Amavis
| AMaViS | |
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| Publishing year | 1998 |
| Current version | 0.3.12 (March 7, 2003) |
| Current preliminary version | 0.3.13pre2 (January 28, 2004) |
| operating system | Unix , Linux |
| programming language | Perl , originally Shell |
| category | Email security, virus protection |
| License | GPLv2 |
| amavis.sourceforge.net | |
| amavisd-new | |
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| Current version | 2.11.1 (October 8, 2018) |
| operating system | unixoid system |
| programming language | Pearl |
| category | Demon |
| License | GPLv2 and BSD licenses |
| www.amavis.org | |
AMaViS stands for A MAil Virus Scanner and is a server-side virus scanner that is used on Unix / Linux mail servers. The function has now been expanded to include a spam filter .
developer
AMaVis was developed from 1997 by Mogens Kjaer and Juergen Quade and from 1998 to 2000 by Christian Bricart, Rainer Link, Chris Mason (amavis.org). For this purpose, the software was initially written in the Unix Shell programming language. In 2000 it was converted to Perl by Chris Mason and further developed by Geoff Winkless, Lars Hecking and Hilko Bengen until 2003. Mark Martinec worked on various hardware and software projects at the Jozef Stefan Institute (IJS), actively participating in open source projects . Since 2002 he has been involved in the development of the “amavisd-new-content-filter” for the IJS.
Task of the software
AMaViS is not a virus scanner in the true sense of the word, but rather software that was developed to integrate virus scanners into mail servers. It offers a standard interface between the Mail Transfer Agents (MTA) and the content filters so that the manufacturers of mail servers and anti-virus programs do not have to constantly develop new interfaces. For example, it is compatible with Postfix , sendmail or Exim . Antivirus programs that work with Amavis include AntiVir Unix , AVG AV , AVP, ClamAV , Dr. Web , eTrust AV , F-Prot or Kaspersky LMS . The newer amavisd-new also offers the possibility to integrate SpamAssassin and other filter programs.
Individual evidence
- ↑ AMaViS - A Mail Virus Scanner. In: SourceForge . October 31, 2000, accessed August 3, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Choose your AMaViS branch. In: SourceForge. Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
- ↑ AMaViS - A Mail Virus Scanner. In: SourceForge. Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
- ↑ amavisd-new. In: www.amavis.org. April 26, 2016. Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Mark Martinec: amavis (amavisd-new) Configuration and Management 2.7.0 update. (PDF; 1 MB) Heinlein Support GmbH, 2011, accessed on August 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Amavis configuration and management, 2.7.0 update on heinlein-support.de, accessed on February 20, 2014.
- ↑ Peter Eisentraut, Alexander Wirt: Fighting Spam & Viruses with Open Source Tools . O'Reilly Verlag , 2005, Chapter 8: AMaViS, S. 181 ( oreilly.de [PDF; 2.5 MB ]).