Domain deleted from DOMAIN.TAB and POSTOFFICE.TAB

labsy · Post by **labsy** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:38 am

Hello,
it is the second time I noticed some domains simply dissapeared from DOMAIN.TAB and POSTOFFICE.TAB files. All domain directory structure with all mails and passwords in AUTH.TAB was intact, but domain name dissapeared from above mentioned 2 files.
If I manually added the domain in these files, everything was back to normal.

Any idea how could domain dissapear?

Post by **MailEnable** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:34 am

The usual cause is contention where a control panel or third party application directly accesses these files without going through the MailEnable API. This article explains in more detail:

http://www.mailenable.com/kb/Content/Ar ... D=me020424

Although, if it were deleted from both, then it would seem more plausable for it to be programatic error of a control panel (or something else responsible for editing the files). Normally if it were contention, it might be removed from one file, but not both.

labsy · Post by **labsy** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:34 pm

It happened to me once before.
But then back before it had some background - my disk was full up to the last byte, and in DOMAIN.TAB and POSTOFFICES.TAb files random domains were missing.
But, as I said, it was closely related to lack of disk space.

This time it was not disk space.

As a control panel I am using HELM. I think it is working via API, and it is not directly modifying the files of ME.