Short Message Server Migration Question

For migration from MS 5.2 to 6.2, should the UpgradeMsg5toMsg6 and subsequent scripts be run as root or the email admin id? I've not found it explicitly stated, so I've
been running as root.
Thanks,
Keith

You should be fine running as either root/email admin id. Where you may have problems is later down the track if the files created by UpgradeMsg5toMsg6.pl are not accessible to other scripts due to say the umask of the root/email admin id.
Is there a particular issue you think was created by running as root/email admin id?Just trying to cover all the bases. In the make_mboxlistdb_changes.sh, it does a "chown" for the admin on the mboxlist directory. In the other scripts, there are "cp" command without the "-p" option, so it got me thinking about permissions.
I guess if it doesn't say to use the admin id, root would be the choice.
Thanks for the input,
Keith

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Message store migration question

Howdy. We are currently testing migration methods between a currently running 5.2 Messaging Server (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.18) to a newly installed 6.3 Messaging Server (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-0.15).
We are not running a front end Message Multiplexer so we will suffer some downtime when switching from the old hardware to the new hardware.
In order to minimize the downtime, we thought that the quickest approach would be to rsync the 5.2 message store onto the 6.3 machine. Due to the fact that the old machine has 8 message store partitions and the new machine has 20 message store partitions, we are doing rsyncs at the user level of the message store (i.e. users end up in different partitions on the new server). Because of this, we cannot migrate the message store databases.
It appears to us that the message store itself is capable of holding all necessary flags/states/etc. and that we only need to reconstruct on the new system. However, it also appears that stored is "lazy" about updating new data in the databases out to the "store.sub,store.usr,etc." files. When we do our final shutdown of the 5.2 system, we would obviously want the store.* files updated so as to be consistent with the data in the message store databases so that our final rync copies complete consistent data.
We are at a loss as to how to cause stored to flush/backup/whatever its database information out to the store.* files.
Is there some way to do this or is our whole migration strategy bogus?
Vern Gerein
Senior Systems Administrator
Server & Database Services
University of Saskatchewan
Great White North

trepan wrote:
If you are migrating I would highly recommend that the newly installed machine be at the latest patch release. 120228-28 is available on sunsolve.We were waiting for the latest from sun support but they didn't toss it our direction yet. I'll get a co-worker that has an account to grab it from sunsolve.You should be able to access it using the same login as you are using to post to this forum. It is a publicly available patch.
How large a move are we talking here (size/messages/users)? Also are you using messaging express or just IMAP/POP access?1.4 TB / 35 Million messages / 85,000 users. We are using messaging express and IMAP/POP on the old hardware. We will only be using IMAP/POP on the new hardware (no messaging express).
Expect to see an increase in overall disk usage due to single-message-copy links being expanded with the increased number of partitions.Our first test rsync from a live system went from 1.4 TB on the old system to 1.6 TB on the new. It is no worse than we expected. I was assuming we'd get a bit of that back if we ran a relink step after the migration.Correct -- the relinker will help to recover some space.
If I was in your position (and I used to be), I would be looking to add an MMP into the equation so that you could perform user-by-user migrations. This would > allow slower/online migrations which will reduce risk of something going wrong in the move. You can gradually increase the load on the MS6.3 system.We love the idea of being able to do a slower/online migration as you suggest. We had thought about this already be we foresaw one problem with this approach:
Our current email machine (mail.usask.ca) is used by a LOT of clients so we cannot just deploy a new MMP front end and then ask our client base to now point to that. The only way for us to deploy a MMP front end would be to have it named mail.usask.ca and to change the name of the current 5.2 box to something else. Actually there is another approach that you may not have considered.
1. Install a 5.2 MMP on the current email machine and reconfigure the existing server to listen on another port for IMAP/POP e.g. 1143 for IMAP and thenn specify the backend port with the MMP so mail.usask.ca:143 (MMP) goes to mail.usask.ca:1143 (backend) for example.
2. Install and configure new system with a different hostname e.g. mail-server1.usask.ca and configure to listen on the same ports as used in (1)
3. To migrate the accounts, use the MoveUser utility, this will change the mailhost so email will be redirected and client connections will go mail.usask.ca:143 -> mail-server1.usask.ca:1143
4. Once all users are migrated, assign the IP for mail.usask.ca to a new MMP frontend server running MS6.3 MMP and MS6.3 MTA.
NOTE: Step (3) WILL break Messenger Express access but as you said there was no plans on providing ME access on the MS6.3 server this shouldn't be an issue.
Alas, I don't know of any way to quickly rename an existing Messaging Server (the host name etc. is embedded everywhere, LDAP, configuration files, etc.). The only way I can think of is to reinstall the software. And even if one managed to rename the box, what would it then do with messages that are still in the queues? Of course, I could be missing something simple/obvious.It is possible to do this and requires a lot of planning and testing. Basically the idea is to configure messaging server to recognise itself as two names (mail.usask.ca and mail-server1.usask.ca) and then slowly change the various settings (e.g. users mailhosts: value) from the old hostname to the new hostname. Eventually you work through all the settings till only the clients themselves are actively using mail.usask.ca at which point you assign the IP to a new MMP. If there is a problem you assign the IP back, fix the issue then try again.
When migrating from Netscape 4.15 to iMS5.2 I had the exact same issue but it was further complicated due to the use of Messenger Express. Since you are not planning on using this going forth this makes things much easier.
Is there a easy/quick/utterly-and-completely-safe way to rename an existing production 5.2 Messaging Server?Easy, no. Quick, no. Utterly-and-completely-safe, no. But with time, planning and testing it can be achieved.
Or am I thinking about this in a completely wrong way?There are two approaches mentioned above. I suggest you think which one is going to work for you. In my case I was told in no uncertain terms, the 'migration' must be flawless (i.e. completely transparent to the end-user). It was -- from planning/(re)testing/debugging/customisation/integration to completion took me 12 months (albeit elapsed not effort time).
Regards,
Shane.

Server migration questions

Hi all: I will soon be migrating an OES2sp3 server to OES11sp1. I have read through the migration docs but still I have a few questions I need answered/clarified.
1. When installing OES11 on the target server, I have to give it a name and bring it into the tree. When the migration takes place, will all instances of the target server, both in OES and SLES, get renamed to that of the source server? Most notably the internal server CA_default certificate, which gets named during OES installation.
2. Prior to migration and docs say to create the driver store and print manager on the target server. Do I just give them a temp name as the transfer ID task will rename everything when it runs?
3. The server being migrated is our CA server. My plan was to move the CA to a different server temporarily to another OES server, and once the migration is finished, move it back. Does that seem reasonable?
Thanks, Chris.

I hate when I do that.
>>> smflood<[email protected]> 12/12/2013 6:06 PM >>>
cmosentine;2297649 Wrote:
> Hi all: I will soon be migrating an OES2sp3 server to OES11sp1. I have
> read through the migration docs but still I have a few questions I need
> answered/clarified.
Given that you are asking about migrating from OES2 SP3 to OES11 SP1
then I suggest reposting in the OES11 (Linux) Migration forum @
https://forums.novell.com/novell-pro...oes-migration/
as this is a NetWare-related forum.
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Send short message from Java application on mobile phone to server; http

Hello!
My question is: can I send short message from Java application on mobile phone to server - with the use of SMS (WMA) or http connection?
I found this topic http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5405431 about: "how to send data from midlet to servlet using doPost method".
There is also such topic http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5408046&tstart=0 about: "CLDC and MIDP - sending SMS to server -> Wireless Messaging API (WMA)".
Please, kindly help me.
Code from the topic mentioned above, edited by me so that it can be read easily:
//http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5405431
//CLDC and MIDP - Re: how to send data from midlet to servlet using doPost method
I want to know how to pass the values .
for examples : this is what i wrote for doGet
String url = setting.getUrl().toString()"/testProServlet/servlet/UpdateCompanyProfile?userId="+loggedInUserId"&svComp="saveCompHex;
userId and svComp has the data which is very long so i wanted to use doPost.
Now i dont know how to do it.
This is what i have done in doGet (midlet)
public void saveCompanyProfile(String saveComp,int flag,String blankFieldNm)
     System.out.println("flag===" flag);
     if (flag==1)
          displayAlert("Company Profile Edit",blankFieldNm+" field cannot be blank.",AlertType.ERROR, edCmpRecForm, true);
     else
          String saveCompHex = helper.encodeHexString(saveComp);
          // String saveCompHex =saveComp;
          HttpConnection httpConn = null;
          serverSettings setting = new serverSettings();
          System.out.println("saveCompHex===" saveCompHex);
          String url = setting.getUrl().toString()"/testProServlet/servlet/UpdateCompanyProfile?userId="loggedInUserId"&svComp="saveCompHex;
          System.out.println("url of save company profile:: "+url);
          InputStream is = null;
          OutputStream os = null;
          try {
               // Open an HTTP Connection object
               httpConn = (HttpConnection) Connector.open(url);
               System.out.println("urlMidlet1 save edited company data===::" url.length());
               // Setup HTTP Request
               httpConn.setRequestMethod(HttpConnection.POST);
               httpConn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent","Profile/MIDP-1.0 Confirguration/CLDC-1.0");
               System.out.println("urlMidlet2===" url);
               int respCode = httpConn.getResponseCode();
               System.out.println("respCode edit company profile=====" respCode);
               if (respCode == httpConn.HTTP_OK)
                    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
                    os = httpConn.openOutputStream();
                    is = httpConn.openDataInputStream();
                    int chr;
                    while ((chr = is.read()) != -1)
                         sb.append((char) chr);
                    String sResultSvCompanyProfile= sb.toString();
                    System.out.println("+++++++++++++Company sResult+++++++++++++==="sResultSvCompanyProfile);
                    if (resultViewCompanyProfile.trim().equals(""))
                         System.out.println("++++++++++++++If++++++++++++++SaveCompanyProfile===");
                         displayAlert("Login Incorrect","Username and Password incorrect", AlertType.ERROR, mainForm, true);
                    else
                         System.out.println("++++++++++++++Else++++++++++++++SaveCompanyProfile===");
                         //companyProfile();
                         displayAlert1("Information","Company Profile edited successfully", AlertType.INFO, profileMenuScreen, true);
               else
                    System.out.println("Error in opening HTTP Connection. Error#" respCode);
                    //the line below divided into two lines because it was too long
                    displayAlert("Connection Failed","Cannot connect to server, please contact the Administrator.",
                    AlertType.ERROR, mainForm, false);
          catch(IOException e)
               e.getMessage();
          finally {
               if(is!= null)
                    try
                         is.close();
                    catch (IOException e)
                         // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                         e.printStackTrace();
                         displayAlert("Connection Failed","Cannot connect to server, please contact the Administrator.",
                         AlertType.ERROR, mainForm, false);
               if(os != null)
                    try
                         os.close();
                    catch (IOException e)
                         // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                         e.printStackTrace();
                         displayAlert("Connection Failed","Cannot connect to server, please contact the Administrator.",
                         AlertType.ERROR, mainForm, false);
               if(httpConn != null)
                    try
                         httpConn.close();
                    catch (IOException e)
                         // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                         e.printStackTrace();
                         displayAlert("Connection Failed","Cannot connect to server, please contact the Administrator.",
                         AlertType.ERROR, mainForm, false);
          } //end finally
     } //end else (?)
} //end savecompany

hi,
SMS API(WMA) is an optional package. It is not a MIDP1.0 or MIDP2.0 api's.
There are phones which has WMA api with MIDP1.0 support .... Nokia 3650
Seimens has some phone with their own api's to send sms.Check out seimens site for more info
BTW, What do you mean buy sending SMS to Server????
If you want to send message to server you can do it with Http.
HTH
phani

Calendar Server Migration from iplanet5.2 to Sunjava messaging server

Hi
Can any one help me on Calendar server migration.
How can i migrate the calendar server from iplanet 5.2 to sunjava messaging server
Users
Calendar resources
Groups
Attributes

Hi,
I assume you mean iplanet calendar server 5.1.1 to the latest calendar server (6.3). If so, I suggest you start by reading through the calendar server admin guide which goes through the steps involved and tools to use to migrate from 5.1.1 onto calendar server 6.3.
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hubs/comms/library/manuals.calendar.jsp
Regards,
Shane.

Messaging Bridge Migration to other Managed Server

          Hi
          I had encountered a difficulty when I deployed the Messaging Bridge using the
          Migratable Target. The Messaging Bridge stop function with no exception. I had
          double check that in my Managed Server (serverA) I had set the Migratable Target
          ServerA (Migratable) preferable to serverA itself. However if I deployed the
          Messaging Bridge to serverA directly it works perfectly. Can anyone share some
          ideas that I can setup the Bridge in order I can failover the Bridge from one
          Managed Server to another Managed Server manually without restart any Managed
          Servers?
          Thanks
          Stephen


hi,
this is file from - .../new-admin-server/config-store/server-farm.xml
in the .../old-admin-server/config-store/server-farm.xml it was not glass it was "rama1" of course.
i've edit this manually
i can deploy, stop-start instance from new-admin-server
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<server-farm>
<admin-server>glass</admin-server>
<node>
<host>glass</host>
<port>8989</port>
<description>This is the Administration Server node</description>
</node>
<node>
<host>kuku</host>
<port>8989</port>
</node>
</server-farm>

Migrating from Exchange to SunONE Messaging Server ?

Hi all,
I'm using Microsoft Exchange 2000, Microsoft Active directory for my email server. Now I want to use Sun Java System Messaging Server instead of the
old Exchange.
- May I use the Sun Messaging Server with the old Microsoft AD ? I want to keep all my old user database.
- Is there any tool for migration mailboxes from Exchange to SunONE Messaging ?
- Is there any document about this migration ?
Many thanks in advance,
Regards,
Aiggno

Hi all,
I'm using Microsoft Exchange 2000, Microsoft Active
directory for my email server. Now I want to use Sun
Java System Messaging Server instead of the
old Exchange.
- May I use the Sun Messaging Server with the old
Microsoft AD ? I want to keep all my old user
database.The iMS installer will fail if used with any Directory Server not ours. You may want to investigate our Meta-Directory, and synchronize your AD with your Directory Server. iMS also requires quite different information from your existing infrastructure, so you will need to provision users in the iMS environment.
- Is there any tool for migration mailboxes from
Exchange to SunONE Messaging ?I know such migrations are done all the time, but they're mostly done by our Professional Services group, and not by Tech Support.. .
- Is there any document about this migration ?None that I have found.
>
Many thanks in advance,
Regards,
Aiggno

Migrating from Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 Plug-in to iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 Channel

Hi, there.
I wrote a custom plug-in for Netscape Messaging Server 4.15. The client for
whom I did this is now upgrading to iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 and has
requested that I update the custom plug-in accordingly. Unfortunately, as
specified in the iPlanet migration documents, you have to re-code the
plug-in as a channel to get it to work under iPlanet Messaging Server...
I've scoured the documentation about how to go about doing this, but I don't
know how to get started as I don't know anything about writing a channel.
The plug-in processes incoming messages to see if they were sent from a
specific domain. It then adds an arbitrary signature to each appropriate
MIME part in the message before letting the messaging server relay it.
1. Can anyone direct me to some explicit directions about how to write a
channel for iPlanet Messaging Server? The documentation for Netscape
Messaging Server was extremely helpful; I haven't found anything equivalent
for iPlanet channels.
2. Channels run as daemons? Do you have to start them when the machine
boots, or are they started for you by the MTA as a result of the channel
configuration file?
3. Do channels listen with sockets on a particular port for communication?
Do I have to parse incoming data and encode outgoing data as if it was an
SMTP communication?
4. Can an SMTP channel co-exist with other SMTP channels on the same
machine? Do the channels have to listen on unique ports? (Sorry, my socket
programming is a little rusty.)
Anxiously awaiting your reply...
Sean Dockery
[email protected]

What is the expected result of the plug-in?
Also, if you set the smtp log level to debug do you see it initializing the plugin at startup time and also entering the plugin during the smtp-accepts?

Netscape Messaging Server & iPlanet Web Server question

The netscape messaging server (v 4.1) is receiving emails which are html-only formatted. Through webmail, the body appears to be empty. When checking the message store, the message is not empty. When accessing through webmail, we are able to view the emails that arrive in the html and plain text formats (both together) or plain text, but not those that arrive html-only. The webserver is iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition.
Is there any workaround for that, or is it a limitation of the web server?

WEll, um,
1. Netscape Messaging Server 4.xx, all versions have been End Of Support life for over 2 years.
2. There is no web server involved, here. Messaging itself serves the http interface.
3. Yes, there is a workaround. Upgrade. You're using very old bits, and the only real answer is for you to use a current product, if you need current features.
Messaging Server 5.2p2 is considered "mature", though still under support. No new features are getting added.
Messaging Server 6.2 is the current product. It's part of the Sun Java Enterprise System, and may be downloaded.

Question about active queue and related msg of Nets.Messaging server 4.15

I have Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 Patch 7 (buil
t Sep 11 2001). I see that the number of messages in active queue viewed as number of file (ls -l queue/messages | wc -l) doesn't matches with the number of messages that I see in Mailbox-deliver as showed by sendmail -bp command.
Why?
Very often number of file are few hundred, when the emulator of sendmail shows only twenty-thirty messages.
And I see that the messages in active queue (if I open them with commands like more, view...) are all for local domains on server, so mailbox-deliver.
There are sometimes a lot of messages of months ago...
Thank you very much
Best Regards
Marco

I have Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 Patch 7 (buil
t Sep 11 2001). I see that the number of messages in active queue viewed as number of file (ls -l queue/messages | wc -l) doesn't matches with the number of messages that I see in Mailbox-deliver as showed by sendmail -bp command.
Why?
Very often number of file are few hundred, when the emulator of sendmail shows only twenty-thirty messages.
And I see that the messages in active queue (if I open them with commands like more, view...) are all for local domains on server, so mailbox-deliver.
There are sometimes a lot of messages of months ago...
Thank you very much
Best Regards
Marco

SunONE / SunJES Messaging server

Hi,
Just a general question regarding the SunONE / SunJES messaging server.
We've got a HA-clustered messaging/messagestore environment
From experience we know that on the message store, when you edit the {instanceroot}/imta/config/ims-ms_option file, it becomes active after about 15 minutes when the ims_master proces restarts itself. Any changes in number of threads can be easily spotted with prstat so therefore we know when it restarts it uses the new config.
Now comes the question.
When I would make any changes to the {instanceroot}/imta/config/imta.cnf file
Does the tcp_smtp_server proces restart itself using the new config or does it keep on using the old 'current' configuration'
Looking @ the proceslist I do notice that the processes restart because the STIME keep changing :)
So just wondering does anybody know this So I do not have to schedule (unnessecary) outage for a restart to make the changes active.
-Martin
The versions we're using are :
=======
iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.02 (built Oct 21 2004)
libimta.so 5.2 HotFix 2.02 (built 13:42:55, Oct 21 2004)
SunOS goud 5.8 Generic_117350-20 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880
=======
and the other cluster.
=======
Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.2 (built Dec 2 2004)
libimta.so 6.2 (built 00:34:23, Dec 2 2004)
SunOS chroom 5.9 Generic_118558-02 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V890
=======
The two different versions are there, 'cause we're currently in a migration stage SunONE 5.2 to SunJES

All of the MTA processes are "short lived", and get periodically restarted.
ims-ms is restarted by the job_controller. You can "refresh" these manually, without users even nopticing.
tcp_smtp_server processes are owned by the dispatcher process. They live for a time, or a maximum number of messages, and are started as needed. You can refresh them manually, too, with no user impact.
to refresh the processes that are owned by the job_controller, give:
imsimta restart job_controller
for the ones owned by the dispatcher
imsimta restart dispatcher
None of the processes is designed to read configuration at any time other than startup, so if you change the configuration, first you need to "compile" that configuration:
imsimta cnbuild
and then you can either wait for the restart, or give one of the commands I put above.
For messaging 5.x, you need to freeze the HA cluster before restartring, as the restart will trigger a failover. For JES messaging 6, the HA agents are much more sophisticated, and will understand what you're doing.

Clean up queue in SUN Messaging Server 6.3

I have a couple of SUN Messaging servers with each about a 1'000'000 e-mail messages in their queues.
The reason is one of our customers being infected with some trojan, and a firewall misconfiguration which allowed direct access to the SUN messagings servers (where we host our customers mailboxes) , rather then through the Postfix boxes with rate limiting, anti-spam and anti-virus scanning which they are supposed to use as outgoing SMTP servers. In short we were used as a SPAM relay. Grrr.
As you can image the queue is now filled with undeliverable e-mail and undeliverable bounces.
The question is simply can I safely delete the offending messages from the queue directory, because the imsimta qclean does a lousy job.
imsimta qclean -content=<IP-OFFENDER> -delete* found only 75'000 messages from which 20% was removed. A simple grep <IP-OFFENDER> found still thousand of messages in the queue.
Arg, by default imsimta qclean only scans message ID's found in it's own database which is limited in size (and much smaller then our actual queue size)
imsimta qclean -content=<IP-OFFENDER> -directory_tree -delete* scans the actual queue directory and found indeed over a million mail messages in the queue. After scanning for a couple of hours it removed 150'000 messages. Leaving about 85% of the spam mails untouched!
Is it safe to simply use a shell script to find and remove the messages in the queue directory and delete them? Or will that break SUN messaging servers internal queue handler?
TIA
Herman

Hi,
hbruijn wrote:
The reason is one of our customers being infected with some trojan, and a firewall misconfiguration which allowed direct access to the SUN messagings servers (where we host our customers mailboxes) , rather then through the Postfix boxes with rate limiting, anti-spam and anti-virus scanning which they are supposed to use as outgoing SMTP servers. In short we were used as a SPAM relay. Grrr.As an aside, Messaging Server 6.3 also offers rate-limiting capability (metermaid) and various anti-virus/anti-spam capability. I wrote up a general document about this at:
http://msg.wikidoc.info/index.php/Main_Page
As you can image the queue is now filled with undeliverable e-mail and undeliverable bounces. You are not the only forum person to hit such an issue recently:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5210669&messageID=9848719
The question is simply can I safely delete the offending messages from the queue directory, because the imsimta qclean does a lousy job. Yes. If the job_controller sees that the message has been deleted, it will simply remove the queued message from its cache and move on. Depending on your log level you may see an entry in the imta log file about this.. something along the lines of file <queue file> no longer exists.
imsimta qclean -content=<IP-OFFENDER> -delete* found only 75'000 messages from which 20% was removed. A simple grep <IP-OFFENDER> found still thousand of messages in the queue.
Arg, by default imsimta qclean only scans message ID's found in it's own database which is limited in size (and much smaller then our actual queue size)By default the job_controller will only keep a maximum of 100,000 messages in cache - a percentage of this is dedicated towards new emails and the rest is queued emails. This limit is to stop the job_controller consuming all your available RAM when you get hit by events such as this. The imsimta qclean uses this cache to search for messages -- which is vastly quicker then (re)scanning so many emails on disk.
The maximum is controlled by the MAX_MESSAGES job_controller.cnf parameter - discussed here:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-4428/6n6j425uh?l=en&a=view&q=max_messages
and here:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-4428/6n6j425v7?l=en&a=view#bgajv
imsimta qclean -content=<IP-OFFENDER> -directory_tree -delete* scans the actual queue directory and found indeed over a million mail messages in the queue. After scanning for a couple of hours it removed 150'000 messages. Leaving about 85% of the spam mails untouched! Well I can't explain this off-hand. I would need to try and reproduce the issue in-house with an example email that wasn't matched. What version of MS6.3 are you running (./imsimta version)?
btw. you can use the "-threads=<number from 1-8>" qclean command to speed up the scanning process by running multiple scanning threads.
Is it safe to simply use a shell script to find and remove the messages in the queue directory and delete them? Or will that break SUN messaging servers internal queue handler?Should be fine - once you have removed them though you may want to run:
./imsimta cache -sync
This will kick-off a re-sync of the job_controller cache so that the job_controller is better able to process the remaining emails (rather then hitting missing email after missing email).
Regards,
Shane.

Migration questions

Question no.1
Using GroupWise server migration utility, the default for the post
office destination is /var/opt/novell/groupwise/mail. I have created
home_ncp volume mounted at /home in Linux server and also mount a volume
named GroupWise at /home which is home_ncp volume. Therefore, I want to
change the default path to groupwise volume I mounted. What is the
correct path for this, /home/groupwise or /home_ncp/groupwise? The
reason I ask this question is because I can only groupwise at /home_ncp
from my xp workstation. Please advise!
Question no.2
Which one shall I migrate first, post office or domain?
Thank you very much!

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File server migration with Offline files involved

Hi,
We are planning a file server migration in following weeks.
This morning, our customer came with the good old "Ow, and I just thought about something else"
Here's the scenario :
-They are using 1 network drive
-That network drive is made offline available for all laptop users
-Those users are spread out in several country's. No VPN connection
-They are working for months on their offline network drive, right in the middle of the wood, no internet connection, it was already short for them to find power supply for their laptop ...
...nevermind
-The day they come back to the office, the file server to which points the network drives will be offline.
Now the 1 Million question : What happens with their "dirty" files ?
yep exactly. those they changed 6 months ago, have no clue about if you ask them but certainly will the day I will clear the damn cache.
My first analysis :
-The new file server will have another name, no alias or re-using the old name is possible (the customer don't want to)
-I can't tell to those laptops "hey for that offline cache, please use this new network drive"
So :
>> Those users have to identify manually files they changed while being offline, copy them locally on their machine and work that way the time they come back to the main office.
>> When they finally show up, clear the cache, offline the new network drive and replace file copied locally
>> If no internet connexion available in the branch office, let them work locally, it's still better than this hybrid-non-sense 6month offline folder "solution". If internet connexion is mainly available remotely, propose some Citrix/View/RDS
Setup which is, for me, a more professional looking solution
Someone has another (better?) idea/solution ?

Hi,
I suggest you ask users to collect their laptop to internet, then start offline files synchronization on the old file server. After that, use
Robocopy to copy the date from the old server to the new server. As the offline files cache cannot be recognized by the new file server, so we need to synchronize data first.
If the older server cannot be enabled, as you mentioned, you might need to ask users to copy their changed files to the new file servers.
Regards,
Mandy
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Messaging Server

Hi Guys,
I have problem accessing messenger express:
Please correct me if I did it the wrong way.
I have installed ldap and messaging server in 2 different server. Meaning:
Server A: ldap1 and imss1 (msg svr) installed
Server B: ldap2 and imss2 (msg svr) installed
Everything was fine. I can login successfully to messenger express for imss1 and imss2 with service admin user. But when I did a MMR (Multi Master Replication) between ldap1 and ldap2. Replication is done on UserRoot, pab and Internet suffix.
Things got screwed up. I was not able to login to messenger express for imss2 with the user created and even the service admin. But I am able to login from imss1 messenger express using whatever user created even service admin.
Please advise. Did I left out something.

Hi Jay,
It's me again. Just a few questions to this. I have
tested that it works but it does not really serve any
purpose right? The only thing that it does is only
allowing user to login to messenger express when one
ldap dies off. It gives the feel that they are still
able to login.More than that. Messaging Server should function properly on the second ldap, assuming that the second ldap is functioning properly.
>
Practically, user cannot do anything once login. This
includes sending mail, checking mails, add contacts
and in short it means not able to do anything at
all.No. You should have full function. Any process that starts up in this condition, though, will timeout for some minutes before it works properly.
Perhaps your replication isn't complete?
>
Am I correct? Or there is also a way to allow user to
login and do the stuff they always do in the messeger
express just like normal even one ldap dies off.I
I don't understand what you're asking here.
>
Please please advise. Appreciate your help on this.
Kind Regards,
uOa

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