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Overview
Rainmail Intranet Server A Complete IT Set-up for the Enterprise One of the key aspects of a growing business is its IT infrastructure. Addressing this effectively has always been a major challenge for systems administrators. Here is software that helps you in handling all your intranet requirements.
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ainmail Intranet Server (RIS) is a bundle of software that provides the complete intranet and network infrastructure to enterprises. The package provides you with a solution that does away with the traditional problem of procuring multiple packages, and then integrating and co-ordinating them for support. This Linux-based application started off as a basic mail and proxy server and, over time, it has added features to become a complete intranet server, based on the feedback of users. RIS broadly performs the following IT infrastructurerelated functions: Security: Antivirus/anti-spam protection, firewall, proxy server, VPN, bandwidth manager and bandwidth aggregator Messaging suite: Email server, fax server, instant messaging and audio video conferencing Storage suite: File server and Web server RIS is a complete package for setting up infrastructure for an enterprise. It comes with a high-end support system, provided in the form of chat, email, phone and onsite support by Carizen's support offices at Chennai, Mumbai and New Delhi. 70 | March 2014 | OPEN SOURCE For You | www.OpenSourceForU.com
System requirements
The minimum system requirements for running the server are listed below: Intel Xeon or Core2Duo processor 4 GB RAM or higher (8 GB is recommended) DVD ROM drive Gigabit network cards
Why RIS?
One of the major reasons to choose RIS is the hassle-free installation and the user-friendly GUI-based administration of the server. RIS is based on tried and tested open source tools like Qmail, Fetchmail, Apache, Samba, bind and iptables. Apart from being open source, these applications are robust, affordable and reliable for the production environment too. A single administrative console/GUI is provided with RIS, which can be used to configure all servers included in the application. This ensures an easy learning curve for RIS, so administrative tasks can be performed even by users with little or no knowledge of Linux. Now let us look at a few of the key components of
