Hello All,

 

I am running SmarterMail 9.x on a Windows 2008 Server. I have been running this for a few years and all has been fine until last week. When I try and login to SmarterMail using Admin user name and password it keep telling me user name or password incorrect. So then I click on Forgot Password to try and retrieve my login info. When I put my email address and the captcha info it tells me "Your Account is Locked or there is no backup address on file. Please contact your system administrator to regain access." Only problem is I am the system admin. 

 

I tried to reset my Admin username and password back to default using the following SM document which I can't post the hyper link they wont allow me but here is the help document.

 

On occasion, you may need to reset the system administrator password. This is useful in the event that the primary administrator has lost the password.

Applies to SmarterMail 7.x - 14.x

Follow these steps to reset the primary administrator login and password:

1. Stop the SmarterMail service.
2. Navigate to the SmarterMail directory. By default, this will be C:\Program Files\SmarterTools\SmarterMail.
3. Open the Service subdirectory.
4. Make a backup copy of the file MailConfig.xml.
5. Open the MailConfig.xml file in Notepad.
6. Find the section that looks like this:

   <!-- ** System Admin *************************** -->
   <!-- ** To reset admin password, delete these items ** -->
   <!-- ** and then restart the SmarterMail Service. ** -->
   <!-- ***************************************** -->
   <sysadminusername> ... < /sysadminusername>
   <sysadminpassword> ... < /sysadminpassword>
   <!-- ***************************************** -->
   

7. Delete those lines and save the file.
8. Start the SmarterMail service.

You should now be able to log in to SmarterMail using the default username and password:

• Email: admin
• Password: admin

 

I did exactly what it said stop all services including IIS, deleted my login info in the mailconfig the two lines then saved and restarted services. Try to login as admin and admin and it rejects me.

 

Can someone PLEASE help me. I have active clients on this server and need to get in. I don't have a backup email account but shouldn't matter because I gave it my active email address and it should have resent me a reset email. Which mail is working fine but I can't access anything!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Please help,

 

Frank G.