Contents

 
Getting Started with IMail Server
About Getting Started
Other Information Sources
Visit Our Web Site
Components of an Internet Mail System
IMail Support Center
Planning Your Installation
Step 1: What Do You Need?
Step 2: Create DNS Entries for Your Mail Server
Setting Up DNS for the Primary Mail Host
Adding an Additional (Virtual) Mail Host
Setting Up DNS for Multiple Mail Hosts
Step 3: Choose the Type of User Database
Step 4: What E-mail Services Do You Want to Provide?
Step 5: Determine Security Levels and Access Control
SMTP Mail Relay options
SMTP Authentication
SSL for IMail Server and Web Messaging
Step 6: One Mail Domain (Host) or Multiple Domains?
Installing IMail Server
Step 1: Start the Installation and Activating IMail
Step 2: Set up your Web Server
Step 3: Set the Official Host Name for Your Server
Step 4: Select the User Database
Step 5: Set Security Options
Step 6: Select the IMail Services You Want to Use
Step 7: Final Options
Instant Messenger User Database (IMail Premium Only)
WorkgroupShare Client Setup (IMail Premium Only)
Finalizing IMail Server Installation
Initial IMail Administration Server Login
Remote Administration Access
Confirming your DNS Settings
Confirming Your IMail Server Installation
Confirming the User Database Setup
Sending and Receiving Mail in a Test Account
Upgrading
Upgrading Using External Databases
Upgrading the LDAP Database
Upgrading Antispam Features
Uninstalling IMail Server
Using IMail Antivirus
About IMail Antivirus
IMail Antivirus Administration
Symantec Scan Engine Web Administrator
Using IMail Antispam
About IMail Antispam
What You Can Do with the Antispam Features
Accessing the Antispam Features
Forwarding Spam to Ipswitch
Mail Servers and the DNS
What is DNS?
How a Mail Server Uses DNS
Setting Up Mail Server Records in the DNS
Configuring Your Local Network DNS server
Example of a Basic Configuration
Sample DNS Records
Other Configurations
Index