Overview of mail scanning

Mail Scanning is an email scanning service that enables scanning of incoming and outgoing email messages for viruses. You can offer Mail Scanning as a service to your customers when you create a site or Service Plan. You can limit email scanning to incoming or outgoing email messages or enable scanning for both.

- Note: When you enable or disable Mail Scanning, you automatically enable or disable virus scanning capability.

# Interfacing with the Virus Scanning service

The Mail Scanning service serves as a scanning interface between the mail server and the Virus Scanning service. Its ability to act thus as a connecting interface enables the Virus Scanning service to extend its scanning services to incoming and outgoing email messages. When the control panel server receives an email message, a scan request is sent to the Mail Scanning service. Further, it routes the request to Clam AntiVirus to effect a virus scan.

The control panel uses the email scanning application MailScanner to provide email scanning capability. For detailed information on MailScanner, please visit http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/.