MailScanner
MailScanner is a freely distributable E-Mail gateway virus scanner and
spam detector. It uses sendmail
or Exim
as its basis, and a choice of
17 commercial virus scanning engines to do the actual virus scanning.
It can decode and scan attachments intended solely for
Microsoft
Outlook users (MS-TNEF). If possible, it will disinfect infected
documents and deliver them automatically. It also has features which
protect it against Denial Of Service attacks.
MailScanner is highly configurable using a very easy-to-use
system of rulesets. Virtually every configuration option can, for
example, be controlled on a per-user, per-domain or per-IP basis.
MailScanner is extremely easy to integrate into your existing
mail transport system, requiring no modification of existing sendmail
configurations. Other MTAs require only minor modifications to
configuration files, and these are all well documented both online and
in the MailScanner book, available direct from the MailScanner web
site.
Worldwide, the author estimates the software
is processing over 1 billion e-mails every day, with over 1
million downloads.
Features include:
- Supports all major servers including sendmail,
postfix,
qmail
and others
- No rework of your mail system configuration required to use
or remove MailScanner
- Protects the enterprise against virus, trojan and
‘phishing’ attacks from outside and inside the
corporate network
- Manage using multiple whitelists, blacklists and customized
rules
- Quarantine suspicious mail
- Content and attachment filtering - highly configurable
- Many spam detection techniques used including blacklists,
heuristic rules, Bayesian statistics, SpamAssassin
and global spam
detectors such as DCC, Razor
and Pyzor
- Protects against the most common known and future attacks
exploiting vulnerabilities in users' email applications
- Eliminates spam using a wide range of techniques, defeating
attempts to circumvent individual spam detection systems
- Screens out pornography and other malware attacks
- Professional installation and support contracts available
- Used by US Navy, US Army, UCLA, Harvard, MIT, Siemens, HP
and tens of thousands of other sites
- Highly scalable, one corporate site filters 11 million
messages per day on one server, another has over 100
MailScanner servers operating as a cluster
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