MPP Australia Email Security Blog

Great article from Ovidiu on how to install the MPP config GUI and qReview / Archive interface – have a read @:

http://messagepartners.com/ovidiu/blog/?p=15

It has never been easier to install MPP than now. With the MPP Virtual Appliance you can have a complete antispam and email archival gateway running in less than 10 minutes after download. You can install on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X and the user needs no knowledge of Linux to configure the system in a typical application.
MPP Virtual Appliance is a semi-configured Linux gateway solution using Postfix and MPP (between real mail server and firewall/NAT host/router). All you need is the VMWare Player and you can start !! OS: Windows / Linux, OS: MacOS X / Intel OS: MacOS X / Intel
The VMware engine comes configured with-
* OS: Debian Linux 4.0 (Etch)
* MTA: Postfix version 2.3.8
* MPP version 3.6.1 trial
* DB server: MySQL 5.0.34
* MPP Manager 1.0.5 (Qreview 3.2.2 + MPP GUI 3.6.1)
setup ready to start! Further into available at ftp://ftp.messagepartners.com/pub/appliance/README.txt
Get your free trial today from our website – http://mpp.ezylink.net.au/trial.php

MPP can archive email into a variety of formats to satisfy a range of applications ranging from compliance with regulatory statutes to general historic archival. The MPP archive system is unique in that it is standard and open and is especially well suited to Linux and other *nix operating environments.
MPPserver is our archive search and retrieval application, included when you buy MPP. Since the archived emails are in standard format you are also able to integrate other archive analysis software of use the powerful builtin mppserver engine (with the optional sphinx text search upgrade also available for fast email scanning/searching).
MPP archives in a variety of formats – MySQL, MIME encoded files, maildir or hybrid(metadata) file locations.