30 Understanding system requirements
Hardware and software requirements
Table 4-3
Requirements for Solaris/SPARC or Linux
Solaris/SPARC or Linux Platform Requirements
Operating System
■
Sun Solaris 9 or 10
■
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3.0 (Update 5)
■
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3.0 (Update 5)
Browser
A secure Web connection using one of the following browsers:
■
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
■
Firefox 1.5
Access privileges
Root access using
su
or
sudo
Accounts and
directories
Symantec Mail Security for SMTP software runs as user
mailwall
in the
bmi
group. See the
Symantec Mail Security for
SMTP Installation Guide
for more information.
Alias
Create a mail alias for the mailwall account so that all mail sent
to
mailwall
is read by an administrator.
Domain name
A fully qualified domain name is required for each computer
running the software.
tar program
Because the tar file names exceed the 40 character file name
limit of native Solaris tar, GNU tar is required to install
Symantec Mail Security for SMTP on Solaris. GNU tar for
Solaris is available from
http://www.sunfreeware.com
and other Web sites.
LDAP
Necessary if you want to have LDAP-based group policies or
alias expansion.
MTA
The MTA included with Symantec Mail Security for SMTP
relays mail to existing email servers. It does not provide final
mail delivery functions nor client access to mail via POP.
