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 Guide is Organized

• Typographical Conventions

• Where to Find Related Information

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 guide assumes that you have a general understanding of the following:

• The Internet and the World Wide Web

• iPlanet Administration Server

• Netscape Directory Server and LDAP

• Email and email concepts

• Netscape Console

How This Guide 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 "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 4 "Configuring and Administering Multiplexor Services"

  This chapter provides concepts about iPlanet Messaging Multiplexor and iPlanet Messenger Express Multiplexor, specialized messaging servers that act as single points of connection to multiple messaging servers.

• Chapter 5 "MTA Concepts"

  This chapter describes MTA concepts.

• Chapter 6 "About MTA Services and Configuration"

  This chapter provides general information about configuring MTA services on 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 "Using Pre-defined Channels"

  This chapter describes how to use pre-defined MTA channel definitions such as the hold channel and conversion channel.

• Chapter 10 "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 11 "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 12 "Configuring Security and Access Control"

  Describes the security and access control features available with iPlanet Messaging Server.

• Chapter 13 "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.

• Chapter 14 "Troubleshooting the MTA"

  This chapter describes common tools, methods, and procedures for troubleshooting the Message Transfer Agent (MTA).

• Chapter 15 "Monitoring the iPlanet Messaging Server"

  This chapter describes iPlanet Message Server monitoring.

• Appendix A "SNMP Support"

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

• Appendix B "MTA Direct LDAP Operation"

  This appendix describes how direct LDAP operation for the MTA works.

• Appendix C "Administering Event Notification Service in iPlanet Messaging Server"

  This appendix describes what you need to do to enable and administer iPlanet Event Notification Service in iPlanet Messaging Server.

• Appendix D "Managing Mail Users and Mailing Lists"

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

• Glossary

  The glossary provides definitions for the terms and naming conventions.

Typographical Conventions

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Table 1    Typographical Conventions

Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Example
AaBbCc123	The names of commands, files, code, directories, hostnames, distinguished names, on-screen computer output.	Edit your msg.conf file. Use ls -a to list all files. Error: illegal port #
AaBbCc123	User entered text.	% cd madonna
the_variable	Command-line place holder or variable. Replace with a real name or value.	# Instance_Root/start-msg
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized.	iPlanet Messaging Server Provisioning Guide

Command Line Prompts

Command line prompts (example: % for a C-Shell, or $ for a Korn shell) are generally not displayed in examples. Different operating systems use different prompts. Enter the command as it appears in the document regardless of prompt.

Where to Find Related Information

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iPlanet Messaging Server comes with the following supplementary information:

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