. Configure {pmg} to forward the incoming SMTP traffic to your Mail
server ('Configuration/Mail Proxy/Default Relay') - 'Default
-Relay' is your e-mail server.
+Relay' is your email server.
-. Configure your e-mail server to send all outgoing messages through
+. Configure your email server to send all outgoing messages through
your {pmg} ('Smart Host', port 26 by default).
For detailed deployment scenarios see chapter
xref:chapter_deployment[Planning for Deployment].
After the installation you have to route all your incoming and
-outgoing e-mail traffic to the {pmg}. For incoming traffic you
+outgoing email traffic to the {pmg}. For incoming traffic you
have to configure your firewall and/or DNS settings. For outgoing
-traffic you need to change the existing e-mail server configuration.
+traffic you need to change the existing email server configuration.
[[advanced_lvm_options]]
What is {pmg}?
--------------
-E-mail security begins at the gateway by controlling all incoming and
-outgoing e-mail messages. {pmg} addresses the full spectrum of
-unwanted e-mail traffic, focusing spam and virus detection. {pmg}
+Email security begins at the gateway by controlling all incoming and
+outgoing email messages. {pmg} addresses the full spectrum of
+unwanted email traffic, focusing spam and virus detection. {pmg}
provides a powerful and affordable server solution to eliminate spam,
-viruses and blocking undesirable content from your e-mail system. All
+viruses and blocking undesirable content from your email system. All
products are self-installing and can be used without deep knowledge of
Linux.
Exclude senders from SMTP blocking. To prevent all SMTP checks
(Greylisting, Receiver Verification, SPF and DNSBL) and accept all
-e-mails for the analysis in the filter rule system, you can add the
+emails for the analysis in the filter rule system, you can add the
following to this list: Domains (Sender/Receiver), Mail address
(Sender/Receiver), Regular Expression (Sender/Receiver), IP address
(Sender), IP network (Sender)
WHO - objects::
-Who is the sender or receiver of the e-mail?
+Who is the sender or receiver of the email?
WHAT - objects::
-What is in the e-mail?
+What is in the email?
WHEN - objects::
-When is the e-mail received by {pmg}?
+When is the email received by {pmg}?
ACTIONS - objects::
Options range from simple spam and virus filter setups to
sophisticated, highly customized configurations blocking certain types
-of e-mails and generating notifications.
+of emails and generating notifications.
Web-based Management Interface
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Planning for Deployment
=======================
-Easy integration into existing e-mail server architecture
+Easy integration into existing email server architecture
---------------------------------------------------------
-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.
image::images/2018_IT_infrastructure_without_Proxmox_Mail_Gateway_final_1024.png[]
-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 the {pmg}, all your email traffic is forwarded to the
+Proxmox Mail Gateway, which filters the email traffic and
+removes unwanted emails. You can manage incoming and outgoing mail
traffic.
image::images/2018_IT_infrastructure_with_Proxmox_Mail_Gateway_final_1024.png[]
-Filtering outgoing e-mails
+Filtering outgoing emails
--------------------------
-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
+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
+. {pmg} can gather statistics about outgoing emails too. Statistics
+about incoming emails looks nice, but they are quite
+useless. Consider two users, user-1 receives 10 emails from news
+portals and wrote 1 email to a person you never heard from. While
+user-2 receives 5 emails from a customer and sent 5 emails
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.
+does not scan outgoing email cannot do that.
-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 just need to send all outgoing
+emails through your {pmg} (usually by specifying Proxmox as
+"smarthost" on your email server).
[[firewall_settings]]
Firewall settings
-----------------
-In order to pass e-mail traffic to the {pmg} you need to allow traffic on the
+In order to pass email 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.
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