Chapter 4: Managing mail with MMDF

Table of contents

• Chapter 4: Managing mail with MMDF
  • How to start a Mail manager
    • Problems with SCOadmin Mail Managers
  • Running the MMDF Configuration Manager
    • MMDF configuration information
    • Unsupported configurations
  • Testing MMDF configuration
    • Checking for MMDF problems
    • Testing mail addresses
  • Adding or removing a mail user
    • Adding or removing a user from system-wide aliases
    • Redirecting mail to another user
    • Removing or moving a retired mailbox
  • Managing mail hosts
    • Adding or removing a mail host
    • Changing a remote host name
  • Managing mail aliases and lists
    • Adding or removing a mail alias
    • Adding or removing an alias member
    • Searching an alias or mailing list
    • Maintaining mailing lists
    • The postmaster address
    • Associating users with a home machine
  • Managing mail channels
    • Adding channels
    • Removing a channel
    • Modifying channel parameters
    • Channel configuration strings
    • Routing mail for unrecognized hosts
    • Routing mail for unrecognized users
    • About mail channels
    • Channel programs
  • Managing mail domains
    • Adding or removing a domain
    • Modifying domain parameters
    • Domain names
    • Registering domain names
  • Mail addressing and delivery
    • Referencing addresses maintained in a file
    • Customizing mail delivery
    • Specifying the MMDF ``signature''
    • Forwarding mail from one account to another
    • Changing the system name
  • How MMDF works
    • Processing incoming mail
    • Processing outgoing mail
    • How MMDF routes mail
    • Searching MMDF domain tables
  • MMDF configuration files
    • Modifying MMDF table parameters
    • Domain tables
    • Channel tables
    • Alias and mailing list tables
    • Assigning Mail IDs
    • The mmdftailor file
    • Editing MMDF configuration files manually
    • Mail headers
    • Mailbox locking
  • Specifying MMDF authorizations
    • Specifying host-based authorization
    • Specifying user-based authorization
    • Setting routing-based authorization
    • Specifying both host and user authorization
    • Specifying channel authorization levels
    • Changing error logging levels
    • Authorization log files
  • Troubleshooting MMDF
    • Failed mail error
    • Mail does not work, no returned mail
    • Unable to reply to mail from a Micnet host
    • Mail command hangs
    • Mailbox locking problems
    • Undelivered messages in /usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home
    • Using name server resource records with MMDF
    • Mail-related name server resource records
    • MMDF delivers mail twice or not at all
    • Smtp cannot establish a remote connection
    • UUCP channel delays mail delivery
    • Message not deliverable
  • Example MMDF configurations over TCP/IP
    • Setting up MMDF on a TCP/IP network
    • Setting up MMDF using a mail gateway
    • Setting up MMDF over TCP/IP with a UUCP Internet gateway