About the WebSTAR Mail Server

The WebSTAR Mail server plug-in is installed automatically when you install WebSTAR Server Suite 4.

WebSTAR Mail Files

WebSTAR will only run the mail server if the plug-in file WebSTAR Mail is in the Plug-Ins folder when the server application starts up.

WebSTAR Mail Data Files

The WebSTAR Mail Data folder stores the mail server information files and folders:

WebSTAR Mail Users file stores all the user and account information, including pending client messages and IMAP messages stored on the server. If you remove the file from this folder, the server will not be able to find it and will create a new empty file and start to fill it in. This file is extremely important and you should back it up frequently (see Backing Up and Restoring Email Files ).

Having a unified file for storage of mail user data makes it easy to perform backups, audits, integrity checking, and automated recovery of mail user data in case of problems.

WebSTAR Mail Settings file is for emergency repairs. See Mail Server Troubleshooting for solutions to mail server file problems.
Attachments folder stores incoming attachments and IMAP enclosure files saved on the server. These files will have code names like e0EE6B29B .
WebSTAR Mail Users Backup.1 and .2 files are not installed, but they are created automatically by the server.
Transaction Log files store all of the changes made to a backup snapshot of the user/message database, used to restore changes if there are any problems.

To keep this information safe, see Backing Up and Restoring Email Files .

SMTP Outgoing Index and SMTP Outgoing Data files store outgoing messages until the receiving SMTP servers can be located and accepts those messages. Outgoing messages are displayed in the Mail monitor window: see Mail Monitor & Queue Window for details.
Temporary Mail file is used internally to handle messages which overflow the Mail disk cache.