Before beginning your setup, please ensure you have all the following information and access at hand.
Essential
- Admin login credentials for Mail Assure
- A full list of domains you wish to add
- A full list of mailboxes to be added per domain, including:
- the mailbox types (distribution List, shared mailboxes, or regular)
- whether the mailbox should be filtered for spam
- Outgoing User/Authentication Method details (username and password, or authenticating IP/range, or authenticating domain name and password)
- Access to DNS, with permissions to update the SPF and MX records
- Access to your firewall, with permissions to adjust the IP address Allow list or Block list
- Access to your local mail server to configure the SMTP Smarthost (e.g. Exchange, M365, Google Workspace (G-Suite) etc.)
Optional
- A list of domain aliases to be added to the primary domains
- A list of mailbox aliases to be added to the primary mailboxes
- A list of people that should have admin or domain access (to enable you to add sub admins, Technicians or domain users)