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for a user name ABC@localdomain.com?

I would greatly appreciated, I've been trying to find out the hard way: searching thru var/opt/scalix/sx/s for a file contains a particular string, but still no idea.

is it on the database? I want to know everything regards user ABC

The internal message store is not that easy to read for humans. Scalix stores it in a way that makes it easy to read for its own services, and humans find it hard.

I would suggest you use omcontain if you want to see the mailbox contents.

Valerion wrote:The internal message store is not that easy to read for humans. Scalix stores it in a way that makes it easy to read for its own services, and humans find it hard.

I would suggest you use omcontain if you want to see the mailbox contents.

Is there a documentation on this at all? or it is a scalix secret?

viewtopic.php?t=2271 - look at my post in this thread.

Valerion wrote:http://www.scalix.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2271 - look at my post in this thread.

excellent! Thank you very much.
I now have a clue about my scalix email storage.
You seemed to know lot about scalix. I'd to ask you a question:
Do you think it's a good idea to use scalix as alternative for Exchange or other mail server?
I have been struggling trying to administrating my scalix server. Maybe I am new to scalix or maybe scalix is so confused to me. What is your opinion?

Thanks a lot.

That is a very contentious subject for a lot of people. Personally I would say yes, I would not have been a Scalix reseller if I did not believe in it. We also use it in our own company, with good results.

That said, I have had lots of clients tell me Exchange is better, due to a long list of reasons. Sometimes the list boils down to "I don't want to move away from Microsoft", but such a person is impossible to convince.

So, to answer your question, in certain respects Scalix is inferior (not all Outlook plugins work perfectly, no wireless support for ActiveSync, no immediate support for new versions of Outlook, etc). In other respects Scalix is superior, especially if you look at the third-party integration, stability, scriptability, open standards, etc.

At the end of the day it depends on what you want to get out of a mail system, and how much time and effort you are willing to put in. If you are willing to live with the issues in the MAPI client (which are being resolved), and willing to take the plunge into the Linux world, learn the UNIX mindset and way of doing things, then you will have a pleasant experience.

Thanks again Valerion,
Your reply is very informative and it will shed some light to others like me.

Have scalix ever failed you? Have somebody came up and ask you why he could not received email from somebody else or why his email got lost? What would you do in such situation? I am sure such issue will be happen in the long run and as an administrator, I needed to know if I have the tool to look at/ fix the issue.

Thanks

Yes, I have. In cases like that I would look at the email audit trails (omshowaud/omconfaud) and see if the message actually got delivered, or even received by the server. Also, mails that cannot be delivered for some reason end up in one of the error queues, and the logs tell you why it landed there.

The only times I have had really lost messages was in multi-server environments, when there's a misconfiguration between the servers. Usually easy to fix, but hard to spot when the client did all the configs himself.

excelent!

very helpful, thank you very much

Hi,

I would agree with Valerion's comments, having worked on both for many years (albeait Openmail and Samsung Contact...they are the same).

Far more robust than Exchange, and once set up you can really leave it to run itself. We had servers that were up continuously for over 18months, and were only taken down do perform OS upgrades.

Tracking messages is also much better in Scalix, and when you get to grips with unix/linux automating admin and housekeeping tasks is a piece of cake.