Neuer SMTP MTA auf OpenVMS (3E05) John.Dite@compinia.de Compinia - - PDF document
HP IT-Symposium 2006 Neuer SMTP MTA auf OpenVMS (3E05) John.Dite@compinia.de Compinia GmbH & Co. KG Dornacher Str. 3c 85622 Feldkirchen Tel: +49.89.90.5067.55 Topics OpenVMS SMTP Messaging Alternatives CommuniGate Systems
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Microsoft Exchange Lotus Notes Novell GroupWise Sun/iPlanet
Openwave Desktop functionality – collaboration applications Back-end scalability – support for large numbers of accounts Critical Path Nortel Avaya Cisco SIP Infrastructure
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and Redundancy
no “passive” failover systems
– no user segmentation or component functionality
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can be NFS or CFS
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– strategic relationship, technical support, benchmarking, marketing
– OpenVMS Management and Ambassadors, CommuniGate Systems
– Product is fully endorsed by OpenVMS Product Marketing – CommuniGate Systems, developers of CommuniGate Pro, featured in
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CommuniGate Pro vs ALL-IN-1/Office Server Features Comparison
Features and Functionality CommuniGate Pro ALL-IN-1 V3.2 Office Server V5.0 and V6.0 Product Design Centre Very large scale Unified Messaging Large Scale Messaging Large Scale Messaging Universal Messaging (all clients) IMAP and POP3 Client support Voice over IP Prim ary User Interface Outlook and m ultiple Browsers MS Outlook; Team Links; VT MS Outlook and TeamLinks Clients supported MS Outlook; Outlookalike; IMAP; Outlook; TeamLinks Outlook; TeamLinks; IMAP; POP3; POP3; Browser; Voice; PDA; SMS; FAX Browser; VT Browser W ireless Access Yes No No Calendaring; Group Scheduling Yes No No List Server for mailshots Yes No No Dynamic Clustering Yes Yes Yes Platform OpenVMS Integrity and AlphaServer OpenVMS AlphaServer and VAX OpenVMS AlphaServer and VAX Instant Messaging Yes No No Custom izable W eb Interface Yes Yes Yes Personal Address Book Yes Yes Yes Support for external authentication Yes No No Support for SSL, client to server Yes No No Support for Sophos anti-virus Yes No No Support for anti SPAM Yes No No Voice over IP - VoIP Yes No No Video Conferencing Yes No No "Soft" PBX (switch board) Services Yes No No "Virtual Classroom" Yes No No "W ebinar" Services Yes No No Journaling to comply with Sarbanes- Yes No No Oxley legislation (SOX) One year of free software updates Yes No No DECUS 2006
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– in SYS$COMMON:[CommuniGate] directory – CommuniGatePro startup file STARTUP.COM in this directory
– medium or heavy load system at least 2048 "permanent I/O channels": – MCR SYSGEN SHOW CHANNELCNT
– Modify OS configuration that these programs will NOT start automatically
– $ @SYS$COMMON:[CommuniGate]STARTUP.COM START – $ @SYS$COMMON:[CommuniGate]STARTUP.COM STOP
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– contains files with module and kernel component settings
– contains Message files the Enqueuer kernel component failed to parse
– contains account files for the Main Server Domain
– contains directories for all Secondary Domains
– drop-in directory is used to submit messages to Server via the PIPE module
– contains Server Logs
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– legacy BSD mailbox format – each message in the mailbox is preceded with the a From-line:
– .mbox format compatible with legacy applications (local mailers) – same legacy format, but with a "comment" added after the return-path part – CommuniGate Pro Server to store the required message information
– are file directories – each mailbox message is stored as a separate file in the mailbox directory
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– where users can be assigned either mdir or mbox, or even both
– per-message read performance – single-instance message store – and smaller incremental backups – supports the shared storage model
– using less total disk volume – greater simplicity of on-disk layout
– use mdir for users’ INBOX mailboxes – use mbox for users’ other mailboxes
which users do not modify or access nearly as often
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– "CGATE$BASE" = "SYS$SPECIFIC:[COMMUNIGATE]„
– SYSTEM Account – Multi-threaded
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– See contents of
SYS$SPECIFIC:[CommuniGate.Accounts.postmaster-macnt]account.setting file
– Read that file to get the password, but DO NOT MODIFY the password there
– Username: postmaster – Password: (see above)
– See <http://www.stalker.com/CommuniGatePro/Install.html> for the details
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Internet
SMTP MTA SMTP MTA SMTP MTA SMTP MTA SMTP MTA
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Internet IMAP Service Provider
CommunigatePro
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C: telnet servername.com 106 S: 200 CommuniGate Pro at mail.stalker.com PWD Server 3.5 ready C: USER postmaster S: 300 please send the PASS C: PASS postmasterpassword S: 200 login OK C: CreateAccount "user1" S: 200 OK C: CreateAccount "user1" S: 501 Account with this name already exists C: RenameAccount "user1" into "user2" S: 200 OK C: CreateDomain "client1.com" S: 200 OK C: CreateAccount "user1@client1.com" TextMailbox S: 200 OK C: QUIT S: 200 CommuniGate Pro PWD connection closed
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– PIPE module scans this folder periodically – processes the files with the .sub file name extension – when such a file is found, the module copies it into a message queue file – submits that file to the Server kernel for processing – The .sub text files should contain messages in the RFC822 format
– sendmail -f john.dite@compinia.de postmaster@compinia.de
18:58:08.02 2 PIPE [70002] received in {Submitted/m11477122701520.sub}, 493 bytes 18:58:08.23 2 QUEUE([70002]) from <john.dite@compinia.de>, 493 bytes (<auto-000000070002@compinia.de>) 18:58:08.23 2 ENQUEUER-01([70002]) enqueued 18:58:08.40 2 MAILBOX(postmaster/INBOX) {1} appended @0: 56+381(0) bytes 18:58:08.40 2 MAILBOX(postmaster/INBOX) [70002] stored as 1 18:58:08.41 2 ACCOUNT(postmaster) [70002] delivered 18:58:08.41 2 DEQUEUER [70002] LOCAL(postmaster) delivered: Delivered to the user mailbox 18:58:08.48 2 QUEUE([70002]) deleted
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