Prior to running the PMDF-MB400 configuration utility you must have installed PMDF-MTA with PMDF-MB400 support and have configured PMDF-MTA. Refer to Chapters 1 through 4 if you have not already installed and configured PMDF-MTA. If you had previously installed PMDF-MTA without PMDF-MB400 support and now want to add PMDF-MB400, then you need to reinstall PMDF and this time select the PMDF-MB400 option during the reinstallation. Note that installation of PMDF-MB400, or indeed reinstallation of PMDF-MTA and all related option products, will not adversely affect your existing configuration; you will not need to reconfigure PMDF after reinstalling.

You should also have installed and configured the MAILbus 400 Message Transfer Agent (MTA) prior to attempting to connect to it with PMDF-MB400. Refer to your MAILbus 400 documentation.

The PMDF-MB400 configuration utility will prompt for several pieces of required information. You should be prepared to provide the following:

• The domain name for the PMDF-MB400 gateway. This is the domain name that originators on the PMDF side of the gateway will use to direct messages through PMDF-MB400 into MAILbus 400.
• The X.400 Originator-Recipient name, or ORname, for your PMDF-MB400 gateway. This consists of the various fields of an X.400 address that remote MAILbus 400 users will specify when they originate messages intended for recipients that are reachable on the PMDF side of your PMDF-MB400 gateway. Whenever PMDF-MB400 receives a message from MAILbus 400, ORnames containing these fields will be recognized and passed to PMDF for further delivery. The ORname fields that can be specified are, in order:
  1. Country
  2. Administrative Mail Domain
  3. Private Mail Domain
  4. Organization
  5. up to four Organizational Units
  The Country field must be specified; all other fields are optional.
• The MAILbus 400 client name. This will be sent by PMDF-MB400 any time that a connection with MAILbus 400 is established. The connection will be rejected or the wrong messages retrieved if the name does not match what MAILbus 400 is expecting to see.