Installation

MailBurst^TM: Installation

Installation
Before installing MailBurst, we recommend that you have your DNS and EIMS/AIMS working properly for all the domains you wish to handle. Once this is done, adding MailBurst to your server is simple.

Once you have EIMS/AIMS working properly, please read over our mini-tutorial on how MailBurst and EIMS/AIMS interact.

Installation - New Users
First note that MailBurst must reside on the same volume that contains your System Folder. The current implementation has this small limitation, but it also boosts your performance quite a bit, as mail files are quickly moved from one folder on the volume into another, rather than copying across volumes.

This does not mean that AIMS must be on the System Volume, only that if AIMS is not on the system folder, then rather than typing ":MailBurst:mail" in the accounts screen below, you will have to type a full path for AIMS/EIMS to save files into the MailBurst:mail folder (e.g., System Volume:MailBurst:mail").

Copy the application and the MailBurst folder into the same folder as your EIMS/AIMS application
Edit the MailBurst configuration to your liking
Configure EIMS/AIMS as shown below (if you are not running MailBurst from the AIMS/EIMS folder, be sure to type a correct path to the MailBurst:mail folder).

EIMS 1.2 and earlier:

The accounts screen in EIMS 1.2

Set up the AIMS/EIMS any-name account to "Save as files..." to ":MailBurst:mail" note the placement of the single colon before the first "m".

EIMS 2.x:

To have EIMS 2.0 save mail into the MailBurst:mail folder, you will have to set up a send to address for each domain (see the first image above). Then, once EIMS is routing unknown mail to a single user (we use the MailBurst user in one domain), we set that user to save all mail as files in the MailBurst:mail folder (see the second image) and note the placement of the single colon before the first "m".

Installation - Users upgrading to MailBurst

Quit your copy of DC&R Util 5 1.0 or 2.0
Back up your existing config file.
Copy the MailBurst application into the EIMS/AIMS folder
Copy the MailBurst folder as well. (This folder contains all the former Util5, Util5 Hold, etc. folders.)
Change the any-name account to save mail into the ":MailBurst:mail" folder rather than the ":Util5" folder. (This step is optional, as MailBurst will first look for a Util5 folder and if it is present, MailBurst will look for files from EIMS there. We recommend changing EIMS to save files into the new MailBurst:mail folder.)
Open the old "Util5" folder and drag any messages there into the "MailBurst:mail:" folder. Drag files in your "Util5 hold" into the "MailBurst:hold" folder, and the same for your drop folder.
Copy and rename your config file, replacing the characters "DC&R Util 5" with "MailBurst" (see the sample config file in the MailBurst folder).
Now you are ready to start up MailBurst.
Note that in order to get the new MailBurst program icon, you will have to remove DC&R Util 5 from your disk and rebuild the desktop database. (This is not a requirement, but if you want to see the new program icon, a desktop rebuild after DC&R Util 5 is deleted will do the trick.)

Please note that your existing config file will be re-written when you edit it with MailBurst. All comments will be removed and all fields within lines will be separated with TAB characters.

Back

MailBurstTM: Installation

MailBurst^TM: Installation