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Testing GWIA Problems
To continue my "How do you do that?" series, which I say as if you actually knew that that's what I was doing, I will let you know how we test GWIA issues. At least some of them anyway.
What some people don't know is that there is a very easy way to reproduce issues with bad mails/malformed mails/missing characters etc. On every inbound mail (mails coming into GW from the internet) there is a hidden attachment called Mime.822. Essentially this attachment is the SMTP source of the mail as GWIA received it. Additionally, what some people don't realise is that you can just take that file, modify it slightly and dump it back in the GWIA to be reprocessed.
To access the Mime.822 open the mail and select File | Attachments | View. You can then see the file, right click it and select Save As. If you want a Mime.822 from someone else, get them to forward the mail AS AN ATTACHMENT otherwise you lose the original Mime.
To be able to get GWIA to process this again there are two things that you need to do:
1 - Open it and add recipient info at the top:
MAIL FROM: address@domain.com
RCPT TO: internaladdress@yourdomain.com
2 - Rename it to 8.3 format - I always call mine 12345678.001
Now all you have to do is drop that in the GWIA's receive directory and it will get reprocessed. Obviously if it was bad the first time, it's going to be bad this time too so the next challenge is to figure out why. I'll get to that in another post sometime. In the meantime you can console yourselves with getting GWIA to send you bad mails over and over again - Enjoy.
Are there any other "How do you do that?" topics that people want covered?
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Hey thats way cool! No how
Submitted by FlyingGuy (not verified) on 23 June 2006 - 5:10pm.
Hey thats way cool!
No how about some real meat.
1. How to force the DSN system to fire.
2. How to fource the DEFER system to fire.
3. How to make the gwia do its things on demand, while you watch the log screen in either verbose or diagnostic mode.
4. How about a guide to some of the more saliant points when the log is set to diagnostic mode.
5. How to make the POA show its rule processing logic when logging is set to diagnostic.
etc. etc. etc.
Thanks in advance.
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I agree with FlyingGuy,
Submitted by Alex (not verified) on 25 June 2006 - 5:19am.
I agree with FlyingGuy, those would all be cool to learn about.
Additionally, what I would really like to see is a series of posts about GW Best Practices like Mark Schouls is doing [read: slacking :)] with ZENworks.
Even if you pick apart the existing document, flavor it with GW 7, and expound on some of the finer details (along with WHY you suggest doing certain things), that would be great.
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/9451.html
Thanks!
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[...] In an earlier post I
Submitted by NOVELL: Cool Blogs » Blog Archive » GWIA Testing (part 2) (not verified) on 29 June 2006 - 2:39pm.
[...] In an earlier post I described how you can take a MIME.822 from a received internet mail and drop it back in the GWIA. In this post I want to tell you the kind of things we look for when we get these. [...]
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