OT:ANNOUNCE: MailDroid Spam Fighting MFG/MTA alpha release 0.01

[Geoff White <geoffw () cybertribe com>]

The MailDroid iso image is ready for download at http://www.maildroid.org.
(at 130 MB, we'll try it for a few days to see if we can afford the 
traffic)



MailDroid is a special "distro" of the popular OpenBSD** operating 
system that is optimized to provide a secure, spam fighting, virus 
killing, Mail Filtering Gateway, "right out of the box". System 
Administrators need only place the MailDroid distro CD into any modern 
x86 box (Pentium III class or above) and load the system as you would 
any OpenBSD install except you select the additional maildroid.tgz 
package. Once all the packages are installed, reboot… and the system 
will come up swinging! MailDroid comes equipped and configured with:


• sendmail 8.13.8 - standard OpenBSD 3.7 release
• smtp-vilter 1.1.9- connect several milter back-ends to filter your 
incoming mail
• spamassassin 3.0.2- what more do we need to say?
• cyrus-sasl 2.1.20 - SASL2 authentication daemon to use with sendmail
• clamav 0.85.1- The open source anti virus milter
• squirrelmail 1.4.4– SSL web mail front-end using an internal IMAP server
• spamd - The OpenBSD offensive spam deferral daemon
• pop3s - TLS based POP access (via stunnel 4.08 )
• OpenBSD firewall based on pf
• Chrooted sendmail, apache, clamav, smtp-vilter, named, PHP4.3.10 and more
• Secure Web-based management console


We put all the work into building, integrating and debugging these tools 
so you can spend your time, not building packages, but fighting SPAM! 
While the system comes up, secure and ready to filter, reject, or label 
spam, we refrain from making any major policy decisions. The system is 
tunable, in a large-scale sense through the web interface, however you 
can edit the actual configuration files yourself without worrying that 
your changes will be lost... all config files changes are placed under 
version control so if you make a mistake, you can recover easily.


MailDroid is Open Source, you are free to modify it, recompile it, use 
parts of it, even repackage and sell it ( see individual component 
licenses). If you choose to purchase a CD, you get one year of on-line 
automatic updates for the host that you decide to register. What this 
means is that if there are security vulnerabilities, or cool feature 
improvements available, you don't have to wait, re-compile or 
re-install, you just have to download the package, install, possibly 
reboot and your done. Even if you choose not to purchase a CD, you can 
still have read access to the MailDroid CVS tree, that will contain up 
to the minute security patches and many feature enhancements.

MailDroid is a community effort, it is a effort of System and Network 
Administrators like yourselves, and we value your suggestions, patches 
and feature additions, should you choose to contribute them. We are here 
to make all of our lives a little nicer and to optimize the fun!

MailDroid... Now there's a New Hope.

Host requirements:
• I32 (x86) machine 300MHz (Pentium III) or better (sorry no 64 bit 
support yet, dual CPU is OK!)
• 128MB of memory (512 preferred)
• 20 Gigabyte hard drive
• CDROM (to load software)
• keyboard, VGA monitor (serial support for the console in the BIOS)
• 10/100 base-T Ethernet port


We can also build custom MailDroids to your specifications and deliver 
them fully burnt-in, loaded and debugged. From super-fast, 1U, dual 
processor, bastion servers to small-office, paperback book size, low 
power units. E-mail us for details and price quotes.





Info at maildroid.org



* MFG = Mail Filtering Gateway which also doubles as an MTA (Mail 
Transporting Agent)
** OpenBSD and the “Mean Puffy logo are copyrighted 1997-2005 by Theo de 
Raadt