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===Welcome to SME Server 9===

===Welcome to SME Server 10===

Congratulations on choosing the SME Server as your network and communications server!

Congratulations on choosing the SME Server as your network and communications server!

The heart of SME Server is based on the GPL'd sources of the unsupported developer release of SME 7.0 alpha from [http://www.mitel.com/ Mitel], who are the copyright holder for much of what makes SME Server what it is.  Mitel's commercial offering is known as the  "Mitel Managed Application Server", and in the past was known as e-Smith.  Mitel has been very generous to fund development of the alpha and beta versions and to keep to the  spirit of the GPL by sharing their source code freely.

The heart of SME Server is based on the GPL'd sources of the unsupported developer release of SME 7.0 alpha from [http://www.mitel.com/ Mitel], who are the copyright holder for much of what makes SME Server what it is.  Mitel's commercial offering is known as the  "Mitel Managed Application Server", and in the past was known as e-Smith.  Mitel has been very generous to fund development of the alpha and beta versions and to keep to the  spirit of the GPL by sharing their source code freely.

SME Server 9 uses many packages from [http://centos.org CentOS] and [http://repoforge.org/ RepoForge].  CentOS 6 is built from publicly available open source [http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/ Red Hat Enterprise Linux SRPMS] and aims to be binary compatible.  RepoForge is a collaborative effort of several RPM packagers that build RPMs not included with CentOS.  Almost all of the packages that SME Server includes from these upstream vendors are included unmodified.  The purpose of doing so is to take advantage of the stability that comes from the huge user base that uses these packages, for security, and to allow automatic updates as soon as an update is available from the upstream vendor.  Security updates from Redhat/Centos should be available until 2017 for Centos 5 and 2020 for Centos 6.

SME Server 10 uses many packages from [http://centos.org CentOS] and [http://repoforge.org/ RepoForge].  CentOS 7 is built from publicly available open source [http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/ Red Hat Enterprise Linux SRPMS] and aims to be binary compatible.  RepoForge is a collaborative effort of several RPM packagers that build RPMs not included with CentOS.  Almost all of the packages that SME Server includes from these upstream vendors are included unmodified.  The purpose of doing so is to take advantage of the stability that comes from the huge user base that uses these packages, for security, and to allow automatic updates as soon as an update is available from the upstream vendor.  Security updates from Redhat/Centos should be available until 2024 for Centos 7.

====About This Manual====

====About This Manual====

=====History=====

=====History=====

* 30 Jun 2014 - The stable release of SME Server 9.0 which is based on CentOS 6.5

* 30 Jun 2014 - The stable release of SME Server 9.0 which is based on CentOS 6.5

* 25 May 2012 - The stable release of SME Server 8.0 which is based on CentOS 5.8

* 25 May 2012 - The stable release of SME Server 8.0 which is based on CentOS 5.8

* Improved Macintosh file sharing support - The server now includes better support for Macintosh file sharing and eliminates some previous cases where Macintosh users were unable to access i-bays.

* Improved Macintosh file sharing support - The server now includes better support for Macintosh file sharing and eliminates some previous cases where Macintosh users were unable to access i-bays.

* Experimental ISDN card support - While our software has always supported external ISDN adapters, this version now includes experimental support for using an internal passive ISDN card.

* Experimental ISDN card support - While our software has always supported external ISDN adapters, this version now includes experimental support for using an internal passive ISDN card.

*  Installation on a system with 1 hard drive is automatically set up as a degraded RAID1 mirror ready to accept a second drive if or when it is installed.  Systems with 2 drives are set up as RAID 1; Systems with 3 drives are set up as RAID 1 + Hot-spare, 4-6 drives as RAID5 + 1 Hot-spare, and 7+ Drives as RAID6 + Hot-spare. See: [[Raid|Raid How To]]

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* Secure email enhancements.  POP3/SSL, IMAP/SSL, SMTP/SSL, SMTP AUTH over SMTP/SSL.

* Secure email enhancements.  POP3/SSL, IMAP/SSL, SMTP/SSL, SMTP AUTH over SMTP/SSL.