Tarpitting harvesters with Exchange 2003 on Windows 2003

New KB article (KB.842851) covers a Windows 2003 hotfix to tarpit anyone harvesting addresses from Exchange. You want this one if you’re doing Recipient Filtering based on directory lookups! By default, Exchange 2003 will allow inbound SMTP mail to be addressed (“RCPT TO”) any alias within the defined relay domains. This means that even if…

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Search Evan’s Blog

Seems like everyone’s doing it, so I suppose I should too. I’ve added a search option to the blog, using roughly the sample code David Cumps posted a few days ago: http://weblogs.asp.net/cumpsd/archive/2005/01/11/350909.aspx. Updated (some folks asked me what “roughly the sample code” means). I actually switched it up to use the http://search.msn.com site is all. Here’s…

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I installed the roll-up, why does it still say I’m running SP3?!

Ok, so that title sort of says it all. You’ll find that installing a roll-up hotfix onto an Exchange 2000 or 2003 server may not update the display in the Exchange System Manager to reflect the new version. So what’s really going on? For example, an Exchange 2000 SP3 server is going to display itself as…

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