FAQ's

What is Active Internet’s SpamAV™?

Active Internet’s SpamAV™ is based upon the award winning SpamAssassin™ (http://spamassassin.org) freeware program which is considered the industry's leading spam filter, always finishing as one of the top contenders, or even best, in all spam filter tests.

Active Internet’s SpamAV™ for Servers includes the version 2.6 of SpamAssassin™. Future updates of SpamAssassin™ will be merged into the distribution, once they are proven and stable. Updates of SpamAV™ are available to registered users. 

What Products are incorporated into Active Internet’s SpamAV™?

The Spam Filter used is SpamAssassin™ (http://spamassassin.org) which is considered one of the industry's leading spam filters.

The Anti-Virus engine is Clam AV , an open source Anti Virus product that detects over 20,000 viruses, worms and trojans. Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. Most importantly, the virus database is kept up to date .

Amavisd-new is a high-performance interface between mailer (MTA) and content checkers: virus scanners, and/or SpamAssassin. It is written in Perl for maintainability, without paying a significant price for speed. It talks to MTA via (E)SMTP or LMTP, or by using helper programs.

Postfix is a freeware e-mail program that provides an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Postfix is fast, easy to administer, and secure.

Note: We do not sell SpamAssassin™, it's Open Source and it's free!SpamAssassin is a trademark of Deersoft, Inc.The SpamAssassin open source project resides at www.spamassassin.org.