SME Server 7.0July 1, 2006
The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release
of SME Server 7.0 This release has many new features and fixes for
previously reported issues.
All SME Server users should upgrade to this release.
About SME ServerSME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium
enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by SME Server, Inc.
(
http://www.smeserver.org/ ), a non-profit corporation that exists to
provide marketing and legal support for SME Server.
SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License
and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community.
However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on
meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc.
As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further
development.
Please visit
http://www.smeserver.org/donate/ to donate.
Installation- Simple single CD install
- The installation procedure will rewrite all disks in the system
- Automatic detection of multi-CPU and HyperThreading CPUs
- In order to install on i586 machines you will need to do the following:
1) Press shift while booting to get the boot menu
2) Type "smei586" at the boot prompt
- Many installation problems are caused by the following issues:
* Incorrectly burnt CD:
Please use the "Media Check" to test your media. This screen is
presented at the start of the installation
* Faulty memory
1) Press shift while booting to get the boot menu
2) Type "memtest86" at the boot prompt
* Unsupported or faulty hardware
- Check the memory and CD media
- Use good quality cables and an error-free CDROM drive
- Ensure master/slave configuration is correct, if appropriate
- Disable onboard RAID controllers
- Disable power saving and ACPI features in the BIOS
Automated RAID installationNOTE: All disks must be the same size for SME Server 7.0
- Single disk provides one-way RAID1
- Console screen allows simple addition of second disk to provide mirroring
- Two disks are configured as a RAID1 mirror
- Three to five disks are configured as RAID5 (/boot partition is RAID1)
- Six or more disks are configured as RAID6 (/boot partition is RAID1)
Upgrades- Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades
- An upgrade will preserve the existing data
- Seamless upgrades from unmodified SME Server 6.0, 6.0.1 and 6.5 servers
- Many common contributed add-ons have been included in the standard distribution
Email- Virus scanning
- Executable attachment blocking
- Spam filtering
- Automatic tagging with X-Spam-Status header
- Optional sorting to 'junkmail' mailbox
- Selectable tagging levels
- Optional rejection of spam during SMTP transaction
- Full user/domain recipient filtering
- Attachment conversion from TNEF to MIME
- Pseudonyms panel enhancements
- Ability to send (e.g.) support@domain1 and support@domain2 to different
places
- Can enter pseudonyms of pseudonyms
- Secure POP, IMAP and SMTP
- SMTP authentication for users and for ISP connection
- Horde/IMP3 based webmail
General features- Based on CentOS 4.3
- Software installer panel
- Yum based software installation
- Standard/safe yum "channels" enabled
(This thread replaces
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=26762.0)