Contents Explaining Mail essentials Introduction Key features - a detailed explanation Mail essentials components Installing Mail essentials (Windows 2000) Introduction How Mail essentials gateway works Mail essentials gateway deployment options Installing Mail essentials on a separate machine Installing Mail essentials on the Exchange 2000 machine – inbound security only mode Installing Mail essentials on the Exchange 2000 machine – multiple IP mode The User synchronisation wizard Running the User synchronisation Wizard Installing Mail essentials 5 (Windows NT) Introduction How Mail essentials works System requirements Installing Mail essentials The User synchronisation wizard Running the User synchronisation Wizard Configuring Mail essentials 5 as a mail relay server Configuring Content checking Introduction Creating a content checking rule Creating an attachment checking rule Quarantined e-mail Approving/rejecting mail via an e-mail client Approving/rejecting mail using the Moderator Client Running the moderator client on a remote machine Specifying/adding the Administrators Configuring Virus checking Introduction Configuring Virus Checking Anti virus settings Protection against future Word Macro viruses Triggering the virus update manually Configuring Anti-Spam & Disclaimers Introduction Anti Spam options Disclaimer Configuring Miscellaneous options Compression options Auto replies Archiving User synchronisation Log options Product registration Remote configuration of Mail essentials Mail configuration Introduction The POP3 downloader Dial up Connection options Monitoring the Mail queues (Windows 2000) To send out mail via a smart host if using Windows 2000 Changing the local domain and/or mail server name (w2k) Preventing SPAMMERS using your mail server Mail server settings SMTP options (Windows NT only) Troubleshooting If you are having problems The troubleshooter Appendix: Using POP3 or SMTP to receive mail Introduction Using POP3 to receive mail Using SMTP to receive mail Creating an ODBC data source Introduction To set up an ODBC data source