From fc9071c31da96d3cf19c872282343e7efaaa39b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dietmar Maurer Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 07:37:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] pmg-intro.adoc: add feature section - copied from www.proxmox.com --- pmg-intro.adoc | 116 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 116 insertions(+) diff --git a/pmg-intro.adoc b/pmg-intro.adoc index 967f03b..a2f54a3 100644 --- a/pmg-intro.adoc +++ b/pmg-intro.adoc @@ -14,6 +14,122 @@ Linux. image::images/Proxmox-Mailprocessing.png[] +Features +-------- + +Spam detection +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +{pmg} uses a wide variety of local and network tests to identify spam +mail. Here is a short list of used filtering methods: + +Receiver Verification:: + +Many of the junk messages reaching your network are emails to +non-existent useres. Proxmox Mail Gateway detects these emails on SMTP +level, which means before they are transferred to your networks. This +reduces the traffic to be analyzed for spam and viruses up to 90% and +reduces the working load on your mail servers and scanners. + +Sender policy framework (SPF):: + +Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an open standard for validating +emails and to prevent sender IP address forgery. SPF allows the +administrator of an Internet domain to specify which computers are +authorized to send emails with a given domain by creating a specific +SPF record in the Domain Name System (DNS). + +DNS-based Blackhole List:: + +A DNS-based Blackhole List (DNSBL) is a means by which an Internet +site may publish a list of IP addresses, in a format which can be +easily queried by computer programs on the internet. The technology is +built on top of the Domain Name System. DNSBLs are used to publish +lists of addresses linked to spamming. + +SMTP Whitelist:: + +Exclude senders from SMTP blocking. To prevent all SMTP checks +(Greylisting, Receiver Verification, SPF and RBL) and accept all +e-mails for the analysis in the filter rule system, you can add the +following to this list: Domains (Sender/Receiver), Mail address +(Sender/Receiver), Regular Expression (Sender/Receiver), IP address +(Sender), IP network (Sender) + +Bayesian Filter - Automatically trained statistical filters:: + +Some particular words have a higher probability of occurring in spam +emails rather than in legitimate emails. By beeing trained to +recognize those words, the Bayesian checks every email and adjusts the +probabilities of it beeing a spam word or not in its database. This is +done automatically. + +Black- and Whitelists:: + +Black- and Whitelists are an access control mechanism to accept, +block, or quarantine emails to recipients. This allows you to tune the +rule-system by applying different objects like domains, email address, +regular expression, IP Network, LDAP Group, and others. + +Autolearning algorithm:: + +Proxmox Mail Gateway gathers statistical information about spam +emails. This information is used by an autolearning algorithm, so the +system becomes smarter over time. + +Spam Uri Realtime BlockList (SURBL):: + +SURBLs are used to detect spam based on message body URIs (usually web +sites). This makes them different from most other Real-time +Blocklists, because SURBLs are not used to block spam senders. SURBLs +allow you to block messages that have spam hosts which are mentioned +in message bodies. + +Greylisting:: + +Greylisting an email from a sender your system does not recognize, +means, that it will be temporarily rejected. Since temporary failures +are built into the RFC specifications for mail delivery, a legitimate +server will try to resend the email later on. This is an effective +method because spammers do not queue and reattempt mail delivery as is +normal for a regular Mail Transport Agent. ++ +Greylisting can reduce e-mail traffic up to 50%. A greylisted email +never reaches your mail server and thus your mail server will not send +useless "Non Delivery Reports" to spammers. + + +Virus detection +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +{pmg} integrates {clamav}, which is an open-source (GPL) antivirus +engine designed for detecting trojans, viruses, malware and other +malicious threats. + +It provides a high performance mutli-threaded scanning daemon, command +line utilities for on demand file scanning, and an intelligent tool +for automatic signature updates. + + +Tracking and Logging +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The innovative Proxmox Message Tracking Center tracks and summarizes +all available logs. With the web-based and user friendly management +interface, the IT admins can easily overview and controll all +functions from a single screen. + +The Message Tracking Center is very fast and powerful, tested on {pmg} +sites processing over a million emails per day. All different log +files from the last 7 days can be queried and the results are +summarized by an intelligent algorithm. + +- Arrival of the email +- Proxmox filtering processing with results +- Internal queue to your email server +- Status of final delivery + + Your benefit with {pmg} -----------------------