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In article <36a68b61.29390331@news.erols.com>,
  r.h.e.r.r.o.n@erols.com (Robert L. Herron) wrote:
> My company is migrating from using Pegasus/Mercury to Outlook/
> Exchange (DON'T ASK OR COMPLAINT).  The base network is Novell NetWare
> 4.x.
>
> Besides removing the PMXF.INI file from each user's PMAIL directory
> and removing the create right (any putting an IRF blocking create) to
> each user's PMAIL directory, how can I prevent people from sending
> email via Pegasus?
>
> Note, I've already disable Internet email from Pegasus by unloading
> Mercury.  However, they can still use Pegasus to send mail internally.
> I have almost 300 users so dropping the create right is a long,
> laborous process.
>
> Thanks for your advice/help.
>
> Robert L. Herron
> h.e.r.r.o.n@mindspring.com
>
> NOTE: From address is tinkered with to prevent SPAM.  Remove
>       all periods (.) before the @ sign.
>
> Unsolicited email (aka SPAM) is not tolerated!

One additional note:  I don't want to delete the PMAIL.EXE, WINPMAIL.EXE, or
WINPM-32.EXE files.  I want the people to be able to use Pegasus temporarily
to view any messages they have saved in it's folders.

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Your company is braindead (which is a comment, not a complaint
or question).  Regardless, here's a hack to automate the lengthy
process of whacking the create right.  I'm assuming that any
company foolish enough to run Outlook/Exchange will have supplied
you with the Microsoft Office suite (or at least Excel and Word).

  First, do a bare directory listing into a file from a DOS
prompt while you are in the directory immediately above the
users' individual home directories.  For example, on my network I
would do this (because I have two servers):

MAP Q:=NWFS1/USR:HOME
MAP R:=NWFS2/USR:HOME
Q:
DIR /B >usr1list.lst
R:
DIR /B >usr2list.lst
copy Q:usr1list.lst+R:usr2list usrlist.lst

  Thus creating a list of all users.  Open Excel and pull this
file in. Take a minute to scan through it, deleting any
extraneous crap such as files or spurious carriage returns.  If
you have glommed together more than one file like I did above,
mark the transition point so you know which server you are on.

   Now, add columns appropriately so that you end up with a huge
list of RIGHTS commands subtracting the CREATE right from each
user's PMAIL directory.  Write out the file from Excel as a text
file and run it from the DOS prompt while logged in as ADMIN.

  I use this method frequently to do global changes to huge
numbers of directories and/or users.  The important thing to do
is TEST THE COMMAND YOU ARE BUILDING CAREFULLY before executing
hundreds of them at a shot.  Oh, yeah, and do a DSREPAIR after a
hour or so passes, since NDS is much too fragile to handle batch
changes like this without giving itself a little corruption.  You
can save hundreds of man-hours with this trick, though, so it is
worth having to do a few DSREPAIRS.

--Charlie



Robert L. Herron wrote:
> 
> My company is migrating from using Pegasus/Mercury to Outlook/
> Exchange (DON'T ASK OR COMPLAINT).  The base network is Novell NetWare
> 4.x.
> 
> Besides removing the PMXF.INI file from each user's PMAIL directory
> and removing the create right (any putting an IRF blocking create) to
> each user's PMAIL directory, how can I prevent people from sending
> email via Pegasus?
> 
> Note, I've already disable Internet email from Pegasus by unloading
> Mercury.  However, they can still use Pegasus to send mail internally.
> I have almost 300 users so dropping the create right is a long,
> laborous process.
> 
> Thanks for your advice/help.
> 
> Robert L. Herron
> h.e.r.r.o.n@mindspring.com
> 
> NOTE: From address is tinkered with to prevent SPAM.  Remove
>       all periods (.) before the @ sign.
> 
> Unsolicited email (aka SPAM) is not tolerated!

At the risk of sounding like I've had my head buried in the sand for a
while, can you tell me why you're so against Outlook/Exchange?  We are
currently using Novell 3 & Pegasus, and want to move to a system where we
can integrate LAN and internet email into users' Inboxes.  We also have NT
server on the same LAN.  Any information/hints/tips, BEFORE we spend the
money would be much appreciated.

Best Regards,

NOTE: "From" address is changed - remove full stops before the @ sign.



Medievalist wrote in message <36A79E3E.54822DAA@MyCompany.Com>...
>Your company is braindead (which is a comment, not a complaint
>or question).  Regardless, here's a hack to automate the lengthy
>process of whacking the create right.  I'm assuming that any
>company foolish enough to run Outlook/Exchange will have supplied
>you with the Microsoft Office suite (or at least Excel and Word).
>