Find the following file: server-root/userdb/dbswitch.conf where server-root is the base directory where your SuiteSpot servers are installed. The contents of the fileprobably look something like this: directory default ldap://foo.mcom.com:389/o%3DAcme,c%3DUS Replace the single hostname listed ...

After turning off the variable local.sharedfolders, is there a way to subscribe to shared folders?The variable local.store.sharedfolders controls whether a server responds to the "list % imap" command, which normally lists all existing folders on the server. For Messaging Server versions 4.0x ...

How do I set up a filter to stop relayed mail?Unsolicited Bulk E-mail (UBE) is electronic mail sent to large numbersof recipients without their knowledge or consent, usually advertising commercialproducts or services. It is the electronic equivalent of paper "junkmail", and is commonly referred ...

Sending a message to more than 500 recipients can cause a performance degredation on the Messaging Server. <P>To prevent performance degredation, a 500 recipient cutoff is implemented. Any message that is sent to more than 500 recipients has its recipient list automatically divided into ...

Why isn't the SMTP routing table working properly?<P>First, make sure you have the routing table setup correctly.Entries in the Routing table are in the following format:<P><incoming recipient domain>:<route to this host><P>For example, if you want all mail ...

This article describes how to change the SMTP-accept port used by Netscape Messaging Server 3.x for receiving mail. The default port is 25.<P>This configuration works with virus detection software like Trend Micro. <P>(See attachment)

Is Netscape Messaging server supported on NT 4.0 with ServicePack 4 or 5?<P>No. Messaging server 3.x is supported on NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3, but <I>not</I> with Service Pack 4 or 5. If you have questions or concerns about platform support, check <A ...

I am having a problem implementing secure web mail over the secure sockets layer(SSL) with Messaging Server. I installed my certificate and enabled SSL. However, when I start the server, the HTTP server appears to start but does not respond on the port. Checking the HTTP log files reveals the ...

How do I de-activate a user's mailbox? <P>Removing the user's mailHost attribute will de-activate mail service for the user, but will not delete the user'smailbox.

After I configure Netscape Server 4 products, such as Messaging Server 4 and Directory Server 4, if I try to use Console to connect to the server, I receive the following error message:<P> Can't login because of an incorrect userid, incorrect password, directoryproblem.Http Exception: ...

We cannot get the anti-relay plug-in for our messaging server to work. The configuration files are as follows (X's replace customer information):<P> # Antirelay configuration for XXXXXXXX Messenger serverresolvehostnames:0useauthinfo:0advertiseauthinfo:1 # We accept mail for the ...

Where can I find patches for Netscape products?<P>Patches for Netscape all products are available at <A HREF=" http://help.netscape.com/business/filelib.html"> http://help.netscape.c om/business/filelib.html</A>. </UL>

During the installation of Messaging Server 5.0, the setup program displays a message stating that a previous Messaging Server instance has been detected. The program then prompts me to upgrade the existing server instance or create a new server instance.<P>If I choose the option "Create ...

I need help with my mappings file. I need to allow only two users to have complete email access both internally and externally to the mail server. I have being reading the manuals but I just get more confused. Can you please help with an example so that I can get started. the user can email ...

in iMS 5.2, how can I add an user and configure MTA to accept 2 email (and mailalternateaddress) in 2 different domains ? uid: joemailalternateaddress: joe@siroe.commailalternateaddress: joe@sunroe.comI have "o=siroe.com, o=isp" and "o=sunroe.com, o=isp" ?and in o=internet.com, dc=com ... how ...

I am currently planning the upgrade of three NMS 4.15 VCS based servers to iMS5.2. The H/A instructions are pretty clear for the mail server but does not mention the admin server in this environment. We are currently starting the admin server in the 4.15 environment but really use VCS to manage ...

running iMS 5.2 on Solaris 9. About once a week, Messenger express process will exit and I have to go in and restart it. Does anyone have any ideas what may cause this or where to look to get an idea? I know that there were some issues in 5.1 that sp1 fixed relating to httpd exiting. ...

Is there a limit to the number of users who can share a single folder within the messaging system? I do know that for the users to share folders they need to be on the same message store - is there a way around thisThanksrichard

Hello,Any word on support for Linux again? I heard that support is coming back on Directory, how about IMS? We would switch from NT in a second.

We are experiencing problems with Eudora 5x clients on iMS 5.2 whereby some attachments are being embedded in the body of the message. I have made sure that Eudora is not configured to do this but it seems to happen mostly within the internal channel; from one user on the system to another user ...

i develop java program to send mail by iplanet messaging server 52. but failed. the error message is :javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException i can send successly by out Look Express or foxmail or iplanet messaging web client.can u tell me , what's problem?thanks a lot first. ...

In order to execute the ims commands such as imsbackup, I need to be in <server-root>/bin/msg/store/bin directory. How can I execute the same command elsewhere, such as in the root (/) directory?

Someone sent a html form message, but there was a long line had no CR and LF.The message, therefore, was truncated and looked very weird.Does anyone knows the method I can see a html form message which has no CR and LF in iMS5.1(channel keyword or configutation setting would be good) ? ...

We are in the process of moving from Sendmail to iMS. As a Sendmail person it's been a learning experience. So if the following is obvious please excuse my ignorance. I am trying to understand how iMS deals with mail aliases. I understand the aliases file in imta/config as it is similar in ...

Hi all, I have been running through the steps to upgrade our NMS 4.1.5 single server instance to iMS 5.2 on Solaris. I have found the steps in the document to be very vague in a lot of places and would like to post my experiences here (from a customers perspective) to aid people in the future ...

Hi,I have attempted to add the sample entries in the provisioning guide (5.2) with ldapmodify. I keep getting the message:adding new entry dc=comldap_add: No such objectAm I missing something here? The slapd process and msg process is running. I can see all the default items installed via the ...

We have a requirement of migrating MS Exchange to iPlanet Messaging server 5.2Kindly advise asap.Rgds,

In migrating off our sendmail system to iMS5.1 I am needing to also migrate our spam filters. We are currently running checks off of relays.osirusoft.com and have in the past used orbz (now dslb) and MAPS. What is involved with implementing these under iMS?thanks,-patrick ...

I am trying to install iMS 5.2 with an existing Configuration and Users and Groups Server iDS 5.1. Despite my best efforts, I cannot seem to get past this error:A serious problem occurred while installing the iPlanet Messaging Server DomainComponent Tree (msg.ugldap.dctree.inf). It reported the ...

Hi,I have two different mail server that share the same domain. iMS5.2user1@domain.comuser2@domain.com LotususerA@domain.comuserB@domain.complus all the iMS user in address bookHow to configure the iMS so whenever sending to the userA it will route to tcp_intranet (without adding the address ...

We're using Messaging 5.1 on NT. I need to specifiy multiple hosts for local dilivery, and have tried setting the hostnamealiases (per messaging admin.pdf pp. 117 & messaging reference.pdf pp. 178). The command I've issued is./configutil.bat -o local.imta.hostnamealiases -v ...

Hi!I had migrated my sendmail aliases to the aliases file in sendmail 5.0. And all works fine for a long timeSuddenly the server began to return error messages with the all the alias addresses.Recipient address: +alias@ims-ms-daemonOriginal address: alias@mydomainReason: Invalid userI run ...

User vacation messages are not working. When users set up a vacation message with delegated administrator, it appears to take okay, but is never activated.

Hi All,While I migrate my users from our old sendmail server to our new IMS 5.2 server, how do tell IMS to send mail for unknown users to the old server?IMS is running in direct LDAP mode.Each server has an MX record, with preference to the old one, and each accepts mail for the same ...

anybody please help me on this.Server instance: G:/iPlanet/Server5/msg-mailAlarmid: serverresponseInstance: imapDescription: server response time in secondsCurrent measured value (11/Aug/2002:12:10:23 +0800): 10Lowest recorded value: 0Highest recorded value: 10Monitoring interval: 600 ...

hi,I can't use the messenger express 5.1 for user login through http. (ldap 4.13 with mailserver 5.1)user and password are set right. ldap server is set on plain text for password.Can somebody help?Thanks in advanceAngelika

Using iMS 5.2sp04 on Sol 8Conversion channels work just fine (using it right now for Anti-Virus with success).Trying to drop external mail through conversions to spamassassin for processing, but to no avail.What I am able to do:I can rewrite OUTPUT_FILE and pass on informationI can rewrite ...

Running on Solaris 8, the smtp server seems to hang every few days, with the result that mail for my site ends up being hung up for hours until we restart the process.Is this a known bug?! Any way to fix it? It doesn't make iMS a very attractive solution for an enterprise that relies heavily ...

I have a text file containing new person details. How can I add them into the mail store in iMS 5.2? Pls advise and thanks.

I have loaded ids 51 and ims 52 on a new server. I want this server to receive mail at 3 different email addresses AKA uid@guinness.pint.com, uid@harp.pint.com and uid@bass.pint.com... The directory is setup a dc=pint,dc=com. Half of the mail server users have uid@guinness.pint.com as their ...

I'm using iplanet mail server 5.2. how can I setup authentication on SMTP without SSL encryption.

Attempting to find documentation on how-to instructions and/or necessity of installing 'optional' plug-ins 'Class of Service' and 'Directory Entry Counts' per the install docs of the iMS 5.2.iMS 5.2 reference to iDS 5.1 docs is dated and not explicit as to what is required for iMS 5.2 ...

Finally got vacation messages to work with iMS 5.2. However, now they contain a "date-warning":Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:03:27 -0700 (PDT)Date-warning: Invalid date header replaced by romulus.imaginemedia.com; original content: What is that all about?

Hi,We have the following set up.iDS 4.16, iMS 5.1, iCS 5.03 and iDA 4.5We have some problems with iDA and are considering customising it and trying to fix any config errors / bugs that may be there.We are aware that iPlanet will not support it from November, so we are also considering upgrading ...

using commandimsbackup -f /dev/rmt/0u /xxxx/ALLto backup a 30GB mailstore, give error:--Error closing file: I/O errorDevice full. Please insert a new blank tape.Enter new device name ($ to cancel)> --backup device: DLT7000 with IV type. It should can hold 35G native, 70G compressed ...

I'm sure this is something simple... With iMS 5.2 using dirsync, how do you configure the server to strip the hostname from the From: portion of the email header for all the hosted domains? Something like the masquerade feature of sendmail?

We are running a small beta test of our iMS 5.1 system. Last night we had a glitch in our server that I have yet to figure out. The iMS system was accepting incoming mail, but not delivering in to users' mailboxes. A restart of the iMS system did not help. A restart of our LDAP server did. We ...

What is the recommended backup procedure?We are using Netbackup to dump to a tape library our entire Messaging Server filesystem.Do we need to do anything else?Are there any problems we should be aware of?Should we be using imsbackup/imsrestore?

Hello, how do you do to change smtp banner?Pop, imap --> no trouble but smtp?

With iMS 5.2 and iDS 5.1, I need to change the entire companies default domain while retaining the old domain as an alternate address. Is there a simple way to do this other than going through each individual entry in delegated admin?