Next you need to install the other two services - POP and POST:
It is wise to have the user "root" defined in your setup. NTMAIL will send looping mail to this user and occasionally people who have problems with mail to your location will use "root" as a last resort to contact someone in your organisation.
Start REGEDT32 and select "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE". Select Software, InternetShopper and Mail. Here you will see a set of entries that have already be installed. You can see an entry for "M0" (Mail user 0) which has the following string:
Once you have entered all your users, you need to specify how many users you have on the system. This stage is necessary so that the automatic configuration routines run smoothly and will save you having to have contiguous mail box numbers. Select the entry called "Version" and change the last digit to the number of users. In this case Version would become:
Full details of how to use MAIL can be found on the
Reference Page.
1.4 Setting the Domain Name
There is one other parameter you have to set up to get a
complete and working mail system. This is your domain name. If you have never used
the registry, now is going to be your first time! There is
a page about REGEDT32 to give you
a quick over view on how REGEDT32 works.
Double click on the entry called SmtpData. Change the first parameter from "net-shopper.co.uk" to your domain name. If you fail to do this, the mail system will assume you are "net-shopper.co.uk" and return all incoming mail messages.
You can also change the message that is added to all your
out going mail. Find the string "I love my NT computer" and
change the portion in quotes to your message - you only have
60 characters so keep it snappy (and don't remove the quotes)! If you don't want a message
replace the message with a dash and none will be added.
1.5 Entering the key
The key is the final thing you must enter. Any of the services will
allow you to enter the key and they will all check it and fail if
you enter an incorrect key. Take your key (either from the
Key Page or one you have been issued) and
enter:
If there are any problems with the resgistry values, the SMTP Service will tell you by displaying a message when it start up. If you do get a message - you must correct the problem indiacted before proceeding otherwise no mail can be delivered.
If you wish to move the home directory for the executables, you must
stop each service, run each service with the "-u" option, with the
executable in its new home, run each service with the "-i" option
again.
The last stage is manual to allow the executables to be moved.
What you will need to do:
This script assumes that your provider will send you mail as soon as you
connect. Many providers do not do this, some provide a POP account (see
the PULLMAIL and
others require you to send an email to a specific address to trigger the
download (example 3).
3. Removing NTMAIL
Stop the services and run each service with the "-u" option. This
will remove the service from the Service Control Manager. Now use
REGEDT32 to remove the key "InternetShopper".
4. Using NTMAIL with dialup links
We are currently testing this functioinality to verify that it
works in all situations. If you have problems, please let us
know. Example 3 gives one example of
a dialup connection.