General

• Primary Domain - This should be your most commonly used domain within Ocean Mail Server (e.g. mail.yourdomain.com). However, any domain which converts to your IP address is usually acceptable. This string is used in server identification for SPAM prevention purposes, service welcome messages and also in the ‘Message-ID’ field in mail headers.
• Admin Email - Most mail servers usually have an appointed administrator email address. Commonly, this is set to something like postmaster@yourdomain.com. This will be used in failure messages and also as a contact address.
• User - If you wish to use remote admin or to secure the dialog interface with a user and password, you can provide the admin login user here.
• Password - If you wish to use remote admin or to secure the dialog interface with a user and password, you can provide the admin login password here.
• Login Required to Access Dialog Interface - If this is enabled, the normal dialog interface will require a user and password before allowing access.
• Enable Skeleton Password - This allows the administrator to set a password which will permit access to any account. To access an account with the skeleton password you must use the full email address as the user login (i.e. user@domain). Please note that this option should be used wisely as it can create a potential security risk. It may also be considered a violation of your users’ privacy rights.
  Initialise On Load - When the mail server first loads, this option will control whether it is initialised by default. It is recommended that you enable this option.
• Full Screen View On Load - When the mail server first loads, this option will control whether the interface is shown in full screen view by default.
• Hide On Load - When the mail server first loads, this option will control whether the interface is hidden by default.
• Run as an NT Service - If you have installed the mail server on Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003, you will have the option of running the application as an NT Service. If enabled, Ocean Mail Server will automatically load before the Windows login screen during boot up. This ensures that regardless of which user is logged into Windows (or even if there are no users logged in), the mail server will always be safely running. Note that you cannot remove the NT service when running in NT service mode for obvious reasons. To remove the service you must first switch back to application mode before this option will be available for you to uncheck.
• Disable Dialog Interface in NT Service Mode - If you have enabled the ‘Run as an NT Service’ option, this allows you to disable the normal dialog interface. This allows the application to run invisibly and therefore helps against unwanted users having access to the mail server settings.

Advanced

• Accounts Directory - This controls where the accounts setup files are stored. Usually there will be no need to change this path. However, if you intend to use clustering or to place the accounts on another hard drive then you will most likely have to change this path. It is perfectly legal to have this path set to a network location which is shared amongst multiple mail servers (for a typical clustering setup). For more information on using network drives please view the FAQ page.
• Settings Auto-Reload Interval - This value controls how often the settings are reloaded into the mail server. If you intend to perform external manipulation of the settings or use clustering, a lower value is recommended. Please note if you’re using ODBC that every time this interval passes all the users will be refreshed from the ODBC data source. If you have a large number of users (over 10000 or more) and you set this value too low, the ODBC data source or network may be put under unacceptable load. In this case, we recommend setting a higher value to reduce the frequency of ODBC data source refreshes.
• Encrypt Passwords - If enabled, any password written into file or an ODBC data source will be automatically encrypted. This prevents passwords from being stored in clear text and helps protect against local password snatching attacks. However, this also means that external reading of passwords by scripts or other software will be prevented. It is therefore recommended that this option be disabled when external control of accounts and settings is being used.
• Bind to All Available IPs - This option affects any services which are set to ‘Use Server Default’ IP binding. If selected, those services will try to bind to all available IPs.
• Listen Only on IP(s) - This option affects any services which are set to ‘Use Server Default’ IP binding. If selected, all those services will try to bind to the IPs listed here. To set multiple IPs, simply separate each IP with a semi-colon (‘;’). It is also acceptable to specify a domain name instead of an IP.
• Perform Content Filtering First - If set, Content Filtering will be applied before Antivirus Filtering. Antivirus scanning usually takes much more processing time than Content Filtering. Therefore, it is often more efficient for the mail server to have this option set as ‘expensive’ virus scanning can be avoided for mails deleted by Content Filtering.
• Perform Antivirus Filtering First - If set, Antivirus Filtering will be applied before Content Filtering.