Installing and Running DMail on Windows 95 or 98
DMail can be run on the Windows 95 and Windows 98 platforms. As
these platforms do not have 'Services' as on Windows NT, a few things
have to be done a little differently, particularly by the installation
utility, DMSetup.
You should not have any problems installing DMail on windows 95/98.
DMSetup will detect that you are on Win 95/98 and do the installation
(or upgrade) appropriately. From time to time you may see messages
indicating that a 'service' could not be started. Simply ignore these,
as they only apply to NT services. We have tried to eliminate them
as much as possible.
DMail must run using an
external authentication
system, as there is no operating system
user database/password list which it can use. NetWin provides
NWAuth, an external
authentication module, free with DMail. DMSetup will install this
automatically for you.
As pointed out in the installation section above, you will have to
run an
external authentication
module. DMSetup will have installed NWAuth, but you can change to something
else if you wish, e.g. LDAP authentication. See the
User Administration section for more details.
The other major thing to remember is that you should not use
CTRL-C to stop any of the servers or DWatch. If you do this then any programs
that they have spawned, e.g. NWAuth, cannot be stopped without doing a restart.
Therefore, in order to stop the servers you should create a file called, server_name.exit in the
dwatch directory, where server_name is the program name (i.e. dpop,dsmtp,dlist,dwatch),
and the dwatch directory is set in your dmail.conf (\windows\system\dmail.conf)
file by the dwatch_path setting. The default dwatch directory is
\dmail\dwatch.
E.g. in order to stop dwatch, copy an existing text file into the dwatch directory with
the file name 'dwatch.exit', and in a few seconds you should see it find the file
and shut itself down. For example, you could do the following,
cd \dmail\dwatch
copy dwatch.pid dwatch.exit
If you have any problems or queries please contact DMail support at,