•  of the backup directory in the To: field provided, then click on the OK button. (suggested name and location is anotherhost\temp\Post.Office3.0exec)

1. Move the Post.Office.dll out of the system directory (WINNT/system32) and rename it (suggested name: 30postoffice.save).
2. Restore your saved Post.Office executables (the prior version).

• Locate and select your backup copy of the prior Post.Office executables. (suggested name and location was anotherhost\temp\Post.Officeversion#exec)
• From the File menu choose the Move command.
• Type the new name and location in the To: field provided, then click on the OK button. (Default name and location is \win32app\Post.Office)
• Confirm that you wish to replace the existing directory.

1. Back up the current Post.Office 3.0 configuration information.

• Locate and select the Post.Office directory. (the default location is \winnt35\system32\spool\Post.Office)
• From the File menu choose the Copy command.
• Type the new name and location in the To: field provided, then click on the OK button. (suggested name and location is anotherhost\temp\Post.Office3.0config)

1. Back up the Post.Office 3.0 mailboxes you have now.

• Locate and select the Post.Office mailbox directory. (the default location is \winnt35\system32\spool\Post.Office\mailbox)
• From the File menu choose the Copy command.
• Type the new name and location in the To: field provided, then click on the OK button. (suggested name and location is anotherhost\temp\Post.Office3.0mailbox)

1. We have written a perl script to help convert your mailbox directories from the new 3.0 structure to the old structure. (Note: You can download perl from the ftp site ntperl.hip.com.) Download from our ftp site a utility called unbucket.pl and run it using the following instructions:

• Type: ftp ftp.software.com
• Log in as anonymous.
• Use your e-mail address as the password.
• Change directory to the location of the utility by typing cd ftp\postoffice\archive\\nt\\utilities\
• Download the executables in binary mode by typing: bin get unbucket.pl
• Move the unbucket.pl utility to your mailbox directory.
• Run the command by typing the following: cd winnt\system32\spool\post.office\mailbox perl unbucket.pl
• The bucketed mailboxes will be copied back up to the unbucketed structure.

1. If you are restoring to Post.Office version 2.0, you will need to locate the 2.0 version of our poperms utility on our ftp site (ftp ftp.software.com). It can be found by following the path through the 2.0 version/operating system/platform/utilities directories. Run the poperms tool to set permissions back to the default settings. Return to the DOS command line (within the Post.Office executables directory) and type: poperms -a -u
2. If you are restoring to Post.Office version 1.9.3, you will need to manually verify that your Registry and file system permissions are correct. Please refer to the section of this FAQ titled Permissions and Directory Locations which identifies the proper permission settings for Post.Office v1.9.3.
3. Startup the Post.Office Service:
4. Panel -> Services -> Post.Office MTA -> Stop

1.9.3, 2.0, 3.0 Only – UNIX Only – I was able to upgrade successfully to version 3.0 but I want to revert back to my previous version. How can I revert back to the prior version of Post.Office using my last standard, full system backup files from that version?