Step 1: What Do You Need?

To get the best performance and the flexibility to expand your mail service, we recommend that you dedicate a computer to function as your email server and that you do not run other servers on the computer.

IMail Server 2006 System Requirements

Hardware

• An Intel Pentium® 4, 1 GHz or higher or an equivalent
  processor. For best results, a Pentium4, 3+ GHz. For high mail traffic, use multiple processors.
• 512 MB RAM minimum; 1+ GB recommended.
• TCP/IP enabled NIC card with a static IP address.
• A broadband or dial-up connection to the Internet.
• Modem and phone line are required for mail-to-pager, mail-to-fax, and IMonitor notifications.

Note:For best performance, we recommend that you make sure the latest updates for the operating systems be employed. Additionally, we recommend NTFS (rather than FAT) file system for increased operability and security.

Tip:IMail Server runs properly on the minimum hardware requirements recommended by the installed operating system. Performance and capacity increases are based on processor speed, RAM, and drive space. As with all server applications, we recommend that you install IMail Server on the fastest and most powerful server that your budget allows.

Software

• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server or Microsoft Windows 2003 Server

Note: Do NOT deploy IMail on a Windows 2000 Domain Controller, or on a 64-bit OS. IMail Server has not been tested with 64-bit operating systems.

• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 or higher
• Windows Script 5.6 (part of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6)
• Microsoft Data Access Component (MDAC) 2.6 or later
• Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0

Note: If you are missing any of the above, see the latest Release Notes for links to their sources.