Install EPEL

The EPEL repo provides packages which are in Fedora but no yet included in RHEL/SL/CENTOS. Instructions on installing it can be found on EPEL

You need to install this repo in order to access certain packages that are required by Baruwa.

Baruwa installation

A Baruwa RHEL/SL/Centos repo is now available at http://repo.baruwa.org/ To install from this repo you need to enable the repo

EL-5:

# rpm -Uvh http://repo.baruwa.org/el5/i386/baruwa-release-5-0.noarch.rpm

EL-6:

# rpm -Uvh http://repo.baruwa.org/el6/i386/baruwa-release-6-0.noarch.rpm

Install the dependencies:

# yum install mysql-server mod_wsgi rabbitmq-server

Install Baruwa, all the required dependencies not in the other repo’s will be resolved by packages shipped by the Baruwa repo:

# yum install baruwa

Configure RabbitMQ

Create a user and virtual host for baruwa:

# rabbitmqctl add_user baruwa your_password
# rabbitmqctl add_vhost baruwa
# rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p baruwa baruwa ".*" ".*" ".*"

Delete the guest user:

# rabbitmqctl delete_user guest

See the RabbitMQ Admin Guide for more information.

Configure Baruwa

Create the database:

# mysqladmin -u root -p create baruwa

Create a Mysql user for baruwa

Run the command from the mysql prompt:

mysql> GRANT ALL ON baruwa.* TO baruwa@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';
mysql> flush privileges;

Configure the Baruwa settings

Edit the Baruwa settings.py file:

# vi /etc/baruwa/settings.py

Set the following options under the default DATABASE option:

NAME = 'baruwa'
USER = 'baruwa'
PASSWORD = '<password>'
HOST = 'localhost'

Populate the database:

# baruwa-admin syncdb --noinput
# for name in  $(echo "accounts messages lists reports status fixups config"); do
        baruwa-admin migrate $name;
  done

Create the admin user account:

# baruwa-admin createsuperuser

Set the rabbitMQ settings:

CELERY_CONCURRENCY = 20
BROKER_HOST = "localhost"
BROKER_PORT = 5672
BROKER_USER = "baruwa"
BROKER_PASSWORD = "your_password"
BROKER_VHOST = "baruwa"

Edit the settings.py file and make configuration changes to suit your site.:

# vi /etc/baruwa/settings.py

Configure celeryd to run as a daemon

You need to run celeryd as a daemon in order to process tasks such as Bayesian learning and message releases from the quarantine etc etc.

An init script /etc/init.d/baruwa and configuration file /etc/sysconfig/baruwa are installed by the Baruwa rpm all you need to do is enable celeryd to be started at system boot by running:

# chkconfig --level 35 baruwa on
# service baruwa start

Configure Email Signature management

Baruwa now supports the management of email signatures / disclaimers from within the web interface. Signatures are configured on a domain and user level.

Both HTML and text signatures are supported, HTML signatures support embedding of one graphical image, which can be uploaded via the HTML editor interface.

The backend that handles the signatures needs to be initialized before you can begin to manage the signatures via the interface.

To initialize the backend run:

# baruwa-admin initconfig

This will ask you for the hostname of the system you are setting up, and then initialize the system for you. The command does attempt to guess your hostname, so if its correct just press enter.

You need to initialize each of your machines if you are running a clustered setup.

Setup Web server

Edit your apache configurations to enable virtual hosting if not enabled already. Then set the correct hostname in /etc/httpd/conf.d/baruwa.conf:

# change to your hostname
ServerName baruwa-alpha.local

Make sure mod_wsgi is enabled, uncomment the following line in /etc/httpd/conf.d/wsgi.conf:

LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so

Restart apache.

Configure MailScanner

It is assumed that you have a working MailScanner system already configured, if you are installing from scratch please refer to their documentation on how to configure MailScanner. The Baruwa repo includes mailscanner and it will be installed automatically when you install baruwa.

Edit the provided Baruwa MailScanner config file /etc/MailScanner/conf.d/baruwa.conf, you need to make sure the following options are correct:

Quarantine User = exim #(Or what ever your `Run As User` is set to)
DB DSN = DBI:mysql:database=baruwa;host=spam01;port=3306 #set to valid DSN
DB Username = baruwa # your DB username
DB Password = password # your DB password

To actually quarantine and later process messages with in Baruwa, set store as one of your keywords for the Spam Actions and High Scoring Spam Actions MailScanner options.

The provided MailScanner configuration provides for SQL logging, Whitelists and Blacklists and Per user settings.

Apply configuration changes

Test your configuration for any errors:

# MailScanner --lint

Restart MailScanner:

# /etc/init.d/mailscanner restart

Testing

Verify that is working

Check your log files you should see

Baruwa SQL logger:

Aug  9 18:58:27 localhost MailScanner[8470]: Logging message 1OiVg7-0003zS-9s to Baruwa SQL
Aug  9 18:58:27 localhost MailScanner[11052]: 1OiVg7-0003zS-9s: Logged to Baruwa SQL

Baruwa Lists:

Aug 9 18:32:42 localhost MailScanner[27260]: Starting Baruwa whitelists
Aug 9 18:32:42 localhost MailScanner[27260]: Read 6 whitelist items
Aug 9 18:32:42 localhost MailScanner[27260]: Ip blocks whitelisted 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24
xxx.xx.xxx.0/26

Baruwa User settings:

Aug 9 15:00:03 localhost MailScanner[25708]: Baruwa - Populating spam score settings
Aug 9 15:00:03 localhost MailScanner[25708]: Read 1 spam score settings
Aug 9 14:59:53 localhost MailScanner[25668]: Baruwa - Populating high spam score settings
Aug 9 14:59:53 localhost MailScanner[25668]: Read 1 high spam score settings

Point your browser to http://hostname_used login with admin user and password and start working. You can now use the interface to add users, domains and process messages, etc etc.

Need help

If your installation is not working as expected, support is available, you can get free and friendly support from the list or paid support from the author or other companies that support baruwa.