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© 1997 Digital Integration (NZ) Ltd
This section of the manual is designed to assist in setting up your i-Mail system. A number of common uses for i-Mail are presented with the corresponding parameters required for the configurations discussed. Where parameters have not been specified, they are assumed to be left at the default i-Mail values.
From the scenarios you should be able to build your own mail system based on the settings for one or more of the given examples.
For these examples, it is assumed that you have run the setup program and all of the necessary files have been copied to their intended locations. If you have a registered version of i-Mail, it is also assumed that you have entered the appropriate registration details in the admin dialog.
The configuration steps do not include the running of i-Mail admin or loading the NLM. See the install and server use sections for details on these.
Single i-Mail server running internal e-mail

Prerequisites:
Additional Components Required (over and above i-Mail):
Configuration steps:
- General Tab:
- Enter a useful name for your primary domain i.e. 'acme.com'
- User Accounts:
- Add a user account for each person that will be requiring e-mail
- Domains:
- Add the domain you specified in the General Tab to the 'Hosted Domains' section
- Aliasing:
- Add an alias for 'PostMaster' to your primary e-mail manager.
Comments:
This basic configuration will get you started sending electronic mail. Be sure to configure the users 'reply-to address' as their name and domain as per what you specified in the Domains tab e.g. if you setup your domain as acme.com and you have a user called Jane, you would specify the reply to address (or the e-mail address in some cases) as jane@acme.com.
The reason for this is that the workstation thinks it is actually connecting to the internet, which essentially it is, even though the internet mail server is on your own network.
Single i-Mail server running internal and internet e-mail

Prerequisites:
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TCP/IP loaded on file server
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TCP/IP loaded on workstations
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Internet access including IP routing to the internet
Additional Components Required (over and above i-Mail):
Configuration steps:
- General Tab:
- Enter your registered domain i.e. 'acme.com'
- TCP Ports/Connectors:
- Enable POP collect and SMTP connect
- User Accounts:
- Add a user account for each person that will be requiring e-mail
- Scheduling:
- Configure inbound mail for the most appropriate scheme for your company. A suggested standard is to use scheduled times and configure the schedule for every two hours between 8:00am and 6:00pm.
- Domains:
- Add the domain you specified in the General Tab to the 'Hosted Domains' section
- POP/SMTP Connectors:
- Add your ISP POP server to the POP collection list. This is normally in the format 'pop.isp.com' or 'mail.isp.co.uk' or 'pop3.isp.co.nz' etc. These details will have been supplied to you by your ISP.
Enter the username and password that your ISP has assigned for your POP mail account and press 'Set'
For SMTP connection specify 'Send outbound mail to this host' and enter your ISP SMTP server. Again this is in a format like 'smtp.isp.com' etc. These details will have been supplied to you by your ISP.
If you are using MPR with dial on demand IP routing with unnumbered IP addressing on the same server as your i-Mail system, you may need to specify to 'Pre-Ping' a host. You will know this when you load i-Mail and the POP collection fails after about 10 minutes. If so, specify your ISP pop server as the host and give 'Pre-Ping' a pause time equivalent to the normal time for your link to become active plus about 30 seconds (or 5 for ISDN).
- Aliasing:
- Add an alias for 'PostMaster' to your primary e-mail manager.
Comments:
This basic configuration will get you started sending electronic mail. Be sure to configure the users 'reply-to address' as their name and domain as per what you specified in the Domains tab e.g. if you setup your domain as acme.com and you have a user called Jane, you would specify the reply to address (or the e-mail address in some cases) as jane@acme.com.
Your ISP should be able to help you with most of the settings if you are unsure. Just read them what is on the screen and they will be able to give you appropriate parameters.
Single i-Mail server collecting internet mail for another system


Prerequisites:
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TCP/IP loaded on file server
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SMTP connector for other mail system
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Internet access including IP routing to the internet
Additional Components Required (over and above i-Mail):
Configuration steps:
- General Tab:
- Enter your registered domain i.e. 'acme.com'. This should match the internet domain configured (if any) on your main messaging system.
Set the PostMaster is on another server and type the full e-mail address.
- TCP Ports/Connectors:
- Enable POP collect and SMTP connect
Disable POP clients and SMTP clients
- User Accounts:
- In the 10 and 50 user editions of i-Mail, add a user account for each person that exists on your other mail system.
For all systems, if you want i-Mail to perform unknown user PostMaster delivery you must add user accounts for each user on the remote system
- Scheduling:
- Configure inbound mail for the most appropriate scheme for your company. A suggested standard is to use scheduled times and configure the schedule for every two hours between 8:00am and 6:00pm.
- Domains:
- Add the domain you specified in the General Tab to the Remote Domains' section
Specify the host name or IP address of the main mail server.
If you want unknown recipients handled by i-Mail, ensure the users are configured in the accounts tab and specify here what you want done with unknown users. If you will be forwarding the messages, enter only the name of the PostMaster user on your main system, do not include the domain.
- POP/SMTP Connectors:
- Add your ISP POP server to the POP collection list. This is normally in the format 'pop.isp.com' or 'mail.isp.co.uk' or 'pop3.isp.co.nz' etc. These details will have been supplied to you by your ISP.
Enter the username and password that your ISP has assigned for your POP mail account and press 'Set'
For SMTP connection specify 'Send outbound mail to this host' and enter your main messaging system address. This should never actually be used, however this is a good precaution to prevent loss of mail.
If you are using MPR with dial on demand IP routing with unnumbered IP addressing on the same server as your i-Mail system, you may need to specify to 'Pre-Ping' a host. You will know this when you load i-Mail and the POP collection fails after about 10 minutes. If so, specify your ISP pop server as the host and give 'Pre-Ping' a pause time equivalent to the normal time for your link to become active plus about 30 seconds (or 5 for ISDN).
- Aliasing:
- Special Note: Do not alias your PostMaster here. If you do, all unknown recipients will be stored in the i-Mail system and will not be forwarded to your remote mail system.
Comments:
i-Mail was originally designed for the purpose of forwarding mail from a single mail account on the internet to GroupWise for an entire companies e-mail. As such you will find that if you want to do anything of this nature with i-Mail you probably can. If you find you cannot get something going, or that i-Mail does not perform a function that you would like, please drop us a line and we will see what we can do.
Internet mail has come a long way in the last couple of years and, with i-Mail, gone are the costs of having internet mailboxes and modems for each user on your network. i-Mail will take the mail from a single mailbox and sort out who the recipients are on your internal system. This requires that you have a registered internet domain name. If you have multiple mail boxes, ask your ISP to shut them down and set up a single mail box. Then get them to forward all mail for your domain into the one mailbox. If your ISP cannot or will not do this, get one that will. It will save you money in the long run.



© 1997 Digital Integration (NZ) Ltd