amavisd-new is described as 'High-performance interface between mailer (MTA) and content checkers: virus scanners, and/or SpamAssassin. It is written in Perl for maintainability, without paying a significant price for speed. It talks to MTA via (E)SMTP or LMTP, or by using helper programs' and is a Anti-Virus app in the security & privacy category. There are 2 alternatives to amavisd-new for Linux, Web-based, BSD and Oracle Solaris. The best amavisd-new alternative is MailRoute. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try MIMEDefang.
MailRoute provides a hosted service for mail protection from virus and spam.
MailRoute is a secure, hosted cloud email filtering service that you can have up and running in minutes. There's no hardware or software to install - just sign up, change your mx record, and you'.
MIMEDefang is a GPL licensed framework for filtering e-mail. It uses sendmail's "Milter" API, some C glue code, and some Perl code to let the user write high-performance mail filters in Perl.
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