MAILSCANNER BASIC COOPERATIVE SOFTWARE

MailScanner is the most popular email gateway scanning software in the world. It is used at over 30,000 sites, protecting government agencies, corporations and educational institutions. It processes more than 750 million e-mail messages every day, removing over 10 million viruses and identifying 300 million spam messages.

MailScanner acts as the "brain" of your email gateway, configuring and controlling the actions of your Mail Transport Agent, Virus Scanner(s) and spam Detection software.

MailScanner is designed to work with the following Open Source applications:

  • SpamAssassin TM uses a complex set of scoring filters, heuristic tests, blackhole lists, collaborative databases of spam characteristics and Bayesian statistics to make spam identification as reliable as possible.
  • MailWatch for MailScanner is a real time console for email monitoring and reporting.
  • mailscanner-mrtg provides configuration files, web pages, and related perl scripts for mrtg to monitor many aspects of your MailScanner machine.
  • MySQL database may be used to store MailWatch data, configuration options and spam preferences.
  • Distributed Checksum Clearinghouses (DCC) uses unique digital signatures to identify spam .
  • Pyzor is a collaborative, networked system to detect and block spam using identifying digests of messages.
  • Razor2 is a distributed, collaborative, spam detection and filtering network.
  • Webmin module for MailScanner is a GUI based tool for administering MailScanner.
REQUIREMENTS
  • Operating Systems: While MailScanner can be installed on almost any UNIX or Linux based system, we recommend using Suse, CentOS, or RedHat Enterprise Linux. More...
  • Mail Transport Systems supported include Sendmail, Exim and Postfix.

 
 

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