Diff: MailScanner - Waikato Linux Users Group

Differences between version 14 and predecessor to the previous major change of MailScanner.

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Newer page:	version 14	Last edited on Sunday, October 9, 2005 8:29:07 pm	by CraigBox	Revert
Older page:	version 13	Last edited on Tuesday, July 12, 2005 2:13:27 pm	by JohnMcPherson	Revert

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MailScanner is a generic scanner for use by [MTA]s, intended to drive a spam filter and a virus scanner. It is written in [Perl] and can be set up with at least SendMail and [Exim].

-It usually comes packaged for use with the SpamAssassin spam filter. Plug VipulsRazor into SpamAssassin and [ClamAV] into MailScanner, and you have a complete [Free] anti virus and spam proxy solution - always a good thing to ~~put~~ equip an enterprise mail server with.

+It usually comes packaged for use with the SpamAssassin spam filter. Plug VipulsRazor into SpamAssassin and [ClamAV] into MailScanner, and you have a complete [Free] anti virus and spam proxy solution - always a good thing to equip an enterprise mail server with.

-~~Take~~ a ~~look at~~ OpenProtect, which integrates MailScanner, SpamAssassin and [ClamAV] into an easily installable bundle.

+If you want to pay someone to do all this for you, there's a product called OpenProtect, which integrates MailScanner, SpamAssassin and [ClamAV] into an easily installable bundle.

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+If you're using Exim, you can do most of this directly, and don't really need the overhead of MailScanner. See EximMailFilter .