Installation

System Requirements MsgCore/NT 
  • Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0 or above.
  • 64MB RAM or above.
  • Intel® 486 CPU or above.
  • A modem for dialup network is optional.

MsgCore/95 

  • Microsoft Windows 95® or Microsoft Windows 98®.
  • 32MB RAM or above.
  • Intel® 486 CPU or above.
  • A modem for dialup network is optional.
Prepare Your System  For Windows NT

Please enable the user right option "Log on as a service" in User Manager. To this end, first, execute the program "User Manager", and select "Policies|User Rights" as the following figure.

Please check the option "Show Advanced User Rights", then you will be able to find the option "Log on as a service" as the following figure.You must add users or groups allowed to receive messages in "Grant To" field below. You can also set it to "Everyone" as what you have seen in the above picture if you think it is quite cumbersome. After reboot, your modifications will take effect.
Notice! MsgCore/NT is not the only one program which asks you to modify attributes in "Log on as service", if another NT service installed on the same computer asks you to modify "Log on as service", please take everything into consider.

Remove Old Version If you have already install old version of MsgCore or any other mail server program, please stop that program and remove old executable files (*.exe) first. Remeber to backup data files if you want to keep all account and message information.

Install the Software  Only users with administrator privilege can install this program. If not, problems could arise. The default configuration of MsgCore is single host listen on all availiable IPs of the computer. At the final step of setup, the following dialog box asks for settings required for single host configuration.

If you don't want to setup your mail server at this time, or you want to create multiple virtual domains, or you wish to keep old settings, please select the check box and the fields below will be disabled.

The field "Data Files Directory" should be the complete path to store all data files of the default host. The default value of the field "Domain Name" is the same as the name you entered in Control Panel|Network, please modify the value of these field for your needs.

 

Crete Multiple Virtual Domain

If you're going to setup multiple mail server on your computer, please run Site Controller (MailSite.exe) after setup.