System Service Settings
Running MDaemon as a System Service.
Use the Setup System Service… menu selection (or press Alt+F8) to open the Service dialog from which you can configure MDaemon to run as a system service under Windows NT/2000/XP or Windows 9x/ME. If you are running Windows 9x, you will see a different Service Settings dialog than NT/2000/XP. Although much less sophisticated, services in Windows 9x will still allow you to operate the software without anyone being logged in.
Service Options
Service name
This is the name that NT will use for the service.
Start service
This is the initial state of the service.
Dependencies
A list of Services that must be active before the MDaemon service should attempt to load.
When running MDaemon as an NT/2000 system service, by default it runs under the LocalSystem account. Because this account does not have access to network devices, MDaemon will not be able to access mail if you wish to store it on other computers across your LAN. That is, not unless you provide logon credentials for an account that can be used to provide the MDaemon service access to network shares. We recommend creating a user account specifically designed for running MDaemon with whatever restrictions that you desire, but which has access to those network shares that you want MDaemon to be able to use. That way you can access network shares with UNC notation or mapped drives when running MDaemon as a service. Further, all applications launched by MDaemon (e.g. MDStats and Pre-Processing utilities) will also use the security context of this same NT Account.
Logon name
This is the logon name of the NT Account under which the MDaemon service should run.
Password
This is the NT Account's password.
Domain
This is the NT Domain on which the account resides. Leave this field blank to logon to the default domain.
