About This Guide

Preface

This guide provides a starting point for administering Mail Service using its advanced administration tools. It contains information about configuring Mail Service using Server Admin.

Mail Service Administration might not be the only guide you need when administering Mail Service, but it gives you the basics beyond initial Mac OS X Server configuration.

What’s in This Guide

This guide includes the following sections:

ÂÂ Chapter 1, “Understanding Mail Service,” gives an overview of the components of the Mac OS X Server Mail service.

ÂÂ Chapter 2, “Mail Service Setup,” includes everything you need to set up and configure Mail service and to support and configure mail users.

ÂÂ Chapter 3, “Mail Service Advanced Configuration,” builds on the basic setup instructions to help you fine tune your mail server, especially concerning security settings and data storage.

ÂÂ Chapter 4, “Monitoring and Maintaining Mail Service,” includes information for ongoing mail server maintenance and administration.

ÂÂ Chapter 5, “Troubleshooting Mail Service,” helps you to resolve some of the most common issues that may arise with Mail service.

ÂÂ Appendix A, “Command-Line Parameters for the serveradmin Tool and Default Mail Service Settings,” shows the default state of the settings you can configure from the command line.

ÂÂ Appendix B, “Sample Sieve Scripts,” provides examples of sieve scripts.

Note: Because Apple periodically releases new versions and updates to its software, images shown in this book may be different from what you see on your screen.

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