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- 2023-11-30 22:58
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: hMailServer X
- Replies: 111
- Views: 113713
Re: hMailServer X
I fully share Pedja's view, that hmailserver shedding its old foundations through a serious overhaul is the only way it may survive. The fact that removing those obsolete Microsoft technologies also contributes to its portability is a fortunate event, not a goal in itself. Also, a leaner code base w...
- 2023-11-10 20:35
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: hMailServer X
- Replies: 111
- Views: 113713
Re: hMailServer X
(...) the priority in order not to lose user base is to increase its functionality. Perfectly agreed. I would add: "The priority in order to increase its funcionality is to make the code easier to maintain." That is done by getting the code itself up to current standards, as well as replacing depre...
- 2023-11-05 00:25
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: hMailServer X
- Replies: 111
- Views: 113713
- 2023-11-04 20:33
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: hMailServer X
- Replies: 111
- Views: 113713
Re: hMailServer X
Everything he proposes results in something that is NOT hMailserver so it doesn't deserve a spot and audience here, simple as that! @Paulo Meireles, what is that you contributed to this project exactly? (...) maybe it is smart to keep quite in your case, go back to be a lurker. The only person that...
- 2023-11-04 13:51
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: hMailServer X
- Replies: 111
- Views: 113713
Re: hMailServer X
@moderators, i believe this topic deserves no place on these forum(s)... as in all honesty once (and if ever) completed it just isn't related to hMailServer whatsoever Please don't. You are free to not provide your time and effort for something in which you do not believe. This is what "open source...
- 2023-11-04 04:09
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: hMailServer X
- Replies: 111
- Views: 113713
Re: hMailServer X
I think we all agree that there are two different kinds of issues with the current code: 1 - hMailServer is using technology that is being deprecated, and that will soon be unavailable on modern Windows versions. 2 - There have been many protocol and technology enhancements in the past few years tha...
- 2023-11-03 17:42
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: hMailServer X
- Replies: 111
- Views: 113713
Re: hMailServer X
There will be a new GUI like hMailAdmin.exe today. Some small parts will look different but i try my best to let it look and react the same as the official hMailAdmin.exe. The only real changes the new Admin GUI will have is: -Connect to hmsx via TLSv1.3 instead of COM -VBScript features change to ...
- 2023-11-03 17:39
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: hMailServer X
- Replies: 111
- Views: 113713
Re: hMailServer X
The Roadmap is simple: 1) Removing all Windows only code 2) Replace VB with LUA (internal scripting) 3) Focussing on Standard compliant code 4) Standard compliant code compiles allmost anywhere And you do not see what is wrong with that roadmap? Risking being pedantic, maybe that could be rewritten...
- 2023-11-03 12:36
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: hMailServer X
- Replies: 111
- Views: 113713
Re: hMailServer X
(...), go from a 1 person project, backed by a large user base and community to a 1 person project without backing or user base. I don't believe martin with ever pass his hmailserver project, or give his blessing to Dravion for (to the most of us) known reasons, nor did he ever venture the idea (to...
- 2023-10-28 03:49
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: hMailServer X
- Replies: 111
- Views: 113713
Re: hMailServer X
@SorenR Loved the rant. Made me feel just a tad less old, and glad not to be alone. :D @Dravion I think everyone would be more comfortable if Martin gave his blessing to your approach. @Everyone else As much as we are all forever grateful to Martin for offering his time and work for so many years, a...
- 2023-10-26 17:01
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: hMailServer X
- Replies: 111
- Views: 113713
Re: hMailServer X
The more Microsoft deprecates old stuff, the fewer reasons there are to keep hMailServer Windows-centric. I would say this is the perfect opportunity to make hMailServer run everywhere. We will have to change the way we do some things we're used to, and for some who have heaviily invested on depreca...
- 2023-10-18 19:24
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: hMailServer X
- Replies: 111
- Views: 113713
Re: hMailServer X
For the record, MY comment is purely based on (re)writing to be Liniux compatible and still calling it 'hMailserver'. I said (above) that there is need for rewriting to ensure its functionailty on the Windows Platform which is what hMailserver is designed for. As far as I could understand, Dravion ...
- 2023-10-18 12:25
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: hMailServer X
- Replies: 111
- Views: 113713
Re: hMailServer X
Dravion is, as far as I know, the only one that has rolled up his sleeves and actually did something to try to keep the product afloat Not an accurate statement, not even close. You're right, and it was unfair from my part, so let me rephrase and clarify what I meant. hMailServer is dead/orphaned a...
- 2023-10-16 18:39
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: hMailServer X
- Replies: 111
- Views: 113713
Re: hMailServer X
Guys, may I invite you all for a (virtual) cold beer, hoping it will lower the testosterone level? :) None of us can have what we all would prefer: hMailServer to be still supported and further enhanced by Martin, as Martin has made clear that he no longer has the time or energy for this. It still i...
- 2022-02-27 23:11
- Forum: Off-topic discussions
- Topic: hMailServer future
- Replies: 256
- Views: 132182
Re: hMailServer future
Despite being a hmailserver user for a long time - over 20 years, if I'm not mistaken - I am not a developer, so I cannot help with that - sorry. The best I can do is to help with other tasks - maybe documentation. We do have a few developers around here. Even if not fully aligned, all share a commo...
- 2020-03-02 22:04
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: Removing x86 support in 5.7
- Replies: 39
- Views: 42547
Re: Removing x86 support in 5.7
If you upgrade the old server to latest, i think that the backup limit has been removed That would be great! I'll try it. Thank you! (...) i will build x86 (i686) 32-Bit versions (Windows 32-Bit) (...) That would help me keep running on XP if I wanted to keep it - which I don't... Thanks anyway! :)...
- 2020-03-02 04:31
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: Removing x86 support in 5.7
- Replies: 39
- Views: 42547
Re: Removing x86 support in 5.7
I still have the binaries for hmailserver 4.0 build 125 - I think it was how my server was created. However, I've been updating hmailserver over the years, and I've been running 5.6.8 for a while. Nevertheless, I'm still running MySQL 4.1.18-nt... Just checked, and there are over 250.000 messages in...
- 2020-03-02 02:00
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: Removing x86 support in 5.7
- Replies: 39
- Views: 42547
Re: Removing x86 support in 5.7
Ideally there would be some scripts to migrate messages, databases and settings to a new machine. That would help most of the "old guard" migrate off old x86 Windows into new x64 Windows. However, a description of the procedure will also do. For me, the tricky part is "-Backup hamailserver selecting...
- 2020-03-02 00:13
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: Removing x86 support in 5.7
- Replies: 39
- Views: 42547
Re: Removing x86 support in 5.7
I fully understand the need to eventually drop x86 support - and older Windows versions along with it. That will, however, leave in the cold users that are running precisely these older setups. I'm running hmailserver for many years in a WinXP VM behind a firewall (only hmailserver is exposed). It's...
- 2019-01-09 15:06
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: Corrupted MySQL?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13877
Re: Corrupted MySQL?
What would be the best supported database? MsSQL or MySQL? If MsSQL, is there an easy way to migrate from MySQL to MsSQL? If MySQL, is MariaDB supported? Last resort would be creating a new server and using something like IMAPcopy... or even an IMAP client like Thunderbird. It's feasible when it's j...
- 2019-01-09 02:57
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: Corrupted MySQL?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13877
Re: Corrupted MySQL?
THANKS! That was it - right before my eyes. It was indeed not encrypted. I had tried it before, but it did not work because I was connecting to the wrong port... :oops: I have meanwhile solved my original issue - a corrupted table - with myisamchk. The wife external email account is pumping again! :...
- 2019-01-09 02:01
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: Corrupted MySQL?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13877
Re: Corrupted MySQL?
Thank you, Dravion.
I just sent the ini file to jimimaseye.
If he can make any sense of it, I'd rather avoid resetting the password.
Otherwise, I will follow your instructions.
Regards,
Paulo
I just sent the ini file to jimimaseye.
If he can make any sense of it, I'd rather avoid resetting the password.
Otherwise, I will follow your instructions.
Regards,
Paulo
- 2019-01-09 00:01
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: Corrupted MySQL?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13877
Re: Corrupted MySQL?
I just tried running the decrypt without the admin password; the result was the same. Even installed latest (BETA) hmailserver on my PC and ran the decrypt there; same result. Ran mysql executable from the command line; here's the output stating the version: mysqld-nt.exe Ver 4.1.18-nt for Win32 on ...
- 2019-01-08 15:23
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: Corrupted MySQL?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13877
Re: Corrupted MySQL?
Thank you.
I will try that as soon as get home - in around 5 hours.
Paulo
I will try that as soon as get home - in around 5 hours.
Paulo
- 2019-01-08 10:23
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: Corrupted MySQL?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13877
Re: Corrupted MySQL?
1) What version of MySQL exactly is installed? The one that came bundled with hMailServer a long time ago. The binary is named "mysqld-nt.exe" and is dated 04-16-2005. 2) What version of hMailServer is running? 5.6.8-B2431 3) What Windows version do you use? Windows XP (yes, I intend to migrate it o...
- 2019-01-08 05:34
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: Corrupted MySQL?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13877
Re: Corrupted MySQL?
Did he only forget hMailServers Login users Password or MySQL Root Password to? If MySQL Root password is avaiable, login with MySQL Workbench via Root user should be ok. But if hMailServer is conbecting via MySQL Root user + its Password its a diffrent story... As you can see in the snippet of the...
- 2019-01-08 05:05
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: Corrupted MySQL?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13877
Re: Corrupted MySQL?
To use DecryptBlowfish I must "Enter your main hMailServer Administrator password. This is the password you specified during installation." Well, it's been almost 20 years since I installed it... so I'm not sure if I installed with the same password as I have now, or if I changed it sometime along t...
- 2019-01-08 03:21
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: Corrupted MySQL?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13877
Corrupted MySQL?
Hi, I have a small hmailserver at home since at least the year 2000. It has always worked wonderfully - until today, when the wife complained that she was not getting email from an external account. The logs show many occurences of messages like these: "ERROR" 468 "2018-12-08 00:19:17.447" "Severity...
- 2016-09-21 12:39
- Forum: Feature requests
- Topic: Support for Let's Encrypt SSL certificates
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13096
Support for Let's Encrypt SSL certificates
There doesn't seem to be an easy way to use the free Let's Encrypt SSL certificates with hmailserver.
At least, it involves restarting the service on every certificate renewal (every 3 months).
It would be *very* nice to have hmailserver include support for it and make it "set it and forget it".
At least, it involves restarting the service on every certificate renewal (every 3 months).
It would be *very* nice to have hmailserver include support for it and make it "set it and forget it".
- 2008-11-25 19:31
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: Endless loop with 2 servers on same domain?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3552
Re: Endless loop with 2 servers on same domain?
I see. I guess it would not be practical, as we have hundreds of mailboxes and the list keeps changing. <wishlist> It would be nice, however, to have such an option in hMailServer, as it would provide some flexibility when doing SMTP Routing between hMailServers. I don't know how hard it would be to...
- 2008-11-25 17:38
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: Endless loop with 2 servers on same domain?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3552
Endless loop with 2 servers on same domain?
We have an Exchange server as the MX on a domain, and another machine with hMailServer on the same domain. Each of the servers is forwarding to the other the emails with no corresponding local mailbox. However, I'm afraid of having an endless loop if the recipient doesn't exist in either server. I t...
- 2008-01-29 17:29
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: Difficulties with the reply rule action
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1941
Difficulties with the reply rule action
Hi, I've been messing around with creating accounts with reply rules via a VBS script, but I'm having some difficulties. I'm not succeeding in sending HTML content. Can it be done? The content type seems to be preset to "text/plain"... By the way, shouldn't both "from" fields be "pre-filled" with th...
- 2008-01-26 14:29
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: No auto-reply to another server when domain exists locally?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5562
Martin, Oh, well... Now you tell me... :oops: Maybe I should have read the docs better... Yes, it does indeed explain the "anomaly". Another great case of the bug residing between the chair and the keyboard... I guess I'll have to create a rule instead of relying on the Auto-Reply feature. By the wa...
- 2008-01-25 21:23
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: No auto-reply to another server when domain exists locally?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5562
- 2008-01-25 20:33
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: No auto-reply to another server when domain exists locally?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5562
BUG
It seems to have been a bug on the auto-reply. Despite showing as enabled, the auto-reply wasn't working. I disabled, saved, re-enabled, saved again, and now it's working fine. However, maybe it should be looked at... Martin: I have logged Application, SMTP and Debug Messages before, duging and afte...
- 2008-01-25 19:44
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: No auto-reply to another server when domain exists locally?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5562
I forgot to say that I created a route on hMailServer stating that all email for domain.com should be delivered to server A, to all addresses, and to treat it as a local domain. The only account I have on server B is username@domain.com. I have tested a bit more, and here are my results: 1 - I deliv...
- 2008-01-25 19:38
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: No auto-reply to another server when domain exists locally?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5562
No auto-reply to another server when domain exists locally?
Hi all, I'm renaming some email accounts, and new mailboxes are being created for some users. However, I have the problem of what to do with old email addresses. What we want is senders to receive an automated reply saying something like "The address user1.name1@domain.com has been disabled. Please,...
- 2006-10-22 04:35
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: Clustering
- Replies: 49
- Views: 46320
If POP3/IMAP is made clusterable, I would probably have to spend more time if I wanted SMTP not to be clusterable compared to making it clusterable. As you say, all the SMTP-part does is to receive the email and store it on disk. I was thinking about an active-active SMTP cluster, with all nodes se...
- 2006-10-21 19:21
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: Clustering
- Replies: 49
- Views: 46320
Now, ideally I need the hMail instances running on each of those to keep synchronised with each other ... this isn't yet possible, but something I'm hopeing to do in the future --- the nearest I get at the moment is by running scheduled IMAPCopy's --- but that's very inefficient. If you have some m...
- 2006-10-21 19:17
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: Clustering
- Replies: 49
- Views: 46320
Even then, any dual-core machine should allow wirespeed SMTP service on a 100MBit/s interface. It could? That must be assuming that you have good disks. My dual-core computer starts to lag down when I create several hundred files per second.. I'm talking strictly about the SMTP service, assuming th...
- 2006-10-21 19:08
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: Clustering
- Replies: 49
- Views: 46320
and you can pay for all that bandwidth - I'm sure you have enough money to invest on some decent servers. Minor note: This probably depends on where you live. Here in Sweden my 100Mbit (duplex) internet connection costs $25 / month. The bandwidth is much cheaper than the hardware required to fill i...
- 2006-10-21 18:57
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: Clustering
- Replies: 49
- Views: 46320
I'd much rather have a cluster of 4 cheap servers than 1 damn expensive server. I absolutely agree with you. However, it seems I wasn't very clear earlier, so here's my rationale: After splitting hMailServer into several self-contained services, we can run the same workload (whichever it is) on sev...
- 2006-10-21 18:33
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: Clustering
- Replies: 49
- Views: 46320
My quote above is specific to the SMTP service. I believe hMailServer - running just SMTP, with other functionality (POP3/IMAP/storage) on other servers - is still not ready to run email servers that would choke a 4-way quad-core server (16 cores) with two bonds of four gigabit NICs each, one bond f...
- 2006-10-21 16:56
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: Clustering
- Replies: 49
- Views: 46320
Clustering serves two very different purposes: increased reliability (active-passive, failover) and increased performance (active-active, load-balancing). We're talking about several components here, and each has its different needs which should also be addressed differently. Investing time and effo...
- 2006-04-29 00:31
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: prevent user from deleting email
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4280
- 2006-04-28 23:58
- Forum: General discussions
- Topic: prevent user from deleting email
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4280
- 2006-04-09 16:08
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: POP3 retrieval hung
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4107
- 2006-01-29 01:14
- Forum: Archived feature requests
- Topic: Support for Linux
- Replies: 82
- Views: 128012
I guess the whole point of running hMailServer under Linux is to have a completely free platform. That's my goal, too. However, it seems that it's not trivial to port hMailServer to Linux. As an intermediate step, it would be very nice to have it running on reactos (http://www.reactos.org) which, al...
- 2006-01-29 00:57
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: Problem with external fetch
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12509
- 2006-01-25 21:27
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: Problem with external fetch
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12509
I had precisely the same problem, I've just installed build 192, but the problem persists. Here's the log (I changed the username, password, and hostname/IP address of the Exchange server for confidentiality reasons): "APPLICATION" 3688 "2006-01-25 19:02:15.718" "SMTPD - Server started." "APPLICATIO...
- 2005-11-03 01:23
- Forum: Off-topic discussions
- Topic: MySQL 5.0
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14467
- 2005-10-19 13:24
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: The cache - should it exist at all?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17223
Thanks! As soon as I have the time, I'll do some benchmarking on hMailServer, and try the results with and without the mysql cache. I'll then let you know the outcome. As for the 32MB cache, isn't it overkill to have a cache this big? Of course, my database is small, as I only have about a dozen acc...
- 2005-10-19 11:54
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: The cache - should it exist at all?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17223
I didn't say it was useless; I just pointed that optimizing something that only accounts for a few percent of the total delay time won't get you a stellar performance increase, so it might as well be left alone. Let's imagine the query itself takes 20ms and the connection delays it by 100ms. Improvi...
- 2005-10-18 23:37
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: Typos in the site
- Replies: 33
- Views: 22934
- 2005-10-18 18:12
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: The cache - should it exist at all?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17223
Bingo, that was my initial idea; however, it seems that the culprit for the performance penalty is the overhead associated to connecting to the database, not the internal database fetching of data. Conceptually, a cache should reside between a device/process accessing data and a constrained device p...
- 2005-10-18 13:29
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: The cache - should it exist at all?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17223
So, if I understood right: 1 - as long as you don't mess directly with the database, your cache TTL could be infinite, since all changes applied to the database through COM also update the cache; 2 - if you disable the cache prior to updating the database directly, and re-enable the cache afterwards...
- 2005-10-17 23:42
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: Suggestions for terminology changes (and translation woes)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4925
- 2005-10-17 23:36
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: The cache - should it exist at all?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17223
It's true that MSDE supports a limited number of simultaneous connections; as far as I remember, it was something like 10. However, that should translate - and I'm just guessing now - to 5 or 6 messages being simultaneously transferred through the server. Maybe you're reaching that with 1200 account...
- 2005-10-17 22:50
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: The cache - should it exist at all?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17223
I see your point, and as long as the COM library keeps cache coherence, I'm OK with it. If someone wants to "hack" the database directly, they'll have to purge the cache - maybe by stopping and restarting the service. Which leads me to the next question: is there a way of turning the cache on and of...
- 2005-10-17 21:50
- Forum: Development & alpha discussions
- Topic: The cache - should it exist at all?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17223
The cache - should it exist at all?
I've been reading about the cache in hMailServer. The general impression is that it's a quick hack in order to overcome a performance limitation of the database. I'm also a bit uncomfortable with the fact that cache coherence isn't guaranteed: a change made to an object directly in the database isn'...