NAME
MailScanner - a email virus scanner and spam tagger.
SYNOPSIS
MailScanner [options] [configfile]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the MailScanner options.
This manual page was written for the Debian(TM) distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
MailScanner is a freely distributable E-Mail gateway virus scanner and spam detector. It uses sendmail or Exim as its basis, and a choice of free/commercial virus scanning engines to do the actual virus scanning. It can decode and scan attachments intended solely for Microsoft Outlook users (MS-TNEF). If possible, it will disinfect infected documents and deliver them automatically. It also has features which protect it against Denial Of Service attacks.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
- -h -H -help
-
Show summary of options.
- -v -V -version -Version
-
Show version of program and the perl libraries used.
- -lint
-
Test the configuration and report errors.
- -c -C -changed
-
Show all values in the configuration which differ from the hardcoded defaults.
- -debug
-
Run MailScanner in debug-mode. In debug-mode MailScanner doesn't spawn childrens and produce a lot of output. Can be compined with -debug-sa.
- -debug-sa
-
Run the spamassassine module inside MailScanner in debug-mode. Warning: This option doesn't stop MailScanner from spawning childrens! Can be compined with -debug.
- -value=optionname
-
Name of the option/rule against which the values of -to, -from, -ip or/and -virus are tested.
- -from=from-address
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From-address to test the option/rule specified by -value. Can be any part of a mailaddress.
- -to=to-address
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To-address to test the option/rule specified by -value. Can be used multiple times.
- -ip=ip-address
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IP-address to test the option/rule specified by -value.
- -virus=virus-name
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Name of the virus to test the option/rule specified by -value.
EXAMPLES
MailScanner -debug -debug-sa
Starts MailScanner in full debug-mode.
MailScanner -value="Is Definitely Not Spam" [email protected]
Test if mails from [email protected] are matched by the rule for the option "Is Definitely Not Spam." (aka. whitelist). Output:
Looked up internal option name "spamwhitelist" With sender = [email protected] Client IP = Virus = Result is "1" 0=No 1=Yes
SEE ALSO
df2mbox(8) d2mbox(8) update_phising_sites(8) update_virus_scanners(8) upgrade_MailScanner_conf(8) /usr/share/doc/mailscanner/html/MailScanner.conf.index.html
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Simon Walter [email protected] for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
AUTHOR
Simon Walter
Author.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2006 Simon Walter