Halon (software)

This article is about the Mail Transfer Agent. For other uses, see Halon (disambiguation).
Halon
Developer Halon Security AB
Written in C++[1]
OS family FreeBSD (10.3-RELEASE)
Source model Closed source
Initial release April 28, 2008 (2008-04-28)[2]
Latest release 3.5-r5p3[3] / September 27, 2016 (2016-09-27)
Platforms x86-64
License Proprietary commercial software
Official website wiki.halon.io

Halon is a commercial scriptable[4] SMTP server, packaged as a software distribution based on FreeBSD.[3]

The web hosting provider One.com uses Halon[5] which operates some of the most active (on the basis of the number of domains they support) mail servers.[6]

Like Postfix, it supports DANE for encrypted email transfer.[7][8] It provides other email security features such as spam filtering[9][10] from CYREN,[11] DMARC[12][13][14] and DKIM.[15] Like MailChannels, it supports transparent[16] operation in order to filter spam coming out of servers not administered by the provider.

See also

References

  1. "Netnod autumn meeting 2016". Netnod Internet Exchange i Sverige AB. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  2. Tommy Engfors (2008-11-18). "Halon filtrerar skräppost virtuellt". IDG Techworld. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  3. 1 2 "Halon release notes". Halon Security AB. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  4. Martijn Grooten (2012-03-16). "Comparative review". Virus Bulletin Ltd. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
  5. "Company Overview". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  6. "100 Most Popular Mailservers". DomainTools. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  7. Jakob Schlyter, Kirei AB. "DANE" (PDF). RTR-GmbH. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
  8. "Halon DANE support". Halon Security AB. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
  9. Mikael Simovits; Tomas Forsberg (2011). "Ren e-post med rätt tvätt" (PDF). IDG Techworld. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  10. "VBSpam Results Overview". Virus Bulletin Ltd. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  11. "Customers and partners". CYREN. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  12. "Products and Services". DMARC.org. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  13. Kent Olofsson (2013-11-21). "Så tycker experterna om dmarc". IDG Techworld. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  14. Martijn Grooten. "VBSpam comparative review January 2014". Virus Bulletin Ltd. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  15. https://github.com/halonsecurity/libdkimpp
  16. https://github.com/halonsecurity/proxsmtp


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