I have 2 messaging servers - one of them is receiving email from the net. Both are connected to the same ldap server. Is there a way to check the mailhost of a given user, and use the value of the "mailhost" attribute as a starting point for the rewrite rules, instead of the generic domain ...

Hi,I use iMS 5.1 on Solaris 8 system.I want to allow eight bit charector in message header,but, iMS MTA changes the 8 bit charector like below."Subject: =?UNKNOWN?B?wMywzcC6IDi68cau?="MTA encode the 8bit charector using BASE64 and setting the encoding type to "UNKNOWN"I setting the "eightbit" ...

Hi.In our project(using iMS 5.1), Our customer want to setting the aging rule about 10,000 aging policy(per user and user folder)Is there limitation in setting aging rules?How man aging rule is recommanded?Regards,Heungdeok Yoon.

Suggest a better solution for load balancing on Netscape Messaging Server. Also for disaster recovery - in case one server goes down.

When I created some user account. The first time to login and try to send the e-mail. The web page always said ""5.1.1 Unknown or Illegal Alias" SMTP error . I know it could be solved by using "imsimta dirsync -F". I want to know why this error message display very often ? what's the problem ...

I'm using iMS v5.1, and created a several domain and user account. I could send the e-mail between this several domain. But, when I send the e-mail to other mail server. It will said " Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '550 5.7.1 Relaying not allowed. Am I missing something ?

I am running netscape Messaging server 4.15patch 2 on solaris 2.6. Once in a week the smtp server chokes,as result all my outgoing mails are stuck in outbox of outlook express.Pop3 is fine...only the smtp chokes.

I'm trying to upgrade form NMS 4.15 to IMS 5.0.We're running NDS 4.12. I've followed the migration instructions, ran the ims_dssetup.pl utility, got up to installing ims. The install fails with:"ERRORA serious problem occurred while installing the iPlanet Messaging Server Common messaging ...

I know I need :a) iPlanet iMQ for Java Dev Edition 2.0b) Sun J2SE JDK version 1.3.0 Do I need?c) Sun J2EE JDK?d) iPlanet Application Server? Can anyone help?Thank you.

it seems that uuencoded attachments, having a mime header of --Boundary_(ID_us9m7TkTL9RgCQ1Ho9qBjg)Content-type: application/pdf; name="Unix-SedOneLiners_en.pdf"Content-transfer-encoding: x-uuencodeContent-disposition: attachment; filename="Unix-SedOneLiners_en.pdf"are not recognized by the ...

I am searching a way to programmatically manipulate the messaging server a way similar to what i can do with Microsoft Exchange server using CDO or MAPI etc..Basically i want to get informed when an email on a specific account comes.

Hi,I try installing the new iMS5.2 against iDS5.1. I did the ims_dssetup utility and received no error. The I try the install of iMS5.2 and rejected the option for the 'Directory Suite' during the Setup. I have answered all the questions and the installation runs. During the post-installation ...

Some WebMail products have HTTP connect directly to the Mail Store Database. Other products have HTTP connect to IMAP and let IMAP connect to the Mail Store database.How does iMS5 do it?

First off - thanks for help on the first part of my problem goes to Chad.The second part of my problem is that as well as accepting email from the friendly IP's I also want to set-up iMS to accept mail for another domain. This is because we act as a third line backup server for that domain ...

Hello,this is related to my problem with 2 domains on one host. internet -> de -> riess -> integrationChad Stewart's tip to look at the directory using "dirsync dumpdb IMTA_ALIAS_DATABASE" shows me,that only "*@integration.riess.de" are in the database.The users in "*@riess,de" are ...

Hello,I have set up our Message Server 5.1 like this (shown in the delegated admin):internet->de->riess->integrationNow I can send/receive mails from/to outside to users hosts in riess and integration.I also can mail from "user1@riess.de" to "user2@integration.riess.de", but I cannot ...

For some reason, our iPlanet (5.1p3) server does not display the "friendly name" on outgoing messages. I.E.: user@site.com rather than "Joe User" <user@site.com>. Does anyone have any idea why this would be happening?Thanks,Ryan Niemesryan.niemes@wcom.com

Hi,We're running NSMS 4.15 on WinNTAS v4 sp6a. Every once in a while the imap service will exit. Nothing in the NT event logs or the NS IMAP logs. I set the logging mode to debug and there doesn't appear to be any more information in the log than before. The problem seems to not be related to ...

What is the best load balancing solution for Messaging Server with 250 users?

Hi all, Hope this isn't a stupid question. I'm currently migrating our relaying setup on sendmail to iMS 5.x. To set up relaying for some domains and block others is simple enough in sendmail but I'm struggling with the manuals for iMS. All I want to do is to grant internal users and another ...

I have set up the IPlanet Messageserver 5.1 without an smarthost entry. Now the server had to send all messages to an mailreley. How can I add an smarthost entry?

Hi all,This question sort of falls between a directory services questions and a messaging server question so please don't flame me if you think it's in the wrong area.I'm doing an upgrade in a test environment from Netscape MS 4.x to iMS 5.1. I've followed the instruction to enable ...

Hi,i've installed iDA45 with iMS5 as described in the documentation. As I understand the docs it should work with the iDS5 (which I'm still using). But adding a new Messaging-User (using the iDA) still works but when I have a look in the log-file (after imsimta dirsync -F) I can see that this ...

The dirsync ran all night, at 8am we found that SMTP to the MMP was no longer working. We restarted it, it still would not take connections. We've shut down all Iplanet systems on the MMP and looked for the lock files, deleted those we found and restarted. Still not working. Any insight would ...

We often have difficulty in helping users when we don't see what they see. It would be nice to open the mailbox for a user w/o hijacking the account. Can this be done as the admin? Even seening realtime number of messages, and from whom would be helpful.

I have an ims-5.1, and I want to prevent that some specific users can send and receive emails to the Internet (so they can only send emails to other users on the server).I'm trying to do this without using differents domainsAny idea how to do this ?thanks a lot for the answers ...

(NMS4.15) One particular normal mailbox fails do remove, create or even reconstruct -r user/mailbox ! reconstruct -m does'nt help! What should I do?

Hi all,I've just upgraded my email server to iMS 5.1 and Netscape Directory Server 4.13 and my groups no longer work for email. The groups are active and I have been into the console and checked they have a mail account. The individual users accounts work fine for sending and receiving email. ...

In an Extranet where five domains are there, how can I prevent users to send mail only between three domains from rest of the two domains, they should not have access. sometimes sending mail fails from the same host with multiple domains.

when i try to create a domain with the commandimadmin domain createi get thi message http://subd.mydomain.com:port/servlet/auth : Unauthorizedanybody knows whats happend ?thanksFernando

i have a server running for addresses like name@domain.comNow i want that this server acept name@subdomain.domain.comThe MX record (DNS) of subdomain.domain.com it's pointing to the server (the same as domain.com)I tried with the AlternateMailAddress but i do not received any mail.I'll thank ...

How to setup iMS5.1 smtp, in 4.5 it can be done on console, in iMS 5.1 ther is nothing to setup on console, how to set so users can send mail to outside world.

I have NMS 4.12, Directory Server and Admin Server installd on the same maskin.

I am trying to log a user into the IPlanet Messaging Server when the user logs into the IPlanet Portal Server. I would like to create a SSO effect between the portal server and the messaging server.Thanks

I'm running Netscape Messaging server on Solaris 8 is there a provision to configure the NMS as a POP server.SO user's could download the mail through mail clients like Outlook express.

I am running netscape messaging server 4.15 Patch7 on solaris 6.My smtpd has started to behave weired.When i do a netstat -na |grep 25 ,I find all connection established and the mails aren`t going out.It takes quite a long time to go out.Any solution or Help would be appreciated ...

With both iMS5.0p3 and 5.1, mail sent to a domain that has localhost.* as primary MX record will loop until the max hops has been reached. This happens actually with domain "ministre.net" wich has the following mx records:--;; ANSWER SECTION:ministre.net.5h29m27s IN MX 10 ...

I'm having problems installing Netscape Messaging Server 41.5 SP6 on my NT machine. The install program runs through smoothly but does not create the messaging server instance. I believe there used to be a messaging server 4.x running on this pc that was un-installed. Could it be that there ...

I have Netscape message server 4.15 sp6 for Linux RedHat 7.2. After installation, i can use it for outgoing smtp server of Outlook express. However, I cannot use it as a relay server for our IIS smtp server. Please tell me if Netscape Message server 's default setting for mail relay. Is it ...

It's to support multiple schema on the users/groups instance of NDS 4.1X to install iMS 5.0pX or 5.1

We need to install a virus scan software on the iMS5 server that we already have. All the research that I did would give us a virus scan software where incoming emails have to flow through before entering the messaging server. However , this is not what we need.What I am looking for is for the ...

I need to know how many emails our iplanet messaging server is processing per day/month/year etc and the volume of data that this represents. How can I read the logs? Is there a tool for doing this?ThanksPaul

In Delegated Admin 5.4 you had many levels of admins. We are using IMS51. with Delegated Admin 1.1, These multi levels are no longer there. How can I set up a helpdesk admin that can look at users info, perhaps change passwords, or modify quotas, but not add users, groups, etc?

I am trying to install iMS 5.1 on a WinNT (SP6a) at the end of the installation after it creates the program shortcuts I get a message saying:Dialog Box:A serious problem occurred while installing the iPlanet Messaging Configuration in LDAP. It reported the following problems.The Server ...

I installed the IMS5.1 on Solaris 8 with default parameters, without IDA. It is used as a mail relay. It seems to have/keep about 700 msgs in the tcp_local channel but none in the process channel. It uses the cpu very much, in my opinion too much (100% is no exception. It uses the swap file for ...