17 Sep 09 Linux – Exim, Avenger and SpamAssassin Tips

Further to Exim, MySQL, Courier IMAP, Courier POP3 & Spamassassin – vdomain and vuser set up, I’ve recently been receiving an increasing amount of spam, and have finally decided to take some positive action. Previously, my account would get hit with about 100 to 150 per day, of which 2 or 3 might get through. Lately, this has quickly increased to about 700+ of which at least 20 to 30 have been getting through, and I’ve been doing nothing but clearing spam day and night for the past few weeks. It is, however, critital that I do not catch any genuine email – I would rather keep on the side of caution and be more generous than not.
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Tags: avenger, courier, dcc, exim, IMAP, mail avenger, MySQL, POP3, spam, spamassassin

19 Oct 08 Exim, MySQL, Courier IMAP, Courier POP3 & Spamassassin – vdomain and vuser set up.

There’s a couple of guides out there on how to set up Exim, MySQL, Courier and Spamassassin in a virtual user environment but I thought I’d put together a high level basic guide myself.

My installation is running on debian etch 4.0 stable (2.6.18-6-686)

As this is a vdomain/vuser setup, you will not require a system shell/login for the users you add.

To start off, just install the packages you’ll need with apt-get:

Now if you already have exim4-* installed which is the default, you have two choices. We want to install our own exim version from source but without breaking the repository. The choices are to either just rename exim4 to exim4.old and then create your new exim install, or alternatively create a dummy empty exim4 package remove exim4-* and install your dummy package. This will resolve the dependancies issue in the package manager. Neither method is particularly clean – I have installed a dummy package personally and removed the real exim4 set of packages.
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Tags: courier, courier-authlib-mysql, courier-imap, courier-pop, courier-pop3, exim, exim4, make, make install, MySQL, source, spamassassin, spamc, spamd, tar, vdomain, vuser