A messaging server is any server on the network that hosts one or more NetMail® agents. In the eDirectory tree, the Messaging Server object represents the physical server where you have installed the NetMail software.
The Messaging Server object is NetMail specific; therefore, it does not replace the NCP Server object. Instead, each Messaging Server object is associated with an NCP Server object.
The Messaging Server object is represented as a container with server attributes; it contains one or more Agent objects and it defines the messaging server properties.
Because of NetMails building block architecture, you can implement your entire messaging system on a single server or you can distribute NetMail services across multiple messaging servers. In environments with multiple messaging servers, the servers can be configured to work together as a single, integrated messaging system (distributed environment), or they can operate as independent sub-systems (standalone environment).
NOTE: For help in determining if a standalone or distributed messaging server would best suit your messaging environment, see the Novell® NetMail Administration Guide at http://www.novell.com/documentation.
For information on creating and configuring messaging servers, see Creating Messaging Server Objects and Configuring Messaging Server Objects.
A trademark symbol (®, TM, etc.) denotes a Novell trademark. An asterisk (*) denotes a third-party trademark. For more information, see Legal Notices.