About This Guide


This manual explains how to administer and configure iPlanet Messaging Server. iPlanet Messaging Server provides a powerful and flexible cross-platform solution to the email needs of enterprises and messaging hosts of all sizes using open Internet standards.

Topics covered in this chapter include:

• Who Should Read This Book

• What You Need to Know

• How This Book is Organized

• Document Conventions

• Where to Find Related Information

• Where to Find This Book Online

Who Should Read This Book

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You should read this book if you are responsible for administering and configuring iPlanet Messaging Server at your site.

What You Need to Know

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This book assumes that you are responsible for configuring and administering the Messaging Server software and that you have a general understanding of the following:

• The Internet and the World Wide Web

• iPlanet Administration Server

• iPlanet Directory Server and LDAP

• Netscape Console

How This Book is Organized

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This book contains the following chapters and appendix:

• About This Guide (this chapter)

• Chapter 1 "Introduction"

  This chapter provides a high-level overview of iPlanet Messaging Server.

• Chapter 2 "Configuring General Messaging Capabilities"

  This chapter describes the general Messaging Server tasks—such as starting and stopping services and configuring directory access.

• Chapter 3 "Managing Mail Users and Mailing Lists"

  This chapter describes how to use the Console interface to create and manage your users' mail accounts and mailing lists.

• Chapter 4 "Configuring POP, IMAP, and HTTP Services"

  This chapter describes how to configure your server to support one or more of these services by using the iPlanet Console or by using command-line utilities.

• Chapter 5 "Messaging Multiplexor"

  This chapter provides concepts about iPlanet Messaging Multiplexor, a specialized messaging server that acts as a single point of connection to multiple messaging servers.

• Chapter 6 "About MTA Services and Configuration"

  This chapter provides concepts about configuring MTA services for your server.

• Chapter 7 "Configuring Rewrite Rules"

  This chapter describes how to configure rewrite rules (for address rewriting) in the MTA configuration file, imta.cnf.

• Chapter 8 "Configuring Channel Definitions"

  This chapter describes how to configure channel definitions in the MTA configuration file, imta.cnf.

• Chapter 9 "Mail Filtering and Access Control"

  This chapter describes how to control access to mail services and how to filter mail using mapping tables and server-side rules (SSR).

• Chapter 10 "Managing the Message Store"

  This chapter describes the message store directory layout, how to configure message store partitions, set up quotas, set up aging policies, and so on.

• Chapter 11 "Configuring Security and Access Control"

  This chapter describes the security and access control features available with iPlanet Messaging Server.

• Chapter 12 "Logging and Log Analysis"

  This appendix describes how to view and configure service logs for the MTA and for the message store and message access services.

• Appendix A "SNMP Support"

  This chapter describes how to enable SNMP support for the Messaging Server. It also gives an overview of the type of information provided by SNMP.

• Glossary

  The glossary provides definitions for the terms and naming conventions used throughout the iPlanet Messaging Server documentation.

Document Conventions

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Monospaced Font

Monospaced font is used for any text that appears on the computer screen or text that you should type. It is also used for filenames, distinguished names, functions, and examples.

Bold Monospaced Font

Bold monospaced font is used to represent text within a code example that you should type. For example, you might see something like this:

./setup
Sun-Netscape Alliance
iPlanet Server Products Installation/Uninstallation
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Welcome to the iPlanet Server Products installation program. This program will install iPlanet Server Products and the iPlanet Console on your computer.

It is recommended that you have "root" privilege to install the software.

Tips for using the installation program:

- Press "Enter" to choose the default and go to the next screen
- Type "Control-B" to go back to the previous screen
- Type "Control-C" to cancel the installation program
- You can enter multiple items using commas to separate them.
For example: 1, 2, 3

Would you like to continue with installation? [Yes]:

In this example, ./setup is what you would type from the command line and the rest is what would appear as a result.

Italicized Font

Italicized font is used to represent text that you enter using information that is unique to your installation (for example, variables). It is used for server paths and names and account IDs.

For example, throughout this document you will see path references of the form:

server-root/msg-serverID/...

In these situations, server-root represents the directory path in which you install the server, and msg-serverID represents the server instance you use when you install it. For example, if you install your server in the directory /usr/iplanet/server5 and use the server instance tango, the actual path is:

/usr/iplanet/server5/msg-tango/

Square or Straight Brackets

Square (or straight) brackets [] are used to enclose optional parameters. For example, in this document you will see the usage for the setup command described as follows:

./setup [options] [argument]

It is possible to run the setup command by itself as follows to start the Messaging Server installation:

./setup

However, the presence of [options] and [arguments] indicate that there are additional optional parameters that may be added to the setup command. For example, you could use setup command with the -k option to keep the installation cache:

./setup -k

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

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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 some of the additional documents that are available:

• iPlanet Messaging Server Installation Guide

• iPlanet Messaging Server Reference Manual

• iPlanet Messaging Server Provisioning Guide

• iPlanet Messaging Server Schema Reference Manual

• iPlanet Delegated Administrator for Messaging Installation and Administration Guide

Where to Find This Book Online

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You can find the iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 Administrator's Guide online in PDF and HTML formats. To find this book, use this URL:

http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/messaging.html