Preface

The Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Installation Guide describes how to plan, install, and configure the Sun^TM Internet Mail Server^TM (SIMS) 4.0 software on Solaris^TM SPARC^TM systems and Intel Pentium platforms.

Topics in this chapter include:

Who should use this book

Conventions

Related documentation

Shell prompts in command examples

Graphical user interface conventions

Notice

Who Should Use This Book

The intended audience for this installation guide are the system administrators who are moderately experienced with managing a network of Sun Workstations^TM, PCs, Apple computers, or IBM mainframes. Previous experience in planning, installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting an enterprise email system also helps to efficiently use this guide.

Conventions

TABLE P-1 describes the typographic conventions used in this guide.

TABLE  P-1   Typographic Conventions 

Convention	Meaning	Example
courier font	Names of commands, files, on-screen computer output	Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% test.doc.
italics	Book titles, new terms, words to be emphasized, variables that you replace with a real name or value	Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be root to do this. Type rm filename to delete a file.
boldface courier font	What you type	machine_name% su Password:
italics	Command-line placeholder

Related Documentation

SIMS 4.0 Documentation Set

The Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Installation Guide manual is a companion document to the following manuals in the SIMS documentation set:

Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Concepts Guide--Provides a conceptual understanding of the SIMS product. By understanding how SIMS works on a conceptual level, readers will more easily understand the administrative tasks described in the Sun Internet Mail Server Administrator Guide and Sun Internet Mail Server Reference Guide.

Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Provisioning Guides--Describes how to provision the SIMS LDAP directory with users, distribution lists, administrators, and domains by creating and importing LDIF records.

Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Administrator's Guide--Describes how to fine-tune the default configuration, and to maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot your mail server by using the SIMS Administration Console, a graphical user interface (GUI) tool.

Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Reference Manual--Provides detailed information on command-line options and configuration files that can be edited by the administrator, system architecture, supported standards, and location of software files.

Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Delegated Management Guide--Describes the SIMS Delegated Management Console and the tasks associated with the console. In particular, it describes how a delegated administrator for a hosted domain performs tasks on users and distribution lists.

Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Reference manual pages (man pages)--Describe command-line utilities and detailed information about the arguments and attributes relevant to each command.

Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Release Notes--Covers open issues and late-breaking installation, administration, and reference information that is not published in the product books.

Other Related Sun Documentation

Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Web site (located at http://www.sun.com/sims)--Offers up-to-date information on a variety of topics, including: online product documentation and late-breaking updates, product information, technical white papers, press coverage, and customer success stories.

Sun Directory Services 3.1 Administration Guide (http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2/coll.297.1/@Ab2CollToc?subject=sysadmin)--Describes the Sun Directory Services.

Netscape Directory Services documentation (http://home.netscape.com/eng/server/directory)--Describes the Netscape Directory Services.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

TABLE P-2 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	#

Graphical User Interface Conventions

This section describes the terminologies used to describe the installation graphical user interface for the installation or for the SIMS Administration Console. TABLE P-3 defines terms used in procedures associated with the installation or the SIMS 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 Start.
Double-click	Click a mouse button twice quickly without moving the pointer.	Double-click the SMTP channel name from the list of channels

Notice

To better illustrate the process being discussed, SIMS manuals contain examples of data that might be used in daily business operations. The examples might include names of individuals, companies, brands, and products. SIMS manuals use only fictitious names, and any similarity to the names of individuals, companies, brands, and products used by any business enterprise is purely coincidental.