Notes on DMSetup Questions
Basically, accept most
of the defaults. (simply press return - the default is in the square
brackets).
Check that you answer the question,
What is the TCPIP name of this computer [your machine] ?
with the domain that you want used in email addresses, e.g. if the main domain is for addresses like,
bob@domainx.com
then enter,
domainx.com
rather than mail.domainx.com or smtp.domainx.com etc.
Set the email address for system administrator?
question to a valid email address where you want to receive all of
the messages to do with the email server administration.
Another local domain for email [ ] ?
answer this with any other TCPIP IP addresses or IP names for your
machine (note this does not include any virtual domains that you wish
to host). Any domains you give in answer to this question will be 'synonyms' or 'domain aliases' of your main
mail domain, i.e. the addresses, bob@main_domain and bob@synonym, are addresses for the same user bob.
You can add virtual domains later manually.
Examples of things to add here are,
The machine name:
mail1.your_domain.com
pop.your_domain.com
smtp.your_domain.com
IP addresses if you want people to be able to email, bob@1.2.3.4
1.2.3.4
Wildcards for subdomains: (where the same user's exist on all subdomains - otherwise add vdomains for these later)
*.your_domain.com
local_office.your_domain.com
Path for mail drop files [C:\dmail\in] ?
accept default
DPOP creates a user.bin directory for each user for unread msgs etc.
Do you want to store these in the same directories as drop files [yes]
?
accept default
Should DMail use a gateway when sending email to external users [no]
?
accept default
Do you want to place limits on user access to the DPOP mail server
[no] ?
accept default
Password for manager control of DSMTP/DPOP/DLIST [1729327945] ?
I reccomend setting this to something easy like "password" rather
than the default number for your situation. This password is needed
only when you wish to administer this DMail Server remotely with the
DMAdmin GUI utility from another machine. It is not needed to
administer the server using DMAdmin when on the same machine.
Limit from-address for manager control to [*] ?
accept default
(sets manager_ip_address setting)
Do you want to change any of your answers [no] ?
at this point you can go back and change any of your answers by
pressing 'y' - if you do go back, your previous selections will now
appear as the defaults.
DMSetup will now copy files and generally do setup things for you.
If you are not running on Windows NT then you will probably see error
messages about failing to start DMail as a "service" - you can ignore
these.
Shall I start DSMTP/DPOP/DLIST now [yes] ?
select yes, unless you have other mail servers running and you want to manually start DSMTP and DPOP
later on non-standard TCPIP ports.
I observed on my test machine the following perfectly normal
messages:
Stop service failed 998
Successfully deleted service {dwatch}
Installing service {dwatch} to start image
{C:\dmail\dwatch\dwatch.exe}
Services dwatch successfully added to local database
Service started ok
START service failed 1056
(Windows Platforms: You should then see DMail Manager ( also known as DMAdmin) start
after a few seconds. If all of the servers are working, there should
appear a green bar above each of the tabs.)
Go back to Installation section.
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