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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 users and servers
Topics in this section describe how to set up users and servers.
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 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 the IMAP service
You customize the IMAP service by editing the Server document and Configuration Settings document.

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.
  - Understanding the Server document
    The Server document is set up when you register a server. It contains many of the settings that define how your server operates.
  - Policies
    Use Domino® policy settings to control how users work with Notes®. A policy is a document that identifies a collection of individual policy settings. Policy settings documents define a set of defaults that apply to the users and groups to which the policy is assigned. You can change policy settings and they will be automatically applied to the assigned users and groups.
  - Defining default settings for Notes® user registration
    Before you register new Notes® users, you can specify default settings that apply to all users. Default settings simplify user registration and ensure user settings consistency. You can define many default settings, such as what mail server users have or what certifier ID to use for user registration. You can also specify a default workstation execution control list (ECL) to protect data from unauthorized workstation access.
  - Using groups
    Groups are lists of users, groups, and servers that have common traits. They are useful for mailing lists and access control lists. Using groups can simplify administration tasks.
  - Replicas
    You can make a database available to users in different locations, on different networks, or in different time zones, by creating replicas of the database.
  - Calendars and scheduling
    The calendar and scheduling features allow users to check the free time of other users, schedule meetings with them, and reserve resources, such as conference rooms and equipment.
  - Editing the notes.ini file
    The Domino and Notes notes.ini files contain the settings required for the server and client to operate correctly. If you modify or add settings in a notes.ini file, do so cautiously and never edit the file directly with a text editor.
  - 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.
    - 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.
      - How Domino® modifies mail files to support IMAP
        IMAP clients use a standard Domino® mail file that must be specially enabled for IMAP. If you enable IMAP access for the mail file of a registered Notes® user, the user can access the file from either the Notes client or from an IMAP client.
      - Setting up the IMAP service
        The Domino® IMAP service can be run on any Domino server on which a TCP/IP port is configured.
      - Starting and stopping the IMAP task
        You can load the IMAP task manually or start it automatically when you start the Domino® server.
      - Customizing the IMAP service
        You customize the IMAP service by editing the Server document and Configuration Settings document.
        Enabling and configuring the IMAP service port
        In addition to enabling or disabling the IMAP TCP/IP or TLS port, you can change the port number, and enable or disable TCP/IP or TLS authentication options.
        Setting IMAP session limits
        You can set limits on IMAP sessions by setting the maximum number of IMAP sessions, or by setting a default timeout value
        Setting the IMAP service to automatically enable mail files at login
        User mail files must be specially enabled for IMAP use. After a mail file is enabled, Domino® converts information about each message in the mail file, such as its message ID and folder location, into a set of IMAP attributes. IMAP clients use these attributes to organize messages for display. An additional attribute informs the Router to add IMAP attributes to new messages delivered to the mail file.
        Enabling the IMAP service to automatically display all accessible mail folders
        The Domino® IMAP service complies with RFC 2342, which defines a method by which the IMAP service automatically presents a client with a list of all mail files to which the current user has access
        Configuring IMAP Public folders
        To provide IMAP clients with access to a public mail database you first enable a database for IMAP use, and then specify the appropriate level of access to that database for users. Finally, you designate the database as an IMAP public folder. This procedure provides steps for configuring a database as an IMAP public folder.
        Configuring Other Users IMAP folders
        If NAMESPACE support is enabled on the server, in addition to displaying the current user's primary personal mail folders, an IMAP client displays the personal namespaces of other users who have explicitly granted access to their personal mail files to the currently authenticated user.
        Configuring IMAP internal thread use
        The IMAP service acts as an intermediary between IMAP clients attempting to retrieve messages and the HCL Domino® mail server. IMAP clients do not have direct access to mail files on the Domino server; instead, the IMAP service acts as a proxy, relaying each client's request to retrieve messages to the mail server. To return message data to the client, Domino opens the mail database and passes on the requested information to the IMAP service. The IMAP service then sends the requested message information to the client.
        Specifying the default IMAP service greetings
        In the Server document, you can configure the ports that IMAP clients can use to connect to the IMAP service. IMAP clients can connect over a TCP/IP port or an TLS port. If you have TLS set up on the server, you can configure the TCP/IP port so that it redirects connections to the TLS port.
      - Setting up IMAP users
        To set up IMAP users, you can create a full-text index of the mail file so the IMAP user can search for information in the file.
    - 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.
  - Configuring Widgets and Live Text
    Widgets and Live Text enables end users to see and act on Live Text in supported documents, including HCL Notes® mail, using XML extensions (widgets) created specifically for their use.
  - Domain Search
    Notes® client and Web users can use Domain Search to search an entire Domino® domain for database documents, files, and attachments that match a search query.

Customizing the IMAP service

You customize the IMAP service by editing the Server document and Configuration Settings document.

You can change settings by following the procedures listed in the related topics.