Category Archives: MDaemon Plugins

Semaphore file generator 2.0

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jrlopezp has updated his popular semaphore file generator.  So what’s new?

The old version of MDSemgen was developed in VB6. This new version has been completely re-designed from scratch on the .NET platform.

  • Custom List of Semaphore Files
    MDSemgen 2.0 allows you to define your own list of semaphore files to generate by adding or removing them from the application’s configuration file (MDSemgen.exe.config).
  • Custom List of Semaphore Files
    MDSemgen 2.0 allows you to define your own list of semaphore files to generate by adding or removing them from the application’s configuration file (MDSemgen.exe.config).
  • Time-Cycle Scheduling of Semaphore Files
    A new and exciting feature has been added to this version of the program that allows you to specify a time interval and a comma-delimited list of Semaphore Files you want the program to generate.
  • Specify Your Custom Destination Path
    You can specify the destination folder where you want the semaphore files to be created.
  • Turn On/Off notifications and warnings
    Notifications apply only when you generate a semaphore file by right-clicking on the system tray icon and selecting the semaphore file you of your choice.
  • Warnings are useful for debugging. They will warn you about problems like: the specified destination folder not being found or errors with the definitions of the semaphore files you specify in the application’s configuration file.
  • New System Tray Icon (Semaphore)
  • Link to Alt-N’s Web Site
    Double-Click on the system tray icon and click on the link to Alt-N’s web site from the dialog box.

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Generate a WorldClient SessionID

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If you run an intranet and want to integrate WorldClient, if you have access to your user’s email addresses and passwords, then this post is for you.

What you’ll need to do is create an web server script (ASP, JSP, Perl or PHP, or other language of your choice) that gathers the user’s username and password from the Database and then posts them to the WorldClient server as if it were ComAgent. The URL to do this is:

http://www.example.com/WorldClient.dll?View=StatusCheck&GetSession=Yes&user=Username&Password=password

This will put the username and password in the log, so if you don’t want to have that liability, you’ll need to create some sort of ASP (or your scripting language) function that POSTs the Username and Password rather then using GET.

The result will return an XML file that will have the SessionID. Parse the XML file for the SessionID, then use that in a URL that looks like this for the redirect:

http://www.example.com/WorldClient.dll?Session=SessionID&View=Main&Frames=Yes

Hope this helps!

LDaemon Optimizer v1.0.0

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LDaemon Optimizer v1.0.0
5/15/2003 David L. Koontz

Introduction:
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MDaemon’s LDaemon is a porting of the OpenLDAP project. However, there are several inherent problems with LDaemon’s Implementation that effect speed, performance, stability and maintenance of the LDAP database for Mid to large size installations.

1) Using LDaemon as the Server Account Storage is unstable.
2) MDaemon Schema Extension do not scale well with many users
3) LDaemon has no method of removing LDAP Entries

LDaemon Optimizer is the answer! If you want to offer your users LDAP address book lookups from their email clients like Outlook, Netscape, ThunderBird, etc. this tool will help you to provide a
FAST LDAP lookup service, and will keep your LDAP database fresh by removing old MDaemon accounts and adding new ones.

Note: This script currently only works with the text file database setup (Userlist.dat). If there is significant need, a future version may include ODBC setups, or perhaps alias entries.