IMS SUPPORT PAGE
Provided by
Paul Sica
SICA Consulting Services
20A Northwest BLVD., Suite 282
Nashua, NH 03063
See EMWAC LINKS under LINKS to get the IMS server from here or one of the mirrors.
This web site is dedicated to the support of the Freeware Internet Mail Server (IMS) from the
European Microsoft Windows NT Academic Center (EMWAC). All known links to available addons have
been posted here and will be posted here when available. If there are problems with links, or
there are links missing, please let me know by sending mail to : [EMAIL PROTECTED].
03/17/00 NOTE: The internet_toolchest from The European Microsoft
Windows NT Academic Center is being moved here and to several mirror
locations. It still has not been moved here yet.
It is available at texasstar.net and will be here some time in April?
IMS is part of the Internet Toolchest for NT provided by EMWAC. In 1995 EMWAC licensed IMS to
Rockliffe who proceeded to create a powerful mail server called MailSite.
Official support for IMS was dropped by EMWAC but as a courtesy to the
internet community, EMWAC still makes their Internet Toolchest for NT available.
In the fall of '96 and into '97 the first new addition for IMS came in the form of a
spam filter. Developed by SICA Consulting Services as freeware for IMS,
it addressed the basic need to stop spam.
As the spam filter grew in complexity, it was altered to allow for user written plugins
to facilitate the addition of new filters on messages and as it turns out, to add new features
to IMS.
As time went on, others started filling in other gaps in IMS.
Gordon Fecyk developed some additional spam related tools and took on the job
of monitoring the spam lists to generate updated filter files for the spam filter.
Denis Olivier added a tool to manage an extended mailing list server that was badly needed.
Datadoctor (James Corey) provides a mirror of the spam filter/plugin site at SICA,
helpful hints and a digest of the mailing list!
James Ingram needed to get mail from his ISP into his IMS server over a part time connection
so he developed EFS.
S.C.S.(Paul Sica) provided the original spam filter, this site and the occasional utility/plugin. :-)
And the work continues.....
The following links will take you to the various tools available for IMS as well to the
official IMS download page.
HINTS provided by Datadoctor
Just setting up EMWAC IMS? Here's a short list of answers a few basic
questions:
1. Download the documentaion when you download the software. Read it. Read
it again.
2. IMS doesn't do dial-up and retrieve. You have to script that yourself.
3. IMS aliasing is weak. Get Paul Sica's free add-on software and you'll be
able to do aliasing, and stop nearly all spam going through your site. See
my signature for details.
4. IMS uses the NT users info, so you can't really have 2 "webmaster"
accounts if you're doing multihoming/web serving. Get Paul's software and
you can.
5. IMS can do all of its own sending. Don't use a gateway entry.
6. Can't receive mail? Check you DNS entries, and maybe add entries in the
MISC "receive mail for".
7. Grayed out option? Try typing in the entry box and it should turn active.
8. When making a change, make it, click OK, and exit. Going back "just to
check" usually erases the change. Stop and restart to have them take effect.
9. Too many headers and no delivery? Check you DNS entries, you're looping
the mail.
10. IMS is not under development. There are no plans, or funding, to
modify/upgrade the current version. Just get the latest version.
11. IMS lists "reply to" the sender, not the list.
Still have a problem? Ask the IMS list, we've probably got the answer.
MORE HINTS from others
12. To be able to recieve mail at yourdomain.com instead of yourmachine.yourdomain.com
make sure the DNS server is configured correctly and add yourdomain.com to the
Accept Mail For option in the control panel applet.
13. Any time you get an error such as : 452 Cannot lock directory for recipients file... You may have a zombied hidden lockfile. Do the following to clear the condition :
Wait no more than 5 minutes then try again. If the error persists, stop
the SMTPDS, SMTPRS and POP3S service. Next delete all occurences of
$lockfile in any of the user mailbox directories or in any of the IMS
directories. Restart all of the services. NOTE: if you have POP3
logging enabled, rename the current POP3 log file BEFORE restarting the
POP3 Service.
14. When installing the filter, DO NOT install it in a directory using
long file names such as "C:\program files\mfilter\...". This has caused
a number of people to have problems.
Listed here are mailed in scripts. My thanks to all that sent in
the scripts! I will reformat them at a later time to make them
more readable, however for now here are the links to the raw text
files :
Mailed In Messages. In this text file is the instructions on
how to change the reply to list entry in the registry.
5 Min delay before closing rasdial script
10 Min delay before closing rasdial script
15 Min delay before closing rasdial script
The following are links to text files containing answers to some common (more or less) problems.
NOTE: It has been reported that this fixes the post.office server as well.
To install IMS under Windows 2000, the following registry entry must be added
since it appears to no longer be used :
HKLM\system\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Domain
type REG_SZ
value yourdomain.com
In addition, it appears that W2K no longer fills in the Nameserver registry parameter :
HKLM\system\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Nameserver
type REG_SZ
value(s) nameserver IP addresses.
If this parameter is blank, it will cause IMS to fail to deliver messages. They will sit in the
holding directory.
When a user tries to log in (POP3) and retrieve their messages, they receive an error.
Make sure that "logon as batch job" is in the IMSUsers group rules and that the user accounts are in
this group. This is the same as granting the log on as batch per the original IMS instructions.
Received 1/10/01 -
FYI
It appears the IMS services must have "interact with desktop" checked on
Windows 2000 with Active Directory installed in order to function. I have
not tried it on a system without AD installed.
Received 2/14/01 -
Windows 2000 has a different approach to setting (log on as batch...) you go
into "Domain Controller Security Policy" off the start menu/administrative
tools. Be sure and get the right one as "Local Security Policy" wont work
if you are on the PDC. The choice "log on as a batch job" is available
under Local Policies/User Rights Assignment.
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