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Sam,
I absolutely love Imail. I was
introduced to it about 1 year ago with version 4.04 at an ISP I was tech
support supervisor for. It is very easy to setup (except for databases)if you
use the standard stuff, handles alot of emails well. (IPswitch told us about
3,000 or more per minute on an intel PII 350 with 128mb ram). I found that when
it does have problems with hung messages all you have to do is go into it thru
the web based access and trash the offending message and away it goes.
I created a text file to explain to our
users how to use the web interface and to tell when a message is stuck and it
cut our email calls by 45%-50%. Besides they loved the fact that they could
access their email from any PC with Internet access. Heck we even incorporated
the adduser.exe program into a batch file that we were using at the time to
signup and register domains with Internic. It was great, signup a new domain,
create the nessecary web space on the unix box, then create the Imail domain and
default user on the NT box all in 1 step. They have since had someone right a
perl script to do it online but it still does the same thing only
prettier.
Well anyway, good luck...I understand the 3:30am
thing...
Bill
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 2:04
AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] External
Databases
Bill
I had read that and set up the table like that. Then I tried
the default way which sets up a table for you, etc. funny thing is I just
deleted the tables that were in my database, changed the imail database to the
external database, set up three accounts , and the web messaging login works,
so now I am going to test out the mail box. The strange thing, at least I find
it strange, is the flag for just a web access user showed to be 132. The web
access with host administrator shows a flag of 388, and web access with Imail
administrator ability is 644. All three of these flag numbers are completely
different then the ones that were my first two table tries. Anyways maybe it
all works now, we'll see. I can say one thing this product seems to be much
better overall than SLmail / Emurl which is the first product that I
evaluated. I have to have this web based email system up YESTERDAY,
so would everyone in this list generally agree that
Imail is the best product out there for the price.
Thanks for all the help
Sam
Sam,
The order that the database sends
info to Imail is very important. I tried several things and found that the
flags setting needs to be last. Then I found the following from a
readme file I got from the ftp.ipswitch.com site. The exact path once
there is: /ipswitch/product_support/imail
Default ODBC
Tables
-------------------
The default ODBC table
consists of 7 entries:
USERID - text
PASSWORD - text
FULLNAME - text
USERDIR -
text
MAILADDR - text
MAXSIZE -
integer
MAXMSGS - integer
FLAGS -
integer
The provided implementation expects
these entries to be
in sequence. Additional information
(after flags) MAY
exist in the table.
BTW... I was reminded by Scott ( thank you
Scott :-) ) that 128 is the proper flag for web access...I
apologize
I too am new to the list but have already found
it of great use.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 1:33
AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] External
Databases
I saw some info in the user manual pdf file on the
flags, or maybe it was in the knowledge base, I did see that there were
certain numbers that you need, although I didn't quite understand which
ones were supposed to be used hex or dec. The numbers that Imail Admin
inserted into the database when I created the users didn't seem to
correspond to the numbering scheme. Are you saying that I need to like
maybe set the default value for the flag column to 130
before I ever create any users?
Sam
Sam,
I ran into this also and what
I found out was that I was not setting the flags in the database first.
If I set them with Imail then I still could not login as the user or
send them email. But if I set them in the database first, I could. After
some playing around to see what the number would be I came up with 130.
That gives the user web access (http://site.com:8383). How I discovered
the correct flag for the parameters was I created users in the user
admin in Imail then looked at the database for the flags that were set.
Iam using an online web site to signup users and am using hidden tags
for the flags and mail message sizes. I would give the address to you
but I do not have it yet on a production machine. I am testing and
tweaking the setup internally. I am trying to get the database to
suggest a userid if the one they chose is already in use.
Good luck and let me know how
it works for you.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999
12:58 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] External
Databases
I have been a subscriber to this forum for two days
now, and have seen some comments in regards to external databases. I
posted some messages about login errors that were due to the way I set
up the external database. Since I can deduce that external databases
due work can someone tell me if there is anything special that I might
have overlooked in the setup process. I created a blank database and
an ODBC datasource. I can connect to the database and create user
accounts using the IMAIL administrator, I can add
records manually to the database and the users will then
show up in the User Administrator. I can't send mail to them
though or use web messaging to login. I have successfully implemented
the Imail database option, but would like to use the external
option.
Thanks in advance
Sam
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