Spam (unsolicited commercial e-mail) accounts for 35% of all messages and is rapidly increasing. 1 in 150 messages contains a virus, costing many billions of dollars around the world every year. Surveys have shown that removing 1 virus from 1 PC costs over $600. Removing a virus infection from a server costs over $50,000.
- MailScanner is already a highly-respected open source e-mail security system, with more users than AOL and Hotmail combined, and this new release increases its stability and performance. It processes 500 million e-mail messages every day, removing 2 million viruses and identifying 75 million spam messages. MailScanner is used at 20,000 sites around the world protecting top government departments, commercial corporations and educational institutions. It is becoming a standard feature of many ISP's as virus protection and spam filtering are now essential requirements for most users.
- MailScanner scans all e-mail for viruses, spam and attacks against security vulnerabilities. It is not tied to any particular virus scanner, but can be used with any combination of 14 different virus scanners, allowing sites to choose the "best of breed" virus scanner. Being open source, site administrators can audit and verify the integrity of the system. Its role is a major part in the security of a network, and so it must act as a trusted service. The only way to achieve the required level of trust is to be open source, an approach the commercial suppliers are not willing to take.
MailScanner has been developed in a world-leading Electronics and Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, and is distributed for *FREE* under the GNU Public Licence.
Scans e-mail for viruses using any combination of up to 14 different virus scanners
To find out more, visit the web site at www.mailscanner.info.
Automatically updates all installed virus scanners every hour, by default
Identifies over 95% of spam using several techniques, including highly advanced heuristics
Spam can be tagged, rejected, discarded, archived or forwarded to other addresses for inspection by administrators
Pornographic spam can be stripped of all graphical content, protecting users from obscene content
Scans e-mail for attacks against known and unknown security vulnerabilities in popular e-mail applications, automatically correcting messages "on the fly" whenever possible and quarantining dangerous sections of other messages
Highly scalable: 1 PC can process over 1.5 million e-mail messages per day
Robust: Protects itself against "Denial of Service" attacks and operating system resource leaks
Highly configurable, providing ISP's and ASP's with the possibility of using thousands of different rules and configurations for any combination of users or domains
Easy to set up as all configuration options are supplied with "sensible" defaultsMailScanner Webmin Frontend
Lushsoft is proud to be apart of this by creating and supporting a webmin module for it.
The Webmin module is a popular open source administration tool for Linux administration interface. Webmin is easy to use and provides a GUI for all the common administrative functions.
The MailScanner webmin module provides a GUI front-end and editor for the MailScanner configuration files.
To download the MailScanner administration module (version 1.1-4) please click here.
The module is also available from Sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/msfrontend.
Visit our support forums for help and to discuss the module.
