Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
General Questions
- Where did you get the name "Maia Mailguard"?
- What does the motto in the product logo say?
- How can I make a donation to the Maia Mailguard project?
- Where can I submit requests for new features?
- How should I report errors to the developers?
- Where can I submit a testimonial for Maia Mailguard?
- How can I list myself or my company as a Maia Mailguard user or provider?
- What do the 'sensitivity', 'specificity', 'PPV', 'NPV', and 'efficiency' stats mean?
- Why isn't Maia based on the latest version of amavisd-new?
Licensing Questions
Installation
- Are there any step-by-step guides, HOWTOs, or walk-throughs?
- How can I optimize MySQL for use with Maia Mailguard?
- Do you have an example amavis config file?
- Do you have an example SpamAssassin config file?
- How do I customize the wording on Maia's web pages?
- Can I use postfix's recipient_verification to restrict email to valid accounts?
- How can I use OCR to detect image-based spam?
- How can I create my own custom rules?
- How can I keep my SpamAssassin rules updated?
- How can I use Sanesecurity's phishing and scam signatures with Maia?
- How can I use passive OS fingerprinting (p0f) with Maia?
- What online spam databases can I use with Maia?
- How do I enable/disable auto-expiry for the Bayes database?
- How do I enable/disable auto-learning for the Bayes database?
- Is there a way to automatically delete spam that scores higher than X points?
Upgrading
- How do I upgrade from Maia 1.0.x?
- How do I upgrade from RC5?
- How do I upgrade from a version earlier than RC5?
Changes
Troubleshooting
- How can I convert my existing MaiaMailguard installation's database from MyISAM to InnoDB, fixing the annoying locking errors?
- I've recently upgraded to SA3. How do I set-up bayes to be stored in a MySQL database?
- Mysql won't allow messages over 1024k, and so messages larger than that break maia.
- What does the "MySQL server has gone away" error message mean?
- How do I build php with encryption support, so I can use it with MaiaMailguard?
- Why isn't Maia blocking any spam or viruses?
- Why can't Maia read my template files?
- Why am I getting a blank page when I try to use Maia?
- Amavis doesn't seem to be doing the right thing with users and addressing.
- I get this error: Duplicate entry '' for key 2 ...
- Why don't the rule scores in the Mail Viewer add up?
- How do I expire obsolete tokens from my Bayes database?
- How do I get size limits to work properly?
- Why aren't my whitelists/blacklists working properly?
- How does SpamAssassin's auto-learning work?
- SuSE 10.1 can't find PEAR::DB even though pear5 list shows it
- What can I do about "SA TIMED OUT" errors?
