Major features?

[Julian Field]

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Gerry Doris wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 09:38, Julian Field wrote:
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>>Michele Neylon::Blacknight Solutions wrote:
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>>>On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 14:24 +0000, Julian Field wrote:
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>>>>From a corporate point of view, I am actually reluctant to include this
>>>>in a major feature list. I would rather they discovered this by
>>>>accident. Thoughts?
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>>>Yes and no.
>>>If you are going to mention source code, then you should place the
>>>emphasis on the security advantages of having access to it
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>>How about I write
>>Full source code available for security audit
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>>--
>>Julian Field
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>Now that is a really big point.  Most of my customers are so security
>aware these days it's ridiculous.
>
>I also liked the point about not having to mess with the mail server
>software when installing MailScanner.  Large shops don't like to modify
>their packages as it makes them unsupportable...Charlie left the company
>last year and we don't have any idea what modifications he made to
>sendmail!=...we tried upgrading but everything broke!
>
>You might want to mention some geewhiz stuff like the names of your
>major users and the number of emails some of these people process per
>day using MailScanner.
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Current list looks like this. I think the blank line is very necessary.

- protects the enterprise against virus, trojan and "phishing" attacks
  from outside and inside
- virtually eliminates spam using a wide range of techniques, including
  SpamAssassin, DCC, Razor and Pyzor
- screens out pornography and other malware attacks
- used by US Navy and US Army, UCLA, Harvard, MIT, Siemens, HP and tens
of thousands
  of other sites
- highly scalable, the largest known site filters 11 million messages
per day on 1 server
- professional installation and support contracts available for
commercial users

- supports all major servers including sendmail, postfix, qmail and others
- no rework of your mail system configuration required to use or remove
MailScanner
- available for all popular Linux and Unix platforms
- available online free of charge - over 350,000 downloads!!!
- full source code available for security audit
- manage using multiple whitelists, blacklists and customized rules
- quarantine suspicious mail
- content and attachment filtering - highly configurable
- a complete list of a features is available at our website
www.mailscanner.info

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Julian Field
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