Hello,I am running iMS 5.1 with bundled directory services 4.1 on a win2k.yesterday there was a power failure and the server went for an abnormal reboot. Since then my iMS is not responding properly.I am able to connect to port 25 but then after that theer is no respose from the server, it just ...

Hello,I am running iMS5.1 on a win2k. All was running fine till yesterday when the UPS tripped and the server got rebooted.Now when I tried to connect to smtp port 25 the server after giving the banner just stays there and does not respond after that.when I try to do the imsimta dirsync -F -v ...

Hi all, I have Messaging Server 5.2 on an internal machine that gets it's external mail from an outfacing mailhub. The machine is 'messaging.domain.uk' but somewhere the rules in imta.cnf try to handle mail for '*.domain.uk'. When I try to send an internal mail to 'user@domain.uk' which ...

Hi expert,I have customer that have 20k users in their Netscape Messaging Server 4.1.I want to know on how to empty trash all 20k users.Where the trash located.If can't delete at once, can I delet one-by-one manuallythanks

I have previously successfuly installed iDS .1, iMS 5.2 and iDA 5.2 on one Sun Solaris 8 box and it all seems to work. I am trying to do the same on another, and although all the installs appear to complete, the resulting databases contain no domainadmin user. I have tried carefully ...

Hi there,the migration of the old mailfolders was no problem. I used the SIMS 3.5 command:/opt/SUNWmail/sbin/imbackup -f <BackupTargetFile> -u <UserIDListFile>to backup the folders, and the<NewServerRoot>/bin/msg/store/bin/imsrestore -f <BackupTargetFile>command to ...

I have read through every post on here that I can find related to rewrite rules and channel definitions, and can't find a solution to my problem. Perhaps I'm just missing something, but I figure it's time to ask the experts.Let's say that I have two domains hosted on my mail store (iMS5.2, ...

Hi,today i have tried switching to direct ldap mode following the documentationnow i can no longer send mail directed to hosts as email@hostname.domain.comi always get a 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias:whereas email@{subdomain}.domain.com is ok, as long as the subdomain is known to the MTA, ie ...

Say a user deletes a folder out of their mail by accident and requests to have it restored. Pulling the folder off our backup system is not a problem. So I restore the folder back to it's original place. What is necessary to do next to re-index it into that users mail store? It seems like a ...

Is it possible to reject mail if the mta was unable to find the corresponding hostname for the Sender's IP address by using a DNS lookup ?

Does anybody know how to change listen address and TCP port for ENS. SUN docs tell to use configutil and set following parameters as below:local.store.notifyplugin.enshost = 10.132.18.253local.store.notifyplugin.ensport = 5500It does not work although log messages indicate that parameters are ...

this line is the standard in the port_access mappingbut i do not understand what it exactly does, because even without it, the output of "imsimta test -mapping" is strictly the samei also dont quite understand what the last line does :* $YEXTERNALi didn't find anything in documentation about ...

Has anyone had any luck getting iMS 5.2 to log to syslog and been able to configure it as they want? I've read through the admin guide and the reference guide and I can't seem to figure it out. I've added the following to ...

Hi,Can anybody tell me how iPlanet Messaging Server generates te message ids?I would like to know because I want to estimate the number of messages handled by the server by looking at the msg ids (I do not have access to the logs :-(Example: Msg-id dd-mm-yy hhmmss 1 0H5500FQNI110A@.... ...

it seems any message has a maximum time where it can stay in any queue :snoopy # > ./imsimta cache -viewchannel : ims-msfile name : /mail/messaging/msg-snoopy/imta/queue/ims ms/019/ZY0H570020BLZVD0.00subdirectory : 19enqueue time : 7-Nov-2002 15:09:32.00last delivery attempt : 7-Nov-2002 ...

Hi,I am using iMS 5.1 on a win2k. My setup is like a text book setup. The internal mails on my LAN for mydomain.com does not need any authentication.When a user sends a mail to any other global domain say yahoo.com or hotmail.com, he first gets authenticated for relaying. This works fine. Now ...

Hi all,Here is our situation :- We are running the Netscape messaging/directory 4.1x server under the NT platform- 2500 clients are accessing this platform (30% IMAP, the rest POP3) with a Outlook 2000 client (in Internet Mode). These clients are equipped with XP Professional as their OS.This ...

I am trying to add a global footer to all outgoing emails. I do not want the users to be able to remove this footer. I have found documentation on this but not for the version I am running, Iplanet Messaging Server 5.2. Anyone have any ideas where I can find the documentation on how to set this ...

Hello,I am running Solaris 9 with all patches with:- Directory Server 5.1 SP1- iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 1- Sun ONE Webserver 6.0 SP4.I wanted to install iDA, however sunpostinst core dumps on me everytime I install/or run it. This is driving me nuts as I need to setup a new domain and ...

Hi I am using iMS 5.1 behind a firewall. The server has an internal LAN ip address, also has a static global ip assigned on the firewall.I am able to send mails to the internet from my LAN after smtp authentication. Also incoming mails are coming in without an issue.But when I try to use my ...

The documentation for installing the iPlanet servers does not seem to cover the scenario of multiple iMS servers for one domain. I have spent weeks working on this. I would figure this would be a necessary procedure when a mail server gets overloaded and the environment needs expanding.If you ...

Hello All,Is there any way I can monitor the mail traffic active on my server? I am using iMS5.1 on M$ platform ;)Regards,Sanvir

Greetings, I have been trying to get Program Delivery to work for a long time with both scripts and binary executables. I always have the same problem.The documentation states that Messaging server first starts the program, then "feeds" the message to the program. I have not figured out how ...

Greetings,We are trying to migrate user mailboxen from a 4.15p7 NMS install to a iMS 5.2p1 install. Physically separate boxes, the new install is running iDS 5.1 and is fully populated with users(the LDAP layout was all wrong on the NMS setup so this is a completely new rebuild). These users ...

I delete a user (via GUI) then manually delete user's store directory. I re-create user with same profiles (user-id and mail address) then I log-in to webmail for that user and get error message "System I/O error". And I can't find user's store directory (under /store/partition/primary=user) ...

Hi All,I have iPlanet Directory Server 4.13 and iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 installed on Solaris 8 Box. I need to change the hostname of the machine. How do I do it? I found a script that would do it for Directory server, but how do I do it for the messaging server? Any help is greatly ...

Hi,Has anyone tried hosting iMS webmail on a fully functional web server such as Apache or Sun One Web Server?Andrew

I'm in the process of migrating 450 users and 70GB of E-mail from a single Solaris system to a Cluster (running iMS5.2). It appears imsbackup cannot write a file greater than 2GB. Is there a hotfix available for this?I'm moving from 5 store partitions to 4 store partitions and using imsbackup ...

Hey all,I would like to replace sendmail. Right now we have sendmail running on port 25, accepting all email, then forwarding it to port 26 which is our virus/spam filter daemon which then forwards it to iMS running on port 27. I would like to replace sendmail with iMS's MTA to possibly allow ...

When I enable relay on the server for local IP's I can no longer use SMTP AUTH from those machine. Now it's really only a problem with laptop users who take machines home really, but I'd like to know why. iMS 5.2p1, iDS 5.1p1, Direct LDAP enabled. Everything tests out fine, but if I ...

If I send a message to a mail relay destined for my mail store (on a different host), where does the directory lookup take place? On the mail relay, or at the mail store? Similarly, if I send a message to a static disribution list, where does it blow up all the addresses and do a lookup? In ...

HIWe are running Messaging Server in Windows NT, in the Messaging server Configuration Console SNMP service is not getting listed.Please help in finding out what i am missing, but SMTP service is ruuning mail delivery is working Fine

hello, never having used imsbackup before, i would like to now what implications it has on the message store. Can I run it on a production MTA, do i need to stop the messaging server, will connected pop3-mailbox-users be disconnected, etc etc please be so kind to give as much info as ...

Hi allI want to achieve the following- please help me in configuring1. all the users should have e-mail address as xyz@company.com. with Messaging Server "A" and efg@company.com user with Messaging server "B"2. Primary MX entry for company.com will be Sun One 5.2 server3. xyz user will have ...

Hey all,I've noticed performance issues with iMS 5.2p1 (with iDS 5.1) with respect to direct LDAP look up's, especially for large mailing lists. Even a 28 user list takes 10 minutes, where as with MS 4.1.5 it was practaically instance. We also have a dynamic group with everyone (4000 people ...

installed fresh iplanet 5.2 messaging server.created a new domain in it called iplanet5org.com OKcreated new users within this domain OKwhen trying to address a message to one of these users using the same iplanet server as the smtp server. Following is the smtp session output: telnet obelix ...

Dear all,i would like to inquire on how to set up a catchall account on SunOne Messaging 5.2.Someone told me that this can be done by putting *@domainInQuestion as an alternate address for one of the users but this did not work.Also, i tried to put @domainInQuestion as analternate email address ...

I am trying to maintain our IMS 5.2 mailservers by hosting only current users in LDAP and their mailboxes. To achieve this I have:1) Deleted the obsolete users from LDAP to ignore incoming email for them.2) Ran the procedure "reconstruct -o > x.repair" to find orphaned email accounts (Found ...

hi,I am getting the following error while installing iPlanet Message Server.Anyone encoutered this problem please help.ERROR A serious problem occurred while installing the iPlanet Messaging Server DomainComponent Tree (msg.ugldap.dctree.inf). It reported the following problem: The server ...

Hello,I just installed an evaluation version of iPlanet messaging server. I was just wondering how compatible it is with netscape 7.I noticed that when I open "Compose" window using netscape 7 buttons "Send" and "Cancel" don't work but if I try using netscape 4.76 it works fine.Thanks for any ...

I've tried to get IMS 5.2 working with DS 5.1 per the recommendations in the install documentation about 3 times now on 2 different systems, but it fails the same way every time at "step 7 of 38" in the typical installation. Iwill probably give it another try and reply with the exact message, ...

Hi,Can someone help in this question: We are using iMS 5.2 with NDS 4.16. Everything was working fine, until the last two months, when suddenly the HTTP service started to crash at least once or twice a week without any visible reason.The OS is Solaris 9 running on E-250.any comments are ...

Hi everybody,We have two iMS 4.15sp7 running with Linux 2.2 as replicas for our production servers (running Solaris 8), and we are willing to add some special features (basicaly anti-spam using RBL's, some sort of accounting and maybe antivirus support via external programs). We have checked ...

We are in the process of switching over from a sendmail system to iMS 5.2. In the process I am trying to work on getting email aliases migrated over. The documentation in the admin and reference quides is vague at best when talking about the alias file. Here are my questions.1) As we have only ...

Whenever I try to access the PAB from ME. I get the error: "PAB feature not supported". I took a look at the o=pab ACI's and they appear to be the same as my old server. The local.service.pab.enabled value is set to 1. I checked the pabURI and that's correct. This occurs with Netscape6/7 and ...

According to the release notes for 5.2p1, SSL POP is supported, but I can't figure out how to turn it on. I've made sure service.pop.sslusessl = yes in configutil, but it's not listening on port 995 when the service starts.Am I going about something the wrong way? I can't find any ...

i am runing iplanet messaging server version 4 on sun solaris 8 , right now i have configured domain based anti relay config means if the sender address contains our domain name then only the server will relay that mail , but i came to know that due to this many people are sending spams from ...

Hi,How to do enable smart host after installation? Do I need to uninstall and install again?

Hello all we arean ISP in india ,we are right now using iplanet messaging server version 4.15 patch level 6 , right now we are proving services at only one location , and there is only one installation on single server at our central office ,where all the mailbox of our all the users are ...

I"m doing an install of Messaging Server 5.2. I've sucessfully installed the Messaging Server part. Do I really need to install the Web Server and the Delegated Administrator, too? Or will the Messaging Server work okay without the other pieces?Thanks,Steve Kershaw