How To Backup Outlook Express Email Folders And Settings
Mar 7, 2007
I want to reinstall Windows Xp soon, as I got a virus and after cleaning the computer doesn't work as smooth as before. I gives some strange erros and sometimes it justs hangs up... I want to backup Outlook Express emails and settings before reinstall, and restore afterwards.
I have a customer who has a problem, today when he opened Outlook Express, it downloaded his new mails and deleted them automatically and also other mails, then when he clicked the "Trash" directory, it was empty. He checked if no one set rules, and the rules dialog is empty. He says his antivirus is up-to-date.
When I am trying to configure my e-mail in outlook 2010 / Thunderbird, the incoming Server don't respond (IMAP/POP3) but for the outgoing, it works perfectly. Webmail is full functional.
Ever since I had a OS reload, all the mail in Horde will show up as "read" after I use Outlook to fetch them. (Exaim is installed, Outlook is using POP3 to connect) Even mail that have never been opened in Outlook will show up as "read". Before this, the mail in Horde was never synchronized with Outlook. For example, if I read a piece of mail, it won't show up as read in Horde. Instead, it'll show up as "unread" until I read it using Horde. Now, it the mail in Horde seems to be synchronized with Outlook though Outlok keeps a copy on server even after deleting it locally (on the PC).
I don't want that to happen because my other co-admin uses Horde and I use Outlook.
It'll mess up the read/unread settings for each. I never changed any settings in Outlook so it must be some config on the server. Anyone have a clue where to change this setting so this behavior doesn't occur?
A few days ago Outlook Express refused to continue sending emails using my hosted account. It has been working fine for over three years now. I changed the software and used Thunderbird but it failed two. They just say that the mail server took much time and I should check the SMTP server. I even tried that from several computers and several connections. The response from the host is too slow (dislike their usual).
I'm currently using (amongst other backup systems) rsync to an offsite space (am using BQBackup at the moment)
I'm just wondering - apart from backing up all of /home/, /var/lib/mysql/ and the important config files (httpd.conf, php.conf, etc etc) is there anything else that *needs* to be backed up?
Obviously in a worst case scenario, a new machine would be deployed with a fresh OS install (and a fresh WHM/cPanel install) so I wouldn't worry about backing up OS files or cPanel core files, although I'm wondering if there's anything apart from the /home/ directory and the MySQL databases which would be lost (and so need backing up) in the event of a crash?
I'm having problems setting up email in Outlook with cpanel configurations. I've exhausted google trying to find an answer to this. Maybe someone here can help or has had a similiar problem.
I've set up accounts in cpanel (eg: info @ example.com), have the incoming mail server and outgoing mail server as mail.example.com and I even checked off the "server required authentication" but I still can't receive emails. I changed the outgoing server to smtp.internetprovider.com and it still doesn't work. I get a prompt asking for Network Server Password and click ok with the login and password but it keep popping up.
I try to past pci compliance,but now this is not importand. If there have some repair postfix command? Default configuration? Or how can i send emain from outlook.
I have just install on a new server plesk 12.0.18 Update #7 on centos 6.5 final.Added new hosting for the domain on a dedicated IP. All works fine (website, incoming mails etc) apart from outgoing mails.Both webmail (roundcube) and other mail software (outlook 2010, 2013 , android phone etc) outgoing mail i can't get to work.
I have attached screen from webmail with SMTP error (250) : Authentication failed..With Outlook it will allow me to set up account, test account setting... it say all all complete if i don't set secure connection (SSL)/requires authentication. But when you try sending mails you get the error: Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Subject:test Sent:16/07/2014 15:13
The following recipient(s) cannot be reached:
'x@xxx.com' on 16/07/2014 15:13 Server error: '554 5.7.1 <x@xxx.com>: Relay access denied'
When you set the outgoing requires authentication/ advance SSL you get:Send test e-mail message: None of the authentication methods supported by this client are supported by your server.I have tried changing to some outgoing ports to no avail.
so my website is working perfectly fine for a few months now, and im looking to use Roundcube instead of Google Apps.What are the DNS settings i need to change to for my domain registrar?Currently i have the following records, and it can only send email, and not receive.
A Records @ IP Address A Records webmail IP Address
After a server migration, some critical Plesk settings were not copied across, even though the option to backup/restore panel configuration was used. e.g.
skeleton (vhosts.skel folder) php.ini (Program Files (x86)ParallelsPleskAdditionalPleskPHP5* folder) Default site (vhostsdefault folder) health config (Program Files (x86)ParallelsPleskadminconfcustom-health-config.xml) Additional Administrator accounts
Is there a way to get these things to backup and restore that I am doing wrong?
Are there other important settings/data that I have missed from that list? I am still paying to keep the old server in case I discover something else!
Using Plesk Backup & Restore for disaster recovery will lose these settings unless they take extra steps. e.g. I now have a simple batch file that copies these files to a private folder on one of the domains before the daily backup kicks in.
Since 12.0.18, when I go to Tools & Settings > Mail Server, I get this error message on the page:
"Error: The limits on outgoing mail will not work for the subscriptions that have IP addresses from the white list. To make the limits work, remove IP addresses from the mail server's white list".
However, the whitelist page just contains 127.0.0.0/8 and ::1/128, and all my subscriptions have an external IP address which is clearly not in the whitelist.
Almost all mail adresses on my server is getting a spam mail from same mail marketing company everyday and i want to block them... Normally i just add the mail address to blacklist from "Spam Filter Settings" but this company is opening new addresses everyday and it is impossible to add all of them to blacklist so i need adding it as a regex to the blacklist...
The company i am talking about is opening mail addresses every day like below...
As you can see all mail addresses begin with "nrt"+"6 digits of day"+"free mail provider", so right now i am using the regex below and it is already added to the blacklist but they are still able to send me... What can i do now?
We are trying to use a configure settings for an external SMTP server within Plesk (Windows 2008 R2 Plesk 12) but are receiving the following error message:
Error: Unable to encode IDN email address 'username': email address is invalid
We are trying to use a username for SMTP authentication as we do not have the option of using an email address with our current SMTP relay provider.
Is there any way around this so that we can use a username rather than an email address?
According to microsoft, Only SQL Express 2005 can be installed on windows 2003 web edition. N other sql server editions allowed. Sure, ok. So I downloaded express (SQLEXPR_ADV.EXE) and go to install. Install always stops (shuts down) with no warning ...
smooth Microsoft, really smooth.
-- And before anybody chimes in. Yes .net 2.0 and 3.0 are installed.
Can anyone suggest a solution for one of my clients.
Their email is very important to them and is their main point of contact.
Their old account (shared hosting) got suspended a few times due to going over their hourly limit.
I have now put them on a new account on my VPS. Unfortunately the ip was blacklisted in the first week and they are getting about 25% of mail bounce backs due to being rejected. They also experienced a few hours of downtime while the nameservers propagated, so all in all they're not very happy.
I would like to offer them the following:
incoming back - if their server/mail goes down, mail either gets stored or re-routed to an alternative address
outgoing mail - if their server/mail goes down, they have an alternative way of sending email from their domain
outgoing mail - if their ip address gets blacklisted again, an alternative way of sending email from their domain until the issue is fixed.
I currently have a VPS server that runs Cpanel with all my websites and clients websites. My question is is it possible for to set up if the primary server goes down that emails will go to another server and still get delivered. Would I set the secondary server to ns3. and ns4.?
Is it possible to have the bash script, that is executed using a cron job, posted below email the DB backup to me as well as saving a copy to the server as it is currently doing?
# Script Function: # This bash script backups up the "DBname" and "DBname" db everyday at 4am with a file name time stamp and tar.gz zips the file. # The "DBname" db will be saved in /backups/database_backups/"DBname"/ # The "DBname" db will be stored in /backups/database_backups/"DBname"/ # Db backups older than 30 days will be deleted.
#[Changes Directory] cd /home/"accountname"/backups/
I am trying to transfer around 20 accounts from one server to another, via cpanel/whms multi transfer account script. I notice that cpanel/whm has the express transfer feature which is the following :
"Express Transfer = This will edit the zone on remote server to reflect the new DNS which can result in expedited propagation, forward any incoming mail from the remote server to the new server, suspend the account on the remote server, and prevent dynamic content from being loaded on the remote server (so no data will be lost)."
For some reason I can't seem to activate the express transfer option, or even figure out how to use it at that matter. Can someone please tell me how in the world I can enable this option? It will save me a huge headache from having to redirect the DNS zones manually.