local mail

Many organizations prefer to have their users work with local mail replicas for a number of reasons.

The following steps walk you through the creation of a Setup policy focusing on the elements specific to local mail replicas.

The environment contained one Desktop and one Setup policy prior to the decision to move to local mail replicas.

Fetchmail is run in daemon mode to fetch mail from a POP3 account with an ISP into the local mail system.

When replication occurs, new documents are replicated to the local mail replica in the order of smallest to largest in size.

After the environment was shifted to local mail replicas, the IT team reduced the number of servers.

The following sections review the implementation of policies specific to preparing the environment for local mail replicas.

There are two types of policies used to initiate and maintain settings related to local mail replicas.

On the Basics tab of the Setup Settings document, select the "Create local mail file replica" option (see figure 7).

Many times, we hear people talk about local mail versus server-based mail.

Local mail database replication explained

Example for implementing local mail replicas

Replicate local mail databases with server

Setting Access to Local Mail Groups

Example 1: using the virtual delivery agent for all local mail