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E.F.A. Project
General
E.F.A. stands for Email Filter Appliance The idea about E.F.A is to create a (virtual) appliance for spam fighting using opensource tools. We try to combine existing open-source projects into one easy to use and fast to deploy package.
History
E.F.A. is born out of a need for a cost-effective email virus & spam scanning solution after the ESVA project died. So in 2012 the E.F.A. project started, the initial idea was to use a completely different setup than ESVA, this resulted in E.F.A. 0.2 as the first public release.
E.F.A. 0.2 was based on Debian for the Operating system, Exim for the Mail Transport Agent and Baruwa as the web interface, some additional features were added in E.F.A. 0.3 which was released in January 2013.
Sadly Baruwa stopped with the 1.x branch and moved over to Baruwa 2.x, an attempt was made to rebuild E.F.A. based on Baruwa 2.x but after testing and a few beta releases the decision was made to move over to a more ‘ESVA’ way, as most users got comfortable with MailWatch and preferred MailWatch over Baruwa.
In January 2014 the first release of E.F.A. 3.x was released based on CentOS for the Operating system, Postfix for the Mail Transport Agent and MailWatch as the web interface.
Software Used
The E.F.A. appliance use the following software:
| Function | Package | Version |
|---|---|---|
| System OS | CentOS | 6.7 x64 |
| MTA | Postfix | 3.0.4 |
| Core Spam Filter | MailScanner | 4.84 |
| Spam Filter | SpamAssassin | 3.3.1 |
| Virusscanner | ClamAV | 0.99.3 |
| Webinterface | Mailwatch | 1.2.0 dev |
| Content Filter | DCC | 1.3.154 |
| Spam detection network | Pyzor | 0.5.0 |
| Spam detection network | Razor | 2.84 |
| Grey listing | SQL grey | 1.8.0 |
| Image Recognition | ImageCeberus | 1.0 |
| System Management | Webmin | 1.770 |
Licence
E.F.A. is licensed by GPL. See license for more information.