Hello all, Alas, I too made this mistake a couple of weeks ago. I've been running IMail for a couple of months and am quite familiar with setting up hosts (virtual and otherwise). Late one Friday afternoon I added 6 virtual hosts, and I decided to get really dumb and I bound the new virtual hosts to the IP of our main mail host. Duh. (Note to self: don't touch servers on Fridays). It seemed that I could not easily undo my mistake, so I panicked, and in my state of confusion I only made matters worse. I honestly can't remember exactly what I did, but the more I squirmed, the more the quicksand pulled me down. About an hour later I had completely botched up the server, all I had left of my primary host was the mail directories. I tried to call Ipswitch, but, the sensible folks they are, they had gone home for the weekend. Some of my 200 mail users started calling me... the heat was getting hotter. Of course, I could have restored from backup, but our backup only runs every 24 hrs. and on this particular day we had made many changes to the IMail server. So, I did what any good IMail-admin-in-training would do; I re-created all the usernames and passwords by hand. No, really, it was that, or I'd have to tell my boss what I had done. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Fortunately, our brilliant accounting software keeps mail logins/passwords.
So, to make a long story short, after I re-entered all the logins and passwords by hand, it all seemed to work, the mail folders and such were miraculously working correctly, so I didn't touch anything else... I just sweated it out for the weekend. First thing on Monday morning I called Ipswitch and invoked my support contract and the problem was solved in seconds. So, my question is this... Ipswich held my hand as we fixed the NT registries, and everything seems to be working fine since then. However, is their anything else that I may have damaged during my debacle of destruction? Now that I'm a bona fide IMail user (and not just an IMail list voyeur) I'm going to post my other 9 IMail questions (but only one at a time, and only after I get this little problem behind me...) Thanks to you all for all your advice. Denise. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
