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FAQ for Sys Admin’s

January 25, 2008

Do I need to be a command line expert to use MPP?
Not at all. There are 3 basic steps to install MPP, install MPP core, install MPP manager and any optional plug-ins that you may want to evaluate. MPP includes components for Cloudmark, Mailshell and Sophos, other plug-ins require additional installation as per release notes and docs. MPP can be completely controlled from GUI’s using MPP Manager.

How does MPP make using open source software easier?
MPP integrates open source component technology into complete solutions for compliance and email security. With MPP you can easily create a complete email filtering solution using Postfix, ClamAV and SpamAssassin in minutes with no compiling or intimidating mailing lists. What makes MPP so exciting, however, is that you can interchange components in seconds without having any adverse effects on application settings like WBL’s, policy configurations, etc. So improving SpamAssassin with Cloudmark protection takes less than 20 seconds to complete and drastically improves your performance.

Where can I learn more about MPP technical details?
Our support page, mailing list and support email address will give you all you need to know for installing and evaluating MPP. Unlike many of our competitors we take a very hands on approach to helping our customers. Support emails will be answered lighting fast with good information from knowledgeable staff.

What operating systems does MPP support?
Linux 2.6 or 2.4 kernel, FBSD, Solaris 10 (sparc and i386), Mac OS X, Intel and PPC

What MTA’s does MPP support?
Postfix, Sendmail, Qmail, Exim, Communigate Pro, Surgemail, Sun Java System Messaging Server

Is MPP hard to install?
The MPP VMWare appliance is the easiest to install and configure.  The appliance has recently been revised and setup for a completely operational system is less than 30 minutes after download.  We have a simple script to configure the basics of the environment and in most cases you will never need to access the underlying operating system (which is Debian if you are interesed)

If you prefer to install on your own, MPP has installers for all OS’s that we support and it is generally a quick process - Run MPP Installer, run our configure script, run MPP Manager setup script and go. We will always support via email, phone or IM and we can even do remote installations.

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