Open Source Links and Resources
Open Source: Non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition
Free Software Foundation: Established to promote computer users' rights to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs.
The GNU Project: Established to develop a complete UNIX-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system.
Linux Distributions
Gentoo: A special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need.
Ubuntu: A complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support.
Redhat: One of the largest and most recognized companies dedicated to open source software and the largest distributor of the Linux operating system.
Fedora Core: An RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat.
Debian: A widely used distribution of free software developed through the collaboration of volunteers from around the world.
SUSE: Major retail Linux distribution, produced in Germany. The company is owned by Novell, Inc.
Slackware: One of the earliest Linux distributions, and is the oldest distribution still being maintained.
E-Mail Server Software
Postfix MTA: MTA mailer that started life as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program.
Courier-IMAP: Fast, scalable, enterprise IMAP amd POP3 server.
Maildrop MDA: Mail filtering and mail delivering agent.
E-Mail Filtering Software
Policyd-weight: policyd-weight is a Perl policy daemon for the Postfix MTA intended to eliminate forged envelope senders and HELOs (i.e. in bogus mails).
DSPAM: A powerful, statistical anti-spam toolkit which adapts and learns emailing habits.
SpamAssassin: A powerful, heirarchal anti-spam toolkit which uses a diverse range of tests to identify Spam.
ClamAV: An anti-virus toolkit for UNIX.
Pyzor: A collaborative anti-spam toolkit using digests of messages to identify spam.
DCC: A system of clients and servers that collect and count checksums of email messages in order to detect spam.
Greylisting: A new method of blocking significant amounts of spam at the mailserver level without heavyweight statistical analysis.
Postgrey: A Postfix policy server implementing greylisting.
SQLGrey: An SQL Postfix policy service implementing a grey-listing policy based on Postgrey.
SpamCop: A premier service for reporting spam.
Optical Character Recognition
Fuzzy OCR: A plugin for SpamAssassin for performing optical character recognition (using a variety of OCR engines) on attached or HTML embedded images.
Tesseract OCR: A commerical quality OCR engine open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005.
GNU Ocrad: An OCR engine based on a feature extraction method.
GOCR: An OCR engine.
Graphing Tools
RRDTool: A system to store and display time-series data.
MRTG: The Multi Router Traffic Grapher.
Mailgraph: A mail statistics RRDtool frontend for Postfix that produces daily, weekly, monthly and yearly graphs of received/sent and bounced/rejected mail.

