Open source e-mail gateway package launches

Open source e-mail gateway package launches

Earlier this month, Fortress Systems Ltd. (www.fsl.com) released
SMGateway, an open source e-mail/security application.  SMGateway has
all of the functionality provided by MailScanner and SpamAssassin plus
extensions and enhancements to provide a simple web based interface for
users and administrators.  These added features allow administrators to
more easily install, control and configure email gateway operations
while allowing users to set their own spam preferences. It is designed
to provide all email gateway, web access, SQL database, LDAP directory
and monitoring applications on a single server. 
 
SMGateway is free for customers to download and Fortress Systems
provides three levels of support options.
 
 
Fortress SMGateway Features
 
Web based administrative interface
Allows site administrators to configure:
*    Sendmail 
*    MailScanner 
*    SpamAssassin 
*    Domain spam preferences,white and black lists
*    Individual user spam preferences white and black list using an
intuitive web interface
Web based user's spam preferences
Allows individual users to easily set their own spam preferences, and
administer white and black lists by individual sender or sender's
domain. 
Three levels of authentication
Authentication to the web interface is provides for three levels of
users:
*       Site administrators are allowed to set and change any
configuration data for the entire site
*       Domain administrators are allowed to set and change any
configuration data for the specific domains 
*       Users are able only to set their own spam preferences, white and
black lists
Connectors to MicrosoftR Active Directory, POP or IMAP enabled directory
service
The logon to the user web interface for setting individual or site
preferences is automatically authenticated against a Microsoft Active
Directory or any POP or IMAP gateway. No user etup or administrations is
required on the gateway
MailWatch for MailScanner
Is a real-time console for MailScanner. MailWatch provides a web based
interface for:
*       Individual Message tracking 
*       Release of messages from quarantine
*       Feeding ham and spam to the Bayesian filter
*       Email and Spam reporting and statistics
*       Real time message queuing statistics.
Other Applications
*       DCC (Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse) System of clients and
servers that collect and count checksums of email messages in order to
detect spam
*       Pyzor is a collaborative, networked system to detect and block
spam using identifying digests of messages
*       Razor2 is a distributed, collaborative, spam detection and
filtering network