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Today we are issuing release -- Baruwa 2.0.2, this Enterprise edition only release contains a range of bug fixes as well as new features and enhancements. This release introduces backward incompatible changes. Fixed taskid session checks, which caused an exception when the session attribute did not exist. Fixed issue with headers which can not be decoded... Read the rest of this post

This article describes the discontinued community edition, for the enterprise edition features refer to enterprise edition features Almost 2 years since the initial feature comparison, Baruwa has been further enhanced thus the need for this updated post. Feature Mailwatch Baruwa 1.x Baruwa 2.x Realtime Full text search engine... Read the rest of this post

Today we are issuing release -- Baruwa 2.0.1 to remedy a security issue reported to us. This release also contains a range of bug fixes to both the Community and Enterprise Editions. This release does NOT introduce any backward incompatible changes. Users of Baruwa 2.0 are encouraged to upgrade immediately. This security release fixes one issue: an information leakage... Read the rest of this post

Baruwa is a web 2.0 MailScanner frontend which can be used to build Robust and Efficient Mail Security systems based on the best of breed Open source packages. Baruwa 2.0 represents many changes from previous releases. Baruwa 2.0 is a ground up rewrite of Baruwa 1.0 using the Pylons framework with a PostgreSQL backend. The stability and... Read the rest of this post

We have found a new way to make it even easier to translate.. We’ve got a new way to make it even easier to translate Baruwa to another language. We’re using Transifex to keep track of all our Baruwa translations. Here’s how you do it: Go to the Baruwa project on the Transifex site Choose the language you would... Read the rest of this post

Hi All, I am pleased to announce the release of Baruwa 1.1.2. This is a maintenance release that includes mostly bug fix's and a few new features. This is a source only release, binary packages for various Linux distributions will be released at a later stage. Added Active Directory support Fixed Radius authentication Fixed spam distribution graph Fixed... Read the rest of this post

Quoting their website: E.F.A stands for Email Filter Appliance E.F.A is born out of a need for a cost-effective email virus & spam scanning solution after the ESVA project died. We try to create a complete package using existing open-source anti-spam projects and combine them to a single easy to use (virtual) appliance. I am thrilled they have chosen... Read the rest of this post

I have just pushed to the Baruwa apt repo - http://apt.baruwa.org Baruwa packages for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, as well as the following dependency packages mailscanner 4.84.3 Note Ubuntu does not ship mailscanner packages since release 12.04 Precise Pangolin so users of Ubuntu who do not use baruwa can also use this repo to access the mailscanner... Read the rest of this post

I have just pushed to the Baruwa apt repo - http://apt.baruwa.org Baruwa packages for Ubuntu Precise Pangolin, as well as the following dependency packages mailscanner 4.84.3 Note Ubuntu Precise Pangolin does not ship mailscanner packages so users of Ubuntu Precise Pangolin who do not use baruwa can also use this repo to access the mailscanner deb package.... Read the rest of this post

I have received several queries on how to use the puppet toaster to automate the Baruwa installation on Centos 5.x This post should guide you on how to do it. Baruwa Repo EPEL Repo Install the above repos: rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://repo.baruwa.org/el5/i386/baruwa-release-5-0.noarch.rpm If you have other repo's like the RPMForge repo... Read the rest of this post