HP-UX Mailing Solutions White Paper

NOTE: Sendmail 8.13.3 is available in the core HP-UX 11i v3 operating system.
If Sendmail 8.13.3 is installed on an HP-UX system, the swlist HPUX-MailServer
command displays the following:
HPUX-MailServer C.8.13.3.1 HPUX Mail Server
• The UW-IMAP Software
You must install the latest UW-IMAP software (A.11.00-2007a.002 and above) from http://
www.software.hp.com for the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system.
If UW-IMAP is installed on an HP-UX system, the swlist UW-IMAP command displays
the following:
UW-IMAP A.11.00-2007a.002 IMAP Server
Setting up the IMAP Server
Follow this procedure to set up the IMAP server on an HP-UX system:
1. Append the following entry to the /etc/services file:
imap 143/tcp #UW-IMAP
2. Append the following entry to the /etc/inetd.conf file to start the IMAP server:
imap stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/imapd imapd
3. Reread the /usr/sbin/inetd configuration:
#/usr/sbin/inetd –c
Verifying the IMAP Setup
Follow this procedure to verify the IMAP setup:
1. Enter the following swlist, which, and ls commands to verify the installation of the
UW-IMAP software.
#swlist | grep IMAP
ixUW-IMAP A.11.00-2007a.002 IMAP Server
# which imapd
/usr/sbin/imapd
# ls -l /usr/sbin/imapd
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 32 Jun 27 12:37
/usr/sbin/imapd -> /opt/iexpress/uw-imap/sbin/imapd
These output for the swlist, which, and ls commands denote that the WU-IMAP software
is installed on the system. You must obtain an output similar to this output to ascertain that
the WU-IMAP software is properly installed on your system.
2. Establish a telnet connection from your system to the IMAP server on the local host:
# telnet 0 143
The following output displays to denote that the IMAP server is reachable:
Trying...
Connected to 0.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS]
localhost IMAP4rev1 2007a.403 at Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:25:54 +0530 (IST)
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