GroupWise Rules are extremely useful--they allow you to automate the organization of much of your emails coming in and going out. But, there is a security issue that every GroupWise administrator should be aware of concerning Rules.

Let me tell you a short story to illustrate the point.

I worked for a company that was made up of GroupWise geeks, and we all knew the product extremely well. One day, one of the new sales guys went to lunch and left his computer turned on (everyone did it since there wasn't much of a security risk with only a handful of employees and we all sat at desks in an open area without cubicles or walls).

While GWAVA 4 on NetWare is still on beta, some clients would like to take advantage of the tremendous power of GWAVA 4 today.

GWAVA 4 is available NOW for Linux and as a GWAVA customer, you're entitled to it if your maintenance is up to date.

This is also a great way to simply test drive GWAVA 4.

We will be taking advantage of GWAVA 4's new GWIA scanning ability to do this. Scanning at the GWIA has a lot of advantages for Internet mail. For scanning between post offices, you will still need to use GWAVA's traditional MTA interface.

So let's begin.

Start by setting up a Linux box. It doesn't have to be anything special. I would recommend using SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. (SLES 10). It's easy to set up and very reliable.

News-Journal has two stories about Ernestine Manuel who filed a complaint against Texas State Technical College Marshall on July 1, 2004, alleging that she was subjected to a "racially hostile environment" while she was employed as an accountant in the school's business office. The judge who is handling her case instructed defense lawyers to bring someone "with knowledge of e-mailing systems" at the local college, because he complained that e-mail correspondence he had requested was supplied in such a form as to make it useless.

He also instructed TSTC to conduct an e-mail search that not only includes "original terms" mentioned in his order for discovery before Manuel's trial, but also new keywords, including work force commission, human rights and audit.

If you immediately understand the title of this posting, you will help me make my point. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you will also help me make my point.

This is a story of a very stupid thing that happened to me on the way to BrainShare SLC in March and that still is happening.

I drove to SLC for BrainShare 2006 in March. I stayed the night in Las Vegas. Where I left my luggage and laptop bag in my big Expedition. My luggage and my laptop bag were stolen out of my big Expedition (Window was broken into) and I lost my wonderful Dell laptop and my beautiful, lovely, it-made-me-cry-to-lose-it, Mac Powerbook.

Freshly Updated: Congratulations to Mary Wood, the lucky winner of a $25 Amazon.com gift certificate, randomly selected from amongst all the entries in this contest. (Probably won't make up for the stress of having to retrieve all that email, but it's the least we can do.)

Ever had a strange request for an email restore that had you shaking your head? We've heard a few of them that made us smile (like the guy who HAD to have an email restored that had his girlfriend's Christmas list on it), and we thought it would be cool to see if you can top that.

By Tay Kratzer, Lead Developer for GWAVA Reload

Reload is a GroupWise Hot Backup, Quick Restore, and Disaster Recovery solution for GroupWise post offices and domains. Reload, as a Novell GroupWise backup solution, backs up GroupWise post offices and domains on the NetWare, Linux or Windows platform and post offices and domains on any of these platforms that are clustered.

(WARNING: As you read this article you'll probably feel validated in your struggles in trying to manage your GroupWise backup and restore procedures. So print out this article, and have some tissues close by as you read it. You are likely to laugh or cry as you do so!)