MailWatch – web-based front-end to MailScanner

Last Updated on July 11, 2021

MailWatch for MailScanner is a web-based front-end to MailScanner written in PHP, MySQL and JpGraph.

MailScanner is a highly respected open source email security system design for Linux-based email gateways. It is used at over 40,000 sites around the world, protecting top government departments, commercial corporations and educational institutions. This technology has fast become the standard email solution at many ISP sites for virus protection and spam filtering.

The software comes with a CustomConfig module for MailScanner which causes MailScanner to log all message data (excluding body text) to a MySQL database which is then queried by MailWatch for reporting and statistics.

Features include:

• Displays the inbound/outbound mail queue size (currently for Sendmail/Exim users only), Load Average and Today’s Totals for Messages, Spam, Viruses and Blocked Content on each page header.
• Colour-coded display of recently processed mail.
• Drill-down onto each message to see detailed information.
• Quarantine management allows you to release, delete or run across any quarantined messages.
• Reports with customisable filters and graphs by JpGraph.
• Tools to view Virus Scanner status (currently Sophos only), MySQL database status and to view the MailScanner configuration files.
• Utilites for Sendmail to monitor and display the mail queue sizes and to record and display message relay information.
• Muliple user levels: user, domain and admin that limit the data and features available to each.
• XML-RPC support that allows multiple MailScanner/MailWatch installations to act as one.

Website: sourceforge.net/projects/mailwatch/files
Support: Support
Developer: Steve Freegard
License: GNU GPL v2

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