Blog - The mailbag

The upstream Django project recently released updated packages to address various security issues. These updated packages are now available via the Baruwa apt and rpm repo's, please study the upstream release notes and update. Users who use Django from their distro's repo's are also advised to study the release notes and update from their distro's repo. Upstreams release notes... Read the rest of this post

UPDATE: A newer and simpler way to translate Baruwa is now available Translating Baruwa to your own language is dead simple, in this post i will be running through the steps required to add a new language to Baruwa. The Baruwa source code is maintained in a git repo at github, so some basic git knowledge is required. There... Read the rest of this post

Yes, you asked for it, and here it is, experimental support for delivery status has been added to the Baruwa trunk version. Its still experimental supports only Exim at the moment, but when complete, sendmail and postfix will be supported as well. The implementation is based on a mini syslog server which accepts messages on the mail.* channel... Read the rest of this post

Baruwa adoption is growing fast, it is currently ranked 7th on PYPI email packages list beating some pretty established contenders. https://taichino.appspot.com/pypi_ranking/keyword/email ... Read the rest of this post

I have recently committed some new features to the git HEAD version. This is a preview of what the features are. This provides the functionality from within the Baruwa interface to manage both text and html signatures / disclaimers that are appended to messages by mailscanner. With this functionality you are able to edit both html and... Read the rest of this post

I have just pushed to the Baruwa apt repo - http://apt.baruwa.org Baruwa packages for Ubuntu maverick and lucid, as well as the following dependency packages mailscanner 4.84.3 python-kombu 1.2.0 python-anyjson 0.3.1 python-celery 2.2.7 python-django 1.2.5 python-django-celery 2.2.4 python-django-picklefield 0.1.6 libjs-dojo-core 1.5.1 libjs-dojo-dijit 1.5.1 libjs-dojo-dojox 1.5.1 Note If case you are using a shared server with other Django... Read the rest of this post

Hi All, I have just released updated deb and rpm packages that address various issues. All the fixes and features included have been back ported from the trunk version. The following issues have been addressed. FIX: Silence depreciation errors in cron on RHEL/SL/Centos FIX: exception in top hosts report FIX: postfix queue manager not picking up some messages... Read the rest of this post

Hi all, MailScanner rpm packages are now available in the Baruwa repo, these packages include various fixes and should run without taint errors. This means you no longer need a build kit on your mailscanner machines to install the rpm's and dependencies using the mailscanner.info install.sh script. All dependencies are available via base and EPEL. EL6 - http://repo.baruwa.org/el6/x86_64/repoview/mailscanner.html... Read the rest of this post

Baruwa 1.1.0 packages are now available at http://apt.baruwa.org, please test these packages in a test environment before upgrading your production environments. The repo provides extra packages that are no available in you upstream distro to meet the requirements of running baruwa. These packages include: mailscanner celery django-celery kombu Please NOTE using this repo will upgrade your mailscanner... Read the rest of this post

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