How reliable is the "Mailscanner" antivirus? Does it protect only Emails or the whole comp

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How reliable is the "Mailscanner" antivirus? Does it protect only Emails or the whole computer?hijackthis

Mailscanner is not anti virus tool or anti spam tool. If you wanted to control anti virus or spam, you integrate your mail server with Mailscanner. Mailscanner need to be integrated with your email server, install your favorite anti virus tool and/or spam assassin tool.

i) it is not anti virus tool or anti spam tool

ii) You need to install AV tool

iii) It costs lot of money to buy anti virus email gateway. You can buy AV tool which works on Linux/Unix command line integrate with Mailscanner. Anti virus vendors squeeze money based on number of email accounts you have

iv) Mailscanner is a set of Perl scripts with configuration settings for allowing/denying file name extensions, global

spam assassin settings

v) You can archive incoming/outgoing mails modulo legal issues

vi) Works best with sendmail. There seems to be issues with postfix MTA ( as incoming queue is postfix internal, mailscanner try to modify it )

vii) clamav a GPL AV tool works with Mailscanner