Overview of mail scanning

Mail Scanning is an email scanning service that enables scanning of incoming and outgoing email messages for viruses. You can offer Mail Scanning as a service to your customers when you create a site or Service Plan. You can limit email scanning to incoming or outgoing email messages or enable scanning for both.  

Interfacing with the Virus Scanning service

The Mail Scanning service serves as a scanning interface between the mail server and the Virus Scanning service. Its ability to act thus as a connecting interface enables the Virus Scanning service to extend its scanning services to incoming and outgoing email messages. When the control panel server receives an email message, a scan request is sent to the Mail Scanning service. Further, it routes the request to Clam AntiVirus to effect a virus scan.

The control panel uses the email scanning application MailScanner to provide email scanning capability. For detailed information on MailScanner, please visit http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/.

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