PMDF User's Guide
UNIX Edition
PMDF-USR-UNIX-6.0

Contents (summary)

• Preface
• Chapter 1 Sending mail messages
• Chapter 2 Receiving mail messages
• Chapter 3 Filtering and rejecting messages
• Chapter 4 Mail server commands
• Chapter 5 Utilities
• Chapter 6 Notes for POP and IMAP clients
• Index
• Figures
• Examples
• Tables

Contents

• Preface

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  Chapter 1 Sending mail messages
  • 1.1 Sending mail with mail, mailx, Pine, etc.
    • 1.1.1 Forwarding mail and delivery mechanisms
    • 1.1.2 Sending and receiving binary files
  • 1.2 Sending mail with DEC MailWorks (Digital UNIX only)
  • 1.3 Sending X.400 mail
  • 1.4 Delivery and read receipts
  • 1.5 sendmail compatibility

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  Chapter 2 Receiving mail messages
  • 2.1 The .forward file
  • 2.2 The PMDF user profile database
  • 2.3 Receiving mail in mail, mailx, etc.
    • 2.3.1 Receiving binary files
    • 2.3.2 Header lines in received messages
  • 2.4 Receiving mail with Pine
    • 2.4.1 Pine folder collections
      • 2.4.1.1 folder-collection option syntax
      • 2.4.1.2 Example folder-collections option setting
  • 2.5 Receiving messages with DEC MailWorks (Digital UNIX only)
  • 2.6 Subaddresses

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  Chapter 3 Filtering and rejecting messages
  • 3.1 Web interface
    • 3.1.1 Example web page displays

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  Chapter 4 Mail server commands
  • 4.1 Sending commands to the server
  • 4.2 Available commands
  • Command 1 CONFIRM
  • Command 2 DIRECTORY
  • Command 3 DIRECTORY/LIST
  • Command 4 ENCODING
  • Command 5 END
  • Command 6 HELP
  • Command 7 INDEX
  • Command 8 LISTS
  • Command 9 MAXIMUM
  • Command 10 MODE
  • Command 11 PURGE/LIST
  • Command 12 SEND
  • Command 13 SEND/LIST
  • Command 14 SUBSCRIBE
  • Command 15 UNSUBSCRIBE

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  Chapter 5 Utilities
  • 5.1 Shell utilities
  • Command 16 decode
  • Command 17 encode
  • Command 18 migrate
  • Command 19 password
  • Command 20 send
  • 5.2 profile: Setting a delivery method
  • Command 21 delete delivery
  • Command 22 set delivery
  • Command 23 show delivery
  • Command 24 show method
  • 5.3 qm: Manipulate your queued messages
  • Command 25 date
  • Command 26 directory
  • Command 27 exit
  • Command 28 help
  • Command 29 history
  • Command 30 quit
  • Command 31 read
  • Command 32 return
  • Command 33 run
  • 5.4 db: Manage personal aliases and mailing lists
    • 5.4.1 Aliases
    • 5.4.2 Mailing lists
    • 5.4.3 Advanced mailing lists
      • 5.4.3.1 Named parameters
      • 5.4.3.2 Positional parameters
      • 5.4.3.3 Examples
      • 5.4.3.4 Length restriction on list definitions
    • 5.4.4 Operation of db
    • 5.4.5 Commands
      • 5.4.5.1 add
      • 5.4.5.2 close
      • 5.4.5.3 copy
      • 5.4.5.4 exit
      • 5.4.5.5 help
      • 5.4.5.6 modify
      • 5.4.5.7 open
      • 5.4.5.8 override
      • 5.4.5.9 quit
      • 5.4.5.10 remove
      • 5.4.5.11 rename
      • 5.4.5.12 run
      • 5.4.5.13 set
      • 5.4.5.14 show
      • 5.4.5.15 wildcards
      • 5.4.5.16 write

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  Chapter 6 Notes for POP and IMAP clients
  • 6.1 The pmdf password utility: enabling authentication (login) mechanisms
  • 6.2 The "Do not delete this message" message in the Berkeley mailbox
  • 6.3 IMAP access to hierarchical folders
  • 6.4 Subaddresses/folders in MessageStore addresses
  • 6.5 Eudora's password changing command

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  Index

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  Examples
  • 2-1 Sample .forward file for user John.Doe
  • 4-1 Sending commands to a mail server
  • 5-1 Sample mailing list: the mailing list file
  • 5-2 Sample mailing list: declaring the alias

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  Figures
  • 3-1 Mailbox filter home page
  • 3-2 Selecting the Discard From filter from the mailbox filter homepage
  • 3-3 Discard From filter
  • 3-4 Excerpt of the Discard From filter helppage

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  Tables
  • 1-1 X.400 attribute names recognized by PMDF-X400
  • 1-2 RFC 2156 printablestring character substitutions ORname in fields
  • 1-3 PMDF's sendmail replacement commandoptions
  • 4-1 Summary of Mail and list server commands
  • 5-1 Summary of pmdf profile commands
  • 5-2 Summary of pmdf qm user mode commands