Planning Your Installation

In This Section Step 1: What Do You Need? Step 2: Create DNS Entries for Your Mail Server Step 3: Choose the Type of User Database Step 4: What Email Services Do You Want to Provide? Step 5: Determine Security Levels and Access Control Step 6: One Mail Domain (Host) or Multiple Domains?

If you have a working knowledge of Windows-based applications and operating systems, you will find that installing IMail Server is quick and easy. However, we recommend that you plan the installation to ensure an IMail Server configuration that works for your organization.

This section describes what you need to know about the primary host (the system on which you install IMail Server) and what decisions you need to make before running the installation.