Shared Review comment server setup issues

I've been having some issues setting up a comment server/repository for Shared Reviews in Acrobat 8 (for our all-Mac network). I've done extensive research on how to set up a Network Folder and a WebDAV folder (since those are the only two supported methods in Acrobat 8).
- For the Network Folder setup, I created a folder on one of the machines on our network and shared it using SMB. When specifying that location (using smb://IPAddress/Folder/), Acrobat either 1) brings up a login screen, into which I enter the proper credentials, and after pressing OK, it says the connection could not be made, or 2) it verifies the shared folder location, but when I make comments and then choose Publish Comments, a red box appears saying something to the effect of "cannot access IPAddress, will keep trying."
- I also tried using WebDAV. Solutions I found online mostly consisted of using the Terminal to access system files and entering numerous lines of code. I pretty much had to learn about WebDAV from scratch today in order to get the Shared Reviews process set up, but I feel like there is something I'm missing regording its implementation.
I suppose this post can be boiled down to three questions:
1) What is the best way to set up a Shared Review system, and how can it be done in the simplest manner possible?
2) What am I missing from my knowledge of Network Folders and WebDAV folders in this regard?
3) Would functionality be benefited by simply upgrading to Acrobat X?
Thank you all in advance for your responses and help. If there is any more information required in order to provide a solution, please let me know.

The roundcube db schema needs to setup manually. See /usr/share/webapps/roundcube/INSTALL
Also, from your /etc/webapps/postfixadmin/config.inc.php:
$CONF['domain_path'] = 'NO';
$CONF['domain_in_mailbox'] = 'YES';
$CONF['maildir_name_hook'] = 'NO';
..which results in /var/mail/vmail/[email protected]
From your dovecot.conf
mail_home = /var/mail/vmail/%d/%u
...which results in /var/mail/vmail/domain.com/user
That doesn't fit together.

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When I issue a shared review, hosted on our work SharePoint server, I always encounter problems when accessing my work network from home, over a VPN. My comments do not get published, and I cannot see comments that reviewers have published.
I issue the review PDF as an attachment when I open the review, and all reviewers save a local copy of this file. When I open the PDF, the "Welcome back to shared review..." screen is never updated with the number of comments. The server status always seems to show green, but the comment reporting mechanisms do not behave as they do at work. When I click Publish comments, I am usually asked if I wish to take ownership of unpublished comments by other reviewers (to which I click No). When I return to the office, everything seems to "just work" again. But this is hugely inconvenient if I am out of office for days on end.
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I don't know if you solved this issue yet. But we have the same issue in the pass, and clean the log files under "\Synchronizer\resources\" folder seems to be a solution. Here is the thread talking about it.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1426298?start=0&tstart=0

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Has anyone had a problem with comments created on one day simply vanishing the next?
Windows XP 2002 SP1
Acrobat 9 Pro
Acrobat Reader 9
Acrobat 8 Standard
How we start the review:
We use Acrobat 9 Pro to create a manual shared review. This creates a review pdf in the same shared network directory as the original pdf. (I saw in an Acrobat 8 entry that this may not be good practice.) In Windows explorer, we create a shortcut file from the review file. Then we drag the shortcut file into a new Lotus Notes database that we created for storing and organizing links, and to send auto-notifications at different review milestones. We used to send the link via Notes mail, but users lose them. Users then launch the shortcut, which opens the review file. Sometimes we, the review creators open files directly from Tracker.
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occurs after a day or two. After creating comments, at least two of the reviewers opened the document the following day, but the comments had disappeared. I watched one reviewer open the document. The "Welcome Back" window listed the reviewers and showed the normal new/total comments. After a few seconds, THE TOTAL COMMENTS FOR ONE REVIEWER RESET TO ZERO as we watched. The comments were not in the review file. It seems that comments are normally stored inside the review files instead of in auxiliary .fdf files as they once were, or in .xml files as I saw in a recent example with Acrobat 9 on a review I restarted.
A possibly related problem occurs sometimes when trying to close a file, even when no comments are added: A message states that there are unpublished comments and offers a publish, delete, cancel, and one other button. After clicking publish, another messages states that the file is locked. This is an endless loop and Acrobat will not close without going to the Task Manager.
I also submitted this as a bug report to Adobe. Has anyone found a solution? Need help. Reviewers are losing hours of work.
Thanks,
Phil

Hi Vikas,
We began saving the files locally and this seemed to sort out the confusion with comments disappearing and reappearing, etc.
There are still some rough spots you may be interested in -
1. My teammate, Russ initiated a file and sent me the link (which is a Windows shortcut file with a path to the shared document). I opened the link and the shared file opened. However I was not prompted to save it immediately as you described in step 5 above. The save prompt only appears when closing the file. So, when the user first starts working on the file it is on the shared copy.
2. While the file was still open the first time, I created a couple of comments and clicked publish. A message appeared that I had not seen before: "1 published - 1 queued." I could still add comments, but the publish button did not become active and the check button did not respond. It was like the check/publish functions locked up but not the rest of the program. I was able to save the file locally. When I reopened the local file, the check message said 3 messages were being added (Russ published these) checking again deleted the comments, then checking again restored them. Since then, as long as we opened the local versions, commenting seemed to function normally. The key here is that opening the local copy is not enforced by the program. The program relies on users to function a certain way and does not inform them of the consequences. If Reader or Tracker knew whether a bona fide local copy existed and warned if an attempt to open the network copy was made, many of these issues would go away.
3. Some other concerns:
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b. When closing the document, Acrobat prompts to save the file. Clicking Save produces a Save AS window each time. Shouldn't this be a Save box? When users enter and close a document multiple times they must stop and decide whether to overwrite the file each time. Conversely, if there are unpublished comments and you try to close, there is a Save Draft button, which seems to save over the local file without asking. This seems backwards. If I'm editing an Indesign document and I click save, it just saves. If I want to save a variation, I click Save AS. (FYI, on my pc, Acrobat prompted to save the file in C:\temp; on Russ's pc, it prompted for \MyDocuments.)
c. Tracker is not as easy to find as other Acrobat functions. I could not find a Tracker button to add to the toolbar. I believe that if Tracker could be selected to turn on at program start (or even start as a separate program), the users would more likely open the correct (local) file. All that users would be required to know is Start Acrobat, read links. The link they need would be visible immediately.
I hope this gives you our perspective in the spirit of improving the product.

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My System
Acrobat 10.0.0
Win 7 64 bit
Hello everyone for some reason my system is not properly uploading my comments on a shared review. When I create a comment and select publish comments it shows a message that it was published but it doesnt. Has anyone ver heard of this happening and have any idea on how to fix it.
Just as a side note my disributed forms seem to work fine, it just the shared review.

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Hi Robert,
To initiate/participate in any acrobat.com based shared review, a user must have an acrobat.com account. It is a free account and a one time effort for all the reviewers. Also please remember that all the reviewers should use unique acrobat.com id's to participate in the review. Once all reviewers have an acrobat.com account they have to enter the details at the step " * Then a dialog opens that asks me to enter or create an Acrobat.com account.". You can choose to select "Stay Signed In" if you do not want to log in again and again. After clicking "Sign In" the user will be able to participate in the review. Moreover "On the left panel, I select to log in as guest, enter a name and click login", this option is for enabling "live collaboration and chat" for the users and this sign in will not enable the user to participate in the Shared Review.
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Thanks.
Abhilasha

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Hi Ajlan,
Thanks for the answer. I also found out about the customization wizard later. Now I'm researching how to use the wizard and deploy the customization feature we desire.
Here are the things we want to do:
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I also have couple of questions about the wizard:
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Thanks for the answer.
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Shared review backups the comment in XML files. If I lose the comments, how can I restore the comments back to PDF?
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Acrobat doesn't import the XML file directly that is used in the Shared Review process. Attempting to build the importable files is not pretty either way. I wouldn't recommend doing this but you can do it by hand using the XML file data into the correct file syntax for proper import but you need to be familiar with the FDF or XFDF file format. Otherwise if you are familiar with XSLT and doing transformations you should be able to do it that way too with an custom application.

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This time, i followed this guide since the beginning.
What I've done:
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queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
command_directory = /usr/bin
daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix
data_directory = /var/lib/postfix
mail_owner = postfix
mydomain = mydomainname.tld
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
alias_database = $alias_maps
debug_peer_level = 2
debugger_command =
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
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sendmail_path = /usr/bin/sendmail
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq
setgid_group = postdrop
html_directory = no
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
sample_directory = /etc/postfix/sample
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
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relay_domains = *
virtual_alias_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/virtual_alias_maps.cf
virtual_mailbox_domains = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/virtual_domains_maps.cf
virtual_mailbox_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/virtual_mailbox_maps.cf
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virtual_minimum_uid = 5000
virtual_transport = virtual
virtual_uid_maps = static:5000
virtual_gid_maps = static:5000
local_transport = virtual
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transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
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smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_sasl_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
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smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/private/server.crt
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/server.key
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broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
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smtp inet n - n - - smtpd
submission inet n - n - - smtpd
-o smtpd_tls_security_level=encrypt
-o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
pickup unix n - n 60 1 pickup
cleanup unix n - n - 0 cleanup
qmgr unix n - n 300 1 qmgr
tlsmgr unix - - n 1000? 1 tlsmgr
rewrite unix - - n - - trivial-rewrite
bounce unix - - n - 0 bounce
defer unix - - n - 0 bounce
trace unix - - n - 0 bounce
verify unix - - n - 1 verify
flush unix n - n 1000? 0 flush
proxymap unix - - n - - proxymap
proxywrite unix - - n - 1 proxymap
smtp unix - - n - - smtp
relay unix - - n - - smtp
showq unix n - n - - showq
error unix - - n - - error
retry unix - - n - - error
discard unix - - n - - discard
local unix - n n - - local
virtual unix - n n - - virtual
lmtp unix - - n - - lmtp
anvil unix - - n - 1 anvil
scache unix - - n - 1 scache
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password = m/<~VN4XQ!G=jE[A/-
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dbname = postfix_db
query = SELECT goto FROM alias WHERE address='%s' AND active = true
/etc/postfix/virtual_domains_maps.cf
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password = m/<~VN4XQ!G=jE[A/-
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password = m/<~VN4XQ!G=jE[A/-
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dbname = postfix_db
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/etc/postfix/virtual_mailbox_maps.cf
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password = m/<~VN4XQ!G=jE[A/-
hosts = localhost
dbname = postfix_db
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Edited dovecot.conf:
protocols = imap pop3
auth_mechanisms = plain
passdb {
driver = sql
args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
userdb sql {
driver = sql
args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
service auth {
unix_listener auth-client {
group = postfix
mode = 0660
user = postfix
user = root
mail_home = /var/mail/vmail/%d/%u
mail_location = maildir:~
ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/server.crt
ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/server.key
dict {
#quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext
#expire = sqlite:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext
!include conf.d/*.conf
!include_try local.conf
/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
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default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT
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<?php
$CONF['configured'] = true;
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$CONF['postfix_admin_url'] = '[url]http://mydomain.com/postfixadmin[/url]';
$CONF['postfix_admin_path'] = dirname(__FILE__);
$CONF['default_language'] = 'en';
$CONF['database_prefix'] = '';
$CONF['database_tables'] = array (
'admin' => 'admin',
'alias' => 'alias',
'alias_domain' => 'alias_domain',
'config' => 'config',
'domain' => 'domain',
'domain_admins' => 'domain_admins',
'fetchmail' => 'fetchmail',
'log' => 'log',
'mailbox' => 'mailbox',
'vacation' => 'vacation',
'vacation_notification' => 'vacation_notification',
'quota' => 'quota',
'quota2' => 'quota2',
$CONF['admin_email'] = '[email protected]';
$CONF['smtp_server'] = 'localhost';
$CONF['smtp_port'] = '25';
$CONF['encrypt'] = 'md5crypt';
$CONF['authlib_default_flavor'] = 'md5raw';
$CONF['dovecotpw'] = "/usr/sbin/dovecotpw";
$CONF['min_password_length'] = 5;
$CONF['generate_password'] = 'NO';
$CONF['show_password'] = 'NO';
$CONF['page_size'] = '10';
$CONF['default_aliases'] = array (
'abuse' => '[email protected]',
'hostmaster' => '[email protected]',
'postmaster' => '[email protected]',
'webmaster' => '[email protected]'
$CONF['domain_path'] = 'NO';
$CONF['domain_in_mailbox'] = 'YES';
$CONF['maildir_name_hook'] = 'NO';
$CONF['aliases'] = '10';
$CONF['mailboxes'] = '10';
$CONF['maxquota'] = '10';
$CONF['quota'] = 'NO';
$CONF['quota_multiplier'] = '1024000';
$CONF['transport'] = 'NO';
$CONF['transport_options'] = array (
'virtual', // for virtual accounts
'local', // for system accounts
'relay' // for backup mx
$CONF['transport_default'] = 'virtual';
$CONF['vacation'] = 'NO';
$CONF['vacation_domain'] = 'autoreply.change-this-to-your.domain.tld';
$CONF['vacation_control'] ='YES';
$CONF['vacation_control_admin'] = 'YES';
$CONF['alias_control'] = 'NO';
$CONF['alias_control_admin'] = 'NO';
$CONF['special_alias_control'] = 'NO';
$CONF['alias_goto_limit'] = '0';
$CONF['alias_domain'] = 'YES';
$CONF['backup'] = 'YES';
$CONF['sendmail'] = 'YES';
$CONF['logging'] = 'YES';
$CONF['fetchmail'] = 'YES';
$CONF['fetchmail_extra_options'] = 'NO';
$CONF['show_header_text'] = 'NO';
$CONF['header_text'] = ':: Postfix Admin ::';
$CONF['user_footer_link'] = "[url]http://mydomain.com[/url]";
$CONF['show_footer_text'] = 'YES';
$CONF['footer_text'] = 'Return to mydomain.com';
$CONF['footer_link'] = '[url]http://mydomain.com[/url]';
$CONF['welcome_text'] = <<<EOM
Welcome to your new account.
EOM;
$CONF['emailcheck_resolve_domain']='YES';
$CONF['show_status']='NO';
$CONF['show_status_key']='NO';
$CONF['show_status_text']='  ';
$CONF['show_undeliverable']='NO';
$CONF['show_undeliverable_color']='tomato';
$CONF['show_undeliverable_exceptions']=array("unixmail.domain.ext","exchangeserver.domain.ext","gmail.com");
$CONF['show_popimap']='NO';
$CONF['show_popimap_color']='darkgrey';
$CONF['show_custom_domains']=array("subdomain.domain.ext","domain2.ext");
$CONF['show_custom_colors']=array("lightgreen","lightblue");
$CONF['recipient_delimiter'] = "";
$CONF['create_mailbox_subdirs_prefix']='INBOX.';
$CONF['used_quotas'] = 'NO';
$CONF['new_quota_table'] = 'NO';
$CONF['theme_logo'] = 'images/logo-default.png';
$CONF['theme_css'] = 'css/default.css';
$CONF['xmlrpc_enabled'] = false;
if (file_exists(dirname(__FILE__) . '/config.local.php')) {
include(dirname(__FILE__) . '/config.local.php');
$CONF['domain_path'] = 'YES';
$CONF['domain_in_mailbox'] = 'YES';
$CONF['database_type'] = 'mysqli';
$CONF['database_host'] = 'localhost';
$CONF['database_user'] = 'postfix_user';
$CONF['database_password'] = 'm/<~VN4XQ!G=jE[A/-';
$CONF['database_name'] = 'postfix_db';
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db.inc.php (roundcube):
<?php
$rcmail_config = array();
$rcmail_config['db_dsnw'] = 'mysql://roundcube_user:%3D%29CYbd9bK%210Z7%29AsWU@localhost/roundcube_db';
$rcmail_config['db_dsnr'] = '';
$rcmail_config['db_persistent'] = FALSE;
$rcmail_config['db_table_users'] = 'users';
$rcmail_config['db_table_identities'] = 'identities';
$rcmail_config['db_table_contacts'] = 'contacts';
$rcmail_config['db_table_contactgroups'] = 'contactgroups';
$rcmail_config['db_table_contactgroupmembers'] = 'contactgroupmembers';
$rcmail_config['db_table_session'] = 'session';
$rcmail_config['db_table_cache'] = 'cache';
$rcmail_config['db_table_cache_index'] = 'cache_index';
$rcmail_config['db_table_cache_thread'] = 'cache_thread';
$rcmail_config['db_table_cache_messages'] = 'cache_messages';
$rcmail_config['db_table_dictionary'] = 'dictionary';
$rcmail_config['db_table_searches'] = 'searches';
$rcmail_config['db_table_system'] = 'system';
$rcmail_config['db_sequence_users'] = 'user_ids';
$rcmail_config['db_sequence_identities'] = 'identity_ids';
$rcmail_config['db_sequence_contacts'] = 'contact_ids';
$rcmail_config['db_sequence_contactgroups'] = 'contactgroups_ids';
$rcmail_config['db_sequence_searches'] = 'search_ids';
main.inc.php(roundcube):
<?php
$rcmail_config = array();
$rcmail_config['debug_level'] = 5;
$rcmail_config['log_driver'] = 'file';
$rcmail_config['log_date_format'] = 'd-M-Y H:i:s O';
$rcmail_config['syslog_id'] = 'roundcube';
$rcmail_config['syslog_facility'] = LOG_USER;
$rcmail_config['smtp_log'] = true;
$rcmail_config['log_logins'] = false;
$rcmail_config['log_session'] = false;
$rcmail_config['sql_debug'] = false;
$rcmail_config['imap_debug'] = false;
$rcmail_config['ldap_debug'] = false;
$rcmail_config['smtp_debug'] = false;
$rcmail_config['default_host'] = 'tls://localhost/';
$rcmail_config['default_port'] = 993;
$rcmail_config['imap_auth_type'] = null;
$rcmail_config['imap_delimiter'] = null;
$rcmail_config['imap_ns_personal'] = null;
$rcmail_config['imap_ns_other'] = null;
$rcmail_config['imap_ns_shared'] = null;
$rcmail_config['imap_force_caps'] = false;
$rcmail_config['imap_force_lsub'] = false;
$rcmail_config['imap_force_ns'] = false;
$rcmail_config['imap_timeout'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['imap_auth_cid'] = null;
$rcmail_config['imap_auth_pw'] = null;
$rcmail_config['imap_cache'] = null;
$rcmail_config['messages_cache'] = false;
$rcmail_config['smtp_server'] = 'tls://localhost/';
$rcmail_config['smtp_port'] = 587;
$rcmail_config['smtp_user'] = '';
$rcmail_config['smtp_pass'] = '';
$rcmail_config['smtp_auth_type'] = '';
$rcmail_config['smtp_auth_cid'] = null;
$rcmail_config['smtp_auth_pw'] = null;
$rcmail_config['smtp_helo_host'] = '';
$rcmail_config['smtp_timeout'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['enable_installer'] = false;
$rcmail_config['dont_override'] = array();
$rcmail_config['support_url'] = '';
$rcmail_config['skin_logo'] = 'sorrybutnocookie';
$rcmail_config['auto_create_user'] = true;
$rcmail_config['user_aliases'] = false;
$rcmail_config['log_dir'] = 'logs/';
$rcmail_config['temp_dir'] = 'temp/';
$rcmail_config['message_cache_lifetime'] = '10d';
$rcmail_config['force_https'] = false;
$rcmail_config['use_https'] = false;
$rcmail_config['login_autocomplete'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['login_lc'] = 2;
$rcmail_config['skin_include_php'] = false;
$rcmail_config['display_version'] = false;
$rcmail_config['session_lifetime'] = 10;
$rcmail_config['session_domain'] = '';
$rcmail_config['session_name'] = null;
$rcmail_config['session_auth_name'] = null;
$rcmail_config['session_path'] = null;
$rcmail_config['session_storage'] = 'db';
$rcmail_config['memcache_hosts'] = null;
$rcmail_config['ip_check'] = true;
$rcmail_config['referer_check'] = false;
$rcmail_config['x_frame_options'] = 'sameorigin';
$rcmail_config['des_key'] = '0JaV%FnEivx9e+JdH2g*?n3n';
$rcmail_config['username_domain'] = '';
$rcmail_config['mail_domain'] = '';
$rcmail_config['password_charset'] = 'ISO-8859-1';
$rcmail_config['sendmail_delay'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['max_recipients'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['max_group_members'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['useragent'] = 'Roundcube Webmail/'.RCMAIL_VERSION;
$rcmail_config['product_name'] = 'Test';
$rcmail_config['include_host_config'] = false;
$rcmail_config['generic_message_footer'] = '';
$rcmail_config['generic_message_footer_html'] = '';
$rcmail_config['http_received_header'] = false;
$rcmail_config['http_received_header_encrypt'] = false;
$rcmail_config['mail_header_delimiter'] = NULL;
$rcmail_config['line_length'] = 72;
$rcmail_config['send_format_flowed'] = true;
$rcmail_config['mdn_use_from'] = false;
$rcmail_config['identities_level'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['client_mimetypes'] = null;
$rcmail_config['mime_magic'] = null;
$rcmail_config['mime_types'] = null;
$rcmail_config['im_identify_path'] = null;
$rcmail_config['im_convert_path'] = null;
$rcmail_config['image_thumbnail_size'] = 240;
$rcmail_config['contact_photo_size'] = 160;
$rcmail_config['email_dns_check'] = false;
$rcmail_config['no_save_sent_messages'] = false;
$rcmail_config['plugins'] = array();
$rcmail_config['message_sort_col'] = '';
$rcmail_config['message_sort_order'] = 'DESC';
$rcmail_config['list_cols'] = array('subject', 'status', 'fromto', 'date', 'size', 'flag', 'attachment');
$rcmail_config['language'] = null;
$rcmail_config['date_format'] = 'Y-m-d';
$rcmail_config['date_formats'] = array('Y-m-d', 'Y/m/d', 'Y.m.d', 'd-m-Y', 'd/m/Y', 'd.m.Y', 'j.n.Y');
$rcmail_config['time_format'] = 'H:i';
$rcmail_config['time_formats'] = array('G:i', 'H:i', 'g:i a', 'h:i A');
$rcmail_config['date_short'] = 'D H:i';
$rcmail_config['date_long'] = 'Y-m-d H:i';
$rcmail_config['drafts_mbox'] = 'Drafts';
$rcmail_config['junk_mbox'] = 'Junk';
$rcmail_config['sent_mbox'] = 'Sent';
$rcmail_config['trash_mbox'] = 'Trash';
$rcmail_config['default_folders'] = array('INBOX', 'Drafts', 'Sent', 'Junk', 'Trash');
$rcmail_config['create_default_folders'] = false;
$rcmail_config['protect_default_folders'] = true;
$rcmail_config['quota_zero_as_unlimited'] = false;
$rcmail_config['enable_spellcheck'] = false;
$rcmail_config['spellcheck_dictionary'] = false;
$rcmail_config['spellcheck_engine'] = 'googie';
$rcmail_config['spellcheck_uri'] = '';
$rcmail_config['spellcheck_languages'] = NULL;
$rcmail_config['spellcheck_ignore_caps'] = false;
$rcmail_config['spellcheck_ignore_nums'] = false;
$rcmail_config['spellcheck_ignore_syms'] = false;
$rcmail_config['recipients_separator'] = ',';
$rcmail_config['max_pagesize'] = 200;
$rcmail_config['min_refresh_interval'] = 60;
$rcmail_config['upload_progress'] = false;
$rcmail_config['undo_timeout'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['address_book_type'] = 'sql';
$rcmail_config['ldap_public'] = array();
$rcmail_config['autocomplete_addressbooks'] = array('sql');
$rcmail_config['autocomplete_min_length'] = 1;
$rcmail_config['autocomplete_threads'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['autocomplete_max'] = 15;
$rcmail_config['address_template'] = '{street}<br/>{locality} {zipcode}<br/>{country} {region}';
$rcmail_config['addressbook_search_mode'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['default_charset'] = 'ISO-8859-1';
$rcmail_config['skin'] = 'larry';
$rcmail_config['mail_pagesize'] = 50;
$rcmail_config['addressbook_pagesize'] = 50;
$rcmail_config['addressbook_sort_col'] = 'surname';
$rcmail_config['addressbook_name_listing'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['timezone'] = 'auto';
$rcmail_config['prefer_html'] = true;
$rcmail_config['show_images'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['message_extwin'] = false;
$rcmail_config['compose_extwin'] = false;
$rcmail_config['htmleditor'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['prettydate'] = true;
$rcmail_config['draft_autosave'] = 300;
$rcmail_config['preview_pane'] = false;
$rcmail_config['preview_pane_mark_read'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['logout_purge'] = false;
$rcmail_config['logout_expunge'] = false;
$rcmail_config['inline_images'] = true;
$rcmail_config['mime_param_folding'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['skip_deleted'] = false;
$rcmail_config['read_when_deleted'] = true;
$rcmail_config['flag_for_deletion'] = false;
$rcmail_config['refresh_interval'] = 60;
$rcmail_config['check_all_folders'] = false;
$rcmail_config['display_next'] = true;
$rcmail_config['autoexpand_threads'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['reply_mode'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['strip_existing_sig'] = true;
$rcmail_config['show_sig'] = 1;
$rcmail_config['force_7bit'] = false;
$rcmail_config['search_mods'] = null;
$rcmail_config['addressbook_search_mods'] = null;
$rcmail_config['delete_always'] = false;
$rcmail_config['delete_junk'] = false;
$rcmail_config['mdn_requests'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['mdn_default'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['dsn_default'] = 0;
$rcmail_config['reply_same_folder'] = false;
$rcmail_config['forward_attachment'] = false;
$rcmail_config['default_addressbook'] = null;
$rcmail_config['spellcheck_before_send'] = false;
$rcmail_config['autocomplete_single'] = false;
$rcmail_config['default_font'] = 'Verdana';
- From what i can see, postfixadmin used and populated its database, but not roundcube.
- I can open postfixadmin and log in with no apparent errors (not that i know what to do with it instead of roundcube, but at least works...)
- Whenever i open roundcube it begins to output errors everywhere about db connection (I was only able after changing its .htaccess to Allow from all, is it a bad idea?)
DB Error in /usr/share/webapps/roundcubemail/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_db.php (416): [1146] Table 'roundcube_db.session' doesn't exist (SQL Query: SELECT vars, ip, changed FROM session WHERE sess_id = 'pq5ofv7ja0gh2sunsg38jmd3g1')
Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent in /usr/share/webapps/roundcubemail/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube.php on line 445
DB Error: [1146] Table 'roundcube_db.session' doesn't exist
DATABASE ERROR: CONNECTION FAILED!
Unable to connect to the database!
Please contact your server-administrator.
DB Error in /usr/share/webapps/roundcubemail/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_db.php (416): [1146] Table 'roundcube_db.session' doesn't exist (SQL Query: INSERT INTO session (sess_id, vars, ip, created, changed) VALUES ('pq5ofv7ja0gh2sunsg38jmd3g1', 'dGVtcHxiOjE7bGFuZ3VhZ2V8czo1OiJlbl9VUyI7dGFza3xzOjU6ImxvZ2luIjs=', 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx', '2014-02-08 07:34:46', '2014-02-08 07:34:46'))
Thats all i know. Whats wrong? (i already tried to set db logins with no pw at all, but still with the same problems)
How far am i to be able to send/receive one email? Please, tell me i am close...
Mail servers could be so much more linear to set up
Thanks for your help. Time to get some sleep!

The roundcube db schema needs to setup manually. See /usr/share/webapps/roundcube/INSTALL
Also, from your /etc/webapps/postfixadmin/config.inc.php:
$CONF['domain_path'] = 'NO';
$CONF['domain_in_mailbox'] = 'YES';
$CONF['maildir_name_hook'] = 'NO';
..which results in /var/mail/vmail/[email protected]
From your dovecot.conf
mail_home = /var/mail/vmail/%d/%u
...which results in /var/mail/vmail/domain.com/user
That doesn't fit together.

Directory Server setup issues.

I recently installed the new OS X Server on my new iMac. I have two iPhones, two iPod touches, the iMac and an Air that I want to serve. I registered macserved.com and have a static IP. As far as I can tell, the domain and DNS is set up correctly (to serve internal DNS). I had a wordpress blog running for a while and can access it both internally and externally. MySQL was a pain in the butt to configure, but I figured it out. When I started the config for Profile and OD however, I get this error:
An error occurred while configuring iMac as a directory server. Please check your network configuration and try again.
So I first checked my hostname:
Primary address     = 192.168.0.6
Current HostName    = macserved.com
DNS HostName        = macserved.com
The names match. There is nothing to change.
dirserv:success = "success"
A little dig output:
; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> macserved.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 27076
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;macserved.com.                              IN          A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
macserved.com.                    10800          IN          A          192.168.0.6
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
macserved.com.                    10800          IN          NS          macserved.com.
;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.6#53(192.168.0.6)
;; WHEN: Fri Dec 7 19:24:36 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 61
I'm not certain it is a DNS issue, but I'm fairly new to DNS setup so I cannot rule it out.
Where should I start looking? What should I be looking for in the logs? I'm cool with scraping everything and starting over as well. Right now I have zero invested in it (no files that need saved, etc) but I would PREFER not to reformat/reinstall OS X though.

I figured it out! My certificates were hosed. I rm -rf the Authority in Library/ and recreated the certs after DNS was setup properly. Works great now aside from a few other website issues, but that is another thread :-)

DNS Router & Server Setup Issues

I'm running a Mac OS X Server on my local network. I have a D-Link 655 router that connects the machines and conencts to the internet.
I'd like to use OS X Server's DNS instead of my ISP's. In the D-Link Router I've set the DNS to the OSX server in the WAN section. Unfortunately it doesn't allow my clients on the network to connect to the internet when I do this.
If I set the DNS on the client to the OS X server it works fine. Or if I set the DNS on the router to my ISP's (or Google's) it works fine too.
Is this a route configuration issue? Or is this an OS X Server issue?
Any thoughts on how I might figure out where the problem lies and how to solve it?
Thanks in advance

Your DHCP server needs to pass out the IP address of your DNS server (only).
In general, you should not include any references your ISP DNS servers anywhere on your network. Not in your DHCP server, not in your clients, and not as a forwarder within your own DNS server configuration.
When you make the change, renew the leases of the devices that have the old address if needed, and alter the hard-set DNS server settings in the devices that don't use DHCP.
The one sort-of exception to this: your DNS server should have its Network settings DNS server address set as 127.0.0.1; as the localhost address. Not as its IP address.
And in general, routers don't do DNS. (Though it's common for folks to refer to devices that provide routing, NAT firewall, potentially VPN servers and other services as a "router", technically routers don't typically include DNS services. And very few gateway devices - even the fancy ones and expensive ones - implement DNS services.) Routers (and particularly the usual sorts of network gateways) can generallty have a DNS configuration for two reasons; to forward DNS requests to an upstream DNS server(s), and to have a DNS server address for an embedded DHCP server to pass out to DHCP clients.
In your particular case, the IP network connectivity is very likely present in both of your test configurations, it's that your clients aren't getting DNS translations.
Probably more than you ever cared to learn about setting up DNS services on OS X Server.

Wireless Print Server Setup Issue

I have tried to set my MacBook Pro utilizing my D-Link DPR-1260 print server. I get the following warning when I try to use the setup wizard:
Unsupported Operating System. The Printer Setup Wizard supports only Windows XP/2000/98/ME operating systems. Your computer uses the MacIntel operating system.
Troubleshooting Tips - Refer to the documentation that came with your print server for printer setup instructions specific to your operating system.
I have read and reread the printer manual and nowhere does it say anything about Mac setups. I have sent two e-mails to D-link and both have been ignored. The Mac recognizes the HP printer and will print if attached to it. When I attach the printer to the print server it will work wireless when I use a Windows based laptop and I really don't want to load Windows if I can get away with it. I have a D-Link wireless router and it works perfectly with the Mac. I found a thread dated late 2007 but the instruction gif's the person attached expired so I can't see the details that made it work with the older version of OS X.
Any ideas so I don't have to purchase another printer server specifically for Mac???

You need two things -
First, the HP-provided driver (on OS X) was written to only support direct USB printing, so you need a CUPS driver. Check here to find that and install it:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/macosx
(click on "printers" in the blue bar and look up your printer.)
Next, you need to read your print server manual and figure out what comm protocols are supported and then enter the right info into the Add printer dialog. For example, the print server's queue name (also called port name) is a required entry (not default) for the IP > LPD and IPP protocols. If the print server supports TCP/IP raw or port 9100 or socket printing, those terms are all equal to the IP > HP Jetdirect protocol on OS X. That protocol doesn't need a queue name, so it's usually easier for Mac users. I think L1 or P1 are typical queue names on Linksys servers.
If you need more help, I need to know the print server model #.

Odd Mail Server Setup Issues

So after purchasing my new Xserve which i will be using as my company's primary mail server.
i own a domain hosted by my ISP, and I have a static IP. I have also purchased a sonicwall pro 2040 firewall and have opened up the ports needed for the mail service smtp, pop, imap and web for webmail.
I have already configured the MX and A settings with my ISP DNS server.
i will be using an example.com as my domain.
My current settings are,
Computer Name : mail.example.com
In Computer Services under Mail i have the following things checked off.
General (the list below i have checked off)
-> Enable Pop
-> Enable SMTP
-> Allow incoming mail
domain :example.com
hostname : mail.example.com
Relay (the list below i have checked off)
-> Accept SMTP relays only from these hosts and networks
127.0.0.1/32
my static ip
my mail server local lan address
-> Use these junk mail rejection servers
zen.spamhaus.org
Filters (the list below i have checked off)
-> Scan email for Junk @ 5 junk score
-> Scan email for virus and delete
-> update the junk mail and virus 1 time a day
Quotas
-> Refuse incoming mail larger the 25MB
Advanced
Not sure what i should do here, my staff will be accessing email from all over north america and ideas i have played around a bit but nothing makes me able to set a mail client up to my server.
Hosting -> local host and my domain.
In my log files for mail access its also says empty option value on line 15 of the config file.
Anyone have any ideas.

You might also want to harden OSX.4 Tiger server against spam. I wrote an article which details implementing greylisting, blackholes, backscatter filtering, checking the sending mail server, recipient and email content. This supplements the anti-virus and spam checks already included in OSX Server to significantly reduce spam received and load on the mail server.
Go http://happymac.info/node/10

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