Symantec 10765539 Planning Guide - Page 30

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.