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.
iSeries™ 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 you must take to configure
the client are specific to that client's interface. However, the information
that you must provide is the same. These steps, using Netscape Mail as an
example, are as follows:
- 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.
Note: 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 iSeries user profile name.
- The user password. This password must be the same as the iSeries user
profile password.
- Identify the user and the user's preferences. In Netscape Mail,
for example, the user looks for .
- User name. This is the iSeries 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 a user profile must be on the iSeries server.
- 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 .
- POP user or account name. This is the user ID on the user's e-mail address;
it is also the iSeries user
profile name.
- Outgoing mail (SMTP) server. This is the iSeries host name.
- Identify the incoming mail (POP) server. In Netscape Mail, for
example, the user looks for .
- Incoming mail server. This is the iSeries host name.