GFI MailEssentials™ - System requirements

Hardware requirements

The minimum hardware requirements for GFI MailEssentials are:

Processor

  • Minimum: 1Ghz
  • Recommended: 2GHz with multiple cores

Available memory (RAM)

  • Minimum: 1.2GB
  • Recommended: 1.5GB

Free disk space

  • Minimum: 6GB
  • Recommended: 10GB

Note

Hardware requirements depend on a range of factors including email volume, and number of Anti Virus engines enabled in GFI MailEssentials. The requirements specified above are required for GFI MailEssentials only.

Software requirements

Supported operating systems:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (x86/x64) or later
  • Microsoft IIS SMTP service or Exchange Server 2003/2007/2010 (SP1 or later for Exchange 2007)
  • Microsoft IIS World Wide Web service
  • Microsoft Messaging Queuing Service (MSMQ)
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4
  • ASP.NET & Windows Authentication role services when installing on Windows Server 2008

Note

  • For more information how to install pre-requisites on Windows Server 2008 refer to:
    http://go.gfi.com/?pageid=ME_Win2008
  • GFI MailEssentials Information Store Scanning cannot be used if any other software is registered to make use of Microsoft Exchange VSAPI.
  • GFI MailEssentials can also be installed in virtual environments such as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMWare virtualization software.

Antivirus and backup software

Antivirus and backup software scanning may cause GFI MailEssentials to malfunction. This occurs when such software denies access to certain files required by GFI MailEssentials.

Disable third party antivirus and backup software from scanning the following folders:

32-bit installations (x86)64-bit installations (x64)
<..\Program Files\Common Files\GFI><..\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\GFI>
\GFI\MailEssentials\
<..\Inetpub\mailroot> - if installed on a gateway machine.
<..\Program Files\Exchsrvr\Mailroot> - if installed on the same machine as Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003
<..\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\TransportRoles> - if installed on the same machine as Microsoft Exchange 2007
<..\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\TransportRoles> - if installed on the same machine as Microsoft Exchange 2010


Firewall port settings
Configure your firewall to allow the ports used by GFI MailEssentials.

PortDescription
53 - DNS

Used by the following anti-spam filters:

  • IP DNS Blocklist
  • IP DNS Blocklist
  • IP DNS Blocklist
20 & 21 - FTPUsed by GFI MailEssentials to connect to ftp.gfi.com and retrieve latest product version information.
80 - HTTP

Used by GFI MailEssentials to download product patches updates for:

  • SpamRazer
  • Anti-Phishing
  • Bayesian Analysis
  • Antivirus definition files
  • Trojan and executable scanner
  • Email Exploit engine

GFI MailEssentials downloads from the following locations:

  • http://update.gfi.com
  • http://update.gfisoftware.com
  • http://support.gfi.com
  • *.mailshell.com
  • *.spamrazer.gfi.com

Note
GFI MailEssentials can also be configured to download updates through a proxy server.

8013, 8015, 8021 - RemotingThese ports are used for inter-process communication. No firewall configuration is required to allow connections to or from the remoting ports since all the GFI MailEssentials processes run on the same server.
Note
Ensure that no other applications (except GFI MailEssentials) are listening on these ports. If other applications are using this ports, these ports can be changed.
389/636 - LDAP/LDAPS

This port is used in these scenarios:

  • Microsoft Exchange environment - Required if the server running GFI MailEssentials does not have access/cannot get list of users from Active Directory, for example, in a DMZ environment or other environments which do not use Active Directory.
  • Lotus Domino mail server environment - Required to get email addresses from Lotus Domino server.
  • Other SMTP mail server environments - Required to get email addresses from SMTP server.

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