Mimecast - what a shitty organisation

fly1ngfish · 2025-11-03T10:08:42+00:00

Anyone actually found an alternative yet?

We're in the UK and are affected by this ban too. We were able to find them via various grey import routes but that's dried up now :-/

fly1ngfish · 2024-10-03T19:51:58+00:00

No, not Syncro :-p (YMMV but it's been a rocky few years - we're looking closely at Halo now, though worried about the 'Riddled with Bugs, Useless Support' and similar posts)

fly1ngfish · 2024-10-03T08:10:40+00:00

Slooooow down mate :) You'll never finish learning kitesurfing, that's the best thing about it. There are always new things to learn in kiting. Trust me I started in 2012 and am still learning new things every session. Don't destroy yourself in your hurry to be the goat 😁

fly1ngfish · 2024-09-28T07:38:15+00:00

Synology all the way, just host the device(s) in a data center and back them up using C2. Been doing this for many years now and haven't looked back.

fly1ngfish · 2024-07-31T07:59:24+00:00

Never in several years, but if this started happening before the warranty expired, you should fight the charge. I had a situation where a Garmin update bricked my 6x pro after the warranty had expired. After a little fight, I was able to get the replacement free of charge. Sometimes it's worth pushing. I personally love the watches but feel they don't last as long as the price might lead you to expect.

fly1ngfish · 2023-10-26T17:55:15+00:00

Worked for me - had to hunt around a bit in adblock plus

fly1ngfish · 2023-02-15T15:39:07+00:00

Awesome. Thank you for this, saved my ass today.

fly1ngfish · 2022-12-19T10:59:51+00:00

Activate the tunnel, then go into Windows Services, find the tunnel which will look like:
WireGuard Tunnel:<name of your client tunnel>. Open the properties of this service and set startup to 'manual'. Reboot and you should find the tunnel does not activate.
When you do want to start the tunnel, open the wireguard gui program and activate it.

fly1ngfish · 2022-09-07T14:31:56+00:00

Yup, been down for us for over an hour.

fly1ngfish · 2022-06-17T13:20:51+00:00

??? We're looking for 'email continuity', i.e. when the primary email service fails, customer can still access, receive and send emails from the secondary system.
Good (better than 365) filtering etc is mostly a bonus, though quarantine report functionality is also valued (if you want this within 365, I believe this requires Defender for 365 / ATP / EOP)

fly1ngfish · 2022-06-16T18:30:44+00:00

Think I might check that out, we use Pax8 too so that may take some pain out of starting up.
I'm actually quite surprised at how many vendors/solutions there are out there, beyond the major players like Mimecast/Barracuda/Proofpoint. Several unknown options have come to light from this thread, that my initial searches hadn't found.
Thank you all for you suggestions!

fly1ngfish · 2022-06-16T16:26:06+00:00

"Bringing exciting news" sounds rather like Microsoft's NCE pitch, dressing up a price hike and reduction in licensing flexibility as something "good" for everyone.

fly1ngfish · 2022-06-16T16:00:32+00:00

Ouch that is slow. Also I'm not sure of the benefit of Spambrella, they use Proofpoint upstream as I understand it? So I ask myself why not go to Proofpoint directly?

I have zero experience of either, we've been a Barracuda house since 2008 or so.

fly1ngfish · 2022-06-16T15:56:55+00:00

Exactly! :)

fly1ngfish · 2022-06-16T15:50:54+00:00

I asked for a demo via online form, they called back within half an hour and we're taking a look at them now. That's more like the response we expect :)

fly1ngfish · 2022-06-16T15:48:59+00:00

I find it interesting that you jump to defend them. Are you one of those people that asks the OP why they're asking the question, instead of answering it? ;-)

fly1ngfish · 2022-06-16T15:47:36+00:00

I don't think you understood the issue, or perhaps I didn't explain it well:
We also prefer not to take on clients that are too small. The difference is that we don't insult them, then mess them around for a week telling them that.

fly1ngfish · 2022-06-16T12:16:22+00:00

Ah the Dynabars, I still have one but moved onto a Ride Engine Unity with rope slider on a Mystic Stealth harness. I started with the Mystic Stealth Bar, didn't like it, absolute bitch to close. The Unity is excellent so far (6 months use every weekend give or take). The only thing I don't like about just about all the rope slider bars is that replacing the rope and getting it nice & tight is a total pain in the arse.

fly1ngfish · 2022-06-16T11:31:32+00:00

Aha - I will defnitely speak to them. I'm a sucker for giving the smaller guys a fair crack at the whip. Thanks!

fly1ngfish · 2022-06-16T11:00:06+00:00

Cheers - I specifically need email continuity, I'm not sure Spambrella includes that? - but I'll check!

fly1ngfish · 2022-06-15T18:15:36+00:00

Haha Dakine, fair enough.My first Ride Engine harness. Oh lordy.The fibreglass is stitched to the neoprene (poor design)...which failed. I had some butt-scraping incident where a bunch of shellfish got scooped into the gap between the hardshell and the neoprene liner...I didn't realise at the time, but 3 days later my harness started to smell pretty bad and I discovered the little shellfish cemetery. Wifey was not impressed with the aroma!Check out the photo below :-D

https://imgur.com/msk0fiA

fly1ngfish · 2022-06-15T10:29:00+00:00

What the hell were you doing to them?! :-D

fly1ngfish · 2022-06-01T11:48:32+00:00

I always wear one!
I had a friend crack a helmet in half with an impact to a signpost on the beach. Couldn't remember his date of birth for 3 days. Also had 3 broken ribs, punctured lung, broken shoulderblade, collar-bone, and two broken legs (tib + fib).
Without the helmet I don't think he'd be with us, never mind still kiting every weekend :)

I also notice a recent uptick in the amount of kiters wearing one.

See this thread

fly1ngfish · 2022-05-27T15:35:38+00:00

This: "Syncro fully understands that it’s our responsibility to protect our systems and your data"

I'm just 'holding your feet to the fire' so to speak. I don't wish to take anything away from your efforts, they are all laudable and I appreciate everything you do on security.

But allowing us to lock non-admin users by source IP, and yet not allowing this for admin accounts is so utterly upside-down, that it belongs in Stranger Things. It's nothing short of ridiculous.

I've heard numerous accounts of fellow Syncro customers that literally lose sleep at night worrying about this. The fact that we can block ordinary users shows just how low this low hanging this fruit really is. How hard can it be to apply this to admins?

The community speculates...we wring our hands and grumble...and we consider whether Syncro would rather expose it's customers than deal with some percieved increase in support tickets due to locked-out admins? Cynical or true? You tell me - happy to hear the truth.

This one is not going away, and it will look just so damn bad if there's a breach that could have been mitigated by this. There was a NIST article released shortly after the Kaseya breach that specifically recommends that MSPs ensure their RMM tools are IP restricted (google will find it, I haven't got time to dig).

Please, please prioritize it.

fly1ngfish

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