PMDF Installation Guide
OpenVMS Edition


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7.1 Before You Begin

Before you run the PMDF Mailbox Servers configuration utility, you must install PMDF-MTA on your system. It is recommended that you also configure PMDF, as well as the PMDF Service Dispatcher, before you configure the PMDF POP and IMAP mailbox servers. (See Chapters 1, 2, and 3 if you have not already installed and configured PMDF-MTA. See Chapters 5 and 6 if you have not already configured the PMDF Service Dispatcher.

If you were previously using non-PMDF servers, you will need to shut down the old servers before you can use PMDF's multithreaded servers.

Note

The best time to do this is before you configure PMDF's servers. However, you can wait until after you have configured PMDF's servers. (See the PMDF System Manager's Guide for a discussion about this.)

The PMDF POP and IMAP mailbox servers configuration utility prompts you for several pieces of information, including which POP and/or IMAP servers you want to run, as well as the number of simultaneous POP and IMAP connections you want to allow at your site. You will need to provide site-appropriate answers. For some of the questions, the configuration utility provides reasonable default values. You might want to take the default answers the first time you configure, and then later, after observing the actual POP and IMAP usage at your site, reconfigure with values that are appropriate for your site.

Configuration questions include the following:

If you choose to run a MessageStore IMAP or POP server, the utility will also configure the PMDF MessageStore and PMDF popstore for you. Therefore, you will be asked some additional questions, including:

If you choose to run an IMAP server, you will be asked some additional questions, including:

If you choose to run a POP server, you will be asked some additional questions, including:

Note

1 The utility of an overdraft quota is explained in the PMDF MessageStore & popstore Manager's Guide.


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