The following sections explain the concepts and procedures related to setting up and administering Mail in Windows NT.
This section explains how to create a workgroup postoffice (WGPO). The person who creates the WGPO should plan to manage it. Creating the WGPO requires that you complete the following actions:
Before creating a WGPO, verify that your computer meets the following requirements.
On the computer where the WGPO will be installed, there must be:
On each user's computer, there must be:
After you verify that the computer has enough disk space to create a WGPO, you can create a WGPO and an administrator account. The administrator account is the first account you create in the WGPO. After you create the administrator account, you can modify it, but you cannot remove it.
This section describes how to create the WGPO on a computer running Windows NT Workstation or Windows NT Server. If you want to create the WGPO on a network server, see Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5 System Guide.
Important
The computer where you create a WGPO must be turned on at all times so that users can exchange mail.
You should create only one WGPO per workgroup. Only the users connected to the same WGPO can communicate with each other.
If a WGPO has not been assigned to your workgroup, Mail starts the workgroup postoffice Manager and causes the Welcome To Mail dialog box to appear, as described Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5 System Guide.
A message reminds you that there should be only one WGPO in a workgroup and that you will be responsible for managing any new WGPO you create.
To return to the Welcome To Mail dialog box so that you can connect to an existing postoffice, choose No.
When you fill in this dialog box, type names that are easy to read. You can use extended characters (such as letters with accents), but it is not recommended. Only alphanumeric characters are allowed in the Mailbox and Password boxes. The Postoffice Manager is not case-sensitive; that is, "BLAKER," "BlakeR," and "blaker" are considered to be the same.
Click OK.
Important If you are not able to create a WGPO, it is probably because you don't have enough disk space or, if you are creating the WGPO on a server, because you don't have write permission on that server. In either case, the solution is to find another location with enough disk space and where you have sufficient privileges to create the WGPO.
After you create a WGPO, you must share the WGPO directory that contains the data files with all users on the postoffice.
This comment appears in the Connect Network Drive dialog box.
By default, no limit is set.
For information about setting permissions, press F1 while the Access Through Share Permissions dialog box is displayed.
In the File Manager window, the WGPO directory is shown as a shared directory.
After you create a WGPO, the Postoffice Manager command appears on the Mail menu when you start Mail. This command appears only on the computer where you create the WGPO. After you create a WGPO and an administrator account, you can use the Postoffice Manager to manage the WGPO in the following ways:
For more information, see Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5 System Guide.