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Welcome to the HCL Domino 11.0.1 documentation
Welcome to the HCL Domino® 11.0.1 documentation. Here administrators can find information about planning, installing, configuring, and administering Domino 11.0.1.
Configuring
Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
Configuring messaging
This section provides an overview of messaging and describes how to set up mail routing, how to set up and customize mail servers, and how to track mail.
The Domino® mail router
The Domino® mail router (the Router) is a special server task responsible for the delivery and transfer of the messages in MAIL.BOX. Delivery refers to moving messages from MAIL.BOX into a local mail file or database; while transfer refers to sending messages from MAIL.BOX across the network to another server.
Creating a Configuration Settings document
Use the Configuration Settings document to set up LDAP, mail, mail routing, and MIME on an HCL Domino® server. You can also use this document to edit settings in the NOTES.INI file. A Configuration Settings document can define settings for all of your Domino servers in one HCL Notes® domain, for the servers in one specific group, or for one individual server.
Roadmap: Configuration Settings - Router/SMTP - Basics tab
Use settings on the Configuration Settings > Router/SMTP tabs to configure Domino® to use SMTP to route mail, instead of or in addition to using Notes® routing.

Welcome to the HCL Domino 11.0.1 documentation
Welcome to the HCL Domino® 11.0.1 documentation. Here administrators can find information about planning, installing, configuring, and administering Domino 11.0.1.
- Translated documentation
  The HCL Domino 11.0.1 documentation is currently available in the following languages.
- What's new in Domino® 11?
  Learn about all of the new features for administrators in HCL Domino® 11.
- Overview
  Welcome to HCL Domino® Administrator Help.
- Domino trial
  A trial version of HCL Domino® 11.0.1 is available free of charge.
- Installing
  Use this documentation to install the HCL Domino® server and subsequently deploy the HCL Notes®client.
- Planning
  Use this topic as an overview of planning task.
- Configuring
  Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
  - Configuring a network
    This section presents the planning concepts and setup procedures necessary for a successful HCL Domino® deployment over a network. It provides information on network protocols from a Domino perspective but does not attempt to provide general network information.
  - Configuring users and servers
    Topics in this section describe how to set up users and servers.
  - Editing the NOTES.INI file
    You should rarely, if ever, need to modify a server's or client's NOTES.INI file. The NOTES.INI file contains many settings that Domino® and Notes® rely on to work properly. An accidental or incorrect change may cause Domino or Notes to run unpredictably. Therefore, you should edit the NOTES.INI file only if special circumstances occur or if Support recommends that you do so.
  - Configuring directory services
    This section describes how to plan, set up, and use HCL Domino® directory services.
  - Configuring messaging
    This section provides an overview of messaging and describes how to set up mail routing, how to set up and customize mail servers, and how to track mail.
    - The Domino® mail router
      The Domino® mail router (the Router) is a special server task responsible for the delivery and transfer of the messages in MAIL.BOX. Delivery refers to moving messages from MAIL.BOX into a local mail file or database; while transfer refers to sending messages from MAIL.BOX across the network to another server.
      - Mailbox event notification
        When the Domino® router is running in a steady state and a new message is deposited in MAIL.BOX, a copy of the message is made and placed on a mailbox event queue which is then used by a new MailEvent thread in the router. The router then uses this copy of the message without having to search MAIL.BOX to discover new messages nor perform a full note open for use in transfer or delivery. The message is cached and additional copies of this message are made as needed for multiple recipients. This router optimization prevents creating extra copies of the note.
      - Starting, stopping, and restarting the mail router
        By default, when you start the server, the Router task automatically loads and starts. You can manually shut down and restart the Router to troubleshoot server and messaging problems. You can also disable automatic loading of the Router.
      - Recalculating the server's routing table
        The Router on each server maintains a dynamic routing table, which specifies the best route to each possible destination server. The routing table builds on information contained in the server's NOTES.INI file and in the Configuration Settings, Domain, Connection, and Server documents in the Domino® Directory.
      - Routing mail on demand to a specific server
        You can route mail to another Domino® server between scheduled intervals, forcing all mail in the transfer queue of the specified server to route immediately.
      - Using Domain documents
        Domain documents define the domains used in mail routing.
      - Routing internal mail
        Internal mail consists of messages sent between users within an organization and its local Internet domains. The Domino® mail router (the Router) uses both SMTP and Notes® routing to transfer messages between network servers, and handles messages in both MIME format and Notes rich text format. By default, the Router transfers local mail using the Notes routing protocol only. Within a given Notes named network, servers that use Notes routing automatically transfer mail among themselves.
      - Creating a Configuration Settings document
        Use the Configuration Settings document to set up LDAP, mail, mail routing, and MIME on an HCL Domino® server. You can also use this document to edit settings in the NOTES.INI file. A Configuration Settings document can define settings for all of your Domino servers in one HCL Notes® domain, for the servers in one specific group, or for one individual server.
        Roadmap: Configuration Settings - Basics tab
        Use the Basics tab to establish settings for one server or all servers in your domain. You can enable features such as Type Ahead and License Tracking, as well as designate whether to enable International MIME settings and other related settings.
        Roadmap: Configuration Settings - Router/SMTP - Basics tab
        Use settings on the Configuration Settings > Router/SMTP tabs to configure Domino® to use SMTP to route mail, instead of or in addition to using Notes® routing.
        Roadmap: Configuration Settings - Router/SMTP - Advanced - Controls tab
        Using this tab in the Configuration Settings document, you can specify settings for logging level, out-of-office type, advanced transfer controls, additional controls for delivery and transfer, and customization of failure messages.
        Roadmap: Configuration Settings - NOTES.INI Settings tab
        Using the Configuration Settings document, you can add and modify many NOTES.INI settings at a time to the server's NOTES.INI file.
        Roadmap: Configuration Settings - IMAP - Basics tab
        Use settings on the Configuration Settings > IMAP tabs to configure the IMAP service.
      - Configuring Domino® to send and receive mail over SMTP
        Setting up an HCL Domino® server as an SMTP server consists of enabling two separate tasks: a listener task and a routing task. Enabling the SMTP Listener allows a server to receive mail over SMTP. Enabling SMTP routing lets the Domino Router send mail to other servers using SMTP.
    - The POP3 service
      POP3 (Post Office Protocol Version 3) is an Internet mail protocol that allows a user running a POP3 client -- for example, the Notes® POP3 client, Eudora Pro, or Microsoft™ Outlook Express® -- to retrieve mail from a server that runs the POP3 service. You can set up a Domino® server to run the POP3 service. The Domino server receives and stores mail for POP3 users, who can then connect to the server to retrieve their mail.
    - The IMAP service
      The Domino® server supports the Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP4rev1), defined in RFC 2060, for reading mail. The Domino IMAP service lets users with IMAP mail clients access mail files on a Domino server. The IMAP service differs from the POP3 service in that users are not required to download messages to a local computer to read and manipulate them. Users can work with messages over the network, while the messages remain on the server.
    - Customizing mail
      After you set up basic mail routing, you can customize the HCL Domino® messaging system to improve performance and meet the specific needs of your organization.
  - Configuring iNotes®
    HCL iNotes® provides HCL Notes® users with browser-based access to Notes mail and to Notes calendar and scheduling features. Administrators specify mail policy and security policy settings as well as notes.ini file settings to complete the full implementation of HCL iNotes.
  - Configuring Web servers
    This section describes how to set up the HCL Domino® Web server, and the Domino Web Navigator.
  - Setting up a cluster
    Setting up a cluster includes the tasks of creating and verifying that it is working correctly, and then setting up user access, mail, replications, size quotas, directory assistance, roaming, web navigation, and use of a private LAN in the cluster.
- Securing
  This section describes security features, including execution control lists, IDs, and SSL.
- Administering
  This documentation provides information about the administration tools for managing and monitoring servers and databases.
- Tuning
  Use this information to improve HCL Domino® server, Domino Web server, and messaging performance through the use of resource balancing and activity trends, Server.Load commands, advanced database properties, cluster statistics, and the Server Health Monitor.
- Troubleshooting
  This section describes how to find and solve problems with HCL Domino® server and Administrator client.
- Notices

Roadmap: Configuration Settings - Router/SMTP - Basics tab

Use settings on the Configuration Settings > Router/SMTP tabs to configure Domino® to use SMTP to route mail, instead of or in addition to using Notes® routing.

Table 1. Fields on the Basics tab and the related topics
Field	See the following topics
Number of mailboxes	Creating multiple MAIL.BOX databases
SMTP used when sending messages outside the local Internet domain	Setting up SMTP routing to external Internet domains
SMTP allowed within the local Internet domain	Setting up SMTP routing within the local Internet domain
Servers within the local Domino® domain are reachable via SMTP over TCPIP	See previous row.
Address lookup	Specifying how Domino® looks up the recipients of incoming SMTP messages
Exhaustive lookup	See previous row.
Relay host for messages leaving the local Internet domain	Sending mail outside the local Internet domain
Use authentication when sending messages to the relay host	Enabling SMTP outbound authentication to relay hosts
Local Internet domain smart host	Setting up a smart host
Smart host is used for all local Internet domain recipients	See previous row.
Host name lookup	Specifying how Domino® looks up SMTP hosts when sending outbound mail