README.md

Welcome to MailScanner!

Current version: 5.3.2-2 (5.3.3-1 pending)

25 April 2020

MailScanner Team https://www.mailscanner.info

MailScanner is an open source email gateway that processes email for spam, viruses, phishing, and other malicious content. MailScanner leverages other open source software such as ClamAV and Spamassassin. MailScanner will run on any NIX platform and includes install packages for popular distributions such as Redhat, Debian, and SUSE in addition to any generic NIX package.

Info: https://www.mailscanner.info

Release: https://www.mailscanner.info/downloads

Github: https://github.com/MailScanner/v5

Manual: https://s3.amazonaws.com/msv5/docs/ms-admin-guide.pdf

Milter: https://github.com/MailScanner/v5/blob/master/doc/MailScanner%20Milter%20Guide.pdf

Support: http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner

Install/Update

Redhat-based

           rpm -ivh|-Uvh MailScanner-5.x.x-x.rhel.noarch.rpm
           /usr/sbin/ms-configure [--update]

Debian-based

           dpkg -i MailScanner-5.x.x.x-x.noarch.deb
           /usr/sbin/ms-configure [--update]

SuSE-based

           rpm -ivh|-Uvh MailScanner-5.x.x.x-x.suse.noarch.rpm
           /usr/sbin/ms-configure [--update]

Other *nix

           tar -xvzf MailScanner-5.x.x-x.nix.tar.gz
           ./install.sh

MTA Guides:

sendmail - https://www.mailscanner.info/sendmail

postfix - https://www.mailscanner.info/postfix

exim - https://www.mailscanner.info/exim

Setup:

Edit /etc/MailScanner/defaults and set options

Edit /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf and set options

service mailscanner start

NIX:

For generic NIX systems, create a symlink for controlling the start/stop/restart of the program to:

/usr/lib/MailScanner/init/ms-init

• This is not required for RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE

File Locations:

/etc/MailScanner

/usr/share/MailScanner

/usr/lib/MailScanner