CfV [Call for Volunteer(s)] -- internal BayLISA stuff

Fri Feb 20 12:27:25 PST 2004

I've sent various versions of this out during the past week or so to
more select groups; for those who have already seen it, I apologize.

I'm asking for help getting some moderately-recent code compiled, up, &
running on the BayLISA machine, which is a dual-CPU SPARCstation 10
running Solaris 8.

It has GCC 2.95.2 as the available C compiler.

The software in question is some sendmail "milter"s (mail filters).

There was a time when I was up for this sort of thing, but my Solaris
box here at home has been exceedingly stable for a very long time --
enough so all I've needed to do is replace the boot drive a couple of
times in the last several years.  (Well, I did swap the chassis out from
underneath it, but that wasn't required.)  Point is, I haven't
needed to actually build any software with significant dependencies
on a Solaris box for a long time:  nearly all of the software-building
I've been doing in the last few years has been in a FreeBSD
environment, and my patience for dealing with manually chasing down
dependencies has diminished more than I had realized.

I'll avoid going into the gory details further on this list, but I will
point out the reason for the request:  I want to do a better job of
blocking unwanted mail.  In particular, I believe BayLISA would be
well-served by implementing ClamAV (which I have implemented here at
home) -- not to protect BayLISA members from the worms/viruses/...
themselves, but to reduce the amount of worm/virus/...-spawned spam that
the machine processes.  And ClamAV has some dependencies on certain
libraries.

I also intend to implement a milter that will permit me to at least
block receipt of mail that mentions Web sites that are known to be
spamvertised, as well as using regexen to block other forms of unwanted
mail.  Given the capacity of the machine, I think that's a better fit
than a full-blown spamassassin implementation.

Please reply to me; I will work with the volunteer(s) to get this done.

Thanks,
david           (current hat: postmaster at baylisa.org)
-- 
David H. Wolfskill				david at catwhisker.org
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and encourage others who are in a position to do so to do likewise.