This section presents a step-by-step procedure for generating your PMDF configuration files using the command line PMDF automatic configuration utility.

1. Configuration of PMDF should be done by root to ensure that the necessary privileges are available to create the configuration files. If you are not logged in as root, do so now.
2. Begin the configuration procedure by invoking the PMDF configuration utility as follows, assuming that you have /usr/bin in your search path:

   # cd /pmdf/table # pmdf configure mta

3. The configuration procedure will optionally print out detailed explanations of each prompt as it proceeds. Unless you are familiar with the procedure, you should enable the detailed output.
4. The answers to all the prompts are logged to a file in the /pmdf/table directory. After the first configuration, pmdf configure can use the answers to the previous run as the default answers. The utility will ask:

   Do you want to use answers from the previous run as defaults?

   Answer YES if you want to have your previous answers presented as default answers. You may use the backslash character, \, to clear a default answer.

5. If this is the first time that PMDF has been configured on this system, the configuration utility will ask if you would also like to configure the PMDF Dispatcher. (The PMDF Service Dispatcher is a resident process that listens for incoming TCP/IP connections on various ports and matches those incoming connection requests to various servers, e.g., the multithreaded SMTP server, a POP3 server, an IMAP server, an HTTP server, etc. See PMDF System Manager's Guide for a more detailed discussion of the purpose and function of the PMDF Service Dispatcher.) You may either answer YES and perform the Dispatcher configuration then and there, or else answer NO and then configure the Dispatcher as a separate step subsequently, by issuing the command

   # pmdf configure dispatcher

   
   

6. If this is the first time that the Dispatcher has been configured, the utility will ask if you would also like to configure PMDF POP and IMAP mailbox servers.
   You may either answer YES and perform the Mailbox Servers configuration then and there, or else answer NO and then configure the Mailbox Servers as a separate step subsequently, by issuing the command

   # pmdf configure mailbox_servers

7. Once you have completed running pmdf configure, type out or print out the checklist file, /pmdf/table/pmdf.checklist for an MTA configuration, and complete the configuration by following the steps outlined in the checklist.