By local user we mean an user who

• has no mail address registered at an Internet Service Provider (ISP)
• has HTTP access to an iSeries equipped with the AMailer utility
• wants to be enrolled as AMailer users, in order to exchange mail with other local users and occasionally send mail to Internet mail users (though a local user cannot receive mail from them)

In order to support local users, some TCP definitions must be set.
This is how you do it.

• STEP 1
  Enter command CFGTCP and select option "1. Work with TCP/IP interfaces".
  

  Figure A1 - Work with TCP/IP interfaces

  Take a note of the local IP address of the iSeries (in the example, 192.168.1.5 )

• STEP 2
  Enter command CFGTCP and select option "10. Work with TCP/IP host table entries".
  

  Figure A2 - Work with TCP/IP host table entries

  The IBM® iSeries™ server will receive mail for SMTP Domains that are associated with an iSeries server TCP/IP Interface (for instance the local IP address); for example, you want to have the iSeries server accept mail for SMTP Domain ISERIES.COM.

• STEP 3
  Enter command CFGTCP and select option "12. Change TCP/IP domain information".
  

  Figure A3 - Change TCP/IP domain information

  Make sure that parameter "Host name search priority" is set to *LOCAL.

• STEP 4
  The following TCP servers must be active in order to support mail processing:
  • POP (strtcpsvr *pop)
  • SMTP (strtcpsvr *smtp)
  • MSF (strmsf)

How local users may send / receive mail with their PC's

Once local users have been defined to the iSeries through the process mastered by AMailer (see Define an Internal User), they can send / receive mail through the AMailer webmail (see Work as a user) or even better through their PC mailer (Outlook, Firefox, Lotus Notes, or what you have).

In short, what you have to do with you PC mailer is to define an account that would allow to send and to receive mail by asking services to the iSeries SMTP and POP servers (of course the client PC's must be in a LAN or a VPN with the iSeries).

The following example shows how you can define such an account with Outlook Express (other PC mailers are similar).
In the example we are making the following assumptions:

1. The iSeries domain to be used for defining local user e-mail addresses is iseries.com (associated to the iSeries active interface 192.168.1.5, as per Figure A2).
2. The iSeries SMTP server and POP server are to be contacted at IP address 192.168.1.5 (the SMTP server on standard port number 25, the POP server on standard port number 110).
3. In this example we want to define an Outlook Express account for Mr. Tom Dooley.
   This user has already been defined to the iSeries via AMailer, see Figure 4- Define a new local mail-user with the following data:
   1. e-mail address: tdooley@iseries.com
   2. password: (to be remembered)
   3. user profile assigned: OXCPJTPR, see Figure 5- Existing AMailer users

To define the Outlook Express account for Tom Dooley, do the following:

1. In your Outlook Express select Tools-->Account... to receive the Internet Account pop-up
2. Press the Add button and select electronic mail to receive the User Name pop-up
3. Type Tom Dooley and press the Next button to receive the Address for Internet mail window
4. Type tdooley@iseries.com and press the Next button to receive the Mail Servers Names window
5. On the Mail Servers Names window
   1. for the Incoming Mail Server is... select POP3
   2. for the Incoming Mail Server (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) type the iSeries IP address 192.168.1.5
   3. for the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) type the iSeries IP address 192.168.1.5
   then press the Next button to receive the Access to Internet Mail window
6. On the Access to Internet Mail window
   1. For the Account name type the user profile assigned to this user: OXCPJTPR
   2. For the Password type the same password that was specified when defining this local user to AMailer (see define a new local mail-user)
   3. Check the box Save password
   then press the Next button to receive the completion window, where you must just press the End button.