This section presents a step-by-step procedure for generating your PMDF-MR configuration files using the PMDF CONFIGURE MR utility. Refer to Chapter 16 for a sample configuration dialogue.

1. Configuration of PMDF-MR should be done using the SYSTEM account to ensure that the necessary privileges are available to create the configuration files. If you are not logged in as SYSTEM, do so now.
   
2. Begin the configuration procedure by invoking the PMDF CONFIGURE MR utility as follows:

   $ SET DEFAULT PMDF_TABLE: $ PMDF CONFIGURE MR

   
   

3. The configuration procedure will optionally print out detailed explanations of each prompt as it proceeds. Unless you are familiar with the procedure, enable the detailed output.
   
4. If you are using Message Router, closely examine the example configuration presented in Example 16-1 and Example 16-2. If you want to use PMDF-MR's Message Router TS replacement capability, examine the example configuration presented in Example 16-5. Parts of the sample site are probably representative of your own network configuration. In addition, the examples were run with detailed prompting enabled, and will prepare you for the answers you need to provide for your own site. The sample site continues the example presented in Chapter 4, adding a Message Router gateway to the same site.
   
5. Once you have completed running the PMDF CONFIGURE MR utility, print the PMDF_TABLE:mr.checklist file and complete the configuration by following the steps outlined in the checklist. Note that Chapter 16 includes listings of sample mr.checklist files in Example 16-3 and Example 16-6, corresponding to the sample configurations.
   
6. If you answered YES to the prompt for WPS-Plus or DX document conversion, you must build the PMDF DCF document conversion utility. Use the procedure described in the PMDF System Manager's Guide. Note that Chapter 16 includes an example build of the DCF utility in Example 16-4.
   
7. If you are using a compiled configuration you will need to recompile using the PMDF CNBUILD utility for your new PMDF-MR configuration to be visible to PMDF.
   
8. Test out your configuration initially by sending mail to an ALL-IN-1 or other Message Router client through PMDF and PMDF-MR. Using the VMS MAIL utility, send a message to an address of the form

   IN%"A1name@A1.EXAMPLE.COM"

   where A1name is an ALL-IN-1 user and A1.EXAMPLE.COM would apply to our fictional sample site. Use your own appropriate domain name here instead. PMDF should accept the message and deliver it through Message Router to the Message Router client (or directly to the Message Router client if you are using PMDF-MR as a Message Router replacement). Note that in the specific case of ALL-IN-1, the ALL-IN-1 fetcher process will have to run to pick the message up from Message Router (or from PMDF-MR as a Message Router TS replacement) before an A1 user can see it.
   

9. Once local messages work, you can proceed to sending messages from Message Router offsite and from elsewhere on your network to Message Router. If messages do not seem to be getting out, use the Message Router MRMAN and PMDF QM utilities to determine whether they are stuck in Message Router or PMDF. Examination of log files in the PMDF_LOG: directory can help isolate gateway delivery problems. See the chapter "Maintenance and Troubleshooting" in the PMDF System Manager's Guide for additional information on tracking PMDF delivery problems.
   
10. If everything appears to be functional, and you have completed your configuration for the present, you might want to compile your configuration for increased performance. Use the PMDF CNBUILD utility. See the PMDF System Manager's Guide for details.