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About This Guide
This manual explains how to provision the iPlanet Messaging Server with users, mailing lists, domains, and administrators using LDAP. This guide is expected to be used with the iPlanet Schema Reference Manual.Topics covered in this chapter include:
Who Should Read This Guide
Who Should Read This Guide
You should read this guide if you want to provision the iPlanet Messaging Server using LDAP. The audience for this guide consists of:
Messaging system architects who want to develop customized provisioning tools that interface between Messaging Server entries in the iPlanet LDAP directory and their existing source of users, groups, and domains information such as a company database or billing system.
Readers are expected to have a basic understanding of LDAP, the Netscape Directory Server, and email concepts.Site Administrators who want to know how to create domain, user, group, or administrator entries using LDAP.
What You Need to Know
This guide assumes that you have a general understanding of the following:
How This Guide is Organized
This guide contains the following chapters and appendix:
About This Guide (this chapter)
Chapter 1 "Provisioning Concepts and Technologies
Chapter 2 "Provisioning Domains
Chapter 3 "Provisioning Family Accounts
Chapter 5 "Provisioning Mailing Lists
Typographical Conventions
Command Line Prompts
Command line prompts (for example, % for a C-Shell, or $ for a Korn or Bourne shell) are not displayed in the examples. Depending on which operating system environment you are using, you will see a variety of different command line prompts. However, you should enter the command as it appears in the document unless specifically noted otherwise.
Where to Find Related Information
In addition to this guide, iPlanet Messaging Server comes with supplementary information for administrators as well as documentation for end users and developers. Use the following URL to see all the Messaging Server documentation:http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/messaging.html
Listed below are the additional documents that are available:
iPlanet Messaging Server Administrator's Guide
iPlanet Messaging Server Installation Guide
iPlanet Messaging Server Reference Manual
iPlanet Messaging Server Schema Reference
iPlanet Messaging Server Provisioning Guide
iPlanet Delegated Administrator for Messaging and Collaboration Installation and Administration Guide
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Last Updated February 13, 2002