Maverix 2.5 review

Maverix is an Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus solution for AOLServer. This is AOLserver module that implements SMTP protocol and acts as

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Vlad Seryakov and Eric Dean

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Maverix is an Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus solution for AOLServer.

This is AOLserver module that implements SMTP protocol and acts as SMTP proxy with anti-spam and anti-virus capabilities. It includes Web interface to manage quarantined messages and administrative interface based on OSSWEB.

Compiling and Installing

To compile and run nsmaverix module special patch to AOLserver 4.x should be applied or already patched server downloaded from FTP site. It enables non-HTTP module support in the AOLServer driver infrastucture.

To support anti-SPAM feature one of the following should be installed:

SpamAssasin
DSPAM: patched version.

To support anti-virus feature one of the following should be installed:

ClamAV
Sophos: SAVI

PostgreSQL server should be installed and running before installing OSSWEB and Maverix.

Once enabled, maverix acts as SMTP server forwarding all messaged to configured real smtp server via relay parameter. for each SMTP command it calles configured Tcl handler which performs actual processing.