Hacked again, going to new server

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, it seemed right at the time.
Without going into any major details, our web/mail server has been hacked for the second time in 3 months and was being used to forward people to a PayPal phishing site.
Anyway, I am getting 2 new Intel servers, one which will replace the current machine being used for Mail/Web (A G5 iMac). I am wondering, because the machine has been hacked, is it going to be safe to move every bodies email over from the current server to the new one?

Gregg,
It is an iMac G5 running OS X Server v 10.4.8. (Up to date until about a month ago)
The server was hacked about 3 months ago initially, and I found in the log files that they used a dictionary attack to gain Root access (I will say something about this in a minute), I notified the GM and the guy that set everything up here.
I highly suggested turning OFF root access (Even before we were hacked) and reformatting the server after the first hack in case of a root kit or other back doors. The tech above me wanted me to give him a good reason to do a reformat (As if being hacked with root wasnt enough of a reason!) and the GM felt that we could make it till the end of June when we move and transition to 2 new Intel Servers (As well as a New Firewall (SonicWall Pro 2040 with DMZ and ISP Failover) and a new switch).
Well, here we go again! I know we were hacked because they installed forwarding files to a PayPal phishing site. SOmebody notified the first time, and I removed the files. I checked everything else in the web folder and there were no other files or folders that did not belong, well, I removed another one today (After being notified again by somebody that received the email) and I again removed the folder (which was not there last time this happened).
I am not going to lie, I am fairly new to dealing with server (As of Jan 15), though I recently completed the Server Essentials course at Apple Canada (Just under 3 weeks ago). However, I do know enough that the problems we have with the servers in general are not normal, and the security that was setup before is a joke (Our firewall is software running on an old PC).
If you need anything else, let me know!

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Add New Server with Configtool Questions

Hello All,
We are running EP7 SP12 on W2K3 with 16GB RAM and 4 CPUs.
As part of one the Go Live checks done to the system a while back, it was recommended that we increase the number of Server processes to the instance.
So, I followed the information here (http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/68/dcde416fb3c417e10000000a155106/frameset.htm) to add 3 additional servers to the instance. When I restarted the J2EE engine, it basically sat there in a 'Starting Apps' status. I waited about 2 hours before I stopped the startup process. I went back into Configtool and did a 'Remove Server' on the last, Server3, process and restarted J2EE. This time, everything did start OK, but now I have a few questions I hope someone can answer.
1. Is there a limit to the number of Server processes that can exist in a single instance? If not, what would cause the J2EE servers to essentially hang on startup although they didn't look hung, just extremely slow starting up.
2. I thought when you did the initial 'Add Server' it was supposed to create a duplicate Server process. But, when I check the directory structures of the newly created Server processes, they aren't anywhere close to being the same as the original Server0 process. For example, we have a custom redirect in place when people logon to the Portal, but this wasn't transferred/copied to the new Server1 or Server2. The same was true for other customizations. Also, when looking at the structure, Server0 has approx 80,000 files and 15,000 sub-folders. When looking at the new Server1 & Server2, they are both different in size in both files and folders in respect to each other and compared to Server0. Shouldn't they all be the same?
3. A follow up to question 2. If they aren't the same and they are supposed to be the same, can we just copy the missing files & folders from Server0 to the new Servers?
4. Lastly, since I did a 'Remove Server' in Configtool for Server3, it does not appear in the MMC when the J2EE engine starts. This I expect. But, it did not remove the directory structure for Server3. If I try to manually delete the Server3 directory, it simply says it is in use and won't let me delete the structure. So, is it safe to delete this structure since it isn't being used anymore? If so, I'll stop SAP and delete the structure offline. Do I have to do any database cleanup once I do this? If so, can someone point me to some documentation as to what needs to cleaned up in the DB and how?
Thanks,
Tom

Thanks for the info.
Interesting though. I open a message with SAP and posed these same questions. Their response was similar to yours, but it opened up a whole new set of questions. What follows is the text of that message for others to benefit from (clipped for clarity):
SAP's response to the original set of questions posted here:
=====================
....1.Number of server nodes depends upon the CPU speed.J2EE Engine
can support upto 21 server nodes in a intance.
If number of server nodes is big,it will slow down the startup process.
2.When you create the "New Server"its not the dublicate server.
Its a new server.You can not copy mising files from one server to other
J2EE engine syncronises the server nodes in the instance.
3.Yes.You need to manually delete the file system.Configtool deletes
the server node from the DB....
=====================
To which I replied:
=====================
.....2. I thought when you did the initial 'Add Server' it was supposed to
create a duplicate Server process. But, when I check the directory
structures of the newly created Server processes, they aren't anywhere
close to being the same as the original Server0 process. For example,
we have a custom redirect in place when people logon to the Portal, but
this wasn't transferred/copied to the new Server1 or Server2. The same
was true for other customizations. Also, when looking at the structure,
Server0 has approx 80,000 files and 15,000 sub-folders. When looking at
the new Server1 & Server2, they are both different in size in both
files and folders in respect to each other and compared to Server0.
Shouldn't they all be the same?"
You replied:
"2.When you create the "New Server"its not the dublicate server.
Its a new server.You can not copy mising files from one server to other
J2EE engine syncronises the server nodes in the instance."
But, from actual experience, it does NOT synchronize the nodes, rather
it is a partial synchronization.
So, are the following staements true:
-When a new server process is added, ONLY standard SAP delivered files
& folders are synchronized. True or False?
-No custom files/folders are synnchronized. True or False?
-Custom values, whether part of standard SAP deliverables or custom
deliverables, are NOT synchronized. True or False?
-Each server node needs to be configured independently. True or False?
The reason I'm asking such specific questions is because of what we are
seeing. I'll use the same example from before. We modified the
index.html file for the Portal in Server0. When we added the new
server nodes, this index.html file was not synchronized. Instead, the
default index.html file was created for the new server nodes. That is
an example at the file level. Here is an example from a configuration
perspective. In Server0, in the Visual Admin tool, we have a TREX
server specified in TREX service properties. When the new server nodes
were created, this setting was NOT transferred. Therefore, TREX didn't
work until I specifically went back into VA and added the TREX settings
to the new server nodes. This is a major problem and opens up three
more questions:
1.How do we know what settings were transferred vs. those that weren't
transferred?
2.Also, if you can't copy missing files/folders from one server to
another, then how are we supposed to get those files/folders into the
new server(s)?
3. Is there a way to do a comparison between the server nodes to see
what settings are missing?.....
=====================
SAP's reply:
=====================
.....-When a new server process is added, ONLY standard SAP delivered files
& folders are synchronized. True or False? TRUE
-No custom files/folders are synnchronized. True or False? TRUE
-Custom values, whether part of standard SAP deliverables or custom
deliverables, are NOT synchronized. True or False? TRUE
-Each server node needs to be configured independently. True or False?
YES.
If any new server node is added,J2EE Engine syncronises the information
at the time of next restart......
======================
My Reply:
======================
.....1.How do we know what settings were transferred vs. those that weren't
transferred?
2.Also, if you can't copy missing files/folders from one server to
another, then how are we supposed to get those files/folders into the
new server(s)?
3. Is there a way to do a comparison between the server nodes to see
what settings are missing?.....
======================
SAP's Reply:
======================
.....1.How do we know what settings were transferred vs. those that weren't
transferred?
NO there is no way.
2.Also, if you can't copy missing files/folders from one server to
another, then how are we supposed to get those files/folders into the
new server(s)?
You need to deploy the appliactions again on the new server.
3. Is there a way to do a comparison between the server nodes to see
what settings are missing?
No there is no way......
======================
So, although I really didn't have the answers I was looking for, I confirmed the message. It seems ludicrous to me that there is no way of doing a comparison or manual synch between two server nodes. Also, I can't believe you have to configure each node independently let alone when you do a deployment you now have to deploy to each server individually, of which I haven't found any docs explaining how to do that. So if someone here has a suggestion I'd appreciate it. Although at this point, given the fact the server nodes are so out of synch as to make them almost unusable, we might just delete them all and go back to one node, although I don't want to have to do that.
Thanks,
Tom

Moving iweb onto a new server

I have two websites that I set up under mobileme which i have not used for a while. I wish to make them live again with a new server. How do I move the content onto a new server?

Republish your site from iWeb to the new server...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Publish-Website.html
If you don't have a domain name some hosting services will gve you one free...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Website-Hosting.html
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I'm sorry you're having issues with your e-mail account on your phone Rusty1112. Let's figure out what's going on. First, please try deleting account/information again and then restart phone. When phone is back on, try adding e-mail account again, and be sure you're entering exactly as you set up, meaning its case-sensitive. If you're still getting same error, please let us know and let us know what e-mail account it is, Yahoo, AOL, MSN, etc.
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Hi,
I recently installed new server 2003 with LMS3.2 and after the problems with DevicePackages i resubmitted all device and the device center tasks that was missing now reappeared.
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This device is supported for RME inventory and syslog
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I have two issues:
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I have communication going, and a packet trace/sniff show I have syslog going into RME and i see SNMP GET and respones to/from device
I see some java error logs in ic_server.log fil
I have tried with two different LMS32-servers
I have increased SNMP timeout etc
I tried deleted the device and rediscover
log are like this:
[ Thu Aug 19 10:12:30 CEST 2010 ],ERROR,[Thread-14],com.cisco.nm.rmeng.inventory.ics.core.CollectionController,761, Collection failed for the device : 3748
com.cisco.nm.xms.xdi.ags.system.CollectionFailed: com.cisco.nm.lib.snmp.lib.SnmpException: SnmpResponseNoSuchName on 10.3.6.2 while performing SnmpWalk(*) at index = 10
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    at com.cisco.nm.xms.xdi.pkgs.SharedInventoryVPN3000.PortInterfaceAGI_RFC1213_Mib.g$eval(PortInterfaceAGI_RFC1213_Mib.java:77)
    at com.cisco.nm.xms.xdi.ags.PortInterfaceAGI.g$eval(PortInterfaceAGI.java:21)
    at com.cisco.nm.xms.xdi.SdiEngine.initAndEvalAGIs(SdiEngine.java:383)
    at com.cisco.nm.xms.xdi.SdiEngine.request(SdiEngine.java:309)
    at com.cisco.nm.xms.xdi.SdiEngine.getDevRepr(SdiEngine.java:302)
    at com.cisco.nm.rmeng.inventory.ics.core.CollectionController.run(CollectionController.java:539)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
[ Thu Aug 19 10:12:30 CEST 2010 ],INFO ,[Thread-14],com.cisco.nm.rmeng.inventory.ics.core.CollectionController,841,Device collection failed for 10.3.6.2
2.:I can not get syslog into the devices syslog reports
This is wierder than issue 1: I have two VPN3030, one actually does syslog fine, but one VPN 3030 does not
I havent done any thing different for the two device ...
one simply works, one doesnt ...
I get no syslog msg in device center for one of the device.
The syslogs ARE infact in the syslog.log
The syslog msg DO show up, but in Unexpected device report ...
The same VPN device does work with my second server so I think this is related to RME database on one specific server.
But i have tried delete device and rediscover etc ...
please help ...

ok - looks like i need TAC again ...
As for the syslog issue - this happens only for one device on one of my servers ...
That is what is strange ... So IP is coorect and ok - (they do get syslogs into DevCenter on one server and on other device)
Thank you for your reply - really nice that you take your time into this forum !

Migrating to new server: advice! :)

Hi!
My current GroupWise 2012 SP2 server is a SuSE 10 SP4 and I need to migrate to a new server!
I currently have 5% disk space left and have ordered additional drives, but while I'm going through the hassle and word is Windemere is not going to be supported on SuSE 10, I've decided to set-up and configure a new server.
This is my plan (this is my first migration) so any suggestions, advice, LOOKOUT FORs, would be welcome with open arms!
The current GroupWise server is a virtual machine on XenServer 6.1 with a NAS attached.
After I install the addition drives, here is my plan of attack:
1. Start up a new SuSE 11 SP2 server.
Notes: The old GroupWise server had a 20 GB disk allocated: 502 MB for /boot and 17.4 GB for / and 2.0 swap
GroupWise files are mounted at /var/opt/novell/groupwise with a 750 GB allocation (it's 83 Linux native).
I think I will double that (40 GB allocation) for room to grow.
Question: What would you recommend LVM or NSS for the partition that will hold GroupWise?
(I will have about 2 TB to work with).
2. Install GroupWise on the new server with the same po/domain name as 'old' server?
3. Install eDirectory on the new server and bring it into a new tree.
4. Perform a Gwava Reload migration.
5. Shutdown eDirectory on 'old' server, backup and restore on new server, then shutdown old server, reboot new server after modifying server name & IP to match old server.
6. Run DSRepair to insure new server is in sync.?
Comments welcome! Stan

Maybe you can do the follow, if you have a small downtime.
1 .Stop GW, make a "chkconfig grpwise off", change IP of the server, reboot and configure the old IP as a secondary(with yast). Then you can start GW again(and "chkconfig grpwise on)".
2. Install a new server with a new name and new IP in the tree.
3. Install the GW-Agents on the new server and copy the config-files (*.poa,*.mta, web?, gwia?, /etc/opt/novell/...gwha.conf) from the old server, and "chkconfig grpwise off"
4. In XEN you can expand the 750GB VOL and then the ext3 or you create a new VOL in XEN and mount it on the same place (/var/opt/novell/groupwise) BACKUP before expand !!
5. If you have a new VOL make simply a rsync to the new VOL, online for the first time
6. Online-Rsync(with delete-option) you can make ever day to see the consumed time, you can use also dbcopy, but this didnt delete old files
7. On Day X you stop GW on old server, make a final rsync (or dbcopy, if you like)
8. remove secondary IP from old server and configure this IP as a secondary to the new server.
9. start GW (if you use gwmonitor its easy to configure it new with the install of GW)
Similar "IP-mechanism" use a GW-Cluster.
In XEN you can make (or you have) a separate network to check this after the first rsync. Switch the server to this network, give the seconday IP and start GW and check the gw-logs and/or start GW with X-Window, if you have runlevel 5 or xming.
Because you have today > 750GB you should think about a second Postoffice, because the handling of big volumes(Backup, Snapshot,...)
That you can make after moving to the new server. Simply build a 2. GW-Server, create a second PO with C1 (or you wait to windermere ??) and move some user.
A Client with the old IP that moved on the new PO is automatically redirected.
Heiko

Safely point an NSS VMDK to the new server during transferID

I have two VMWare VMDK NSS Volumes hosted on an iSCSI array for a class, connected to my existing OES2SP3 server. I'm installing a transfer ID server instance OES11SP2 I'd like to to migrate the "locally" hosted vmdk NSS volume over to the new server. (I don't have space to migrate the other two huge volumes.)
So I'm going to install the transfer id server and migrate the main STORAGE volume to it and then remove the two VMDKs from the OES2SP3 VM and install them onto the new OES11SP2 VM. I assume that I do this move after I finish the transfer ID from the old VM to the new VM.
My question I'm hoping to have answered is -> If you move an NSS VMDK to a server after the transfer ID occurs, will the new server have to have the existing NSS edir objects changed in any way or will it simply assume ownership of them when they are mounted at boot? Is it safe to move them after the transfer id or must I do it before. I didn't like the idea of yanking the two NSS volumes out from the old server prior to doing to transfer id.
Thanks,
-Nyle

Originally Posted by nlandas
I have two VMWare VMDK NSS Volumes hosted on an iSCSI array for a class, connected to my existing OES2SP3 server. I'm installing a transfer ID server instance OES11SP2 I'd like to to migrate the "locally" hosted vmdk NSS volume over to the new server. (I don't have space to migrate the other two huge volumes.)
So I'm going to install the transfer id server and migrate the main STORAGE volume to it and then remove the two VMDKs from the OES2SP3 VM and install them onto the new OES11SP2 VM. I assume that I do this move after I finish the transfer ID from the old VM to the new VM.
My question I'm hoping to have answered is -> If you move an NSS VMDK to a server after the transfer ID occurs, will the new server have to have the existing NSS edir objects changed in any way or will it simply assume ownership of them when they are mounted at boot? Is it safe to move them after the transfer id or must I do it before. I didn't like the idea of yanking the two NSS volumes out from the old server prior to doing to transfer id.
Thanks,
-Nyle
IF my memory serves (this was a while ago), we did it that way (leave the "old" disk attached). Transfer ID, power off both servers, disconnect "old" disk and reconnect to "new" server. Power up and I think it just worked. I don't recall having to re-run anything in nssmu.
But again, that WAS a while ago.

New server settings not working - temporary Verizon problem

I was having a lot of problems connecting with email, and did an online chat. I was told that they are having problems with the new pop and smtp server settings. He told me to change them back to the old incoming and outgoing, but keep the new ports. This fixed my problems. He said the new server settings should be working again within 24 hours.

BillSamuel wrote:
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Maybe the problem is only on certain Verizon email servers. I am in VHO 1 (North Texas) and have been using these new pop/smtp settings for many weeks, not a single failure. And before that the incoming/outgoing settings for probably a year or more, again, no problems. This is on both Windows Live Mail and Thunderbird.
If people would put their location (preferably VHO, but state and/or town would be better than nothing) in their profile here, or include the info in their posts, it might help identify when problems are regional or location dependent. As it is now, when people just post that something doesn't work, and someone else says it does, there is no way for anyone to help or see a pattern. Just a thought.....
Justin
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Move ZDM to new server

I am planning a migration NW 6.5 -> OES Linux by way of transfer ID and trying to figure out what to do with Zenworks. I have ZCM set up in testing and desperately hope that 10.2.2 will fix problems like slow login, but need to be prepared to keep ZDM 6.5 going if I have to. If I install ZDM on a new NW 6.5 server with a new name and IP, do I need to make this a replica server? I know I'll need to have zwsimport on the clients point to the new server. What would I need to do to make applications remain available? All paths to applications will remain the same after the oes migration. Any other gotchas I should be aware of? Thanks.

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Move libary to new server

We are upgrading H/W at the moment. I want to move my GW server to a
new GW server - both NW 65.
The new server will not have the same name as the old server. How is
this going to affect my libraries when I copy the GW database and
storage areas to the new server ?

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New Server, Old BM

I, over our break, switched out the old server at our junior high school for a new one and used Novell migration utility but I can't get BorderManager to come up. I tried a reinstall last night and it stopped because it said I didn't have the correct version of eDirectory, a version I installed when I installed NetWare on the new server using the NW65SP8 overlay CD, so I'm at a loss and would appreciate any ideas and or suggestions.
Thanks for any help,
Tim

Actually, from what you are both saying is that BM does need to be re-installed and will not migrate. Does BM 3.9 still have the same proxy functions as 3.8, and would that be the better version to install?
Thanks again,
Tim
>>> On 4/15/2009 at 9:36 AM, sjdimare<[email protected]> wrote:
Issue is going to be with eDirectory 8.8 (versioning lists 8.8
correctly) and it thinks it is older than 8.7 (versioning number lists
8.7 as 87.3). There is a versioning issue and if you do a simple search
or visit Craig Johnson's website, there are workarounds.
See this TID:
'Cannot install BorderManager 3.9 SP1 on NetWare 6.5 SP8, Minumum
Requirements Check fails'
(http://www.novell.com/support/search...eID=DT_TID_1_1)
Hope this helps.
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RMAN Hot backup Restore in new Server

Hi,
Our Current Environment:
Source: Current Production
Database: 11.1.0.7
OS: Windows server 2003 R2
Target Environemnt:
Database 11.2.0.1
OS:windows server 2008 R2
Here my scenario is need to take RMAN Hot backup in Prod Instance and need to restore in New Server with smae SID which is going to use as Prod instance.
Please suggest the detailed steps in order to achive the goal.
Waiting for your thoughts.
Thanks
Shaik

RMAN can make it easy to restore a database to a new host.
Notice that: Using RMAN RESTORE and RECOVER commands to move a database permanently to another host, will keep the original database identifier (DBID) and will therefore cause a conflict in the RMAN repository, because the restored database with the same DBID will be considered the current target database.
Below you may find the steps:
Preparing the New Host
Record the DBID of the source database.
Copy the initialization parameter file from the source database to the new host.
Make sure that all source database backups are available to the new host. Do not connect to the recovery catalog.
Restoring and Recovering on the New Host
Configure environment variables on the new host.
Connect to the new target database with NOCATALOG.
Set the DBID.
Start the instance with NOMOUNT.
Restore the SPFILE from backup.
Shut down the new instance.
Edit the PFILE.
Start the instance with NOMOUNT (again).
Create an RMAN RUN block to restore the control file.
Create an RMAN RUN block to restore and recover the database.
Open the database with RESETLOGS.
Regards,

SBS2008: Move email from Exchange 2007 to new server with Exchange 2013

We have an old server (SBS2008) and plan to buy a new server with (Server 2012). I need to move all the exchange emails, contacts & calendars to the new server. We will no longer use the old server.
Is there a document or migration tool that will help me understand how to move this data form the old exchange server to the new one?
Old Server:
SBS2008 running Exchange 2007
New Server:
Server 2012
Exchange 2013
Any help is appreciated!

Hi Dave,
It can be done, and as Larry suggested you will consider two Server 2012 installs in order to achieve an environment that looks like your current SBS roles; Exchange 2013 on an Active Directory controller isn't a good long-term solution (SBS did this for
you in the past).
For your size operation, a virtual server host, with a Windows Server 2012 license, and two virtual machines would probably be a suitable design model. In this manner, you have Server 2012 license that permits 1 +2 licenses (one host for virtualization,
up to 2 Virtual Machines on same host).
There's no migration tool. That comes with experience and usually trial and error. You earn the skills in this migration path, and for the average SBS support person you should plan on spending 3x (or more) your efforts estimate in hours planning your migration.
You can find a recommended migration path at this link to give you an idea of the steps, but its not exactly point by point going to cover you off for an sbs2008 to server 2012 w/exchange 2013 migration. But the high points are in here. If it looks
like something you would be comfortable with then you should research more.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/infratalks/archive/2012/09/07/transition-from-small-business-server-to-standard-windows-server.aspx
Specific around integrating Exchange 2013 into an Exchange 2007 environment, guidance for that can be found here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj898582(v=exchg.150).aspx
If that looks like something beyond your comfort level, then you might consider building a new 2012 server with Exchange 2013 environment out as new, manually export your exchange 2007 mailbox contents (to PST) and then import them into the new mail server,
and migrate your workstations out of old domain into new domain. Whether this is more or less work at your workstation count is dependent upon a lot of variables.
If you have more questions about the process, update the thread and we'll try to assist.
Hopefully this info answered your original question.
Cheers,
-Jason
Jason Miller B.Comm (Hons), MCSA, MCITP, Microsoft MVP

How do I move mail from an old server to a new server?

I am rebuilding my server. The new server runs on OS X 10.9.4 with Server 3.1.2. The old server ran OS X 10.9.x and Server 3.x (the exact versions are not known).
Within the folder /Library/Server/Mail, I found the email stores for both systems. I have gone through each folder and identified the 36 character string that serves to identify the user's mailbox and paired each one to a user id on both systems. On the old system, there are multiple mailboxes for some users, and I think it is a result of the users being deleted and recreated: perhaps the system identified the identical name and assumed that the user might be different and therefore created a unique 36 character id for the mail system.
The trick is, I am trying to recover the mail from the old server.
I have attempted to copy the files which are human readable and formatted for SMTP transmission to the new server under the correct mailbox corresponding to the owning user (see screen shots below). The simple act of copying the files has not made these files visible via the IMAP protocol. I have tried restarting the mail service hoping that the Server app would rebuild whatever indexes need to be built so that the mail can be served via IMAP, and that has not worked either.
The question is, how do I get the mail from the old server mail boxes into the new server mailboxes?
This screen shot shows the location of one mail collection at /Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/[userid]. Mail sits in the "new" folder only for a moment before being processed and put into the "cur" folder. Copying mail from the old server into the "new" folder produces an empty "new" folder, but one can see the files populate briefly before they are moved into the "cur" folder.
The next screen shot shows one email opened in TextEdit. The format should look very familiar. This is the same format that one would use to send SMTP requests to an SMTP server. This particular example happens to be an email from a Gmail account to the PediatricHeartCenter.org domain to test the mail system when the old server was set up. It was sent on 24 Jan 2014 and had text reading "Intended for Mavericks1. -Jared".

On further research, I have learned that OS X Server sets Dovecot to use the MailDir format. The email messages can be removed from the folders and put back, and as long as they were present in the folder to begin with (received by Dovecot originally), they reflect in the Mail.app on client computers. Deleting a file in the "cur" folder causes the file to disappear in Mail.app. Copying the file back into the "cur" folder will cause the file to reappear without any modification of an index file or any other system component, as long as the file was properly formatted by Dovecot to be identifiable to that folder.
According to Dovecot.org's review of MailDir found here (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Ma,ilboxFormat/Maildir), the file name can be broken into simple pieces: " [unixtimestamp].[process id].[hostName],S=<message size>,W=<virtual message size>/2,[status tags]". The original MailDir++ specification requires the string ":2," to appear after the virtual size, but this file naming format is not legal in Mac OS X, so Dovecot is modified by Apple to use "/2," instead.
The Dovecot's wiki describes inserting new messages as follows:
Mail delivery
Qmail's how a message is delivered page suggests to deliver the mail like this:
Create a unique filename (only "time.pid.host" here, later Maildir spec has been updated to allow more uniqueness identifiers)
Do stat(tmp/<filename>). If the stat() found a file, wait 2 seconds and go back to step 1.
Create and write the message to the tmp/<filename>.
link() it into new/ directory. Although not mentioned here, the link() could again fail if the mail existed in new/ dir. In that case you should probably go back to step 1.
All this trouble is rather pointless. Only the first step is what really guarantees that the mails won't get overwritten, the rest just sounds nice. Even though they might catch a problem once in a while, they give no guaranteed protection and will just as easily pass duplicate filenames through and overwrite existing mails.
Step 2 is pointless because there's a race condition between steps 2 and 3. PID/host combination by itself should already guarantee that it never finds such a file. If it does, something's broken and the stat() check won't help since another process might be doing the same thing at the same time, and you end up writing to the same file in tmp/, causing the mail to get corrupted.
In step 4 the link() would fail if an identical file already existed in the maildir, right? Wrong. The file may already have been moved to cur/ directory, and since it may contain any number of flags by then you can't check with a simple stat() anymore if it exists or not.
Step 2 was pointed out to be useful if clock had moved backwards. However again this doesn't give any actual safety guarantees, because an identical base filename could already exist in cur/. Besides if the system was just rebooted, the file in tmp/ could probably be even overwritten safely (assuming it wasn't already link()ed to new/).
So really, all that's important in not getting mails overwritten in your maildir is the step 1: Always create filenames that are guaranteed to be unique. Forget about the 2 second waits and such that the Qmail's man page talks about.
The process described by the QMail man page referenced above suggests that as long as a file is placed in the "new" folder, that a mail reader can access it. The mail reader then moves the file to the "cur" folder and "cleans up" the "new" folder. This is clearly happening in OS X, because the messages are moving from "new" to "cur", but IMAP is still not serving these foreign messages to the remote readers.
The thought crossed my mind that perhaps it is the fact that the host name does not match, which would cause the failure, however changing the "host" portion of the name from the old-server to the new-server did not fix the issue. Even with the new server name in the file name, the inserted message fails to appear in client Mail applications.
Within the file their is header information that still references the old machine. I'd like to not have to change the email files, because this will violate the integrity of the message. Also, this might take a lot of time or incur risks associated with poor automated processing. The header information should not be referenced by Dovecot, because the wiki page describing MailDir notes that neither Dovecot nor Dovecot's implementation of IMAP refers to the messages header information when moving and serving these mail files.
Unlike when using mbox as mailbox format, where mail headers (for example Status, X-UID, etc.) are used to determine and store meta-data, the mail headers within maildir files are (usually) notused for this purpose by dovecot; neither when mails are created/moved/etc. via IMAP nor when maildirs are placed (e.g. copied or moved in the filesystem) in a mail location (and then "imported" by dovecot). Therefore, it is (usually) not necessary, to strip any such mail headers at the MTA, MDA or LDA (as it is recommended with mbox).
This paragraph leads me to believe that after the mail box is identified that the content of the file becomes irrelevant to the system which manages. This suggests that we should be able to inject messages into a mailbox and have the system serve them as though they had belonged in that mailbox all along. Yet I have not found a way to do this.

Report Fails on New Server - Looking for CrystalXIRuntime.msi

Hi - I have been trying to migrate to a new webserver but cannot get one of my apps to run,   Our former developer - who I cannot find - used Crystal Runtime in a reporting app and I cannot seem to get the right version of the runtime installed on the new server.
Our existing server has been running for 3 years and this app has been on there for a while.    When I prepped the new server I installed Crystal 11 .Net Server software.    However, one of my apps still does not run.    I get the following error:
Could not load file or assembly 'CrystalDecisions.Web, Version=10.2.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
Source Error:
Line 34:<compilation debug="false" strict="false" explicit="true">
Line 35: <assemblies>
Line 36: <add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Web, Version=10.2.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692FBEA5521E1304"/>
Line 37: <add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Shared, Version=10.2.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692FBEA5521E1304"/>
Line 38: <add assembly="CrystalDecisions.ReportSource, Version=10.2.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692FBEA5521E1304"/>
Now - I have copied ALL of the files including all dlls. from Inetpub down, from the existing server to the new server.   I notice that in addition to Crystal 11 .Net Server, I have something called simply "Crystal Runtime" on the existing server.   When I click support information in Control Panel it says version 1.0.0 but when I click on "Repair", it tries to find a source file called CrystalXIRuntime.msi.   I cannot find this anywhere.
Im thinking I need to install this or register some of the dlls on the new server.
I am desparate to get this going. Can anyone help me with this dilema?

Hello Michael,
please download and install the [CR XI server install|https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100006009122008E/crXI_server_install.zip] on your new server.
This should fix the problem.
Anyway, I strongly recommend [to update to CR XI R2|http://resources.businessobjects.com/support/additional_downloads/service_packs/crxir2.asp] for free and to continue with this product release.
Best regards
Falk

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