Figure 5-4 through Figure 5-15 show a sample PMDF-MTA configuration session, including IMAP/POP server configuration, using the web-based configuration utility. The sample site EXAMPLE.COM has two Solaris nodes, naples and milan. The node naples, which has TCP/IP connections to the Internet and will be acting as a gateway for EXAMPLE.COM's cc:Mail and WordPerfect Office users, will be a PMDF-MTA and PMDF-LAN node. In addition, EXAMPLE.COM has agreed to act as a gateway for another company in town, OTHERCO.COM, and naples will will be the node which routes mail for the OTHERCO.COM node vaxa.otherco.com. milan, which is an internal EXAMPLE.COM node not necessarily registered on the Internet, will be a PMDF-MTA node, routing all of its mail to EXAMPLE.COM's cc:Mail users, to EXAMPLE.COM's WordPerfect Office users, and to the Internet, by way of naples. PMDF-MTA has been installed on node naples.

Figure 5-1 Sample PMDF Site EXAMPLE.COM

Note that the sample configuration session shown in Figure 5-4 through Figure 5-14 only handles the base PMDF-MTA configuration with IMAP and POP mailbox servers; the connections to the PC-LAN users available using PMDF-LAN, e.g., the connections to WordPerfect Office and cc:Mail, would remain to be performed, as described in Chapter 6 and demonstrated in Chapter 7.

Whenever appropriate, the web-based configuration utility attempts to provide reasonable default answers. If you have previously run the web-based configuration utility, then you may use the "Load" button of the initial page, Figure 5-4, to load your previous session's answers; those answers will then become the defaults for this new session. When you are satisfied with the answers on a given page, press the "Next" (or "Done") button to continue the configuration.

Remember that the values entered in this sample are for purposes of example only. Be sure to use the values appropriate for your system when you perform the actual configuration.

If this is an initial PMDF configuration where PMDF is not yet running, you will need to start up the PMDF HTTP server in standalone mode via the command (issued from the root or pmdf account):

# /pmdf/bin/http_server -s

Once the PMDF HTTP server is running, either in standalone mode for a new installation or on a previously configured PMDF system, then to access the web-based configuration utility you must point your web browser at the appropriate URL. Using Netscape (version 3.0 or later) or Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 4.0 or later), with JavaScript enabled, connect to

http://localhost:7633/

where localhost is the TCP/IP name of your PMDF system. If this is a configuration for an initial PMDF installation with the PMDF HTTP server running in standalone mode, you will then see a screen such as shown in Figure 5-2; if this is a configuration (or re-configuration) on a system with PMDF already running, you will then see a screen such as shown in Figure 5-3. To begin the configuration, select the "Configuration Utilities" link from the HTTP server main page as shown in Figure 5-3.