Milter Products List : Opensource vs commercial 2/5

 
 
 

Opensource solutions

[MIMEdefang]
  • description: Perl program for inspecting and modifying e-mail messages as they pass through your mail relay
  • category: SPAM, ATTACHMENT, VIRUS, SCRIPTABLE,DISCLAIMER, ARCHIVING
  • status: maintained (latest version : 2.42 Mar 31, 2004)
  • mailing list URL
  • Requirements : perl and perl Modules, sendmail 8.12.x
  • Comments : perl interface to Milter : configuration done through a Perl filter. Basis of commercial products CanIt & CanIt Pro.
[j-chkmail]
    description: mail filtering software to fight against virus and spam
  • category: SPAM, ATTACHMENT, VIRUS
  • status: maintained (latest version : 1.3.1d Nov 03, 2003)
  • mailing list URL
  • Comments: early antivirus support and scripting support. Distribution changed for recent releases : available only to registered users
[Python Milter]
    description: robust toolkit for Python milters
  • category: ATTACHMENT, SPAM, SCRIPTABLE
  • status: maintained (latest version : 0.6.5 Mar 01, 2004)
  • Requirements : python and Python modules
  • Comments : python interface to libmilter.
[Sendmail::Milter]
  • description: Perl module for writing mail filters in Perl
  • category: SPAM, ATTACHMENT
  • status: still maintained ? (latest version : 0.18 October 9, 2001)
  • mailing list URL
  • Requirements : perl with THREAD support (not standard) and perl Modules
  • Comments : perl interface to Milter : configuration done through some Perl filter

[libmilter++]
  • description: C++ wrapper library for the Sendmail Milter API
  • category: SCRIPTABLE
  • status: maintained
  • mailing list URL
miltrassassin
  • description: a lightweight sendmail<->SpamAssassin milddleware
  • category: SPAM
  • status: maintained (latest version : check_local 5.6 June 11, 2003)
  • Comments: this Milter speaks the SPAMD protocol. Get the latest beta
[noattach]
  • description : mail filter that checks client IP address and all IP addresses found in "Received:" headers agains DNSBL database
  • category: ATTACHMENT
  • status: maintained (latest version : 1.1p1 August 22, 2003)
[spammer]
  • description: simple mail filter that checks client IP address and all IP addresses found in "Received:" headers agains DNSBL database
  • Category: SPAM
  • Status: maintained (latest version : 0.3.2 July 12, 2003)
[amavis]
  • description: A MAil VIrus Scanner
  • category: VIRUS
  • mailing-list URL
  • comments: use amavisd-0.1 instead of the amavisd-snapshots or old non-daemonized versions
  • status: maintained (latest version : 0.1 March 11, 2003)
[amavisd-new]
  • description: performance-enhanced version of amavisd with antispam features
  • category: VIRUS, SPAM, ATTACHMENT
  • status : maintained (latest version : amavisd-new-20030616-p9.tar.gz Apr 02, 2004)
[avpmilter]
  • description: milter interface to the Kaspersky antivirus daemo
  • category: VIRUS
  • status: maintained ? (latest version 0.2-2, March 6, 2002)
[vbsfilter/cvgfilter]
  • description: Milter to defang attachments or insert a disclaimer
  • category: ATTACHMENT, DISCLAIMER
  • status: maintained (latest version vbsfilter 1.14 June 26, 2003, cvgfilter 1.11 Mar 20 2003)
[vilter]
  • description: nterface for sendmail to a command line virus scanner
  • category: VIRUS
  • status: no longer maintained ?
[rblmilter]
  • description: simple sendmail milter which adds an X-RBL-Warning header
  • category: SPAM
  • status: still maintained ? (latest version 0.30 june 13, 2003)
[milter-virus]
  • description: wrapper to use virus scanners like F-Prot
  • category: VIRUS
  • status: maintained (latest version 1.9 14 March 2003)
  • comments: requires ripMime , double attachments blocking possible too
[spammilt]
  • description: milter which scans the header of emails for blacklistes-relaying servers and locally predefined blacklisted domains/words
  • category: SPAM
  • status: maintained (latest version : 0.4.1)