X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pmg-intro.adoc;h=2bf822650ad8071614ea9452be76a5fabfd1a9a3;hb=f29824e9caa171db1fd9244999369be9ee7182ae;hp=9e80f28a4984ddb66a288f1bf5d635eae9703585;hpb=2350185a13af7c27986f58b59a7fee012900f89d;p=pmg-docs.git diff --git a/pmg-intro.adoc b/pmg-intro.adoc index 9e80f28..2bf8226 100644 --- a/pmg-intro.adoc +++ b/pmg-intro.adoc @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ 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 +non-existent users. {pmg} 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. @@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ following to this list: Domains (Sender/Receiver), Mail address 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 +emails rather than in legitimate emails. By being 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 +probabilities of it being a spam word or not in its database. This is done automatically. Black- and Whitelists:: @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ regular expression, IP Network, LDAP Group, and others. Autolearning algorithm:: -Proxmox Mail Gateway gathers statistical information about spam +{pmg} gathers statistical information about spam emails. This information is used by an autolearning algorithm, so the system becomes smarter over time. @@ -98,12 +98,21 @@ 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. +SMTP Protocol Tests:: + +{postfix} is able to do some sophisticated SMTP protocol tests (see +`man postscreen`). Most spam is sent out by zombies (malware on +compromised end-user computers), and those zombies often try to +maximize the amount of mails delivered. In order to do that, many of +them violates the SMTP protocol specification and can thus be detected +by these tests. + Virus detection ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ {pmg} integrates {clamav}, which is an open-source (GPL) antivirus -engine designed for detecting trojans, viruses, malware and other +engine designed for detecting Trojans, viruses, malware and other malicious threats. It provides a high performance mutli-threaded scanning daemon, command @@ -119,10 +128,6 @@ domains. It’s an easy but very powerful way to define filter rules by user, domains, time frame, content type and resulting action. {pmg} offers a lot of powerful objects to configure your own custom system. -ACTIONS - objects:: - -Defines the final actions. - WHO - objects:: Who is the sender or receiver of the e-mail? @@ -133,7 +138,11 @@ What is in the e-mail? WHEN - objects:: -When is the e-mail received by Proxmox Mail Gateway? +When is the e-mail received by {pmg}? + +ACTIONS - objects:: + +Defines the final actions. Every rule has five categories FROM, TO, WHEN, WHAT and ACTION. Every of these categories can contain several objects and a direction (in, @@ -144,12 +153,20 @@ sophisticated, highly customized configurations blocking certain types of e-mails and generating notifications. +Spam Quarantine +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Identified Spam mails can be stored to the user accessible Spam +quarantine. Thus users can view and manage there Spam mails by +themselves. + + 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 +interface, the IT admins can easily overview and control all functions from a single screen. The Message Tracking Center is very fast and powerful, tested on {pmg} @@ -173,6 +190,43 @@ good performance. Fast set-up within minutes and a simple, intuitive management keep resource needs low. After temporary failures, nodes automatically reintegrate without any operator interaction. +LDAP integration +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +It is possible to query user and group data from LDAP servers. This +may be used to build special filter rules, or just to provide +authentication services for the Spam quarantine GUI. + + +Fetchmail integration +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +{pmg} allows you to fetch mail from other IMAP or POP3 servers. + + +Flexible User Management +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The administration interface uses a role based access control scheme, +using the following roles: + +Superuser:: + +This role is allowed to do everything (reserved for user 'root'). + +Administrator:: + +Full access to mail filter setup, but not allowed to change network setup. + +Quarantine Manager:: + +Is able to view and manage the Spam Quarantine. + +Auditor:: + +Has read-only access to the whole configuration, can access logs and +view statistics. + Your benefit with {pmg} -----------------------