Ashafix

What?

Ashafix is a Postfixadmin clone in Perl using the Mojolicious framework.

Why yet another Postfix admin tool?

You're running a Postfix server because it's both designed with security in mind and fairly easy to use? Chances are you're running Postfixadmin, and you feel a bit uncomfortable about it. It hasn't seen an official release in well over two years, and PHP's security problems and general ugliness aren't exactly confidence-inspiring either.

That's not to say the Postfixadmin team hasn't done a good job. The tool is simple and does just what people need. That (and the fact that I suck at UI design) is why Ashafix is based closely on Postfixadmin, but with a few differences that should make working on it and adapting it to new needs less painful:

Features

• Written in Perl using the Mojolicious framework and Template Toolkit.
• Object-oriented MVC design
• Relatively clean separation of business logic and presentation (though there is still some baggage from Postfixadmin 2.3 to be dealt with)
• Uses prepared statements throughout to minimize the risk of SQL injections.
• Built-in Cross-Site Request Forgery protection.

Missing features and other issues

Be warned: this is still alpha-quality software! Quite a few features are missing and others will have bugs. Among the known ones are:

• Only supports MySQL so far. In trying to keep it slim, I have avoided a real ORM like DBIx::Class so far but I'm not too happy wit the database layer so this may change. Postfixadmin's business logic is sprinkled with special cases for PostgreSQL; I left these for the model classes to deal with but haven't decided just how, yet.
• Doesn't support fetchmail configuration/execution. Someone would have to convince me we still need this in 2012.

Requirements

Apart from a working web server and Perl 5.10 or greater, Ashafix needs the following Perl modules:

• The Mojolicious package
• Template Toolkit
• Crypt::PasswdMD5
• DBIx::Simple
• Email::Valid
• HTML::Entities
• List::MoreUtils
• SQL::Abstract
• Try::Tiny
• URI::Escape

News

• 27-Apr-2012
  Initial release.

Get it!

Ashafix is available from GitHub. Collaboration is welcome of course!

FAQ

• What's with the stupid name?
  Any Postfix add-on likes to be named after some figure from the Asterix comic books. The postman “Postaldistrix” is a bit too obvious however, and all the major ones have been used somewhere. “Ashafix” is the Hebrew name for the village druid (“Getafix” in English), and “Druid” is GNOME-speak for what Microsoft calls a Wizard, a GUI-driven program that enables noobs to click through a process that would otherwise require editing some config files.