The following was an excerpt from the article by Craig Spiezle.  Now Craig did nothing but put out the numbers and stats in my reading of it.  I should note that his title is Director, Microsoft Technology Care and Safety and also the Chair of the emailauthentication.org board.
What's New in Email Authentication?
Over the past 18 months, authenticated mail has evolved significantly from concept to implementation, with two complementary approaches: the Sender ID Framework (SIDF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM).  SIDF is an Internet Protocol (IP)-based solution that was developed from the merger of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and Microsoft Caller ID for Email.  DKIM is the merger of Yahoo! DomainKeys and Cisco's Identified Internet Mail (IIM) specifications.


There is more rant to read on this below ... a search on Google for SIDF turned up some fun.

Continue Reading here" Messaging News: The Urgent Need to Implement Authenticated Email" »

by Chris Miller at 10:11:44 AM on Monday, February 27th, 2006
We have had great success and numerous frustrations with Commontime over the past could years.  Most of the frustrations were at times of upgrades.  After working with Commontime we would always get a resolution, but getting it in hand seemed to be the problem.  So this year we cornered them at Lotusphere on the vendor floor during a slow time.  It seems one of the wireless Palm Treo phones decided it could not sync nor could you set the password.

It had a default password on the screen (at least there were tiny asterisks in place of the password) but we could not tell if it was really there or something they put in.  We tried manipulating the config doc for that person in the control database to no avail.  So at Lotusphere we found out that the code version had a tiny bug that would not let you configure the password on the device.  At all.  They took his Treo for a couple hours, cleaned up some backend log and config things that get hidden and left behind (we were told) and viola, a new version gets installed on it and we can change the password on the device again.  The funny part was that calling support we were told someone there ran the same device but we could never, ever get that person on the phone to see what the deal was.

So we run the Windows CE and Palm integration in Enterprise mode on the server letting multiple device types sync.  Keep in mind that it uses two different services to do that.  The Thin Client Connector is for the Palm devices and the Commontime main service is for CE.  Both listen on different ports by default also.  Port 603 for CE and 608 for Palm.  Huge thing to know for wireless synching and firewalls.  But awesome for me anywhere I can get an 802.11b connection for my PDA.  Or anywhere the Treo can get a signal now.

by Chris Miller at 06:23:00 AM on Friday, February 24th, 2006
Image:Remote server setup and partitons, nice job Lotus!
See image if you are reading this...  this is using Remote Server Setup over 8585 and a server installed with partitions needing a data move first.

by Chris Miller at 02:39:00 PM on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
The launch is official of  IdoWorkplace.com and the postings have begun.  It will be a shared event of a couple instructors (including me) that are certified to teach the WCS 2.5 classes and are certified in both areas of the product already. (Messaging and Team Collaboration for WCS)

I also decided to move my postings and info for the Workplace Managed Client to that site for those focusing in that areas as well.  I have been playing with it and have some impressions.

It makes my mind easier knowing people get exactly what they expect at each blog site.  There might be some cross posting or linking as needed

by Chris Miller at 09:13:41 AM on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
I did some quick digging to uncover this at a customer request, or more like interrogation and found out it is possible to have Domino Access For Microsoft Outlook (DAMO) actually follow pass-thru another Domino server for mail access.  Quite cool.

Simply open the names.nsf with a Notes client for the DAMO user and modify the necessary connection records to make the proper passthru connection records.  Usually modifying the existing attempted connection to use a passthru and then making a new one to the passthru server.  I found a good way is to just email it over to an admin to open, modify it, and then drop it back on the machine for testing reasons.

If you still cannot get something to work, there is a notes.ini parameter, of course, that you can set on the client and server to log more info on passthru of
passthru_loglevel=5


More that fun..now if we can only get policies to work against DAMO users.

by Chris Miller at 06:01:00 AM on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
Happy reading..

by Chris Miller at 01:44:00 PM on Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
I always take interest in the things that affect LDAP directories and structures, but most don't know all the pieces for AD and LDAP to make it all work as one.

The online article here did not have the grid of the print version.  So I added in the print grid and you can read the rest on your own.

But one quick excerpt:
While the directory has been a core piece of Microsoft's identity infrastructure, it will become the platform for strong credentials, access control, single sign-on, federated identity, information-rights protection, process automation and auditing.

New Name
Former Name
Domino
Active Directory Domain Services Active Directory Domain Controller Domino server
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Active Directory Application Mode Domino server with LDAP on
Active Directory Rights Management Services Windows Rights Management Services Domino server with ACL's
Active Directory Certificate Services Windows Certificate Services Domino server with CA on
Active Directory Metadirectory Services Identity Integration Feature Pack Domino server


Oh the confusion for us Domino users?

by Chris Miller at 11:35:46 AM on Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
Plus we are banging away at the memory like the server is offering free expresso.

  Memory upgrades scheduled Thursday in the rotation

by Chris Miller at 09:53:43 AM on Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
I have seen this in previous version but do not like the way it functions if it continues on through the versions.  I accepted it at first when the idea of multi-user installation was new.  I went ahead and upgraded a couple multi-user roaming workstations yesterday to see how that went.

The installation found the path and previous install as multi-user perfectly.  That was a good sign.  It forced the multi-user option and gave the same pieces that were currently installed on the machine.  The code went on flawlessly.

The problem started when I launched the client.  It forced the setup to be run again choosing the user name, home server, TCP setting for the hostname and everything else.  Even though I did not have cleanup set on those workstations.  (Yes this is my network at home that I totally redid this weekend but that is another posting).  So I went through and recreated the setup for each account in roaming to make the kids life easier.  They never knew the difference, but then again what user knows what the admins do on the back end do they?  LOL

Image:Today’s 7.0.1 client installation update (issue)

by Chris Miller at 02:25:01 PM on Friday, February 17th, 2006
Who has seen this before?  The ability to add AMgr executives while the other still runs?  Even after shutdown of Amgr.

tell amgr quit
Quit is pending on the Message Queue
02/17/2006 02:20:02 PM  AMgr: Some Executives are still active, shutdown continue ...
02/17/2006 02:20:03 PM  Agent Manager shutdown complete
02/17/2006 02:20:16 PM  Admin Process: Searching Administration Requests database


lo amgr
02/17/2006 02:20:46 PM  AMgr: Error adjusting number of Executive, Executive '1' is still stopping
02/17/2006 02:20:46 PM  AMgr: Only able to start '2' Executive(s); Agent Manager will continue running
02/17/2006 02:20:46 PM  Agent Manager started
02/17/2006 02:20:57 PM  AMgr: Executive '3' started
02/17/2006 02:20:57 PM  AMgr: Executive '2' started

by Chris Miller at 04:09:41 PM on Thursday, February 16th, 2006
I had plenty of comments but found that it was being served separate under another blog already.   Let me get the link....

by Chris Miller at 11:10:15 AM on Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
Problem

Notes Instant Messaging encounters a looping condition causing the Sametime server to become unresponsive or to hang.


Content

Under very specific circumstances the Sametime server can receive incoming requests at an extremely high rate from the Notes client.  These incoming requests must be resolved in order for instant messaging users to communicate and share presence information.  As a result of receiving these requests at an extremely high rate, the Sametime server can become unresponsive as it consumes system resources during the processing of these incoming messages.

The Sametime servers' state of unresponsiveness may manifest itself as out-of-memory errors or by disconnecting from the Sametime Mux (which is used to route instant messages).

Symptoms of this problem can include:

  • The nlnotes process on the Notes client spikes to 100%.  Logging off from Notes client IM returns the CPU on the nlnotes process to normal.
  • The CPU on multiple processes on the Sametime server are pegged at above normal rates that may eventually reach 100%.
  • Attempting to open a chat session with another client shows the message "Initializing chat: Resolving User Name".  This is an organization-wide outage.
  • Attempting to add someone to a contact list will take an inordinate amount of time.
  • On iSeries this problem will appear as an abnormal termination of the StMux task.  You would probably not notice a CPU spike because the CPU has so much processing power available.

To fix this problem, the Notes client must be upgraded to 6.5.5 CCH1, 7.0 CCH1 or 7.0.1.  If upgrading to these versions is not an option, the administrator can request a hotfix for 6.5.3 and 6.5.4.

by Chris Miller at 03:29:27 PM on Friday, February 10th, 2006
I got this email and went through an old version myself to see, and yes it is true in Kjell's comments below.. While it did not take me anywhere near 20 minutes to install, it was definitely slower.

Hi
You have already a comment to 7.0.1 on your Blog. Installing 6.5.5 may take about 2 min. Installing 7.0.1 toke about 20 min. Maybe you could put some comment on this if you have the same experince.  Assume it is because Java is used. If you know about anyway to speed this up, maybe you could put it on your Blog

rgds

*****************************************************
Kjell Holen

by Chris Miller at 11:39:20 AM on Friday, February 10th, 2006
Here are some links to go peek at and check it out for yourself.  I take particular interest in the first one since I have never needed to shut down other applications to load Domino.  That either means it is being more tightly integrated into the shared files that are used by other applications also, or it is having a bad day.

Link1 via Chris W
Link2 via Bruce E
Link3 via Vince S

Now I have not done all the servers yet, pending what the heck happens with some of these issues.

by Chris Miller at 10:10:43 PM on Thursday, February 9th, 2006
He made quite a good joke about it here, but I forgot I have the Lotus client itself with the title as shown on the error since V4 days.  So when I pasted the error it caught my main client title, not any database.

by Chris Miller at 02:54:46 PM on Thursday, February 9th, 2006
Here is the error screenshot after the "Notes setup is complete" button appears and you click "ok".  I guess that means everything is ok again?

Image:Ok, same issue upgrading to 7.0.1 on another machine.  Now to track down where it comes from

by Chris Miller at 03:26:52 PM on Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
I recall upgrading to 7.0 beta something  and when opening the client, there was a formula error that was caused on the Welcome Page.  This time it was slightly different but occurred when launching the client.  After closing and reopening, it was gone.  I am upgrading another one to see if it happens there.

by Chris Miller at 02:23:43 PM on Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
Thanks everyone for asking and waiting, I had to get some things done first.  Here you go

HND104SMTP_public.rarHND104.zip

by Chris Miller at 11:22:34 AM on Monday, February 6th, 2006
It has been out from Steve Castledine but I was swamped for a while.  So I am taking IdoNotes to V3 and anyone else that I host that wants to go let me know...

Info on the template can be found here

by Chris Miller at 04:11:26 PM on Monday, February 6th, 2006
You won't see too much of  a change just yet, as most was on the back end.  But I will be incorporating the trackbacks shortly along with in-line comments.  Technorati pings and comment validation are already in place though.  As well as notification.

 Continue Reading here" Blog template is updated.." »

by Chris Miller at 01:26:10 PM on Friday, February 3rd, 2006
#1224409 and it covers 7, 6.5.x and 6.0.x

Problem

When creating a group in the IBM Lotus Domino Directory, you can set the group as "ACL only" so that this group is only used in the Access Control List (ACL) of databases.  When addressing a message in IBM Lotus Domino Web Access (DWA), however, "ACL only" groups can be selected as the recipient of the message.  If you address a message from the Notes Client, "ACL only" groups are not available for selection as recipient.

Content

This issue was reported to Quality Engineering as SPR# MNAA5B8DAC.  There are currently no plans to fix the problem.

As a workaround, the ACL group document can be hidden to allow only the Lotus Administrators to see the document.  This will prevent end users from being able to select the group when addressing a message.  If the document is hidden, be sure to include the server in the list of allowable readers so that the group can be accessed for authentication purposes.


by Chris Miller at 10:31:12 AM on Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
The Partner Forum brought out some great responses.that don't always make it to the blog.  After checking publication rights, here is an excerpt to give you an idea of what other BP's think of the possible naming change we have been discussing..

Carol Ann Ogdin gave one of the best overviews I read in the Partner Forum.  You can read all the awesome comments I got back on the other postings (even Jess Stratton jumped in)...
...synchronization is clearly inferior to replication in every way (save complexity of the system code, which Microsoft has avoided accepting).
In Windows 2K/XP, "Offline synchronization" requires that when there's any difference between two files, the later is copied over the older.  (Try doing that with your Outlook.pst!  Instead of replicating the three new eMails you have, it has to copy the whole 250 MB!).  In Windows servers, the "synchronization" of domain databases (e.g., Active Directory) are, in fact, mostly file copies.

Lotus (and, subsequently, IBM) have invested a lot of money in providing field-level replication, and calling it what it is.  Each database is a "replica" of the others, not a "copy."  (For example, the internal organization of objects between various replicas are different after replication.).

Now there is other sides saying synchronization is like PDA's and other devices, that actually move data back and forth.  Matthias Wille had a cool thought on the terms and meanings after he did a project with Notes and non-Notes data:

So, I'm not convinced that synchronization is inferior to replication. The two terms refer to different situations, whilst the technology used and the complexity of it can actually be the same.

Where does that leave this last installment for now?  Confused as a user, understood as an admin and loud like many of my comments and partners in the forum.


by Chris Miller at 01:37:33 PM on Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
This one took me by surprise and almost made me blush...
Chris Miller rocks - If you are an admin DO NOT MISS his sessions.  Look at his blog...... Keep up and you will learn a lot, but it is somewhat like encountering a knowledge hit-and-run, so you WILL have to download the slides to commit most of it to memory. So, do that and love it.

So again, thanks everyone for the emails, IM's and blog postings.  The slides for SMTP will be up shortly.  I had to clean them and PDF them for you.

Back to our schedule of replication versus synchronization.

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