mailscanner(8)
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
- From-address to test the option/rule specified by -value. Can be
any part of a mailaddress. - -to=to-address
- To-address to test the option/rule specified by -value. Can be used multiple times.
- -ip=ip-address
- IP-address to test the option/rule specified by -value.
- -virus=virus-name
- 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" --from=foo@bar.org
- Test if mails from foo@bar.org are matched by the rule for the
option "Is Definitely Not Spam." (aka. whitelist). Output:
Looked up internal option name "spamwhitelist"
With sender = foo@bar.org
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
<simon.walter@hp-factory.de> 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 (C) 2006 Simon Walter