Baruwa (swahili for letter or mail) is a web 2.0 MailScanner front-end.

It provides an easy to use interface for managing a MailScanner installation. It is used to perform operations such as releasing quarantined messages, spam learning, whitelisting and blacklisting addresses, monitoring the health of the services etc. Baruwa is implemented using web 2.0 features (AJAX) where deemed fit, graphing is also implemented on the client side using SVG, Silverlight or VML.

It includes reporting functionality with an easy to use query builder, results can be displayed as message lists or graphed as colorful and pretty interactive graphs.

Custom MailScanner modules are provided to allow for logging of messages to the mysql database with SQLite as backup and for managing whitelists and blacklists.

Baruwa is open source software, written in Python/Perl using the Django Framework and MySQL for storage, it is released under the GPLv2 and is available for free download.

• AJAX support for most operations
• Reporting with AJAX enabled query builder
• Interactive SVG graphs and PDF reports
• Archiving of old message logs
• SQLite backup prevents data loss when MySQL is down
• Multi user profiles (No restrictions on username format)
• User profile aware white/blacklist management
• Ip / network addresses supported in white/blacklist manager
• Easy plug-in authentication to external authentication systems (POP3, IMAP and SMTP supported out of the box)
• Tools for housekeeping tasks (quarantine management, rule updates, quarantine notifications, etc)
• Works both with and without Javascript enabled (graphs require Javascript)

Screenshots are on our Flickr page.

• Python >= 2.4
• Django >= 1.1.1
• MySQLdb >= 1.2.1p2
• GeoIP
• iPy
• Any Web server that can run Django (Apache/mod_wsgi recommended)
• MySQL
• Dojo toolkit
• Reportlab
• Lxml
• UUID (python 2.4 only)
• Sphinx (optional for building docs)

Baruwa 1.0.x is not compatible with the 0.0.x versions and Mailwatch, as it uses a different database schema and its own MailScanner custom modules.

Baruwa is installed in the usual way

python setup.py install

Binary packages for Ubuntu/Debian, Fedora and RHEL/CENTOS are available for download.

Documentation is included in the docs directory of the tar ball and can also be accessed online

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