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MailScanner

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Description
MailScanner is a email gateway virus-scanner and spam and phishing-detector. It uses Exim, sendmail or postfix as its basis, and supports clamav and some commercial virus scanning engines to do the actual virus scanning. For spam dectection MailScanner uses spamassassin.

The action taken on virus, spam or phishing mails can be configured with a flexible ruleset based on sender, receiver, scoring etc.

Virus checking is disabled and spam checking is enabled by default.
Home Page: http://www.mailscanner.info/
Interface: Command Line
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Available deb Repositories (how-to add a respository)
Debian 32-bit 64-bit
stable 4.79.11-2.2 4.79.11-2.2

Ubuntu 32-bit 64-bit
hardy 4.58.9-2ubuntu1 4.58.9-2ubuntu1
hardy-backports 4.68.8-1~hardy1 4.68.8-1~hardy1
lucid 4.74.16-1 4.74.16-1

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