Why did the MTA Directory Cache Update not start automatically?
I have just installed iPlanet Messageing Server 5.1 on my NT workstation 4.0 with service pack 6. And there was no error during the whole installation.
I found even more than half an hour after I added an email account, I still could not send email to this account. Only after I manually issued command:
imsimta dirsync -F
to performs a full synchronization could I send email to this one.
I checked the document and found this kind of
sychronization should occurs automatically every
10 minutes incrementally and every day fully. But
seems this is not scheduled on my computer.
Any idea? I really appriecate your help!
Thanks
Zhipeng
[718 byte] By [
708693] at [2007-11-25 7:07:56]
It does not happen immediately after install for several reasons.
There are situations where you would not want the dirsync to run right after install. For example, imagine you already have the Directory server installed with millions of users in it but have not tuned the directory server for the dirsync. If it fired off a dirsync right away it could potentiall hang the directory server.
Another reason is many sites will wan to make significant changes to the default directory server install after the initial installation. There would be values in there that this site might not want in the database.
Also, an incremental dirsync is supposed to run every 10 minutes, not a full one. You can verify this by looking in the periodic jobs section of the job_controller.cnf file. An incremental dirsync will do no good unless the first dirsync -F has been run to create the databases.
-Chris
709463 at 2007-6-29 17:38:27 >
