Facilities are provided for managing spam (unwanted bulk email).
See
UNRESOLVED XREF-0
for details.
sendmail
sendmail
is provided as the mail transport.
Mail Manager
The Mail Manager
is provided to configure sendmail.
Message store
A message store is supported, to increase performance.
Message protocols
IMAP4 and POP3 are supported.
MUAs
The following mail user agents (MUAs) are included:
Netscape mailer (not a native C-client, IMAP-enabled)
mail/mailx (equivalent) (native C-client MUA)
PINE character-based mailer (native C-client MUA)
Dtmail in CDE (not native C-client, not IMAP-enabled)
Multi-homing
Multi-homing is supported with independent alias files and user sets
configurable for each virtual domain.
The Virtual Domain User Manager
is provided to help administer multi-homing for the mail system. This
manager is available via SCOadmin.
Filter
A filter for incoming mail which is compatible with the
.maildelivery functionality in MMDF is supported.
Vacation Notification Manager
Extended absence notification is supported.
The Vacation Notification Manager
is available from the Mail panel on the CDE desktop.
mfck
A tool
mfck
is provided to recover corrupted folders.