Installing Praetor on a standalone Windows machine

 

 

Standalone Praetor installation

Praetor can be installed on a standalone Windows 2000 (server or professional editions) or XP (professional edition only) to filter Internet messages for any email system:

Before you attempt to install Praetor, you will need to insure that the virtual SMTP server that came with Windows is already installed by using Control Panel Services to see if the entry for the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) exists.  If it does not exist, then you need to install it first before you attempt to install Praetor.  In fact, it is imperative that you have that Windows SMTP server fully operational and passing messages into your mail server before Praetor is ever installed.  This critical dependency reflects the fact that Praetor is now an extension of the native Windows SMTP server, which is a component of the Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS).

 

Note:

Some firewalls allow you to place Praetor on the protected side and still have direct reception from the sending mail host.  This is done by designating a tunnel for port 25 on the firewall to be dedicated to the Praetor machine.

If your firewall has its own mail receiver and simply relays messages to Praetor on the interior, then Praetor's SMTP protocol level filters will be de-activated as these tests use the connecting host's IP address.  Obviously in such a situation, the connecting host is your firewall.  An example of this is the DNS blacklist server which Praetor queries by using the IP address of the connecting (sending) mail server.
 

 

As mentioned in the Overview, the installation process involves insuring other Praetor components are present, installing them as necessary.  Click on the links provided to read the details of installing that specific Praetor component.

1.

Install the blank Praetor SQL databases
 

2.

Update the Bayesian database with the default word list

3.

Install PLGV, the Personal Log Viewer web application to give your users the ability to self-release their quarantined messages.
 

After all of these components are successfully installed, the final step is to install Praetor filter.

 

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