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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

I have today open sourced and released a Baruwa puppet tooster on github. The tooster can be used to run a fully automated puppet based installation and configuration of Baruwa on Centos 5. All you do it set a few configuration variables, and run one command go get a cup of tea, and return to you shiny new system.... Read the rest of this post

This article describes the discontinued community edition, for the enterprise edition features refer to enterprise edition features The Baruwa Google analytics indicates lots of searches for Baruwa vs Mailwatch, and given the FUD that keeps making the rounds of how Baruwa does not have lots of options that Mailwatch has. i have decided to put the facts out there... Read the rest of this post