Managing mail with MMDF

Setting up MMDF on a TCP/IP network

This section describes configuring MMDF on a network of machines connected with TCP/IP, where each computer can directly contact the others on the network. The example machines are volga, columbia, and thames, and the domain is your_company.COM. The IP addresses and fully qualified domain names of the example computers are:

10.0.118.1 volga.your_company.COM
10.0.118.2 columbia.your_company.COM
10.0.118.3 thames.your_company.COM

For further information, see ``Administering TCP/IP''. Example:

Log in as mmdf on volga.
Check that the domain your_company.COM exists. Because this is the top-level domain used by volga, it will have been added at installation time, but you can use the Domain Administration Manager to check, and add it if it does not exist.

In the Configuration Manager, check that the domain name is not hidden by selecting this addressing option:

``From: user@volga.your_company.COM''

Host entries for the other machines in the local domain, columbia.your_company.COM and thames.your_company.COM, are added by the Configuration Manager.

When you have verified these conditions, these entries will exist in /usr/mmdf/table/local.dom:

   volga:		volga.your_company.COM
   columbia:	columbia.your_company.COM
   thames:		thames.your_company.COM

These entries will exist in /usr/mmdf/table/root.dom:

   volga:			volga.your_company.COM
   volga.your_company.COM:	volga.your_company.COM

These entries will exist in /usr/mmdf/table/smtp.chn:

   volga.your_company.COM		10.0.118.1
   columbia.your_company.COM	10.0.118.2
   thames.your_company.COM	10.0.118.3

As a result of the initial mail configuration, these entries will exist in /usr/mmdf/table/local.chn:

   volga:			volga
   volga.UUCP:		volga
   volga.your_company.COM		volga

These entries will exist in /usr/mmdf/mmdftailor (among others):

   MLDOMAIN	"your_company.COM"
   MLNAME		"volga"
   
   MDMN name="root", dmn="", show="Root Domain", table=rootdom
   MDMN name="localdom", dmn="your_company.COM", show="your_company.COM Domain",
        table=localdom
   

   MCHN show="Local delivery", name=local, que=local, tbl=local, pgm=local,
        ap=822, mod=imm
   MCHN show="SMTP Delivery", name=smtp, que=smtp, tbl=smtpchn, pgm=smtp,
        ap=822, mod=host, confstr="charset=7bit"

Repeat steps 1

3 on columbia. When you have verified the conditions, these entries will exist in /usr/mmdf/mmdftailor (the MCHN and MDMN entries will appear as listed above for volga):

   MLDOMAIN	"your_company.COM"
   MLNAME		"columbia"

These entries will exist in /usr/mmdf/table/local.dom:

   columbia:	columbia.your_company.COM
   volga:		volga.your_company.COM
   thames:		thames.your_company.COM

These entries will exist in /usr/mmdf/table/root.dom:

   columbia:		columbia.your_company.COM
   columbia.your_company.COM:	columbia.your_company.COM

These entries will exist in /usr/mmdf/table/smtp.chn:

   columbia.your_company.COM	10.0.118.2
   volga.your_company.COM		10.0.118.1
   thames.your_company.COM	10.0.118.3

These entries will exist in /usr/mmdf/table/local.chn:

   columbia:		columbia
   columbia.UUCP:		columbia
   columbia.your_company.COM	columbia

Repeat steps 1

3 on thames. When you have verified the conditions, these entries will exist in /usr/mmdf/mmdftailor (the MCHN and MDMN entries will appear as listed above for volga):

   MLDOMAIN	"your_company.COM"
   MLNAME		"thames"

These entries will exist in /usr/mmdf/table/local.dom:

   thames:		thames.your_company.COM
   volga:		volga.your_company.COM
   columbia:	columbia.your_company.COM

These entries will exist in /usr/mmdf/table/root.dom:

   thames:			thames.your_company.COM
   thames.your_company.COM:	thames.your_company.COM

These entries will exist in /usr/mmdf/table/smtp.chn:

   thames.your_company.COM	10.0.118.3
   volga.your_company.COM		10.0.118.1
   columbia.your_company.COM	10.0.118.2

These entries will exist in /usr/mmdf/table/local.chn:

   thames:			thames
   thames.UUCP:		thames
   thames.your_company.COM	thames

MMDF is now configured to send mail among all three systems. Mail should be addressed using Internet style addresses, such as root@thames.your_company.COM.

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