Piratefish 4.6 Features
New features included in Piratefish Version 4.6:
- Now using Ubuntu Linux Server 10.04!
Ubuntu Linux is now the most popular distribution of Linux ever. Reviewed as the first Linux ever to be worthy for desktop users, the server version is one of the best distributions for all around support.
- Newly formatted graphics and screen shots highlight important fields
- Piratefish Integration Examples
Adding a Piratefish Anti-Spam system into your network is easy - and we provide you with multiple methods and strategies to install and integrate the Piratefish Anti-Spam system into most networks. If you have special needs, contacting support can help a great deal as well.
- Anti-Backscatter Configuration Instructions
Anti-Backscatter configuration prevents your Piratefish Anti-Spam system from accepting email unless that persons email address exists on your network. This prevents the Piratefish from bouncing messages to forged senders, and makes for a cleaner email system. If you've ever gotten a message that was bounced, and you never sent it - that's backscatter.
- Sender Policy Framework
Sender Policy Framework - also known as Open SPF, is a system that lets you define who's allowed to send email with your domains using DNS. The Piratefish documentation provides an overview of how you modify your DNS to add your own SPF records, and additionally, the Piratefish itself also has the ability to check the SPF information on received emails - and this blocks many forged spams before getting through. If you've ever received a fake PayPal login or fake bank email - well, now when they use the Open SPF system, those messages will be blocked by the Piratefish.
- Firewall Installation Instructions (more info)
Worried about network security? Instructions on how to install and configure a free Linux firewall are included in the Piratefish Anti-Spam System guide.
- Bayesian Filtering Instructions (more info)
Bayesian filters are what takes the Piratefish Anti-Spam System from just an email blacklist and enforcement system, to a fully intelligent spam blocking monster. They take a little work on the administrator side to make them perfect, but once they're running, spam has a lot more trouble getting through.
- LogWatch Daily Activity Reports (more info)
If you're like me, you want to know what your Piratefish Anti-Spam System is up to. Every day I get an email that tells me how many messages come through, how many had viruses, how many had spam. If you've seen the charts in the Piratefish blog, it's the numbers from Logwatch that were used to make the chart. - Instructions for installation of MailWatch for MailScanner
MailWatch provides a greatly improved reporting interface on your Piratefish installation - these instructions are still in beta, but should work well enough to get most of the basic features of MailWatch going on your Piratefish. These instructions add an SQL driven web interface for log querying and statistics as well as graphical output on how your system is performing.
- Improved utilization of Spam Black Lists
Spam black-lists provide an important resource for blocking messages early after Piratefish installation. Updates included here walk you though adding more black lists, and configuring your fish to be as aggressive as you like. Having a good blacklist setup prior to Bayesian filtering provides your system with excellent spam-blocking start.
- Two-way Mail Relay Instructions
If you've only got a single IP address for your email server, then using the Piratefish as an inbound and outbound relay can help solve a lot of problems for you.
- Image Spam Detection
Image spam is one of the most annoying kinds of spam out there - instead of sending easily scanable text messages, spammers are increasingly sending messages containing graphics with their spam advertisements inside them. Image Spam Detection uses fuzzy optical character recognition to analyze and read image files, then determine if the picture is spam based on the words found.
- Email Technical Support
- eBook Username and Password are provided by Email
- Access to new Piratefish features via tuning pages for registered users only - includes access to exclusive installation scripts. Includes additional support for Drag and Drop Bayesian filter programming and Fuzzy Optical Character Recognition of spam contained in images inside email messages.
- 30 Day Money-Back Guarantee
Piratefish Features List:
- Secure Web Administration
- Compatible with all Email servers
- No source-code compiling required
- Step-by-Step Instructions, written specifically for users new to Linux
- Written explanations explain how each aspect of the system works
- Integrated testing throughout configuration and building process
- Uses Postfix mail server software
- Uses MailScanner to provide anti-fraud measures
- Integrated SpamAssassin for extensive spam analysis
- Integrated ClamAV anti-virus scanning
- Support for all major anti-spam and anti-malware black listing services
- Support for white-listing of trusted domains and senders
- Daily activity reports
- Anti-Backscatter configuration to prevent bounce-spam
- Built-in Linux Firewall
- Multiple Domain Support
- Secure Operating System
- Easy to setup Bayesian filtering
- FuzzyOCR - reads emails to detect spam hidden in images
- PDF Spam Detection (added 8/11/2007) - detects spam PDF attachments
- Sender Policy Framework Support - Open SPF
- Troubleshooting & Linux Help Guide
- Runs on the Open Source Ubuntu Linux Server operating system
- Free online security and software updates provided by Ubuntu
