PMDF Use & Management Training Course Overview

Course Duration: 3 full days of instruction

Course Objectives:

PMDF Use & Management offers an overview of PMDF e-mail server operations. The course covers topics such as architecture, installation, initial configuration, and troubleshooting. Examples of course topics include:

• Overview of PMDF
• Architecture
• Configuration rules
• Rewrite rules
• Channels
• Message queues
• The job controller
• Periodic jobs
• The service dispatcher
• How PMDF interfaces with the network
• Setting up the channel
• PMDF in a firewall environment
• Mailbox servers
• Serving out mailboxes with POP3
• Serving out mailboxes with IMAP4
• popstore overview
• MessageStore overview

• Connection authentication
• Filtering and rejecting messages
• Preventing relaying
• Sieve filtering language
• Channels
• Pager
• Conversion
• Reprocessing
• Addressing
• Queue –to- e-mail
• Printer
• Pipe
• Centralized naming
• Aliases
• Directory channel
• Using a general database
• PMDF Dirsync
• Troubleshooting and monitoring

Prerequisites:

This course can be tailored to the appropriate skill level of the attendees. However, we recommend that students have a basic knowledge of e-mail including SMTP, IMAP, and POP, and a basic knowledge of TCP/IP.

Intended Audience:

This course is intended for systems managers and/or e-mail administrators responsible for the day-to-day operation and management of PMDF.