Major features?

[Julian Field]

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Very good point. I will do a re-write and get some MailWatch piccies off
Steve Freegard.

Gerry Doris wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 16:02, Julian Field wrote:
>
>
>>Here's an initial list. What have I forgotten?
>>
>>Supports any combination of over 20 popular virus scanners, including
>>both commercial and open-source scanners
>>Supports all the most popular mail systems
>>Excellent anti-spam capabilities, using many different tools such as
>>SpamAssassin, Razor, DCC etc.
>>Protection from dangerous file types, both by name and by content
>>Protection from tricks such as filename-extension hiding
>>Advanced heuristic "phishing" fraud detector
>>Mail sanitising including disarming of the most dangerous HTML tags
>>Content filtering, looking for keywords and phrases
>>Runs on all Unix and Linux platforms leveraging both security and
>>reliability
>>Easy installation and configuration but retaining a high level of
>>customisation
>>Can be customised to any arbitrary group of addresses including
>>per-domain and per-user
>>Highly active support and developement, average response to new threats
>>is a few hours
>>Highly cost effective, can implement any security policy for a very low cost
>>Protection from pornographic spam email, an essential feature for schools
>>
>>I've got quite a bit of space (half a page). So please add others, I can
>>always trim them to save space.
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>>--
>>Julian Field
>>
>>
>
>I'm not sure what you want to use the flyer for but I'd be wary about a
>long laundry list of features.  Even the best of your "enlightened"
>followers will likely have their eyes glaze over when presented with a
>mass of text.
>
>I'd try and net out the really big ones...something like
>
>- protects the enterprise against virus, trojan and "phishing" attacks
>- virtually eliminates spam using SpamAssassin, DCC, Razor and Pyzor
>- screens out pornography and other malware attacks
>- supports all major servers including sendmail, postfix and qmail
>- manage using whitelists, blacklists and customized rules
>- quarantine suspicious mail
>- content and attachment filtering - highly configurable
>- available for all popular Linux and Unix platforms
>- available online free of charge - over 18 billion downloads!!!
>- professional installation and support available for commercial users
>- a complete list of a features is available at our website www......
>
>and I suggest you fill up the rest of the space with some screenshots of
>mailscanner-mrtg and mailwatch.  We may not all like to read feature
>lists but we do like pictures!  Those packages really catch people's
>attention.
>
>
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