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 e-mail server and that you do not run other servers on the computer.

IMail Server System Requirements

Tip: Before installing on Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, be sure IIS 7 has "Metabase Compatability" enabled. See also Installing IMail Server on Microsoft® Windows 2008

Hardware

Required hardware	For best results
Intel Pentium® 4, 1 GHz or higher, or an equivalent processor Note: To handle mobile synchronization, 2.4 GHz with 2 GB RAM is highly recommended	Pentium 4, 3+ GHz For high volume mail servers use Dual Core or Quad Core processors. Note: To handle mobile synchronization, a Dual Core 2.0 GHz with 3 GB RAM is highly recommended.
1+ GB RAM minimum	2+ GB RAM
TCP/IP enabled network interface card (NIC) with a static IP address

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, Microsoft® Windows® 2003 Server or Microsoft® Windows® 2008 Server

Note: Do NOT deploy IMail on a Windows 2000 Domain Controller.

• 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.