Running MailEnable Services Interactively

Notice of Caution: Running Services interactively should only be done when trying to debug or troubleshoot MailEnable. Mail Services can be run interactively in debug mode allowing debug messages to be written to the screen.

The following instructions outline how to run the services in debug mode.

Ensure that you have stopped the service you wish to run interactively using the Service Control Manager or the MailEnable Administration Console.

Open the regedit and move to the HKEY_LOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mail Enable\Mail Enable\SMTP\Debug Mode Key

Set the value of this key to 1 (this tells the server to write debug messages to the console rather than to a file).

Then, run the Windows command prompt and type in the following commands.

cd \Program Files\Mail Enable\Bin

MESMTPC -debug

When you have completed the debug session, you can close the console window.

Important: Make sure that you set this setting back to 2 when you have completed running the server in debug mode.

You should restart the approriate MailEnable services using the Administration Console or Service Control Manager.