Complete Contents
About This Guide
Chapter 1 Getting Started with Netscape Messaging Server
Chapter 2 Configuring POP, IMAP, and HTTP Services
Chapter 3 Configuring SMTP Services
Chapter 4 Managing Mail Users and Mailing Lists
Chapter 5 Managing the Message Store
Chapter 6 Security and Access Control
Chapter 7 Working with SMTP Plugins
Chapter 8 Filtering Unsolicited Bulk Email
Chapter 9 Message Routing
Chapter 10 Monitoring and Maintaining Your Server
Chapter 11 Logging and Log Analysis
Chapter 12 Program Delivery
Chapter 13 Messaging Multiplexor
Appendix A Command Line Utilities
Appendix B sendmail Migration and Compatibility
Appendix C SNMP MIB
Glossary
Index
Messaging Server Administrator's Guide: About This Guide
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About This Guide

The Netscape Messaging Server Administrator's Guide explains how to get started with, configure, and administer Netscape Messaging Server 4.1.

This preface contains the following sections:


What You Need to Know
The guide assumes that you are a server administrator with a general understanding of the following:
What's in This Guide
The Netscape Messaging Server Administrator's Guide covers the information you need to understand, set up, and administer all aspects of Netscape Messaging Server. Check the following table for a quick summary of what each chapter covers.
If you want to do this:
See this chapter:
Learn more about the product and how to get started with all aspects of using it
 Chapter 1, Getting Started with Netscape Messaging Server
Configure your server to support POP, IMAP, and HTTP services
 Chapter 2, Configuring POP, IMAP, and HTTP Services
Configure your server's SMTP services
 Chapter 3, Configuring SMTP Services
Learn about mail accounts and mailing lists and how to create and manage them
 Chapter 4, Managing Mail Users and Mailing Lists
Learn about the message store and how to set up aging policies, quota policies, configure partitions, and generally manage the message store
 Chapter 5, Managing the Message Store
Learn about server security in general and about how to configure security features of the server
 Chapter 6, Security and Access Control
Install and configure SMTP plug-ins (dynamic libraries that extend the capabilities of Messaging Server)
 Chapter 7, Working with SMTP Plug-Ins
Screen out unsolicited email
 Chapter 8, Filtering Unsolicited Bulk Email
Learn about how Messaging Server receives and delivers messages
 Chapter 9, Message Routing
Find out which monitoring and maintenance tasks you need to do and which are handled automatically
 Chapter 10, Monitoring and Maintaining Your Server
Customize, manage, and view log files to help you monitor server operation
 Chapter 11, Logging and Log Analysis
Set up Messaging Server to deliver incoming messages to external programs
 Chapter 12, Program Delivery
Create a single point of connection to multiple Messaging Servers
 Chapter 13, Messaging Multiplexor
Identify utilities to help you with Messaging Server installation, migration, starting, stopping, administration, message management, problem recovery, monitoring, and reporting
 Appendix A, Command-line Utilities
Move user mail accounts and mail messages from a Unix sendmail system to Messaging Server
 Appendix B, sendmail Migration and Compatibility
Learn about how the Netscape Management Information Base (MIB) for Messaging Server stores the server information that administrators manage through the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Appendix C, SNMP MIB
Look up terms you run across in using Messaging Server or its documentation
 Glossary
Find information in the guide
 Index


Document Conventions
This guide uses the following conventions:
Where to Find This Guide Online
You can find the Netscape Messaging Server Administrator's Guide online in PDF and HTML formats. To find these files, use this URL:

 
http://home.netscape.com/eng/server/messaging/4.1
The information in this guide is also part of the help system for Messaging Server. See "How to Use Online Help."


How to Use Online Help
When you are using Netscape Messaging Server, you can click Help in any Messaging Server window to open a web browser window showing explanations of all of the window's user interface parts. You can then navigate to other parts of the help document, many of which are the same as those in the printed Netscape Messaging Server Administrator's Guide.

To move to the top of whatever major part of online help you're in and gain access to navigational buttons and to a drop-down Contents list, Index, and "Bookshelf" of resources, click the arrow button to the left of a heading. (If you don't see an arrow button, scroll until you do.)

 Note: To view the full drop-down Contents list, you might need to make your browser window larger.

 Because you view help in a browser window, you can use the navigational tools of your browser as well as the navigational tools within help. For example, you can use browser commands to print, find information, and copy and paste.


Where to Find Related Information
In addition to this guide, Messaging Server 4.1 comes with supplementary information for administrators as well as documentation for end users and developers. Use the following URL to see all the Messaging documentation:

 http://home.netscape.com/eng/server/messaging/4.1

 These are the additional documents that are available:

 You can view documentation of schema for all Netscape products at this site:

 
http://home.netscape.com/eng/server/directory/schema
 

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