AVIRA ANTIVIR UNIX MAILGATE, User Manual

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Milter Mode
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AntiVir MailGate Avira GmbH
3.2 AntiVir MailGate (Milter Mode) Features
AntiVir MailGate (Milter mode) is a plug-in for Sendmail, from version 8.11, and
communicates through Sendmail’s libmilter interface.
It scans all incoming and outgoing emails. Infected emails are not forwarded. A
status notification is shown in
syslog
. It can notify senders, recipients and
administrators of infections.
Functions
Most of these features also apply to MailGate, even when it is not running in Milter
mode.
z All Sendmail features remain available.
Example: SMTP authentication, anti-relaying and anti-spam
z Simple installation and integration in Sendmail
z
Hourly or daily Internet update for scan engine and VDF
z
Scanning of incoming and outgoing emails
z
Reliable on-access detection of viruses and malware
z Configurable reaction when viruses or malware are detected
z Isolation of infected or suspicious files in a quarantine directory
z
Logfile used as email traffic log
z
Immediate activation of new VDF
z Heuristic macrovirus detection
z Configurable templates for alerts
z
Archive scanning
(the supported archive formats are displayed with
antivir --info
)