SunTM Internet Mail ServerTM 4.0 (SIMS 4.0) is an enterprise-wide, open standards based, scalable electronic message handling system. The Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Reference Manual provides reference information about the Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 product.
Use this guide as a companion to the Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Administrator's Guide. The administrator's guide focuses on how to configure, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 using the Administration Console. The Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Reference Manual provides information about command-line utilities and configuration files. This information enables you to configure, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0.
This book is intended for two audiences:
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Highly technical network administrators who are experienced in working with SolarisTM systems and who manage a network comprised of SunTM workstations, personal computers (PCs), Macintoshes, or IBM mainframes that share resources. This network administrator has previous experience planning, installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting an enterprise email system. |
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Moderately technical network administrators with some Solaris experience who manage a network that includes Sun workstations, PCs, and Macintoshes that share resources. This network administrator may not have previous experience planning, installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting an email system. |
Chapter 1, "Commands Reference," is a reference to the server-side utilities used to configure and administer the Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 product. The commands are listed by component. This chapter describes what each command does.
Chapter 2, "IMTA Configuration," describes IMTA configuration files that you can edit and that are supported by Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0.
Chapter 3, "Sun Directory Services Directory Information Tree and Schema," describes the Sun Directory Services configuration files.
Chapter 4, "SIMS Configuration Files," describes the ims.cnf file, the sims.cnf file, the imdmc.cnf file, and the imta.cnf file.
Appendix A, "Supported Standards," lists the industry standards that are supported by Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0.
"Glossary," The glossary covers terms that are specific or unique to Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 and some terms that might be helpful to your understanding of this product.
The following books are related to Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0. Included in this documentation set are:
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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 SIMS System Administration Guide and SIMS Reference Manual. |
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Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Provisioning Guide - Describes how to provision the SIMS LDAP directory with users, distribution lists, administrators, and domains by creating and importing LDIF records. |
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Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 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). |
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Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Administrator's Guide - Describes how to fine-tune the default configuration, and maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot your mail server using the Administration Console, a GUI. |
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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. |
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Reference manual pages (man pages) - Describe command-line utilities and detailed information about the arguments and attributes relevant to each command. |
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Sun Web Access Administrator's Guide - Describes the core system administration tasks for Sun Web Access software. |
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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. |
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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. |
Table P-1 describes the typographic changes used in this book.
Table P-2 shows the default system and superuser prompts for the C, Bourne, and Korn shells.
Note - Although the majority of commands can be run without special superuser permissions, some commands can be performed only as root. These commands include: imta dirsync, imta start, imta stop, and imta restart. Other commands that require root privileges are noted within the document.
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.