Election for the Board of Directors
The Michigan User Group is managed by a group of people we call the _Board of Directors_. Each year, MUG Members have the opportunity to cast their votes for the 6 people we’d like to see on the board. This is your chance to either run for a position on the board, or vote for the people you would most like to see on the board.
At this time, the following people have been nominated:
Brown, Duane Accepted
Castro, Jorge declined
Glutting, Jim Accepted
Harding, Rick Accepted New
McQuillan, Jim Accepted
Nichols, Gibson Accepted New
Satwicz, Dave Accepted
Williams, Dick Accepted
The nomination period is still open and will remain open until just before the election on Tuesday evening, Feb 13, 2007. If you would like to nominate someone, including yourself, please send an email to board@mug.org stating who you’d like to nominate.
Main Topic: Mail Server setup and configuration, with SPAM filtering
Our speakers are Bill Allie, and Rick Harding
Spam has become a huge problem, clogging up our inboxes and the internet as a whole. there are estimates that 80-90 percent of all email is unwanted, unsolicited junk mail (spam). there’s a number of ways to combat this problem. Our first speaker, *Bill Allie* has recently rebuilt his Linux based mail server and is going to tell us about setting up a basic mail server with SPAM and virus filtering using postfix (why postfix and not sendmail, he’ll tell us), greylisting and sagator: http://www.salstar.sk/sagator/.
His goal was to stem the flow of junk mail (both SPAM and viruses) that his server had to handle. He’ll discuss what he did to filter out the junk using open source tools. The discussion will cover the selection and configuring of the Mail Transport Agent (MTA), how to limit spam using SMTP policies, header restrictions, spam filtering software, and virus blocking software.
*Rick Harding* will add his input on using amavisd as the filtering end of the solution as well as some information on tweaking spamassassin.
If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.
Rick’s Spam Notes
Urls
Postfix setup with Spamassassin
- http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/focus_spam_postfix/
- http://wiki.splitbrain.org/postfix?DokuWiki=f1cc8a65abe6d4815c2c6d890cd08595
- http://bliki.rimuhosting.com/space/knowledgebase/linux/mail/postfixadmin+on+debian+sarge
- http://postfix.pentachron.net/#AEN172
- Greylisting/Postfix help – http://calum.org/posts/postfix-antispam
Spamassassin Config
- Whilelisting – http://www.mail-archive.com/amavis-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06614.html
- FuzzyOcr – http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/image_spam.html
- FuzzyOcr – http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin
- Extra Rules – http://www.rulesemporium.com
- ImageInfo plugin – http://www.rulesemporium.com/plugins.htm#imageinfo
Stats
- mailgraph/pflogsumm – http://www.howtoforge.com/mail_statistics_mailgraph_pflogsumm_p2
Packages Used
- Stats – amavis-stats
- Stats – mailgraph
- Postfix
- Postgrey
- amavisd-new
- clamav
- spamassassin
- script really not package – rules_du_jour