Step

Action

1

Go to http://your server's name:4044/ (or the server setting you entered during setup). The page displays the MailWasher Server configuration wizard.

If the page doesn't load, check that you are using the correct URL, and that the MailWasher Server Web Interface service was successfully started.

Click The Create an administrator account page displays.

2

Complete the following fields:

Click . The FirstAlert! service access page displays.

3

The FirstAlert! service access page displays.

Select the Check incoming email against FirstAlert! checkbox if you want to enable this function, and then select the radio button corresponding to how you will connect to FirstAlert!

FirstAlert! provides the main anti-junk mail functionality for MailWasher Server and should not normally be disabled.

If you do not have a FirstAlert! account, you can buy the appropriate license here

To use the FirstAlert! service, MailWasher Server must connect to external FirstAlert! servers. If you are behind a firewall, you may need to either use a SOCKS proxy or open a port in your firewall. The FirstAlert! service is located on port 4051.

Select either:

4

Complete the following fields:

5

6

Click . The Testing the FirstAlert! service settings page displays, and MailWasher server attempts to connect to the FirstAlert! service. This may take several seconds.

If MailWasher Server cannot connect to the FirstAlert! service, an error message will appear, and the wizard will return to step 5. Read the information on firewalls and proxies above, and then correct the settings and retry.

If MailWasher Server connects successfully displays the message The FirstAlert! service has been successfully set up. Click to continue. The Statistical Content Filtering page is displayed.

The Statistical Content Filtering page allows for configuration of bayesian filtering so MailWasher Server can learn to distinguish between spam you receive and legitimate email. This approach is at its most accurate when users are getting the same types of email.

Sensitivity works as follows:

More conservative - Likely to not block as much spam, and less likely to block legitimate email.

More aggressive - Likely to block more spam, but more likely to block legitimate email.

Two options are available to train the filters. We recommend you select the option to collect the first 100 messages and classify them as spam or not spam. MailWasher Server will continue to train these filters based on FirstAlert! matches.

Click The Primary email domain page displays.

7

Enter the main email domain that will be served by this installation in the Main email domain: field and click . The System email addresses page displays.

8

Enter the appropriate system email addresses in the From address: and Return-path address fields.

The From address must be a valid email address; blank email addresses are not permitted. No mail is sent to this address automatically, so it does not need to be set up with your mail server. However, if the recipients reply to any of the system messages the reply would be sent to this address, so you may prefer to use an address that is delivered to someone who can help users with any problems or questions they have.

The return-path address receives bounces when messages sent by MailWasher Server itself bounce (not junk mail that is being blocked with the bounce option). If you want a particular user to review and manage bounces, set this field to their email address. If you do not want to monitor these bounce messages, leave the field blank, in which case your mail server should silently drop the messages.

Click . The Initial Account Import and Setup page displays.

9

This screen allows you to import user's email addresses to setup your user accounts.

Select from the following options:

Microsoft Active Directory Domain: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. Active Directory allows administrators to assign enterprise-wide policies, deploy programs to many computers, and apply critical updates to an entire organization. An Active Directory stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database. Active Directory networks can vary from a small installation with a few hundred objects, to a large installation with millions of objects.

Below is an example of an Active Directory setup

LDAP Directory: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. as above

Below is an example of an LDAP setup

Text File: A comma-separated value (CSV) file should be used with the username in the first field, the user's full name in the second field, and e-mail address in the third field.

Don't import accounts: No accounts are imported

Click . The MailWasher Server home page  displays.