=====How to Install MailScanner and Mailwatch==== ================================================ !!!!!!!DISCLAIMER!!!!!!! =======================-=== SETTING UP A PROPER AND SECURE EMAIL FILTER TAKES A LONG TIME AND MUCH OF THE SETUP FOR THE CLASS HAS BEEN PRE-CONFIGURED FOR THE SAKE OF TIME. THE CONFIGURATIONS FOR THIS COURSE HAVE BEEN HIGHLY SIMPLIFIED AND YOU SHOULD TAKE TIME TO READ MORE ABOUT POSTFIX, MAILSCANNER, SPAMASSASIN, CLAM ANTIVIRUS AND MAILWATCH BEFORE DEPLOYING A SERVER IN THE REAL WORLD. LINKS TO THE INDIVIDUAL SOFTWARES: MailScanner: http://www.mailscanner.info MailWatch: http://mailwatch.org SpamAssassin: http://spamassassin.apache.org/ Clam Antivirus: http://www.clamav.net/index.html Postfix: http://www.postfix.org/ !!!!YOU MUST REGULARLY UPDATE ALL SOFTWARES TO RECEIVE NEW PATCHES AND SECURITY UPDATES!!!! READ ABOUT FRESHCLAM (FOR UPDATING CLAM ANTIVIRUS) AND SA-UPDATE (FOR UPDATING SPAMASSASSIN) ALSO, YOU SHOULD READ ABOUT CONFIGURING GREYLISTING, DKIM AND SPF VERIFICATION ON POSTFIX! IF YOU WANT TO SET UP A MAIL FILTER FOR YOUR NETWORK, YOU SHOULD CREATE A TEST DOMAIN TO RECEIVE EMAILS BEFORE DIRECTING YOUR EMAILS VIA THE FILTER OTHERWISE YOU MAY LOSE EMAILS. THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS ASSUME THAT YOU HAVE WORKING MX RECORDS === Install The Tools:==== ======================= $sudo apt-get install apache2 php5-cli php5 mysql-server libdbd-mysql-perl php5-gd php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 wget YOU WILL BE PROMPTED FOR A MYSQL PASSWORD. USE afnog ===2. Get Mailscanner==== ======================== $cd /home/afnog $wget http://197.4.11.139/MailScanner-4.85.2-3.deb.tar.gz $tar -xzf MailScanner-4.85.2-3.deb.tar.gz $cd MailScanner-4.85.2-3 $sudo ./install.sh =3. Go to the mailfilter-pt2 on the wiki= ========================================