Setting up Post Office Protocol e-mail clients

If you want to receive and store e-mails by using the Post Office Protocol (POP) server, you need to set up an e-mail client at first. Your system uses the POP server to store and forward e-mail. The e-mail client works with the POP server to receive and store e-mails for the users on the client side. There are a number of e-mail clients available to support POP including Eudora, Netscape Mail, and Lotus Notes^®. The steps take to configure the client are specific to that client's interface. However, the information that provide is the same. These steps, using Netscape Mail as an example, are as follows:

1. Gather POP e-mail client program information.

   • User ID and a fully qualified domain name (the host name plus the domain name). This is the user's e-mail address for receiving mail and is typically in the form of userID@hostname.domainname.

     On some clients, you might have to enter the host address several times: to specify the POP server's host for receiving mail, to specify SMTP's host for sending mail, and to identify the sender of the e-mail to the recipients.

   • POP user or account name. This is the same as the i5/OS^® user profile name.

   • The user password. This password must be the same as the i5/OS user profile password.

2. Identify the user and the user's preferences. In Netscape Mail, for example, the user looks for Edit > Preferences > Mail and News Groups > Identity.

   • User name. This is the i5/OS user profile name.

   • User's e-mail address. This is the user ID and fully qualified domain name.

   • Reply-to address. This can be the same as the user's e-mail address that the network administrator designates, but an i5/OS user profile must exist on the system.

3. Identify the outgoing mail (SMTP) server. You need to identify the SMTP server on the e-mail client because it is the server that allows the client's users to send mail out. In Netscape Mail, for example, the user looks for Edit > Preferences > Mail and News Groups > Mail Servers.

   • POP user or account name. This is the user ID on the user's e-mail address; it is also the i5/OS user profile name.

   • Outgoing mail (SMTP) server. This is the system host name.

4. Identify the incoming mail (POP) server. In Netscape Mail, for example, the user looks for Edit > Preferences > Mail and News Groups > Mail Servers.

   • Incoming mail server. This is the system host name.

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