Problem with WebMail "disappearing" on server reboot

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Problem with WebMail "disappearing" on server reboot

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I have installed MailEnable on a development server and am able to access the MailEnable Admin Management client. i can create mailboxes and all seems to be functional. I then set up Host Headers for the WebMail client by following the instructions on this page of the Mail Enable Standard manual:

https://www.mailenable.com/documentatio ... ries.htmls

The Host Header entries appeared under Servers > localhost > Services and Connectors > WebMail as expected. Then I executed the MEInstaller.exe and executed Option 2 to set up the Web Mail configurations (as described in a post of the forum). After this, I was able to access the WebMail client and send and receive emails and everything looked good.

I then had to reboot the server (due to additional configuration changes not related to MailEnable) that required a reboot. After reboot, when I tried to access a WebMail again, IIS threw a "Resource does not exist" error. Checking under Servers > localhost > Services and Connectors > WebMail there were now no host headers listed anymore.

Thinking I had missed a step somewhere, I repeated the above procedure and was able to access web mail again. However, after an additional reboot, I had the same problem again.

Am I missing something here that prevents the host header/web mail configurations from persisting? Is there a more complete document/post that describes exactly how to set up Web Mail?

Thanks

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Re: Problem with WebMail "disappearing" on server reboot

Post by MailEnable-Ian »

Hi,

No there is no functionality outside of the console that would remove the host header from the IIS. Check the Windows event log for more clues after the server reboots.
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Ian Margarone
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Re: Problem with WebMail "disappearing" on server reboot

Post by renewtx@gmail.com »

So it happened again ... I had Web Mail set up using the Host Headers and was able to connect and access via the browser. However, later that day I had to do an IISRESET of the server ... that appears to have killed the WebMail sites again!

Can you provide me with the correct steps to set up/configure WebMail? Maybe I am missing something, but all i see in the docs is how to create the Host Headers. After doing that I still cannot access WebMail and I have to run the MEWInstall,exe with Option #2 (which I got from a post and not actually the documentation). Is there a separate document that explains how to set up WebMail?

Thanks

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Re: Problem with WebMail "disappearing" on server reboot

Post by renewtx@gmail.com »

I did look through the Event Logs but only found the following that related to MailEnable:

MEPOPS
Event ID: 1
General: (MailEnable POP3 Service (C:\Program Files (x86)\Mail Enable\Bin64\MEPOPS.EXE) error: 0) Service Started

MESMTPCS
Event ID: 1
General: (MailEnable SMTP Service (C:\Program Files (x86)\Mail Enable\Bin64\MESMTPC.EXE) error: 0) ME-I0144: Service Completed Loading Agents.

MEIMAPS
Event ID: 1
General: (MailEnable IMAP Service (C:\Program Files (x86)\Mail Enable\Bin64\MEIMAPS.exe) error: 203) Service Completed Loading Agents

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