Oracle® eMail Server
Release
Notes
Release
5.2for Windows NT
May
2001
Part
No. A90426-01
These release notes accompany Oracle eMail Server Release
5.2 for Windows NT. They contain the following topics:
What's New in this Release?
Release 5.2 of Oracle eMail Server for Windows NT ships with
both iAS version 1.0.2.2, and the Oracle 8.1.7 database server,
and is certified to work in conjunction with Oracle Internet Directory
release 2.1.1. New features include:
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ES Thin Client Sample Application -- a JSP-based dynamic
HTML e-mail client
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Protocol Server Directory Lookup -- In large multinode
installations, the SMTP Gateway-IN server will first lookup to which node
it should deliver a message. Previously, all messages from a Gateway-IN
server would deliver to only one node. Messages destined for other nodes
within the installation were then moved.
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Monitor charts -- administrators can now monitor capacity
and usage of the e-mail system using the Performance Manager application
within Oracle's Enterprise Manager.
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Virus Cleanup Tool -- PL/SQL procedure that allows
an administrator to define the "fingerprint" of e-mail virus suspects,
match all messages inside the message store against that fingerprint, and
set them aside for review and appropriate actions by an administrator.
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Postman Sorting -- faster delivery of messages when
queues are long.
Client Certification
Oracle eMail Server supports standard IMAP4/POP3 clients.
This product has been certified and tested against the following clients:
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Netscape 4.75
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Outlook Express 5.5
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Lotus Notes R5
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MS Outlook 98
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MS Outlook 2000
The Thin Client has been certified and tested against the
following clients:
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Netscape 4.75
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MS Internet Explorer 5.0+
Known Limitations
The following are known limitations for Oracle eMail Server
Release 5.2:
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If a production system is upgraded from 4.3, 4.2,
or any other version prior to 5.0, the system can contain undelivered messages
that the new 5.2 server no longer processes. This is because the new version
of the server uses a more efficient method of mail delivery that is not
compatible with the old algorithm. As a solution, configure a postman
instance with the NOTIFICATION parameter set to value 1. Run the postman
instance for one day to clear up all old undelivered messages. This instance
can be deregistered since the NOTIFICATION parameter is no longer used
in Oracle eMail Server 5.2.
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Do not use spaces in object names. Use an underscore
instead of the space. This does not apply for descriptions or address lines.
For example, use John_Smith instead of John Smith.
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If the timeout for the IMAP messaging session is shorter
than the timeout for the Web Client JSP session, an exception message may
appear. Re-login will correct the problem.
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For the Monitor Charts, when email server is deinstalled
and installed, the NT deinstall of the email server Data Gatherer cartridge
does not update the svppcart.dat file by removing the existing line for
the MS5 cartridge (i.e MS5 ALL libvpxmx5 vpxms5.svppcart.dat) in ORACLE_HOME\odg
directory. Because of this duplicate entry in svppcart.dat file, Data gatherer
may not be started from Services. Remove the duplicate entry and it should
work.
Known Bugs
The following bugs are known to exist in Oracle eMail Server
Release 5.2:
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1715849: A JSP error occurs when opening folders containing
ISO encoded Russian messages.
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1643538: The database custom installation does not
install the Oracle interMedia option. This may cause Oracle eMail Server
installation to not enable interMedia related APIs in Oracle eMail Server.
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1567927: Replication of e-mail name service into an
LDAP server does not work in multi-domain sites.The RESULTING_MIGRATION_DOMAIN
parameter is not correctly read in by individual instances of the IOODSSYNC
process (synchronization from eMail Server to the LDAP server).
Note: ODSIOSYNC uses the RESULTING_MIGRATION_DOMAIN
parameter correctly so no special workaround is needed.
Workaround: Override the global RESULTING_MIGRATION_DOMAIN
parameter with an individual eMail Server person object parameter ldapusersuffix.
Accounts that use the eMail Server directory as the source to populate
an LDAP directory should have the person object parameter set for all individual
users before synchronizing.
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1338861: The imconfig file fails at the end
of the installation when the value of shared_pool_size is specified with
a suffix, such as 150M. Error message returned is sql error, check configuration
of node, failed internal representation. The sql statement that returns
the error is:
SELECT value
FROM v$parameter
WHERE UPPER(name) = SHARED_POOL_SIZE
Workaround: Change the init.ora value to be the full
integer representation, e.g 150M changes to 150000000.
The following bugs are known to exist in the Thin Client:
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1697132: The NT version of OID causes a problem when
updating data via JNDI. Since the WebMail client updates the user's preferences
data using JNDI, an error is displayed if WebMail is configured to run
against the NT version of OID. We recommend that a non-NT version of OID
be used.
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1485419: Accounts with more than 200 folders cannot
be opened.
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1532186: MSIE rich composer does not work on Macintosh
platforms.
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1403162: Netscape browser will sometimes only print
the first visible page of information and not the entire message view.
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1420020: If a message has its priority changed to
high by the Server Side Rules, the change in priority is not displayed
through the Thin Client.
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1540468: Rules whose name length is greater than 80
characters will cause a problem.
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1482630: The message search criteria uses 1000 bytes
as 1K while the search query uses 1024 bytes as 1K for data returned.
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1450070: Folder names with %, ', ", and space
cause problems and should not be used.
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1540746: Netscape Messenger client will not display
high priority messages as high priority if received from the Thin Client.
MS Outlook clients will display high priority correctly.
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1540700: Special characters (ASCII 160-255) in the
message body are not supported.
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1517102: If the session times out during message composition,
use the back button to return to the message compose screen and copy the
text of your message to your clipboard. Re-login, navigate to the compose
message tab, and paste the text into the window.
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1471472: Web Client is not NLS compliant. Folders
created with another e-mail client and the folder name containing NLS characters,
are not displayed.
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1574647: When using MSIE: Text disappears if it is
sent with a background color.
Known Third Party Client Limitations
The following are known limitations in third party clients.
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1691393: In Netscape 4.72 and 4.74 Solaris versions
of the client, when a message containing HTML text is forwarded as an attachment,
the text in the original message is either missing or corrupted and cannot
be read.
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1561765: Users sending messages using Lotus Notes
will find that a sent message is placed into the sent folder and the wastebasket.
Messaging Storage Parameters
During the Oracle eMail Server installation, there are 4
tablespaces created to accommodate e-Mail Server schema objects. The tablespace
names are OFC_MESG, OFC_MAIN, OFC_INDB and OFC_INDS. These tablespaces
are created with low extent values. All Oracle eMail Server schema tables
and indexes in these tablespaces inherit their storage parameters from
the tablespaces. There are several tables and indexes that grow rapidly
and will require their next extent value to be increased as a post-installation
task. Some of such these tables and indexes are listed below.
Note:
These tables are for internal use of e-Mail Server and must
not be accessed directly.
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Depending upon the size of your installation, select large
next extent values to keep the total number of extents less than 1000 in
a segment.
To change next extents on these tables and indexes do the
following:
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Run SQL*Plus as user OO_MAIL.
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Run the following commands for each table and index
listed above:
SQL> alter table table_name storage (next next_extent_value);
SQL> alter index index_name storage (next next_extent_value);
See
Also::
Oracle8i Administrator's Guide for more information
on storage parameters |
Doc Errata
The following changes apply to the Oracle eMail Server Administrator's
Guide:
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Chapter 10, "Managing Protocol Server Processes"
The "Configuring Support for IMAP4 Users to Change Passwords"
section is obsolete. To change passwords, see Chapter 3, "ESPrefs Self
Service Utility."
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Chapter 7, "Managing the SMTP Gateway in Sendmail"
In the "Registering the SMTP Gateway with Sendmail" section,
change:
Mofcmail,[tab]P=$ORACLE_HOME/bin/ofcuto, F=rlSsDCFMPpmn, S=10, R=20,[tab]A=ofcuto -
$ORACLE_HOME -f config_file - $g $a $b $f $x ( $u )
to
Mofcmail,[tab]P=$ORACLE_HOME/bin/ofcuto, F=rlSsDCFMPpmn, S=10, R=20, [tab]A=ofcuto -
$ORACLE_HOME $ORACLE_SID -f config_file - $g $a $b $f $x ( $u )
adding $ORACLE_SID to the string after the
second $ORACLE_HOME.
Additional References
For information not covered in these release notes, see the
following:
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Oracle eMail Server Administrator's Guide
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Oracle eMail Server Developer's Guide
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Oracle eMail Server Installation Guide for Windows
NT
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Oracle Support Services web site at http://www.oracle.com/support