Purpose of this Manual

This manual describes the various user-level utilities and interfaces provided with the PMDF family of products. The intended audience is both users and system managers who will be using PMDF or any of the layered PMDF products.

Overview of this Manual

This manual consists of nine chapters:

• Chapter 1, Sending mail messages, explains how to send mail messages to PMDF using a variety of the more common user interfaces available for OpenVMS. This is the chapter to read if you want to learn how to send network mail.
  
• Chapter 2, Receiving Mail Messages, explains briefly how to read mail messages delivered to you by PMDF.
  
• Chapter 3, Message Filtering, Message Forwarding, and Vacation Notices, describes the web-based mail filtering facility.
  
• Chapter 4, Password Change Utility, describes the web-based password change utility.
  
• Chapter 5, The DELIVER Message Delivery System, describes the mail screening facility, DELIVER.
  
• Chapter 6, Mail Server Commands, explains how to use a PMDF mail server to subscribe to mailing lists or obtain files made available through the server.
  
• Chapter 7, Pine User Agent, describes the PMDF Pine user agent and IMAP client.
  
• Chapter 8, The PMDF MAIL Utility, describes the PMDF MAIL utility which is an extended version of VMS MAIL.
  
• Chapter 9, Utilities, describes some of the other PMDF utilities, including PMDF QM which can be used to examine your queued messages awaiting delivery.
  
• Chapter 10, Notes for POP and IMAP Clients, provides tips for POP or IMAP client users remotely accessing their mailbox on the PMDF server system.

Availability

PMDF software products are marketed directly to end users in North America, and either directly or through distributors in other parts of the world depending upon the location of the end user. Contact Process for ordering information, to include referral to an authorized distributor where applicable:

• Process Software, LLC
  959 Concord Street
  Framingham, MA 01701 USA
  +1 508 879 6994
  +1 508 879 0042 (FAX)
  sales@process.com

Credits

Significant portions of PMDF Pine and some portions of the POP and IMAP servers are copyrighted as follows:

• Some portions Copyright © 1988 by The Leland Stanford Junior University.
  Copyright © 1989-1999 by the University of Washington.
• Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notices appear in all copies and that both the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of the University of Washington or The Leland Stanford Junior University not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. This software is made available "as is", and THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON AND THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND IN NO EVENT SHALL THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON OR THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR STRICT LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

The PMDF user agent, PMDF MAIL uses two non-commercial, but nonetheless very high quality, image viewers to display bitmap images. These viewers are XV, written by John Bradley of the University of Pennsylvania, and Xloadimage, written by Jim Frost of Saber Software.

• XV, Copyright © 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 by John Bradley.
• Xloadimage, Copyright © 1989, 1990, 1991 Jim Frost. The following notice applies only to the Xloadimage utility provided with PMDF. It does not apply to PMDF proper. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell Xloadimage and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. The author makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

The following copyright and notice apply to the University of Michigan LDAP implementation.

Copyright © 1994 Regents of the University of Michigan
All rights reserved

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The name of the University cannot be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. This software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

The following additional notices apply to PMDF-TLS.

• This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
• This product includes some RSA Data Security, Inc., software.