Ya know this would be an excellent opportunity to try out the virtual appliance. Your licensing for SMTP5 should allow you to go to this.

I believe all the information about it should be here: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/documentation.jsp?language=english&view=manuals&pid=53991

As far as answering your question, you can do what you are asking, but it wouldn't be highly recommended. You would have to make sure that the box you are going to has the same name and IP information as the box you backed up from.

Let me know if you need more information.
Thanks!

Hi,
we have received a licence email with the licence for

SYMC BRIGHTMAIL MESSAGE FILTER ANTISPAM AV 6.1 PER USER SUB LIC EXPRESS BAND C ESSENTIAL 12MO

the link above goes to a Brightmail Gateway version 8, is this the same product?

thanks

If you are running Mail Security for SMTP version 5 as you stated in your first post, the Brightmail 6 license will not work. So it sounds like you may have received an incorrect license.

If you have licensing for SMTP 5, this can usually be transferred to licensing for the Brightmail Gateway virtual edition on ESX or ESXi.

However, if you are actually running Brightmail Message Filter version 6, then no you will not be able to transfer this to a Brightmail Gateway license.

I hope this clears things up a little. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Thanks!