Installation - Proxmox Mail Gateway

Proxmox Mail Gateway is a full-featured, open-source mail proxy and protects your mail server from spam, viruses, trojans, and phishing emails. It is deployed between the firewall and your internal mail server where it analyzes and filters incoming as well as outgoing email traffic. This reduces the load on your servers and helps to increase resource utilization.

As a complete operating system, the installation ISO image includes everything you need to install and run the platform in only a few minutes. You can install Proxmox Mail Gateway on dedicated hardware or alternatively on a virtual host in all of the major virtualization platforms.

Take a look at the system requirements, then follow the steps below or read the detailed Installation Guide for Proxmox Mail Gateway.

After successful installation, check out the article Getting started with Proxmox Mail Gateway. This guide includes a small set of adaptations how to improve the detection accuracy and user experience of the Mail Gateway solution.

Download and Install

Download ISO image

The ISO image file is an image of a disk. Download and copy it to a USB flash drive or CD/DVD in order to use it.

Download ISO image

Boot from USB or CD/DVD

Press 'Enter' to start the installation wizard on your dedicated hardware.

If you need help with the installation, read the documentation or get a subscription for technical support.

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Configure via GUI

After the installation, start the configuration of your Proxmox Mail Gateway via the web-based user interface.

Find all details in the documentation:

How to configure

Note: Proxmox Mail Gateway is a bare-metal installer, please be aware that the complete server is used and existing data on the selected disks will be removed.