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Overview

"Mailshell Sendmail Plugin" is the only Sendmail filter which utilizes the award-winning Mailshell Anti-Spam Engine, the easiest and most accurate solution to spam.

Besides utilizing all the capabilities of Mailshell Anti-Spam Engine to compute a spam score, "Mailshell Sendmail Plugin" does MTA host name verification, sender address verification, file extension checks for attachments and detailed logging to syslog. All this is done by a simple installation and configuration as described below.

The Mailshell Sendmail Plugin runs as an External Filter and calculates a spam "score" for each message being processed. Unlike tools with statically defined patterns for spam messages, the Mailshell Sendmail Plugin dynamically retrieves new patterns from Mailshell Network thus providing greater accuracy for new spam messages.

The score ranges from 0 to 100; the higher the message score the more likely the message is spam. The score is added to message headers so it can be processed by Server-Wide, Domain-Wide and Account Rules.

By default the added header lines look like this:

    X-SendmailPlugin-Score: 91
    X-SpamCatcher-Score: 91
    X-SpamCatcher-Flag: Yes

In addition, if the message is spam, i.e. spam score for the message is higher than spam threshold specified in the configuration file, "Subject" header will be tagged like this:

    Subject: [Spamcatcher] example subject

Note: The Mailshell Sendmail Plugin is available only for FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris. Before you order the Sendmail Plugin License, make sure the plugin is available for your platform.

You have to install and configure the plugin before you run Sendmail.


This product includes software developed by Neal Horman, which is Neal Horman - http://www.wanlink.com Copyright (c) 2003 Neal Horman. All Rights Reserved.


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