Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 380)

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m If your server will provide mail service over the Internet, you need a registered domain
name. You also need to determine whether your ISP will create your MX records or you
will create them in your own DNS service.
m Identify the people who will use your mail service but don’t already have user accounts in
a directory domain accessible to your mail service. You will have to create user accounts
for these mail users.
Working With General Settings for Mail Service
This section tells you how to start and stop mail service, configure Kerberos authentication,
list your mail server’s local names, change any mail protocol settings, and monitor or archive
mail. These settings affect all incoming and outgoing mail service protocols—POP, IMAP, and
SMTP. All these settings are described in this section.
Starting and Stopping Mail Service
Mail service is ordinarily started automatically after you complete the Server Assistant. You
can also use the Server Settings application to start and stop mail service at your discretion.
To start or stop mail service:
1 In Server Settings, click the Internet tab.
2 Click Mail Service and choose Start Mail Service or Stop Mail Service.
If you plan to turn off mail service for an extended period of time, notify users before you
stop the mail service.
When you start mail service, it looks for an existing database from an earlier version of
Mac OS X Server. Mail service automatically converts an existing mail database and renames
the existing database so that it won’t be converted again. See “Converting the Mail Database
From an Earlier Version” on page 393 for additional information.
Starting Mail Service Automatically
You can set mail service to start automatically whenever the Mac OS X Server system starts
up. This ensures that mail service will start when the system restarts after a power outage or
another unexpected event.
To configure automatic startup for mail service:
1 In Server Settings, click the Internet tab.
2 Click Mail Service and choose Configure Mail Service.
3 Click the General tab.
4 Select “Start mail server at system startup” and click Save.