Generic actions
I acquired a clean IP address and associated it with my hardened server
I installed a secure Apache webserver to run Perl
I installed exim4 STARTTLS using a free LetsEncrypt certificate. Admittedly, STARTTLS isn't a mandatory part of this process.
I ensured I had trustworthy email by having authentication using exim4, SPF, DKIM and DMARC. Another not strictly necessary part of the process, but ensures a higher level of email delivery.
You're going to need to install some Perl encryption libraries.
Having done the more generic things, it was time to do the more specifically spamgourmet things:
Acquire and customize Spamgourmet
Exchange any instance of example.com with your domain name
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cd ~
sudo apt install imagemagick libdbd-mysql-perl libclass-loader-perl
svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/spamgourmet/code/ code
cd code
OLDIFS=$IFS;IFS=$'\n';for f in `grep -rl /path/to/modules .`;do sed -i 's/\/path\/to\/modules/\/usr\/local\/lib\/spamgourmet\/modules/g' $f;done;IFS=$OLDIFS
OLDIFS=$IFS;IFS=$'\n';for f in `grep -rl /path/to/spamgourmet.config .`;do sed -i 's/\/path\/to\/spamgourmet.config/\/etc\/spamgourmet\/spamgourmet.config/g' $f;done;IFS=$OLDIFS
OLDIFS=$IFS;IFS=$'\n';for f in `grep -rl %imagefilename% .`;do sed -i 's/http:\/\/captcha.spamgourmet.com/https:\/\/example.com\/captcha/g' $f;done;IFS=$OLDIFS
OLDIFS=$IFS;IFS=$'\n';for f in `grep -rl /path/to/outbound.log .`;do sed -i 's/\/path\/to\/outbound.log/\/var\/log\/spamgourmet\/outbound.log/g' $f;done;IFS=$OLDIFS
OLDIFS=$IFS;IFS=$'\n';for f in `grep -rl /path/to/debug.txt .`;do sed -i 's/\/path\/to\/debug.txt/\/var\/log\/spamgourmet\/spamgourmet.config/g' $f;done;IFS=$OLDIFS
OLDIFS=$IFS;IFS=$'\n';for f in `grep -rl /path/to/spamgourmet.config .`;do sed -i 's/\/path\/to\/spamgourmet.config/\/etc\/spamgourmet\/spamgourmet.config/g' $f;done;IFS=$OLDIFS
OLDIFS=$IFS;IFS=$'\n';for f in `grep -rl /home/mora/src/spamgourmet/captcha .`;do sed -i 's/\/home\/mora\/src\/spamgourmet\/captcha/\/usr\/local\/lib\/spamgourmet\/captchasrv/g' $f;done;IFS=$OLDIFS
OLDIFS=$IFS;IFS=$'\n';for f in `grep -rl /tmp/sg/captcha .`;do sed -i 's/\/tmp\/sg\/captcha/\/var\/www-spamgourmet\/captcha/g' $f;done;IFS=$OLDIFS
sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/spamgourmet
sudo mkdir /var/www-spamgourmet
mkdir /var/log/spamgourmet
sudo mkdir /var/www-spamgourmet/captcha
sudo mkdir /etc/spamgourmet
sudo cp -R captchasrv mailhandler modules /usr/local/lib/spamgourmet
sudo cp -R web/graphs.cgi web/html/* web/templates /var/www-spamgourmet
sudo cp conf/spamgourmet.config /etc/spamgourmet
You'll also need to steal the flagmap from the spamgourmet production site. I can't give you the code for that because it's 403 forbidden by bbs.spamgourmet.com
Note that there are various changes necessary to the codebase that we're in subversion at the time this was posted. I'm sure they will be soon.
MySQL
Install MySQL 5.7
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sudo apt install mysql-server-5.7 libdbd-mysql-perl
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Pick a strong password for mysql's root user; I generated a lowercase, words only memorable, strong password using correcthorsebatterystaple.net. Then I wrote that down on a piece of paper, because I only used it four or five times and that was with not knowing what I was doing. You ought to need it twice, when you create the database-user:
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mysqladmin -uroot -p create sguser
(enter that strong password now), and then again when you create the database:
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mysql -uroot -p
(enter that strong password now), and then create a second strong password to use in the mysql interactive prompt:
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create database sg;
grant all privileges on sg.* to sguser identified by 'secondstrongpassword' with grant option;
exit;
Next, back on the unix command line, we create and populate the database schema
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sudo mysql -usguser -psecondstrongpassword -Dsg <db.sql
sudo mysql -usguser -psecondstrongpassword -Dsg <dialogs.sql
Spamgourmet's homegrown Captcha server
Because of the 403 forbiddens, you've got to go off-site to read about making a captcha deamon for spamgourmet installations
Spamgourmet configuration
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sudo nano /etc/spamgourmet/spamgourmet.config
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%localdomains = (
'example.com' => 1,
'example.org' => 1
);
$admindomain = 'example.com';
$dbstring = 'DBI:mysql:database=sg;host=localhost';
$dbuser = 'sguser';
$dbpassword = 'secondstrongpassword';
$debugfilename = '/var/log/spamgourmet/spamgourmet.log'; # full path to debug output file
$webapproot = '/var/www-spamgourmet/';
$webtemplatedir = '/var/www-spamgourmet/templates/';
$secretphrase = 'thirdstrongpassword';
$mailhost = 'example.com';
$obmailhost = 'ob.example.com';
$adminemail = 'admin@realdomain.com';
$otherdomainemail = 'noreply@example.com';
$captchagenhost = 'localhost'; #set this to empty ( '' ) to disable captcha
$captchagenport = 15678;
$normalURL = "";
$secureURL = "";
You can now test these files run without crashing:
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perl /usr/local/lib/spamgourmet/mailhandler/outbound
perl /usr/local/lib/spamgourmet/mailhandler/spameater
perl /var/www-spamgourmet/index.pl
Once all is well, we will tie spamgourmet into apache:
Apache serving Spamgourmet
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sudo mv example.com-apache.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/.
sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com-apache.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/example.com-apache.conf
You ought to be able to interact with an eerily familiar site running on your own domain. Create yourself a test account, or for real account you're going to send test emails to.
Exim calling Spamgourmet
Check that you're relaying for outbound email.
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cat /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
ought to include
dc_relay_domains='ob.example.win'
the ob can be whatever, but it needs to be consistent with your spamgourmet.config
Spamgourmet uses # in Reply Address Masking, so pull those out:
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sed -i '/^CHECK_RCPT_/ s/\#//g' /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs
Insert into /etc/exim4/router/00_exim4-config_header after "begin routers"
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spamgourmet_address:
debug_print = "R: spamgourmet_address $local_part@$domain"
driver = accept
transport = sg_to_user_pipe
domains = example.com
errors_to = "[me]"
outbound_spamgourmet_address:
debug_print = "R: outbound_spamgourmet_address $local_part@$domain"
driver = accept
transport = sg_from_user_pipe
domains = ob.example.com
Insert into /etc/exim4/transport/00_exim4-config_header after "begin transports"
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sg_to_user_pipe:
debug_print = "T: sg_to_user_pipe for $local_part@$domain"
driver = pipe
return_output = false
temp_errors = 69
ignore_status = true
environment = REPLYTO=$reply_address:FROM=$header_from::TO=$header_to:
command = /usr/local/lib/spamgourmet/mailhandler/spameater
#user = "spamgourmet"
#group = "spamgourmet"
sg_from_user_pipe:
debug_print = "T: sg_from_user_pipe for $local_part@$domain"
driver = pipe
return_output = true
environment = REPLYTO=$reply_address:FROM=$header_from:
command = /usr/local/lib/spamgourmet/mailhandler/outbound
# user = "spamgourmet"
#group = "spamgourmet"
The user and group parts are if you've done something sensible and constrained the spamgourmet code to a particular user, which in this installation guide we haven't. Sorry.
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Restart Exim 4, and you're done. I mustn't tell you how to, it's 403 forbidden.
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If you need debug information from exim, edit /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/90_exim4-config_log_selector
Various parts of the spamgourmet code can have debugging turned on by changing a 0 to a 1, with debug information going to /var/log/spamgourmet/spamgourmet.log
No doubt there are things that I did that I have forgotten to tell you about. Please reply here noting them, so that (at the very least) others don't have to go through your pain.