eFa project Wiki

active_directory

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-04-11T16:29:33+00:00

Active Directory Integration This is the up to date process of integrating your eFa 4.0 with Active Directory. AD Authentication Integration This guide will go through the step's necessary for you to setup mailwatch to authenticate against a Secure Active Directory Server. this makes administration easier and seamlessly allows your users to login to their quarantine folders.

adding_mail_domains

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-03-25T09:30:09+00:00

Adding mail_domains In order for your domains to receive any mails they first need to be allowed to relay through your E.F.A. system. Note: Make sure you have changed your MX records to your new E.F.A. host. * To add an domain to your E.F.A. first logon to your system with SSH and the user/pass that you entered during the initial setup.

black_whitelist

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-03-25T09:35:42+00:00

Black/Whitelist Adding an e-mail address to the blacklist on the WebGui add it under lists as: * From: email@address.com * to: default @ * List: Blacklist Make sure to keep the second field for the 'to' address empty.
If you want it to activate right after adding (for testing) then reload mailscanner via SSH: service mailscanner reload

building_e.f.a

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-24T15:43:03+00:00

Building eFa If you cannot use one of the available VM images you can manually build eFa your self using kickstart. Note that this is only for experienced users and should be avoided for normal usage unless you really have to. Warning: Building eFa should only be done by users with extensive Linux knowledge.

deploying_e.f.a._on_clean_centos_installation

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-06-01T19:36:10+00:00

It is possible to run E.F.A. on a VPS that only grants you the option to do a bare installation of CentOS. Note that this is only for experienced users and should be avoided for normal usage unless you really have to. Warning: Building E.F.A. should only be done by users with extensive Linux knowledge.

deploying_on_hyper-v

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-03-25T09:21:30+00:00

Deploying_on_Hyper-V * Downloaded the correct file and extracted the .zip file on your computer. * Launch your Hyper-V manager * Select ‘Action’ from the menu and choose, ‘import Virtual Machine’.

deploying_on_vmware

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-03-25T08:55:12+00:00

Deploying_on_VMware Follow the following instructions to import E.F.A. in VMware. * Downloaded the correct file and extracted the .zip file on your computer. * Launch vcenter. * Select 'File' from the menu and choose, 'Deploy OVF Template...'

development

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-05-04T12:28:41+00:00

Development All development of eFa is stored on Github: * Help out with development If you want to help with the development of eFa please register on the forums and send an Personal Message (PM) to darky83 on the forums. Or contact 'darky83' on our IRC Channel:

efa_project

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-12T21:00:44+00:00

eFa Project General eFa stands for Email Filter Appliance The idea about eFa 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.

efa_v4_to_v5_migration_guide

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-20T12:45:25+00:00

Migration Guide from eFa v4 to eFa v5 Overview Migrating from v4 to v5 is possible using the backup and restore functionality of eFa. The process involves doing the following: * Initial preparation (fact gathering) * Preparing v4 appliance *

efa-configure_menu

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-05-24T12:13:44+00:00

EFA-Configure (menu) * 0) Logout from ssh - The action would log the user out of the system * 1) Shell - Exit the EFA-Configure dialog and starts the shell * 2) Reboot system - Asks for a restart * 3) Halt system - Shut down the operating system

efa-configure

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-04-03T12:09:24+00:00

EFA-Configure For all items and an description in the menu see: EFA-Configure_(menu)

faq

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-05-04T12:24:35+00:00

General How did eFa start? After using ESVA for a long time the ESVA project died, a few restarts were attempted by the community but none of them really got through, because we were in need of a new spam filter we had build our own spam filter using just open-source tools, after a while we decided to create a virtual-machine and release the build script we used for the community to enjoy, this has become eFa

firewall_ports

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-08-15T08:03:38+00:00

Firewall ports E.F.A. Requires the following firewall ports to be opened: Protocol Direction Port Description TCPin25e-mail in (SMTP) TCPout25e-mail out (SMTP) UDPout53DNS out (resolving and RBL checks) TCPin80(opt.) web interface (HTTP) TCPin443

getting_involved

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-03-25T10:02:43+00:00

Getting Involved The Forums One of the easiest ways to get involved is participating on the Forums. Ask questions, help users or just general slow chat are all possible. Wiki Improvement All users are encouraged to contribute to this wiki you can help us with:

history

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-03-20T16:14:57+00:00

History #REDIRECT History

howto

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-05-04T12:33:42+00:00

HowTo Youtube * Email Filter Appliance part 1 -- install and configure * Email Filter Appliance part 2 -- filtering email Migration * eFa v4 to v5 Migration Guide CentOS * Didn't start out with a big enough var, did you? Increasing Partition Sizes Postfix * Want to use port 587, guess what, its already configured in eFa 4x! Just create new users for submission: useradd -M -s /sbin/nologin someuser && passwd someuser

howtos

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-05-24T11:32:05+00:00

HowTos Redirect to HOWTO

initial_configuration

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-03-25T09:21:52+00:00

Initial Configuration When booting up the system for the first time you will be presented with an login screen on the console.
When you login with the shown username and password the system will automatically start the EFA-Init setup program.

irc_channel

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-05-04T12:28:14+00:00

IRC Channel Chat with us on IRC, * Server: irc.libera.chat * Channel: #efa-project Note that people need to sleep, work or play also so if you don't get a response just wait a while, you can also be in a different timezone so while it is during the day at your location some other user might be a sleep.

learn_messages_as_spam

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-11-29T19:22:11+00:00

If you want to mark messages so they get learned as 'spam' this can be done in mailwatch. * Ordered List ItemOpen the message list in mailwatch and select the message that you want to mark as spam (select the hashtag “#”) * Scroll down to the bottom and under 'SA Learn' select the checkbox

lost_password

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-03-25T09:35:23+00:00

Lost_password If you lost your (Mailwatch) login password, you can change the password if you can gain access to MySQL. Execute the following modified command (replace and ): /usr/bin/mysql -u mailwatch -p`cat /etc/EFA-Config | grep MAILWATCHSQLPWD | sed 's/.*://'` mailscanner -e "UPDATE users SET password = md5(**'**') WHERE user=**'**'"

main_page

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-03-20T16:14:57+00:00

Main_Page NOTOC NOEDITSECTION

Welcome to the E.F.A. Project Wiki ; E.F.A. Project: Brief overview about the E.F.A. Project. ; Beginners Setup Guide: Beginners guide for installing and configuring E.F.A. ; FAQ: List of Frequently asked questions.

migration_guide_from_v3_to_v4

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-12-03T02:11:50+00:00

Migration Guide from eFa v3 to eFa v4 Overview Migrating from v3 to v4 is possible using the backup and restore functionality of eFa. The process involves doing the following: * Initial preparation (fact gathering) * Preparing v3 appliance *

post_configuration

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-05-24T12:06:15+00:00

Post Configuration After the initial configuration you can log on to the web interface of your system and start viewing all received mails. However to configure E.F.A. we have implemented an utility called EFA-Configure (menu), also for existing ESVA users we have kept webmin for system usage, however we

setup_guide

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-12-03T02:15:53+00:00

Setup Guide Preparation System Requirements Minimum system requirements are 2 vCPUs, 8GB of memory, and 100GB of disk space (as of version 4.0.0). However, these are just minimum requirements. It is recommended to scale up for higher workloads and add additional disk space if you are going to receive and send higher volumes of mail.

sidebar

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-01-09T20:24:19+00:00

General * eFa Project * Setup Guide * FAQ * HowTo Development * Development Community * Getting Involved * IRC Channel * Forums Restricted Pages * Developer Access * Infra Access -----

software

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-03-20T16:14:57+00:00

Software #REDIRECT Software_Used

start

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-12T21:00:06+00:00

Welcome to the eFa Project Wiki ---------- General * eFa Project * Brief overview about the eFa project. * Setup Guide * Beginners guide for installing and configuring eFa * efa v4 to v5 migration guide * Guide for migrating from v4 to v5 * FAQ * List of Frequently asked questions.

what_makes_efa

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-01-11T15:47:19+00:00

What makes eFa Note this page is still an work in progress not all items are listed here! Software Used The eFa appliance use the following software, see the documentation page of the software/package to see what changes have been made. Name Function