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 …

Mailborder is the open source project sponsor of MailScanner. Mailborder is an enterprise email gateway that previously used the MailScanner engine, but now uses a newer engine based on …

Installing MailScanner is as easy as downloading an installation package, installing the package for your distribution, and running the included ms-configure with root privileges.

In your MailScanner.conf file (probably in /etc/MailScanner or /opt/MailScanner/etc), there are 5 settings you need to change. They are all really near the top of the file.

This also includes the translation of "MailScanner" in each of the report lines resulting from one of MailScanner's own checks such as filename, filetype or dangerous HTML content.

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MailScanner was created by Julian Field in 2000 in response to the growing amount of spam when the internet really started to bloom, and there were not many options back in those days …

This first starts the copy of sendmail that provides SMTP service, building the work queue for MailScanner. It then starts the copy of sendmail that delivers the output from MailScanner.

MailScanner itself needs to know how to invoke Exim to send mail. It does this to send warning messages to sender, recipients and postmaster when a virus is detected, and to initiate an …

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