Well, i had the same problem once, but the only thing i did was to restore the registry, and erase any class that was made for the "domain".
I think nothing else was lost. Always make registry backups of email before doing any mayor movement. Bye. Sergio Rinc�n Jaramillo HostMaster GeoNet S.A. TEL (574) 5104701 Fax (574) 2350160 L�nea �nica de Atenci�n al Cliente 3500111 Calle 34B N� 66� 42, Medell�n, Colombia Ya visit� nuestro sitio www.geo.net.co Las opiniones que se expresan en este e-mail son personales y no necesariamente coinciden con las de GeoNet S.A. Este e-mail y todos los archivos transmitidos en �l, incluidas las respuestas y los reenv�os (que pueden incluir modificaciones) son confidenciales y de uso exclusivo del destinatario original, no se debe revelar ni utilizar por una persona distinta al destinatario ni copiar por medio alguno. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise Pera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 4:44 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] IMail text > 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/ > > 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/
