Bug#685038: ITP: mailscanner -- email gateway for virus scanning, spam and phishing detection

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com> wrote:

>Package: wnpp
>Severity: wishlist
>Owner: Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com>
>
>* Package name    : mailscanner
>  Version         : 4.84.5.2
>  Upstream Author : Julian Field <MailScanner@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>* URL             : http://www.mailscanner.info
>* License         : GPL
>  Programming Lang: Perl
>Description     : email gateway for virus scanning, spam and phishing
>detection
>
>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 detection 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.

In order to integrate with postfix, mailscanner directly manipulates internal postfix queue files. This is not supported by postfix and has broken rather badly on multiple occasions in the past.

Mailscanner's postfix integration should not be mentioned in the package description and it's use should be discouraged in the package documentation.


Scott K