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A potential client approached me with this interesting question: I would like to know if this software protects my clients from hackers and government censorship; in countries with high censorship how can the mail be retrieved? Can government filtering of mail be circumvented?” I had to think about that a little bit, but I finallyRead more

One of the challenges I’ve encountered over the years has been how to get heterogeneous servers to share information via file sharing over WAN. The traditional way was to use an RSYNC-like mechanism, common in the *nix world. On Windows machines I would use WinSCP, a simple scripting engine to transfer files via SFTP, whichRead more

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 findRead more

First: If you’re a security savvy IT administrator, this article is not for you. This will sound pretty obvious to you actually. If you’re an IT generalist and running a mail server is just part of your many tasks, this information could be for you. From time to time, a client (or potential client) whoRead more

Introduction: With the advent of 64-bit hardware, Microsoft has released a 64-bit version of Windows to leverage the capabilities of these hardware platforms. The new Version has the advantages of addressing more than 4 GB of memory, being more responsive and providing better security. 64-bit Windows is backwards compatible to some degree, meaning that mostRead more