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Result pages: [1] [2]  AV-SPAM 5.1.1 (BlueQuartz + BlueOnyx) We just finished a major overhaul of the AV-SPAM for both BlueQuartz and BlueOnyx and released version 5.1.1 of it. The new AV-SPAM uses the latest SpamAssassin-3.3.0, automatic rule updates, SA-Greylist, iXhash, Razor, Pyzor and DCC - plus all the extra rulesets that we had already built in into previous versions. The new SpamAssassin-3.3.0 has all "bells and whistles" enabled, which - unfortunately - required us to overhaul and add quite a few Perl related RPMs. As a new feature we now made sure that services like iXhash, Razor, Pyzor, RBL-Checks (and so on) stay in their configured state even during the periodic SpamAssassin rule updates. Especially iXhash had been giving customers in the Netherlands and parts of the USA problems. The new AV-SPAM also copies a correct sendmail.mc to /etc/mail/ whenever services like Greylist-Milter, SpamAssassin or Clam AV are enabled or disabled, making custom sendmail.mc hacks easier. The most drastic change happened to the AV-SPAM on BlueQuartz, which was still running on slightly older GUI code with less features than the BlueQuartz version. We now made sure that the AV-SPAM for BlueQuartz and BlueOnyx has an entirely identical feature set. This now also allows the AV-SPAM on BlueQuartz to use IP-Country related rules and there it is now also possible to disable the scanning of outbound Emails. That previously had only been possible on the BlueOnyx version of the AV-SPAM. How to get the new features: If you already have the AV-SPAM for BlueQuartz or BlueOnyx installed, then simply run "yum update" and you'll get all the new features in one go. Special note for BlueQuartz AV-SPAM users: When you run "yum update" (or purchase a new AV-SPAM 5.1.1 for BlueQuartz), then the update will also replace the old "NuOnce-MySQL" RPMs with a customized "base-mysql" ported over from BlueOnyx. These updated RPMs add the menus "MySQL" and "MySQL Config" to the "Network Services" tab in the GUI and allow you to configure MySQL, set the MySQL "root" password, allow you to backup your MySQL databases and such. Of course it also includes the ability to create MySQL users and databases for each individual site through the GUI interface. Same as on BlueOnyx. The replacement of the old "NuOnce MySQL" RPMs with the backported module from BlueOnyx was needed as the AV-SPAM needs to know the MySQL connection details for the storage of the Bayes database and the Auto-Whitelist. 25 Feb 2010 New (free) BlueQuartz PKG: Base Disk Due to public demand we have backported the "base-disk" module from BlueOnyx to BlueQuartz and released it as free PKG: 5102R-Base-Disk-2.0.1-1BX01.pkg 5102R-Base-Disk-2.0.1-1BX01.pkg md5sum: 60b4a882451a7f5fc0beb8be94fcf888 Posted: Feb 25, 2010 Size: 42.951 bytes This PKG is based on "base-disk" from BlueOnyx This PKG is identical to "base-disk" on BlueOnyx. It makes it much easier to find out which sites and/or users are over their allocated disk quota.  Reboot Required: No Sends registration email: No     25 Feb 2010 BlueOnyx: GroupOffice GUI Integration We just released a new (commercial) PKG for BlueOnyx: GroupOffice (v3.3.8) GUI Integration GroupOffice is one of the best GroupWare suites around and integrates Email, Calendar, CRM, File and Project management into an Ajax powered PHP web interface with MySQL backend.     Professional and Community (Open-Source) Group-Office is available in two versions. The Professional version and the community version. The Professional version is the full featured version for professional use. The Community version is open-source and free for download at Sourceforge.net. Upgrading from the Community to the Professional version is very easy. You can just replace the files and run the upgrade script. After that you will have the Professional modules available. Our GroupOffice PKG for BlueOnyx contains both versions of GroupOffice and upon installation of GroupOffice into a site you can choose if you want to install the Professional versions (which requires a purchased license per site!), or the free Community version.   Now this PKG allows to install and configure a GroupOffice install for each virtual site. The PKG automatically sets up the required MySQL databases and users. Additionally it also pre-configures GroupOffice 's web based installer, so that you have your GroupOffice enabled website up and running with just a few clicks of the mouse. Once the PKG has been installed, simply go to an existing website and click on "web" in the BlueOnyx GUI. You see the new form fields that allow you to set up GroupOffice for that website: Click on picture for a larger image Click on picture for a larger image Simply tick the checkbox to enable GroupOffice for that site and then point your browser to the web path of the GroupOffice installation to finish the web based setup. With this PKG any new site you create (or any existing site that you modify) can have it's own GroupOffice install with just a few clicks of the mouse. Please note: This PKG requires PHP >= 5.2, so you must have the Solarspeed.net PHP package for BlueOnyx installed. More information about this package can be found on our GroupOffice product page. 25 Feb 2010 PHP-5.2.13 now available for BlueQuartz and BlueOnyx We just released PKGs of PHP-5.2.13 for BlueQuartz and BlueOnyx: PHP-5.2.13 for BlueOnyx PHP-5.2.13 for BlueQuartz A version of PHP-5.3.1 will be released within the next couple of days, too. 1 Mar 2010 Recent AV-SPAM problems (fixed) Between 25th February and 8th March we released several updates to the AV-SPAM and unfortunately not all of these were error free and some caused issues. We would like to apologized for any problems that this may have caused. If you run our AV-SPAM for BlueQuartz or BlueOnyx and still have issues, please run this two commands to fix the problem: yum clean all yum update That will download and install an updated spamass-milter. A restart of services is not required afterwards. The problem is/was as follows: The AV-SPAM uses spamass-milter as the interface between SpamAssassin and Sendmail milter. Unfortunately spamass-milter is an open source project which is not really well maintained anymore. At least not by the original contributors. However: It is still pretty much without good alternative, so even modern distributions still use it, but often have their own forks of the spamass-milter source code with their own patches, fixes and enhancements. Like Debian, Ubuntu, BDS or Fedora. On February 25th we released an updated spamass-milter (v0.3.1-SOL5), which replaced v0.3.1-SOL4 that we had released in 2008. Since then no changes had been needed and this time around we just intended to make a small configurational change. Bad idea. Since 2008 our build environment had changed and the source code tree somehow didn't contain the (patched) spamass-milter sources from the Debian fork anymore, but the stock spamass-milter sources from the old project page. This sources unfortunately lacked a lot of enhancements and improvements. Such as the ability to bypass messages sent through SMTP-Auth. Likewise it would not handle the exclusion of network addresses or address ranges (via the -i switch) that well. Shortly afterwards we started to get reports from users about problems. Mails sent through SMTP-Auth now got scanned by SpamAssassin (despite "Scan outbound" being disabled in the AV-SPAM GUI), leading to problems with some dial up users. On Friday, March 5th we released an updated spamass-milter (v0.3.1-SOL6), which contained a patch to allow SMTP-Auth'ed messages to bypass SpamAssassin. That patch had been taken from the spamass-milters bugtracker. Unfortunately that didn't live up to its expectations. Reports about spurious "broken pipe" error messages came trickling in to us. As an interim solution we released spamass-milter (v0.3.1-SOL7) on Saturday, March 6th, which removed the SMTP-Auth patch again. This unfortunately introduced a new problem: Messages with attachments larger than a total size of 250KB suddenly got rejected instead of passing unchecked by SpamAssassin. Today we finally had the chance to thoroughly investigate the matter and to fix it. We took the Fedora Core 12 sources of spamass-milter (including all patches, including a working SMTP-Auth patch and some other fixes) and integrated it with our custom RC script and configs. We released several test versions to our YUM repository, until the current final version (v0.3.1-21) kept holding up. That is the version you should have installed after running "yum clean all; yum update". Again, we aplogize for any troubles that this set of updates may have caused. If you still have issues with the AV-SPAM, run "yum clean all; yum update". If the problems still persist, don't hesitate to contact us and we will get you sorted. 8 Mar 2010 Result pages: [1] [2]