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Preface

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1 Introduction

Oracle Email Overview

Oracle Email Features

Open Standards-Based Messaging

Extended Server Side Filters

Integration With Other Applications

Enhanced Administration Features

2 Provisioning

Managing Oracle Email

Managing Domains

Domain Attributes

Creating Domains

Modifying Domain Settings

Managing Users

E-mail User Attributes

Adding E-mail Users

Modifying E-mail User Attributes

Setting Default New User Attributes

Removing E-mail Users

Managing Aliases

Alias Attributes

Creating a New Alias

Editing Alias Properties

Deleting Aliases

3 Servers and Processes

Modifying Mail Store Connection Parameters

Mail Store Parameters

Server Side Filters

Managing Services and Processes

Starting, Stopping, or Reinitializing All Server Processes

Creating a Server Instance

Creating a Server Instance with the Same Parameter Values as an Existing Server Instance

Deleting a Server Instance

Starting a Server Instance

Stopping a Server Instance

Reinitializing a Server Instance

Modifying Server Default Parameters

Modifying Parameters for a Specific Service Process

IMAP4 and POP3 Processes

Process Architecture

IMAP and POP Server Parameters

Managing IMAP and Pop Servers

SMTP Process

Various Configurations

Single Node Setup

Single Mail Store Setup

Multiple Mail Store Setup

SMTP Inbound Server Architecture

SMTP Outbound Server Architecture

Rewriting Rules

Components of Rewriting Rules

Rule Execution Guidelines

Oracle Email Rewriting Rules

Designing an Oracle Email Address Rewriting Rule

Examples of Rewriting Rules

SMTP Server Parameters

Managing SMTP Servers

Housekeeping Process

Verifying Oracle Text Installation

Creating a Housekeeper Process to Index Text

Enabling Text Indexing for a User

Improving Performance through Optimized Text Index

Tertiary Storage

Moving the ESTERSTORE Tablespace

Enabling Tertiary Storage

Housekeeping Parameters

Managing Housekeeping

List Server Process

NNTP Server Process

4 Oracle Webmail

Tool Kit Default Settings

Oracle Webmail Client Properties

Oracle Webmail LDAP Properties

Searching Multiple Directories

Oracle Webmail Client Log Files Location

5 Security

Email System Component Security

Identity Management Infrastructure

Network Security

Non-Technical Considerations

SSL

Obtaining a SSL Server Certificate

Configuring the Network Listener for SSL

Manually Setting Wallet Location and Client Authentication

Configuring Protocol Servers for SSL

Configuring SSL from Protocol Servers and Oracle Internet Directory

Configuring SSL for Oracle Webmail

Third Party Anti-Spam Filters

Setting Up Third Party Anti-Spam Filters

Native Anti-Spam for SMTP

Native Anti-Spam for NNTP

Native Anti-spam Parameters for NNTP and SMTP

Adding Anti-spamming to Servers

External Filter Process

Adding an External Filter Process

External C Callouts

Adding an External C Callout Procedure

Applying an Existing Anti-virus Policy to a Service Process

Anti-Virus with Symantec

Configuring Oracle Email MTA with Symantec Anti-Virus

Virus Scrubber

Configuring the Virus Scrubber Through Oracle Webmail

Virus Scanning and Removal through PL/SQL Scripts

6 Backing Up and Recovering Oracle Email

Overview of Oracle Email Backup and Recovery

Backing Up and Recovering the Database

Backing Up and Restoring User Data with oesbkp

Recovering Messages with LogMiner

Setting Up LogMiner to Recover Mail

Enabling Supplemental Logging

Configuring the Housekeeping Server

Creating the LogMiner Data Dictionary File

Creating the Redo List File

Using LogMiner to Recover Mail

lmmr_setup Package

mail_recovery Package

Recovering Messages with Flashback Query

Using Flashback Query to Recover Messages

MAIL_RECOVERY_FQ Package

7 Charting and Monitoring

Using OESMON

Using OESCHART

Setting the Statistics Collection Interval

Cleaning Up Mail Statistics

Mail Statistics Schema

es_perf_process Table

es_perf_metric Table

es_perf_timestamp Table

es_perf_sample Table

es_perf_data View

Creating Graphs

Displaying Graphs in Oracle Enterprise Manager

8 Command-line Interface

Getting Usage Information

OESCTL Configuration Operations

Getting the List of Available Targets

Getting the List of Process Instances for a Target

Creating a Process Instance

Deleting a Process Instance

OESCTL Control Operations

Starting and Stopping a Target

Starting and Stopping an Instance

Refreshing Targets and Instances

Creating Users with Optional Attributes

Creating a User Through Command-line

Specifying a Real Domain for Users

OESDL

Adding Users to a List

Adding Users to a New List

Removing Users from a Distribution List

OESRL

Creating User Rules Using Property File Input

Creating User Rules Using XML File Input

Retrieving Rules

Changing Passwords

Deleting Domains

OESNG

Creating a Simple Public Newsgroup

Creating a Public Moderated Newsgroup

Deleting a Public Newsgroup

Creating a Public Newsgroup

OESPR

Creating a Simple Peer

Creating a Peer Using Articles from Specific Newgroups

Deleting a Peer

9 Parameters and Log Files

Server Parameters

Debug Level Parameters

Log File Locations

10 Error Messages

IMAP and POP

SMTP

Housekeeping

List Server

NNTP

Oracle Webmail

Virus Scrubber

A Shared Folders

Overview of Shared Folders

Understanding Access Control Lists for Shared Folders

Managing Public Folders

B Alias and Distribution List Look Up

Enabling Alias Lookup From Standard Clients

Enabling Distribution List Lookup From Standard Clients

Distribution List Synchronization Utility

Synchronizing One or Multiple Distribution Lists

Synchronizing All Distribution Lists from a Private E-mail Namespace

C Oracle Email Access Control Lists

Mail Server Access Control Lists

Oracle Internet Directory Group Membership for EmailAdminsGroup

Oracle Email Privilege Groups

D Co-existence

Oracle Email Co-existence Features

Aliases and Rewriting Rules

Troubleshooting

E Server Statistics

POP Statistics

IMAP Statistics

SMTP In Statistics

SMTP Out Statistics

Housekeeping Statistics

List Server Statistics

NNTP In Statistics

NNTP Out Statistics

Virus Scrubber

F Oracle Email Supported RFCs

Index