Oracle email Server Release Notes Release 5.2 for Widows NT May 2001 Part No. A90426-01 These release otes accompay Oracle email Server Release 5.2 for Widows NT. They cotai the followig topics: What s New i this Release? Cliet Certificatio Kow Limitatios Kow Bugs Kow Third Party Cliet Limitatios Messagig Storage Parameters Doc Errata Additioal Refereces What s New i this Release? Release 5.2 of Oracle email Server for Widows NT ships with both ias versio 1.0.2.2, ad the Oracle 8.1.7 database server, ad is certified to work i cojuctio with Oracle Iteret Directory release 2.1.1. New features iclude: ES Thi Cliet Sample Applicatio -- a JSP-based dyamic HTML e-mail cliet Protocol Server Directory Lookup -- I large multiode istallatios, the SMTP Gateway-IN server will first lookup to which ode it should deliver a message. Previously, all messages from a Gateway-IN server would deliver to oly oe ode. Messages destied for other odes withi the istallatio were the moved. Copyright 2001 Oracle Corporatio. All Rights Reserved. Oracle is a registered trademark ad Oracle8 is a trademark or registered trademark of Oracle Corporatio. Other ames may be trademarks of their respective owers.
Moitor charts -- admiistrators ca ow moitor capacity ad usage of the e-mail system usig the Performace Maager applicatio withi Oracle s Eterprise Maager. Virus Cleaup Tool -- PL/SQL procedure that allows a admiistrator to defie the "figerprit" of e-mail virus suspects, match all messages iside the message store agaist that figerprit, ad set them aside for review ad appropriate actios by a admiistrator. Postma Sortig -- faster delivery of messages whe queues are log. Cliet Certificatio Oracle email Server supports stadard IMAP4/POP3 cliets. This product has bee certified ad tested agaist the followig cliets: Netscape 4.75 Outlook Express 5.5 Lotus Notes R5 MS Outlook 98 MS Outlook 2000 The Thi Cliet has bee certified ad tested agaist the followig cliets: Netscape 4.75 MS Iteret Explorer 5.0+ Kow Limitatios The followig are kow limitatios for Oracle email Server Release 5.2: If a productio system is upgraded from 4.3, 4.2, or ay other versio prior to 5.0, the system ca cotai udelivered messages that the ew 5.2 server o loger processes. This is because the ew versio of the server uses a more efficiet method of mail delivery that is ot compatible with the old algorithm. As a solutio, cofigure a postma istace with the NOTIFICATION parameter set to value 1. Ru the postma istace for oe day to clear up all old udelivered messages. This istace ca be deregistered sice the NOTIFICATION parameter is o loger used i Oracle email Server 5.2. Do ot use spaces i object ames. Use a uderscore istead of the space. This does ot apply for descriptios or address lies. For example, use Joh_ Smith istead of Joh Smith. 2
If the timeout for the IMAP messagig sessio is shorter tha the timeout for the Web Cliet JSP sessio, a exceptio message may appear. Re-logi will correct the problem. For the Moitor Charts, whe email server is deistalled ad istalled, the NT deistall of the email server Data Gatherer cartridge does ot update the svppcart.dat file by removig the existig lie for the MS5 cartridge (i.e MS5 ALL libvpxmx5 vpxms5.svppcart.dat) i ORACLE_HOME\odg directory. Because of this duplicate etry i svppcart.dat file, Data gatherer may ot be started from Services. Remove the duplicate etry ad it should work. Kow Bugs The followig bugs are kow to exist i Oracle email Server Release 5.2: 1715849: A JSP error occurs whe opeig folders cotaiig ISO ecoded Russia messages. 1643538: The database custom istallatio does ot istall the Oracle itermedia optio. This may cause Oracle email Server istallatio to ot eable itermedia related APIs i Oracle email Server. 1567927: Replicatio of e-mail ame service ito a LDAP server does ot work i multi-domai sites.the RESULTING_MIGRATION_DOMAIN parameter is ot correctly read i by idividual istaces of the IOODSSYNC process (sychroizatio from email Server to the LDAP server). Note: ODSIOSYNC uses the RESULTING_MIGRATION_DOMAIN parameter correctly so o special workaroud is eeded. Workaroud: Override the global RESULTING_MIGRATION_DOMAIN parameter with a idividual email Server perso object parameter ldapusersuffix. Accouts that use the email Server directory as the source to populate a LDAP directory should have the perso object parameter set for all idividual users before sychroizig. 1338861: The imcofig file fails at the ed of the istallatio whe the value of shared_pool_size is specified with a suffix, such as 150M. Error message retured is sql error, check cofiguratio of ode, failed iteral represetatio. The sql statemet that returs the error is: SELECT value FROM v$parameter WHERE UPPER(ame) = SHARED_POOL_SIZE Workaroud: Chage the iit.ora value to be the full iteger represetatio, e.g 150M chages to 150000000. The followig bugs are kow to exist i the Thi Cliet: 3
1697132: The NT versio of OID causes a problem whe updatig data via JNDI. Sice the WebMail cliet updates the user s prefereces data usig JNDI, a error is displayed if WebMail is cofigured to ru agaist the NT versio of OID. We recommed that a o-nt versio of OID be used. 1485419: Accouts with more tha 200 folders caot be opeed. 1532186: MSIE rich composer does ot work o Macitosh platforms. 1403162: Netscape browser will sometimes oly prit the first visible page of iformatio ad ot the etire message view. 1420020: If a message has its priority chaged to high by the Server Side Rules, the chage i priority is ot displayed through the Thi Cliet. 1540468: Rules whose ame legth is greater tha 80 characters will cause a problem. 1482630: The message search criteria uses 1000 bytes as 1K while the search query uses 1024 bytes as 1K for data retured. 1450070: Folder ames with %,, ", ad space cause problems ad should ot be used. 1540746: Netscape Messeger cliet will ot display high priority messages as high priority if received from the Thi Cliet. MS Outlook cliets will display high priority correctly. 1540700: Special characters (ASCII 160-255) i the message body are ot supported. 1517102: If the sessio times out durig message compositio, use the back butto to retur to the message compose scree ad copy the text of your message to your clipboard. Re-logi, avigate to the compose message tab, ad paste the text ito the widow. 1471472: Web Cliet is ot NLS compliat. Folders created with aother e-mail cliet ad the folder ame cotaiig NLS characters, are ot displayed. 1574647: Whe usig MSIE: Text disappears if it is set with a backgroud color. Kow Third Party Cliet Limitatios The followig are kow limitatios i third party cliets. 1691393: I Netscape 4.72 ad 4.74 Solaris versios of the cliet, whe a message cotaiig HTML text is forwarded as a attachmet, the text i the origial message is either missig or corrupted ad caot be read. 1561765: Users sedig messages usig Lotus Notes will fid that a set message is placed ito the set folder ad the wastebasket. 4
Messagig Storage Parameters Durig the Oracle email Server istallatio, there are 4 tablespaces created to accommodate e-mail Server schema objects. The tablespace ames are OFC_MESG, OFC_MAIN, OFC_INDB ad OFC_INDS. These tablespaces are created with low extet values. All Oracle email Server schema tables ad idexes i these tablespaces iherit their storage parameters from the tablespaces. There are several tables ad idexes that grow rapidly ad will require their ext extet value to be icreased as a post-istallatio task. Some of such these tables ad idexes are listed below. Note: These tables are for iteral use of Oracle email Server ad must ot be accessed directly. Table OM_BODY OM_DATA OM_DATAE OM_SHELL OM_HEADER OM_EXT_HEADER OM_RECIPIENT OM_INSTANCE OM_FOLDER OM_FLDR_INSTANCE OM_DELAY Associated Idexes OM_BODY_KEY OM_DATA_KEY OM_DATAE_KEY OM_SHELL_KEY OM_GLB_KEY OM_HDR_KEY OM_INCL_KEY OM_EXT_KEY OM_EXT_PRUNE_KEY OM_RECIP_KEY OM_RECIP_NR_KEY OM_INSTP_KEY OM_MSGUID_KEY OM_QUEUE_KEY OM_INST_RET_KEY OM_FLDR_KEY OM_FLDR_DK_KEY OM_FLDR_DC_KEY OM_FLDR_NAME_KEY OM_FLDR_INST_KEY OM_FI_PARENT_KEY OM_DELAY_KEY 5
Depedig upo the size of your istallatio, select large ext extet values to keep the total umber of extets less tha 1000 i a segmet. To chage ext extets o these tables ad idexes do the followig: 1. Ru SQL*Plus as user OO_MAIL. 2. Ru the followig commads for each table ad idex listed above: SQL> alter table table_ame storage (ext ext_extet_value); SQL> alter idex idex_ame storage (ext ext_extet_value); Doc Errata The followig chages apply to the Oracle email Server Admiistrator s Guide: See Also: Oracle8i Admiistrator s Guide for more iformatio o storage parameters Chapter 10, "Maagig Protocol Server Processes" The "Cofigurig Support for IMAP4 Users to Chage Passwords" sectio is obsolete. To chage passwords, see Chapter 3, "ESPrefs Self Service Utility." Chapter 7, "Maagig the SMTP Gateway i Sedmail" I the "Registerig the SMTP Gateway with Sedmail" sectio, chage: Mofcmail,[tab]P=$ORACLE_HOME/bi/ofcuto, F=rlSsDCFMPpm, S=10, R=20,[tab]A=ofcuto - $ORACLE_HOME -f cofig_file - $g $a $b $f $x ( $u ) to Mofcmail,[tab]P=$ORACLE_HOME/bi/ofcuto, F=rlSsDCFMPpm, S=10, R=20, [tab]a=ofcuto - $ORACLE_HOME $ORACLE_SID -f cofig_file - $g $a $b $f $x ( $u ) addig $ORACLE_SID to the strig after the secod $ORACLE_HOME. Additioal Refereces For iformatio ot covered i these release otes, see the followig: Oracle email Server Admiistrator s Guide Oracle email Server Developer s Guide Oracle email Server Istallatio Guide for Widows NT Oracle Support Services web site at http://www.oracle.com/support 6