Mailscanner

MailScanner is an open-source E-mail program to secure against spam and viruses. I prefer it above amavisd, because it has clamav and spamassin support built in and it’s easier to configure and to maintain.

Before beginning with the installation of Mailscanner, make sure your Postfix version is all working. Stop Postfix using the command:

/etc/init.d/postfix stop

Make sure you have the chroot jail set up in /var/spool/postfix. You should be able to see etc, usr and lib directories inside /var/spool/postfix). If you haven't got the chroot jail setup already, then look in the examples directory of the Postfix documentation and you will find a script in there to set up it up for your operating system. If you can't find that, then see the "Problems or Errors" section further down this page.

sh postfix-chroot.sh enable

warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to Courier authdaemond: No such file or directory Move saslauthd's socket dir inside Postfix's chroot and create a link to keep everybody happy:

mkdir /var/spool/postfix/usr/var
mkdir /var/spool/postfix/usr/var/spool
mv /usr/var/spool/authdaemon/ /var/spool/postfix/usr/var/spool/authdaemon
ln -s /var/spool/postfix/usr/var/spool/authdaemon/ /usr/var/spool/authdaemon

Restart Postfix and start saslauthd:

/etc/init.d/postfix restart
/etc/init.d/saslauthd start

At this point, things change from the setup for other MTAs as we can make it run with just one copy of Postfix, and let Postfix do the "split MTA" setup for us. In the Postfix configuration file /etc/postfix/main.cf add this line:

vi /etc/postfix/main.cf

header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks 

In the file /etc/postfix/header_checks add this line:

vi /etc/postfix/header_check

/^Received:/ HOLD

The effect of this is to tell Postfix to move all messages to the HOLD queue.

In your MailScanner.conf file (probably in /etc/MailScanner or /opt/MailScanner/etc), there are five settings you need to change. They are all really near the top of the file. The settings are:

vi /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf

     Run As User = postfix
     Run As Group = postfix
     Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/hold
     Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/incoming
     MTA = postfix
		 

You will need to ensure that the user postfix can write to /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming and /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine:

chown postfix.postfix /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming chown postfix.postfix /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine

If you upgrade your copy of MailScanner, unfortunately these directories will be changed back to being owned by root, so you will have to do those two commands again.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner start

That’s it for mailscanner, you can config to your personal needs by edditing the /etc/Mailscanner/MailScanner.conf.

Perl ClamAV and Spamassassin Module

The easiest way to install ClamAV and Spamassassin is to download the latest Perl ClamAV – Spamassassin install script for mail scanner from http://www.mailscanner.info/downloads.html (http://www.mailscanner.info/files/4/install-Clam-0.88.7-SA-3.1.7.tar.gz):

wget http://www.mailscanner.info/files/4/install-Clam-0.88.7-SA-3.1.7.tar.gz
tar -xvzf install-Clam-0.88.7-SA-3.1.7.tar.gz
cd install-Clam-0.88.7-SA-3.1.7
sh install.sh
/etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner start

And you are all set and good to go for fighting spam and virus mails.

Razor Agent

Download latest razor-agents-sdk and razor-agents.

wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/razor/razor-agents-sdk-2.07.tar.bz2
wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/razor/razor-agents-2.82.tar.bz2

Unzip and untar the packages:

bunzip2 razor-agents-sdk-2.07.tar.bz2
bunzip2 razor-agents-2.82.tar.bz2
tar -xf razor-agents-sdk-2.07.tar
tar -xf razor-agents-2.82.tar

Build the razor sdk:

cd razor-agents-sdk-2.07.tar
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Build the razor agent:

cd razor-agents-2.82
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Rules du jour

Download latest Rules du jour package and unpack:

wget http://www.fsl.com/support/Rules_Du_Jour.tar.gz
tar -xzf Rules_Du_Jour.tar.gz

cd rules_du_jour/
sh install.sh