Novell Documentation: NetMail 3.5 - Loading and Unloading NetMail Agents

Loading and Unloading NetMail Agents

The following sections provide the information needed to load and unload NetMail agents on NetWare, Windows, and Linux servers.

Loading and Unloading NetMail Agents on NetWare

To restart an individual agent on NetWare systems:

Stop the agent using the unload command.

For example, unload nmapd .
Restart the agent using the load command.

For example, load nmapd .

The following is a listing of the NLM^TM program files for each NetMail agent:

Agent Object	Agent Name	NLM Program
	Address Book Agent	msgldap.nlm
	Alias Agent	msgalias.nlm
	AntiSpam Agent	antispam.nlm
	AntiVirus Agent	avirus.nlm
	AutoReply Agent	forward.nlm
	Calendar Agent	calagent.nlm
	CAP Agent	capd.nlm
	Connection Manager	gkeeper.nlm
	IMAP Agent	imapd.nlm
	List Agent	imslist.nlm
	Modular Web Agent	modwebd.nlm
	ModWeb Calendar Module	mwcal.nlm
	ModWeb Mail Module	mwmail.nlm
	ModWeb Preferences Module	mwpref.nlm
	ModWeb TOM Module	mwtom.nlm
	NMAP Agent	nmapd.nlm
	Pluspack Agent	pluspackd.nlm
	POP Agent	pop3d.nlm
	Proxy Agent	mailprox.nlm
	Rule Agent	ruleserv.nlm
	SMTP Agent	smtpd.nlm
	WebAdmin Agent	webadmin.nlm

Loading and Unloading NetMail Agents on Windows

To restart an individual agent on Windows systems:

Go to a DOS window and enter nimsstop program_name

For example, nimsstop nmapd .

Ensure that you are in the \program files\novell\netmail\bin directory or have it in your path.
Restart the agent in the DOS window by entering the agent's program name.

For example, nmapd .

NOTE: To start or stop the WebAdmin Agent on Windows, you must start or stop the Novell WebAdmin service.

The following is a listing of the program names for each NetMail agent:

Agent Object	Agent Name	Program Name
	Address Book Agent	msgldap.exe
	Alias Agent	msgalias.exe
	AntiSpam Agent	antispam.exe
	AntiVirus Agent	avirus.exe
	AutoReply Agent	forward.exe
	Calendar Agent	calagent.exe
	CAP Agent	capd.exe
	Connection Manager	gkeeper.exe
	IMAP Agent	imapd.exe
	List Agent	imslist.exe
	Modular Web Agent	modwebd.exe
	ModWeb Calendar Module	mwcal.exe
	ModWeb Mail Module	mwmail.exe
	ModWeb Preferences Module	mwpref.exe
	ModWeb TOM Module	mwtom.exe
	NMAP Agent	nmapd.exe
	Pluspack Agent	pluspackd.exe
	POP Agent	pop3d.exe
	Proxy Agent	mailprox.exe
	Rule Agent	ruleserv.exe
	SMTP Agent	smtpd.exe
	WebAdmin Agent	webadmin.exe

Loading and Unloading NetMail Agents on Linux

To restart an individual agent on Linux systems, kill the agent's process. The NetMail autoloader will then notice that a required agent is not running and will restart it for you.

To kill an agent's process, enter killall -15 agent_module_name .

For example, killall -15 nmapd .

NOTE: To start or stop the WebAdmin Agent on Linux, you must use the following commands:

/etc/init.d/novell-webadmin start

/etc/init.d/novell-webadmin stop

The following is a listing of the module names for each NetMail agent:

Agent Object	Agent Name	Module Name
	Address Book Agent	msgldap
	Alias Agent	msgalias
	AntiSpam Agent	antispam
	AntiVirus Agent	avirus
	AutoReply Agent	forward
	Calendar Agent	calagent
	CAP Agent	capd
	Connection Manager	gkeeper
	IMAP Agent	imapd
	List Agent	imslist
	Modular Web Agent	modwebd
	ModWeb Calendar Module	mwcal
	ModWeb Mail Module	mwmail
	ModWeb Preferences Module	mwpref
	ModWeb TOM Module	mwtom
	NMAP Agent	nmapd
	Pluspack Agent	pluspackd
	POP Agent	pop3d
	Proxy Agent	mailprox
	Rule Agent	ruleserv
	SMTP Agent	smtpd
	WebAdmin Agent	webadmin