Preface

Table of Contents

About SCOoffice Mail Server Documentation
Viewing SCOoffice Mail Server Online Documentation
Technical Support
Register Your Product
SCOoffice Mail Server Late News
SCO Self-Help Services
How Can We Improve This Book?

This book introduces the SCOoffice™ Mail Server, a highly reliable, scalable messaging server that runs on SCO® Linux®, UnitedLinux, Caldera® OpenLinux®, SCO® UnixWare® 7 7.1.3, and SCO® UnixWare® 7 7.1.2 (formerly Open UNIX® 8) platforms. This book is intended primarily for SCOoffice Mail Server administrators, as well others who install and maintain SCOoffice Mail Server software.

About SCOoffice Mail Server Documentation

This Getting Started Guide provides instructions and guidelines on basic installation and graphical administration procedures, intended to facilitate deployment of a standard SCOoffice Mail Server system. It describes:

  • SCOoffice Mail Server features, architecture, and licensing.

  • SCOoffice Mail Server planning and installation procedures.

  • instructions how to manage mail server functionality.

  • procedures for mail client user administration.

The SCOoffice Mail Server documentation set also includes:

Administrator's Guide

Complete presentation of graphical and command line interfaces, advanced configuration and administration guidelines, and detailed background information. These are also available online when the product is installed, and in HTML and PDF formats on distribution media. 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. These are also available for administrators online when the product is installed, and in HTML and PDF formats on distribution media.

Manual pages

Detailed reference information is provided for:

  • file formats (Section 5)

  • command line utilities and Application Programming Interface (API -- Section 8)

Manual pages are available using the standard man(1) command and from your browser.

Component documentation

Documentation included with the principal open source components is accessible from the SCOoffice Mail Server index page:

  • Postfix (Message Transfer Agent)

  • Cyrus (POP/IMAP server and message store)

  • OpenLDAP™ (directory server)

  • Horde (PHP framework for web-based applications, including webmail)

  • IMP (Internet Messaging Program, webmail client)

These entries are also available if you enable DocView to provide access to all RPM documentation. See the DocView documentation for more information.

Note

Consult the Administrator's Guide before using this documentation to modify component configuration; some component configuration values are set by the SCOoffice Mail Server and must not be altered.

 

The latest news about SCOoffice Mail Server features and product enhancements are provided in the regularly updated Late News document. It is available on the web and is free to all customers at:

Viewing SCOoffice Mail Server Online Documentation

DocView is a documentation server for SCO Linux and Caldera OpenLinux. It provides unified access to most of the documentation packages installed on your system, including SCOoffice Mail Server documentation, the OpenLinux System Administration Guide, manual pages, links to OpenLinux Help, FAQs, HOWTOs, the SCO Support Knowledge Base, SCO Education site, and much more.

DocView is configured by default as a SCOoffice Mail Server system service. To access DocView and learn more about its features, point your browser at:

http://system_name:8457/

where system_name is the host name of your SCOoffice Mail Server system.

If you are running the SCOoffice Mail Server on a UnixWare 7 system (including Open UNIX 8), you should also consult the Linux® Kernel Personality documentation set, available using the help system on those platforms.

Technical Support

The SCOoffice Mail Server product can be purchased with one of the following technical support options included:

  • 60-day email installation and configuration support, including installation of the SCOoffice Mail Server software and configuration for users of the local intranet only.

  • Six-month unlimited email and telephone support, including three technical contacts and the configuration of anti-spam, anti-virus, networking connections, and connections to an ISP.

Products purchased with the bundled support options have a Support Validation Code Card included in the product box explaining the type of technical support service and contact information. Please refer to this card for more detailed information.

In addition, The SCO Group offers a wide variety of service options. For more information on SCO's service offerings, see the http://www.sco.com/support web page, contact your local SCO sales representative, or:

In the United States and Canada

Phone 1-800-726-8649.

In Latin American countries

See http://www.la.sco.com/ for the nearest SCO Sales Office.

In Europe, Middle East, India, Africa and the Pacific Rim

Phone +44(0)1923-813 600.

We also recommend that you:

Register Your Product

We encourage you to register your product to stay current on the latest SCO product and services related information. To register your product, go to:

SCOoffice Mail Server Late News

The latest news about SCOoffice Mail Server features and product enhancements are provided in the regularly updated Late News document. It is available on the web and free to all customers:

SCO Self-Help Services

Available to our customers anytime and anywhere is our 24x7 Self-Help support web site, located at:

Within Self-Help, we offer installation support solutions through an easy-to-use single web view. Key resources available are:

  • Access to SCO's Linux and Unix Knowledge Center

  • FAQs - Customer identified Top Solutions

  • Certified Hardware Listing for SCO's Products

  • SCO Software Download Areas

  • Product Registration Information

  • Product Bug Reporting

  • Various Linux and UNIX News Groups and Mail List Discussions

How Can We Improve This Book?

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Note

Technical Publications cannot provide technical support. For answers to technical questions, please contact your software vendor or your support representative, or refer to the “Technical Support” section above.

To contact us with documentation-related questions or comments, email us at <techpubs@sco.com>.

Thank you.