PMDF Use & Management Training Course Overview
Course Duration: 3 full days of instruction
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.