Promoting a secondary domain to primary
It is possible to modify your primary domain in MDaemon, but when you do so, MDaemon will rename all users, aliases, lists and other goodies as well. Sometimes this isn’t desired, one such case is to make an existing secondary domain into a primary domain.
Shut down MDaemon, backup the entire MDaemonApp directory, then open the MDaemon.ini file and find the following key:
[Domain]
DomainName=primary.com
Change the DomainName key to be your ‘new’ primary domain, then restart MDaemon and you should be good to go.
Make sure that your IP bindings, and account pruning are set the way you want as these settings follow the domain, and so the secondary domain’s settings will become the system-wide defaults when it’s converted to a primary domain.
One other thing you might need to update, the mdaemon@ system account *should* change automatically, but if anything goes wrong, do not try to change this account manually, instead just remove it from userlist.dat yourself, MDaemon will recreate it when MDaemon next starts. If you corrupt this account, any number of things will break.
Also, you need to manually update aliases pointing to the mdaemon@ account.
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MDAV users - Upgrade to SecurityPlus immediately
Just a quick reminder in case anyone missed it, or you’re like me and like waiting until a deadline so that you always look busy…
Alt-N Technologies’ partner, Kaspersky Lab, has recently announced that it is making a change to its virus signature updating process. Consequently, customers using MDaemon Anti-Virus (MDAV) and SecurityPlus will need to update their software to the recently released Security Plus for MDaemon version 4.
This change will need to be made prior to December 31, 2008 to ensure uninterupted continue protection of your MDaemon Server’s antivirus.
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Maximum number of users per domain
WebAdmin supports a maximum number of accounts that can be created on a per-domain basis but this option is actually less visible then you might imagine.
To set the maximum number of accounts, login to WebAdmin, go to the “Domains” editor, edit a domain and look at the [Properties] tab and look for the “Maximum number of users that can be created by WebAdmin:” option.
This limit effects domain administrators, but not global administrators.
Note that this option is not exposed in MDaemon’s GUI anywhere, so in order to take advantage of this feature you need to be using WebAdmin.
Tags: account management, WebAdmin, WebAdmin