Almost 2 years since the initial feature comparison, Baruwa has been further enhanced thus the need for this updated post.
| Feature | Mailwatch | Baruwa 1.x | Baruwa 2.x |
|---|---|---|---|
| Realtime Full text search engine | N | N | Y |
| Theming and customization support | N | N | Y |
| Active Directory integration | N | N | Y |
| DKIM management | N | N | Y |
| MailScanner Async logging | N | N | Y |
| MailScanner SQL Config | N | N | Y |
| Domains CSV import | N | N | Y |
| Domains CSV export | N | N | Y |
| Accounts CSV import | N | N | Y |
| Accounts CSV export | N | N | Y |
| Message totals & system load display | Y | Y | Y |
| Status tools | Y | Y | Y |
| Display mail queue items | Y | Y | Y |
| Delete mail queue items | N | Y | Y |
| Deliver mail queue items | N | N | Y |
| Bounce mail queue items | N | N | Y |
| Hold mail queue items | N | N | Y |
| Release, Learn, Delete quarantine | Y | Y | Y |
| Bulk quarantine operations | Y | Y | Y |
| Auto quarantine message release | N | Y | Y |
| Released message from original sender | N | Y | Y |
| Message preview | Y | Y | Y |
| Strip malicious code in preview | N | Y | Y |
| Whitelists & Blacklists | Y | Y | Y |
| Reports with filters | Y | Y | Y |
| PDF reports | N | Y | Y |
| Interactive graphs | N | Y | N |
| Virus scanner status | Y | N | Y |
| Multiple user levels | Y | Y | Y |
| Restrictions on username format | Y | N | Y |
| Built in external auth | N | Y | Y |
| Mysql status view | Y | N | N |
| Mailscanner configuration viewer | Y | N | N |
| Relay info | Y | Y | Y |
| I18N Multiple languages and locales | N | Y | Y |
| Unicode | N | Y | Y |
| Templates | N | Y | Y |
| XSS protections | N | Y | Y |
| Split DB reads and writes | N | Y | Y |
| Data loss protection for logger | N | Y | Y |
| AJAX | N | Y | Y |
| Log archiving | N | Y | Y |
| Signature disclaimer management | N | Y | Y |
| Cluster support | Y | Y | Y |
| House keeping tools | Y | Y | Y |
| Audit log | Y | N | Y |
| Valid Markup | N | Y | Y |
| IPV6 | N | Y | Y |
| MTA integration | N | Y | Y |
Missed anything ? Post a comment and i will add it.
]]>Users of Baruwa 2.0 are encouraged to upgrade immediately.
This security release fixes one issue: an information leakage issue.
Here's a brief summary of the issue and its resolution:
For more details, read on.
In order to provide a value proposition for our Enterprise Edition clients we have decided to split the Enterprise and Community Editions. The Enterprise Edition will now contain advanced features for clustered and large scale environments not available in the Community Edition.
The focus of the Community Edition will now be running on single servers, multi node features will gradually be removed from the community edition.
This is the initial release where this distinct feature set will become evident.
Baruwa's admin interface could expose supposedly-hidden information via its user edit and user delete pages. This has been fixed.
Baruwa's administrative interface allows domain admins to edit and delete users in domains that they manage. The user edit and user delete pages do not filter the drop down list of domains to only show domains the domain admin is allowed to manage; as such domain admins are able to view domains that belong to other users.
To remedy this, the user edit page will now filter the domains drop down to only domains the domain admin manages and the user delete page will no longer display a domains drop down list.
Patches have been applied to Baruwa's 2.0 master development branch, which resolve the issue described above. The patches may be obtained directly from the following changeset.
The following new Community Edition release has been issued:
Updated Enterprise Edition packages are available from the Enterprise repository. Users of the Enterprise Edition should refer to the upgrading and changelog sections of the documentation and then use their package manager to upgrade.
The admin information leakage issue was reported by Network Technologies Queensland.
As always, we ask that potential security issues be reported via private email to security@baruwa.com, and NOT via Baruwa's issue tracking system or the mailing lists.
The bug fixes below are a combination of the fixes to the Community and Enterprise Editions.
Baruwa is a web 2.0 MailScanner frontend which can be used to build Robust and Efficient Mail Security systems based on the best of breed Open source packages.
Baruwa 2.0 represents many changes from previous releases. Baruwa 2.0 is a ground up rewrite of Baruwa 1.0 using the Pylons framework with a PostgreSQL backend.
The stability and performance improvements due to the rewrite now place Baruwa far ahead of any other MailScanner management systems currently available.
Baruwa 2.0 will be delivered in 3 versions:
Due to the fact that Baruwa 2.0 is built from a different code base there is no direct upgrade path.
Users are advised to create new installations and then migrate any required data out of the older solutions.
Consultancy services in planning migrations are available from the Developer.
If you do not need the new features in Baruwa 2.0 there is no need to migrate as the Baruwa 1.0 branch will continue being supported.
Full user and administrator documentation is available as part of the release as well as online.
There are a number of places you can get assistance should you run into problems.
If you run into a problem and would like some assistance, join the Baruwa community mailing list http://lists.baruwa.org Many answers are already there in the archives, but if you don't find yours, you can simply ask a new question.
Subscribers to Baruwa Enterprise Edition should use the subscribers mailing list at https://lists.baruwa.com
There is also paid for consulting services and support from the Developer.
Only the Exim MTA is supported at the moment, Further versions may introduce support for additional MTA's. Please feel free to contribute code to support the MTA of your choice, all the hooks are in place to allow use of other MTA's.
Interactive SVG graphs have been replaced by non interactive PNG graphs.
We thank everyone involved for helping us produce this product.
Baruwa 1.1.2 deb packages are now available at http://apt.baruwa.org
Review the upgrade notes in the documentation then run:
apt-get update apt-get upgrade
As always, use the list to report any issues or provide feedback
We’ve got a new way to make it even easier to translate Baruwa to another language. We’re using Transifex to keep track of all our Baruwa translations.
Here’s how you do it:
If you have any questions please post them to the mailing list and we'll help.
]]>Hi All,
I am pleased to announce the release of Baruwa 1.1.2.
This is a maintenance release that includes mostly bug fix's and a few new features.
This is a source only release, binary packages for various Linux distributions will be released at a later stage.
Quoting their website:
E.F.A stands for Email Filter Appliance E.F.A is born out of a need for a cost-effective email virus & spam scanning solution after the ESVA project died.
We try to create a complete package using existing open-source anti-spam projects and combine them to a single easy to use (virtual) appliance.
I am thrilled they have chosen to use Baruwa as their web interface, i believe with their easy to use appliance Baruwa will see more adoption and contributions to make it much better.
If you are seeking a spam filtering virtual appliance checkout the EFA project.
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Ubuntu does not ship mailscanner packages since release 12.04 Precise Pangolin so users of Ubuntu who do not use baruwa can also use this repo to access the mailscanner deb package.
Feedback and support
Please provide feedback via the usual channels, if you need support use the list.
These updated packages are now available via the Baruwa rpm repo, please study the upstream release notes and update.
Users who use Django from their distro's repo's are also advised to study the release notes and update from their distro's repo.
Upstreams release notes
]]>Notable features include:
This is a source only release, no documentation is available and there are no tools to upgrade a Baruwa 1.x version to this.
Only Exim is supported at the moment as the MTA, the hooks exist for adding of the other MTA's that were supported under version 1.0.
The source code can be obtained from https://github.com/akissa/baruwa2
So grab the code, add new features, do translations, write documentation etc etc.
Feedback and support
Please provide feedback via the usual channels, if you need support use the list.
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