About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Agorum core, Alpine (email client), Amavis, Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy, Balsa (email client), Bogofilter, Citadel/UX, Claws Mail, Dada Mail, DSPAM, Enigmail, Evolution (software), Exim, Fetchmail, FreePOPs, FUDforum, Getmail, GNUMail, Gnus, Gnuzilla, GNU Mailman, GPGMail, GroupServer, Hula (software), Hypermail, IlohaMail, Internet Messaging Program, Libremail, MailScanner, Mailx, MH Message Handling System, MIMEDefang, Modest (email client), Movemail, Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mutt (email client), NeoMail, OfflineIMAP, Open-Xchange, POPFile, Qpopper, Roundcube, Scalix, Smail, Smartlist, SpamAssassin, Spicebird, SquirrelMail, Sylpheed, Sympa, Uebimiau, UW IMAP, Vpopmail, Xuheki, YAM (Yet Another Mailer), YPOPs!, Zarafa (software), Zimbra. Excerpt: Amavis is an open source content filter for electronic mail, implementing mail message transfer, decoding, some processing and checking, and interfacing with external content filters to provide protection against spam, viruses and other malware. It can be considered an interface between a mailer (MTA, Mail Transfer Agent) and one or more content filters. Amavis can be used to: Notable features: A common mail filtering installation with Amavis consists of a Postfix as an MTA, SpamAssassin as a spam classifier, and ClamAV as an anti-virus protection, all running under a Unix-like operating system. Many other virus scanners (about 30) and some other spam scanners (CRM114, DSPAM, Bogofilter) are supported too, as well as some other MTAs. Three topologies for interfacing with an MTA are supported. The amavisd process can be sandwiched between two instances of an MTA, yielding a classical after-queue mail filtering setup, or amavisd can be used as an SMTP proxy filter in a before-queue filtering setup, or the amavisd process can be consulted to provide mail...
