Preface

This guide describes how to fine-tune your configuration, in order to maintain, monitor, troubleshoot, and seamlessly integrate your Microsoft Mail connectivity services and personal computers (PCs). You should have already installed the mail server software and loaded the users and distribution lists from your existing email system, as applicable, using the Sun Internet Mail Server 3.5 Advanced Installation Guide.
The Sun Internet Mail Server 3.5 Administrator's Guide and the Sun Internet Mail Server 3.5 Reference Manual provide information for the commands and configuration files implemented for the SIMS 3.5 mail server.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is intended for the following two audiences:

Highly technical, experienced Solaris^TM system administrators who manage a network comprised of Sun Workstations^TM, PCs, Macintoshes, or IBM mainframes that share resources. This system administrator has previous experience planning, installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting an enterprise email system. In addition, this system administrator should be familiar with configuring mail channels on PCs and PC mail gateways.

Moderately technical system administrators with some Solaris experience who manage a network comprised of Sun workstations, PCs, and Macintoshes that share resources. This system administrator does not have previous experience planning, installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting an email system.

Before You Read This Book

Before reading and performing the tasks described in this book, you should have installed the mail server software and loaded the users and distribution lists from your existing email system, if applicable, per information provided in the Sun Internet Mail Server 3.5 Advanced Installation Guide. You have probably used the Sun Internet Mail Server 3.5 Administrator's Guide to set up your system and should be familiar with the SIMS 3.5 Graphical User Interface (GUI) described in that book.
Many concepts, such as using the SIMS 3.5 product, configuring it, and tracking log queues are described in detail in the Sun Internet Mail Server 3.5 Reference Manual.

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1, "Sun Messaging Connectivity Services Overview" provides relevant conceptual information about the SIMS 3.5 gateway interface components and features. This information will help you understand how SIMS and your email system work together to seamlessly manage one or more email systems on a variety of PCs.
Chapter 2, "Installing Sun Messaging Connectivity Services Client Software" provides information about installing the client software for Microsoft Mail.
Chapter 3, "Managing Channels" provides information about how channels are created and configured to perform the message format conversions and coordinate the flow of messages between the router (server) and each channel's respective email system (client).
Chapter 4, "Monitoring Channels" describes how you can monitor email messages and message queues.

Related Information

The Sun Messaging Connectivity Services is a companion document to the following manuals in the SIMS documentation set:

Sun Internet Mail Server 3.5 Advanced Installation Guide - Describes the planning and installation procedures for the Sun Internet Mail Server (SIMS) 3.5 software on Solaris SPARC and Intel-based x86 systems. In particular, it describes the installation of the software using the Graphical User Interface (GUI).

Sun Internet Mail Server 3.5 Administrator's Guide - Describes how to fine-tune the default configuration, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot your mail server using the Administration Console, a GUI.

Sun Internet Mail Server 3.5 Reference Manual - Provides detailed information on command line options, administrator-editable configuration files, system architecture, supported standards, and location of software files.

Reference manual pages (man pages) - Describe command-line utilities and detailed information about the arguments and attributes relevant to each command.

For additional up-to-date product information, refer to the SIMS 3.5 web site. The URL is http://www.sun.com/sims. At this location, you can find information related to the following:

Press releases and data sheets about Sun Internet Mail products

Technical white papers

Product documentation

Product demos

Product Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for installation and usage

Links to other sites with IMAP4 clients

Links to third party client software

Topics Not Covered

Sun Messaging Connectivity Services does not cover the following topics:

Solaris administration topics

What Typographic Changes Mean

The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.TABLE P-1 Typographic Conventions Typeface or Symbol Meaning Example AaBbCc123 The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output Edit your.login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% You have mail. AaBbCc123 What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output machine_name% su Password: AaBbCc123 Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value To delete a file, type rm filename. AaBbCc123 Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be root to do this.

**TABLE P-1** Typographic Conventions
Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Example
`AaBbCc123`	The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output	Edit your`.login` file. Use `ls -a` to list all files. `machine_name% You have mail.`
`AaBbCc123`	What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output	`machine_name%` `su` `Password:`
AaBbCc123	Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value	To delete a file, type `rm` filename.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be root to do this.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.TABLE P-2 Shell Prompts Shell Prompt C shell prompt machine_name% C shell superuser prompt machine_name# Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt $ Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt #

**TABLE P-2** Shell Prompts
Shell	Prompt
C shell prompt	`machine_name%`
C shell superuser prompt	`machine_name#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt	`$`
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt	`#`

Graphical User Interface Conventions

This section describes terminology and other conventions used when discussing the Administration Console, a graphical user interface.

Terminology

The following table defines terms used in procedures associated with the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of the Administration Console.

TABLE P-3 Graphical User Interface Terminology
Term
Explanation
Example

Check box

A yes/no or on/off control. A square box that appears highlighted and pushed in when on or pushed out when off. Usually, all check boxes in a group can be selected.

To enable the logging of each message, click the check box.

Radio button

A yes/no or on/off control. A diamond or circle that appears highlighted and pushed in when on or pushed out when off. Usually, only one radio button in a group can be selected.

You can enable the channel to ignore nonstandard encoding headers by clicking the appropriate radio button.

Click

Press and release a mouse button without moving the pointer.

Click the radio button.

Double-click

Click a mouse button twice quickly without moving the pointer.

Double-click the SMTP channel name from the list of channels to bring up the SMTP property book.

Term	Explanation	Example
Check box	A yes/no or on/off control. A square box that appears highlighted and pushed in when on or pushed out when off. Usually, all check boxes in a group can be selected.	To enable the logging of each message, click the check box.
Radio button	A yes/no or on/off control. A diamond or circle that appears highlighted and pushed in when on or pushed out when off. Usually, only one radio button in a group can be selected.	You can enable the channel to ignore nonstandard encoding headers by clicking the appropriate radio button.
Click	Press and release a mouse button without moving the pointer.	Click the radio button.
Double-click	Click a mouse button twice quickly without moving the pointer.	Double-click the SMTP channel name from the list of channels to bring up the SMTP property book.