The thing to keep in mind is the IMail services need to be running as a user with rights to the shared drive. By default they run as the system account which only has local drive access
Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lauren Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 2:03 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Filling listserv lists over a network link > Sanford Whiteman wrote: > > > It's fully possible to put an IMail domain TopDir on a network drive. > > I'd advise you to do more research and testing--your design will work > > just fine, provided you don't mess with the IMail executables. > > Thanks very much, Sandy. I tried very hard to put that directory on the > shared drive: > > I stopped the services, copied the *entire* imail directory to the share, then > changed the domain TopDir through Imail administrator, restarted the services, > and all my messages to the list bounced with errors stating that no users were > defined for that list. > > Then I stopped the services again and went through the registry looking for > references to the old path, and I updated each one that I could find to the > network path, *except* for those that referenced .exe, .dll, and (what the > heck) .hlp files. I restarted services and bounced the server for grins. > Imail still tells me there were no users in the list (and, of course, there were). > > I changed everything back and it's working fine again. > > I applied to Imail support and got this response: > > > The directory of the list is built by code under the top directory of > > the domain. Moving to a shared drive is not a supported feature on IMail. > > Reading it closely, I see that they didn't absolutely rule out moving an > entire domain directory to a shared drive; perhaps they meant that they don't > support moving the list directory by itself. > > I have looked through the manuals and knowledge base for information on moving > an existing domain directory to a different drive letter, but haven't found > anything that seemed directly applicable; perhaps I need to recreate the > domain on the share? > > Thanks again, all, for your time. > > -Lauren > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
