Getting Started Guide; instructions and guidelines on basic installation and graphical administration procedures, intended to facilitate deployment of a standard Messaging Server system. It is also available in printed form with the product distribution.
Administrator's Guide; complete presentation of graphical and command line interfaces, advanced configuration and administration guidelines, and detailed background information. Selected topics are also presented in Help screens from the Server Manager administrative interface.
Client User's Guide; detailed instructions on mail client configuration and user preferences, intended to be viewed principally from Help screens in the client Preferences Manager.
All the guides are also included in HTML and PDF formats on distribution media.
Detailed reference information about:
file formats (Section 5)
command line utilities and Application Programming Interface (API -- Section 8)
Note: While most of these utilities are intended to be used directly by administrators, some are designed to be executed by graphical interfaces only and should not be used on the command line. See the Administrator's Guide for a discussion of command line administration.
Documentation included with the principal open source components:
Postfix (Message Transfer Agent)
Cyrus (POP/IMAP server and message store)
OpenLDAP (directory server)
Horde (PHP framework for web-based applications, including webmail)
IMP (webmail client)
Note: These entries are also available if you enable DocView to provide access to all RPM documentation.
Consult the Administrator's Guide before using this documentation to modify component configuration; some component configuration values are set by the Messaging Server and must not be altered.