Planning for Deployment
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-Easy integration into existing e-mail server architecture
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+Easy Integration into Existing Email Server Architecture
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-In this sample configuration, your e-mail traffic (SMTP) arrives on
-the firewall and will be directly forwarded to your e-mail server.
+In this sample configuration, your email traffic (SMTP) arrives on
+the firewall and will be directly forwarded to your email server.
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-By using the {pmg}, all your e-mail traffic is forwarded to the
-Proxmox Mail Gateway, which filters the e-mail traffic and
-removes unwanted e-mails. You can manage incoming and outgoing mail
+By using {pmg}, all your email traffic is forwarded to
+the {pmg} instance, which filters the email traffic and
+removes unwanted emails. This allows you to manage incoming and outgoing mail
traffic.
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-Filtering outgoing e-mails
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+Filtering Outgoing Emails
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-Many e-mail filtering solutions do not scan outgoing mails. In contrast, {pmg} is
-designed to scan both incoming and outgoing e-mails. This has two major
+Many email filtering solutions do not scan outgoing mails. In contrast, {pmg} is
+designed to scan both incoming and outgoing emails. This has two major
advantages:
. {pmg} is able to detect viruses sent from an internal host. In many
-countries you are liable for sending viruses to other
-people. The outgoing e-mail scanning feature is an additional
+countries, you are liable for sending viruses to other
+people. The outgoing email scanning feature is an additional
protection to avoid that.
-. {pmg} can gather statistics about outgoing e-mails too. Statistics
-about incoming e-mails looks nice, but they are quite
-useless. Consider two users, user-1 receives 10 e-mails from news
-portals and wrote 1 e-mail to a person you never heard from. While
-user-2 receives 5 e-mails from a customer and sent 5 e-mails
-back. Which user do you consider more active? I am sure it's user-2,
-because he communicates with your customers. {pmg} advanced address
-statistics can show you this important information. A solution which
-does not scan outgoing e-mail cannot do that.
+. {pmg} can gather statistics about outgoing emails too. Statistics
+about incoming emails may look nice, but they aren't necessarily helpful.
+Consider two users; user-1 receives 10 emails from news
+portals and writes 1 email to an unknown individual, while
+user-2 receives 5 emails from customers and sends 5 emails
+in return. With this information, user-2 can be considered as the more active
+user, because they communicate more with your customers. {pmg} advanced address
+statistics can show you this important information, whereas a solution which
+does not scan outgoing email cannot do this.
-To enable outgoing e-mail filtering you just need to send all outgoing
-e-mails through your {pmg} (usually by specifying Proxmox as
-"smarthost" on your e-mail server).
+To enable outgoing email filtering, you simply need to send all outgoing
+emails through your {pmg} (usually by specifying {pmg} as
+"smarthost" on your email server).
[[firewall_settings]]
-Firewall settings
+Firewall Settings
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-In order to pass e-mail traffic to the {pmg} you need to allow traffic on the
-SMTP port. Our software uses the Network Time Protocol (NTP) for time
-synchronization, RAZOR, DNS, SSH, HTTP and port 8006 for the web-based
-management interface.
+In order to pass email traffic to {pmg}, you need to allow traffic on the
+SMTP port. Our software uses the Network Time Protocol (NTP), RAZOR, DNS, SSH,
+and HTTP, as well as port 8006 for the web-based management interface.
[options="header"]
|======
|RAZOR |2703 |TCP |Proxmox |Internet
|DNS |53 |TCP/UDP |Proxmox |DNS Server
|HTTP |80 |TCP |Proxmox |Internet
+|HTTPS |443 |TCP |Proxmox |Internet
|GUI/API |8006 |TCP |Intranet |Proxmox
|======
System Requirements
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-The {pmg} can run on dedicated server hardware or inside a virtual machine on
+{pmg} can run on dedicated server hardware or inside a virtual machine on
any of the following platforms:
* Proxmox VE (KVM)
* LXC container
-* and others supporting Debian Linux as guest OS
+* and others that support Debian Linux as a guest OS
Please see https://www.proxmox.com for details.
-In order to get a benchmark from your hardware, just run 'pmgperf'
-after installation.
+To benchmark your hardware, run 'pmgperf' after installation.
Minimum System Requirements
* CPU: 64bit (Intel EMT64 or AMD64)
-* 2 GB RAM
+* 2 GiB RAM
-* bootable CD-ROM-drive or USB boot support
+* Bootable CD-ROM-drive or USB boot support
-* Monitor with a resolution of 1024x768 for the installation
+* Monitor with a minimum resolution of 1024x768 for the installation
-* Hard disk with at least 8 GB of disk space
+* Hard disk with at least 8 GiB of disk space
-* Ethernet network interface card
+* Ethernet network interface card (NIC)
Recommended System Requirements
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-* Multicore CPU: 64bit (Intel EMT64 or AMD64), +
- for use as virtual machine activate Intel VT/AMD-V CPU flag
+* Multi-core CPU: 64bit (Intel EMT64 or AMD64), +
+** for use in a virtual machine, activate Intel VT/AMD-V CPU flag
-* 4 GB RAM
+* 4 GiB RAM
-* bootable CD-ROM-drive or USB boot support
+* Bootable CD-ROM-drive or USB boot support
-* Monitor with a resolution of 1024x768 for the installation
+* Monitor with a minimum resolution of 1024x768 for the installation
-* 1 Gbps Ethernet network interface card
+* 1 Gbps Ethernet network interface card (NIC)
-* Storage: at least 8 GB free disk space, best setup with redundancy,
- use hardware RAID controller with battery backed write cache (``BBU'') or
- ZFS. ZFS is not compatible with a hardware RAID controller. For best
- performance use Enterprise class SSD with power loss protection.
+* Storage: at least 8 GiB free disk space, best set up with redundancy,
+ using a hardware RAID controller with battery backed write cache (``BBU'') or
+ ZFS. ZFS is not compatible with hardware RAID controllers. For best
+ performance, use enterprise-class SSDs with power loss protection.
Supported web browsers for accessing the web interface
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-To use the web interface you need a modern browser, this includes:
+To use the web interface, you need a modern browser. This includes:
* Firefox, a release from the current year, or the latest Extended
Support Release