virus/spam scanning framework
Project homepage: http://www.mailscanner.info/
Description
MailScanner is a complete e-mail security system designed for use on
e-mail gateways. It protects against viruses, and detects attacks
against e-mail client packages (such as Outlook, Outlook Express,
Eudora). It can also detect almost all unsolicited commercial e-mail
(spam) passing through it and respond to all incidents in a wide variety
of ways.
Not only can it scan for known viruses, but it can also protect against
unknown viruses hidden inside e-mail attachments by refusing entry to
attachments whose filenames match any given pattern. This can include
generic patterns that trap filenames attempting to hide the true
filename extension (e.g. ".txt.vbs").
It is superior to many commercial packages in its ability to handle
attacks against itself, such as Denial Of Service attacks caused by
messages containing the "Zip of Death". It is easy to install into an
existing e-mail gateway, requiring very little knowledge of sendmail and
no change to an existing sendmail configuration.
MailScanner itself is entirely open source, but it uses widely known
commercial virus scanning packages at its core. The other software it
uses is all high quality open source software, leading to a system that
can be trusted for performance and reliability.
Optionally, unrar, unarj, and/or unace may be installed and MailScanner
will use them if they are installed.
Package information
- Ports path
- mail/mailscanner
- Package architecture
- amd64
- Maintainer
- Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>
- Categories
- Available flavors
- None listed
Ports list build and test dependencies as well as runtime dependencies. pkg_add selects those needed for installation.
Direct dependencies
Runtime
- archivers/lha
- archivers/p5-Archive-Zip STEM->=1.30p0
- archivers/unzip
- archivers/zoo
- converters/p5-Convert-BinHex
- converters/p5-Convert-TNEF
- databases/p5-DBD-SQLite
- databases/p5-DBI
- devel/p5-IO-String
- devel/p5-OLE-Storage_Lite
- devel/p5-Sys-SigAction
- mail/p5-MIME-tools
- mail/tnef STEM->=1.4.7
- net/p5-Net-CIDR
- net/p5-Net-IP
- net/p5-Sys-Hostname-Long
- net/wget
- security/p5-Digest-SHA1
- sysutils/p5-Filesys-Df
- textproc/antiword
- www/p5-HTML-Parser
OpenBSD README
This README contains unresolved ports variables; replace them before using its commands.
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| Running mailscanner on OpenBSD
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The MailScanner port is using the original MailScanner tarball from
www.mailscanner.info. This tarball puts all the MailScanner files in
subdirectories
bin MailScanner binary / MailScanner start script etc.
etc MailScanner config files / rules / report templates
lib Virus wrapper and autoupdate scripts / MailScanner Perl libraries
docs Documentation
var pid file
In order to make this OpenBSD compliant the port installs those files
in the following directories:
${TRUEPREFIX}/libexec/MailScanner MailScanner binary, virus wrapper/autoupdate
${TRUEPREFIX}/lib/MailScanner MailScanner Perl libraries
${TRUEPREFIX}/share/MailScanner MailScanner report templates
${TRUEPREFIX}/share/doc/MailScanner Documentation
${TRUEPREFIX}/share/examples/MailScanner Example files
${SYSCONFDIR}/MailScanner MailScanner config files / rules
See http://www.mailscanner.info and the sample configuration
files in ${SYSCONFDIR}/MailScanner for further instructions.
To activate this package, you must do the following for sendmail:
1. Set the following in your sendmail.mc file:
define(`confDELIVER_MODE',`queue')
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS',`noetrn')
(if you do not have a sendmail.mc file, use
/usr/share/sendmail/cf/openbsd-proto.mc)
and regenerate your sendmail.cf
(if you do not know how, try:
m4 /usr/share/sendmail/m4/cf.m4 sendmail.mc > test.cf
)
2. Put the following line in /etc/rc.conf.local:
sendmail_flags=-L sm-mta -bd -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in
3. Add the following to /etc/rc.local:
# MailScanner
if [ -x /usr/sbin/sendmail ]; then
echo -n ' sm-mta-queue'; /usr/sbin/sendmail -q30s -L sm-mta-queue
fi
4. Add "mailscanner" to your pkg_scripts line in /etc/rc.conf.local.
5. Add the following to root's crontab:
# Check the status of MailScanner every hour
0 * * * * ${TRUEPREFIX}/bin/check_mailscanner -q
For other MTAs, configure according to MailScanner's documentation,
and follow steps 4 and 5 above.