User Manual

Contents
1 Introduction ............................................................................................................... 1
1.1 Introduction to GFI MailSecurity ........................................................................ 1
1.2 Using this manual ............................................................................................. 1
1.3 Terms and conventions used in this manual ..................................................... 2
2 About GFI MailSecurity ............................................................................................. 3
2.1 GFI MailSecurity components ........................................................................... 3
2.2 How GFI MailSecurity works ............................................................................. 4
2.3 Licensing ........................................................................................................... 6
3 Typical deployment scenarios ................................................................................. 7
3.2 Which installation mode should I use? .............................................................. 9
4 System requirements .............................................................................................. 11
4.1 Hardware requirements .................................................................................. 11
4.2 Software requirements .................................................................................... 11
5 Pre-install actions ................................................................................................... 13
5.1 Installing on your mail server .......................................................................... 13
5.2 Installing on an IIS mail relay server ............................................................... 13
6 New installations ..................................................................................................... 21
6.1 GFI MailSecurity Post-Installation Wizard ....................................................... 24
7 Upgrade from earlier versions ............................................................................... 27
7.1 Upgrading from GFI MailSecurity 8 or earlier .................................................. 27
7.2 Upgrading from GFI MailSecurity 9 or later ..................................................... 28
7.3 Upgrading the Quarantine ............................................................................... 29
8 Post-install actions ................................................................................................. 31
8.1 Add GFI MailSecurity to the Windows DEP Exception List ............................. 31
8.2 Securing access to the GFI MailSecurity configuration/quarantine ................. 31
8.3 Securing access to the GFI MailSecurity Quarantine RSS feeds ................... 35
8.4 Configuring virtual directory names ................................................................ 36
9 Accessing the GFI MailSecurity Configuration and Quarantine Store ............... 37