I am trying to get the mail server moved to Solaris from NT. With the upgrade to 5.2 the office is wanting to move to 2000. I need to know some facts to sell Solaris. Are there any places where NT/2000 would be lagging to Solaris with functions of the mail server? I need facts with this not ...

Help !!!!!!I installed fresh valuation MS 5.2 under Solaris8 and the installation went through without any error. I created a first user account (test) test@abc.com (abc.com domain) from the console and configurated a email user account under local host which host installed MS 5.2 server. I ...

Hi, I am wondering whether the iplanet's implementation of smtp is:- smtp over ssl- or smtp with ssl (starttls)?

Hello all,does anybody know how to disable certificate-based login in SSL sessions? We are running iMS 5.2.1.My webmail server should run on HTTPS but only accept password-based logins. Our users don't have certificates so certificate-based login is not needed. When I connect to webmail with ...

Hi,Is there a way to disable the MS signature within the header.ie: Received from xxxxby yyyyy.test.org (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built xxxxx))because of security matters.Thanks in advance

hi,i'm running iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 SP2 on Solaris with Netscape Directory Server 4.12. I encountered this error 'PAB_CMD_GET_PABS returns error code 15' when i access mailbox's addressbook.Does anyone know what could have caused this and how to resolve?many thanks..-AL. ...

We just received a copy of the Web Communicator package that includes Directory Server 5.1, Enterprise Web Server 6.0 SP2, Messaging Server 5.2, and Delegated Administrator. What is the correct sequence of installing these products? Where can I find a straight forward set of instructions for ...

Hello thereI am new here and have a question, I have searched for related topics to this but couldnt find one with any replies so I am hoping there is somebody who can help me here:I have installed IMS 5.2 with direct LDAP lookup however when I create a user using iDA I am able to login and ...

Hello guys....Can anybody teach me how to add email disclaimer....I'm running Sun One Messaging Server 5.2 under Sun Solaris 8Kindly please provide the example on how to do this because I'm not really a tech person.Thanks, Regardskheirul

I am installing Ilanet Messaging Server5.2 & i am using directory server4.1.I have also downloaded SUN ONE Messaging server5.2 patch1.09 for making iMs run on windows 2000.but when i run imsset.pl after the command Please select from the following components You can enter multiple items ...

How do I send a signed and encrypt e-mail to a group say mydepartment@abc.com?I can send a signed mail but how do I send an encrypt mail? I am using iMS 5.2 and Cert 4.7Urgent!

Hi thereWe are having problems with attaching files in IMS 5.2 & wondered if anybody can help.Our outgoing mail message max size is set to 20MB (I know about the extra 33% space required for encoding) and yet we still cannot attach files to emails that are greater than 5MB.Does anyone have ...

helloI just wonder why Netcape 6.x & 7.x cannot operate with Messaging Express 5.2 (webmail)..?The problem that I faced is, cannot click send button once want to compose en email.... rgdskheirul

Anybody please teach me how to install these Servers.I want to install MS5.2 with DS5.2 like below.1 : Sun One Directory Server 5.22 : ims_dssetup.pl from iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 13 : iPlanet Messaging Server 5.24 : imspatch.pl from iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 15 : iPlanet ...

I am preparing to install iMS 5.2 with existing configuration and uer and groups iDS 5.1 on Solaris 9. Some issues confused me, please help, thanks in advance.Q1. By the checking of iMS installation doc, Question 34 needs "Administration Server Port". Is it same as the port of my exsiting ...

I am having a problem with my iMS 5.2 hotfix 1.16 server not routing messages to the correct tcp_channel based upon IP. What we want:All messages from non-local networks and the central smtp gatewats should come in via th tcp_local channel and all other messages should go to the tcp_intranet ...

Hi,When I tried to search for a valid user to add after clicking on Share, I received empty search results. This does not happen with the search function in address book. When I clicked the Subscribe button, I received the javascript error of ...

Hello,My company develops some software a part of functionality of which is sending documents it generates by e-mail as attachments. From time to time, we receive complaints from users of our software that the attachments aer broken and they cannot open the files they receive attached to these ...

When I run ims_dssetup.pl I get the following error.ERROR: Cannot update d:\sunone\ds52/slapd-MASTEMA/config/ns-schema.confI've installed DS5.2 and am running ims_dssetup.pl from ims-5[1].2-us.x86-intel-winnt4.0.zipAny ideas?David Engle

Hi There,We currently have a sendmail (on Solaris) based system that we use for our primary MTA. Our iMS5.2 (on Solaris 8) is used for message storage. We will want to migrate our sendmail system to the Iplanet MTA. However, I need some ideas on how to handle one of our scenarios: We have ...

Hello,Can anyone help understand why some e-mails are not being delivered. The error found the imta log file is "MAIL FROM response expected" and the mail is queued. Any help is useful. Thanks in advance.

Hi folks.I'm trying to install Messaging Server 5.2 on a Win machine and I get the following error:"A serious problem ocurred while installing the iPlanet Messaging Server domain component tree (msg.ugldap.dctree.inf) It reported the following problem:The server configuration for the domain ...

I would like to get some peoples recommendations on the what type of sun server to get to run IMS5.2 and Directory Server 5.1.I have about 20,000 users and have 600 concurrent imap connections, 400 webmail connected during the normal business day. I process about 8,000 messages an hour on ...

Hi, i'm seting up a mail server for a single domain in a geographically distributed environment. All the locations have their own mail server and directory server; but the users only have their messageStore in a single place or location. The question is, what happens to the mail when it ...

Hello!We are planning a migration from our present server (iMS 5.2hf1.03) toa new server (iMS 5.2hf1.17), with the big difference being thestructure of the LDAP database. Description of current structure:Base dn: o=liu.se. For historical reasons, there are two types of userdn's: ...

How to configure iPlanet Messaging Server to be able to send and receive external emails outside our domain.

Can the outgoing SMTP host be changed for Messenger Express 5.2? I would like to utilise 3rd Party content filteringsoftware running an SMTP service to scan all local mail (in addition to incoming and outgoing mail). Thanks.

Hello,I'm running a mail server with iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2.I know that by default the relay is blocked. I need some help to prevent Spam attack. How to configure filters to prevent my users to be attacked by spam? Many thanks in AdvanceBest Regards

We have IMS 5.2 and IDS 5.1. When composing mail, our Messenger Express users can search the Corporate Directory for users with no problem. Doing the same search of the Corporate directory from the Subscribe to Shared Folders window produces no results, no matter how one searches. Without being ...

Hi All,I would like all incoming mail from external IPs to be forwarded to a different machine. My situation is this: I have a machine we'll call mailhost and another called spamtrap. Spamtrap is our primary MX, but some clever spammers still send directly to mailhost, avoiding the spamtrap. ...

I deleted a mailing list through delegated administrator because the user wants it created as an E-mail account instead. After deleting the list through the delegated administrator interface (and after waiting 1.5 hours!) I still cannot create the E-mail account. It says the name is already in ...

I am installing Messenger 5.2 on a e4500 with Portal v6.1 with the ldap from that server.I keep getting the following message and I have tried all kinds of configurations. I have also installed the perl script as specified in the install manual. I keep getting the following message: ...

Does anybody know how to define backup groups in backup-groups.conf in iMS 5.2. The examples in manual are rather simple and I need more complex group definition, for instance something like:group1=[a-f]*Is it possible to use regular expressions? In the manuals is said that you can use IMAP ...

One of my users keeps getting the following message when he uses the Reply All facility in the webmail client.Subject: Warning: could not send message for past 1 hour************************************************THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY**** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE ...

Anyone has idea about how two make two mail servers with same exact replica of mail boxes for High availability and load balancing. First is it possible ? If yes, can you guys through me an idea..Thanks in advanceSai

Hello. Please help me. I have Messaging Server installed on machineLDAP that is used by MS contains this structure:main branch : o=domain.comit contains this branch : o=host.domain.com,o=domain.comand in last branch there are People and Groups branchesMS serves for host.domain.com. I m trying ...

Hoping that someone can help me out on this. When I try to use the imsimport utility I get the following errorGeneral Error: func=config_readdriver_fileinit; filename=/servers/iplanet/imsg52/msg-clapton/config/msg.conf; error=file doesn't existERROR: Could not initialize config systemError ...

I am evaluating the IPlanet v5.2 software. I have loaded using theExpress/Eval install on a Solaris 8 system. The install should haveloaded the Messaging Server, LDAP, etc. However, I am unable to move forward. The manuals provide no assistance on what to do next. I believe I have to add users ...

Setting up IDS 5.1 with no problems and run perl ims_dssetup.pl with no error.The IMS 5.2 never finish the setting and an error message appear on screen with details: No value exists for the name "local.defdomain"Can anyone help ? Thanks.

I'm not familiar with IMS, so any response is welcomed...Is there any way to monitor all ims mail traffic, scanning for keywords in a message header, body, or subject line? After finding a match, triggering a script, parsing the message, and releasing it back into the queue?I'm building a ...

how can i forward a single user mail to another account and than delete original mail from the first account. I know how to forward but i don't know how to auto delete that message after it gets forwarded.thank you,

Hi,Ocassionally I have problems starting the Netscape Console. The console just stops at "Running Discovery..." after Iogging in. I received the following output on my terminal: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/swing/JPanelat java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Compiled Code)at ...

Hello guys,can sombody tell me. how bring up the Webmail Page ie Messenger Express. i want to send email through webmail, as i tried http://<hostname>:<webmailport> ie 80, but i m not able to browse the Webmail Login Page, I've also checked my HTTP service, its up & runningI ...

I have iDS, iMS, iWS & iDA installed on my machine,Also created few users through iDS & iMS - Users & Groups Tab. but when i tried to configure any of the new user with Microsoft Outlook Express giving me an error "Problem logging onto Mail Server, UserName or Password was rejected, ...

Hi, In the documentation of "Installation Guide for Windows NT iPlanet Messaging Server - Release5.2" It is said that it is possible to install iMS 5.2 with Directory Server 5.1 SP2.I am currently using Dir Server 4.16 and I tried recently to install Directory Server 5.1 and iMS 5.2 on a new ...

With iMS 5.2. p1 on Solaris 8. Our company has changed names and in the process has changed domains. I now find I have a messaging server installed as the old domain, and need to migrate the entire thing over to the new one. I've already added the new domain and set up aliases for all users to ...

With iMS 5.2p1 on Solaris 8.I have many users that used to use IMAP but have switched back to POP. However, all of their old folders and mail are still on the server. How can I clean this up?Also, it occasionally happens that I have to restore old mail from tape for POP users. However, they are ...

Hi,The messaging server HTTP (webmail) is facing some problem like this:[28/Jul/2003:11:52:04 -0500] mail httpd[404]: Store Error: Unable to remove E:\iPlanet\Server5/msg-mail/store/partition/primary/=user/24/c4/=test1/=+Trash/ 00/29.msg: No such file or directory[28/Jul/2003:11:53:19 -0500] ...

I would like to know where I can get information on the APIs toaccess the message store in order to know if somebody hasgot mail, how many emails are read/deleted/unread etc.I really appreciate reference to any documentation.

Getting some odd errors when I try to clean up orphaned accounts. iMS 5.2p1 on Solaris 8:omulus# reconstruct -oreconstruct: Start checking for orphaned mailboxesmboxutil -d user/cfarivar/INBOXmboxutil -d user/cholst/INBOXmboxutil -d user/degger/INBOXmboxutil -d user/dkimenker/INBOXreconstruct: ...