Before you can run the PMDF-LAN configuration utility, you must have already installed PMDF-LAN and PMDF-MTA on your system, and you must have configured PMDF-MTA. If you will be using the Lotus Notes channel, you must also have configured the PMDF Service Dispatcher. If you have not already installed and configured these components, see Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 for installation and configuration information. See 5- 6 for information about configuring the PMDF Service Dispatcher.)

The PMDF-LAN configuration utility prompts you for several pieces of information. For some of the questions, the configuration utility provides reasonable default values. For other questions, you will need some knowledge of the PC-LAN setup at your site. You should be prepared to provide answers to these questions. Knowing the correct values to answer usually requires coordinating with whomever does the PC-LAN management at your site. If that person is not you, check with them to find out current values, and impress upon them that any future changes in these values will need to be coordinated with you: unilateral changes in the PC-LAN setup will break the mail gateway.

In particular, you will need to be prepared with answers to the following questions.

• Which channels you want to configure: e.g., cc:Mail, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Mail, WordPerfect Office (Groupwise), Novell MHS, or some group of these.
• Any names that the PC mail system has for itself; e.g., domain name for Lotus Notes, network and post office names for Microsoft Mail, domain and post office names for WordPerfect Office, or workgroup name for MHS based systems.
• If you will be configuring a cc:Mail, Microsoft Mail, WordPerfect Office (Groupwise), or Novell MHS channel, or some group of these, you will also need to answer:
  • The name of the directory or directories which will be used as the file drop off spot on the PMDF system for message files destined for the PC-LAN system, or for message files inbound from the PC-LAN system. Any such directories should not be under the PMDF directory tree; they should be located elsewhere. The PMDF directory tree is subject to extension by Process Software; locating PC file transfer directories in the PMDF directory tree can lead to conflicts with future PMDF versions. Also, some site might find it useful to use different sorts of access controls for the directories used for PC file transfer purposes, compared to normal PMDF directory permissions.
• If you will be configuring a Lotus Notes channel, you will also need to be prepared with answers to the following questions.
  • Two port numbers on which the PMDF Service Dispatcher will listen for communications from the PMDF Notes Gateway Service Add-ins. These numbers must match those the PMDF Notes Gateway Service Add-ins are configured to use (in the Lotus Notes server initialization file).
  • The IP address of the Lotus Notes server.

9.1.1 Selecting Pseudo Domain Names

Your PMDF system has a name associated with it. In addition, PC-LAN mail systems often have their own, internal name for the post office and "network" or "domain" or "workgroup" of which they are a part. If your PC mail system is located on a server, that server can itself have a name. Some combination of these names is usually appropriate. Suppose your PMDF system is naples.example.com, and your WordPerfect Office (GroupWise) post office considers itself to be the HQ post office in the EXAMPLE WordPerfect Office domain, and the post office files are stored on a Novell file server named WIDGETS. Reasonable possibilities for the name of the pseudo domain associated with that WordPerfect Office post office might be wpo.example.com, wpo.naples.example.com, wpo.widgets.example.com, hq.naples.example.com, hq.example.com, or hq.widgets.example.com. The best choice for your site might depend upon factors such as: whether you have or anticipate having multiple WordPerfect Office post offices; if so, whether you expect the post offices to reside on the same server, and whether such servers will be accessed from the same OpenVMS system or from multiple systems; and whether the important distinguishing feature of these users is that they are "WordPerfect Office users", or whether it is that they are "HQ users".