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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Quadralay WebWorks Publisher Professional Edition 6.0.5"> <meta name="TEMPLATEBASE" content="IMailGSGuideVersion1.0"> <meta name="LASTUPDATED" content="04/21/05 11:49:10"> <title>IMGettingStartedTOC.html</title> </head> <body link="#3366CC" vlink="#9999CC" text="#000000" alink="#0000CC" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" background="images/backgrnd.gif"> <table width="700" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <img src="imailgslogo.gif" border="0" align="left" alt="The 20 Minute E-mail Solution!"> </td> <td valign="bottom"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td> <a href="IMGettingStartedTOC.html"><img src="images/navtocx.gif" width="84" height="23" border="0" alt="TOC"></a> </td> <td> <a href=""><img src="images/navprevx.gif" width="81" height="23" border="0" alt="PREV"></a> </td> <td> <a 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Mail System</a></font> <dt> <a name="34549"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart4.html#48801">Planning Your Installation</a></font> <dl> <dt> <a name="34551"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart4.html#49681">Step 1: What Do You Need?</a></font> <dl> <dt> <a name="34553"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart4.html#41185">System Requirements</a></font> <dt> <a name="34555"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart4.html#53820">Hardware Environment</a></font> </dl> <dt> <a name="34557"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart4.html#42854">Step 2: Create DNS Entries for Your Mail Server</a></font> <dt> <a name="34559"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart4.html#50263">Step 3: Choose the Type of User Database</a></font> <dt> <a name="34561"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart4.html#41391">Step 4: What E-Mail Services Do You Want to Provide?</a></font> <dt> <a name="34563"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart4.html#58134">Step 5: Determine Security Levels and Access Control</a></font> <dl> <dt> <a name="34565"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart4.html#41562">SMTP Mail Relay options</a></font> <dt> <a name="34567"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart4.html#36587">SMTP Authentication</a></font> <dt> <a name="34569"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart4.html#41624">Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)</a></font> </dl> <dt> <a name="34571"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart4.html#42201">Step 6: One Mail Host or Multiple Hosts?</a></font> </dl> <dt> <a name="34573"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart5.html#49536">Installing IMail Server</a></font> <dl> <dt> <a name="34575"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart5.html#41707">Step 1: Start the Installation Procedure</a></font> <dt> <a name="34577"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart5.html#57784">Step 2: Set the Official Host Name for Your Server</a></font> <dt> <a name="34579"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart5.html#57792">Step 3: Select the User Database</a></font> <dt> <a name="34581"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart5.html#57855">Step 4: Select the Location for IMail Files and Folders</a></font> <dt> <a name="34583"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart5.html#57853">Step 5: Set Security Options</a></font> <dt> <a name="34585"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart5.html#57886">Step 6: Select the IMail Services You Want to Use</a></font> <dt> <a name="34587"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart5.html#57898">Step 7: Add a Test User</a></font> <dt> <a name="34589"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart5.html#57918">Step 8: Install Language Packs for Web Templates</a></font> <dt> <a name="34591"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart5.html#57289">Step 9: Restart your system</a></font> </dl> <dt> <a name="34593"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart6.html#51106">Testing Your IMail Server Installation</a></font> <dl> <dt> <a name="34595"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart6.html#43165">Step 1: Confirm your DNS Settings</a></font> <dt> <a name="34597"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart6.html#41852">Step 2: Confirm Your IMail Server Installation</a></font> <dt> <a name="34599"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart6.html#46559">Step 3: Confirm User Database Setup</a></font> <dt> <a name="34601"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart6.html#49940">Step 4: Sending and Receiving Mail in a Test Account</a></font> </dl> <dt> <a name="34603"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart7.html#50434">Upgrading</a></font> <dl> <dt> <a name="34605"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart7.html#49994">Upgrading Using External Databases</a></font> <dt> <a name="34607"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart7.html#50004">Upgrading the LDAP Database</a></font> <dt> <a name="34609"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart7.html#53874">Upgrading Web Messaging</a></font> <dt> <a name="34611"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart7.html#54099">Upgrading Language Packs for Web Templates</a></font> <dt> <a name="34613"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart7.html#55624">Upgrading Antispam Features</a></font> <dt> <a name="34615"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart7.html#50446">Re-Installing IMail Server to a Different Location</a></font> </dl> <dt> <a name="34617"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart8.html#50011">Removing IMail Server</a></font> <dt> <a name="34619"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart9.html#50812">Enabling Wizards</a></font> <dt> <a name="34621"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="getstart10.html#51563">Technical Support</a></font> <dt> <a name="34623"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="Appendix%20A%20dns.html#3542">Mail Servers and DNS</a></font> <dt> <a name="34625"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="Appendix%20A%20dns2.html#4965">What is DNS?</a></font> <dt> <a name="34627"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="Appendix%20A%20dns3.html#4987">How a Mail Server Uses DNS</a></font> <dt> <a name="34629"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="Appendix%20A%20dns4.html#4974">Setting Up Mail Server Records in the DNS</a></font> <dl> <dt> <a name="34631"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="Appendix%20A%20dns4.html#4719">Your Local Network's DNS server</a></font> <dt> <a name="34633"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="Appendix%20A%20dns4.html#5151">Example of a Basic Configuration</a></font> <dt> <a name="34635"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="Appendix%20A%20dns4.html#5182">Sample DNS Records</a></font> <dt> <a name="34637"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="Appendix%20A%20dns4.html#5125">Other Configurations</a></font> </dl> <dt> <a name="34639"> </a><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="IMGettingStartedIX.html#5165">Index</a></font> </dl> </blockquote> <hr> <table align="right" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td align="right"><font size="1"> <a href="http://www.ipswitch.com"><img src="ipslogo4.gif" border="0"></a><br> Ipswitch, Inc<br> http://www.ipswitch.com </font></td> </tr> </table> <table width="331" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><img src="images/navtocx.gif" width="84" height="23" border="0" alt="TOC"> </td> <td><img src="images/navprevx.gif" width="81" height="23" border="0" alt="PREV"> </td> <td><a href="getstart.html"><img src="images/navnext.gif" width="81" height="23" border="0" alt="NEXT"> </a></td> <td><a href="IMGettingStartedIX.html"><img src="images/navidx.gif" width="85" height="23" border="0" alt="INDEX"> </a></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a 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