Set up domain and user

This section demonstrates how to create domain and user account in EmailArchitect Email Server.

Set "system" user password

"system" is a built-in administrative account for EmailArchitect Email Server which has full permission to manage all settings in the server such as service, domain, user account and etc... This acount doesn't have a real mailbox, that means this account cannot send/ receive email. Before you can modify any setting, you are required to set the password of "system" account. You can set the password from "All Programs" -> "EmailArchitect Server" -> "Enterprise Manager -> System Password".

Logon Web Access

After the password is set, you can logon Web Access of EmailArchitect Server to add domain and user account from "EnterpriseManager -> Web Access". You can also click here to logon Web Access, the UserId is "system".

Remote Web Access

You can access to Web Access remotely by "http://[host name or IP address]/emailarchitect". e.g. If the email server is "mail.adminsystem.com", then you need to enter this address "http://mail.adminsystem.com/emailarchitect" in web browser location bar.

Create Domain

After you logon Web Access as "system" user, choose "Domains -> New Domain". Suppose the domain name is "adminsystem.com", you just need to input "adminsystem.com" in the domain field (don't change other options) and click "OK". The domain "adminsystem.com" will then be created. To learn more detail about Domain Settings, please refer to Domain Administration.

Internationalized Domain Name (IDN)

An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet, such as Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Tamil or the Latin alphabet-based characters with diacritics, such as French. These writing systems are encoded by computers in multi-byte Unicode. Internationalized domain names are stored in the Domain Name System as ASCII strings using Punycode transcription.

To create unicode domain in EmailArchitect server, you can simply input your domain name in "Create Domain". After you created domain, you can see IDN: your domain Punycode in Domain General Setting.

When you configure DNS setting, please make sure use the PunyCode domain but not your unicode domain.

For Example:
If you add a domain named "测试.测试", its PunyCode is: xn--0zwm56d.xn--0zwm56d,you should add a MX record for xn--0zwm56d.xn--0zwm56d in DNS server. You also need to Add a A record for your MX record and set IP address of the email server to this record.

Create User

After the domain is created, the domain menu will be displayed on the screen, you can click "User Management -> New User" to add an user. e.g. You can add an user named "test". Once the user is created, you can logout Web Access and use "test@adminsystem.com" as UserId to logon Web Access. Now Web Access is switched to the Web Mail, you can send/receive emails using this account. To learn more detail about Domain Settings, please refer to User Administration

Unicode User Name

Although EmailArchitect Server supports unicode user name like IDN, but unicode user name is not recommended, because many email client don't support encoding unicode user name.

Configure DNS Server for Domain

To let other email servers deliver emails to local domain correctly, you are required to set MX record in your DNS Server. Besides, you need to assign the IP address of current machine to the MX record.

For Example:
If you add a domain named "adminsystem.com", you should add a MX record named "mail.adminsystem.com" in DNS server. You also need to set DNS server to resolve (Add a A record named "mail.adminsystem.com" and set IP address of the email server to this record) "mail.adminsystem.com" to the IP address of the email server.
How does it work?
When a SMTP server receive an email with recipient's email address "test@adminsystem.com", it looks up the MX record from DNS server and finds out that this email should be relayed to "mail.adminsystem.com". After resolving the IP address of "mail.adminsystem.com" via DNS server, this email will be delivered to your current machine and received by EmailArchitect Email Server.

Incoming Ports in Windows Firewall and Router

To make the server sending/receiving email correctly, you should open the following incoming ports in your windows firewall and router.

Port Description
25, 587 SMTP Incoming Port
465 SMTP SSL Incoming Port
110 POP3 Incoming Port
995 POP3 SSL Incoming Port
143 IMAP4 Incoming Port
993 IMAP4 SSL Incoming Port
80 Http WebMail Incoming Port
443 Http WebMail SSL Incoming Port
7328 Remote Object Call Port(It is not a MUST if you do not use EmailArchitectObject to access the server remotely)

SPF - Sender Policy Framework

Now, more and more SMTP servers check the domain SPF record to prevent junk e-mail. If you don't set SPF record in your domain dns server, email sent from your domain will be marked as junk e-mail by many anti-spam filters. So SPF record MUST be set up on your DNS server. To learn more, please refer to:
http://spf.pobox.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/technologies/senderid/default.mspx

Online SPF Test Tool

See Also

Server Administration  Domain Administration  User Administration

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