Installing Brightmail Scanner for Sendmail
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Symantec
Brightmail AntiSpam™
Installing Brightmail Scanner for Sendmail
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Linux
— Intel Pentium or compatible III or IV processor
— 512 MB RAM minimum (1 GB or more recommended)
— 250 MB disk space minimum (1 GB or more recommended)
For more information on hardware requirements, see the
Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam
Deployment Planning Guide
.
Confirm Software and Location Requirements
This version of Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam is supported for Sendmail on the
following operating systems and contains these additional software requirements:
•
Solaris
— Solaris 8 or 9
For Solaris 8, patch 112438 is required.
Because the
tar
file names exceed the 40 character file name limit of native Solaris
tar
, GNU tar is required to install Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam. GNU
tar
for
Solaris is available from
http://www.sunfreeware.com
and other web sites.
•
Linux
— Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3.0
— Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3.0
For Linux installations, the Installer requires the
compat-+
library. The
compat-+
library is available on your Red Hat distribution CD.
•
A fully qualified domain name is required for each computer running Brightmail
Scanner.
•
Sendmail 8.12.11 or later or Sendmail Switch 3.1
•
Sendmail Filtering
You must enable the Sendmail Milter API. For more information, see
“Enable
Sendmail External Filtering,” on page 17
.
You can use the Sendmail restricted shell (
smrsh
) to run executables. For information,
refer to the Sendmail documentation and the Sendmail
README
file.
•
Root access
using
su
or
sudo
•
82 MB of free disk space
for the installed files
•
172 MB of free
/tmp
disk space
for use during installation
You can set the environment variable
IATEMPDIR
to an alternate temporary storage
directory if your
/tmp
directory does not have enough space.
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Outbound Access by Brightmail Server to TCP port 443
Open port 443 on your firewall for HTTPS communication. For registration and
ongoing operations, Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam communicates with the BLOC
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