http://www.everything-mdaemon.com Everything you've ever wanted to know about MDaemon Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:00:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.everything-mdaemon.com/mdaemon/promoting-a-secondary-domain-to-primary 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 ... http://www.everything-mdaemon.com/mdaemon/securityplus/mdav-users-please-upgrade-to-securityplus 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 ... http://www.everything-mdaemon.com/mdaemon/webadmin-mdaemon/maximum-number-of-users-per-domain The config.xml file stores a number of Outlook Connector related account settings. This file is not formally documented, but since it's in XML format, most of the items are self-explanatory. Here is a breakdown of the options. <customCache>0</customCache> Whether or not you use a custom localcache.db location. 0 - Use default ... http://www.everything-mdaemon.com/mdaemon/outlookconnector/configxml Duplicates are an annoying, but altogether not infrequent side-effect of the POP3 protocol -- Lets discuss how and why they occur. Avoiding duplicates is fairly easy, but unfortunately many many clients fail to implement a robust algorithm, resulting in the potential for duplicates nearly any time something unexpected happens, be it ... http://www.everything-mdaemon.com/mdaemon/understanding-pop3-mail-client-duplicates An example situation is this: As new employees start, you create mailboxes. When an employee leaves, you disable the mailbox. Skip ahead several years and you now have hundreds of disabled accounts eating up licenses and would like to delete them all. Backup.  Please backup, we're talking about deleting ... http://www.everything-mdaemon.com/mdaemon/how-to-delete-all-disabled-accounts Some users want to completely disable the new option available to users to pick their language & theme at the WorldClient login. This is an easy one, add either or both of these items into the [Default:Settings] section of \MDaemon\WorldClient\domains.ini: HideLoginLanguage=Yes HideLoginTheme=Yes Note that users can still change their language and theme from ... http://www.everything-mdaemon.com/mdaemon/worldclient/disable-worldclient-language-and-theme-selector For those wondering why MDaemon unexpectedly restarted, it's due to a SecurityPlus update.  Alt-N has a knowledgebase article discussing this behaviour. If you prefer to avoid this situation in the future, there is an option available (also described in the KB article) to avoid automatic updates, however, be certain to monitor ... http://www.everything-mdaemon.com/mdaemon/securityplus/why-did-mdaemon-just-restart One of the downsides to using multiple devices or clients against a single IMAP account is that every device/client does things a little differently. Some use the IMAP deleted flag, some use a "Trash" folder, others use "Deleted Items".  Sent it almost as bad, most clients use "Sent", but many ... http://www.everything-mdaemon.com/mdaemon/changing-the-iphone-imap-sent-folder-name One of the common solutions to several Outlook Connector problems is to deleted your localcache.db, effectively resetting Outlook Connector and letting it start from scratch. This shouldn't be required on a regular basis, but a database reset is sitll occasionally needed. After doing so, when you compose a new message ... http://www.everything-mdaemon.com/mdaemon/outlookconnector/deleting-localcachedb-breaks-address-list