amavisd-new
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  http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/

amavisd-new is an interface between message transfer agent (MTA)
and one or more content checkers: virus scanners, and/or
SpamAssasin ( http://www.spamassassin.org/ ).

amavisd-new is a performance-enhanced and feature-enriched version of
amavisd (which in turn is a daemonized version of AMaViS or amavis-perl).

It is normally positioned at or near a central mailer, not necessarily
where user's mailboxes and final delivery takes place. If you are
looking for a per-user and low-message-rate solution to be placed at
the final stage of mail delivery (e.g. called from procmail), there
may be other solutions more appropriate for your needs.

amavisd-new benefits from the use of Perl module Net::Server, which
offers a fast pre-forked multichild environment. Several new features
are offered, including SMTP-in/SMTP-out capability. This makes it
suitable for mail anti-virus and/or anti-spam checking on a busy mail
gateways.

All the modifications since the original amavisd done by Mark Martinec,
with contribution of ideas, reports and patches from amavis-user
mailing list community.

See RELEASE_NOTES, INSTALL, and files in the README_FILES/* subdirectory,
at least the one pertaining to your MTA (Postfix, Sendmail/milter, Exim).
If running a dual-MTA setup (any MTA type), the files README.postfix and
README.exim_v4 describe a similar setup and can be used as guidelines.

The two programs in the subdirectory helper-progs/ are only needed for
interfacing with sendmail (with or without milter), or older Exim (v3).
Don't bother with them if using Postfix or Exim v4.
