AVIRA Antivirus for MailGate is a comprehensive antivirus solution for Linux mail servers, functioning at high speed and filtering against malicious contents by checking both incoming and outgoing emails. MailGate may run as a plug-in for Postfix, Exim and Sendmail-Milter, or as a SMTP gateway, being able to interact with a diversity of Mail Transport Agents (MTAs), as: Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, Qmail.

It runs on common Linux Distributions - Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware, etc.

AVIRA Antivirus for MailGate highlights:

- Solid antivirus technologies: multi-platform, VB100% certified scan engine, proving its reliability with the 100% detection rate for 'in the wild' viruses
- Extensive Malware Recognition: aside from viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, worms, etc., AVIRA detects Adware & Spyware, double extension files and unusual runtime compression tools;
- Automatic internet updates of the virus signatures database and of the antivirus engine
- Comprehensive range of actions to perform on infected and suspicious items: isolate, block emails containing suspicious archives, block suspicious MIME emails
-Plug-in capability for: Postfix, Exim, Sendmail-Milter
- Extended scanning capabilities for both incoming and outgoing email traffic
- Configurable notification functions for the administrator as well as for the email sender and recipient, keeping you constantly informed
- Virus advanced detection by superior heuristics, based on specific behavior patterns
- Recursive scanning inside an impressive array of common archive formats
- Optional AVIRA Feedback Agent, a new simple module that sends directly to AVIRA the relevant information about the virus threats you are experiencing
- Professional services: the AVIRA license entitles you to an entire year of free virus definitions updates and product upgrades, access to documentation, as well as standard technical support, offered by a team of skilled professionals.
Limitations:
- The Installation Kit comes fully featured. By default, the Update Service is disabled after the 30-days evaluation period.
- To further benefit of Update Service you may acquire the appropriate commercial license (http://www.avira.com/en/pages/How_to_buy.html)