[aaronfreimark]

I’ve implemented the system detailed here:

http://lawmonkey.org/anti-spam.html

with a couple of changes. I couldn’t get DCC to compile, and decided against chrooting postfix or amavisd for now. Skip the first half or so since it’s about setting up an OpenBSD box & Postfix (and that’s been done for you).

The system is working great.

[aaronfreimark]

The problem is that the startup item is running fmserver as root, but the Config app is looking for it running as the current user.

Solution: if the current user is “admin” change the startup item so it begins with:

sudo admin /Applications/…<path to fmserver app>

Why: sudo isn’t only for root, in this case it tells root to run the program as admin.

[aaronfreimark]

I was able to get this spam filter working using Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, and Razor on 10.3. (I couldn’t get DCC to compile, though, and decided that chrooting everything was too hard.) It’s now catching about 95% of the spam going through the server.

It is perhaps a bit too involved for me to write up generic instructions. I’ll see.

[aaronfreimark]

I hope you make really good backups. I don’t trust Apple’s RAID at all. It doesn’t alert you when a mirrored drive has failed. Rebuilding a mirrored drive must be done off-line, making “hot-swap” useless. A client’s setup was somehow magically switched from mirrored to striped, making it completely unreadable. It is impossible to rebuild on an XServe running Jaguar Server.

I read somewhere that RAID was boolean — it works perfectly, or not at all. I only recommend external RAID systems for my clients.

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