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Required Groundwork
ZixGateway is a Linux-based appliance provided by ZixCorp. This system is installed and set up in your network. As an SMTP mail relay, it fits naturally into your email stream.
The most complex aspect of initial installation is planning how and where to integrate your ZixGateway appliances into your email stream. If you have a number of email appliances and a lot of email traffic, you may need several ZixGateway appliances. A ZixCorp representative assists planning this integration.
Before you start the configuration, gather the following information for use during this process:
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The map of your email stream with the domain names and/or IP addresses of your ZixGateway |
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Any other mail relays upstream or downstream of the ZixGateway appliances |
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Domain name servers (DNS) |
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Network time servers (NTP) (recommended) |
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Log hosts for receiving content or mail log information (optional) |
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The list of all of your email domains, including your top-level email domain and all of the email subdomains that you have defined in your DNS and email servers. You will need this later to configure your ZixGateway clusters. |