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Greetings! Welcome to Vol. 7, No. 14, 11 Dec 2002, of Exchange Messaging
Outlook, a biweekly newsletter about Microsoft Exchange and
Microsoft Outlook.
Today's highlights:
- Outlook vulnerable to denial-of-service attack
- Fix in the works for Outlook 2000 SP3
- PST files blocked in SP3
- Meet Peter Kalmström
- How to extract all sender addresses from a mail folder
Outlook vulnerable to denial-of-service attack
Microsoft has issued Security Bulletin MS02-067 - E-mail Header
Processing Flaw Could Cause Outlook 2002 to Fail (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-067.asp)
describing a flaw that makes Outlook 2002 using Internet mail
accounts vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack. The flaw does not
affect Outlook users connecting only to Exchange server nor does it
affect versions prior to Outlook 2002. A patch is available at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=331866,
incorporating the security fix with several other post-SP2 fixes
previously available only as hotfixes from Microsoft Product Support
Services.
This patch also eliminates the crashes that may occur after SP2
has been applied, particularly on Windows XP with POP accounts
scheduled for automatic download.
A second recent security bulletin, MS02-68 (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-068.asp),
details the latest update for Internet Explorer, which eliminates a
vulnerability that could allow malicious content in an HTML-format
mail message.
Fix in the works for Outlook 2000 SP3
After applying Service Pack 3 to Outlook 2000 configured in
Internet Mail Only mode, you may see CPU usage by Outlook go as high
as 100% or get erratic reminder behavior. Microsoft has identified
the cause as a timing issue related to reminders and is testing a
fix for release next week. For details, see the MSKB article "OL2000
(IMO) Outlook Reminders Are Problematic After You Install Office
Service Pack 3" at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811167.
In the meantime, Microsoft suggests that users experiencing this
problem switch from Internet Mail Only to Corporate/Workgroup mode (Tools
| Options | Mail Delivery | Reconfigure Mail Support). Switching
to CW mode will render IMAP accounts unavailable and remove support
for WinFax SE.
PST files blocked in SP3
Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 both giveth and taketh away.
While it adds the ability to customize the list of blocked file
types, it also adds Personal Folders .pst files to the list of
blocked files. Since this isn't documented in the Microsoft
Knowledgebase yet, we're hoping for an article soon that explains
why PSTs are blocked. Outlook 2000 SP3 users can easily unblock PST
files using the registry value discussed at
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm#ol2002 or any
of the free tools that can set that value.
Meet Peter Kalmström
This issue's New Utilities section below contains a wealth of
Outlook add-ins from
http://www.kalmstrom.nu, the web site run by Swedish developer
Peter Kalmström. As part of our occasional series spotlighting
Outlook developers, we asked Peter to tell us a little about himself
and his interest in Outlook.
He says he started building calendar solutions with Microsoft
Schedule+ way back in 1996, building a resource booking solution for
the school where he worked. Since then, he has built various custom
solutions for large Swedish companies and organizations. About a
year ago, he started publishing a series of Outlook applications and
slowly extending his portfolio of products. Applications like
Outlook Knowledgebase and Outlook Resources are the fruit of the
collaborative solutions he has built for his customers.
As for his personal interest in Outlook, Peter says, "I believe
the Outlook PIM is a great tool for personal and collaborative work.
Doesn't all corporate or organizational information start out as
personal information, anyhow?"
At Peter's web site apart not only can you see screen shots of
the utilities, but most also have small demonstration movies that
you can watch to see exactly how they work. Another is the community
spirit. After his third child was born last summer, he decided to
make all his products available free of charge to hospitals,
schools, and charities. He's also running a Christmas Eve drawing
where he will give away licenses for some of his products as part of
the celebration.
How to extract all sender
addresses from a mail folder
I sometimes feel that I spend entirely too much time on mailing
lists and in the Outlook newsgroups, but then comes along a gem of a
tip that makes it all worthwhile. Hats off to Donna Eliassen on the
Outlook-users list (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/outlook-users/)
for relating a simple and easy method for harvesting the From
addresses from all mail messages in a folder.
The trick is to use Outlook's File | Import and Export
command, then choose Export to a File. An Excel file works
well as a target; you can sort the addresses in the resulting
worksheet. After you set the location for the export file, the
wizard will display a screen with a Map Custom Fields button.
Click this button, then click Clear Map to remove all the
fields from the list on the right. Drag the From (Name) and From
(Address) fields from the list of source fields on the left to the
list of target fields on the right. (If you work in an Exchange
organization, you might also want to drag From (Type), so you can
distinguish between internal and external senders.) Complete the
merge, and you'll have an Excel worksheet file containing only the
names and addresses of people who sent messages in the source
folder.
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