Server Side Out Of Office Message

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Server Side Out Of Office Message

I want to set up server side "Out Of Office" messages in Mail on Lion Server.

I have enabled Webmail.

When I launch my browser (Safari) and go to http://localhost/webmail as suggested, I get a page with the Mail ICON in the upper left corner, and a error message in the body of the page that says "DATABASE ERROR: CONNECTION FAILED!" "Unable to connect to the database! Please contact your server-administrator."

I am the server admin, so contacting myself isn't helping! :-)

Any ideas from anyone?

Posted on Jul 23, 2019 8:34 AM

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MrHoffman

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Jul 29, 2019 9:35 AM in response to Regal909

Lion is really old. Can you get to High Sierra? Specifically an upgrade to High Sierra, and not to Mojave? High Sierra is the end of the line for Server, as you and many of us are using it.

Launch Terminal, and check the DNS setup with the following (harmless) command:

sudo changeip -checkhostname

You’ll either get an OK, or some ecidence of a DNS setup issue.

Mail servers are dependent on proper DNS, both locally, and for having their outbound and sometimes inbound mail exchanged with other mail servers.

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MrHoffman

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Jul 29, 2019 11:12 AM in response to Regal909

Regal909 wrote:

When I execute that command, terminal returns "serveradmin must be run as root"

Was the “sudo” omitted from the command? That’d cause that error.

You’ll have to specify an admin user password with that, too.

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Regal909 Author

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Jul 29, 2019 9:45 AM in response to MrHoffman

Thanks MrHoffman.....

When I execute that command, terminal returns "serveradmin must be run as root"

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