Software:Halon

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Short description: Commercial software


Halon
Halon MTA screenshot 2017.png
Developer(s)Halon Security AB
Initial releaseApril 28, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-04-28)[1]
Stable release
5.4.2[2] / October 1, 2020 (2020-10-01)
Written inC++[3]
Operating systemUnix-like
Platformx86-64
TypeMail transfer agent
LicenseProprietary commercial software
Websitehalon.io

Halon is a commercial scriptable[4] SMTP server. It's available for Linux as well as a software distribution based on FreeBSD.[2]

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,[7][8] as well as the draft for MTA-STS,[9][10] for encrypted email transfer. It provides other email security features such as spam filtering[11][12] from CYREN,[13] DMARC[14][15][16] and DKIM.[17] Like MailChannels, it supports transparent[18] operation in order to filter spam coming out of servers not administered by the provider.

See also

References

  1. Tommy Engfors (2008-11-18). "Halon filtrerar skräppost virtuellt". http://techworld.idg.se/2.2524/1.193500/halon-filtrerar-skrappost-virtuellt. Retrieved 2015-12-28. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Halon release notes". Halon Security AB. http://docs.halon.io/go/changelog. 
  3. "Netnod autumn meeting 2016". Netnod Internet Exchange i Sverige AB. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vos62mK7XwM. Retrieved 2017-08-09. 
  4. Martijn Grooten (2012-03-16). "Comparative review". Virus Bulletin Ltd.. https://www.virusbtn.com/virusbulletin/archive/2012/03/vb201203-vbspam-comparative#id3908584. Retrieved 2012-12-29. 
  5. "Company Overview". Bloomberg L.P.. https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=130481331. Retrieved 2015-12-28. 
  6. "100 Most Popular Mailservers". DomainTools. http://research.domaintools.com/statistics/mailservers/. Retrieved 2015-12-28. 
  7. Jakob Schlyter; Kirei AB. "DANE". RTR-GmbH. https://www.rtr.at/de/inf/E_Mail_Sicherheit05112015/Vortrag_DANE_20151105.pdf. Retrieved 2015-12-17. 
  8. "Halon DANE support". Halon Security AB. http://wiki.halon.io/DANE. Retrieved 2015-12-17. 
  9. Margolis, D.; Risher, M.; Ramakrishnan, B.; Brotman, A.; Jones, J. (January 2018), SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS), IETF, I-D draft-ietf-uta-mta-sts-07, https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-uta-mta-sts-07, retrieved August 9, 2017 
  10. https://github.com/halon/hsl-examples/tree/master/protocols/mta-sts [|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
  11. "Ren e-post med rätt tvätt". 2011. http://softmail.tistory.com/attachment/cfile29.uf%4013219D384ED4DE9C217FED.pdf. Retrieved 2015-12-28. 
  12. "VBSpam Results Overview". Virus Bulletin Ltd.. https://www.virusbtn.com/vbspam/archive/vendor?id=530. Retrieved 2015-12-28. 
  13. "Customers and partners". CYREN. http://www.cyren.com/partner.html#halon. Retrieved 2015-12-28. 
  14. "Products and Services". DMARC.org. https://dmarc.org/resources/products-and-services/. Retrieved 2015-12-28. 
  15. Kent Olofsson (2013-11-21). "Så tycker experterna om dmarc". IDG Techworld. http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.534020/sa-tycker-experterna-om-dmarc. Retrieved 2015-12-28. 
  16. Martijn Grooten. "VBSpam comparative review January 2014". Virus Bulletin Ltd.. https://www.virusbtn.com/virusbulletin/archive/2014/01/vb201401-vbspam-comparative#id3320537. Retrieved 2015-12-28. 
  17. "Halon/Libdkimpp". 17 February 2022. https://github.com/halonsecurity/libdkimpp. 
  18. "Halon/Proxsmtp". 12 June 2021. https://github.com/halonsecurity/proxsmtp.