Installation instructions

GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP Installing GFI MailSecurity  5
Installing GFI MailSecurity
Introduction
This chapter explains how to install and configure GFI MailSecurity.
You can install GFI MailSecurity directly on your mail server or you
can choose to install it on a separate machine configured as a mail
relay/gateway server. When installing on a separate machine, you
must first configure the machine to relay the inbound and outbound
emails to your mail server prior to installing this mail security software.
In order to function correctly, GFI MailSecurity requires access to the
complete list of all your email users and their email addresses. This is
required in order to configure content policy rules such attachment
checking and content checking. GFI MailSecurity can access the list of
email users in two ways: either by querying your Active Directory
(requires installing this software in Active Directory mode) or by
importing the list from your SMTP Server (requires installing this
software in SMTP mode). The mode to be used depends entirely on
your network setup and the machine on which you will be installing
this mail security software. You can choose the required access mode
during the installation of GFI MailSecurity.
Typical deployment scenarios
Installing GFI MailSecurity on your mail server
Figure 1 - Installing GFI MailSecurity on your mail server
You can install GFI MailSecurity directly on your mail server, without
any additional configuration required. Moreover you can also choose
any of the two installation modes (i.e., Active Directory mode or SMTP
mode) to define how GFI MailSecurity will retrieve the list of email
users since your mail server will have access to both the Active
Directory as well as to the list of SMTP users which is contained on
the mail server itself.
NOTE: GFI MailSecurity can be only installed in the following
Microsoft Exchange 2007 installations: