How do I configure the Mail Aging Policy

259 byte By KheirulMohamed at 2007-11-25 10:25:09
I've tried the mail aging under messaging console which set the mail for 60 days stays in the server then automatically delete it..after putting all the fields and save it... the aging policy seems doesnt work... how do i feagure it out?

iDA & Dynamic Groups

312 byte By CharityAnderson at 2007-11-25 10:25:42
Is there a way to create Dynamic Mail groups/lists (instead of static ones) in the Delegated Administrator? I have searched iDA and all the help documents but cannot seem to find any way to use Dynamic queries in the group/lists like can be done in the Iplanet/Sun directory server console. ...

could not access iDA

325 byte By mpfefer@hotmail.com at 2007-11-25 10:26:04
People,I created a new subdmain. Users of this subdomain can't access iDA from webmail ("The page cannot be displayed . There is a problem with the page you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed."). Whereas, the users belonging to the upper domain could do do.Please advise,Thanks ...

Users unable to logon to mail server

376 byte By EdisonTjikune at 2007-11-25 10:26:17
Hi All,After making changes to the "LDAP Bind Account" in the Systems Configurations of Netscape Messaging Server, all the users are now being denied access to the mail server. I'm using Solaris 9, POP3, Netscape Messaging Server 3.5 and Netscape Directory Server 3.0.Can anyone help me to ...

Network backup & User self sign-up

876 byte By Firas_Al_Ragom at 2007-11-25 10:26:44
I'm about to deploy my first Messaging server and I would appreciate some help in the following issues:- Is there any option in the Messaging Server to allow users to sign themselves up for e-mail (yahoo or hotmail like) or would that functionality have to be written as a separate web ...

Generic mailboxes.

155 byte By 704324 at 2007-11-25 10:26:51
we want to setup 'generic mailboxes' so that multiple users can access it, send e-mails etc...whats the best way to do this..?cheers

how do i remove user mailbox which the userid has been deleted

364 byte By KheirulMohamed at 2007-11-25 10:26:58
how do i remove user mailbox which the userid has been deleted from the directory server?what i discovered was, the user's mailbox still in the stored directory even that particular user has been deleted from the directory server. How do I figure out to delete the mailbox folder....? ims ...

Netscape Messaging 4.15 Problems Changing Password

310 byte By RicardoSaucedoBauelos at 2007-11-25 10:27:18
We have a problem becasue when we want to change a password by the http service, some times we cant. In the end we re-start the mail services(IMAP, POP,etc.). Then we can do it but we have to repeat this after certain time. We want to know if you know the reason about this problem? ...

Netscape Messaging 4.15 Recipient too long

267 byte By RicardoSaucedoBauelos at 2007-11-25 10:27:19
There is an error that appear when you reply an email message with an alias, like "Mario Garca"<mgarcia@nvjsks.jdjdk.com>. I think that the application takes all the line like an account in another server but we want to know, How do we avoid this?

Can't login to Messaging Server Admin Console

671 byte By Firas_Al_Ragom at 2007-11-25 10:27:42
I've just installed DS5.2 and MSG5.2 on a 480R. After starting all the appropriate servers I am able to use the Admin Consoles on the 480R for both DS and MSG.But if I try to login to the MSG server's admin console remotely from my Win XP laptop I get an error "Cannot logon because of an ...

mailstore on NFS netapp filer

501 byte By qmailindia at 2007-11-25 10:27:46
Hi all i am using iplanet messaging server 4.15 on solaris 7 ,right now my mail store is on the sun storage edge 1000 array , butnow we are planning to move it on the Netapp Filer 810 , so that my mail server will mount the fs FROM the netapp filer 810 , where it will store the mail , in the ...

iDA fails with big lists ?

469 byte By ChristianBOITEL at 2007-11-25 10:27:50
Hello,I have a iMS5.2p1+ida12p1 on Solaris 9.I have some mailing lists containing 1000 users as members. When trying to edit these lists, iDA fails to display the member list (it is empty): from there, any list update will empty the member list in the directory.I have tried with both IE 5.5 and ...

deleting accounts

305 byte By 704324 at 2007-11-25 10:28:45
does anyone know any resource that explains a procedure for deleting accounts (from directory and message store) so that - the object is deleted from the directorydatabase is rebuilte-mail account data archivede-mail account deleted etc..?thanks in advance ...

Messenger Express not working in any browser!

544 byte By Firas_Al_Ragom at 2007-11-25 10:29:06
I've installed Directory Server 5.2, Messaging 5.2 patch 1, iDA 5.2 Patch 1, web server 6.0.I first installed DS5.2, then MSG5.2, then patched MSG5.2 to SP1, then WS6.0, then iDA 5.2 SP1.I can log in just fine to messenger express but nothing happens when I press the Compose button. The other ...

ETRN and TURN

307 byte By mpfefer@hotmail.com at 2007-11-25 10:29:16
People,If I use ETRN, I have to put the mail server IP as primary MX. On the other hand, using TURN is non-secure. Is there any workaround like:1- using authentication + TURN (how?)2- using ETRN without putting the MX record (how?)3- etcRegards, ...

Wrong timestamp

936 byte By Firas_Al_Ragom at 2007-11-25 10:29:46
I'm having problems with timestamps regardless of where I send email from (webmail, telnet to smtp) either from the server itself or remotely. The timezone I'm in is GMT +3. I'm running MS5.2P1 on Solaris 8. The system time is correct :[root@420R msg5.2]$ dateWed Oct 29 13:14:54 GMT ...

desactivate help command

62 byte By kkkkkkk at 2007-11-25 10:29:52
How can I desactivate help command?Thanks

change smtp banner

171 byte By kkkkkkk at 2007-11-25 10:29:55
I'd like to change the smtp banner and I 'm changing BANNER_ADITION and CUSTOM_VERSION_STRING in the option.dat file. What is what I'm doing wrong?

cannot view pab of another domain

530 byte By EdwinLazaro at 2007-11-25 10:30:07
I created another domain called 'internal-abc.com" aside from the default domain abc.com.I migrated some users from the abc.com domain to the "internal-abc.com" domain. Email routing works fine for both domains however, when I access the pab using the webmail, only users from the same domain ...

SMTP stop working!!!!

627 byte By JuanjoFuentes at 2007-11-25 10:30:26
Hi, I've Messaging 5.2 it was working ok, it was on test so I don't work with it every day, but it seems to work ok, at least I sent some messages a few days ago... But now it don't sends messages, I don't know why smtp service don't works though it is up. I don't see any error in the ...

msg-admin-xx Password?

500 byte By VinodKumar at 2007-11-25 10:30:27
Hi All,When we install Messaging Server, there are 2 users created - 1. Service Admin; 2. msg-admin-xxxx.We provide the password for 'ServiceAdmin' during the installation process, whereas, for the msg-admin, we don't.We are finding it difficult to identify the password this user ...

User purge failed ?!

567 byte By Firas_Al_Ragom at 2007-11-25 10:30:47
After deleting users using ./imadmin user delete I then try purging them to no avail. Anyone know how to get this working ?<root@420R bin>$ ./imadmin user purge -D serviceadmin -n mydomain.com -w password -g 0 -l test7test7@mydomain.com: purging user...test7@mydomain.com: purge user ...

Prioritising message sending

684 byte By ColinChalmers at 2007-11-25 10:32:26
Hi all,Although not new to messaging I am relatively new to the Iplanet messaging server so forgive me for some newbie questions :-)We are using version 4.15 sp4 on Solaris 7.We are using the server specifically for bulk sendings to our clients. The messages themselves come from two ...

cohabitation Sun One Messaging 5.1 and iplanet messaging 4.15

501 byte By btridus at 2007-11-25 10:32:30
I have a 5.2 messaging on an 5.1 SP2 directory server and a netscape 4.15 messaging and directory server. I replicate LDAP on this directories. When i send a message to a 5.2 user through 5.2 user, it's OK. When i send a message to a 4.15 user through 4.15 user, it's OK. BUT when i want to ...

Forcing all Mail to external MTA

649 byte By R.L.A. at 2007-11-25 10:32:36
Running iMS 5.2From a given mail store would like to force all mail to external MTA, even locally deliverable mail and not get the tcp_intranet - ims-ms rewrite to the ims-ms-daemon channel until the mail is returned back to the mail store loop.Have invoked the "alternate conversion channel" ...

Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname

304 byte By 706673 at 2007-11-25 10:32:38
Hi, I am using iPlanet messaging server 5.2. My email is rejected by some mail servers with following reason:Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostnameCould you please give me some sujjestions to fix this problem?Thanks in advance!Francis ...

Recreating an e-mail account

418 byte By Mail_Explorer at 2007-11-25 10:33:09
Hi people,Can anyone explain me step by step how to:Delete completely an e-mail account (LDAP entries and mailbox) through iPlanet Delegated Administrator or command line.The problem is that when i need to recreate an e-mail account the IDA refuses telling that there is already a user with the ...

problem in s1ms52 sms config

912 byte By liphn at 2007-11-25 10:33:18
I write rewrite rules and channel definition in imta.cnf fileand wrote a sms_option file as ...

SOS: Incoming mails dont go to users accounts

409 byte By 708340 at 2007-11-25 10:33:21
Hi, I have a iMS 5.0 running with 50000 users.... in this week i am having problems with the incoming mails. They arrive OK (all ok in log/imta/mail.log_current) to the server but i think there is a problem in to the users recipients distribution, because they can see the new mails (via POP or ...

Response time units when executing counterutil tool

400 byte By biswakumarbalimidi at 2007-11-25 10:33:26
Hi,iam using counterutil tool to get the response time of messaging server services - Imap, pop, and http. Can any body tell me the units for the response time value, means whether the value is in seconds, or milli seconds. because some time the response time is coming 180 for pop ...

counterutil tool output

978 byte By biswakumarbalimidi at 2007-11-25 10:33:28
Hi everybody,iam executing counterutil command tool to collect measurements from the iplanet messaging server.I have following doubts. please help me in that.1. when executing the command tool "counterutil -o httpstat", the value of "global.numconnections [4 bytes]:" is keep on increasing, but ...

problem receiving/sending mail

665 byte By JoeBond at 2007-11-25 10:33:34
I'm having some problems configuring iMS 5.2 on solaris 8. I have installed iDS 5.1, ran ims_dssetup.pl, installed iMS 5.2, and added users to my ldap directory. I have also configured iMS to use direct ldap, per the instruction on sun.com.Users can log in to http/imap/pop services, but cannot ...

problems with webmail

254 byte By kkkkkkk at 2007-11-25 10:33:45
I'm using ms4.15 and when I login in webmail and I write user and passwd, it goes to http://<host>:<port>/login.msc and the message is not found. Any idea? The user and password is ok because I 've checked it in the ldap logs.

Need to send an SMS Notification when a new message comes in

1141 byte By 702432 at 2007-11-25 10:34:06
Hi All,We need to send a Notification, whenever a new message comes to the Inbox for all users. This has to be done at the Messaging server side. We are using WebMail (Messenger Express). iMS 5.2 Patch 1.In the ENS document it has been given as a ENS notification will be sent whenever a new ...

Mail is not delivered to the end use

637 byte By GarySherman at 2007-11-25 10:34:10
Hello All,I have setup and configure iMS 5.1 on Solaris 9. At this point mail for the domain is reaching the server and this is evident in a snoop. Once the mail is on the local mahicne it seems to disappear and never reach the end user. I know I am not configured for local delivery and it I ...

[HElp] What is plugin_FixupSizes?

406 byte By MarcoFavero at 2007-11-25 10:34:38
I have the following line of error in smtp log of NM4.15 Patch 7 (built Sep 11 2001):[17/Nov/2003:11:21:12 +0100] scmail1 smtpd[17014]: General Warning: libNS: plugin_FixupSizes(): stdio watermark reached: fd >= 256 I also see that smtp doesn't work, and CPU is 100% for iowait...Anyone has ...

ims web mail login page

93 byte By aaaa at 2007-11-25 10:35:03
Hianyone knows if we can change the webmail login page's look and feel?

iMS 5.x and Linux...

211 byte By MarchalFrederic at 2007-11-25 10:35:06
Hi !Someone could tell me when a release of ims 5.x will be available for Linux ?We are using iMs 5.2 on Solaris but we plan to migrate on Linux Red Hat.Thanks !Frederic

Cleaning user mailboxes that hasnot be accessed long time

588 byte By AlexSel at 2007-11-25 10:35:08
Good time of a day for all!I have 2 questions:1) How can i find all users, that did not access their mailboxes since some date (for ex. after 1st of September in this year) by standart tools of IMS?(it's needful to say that mail store was scanned by different ways, so access time of all ...

Are additional mail filters available?

361 byte By DougBarker at 2007-11-25 10:35:14
I'm wondering if there is a site where contibuted Messaging server mail filters are available to save me the time of writing them myself.In particular I am looking for a filter that will forward a copy of incoming messages to another address while still delivering it to the local account. This ...

complete syntax for mailallowedserviceacces

201 byte By IvoRamos at 2007-11-25 10:35:20
Hi there, I was unable to find a complete description for this attribute: manual 816-6021 refers to 816-600 that refers to 816-6018 that refers back to 816-600.TIAIvo

Domain alias

607 byte By IvoRamos at 2007-11-25 10:35:21
Gentlemen, I have to tell my customer how to set up a server in which the users will receive their messages by two different domains. We are using DS 5.1p1 and MS5.2p1. My doubts are:1. when a user logs in using only the username, he will reach the default domain; will he be able to fetch the ...

DNS secure with nameservers parameter

369 byte By btridus at 2007-11-25 10:35:30
Hello,I want to secure my SUNONE Messaging Server 5.2 to access to 2 DNS. I read documentation, and so i create a file tcp_intranet_option with 1 line : nameservers <@serveur dns1> <@serveur dns2>. Then i launch the command imsimta refresh. It don't work. can you help me ? Where ...

finding user details,messages present and total space consumed

976 byte By biswakumarbalimidi at 2007-11-25 10:35:35
Hi,i have to find - the total number of users present in the ims server, - the total number of messages present - the total amount of disk space consumed by all messages.when iam executing the command "mboxutil -a" on solaris iam getting all the user details, and at the end only iam getting the ...

problem to run dispatcher

383 byte By btridus at 2007-11-25 10:35:38
I have a SOMS 5.2 on a SODS 5.2. When i start the messaging, i have a message : Starting disp daemon...The iPlanet Dispatcher (SMTP inbound) (rome) service is starting.The iPlanet Dispatcher (SMTP inbound) (rome) service could not be started.A system error has occurred.System error 1067 has ...

Migrating IMS for NT to IMS For Solaris

366 byte By JimmieMoore at 2007-11-25 10:35:47
Ok, I have convinced my superiors to get me a Sun server to run IMS 5.2 under Solaris 9 rather than the current Win NT box I have. Does anyone know any good migration stratagies for moving the directory server as well as the Messaging server to the new platform. All responses are welcomed. ...

how many users can be created in one mail server instance

458 byte By biswakumarbalimidi at 2007-11-25 10:36:01
Hi, how many users can be created in one IMS5.2 instance. iam using "imadmin" to created users. i created 3000 useres. when i executed mboxutil to get details of the users, using the command "mboxutil -q domainname " after displaying 2000 user details, ldap error = 4, is coming. can any body ...

stmp auth /ssl/sasl for specific group of users?

378 byte By aaaa at 2007-11-25 10:36:06
HiI've a need to setup 2 kind of smtp (plain smtp and smtp with sasl/tls) for 2 group of users.For ims52, is it possible to mandate smtp sasl and tls for certain email addresss (say from domain A), whileallowing a few email addresses (say from domain B) to go through using simple smtp?Does ...

imsimta qm summarize - is there any overhead on server

705 byte By biswakumarbalimidi at 2007-11-25 10:36:23
Hi,Iam using the command "imsimta qm summarize -directory_tree -held" to display a summary listing of message files, from that iam taking total queued, held, and size of the messaes. is there any over head this command will put on the server if i execute for every 10 or 15 mins on the server. ...

Is there any tool to monitor smtp connections

156 byte By biswakumarbalimidi at 2007-11-25 10:36:26
Hi,Is there any tool to monitor in bound smtp connections, instead of seeing mail.log_current file.Thanks in advanceBiswa