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Performing an Initial Setup and Test

To confirm your IMail Server installation, do the following:

  1. From the Start menu, select Programs -> IMail -> IMail Administrator.
  2. The IMail Administrator appears in a split window. The left
    panel provides access to system defaults, host settings, and access to users, aliases and list-server mailing lists .

To verify that you can send and receive mail, you should have at least one user for your primary host.

If your primary host uses the IMail user database, you may have created a user during the installation process. Check to see whether users were created in IMail Administrator. In the left panel of IMail Administrator, expand the "localhost" folder, select the primary host, and then expand the Users folder. If you see only the "root" user, you will need to add a test user by performing the following steps.

  1. Select the primary host and click the General tab.
  2. In the right panel, click Add User, and then follow the instructions. The User ID must be between 3 and 30 characters, with no spaces. For now, leave Show Advanced Settings turned off.
  3. Click Next and then Finish to add the user. The User ID is added to the list of registered users for the primary host. When the new user is selected in the left panel, that user's properties are displayed in the right panel.

If your primary host uses the Windows NT or Windows 2000 user database, you should have two default accounts:Administrator and Guest. If you need to add a user for test purposes, add the account in the appropriate Windows administrative tool.

If your primary host uses an external database and the external database is not populated, perform the following steps:

  1. In the left panel, expand the primary host and the "Users" folder.
  2. Select the user "root."
  3. On the General tab, turn off Account Access Disabled.
  4. Add a few users as described in the next section.

Any users you have added can now receive mail through IMail Server at the host name specified in your Windows NT/2000 TCP/IP parameters. For example, if you added the user caleb, and the host name is jupiter7.space.com, the user can now receive mail addressed to caleb@jupiter7.space.com.

Note: If you want users on the primary host to get messages addressed to just the domain name, create an alias for the virtual host. For example, if you want the user shown above to get mail addressed to caleb@space.com, create a host alias of space.com for jupiter7.space.com. For more information, see "Chapter 3: Configuration".

Sending and Receiving Mail in a Test Account

To send and receive mail in a test account:

  1. Check to make sure the mail servers are running: select the "Services" folder in the left panel to see if the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4 servers are running. The status of SMTP should be "running;" this is automatically started. If the POP3 and IMAP4 are not "running," you must start them.
  2. Start IMail Client from the Start menu. This special version of IMail Client shows the users you added in a drop-down list. Log on using one of the user accounts you created, and send mail to another user. Then check that the mail appears in the second user's Main mailbox.
  3. If you are connected to the Internet, send mail to
    imailtest@ipswitch.com to test mail service to remote systems. We will reply to your mail. You can also test an account by sending mail to a user on another host and asking for a reply.
  4. When you are satisfied that the mail server works properly, you can add more hosts and users as described in subsequent chapters. If your primary host is based on an external database, see "Configuring the Primary Host".

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