Re: a couple of postfix questions

2004-12-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:35:47PM -0900, W.D.McKinney wrote: > > > To each his own though and as I always say, pick a horse and learn to > > > ride. :-) > > > > yes, but it's generally better to pick a good horse rather than a > > three-legged, > > half-blind bad-tempered mule that is well past

Re: a couple of postfix questions

2004-12-07 Thread W.D.McKinney
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 14:25 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:13:58PM -0900, W.D.McKinney wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 08:14 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > migrating to/from qmail is always a PITA. aside from being ancient (and > > > thus > > > not keeping up with cu

Re: a couple of postfix questions

2004-12-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:13:58PM -0900, W.D.McKinney wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 08:14 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > migrating to/from qmail is always a PITA. aside from being ancient (and > > thus > > not keeping up with current mail practices, especially spammers and > > viruses), > > t

Re: a couple of postfix questions

2004-12-07 Thread W.D.McKinney
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 08:14 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > recipients on the RHS. > > migrating to/from qmail is always a PITA. aside from being ancient (and thus > not keeping up with current mail practices, especially spammers and viruses), > the main problem with qmail is that it is a dead-end

Re: MySQL Max connections?

2004-12-07 Thread Simon Pither
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 11:47 -0600, Jacob S wrote: > Can anyone tell me if this is the correct way to increase the max number > of connections, or how to do it if it's not? I would try to test it > myself, but it is a bit hard to do on a busy server and when I would > need a huge number of connectio

Re: blacklists

2004-12-07 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Wednesday, December 08, 2004 08:47 +1100 Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now I reject by 554 code... should I change to 4xx? if it suits your needs. i wouldn't. I have to agree with that statement. For us it suits our needs very well. I don't mind handling the extra retry traf

Re: blacklists

2004-12-07 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Tuesday, December 07, 2004 22:18 +0100 Marek Podmaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Michael, You mean you reject spam only temporarily? By setting maps_rbl_reject_code in postfix to 4xx? What value exactly? We use either 450 or 454, don't remember the value exactly. And I'm not sure

Re: blacklists

2004-12-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:18:28PM +0100, Marek Podmaka wrote: > My question is - does the spam software (or whatever is used for > sending majority of spams) try to re-send it? most (if not all) spamware and viruses won't. open relays and spamhaus sites and other real MTAs will. > How ofte

Re: blacklists

2004-12-07 Thread Marek Podmaka
Hello Michael, You mean you reject spam only temporarily? By setting maps_rbl_reject_code in postfix to 4xx? What value exactly? My question is - does the spam software (or whatever is used for sending majority of spams) try to re-send it? How often and for how long? Now I reject by 554

Re: a couple of postfix questions

2004-12-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:57:30PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > I think that I would like to migrate to all exim4 and postfix (I would > basically like to dump the sendmail and qmail systems). good choices. > The things that are vitally important are the ability to reject at smtp > time for inval

Re: a couple of postfix questions

2004-12-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.07.2157 +0100]: > The things that are vitally important are the ability to reject at smtp > time for invalid localparts http://www.postfix.org/LOCAL_RECIPIENT_README.html > and for viruses - I believe that postfix (at least in recent > version

a couple of postfix questions

2004-12-07 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, Where I work, we have a mix of MTA's, and are in the process of reevaluating what we want to support. We currently have exim3, exim4, sendmail, one qmail, and one postfix install. Both the qmail and postfix installs are rather ancient - they are legacy that came with the system, were

Re: blacklists

2004-12-07 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Monday, December 06, 2004 09:34 +0100 Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Various AOL mailservers, the Debian mailservers, and other servers sending out lots of regular mail get listed in spamcop regularly, so my recommendation (and that of spamcop.net themselv

Re: blacklists

2004-12-07 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Monday, December 06, 2004 09:34 +0100 Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Various AOL mailservers, the Debian mailservers, and other servers sending out lots of regular mail get listed in spamcop regularly, so my recommendation (and that of spamcop.net themselv

Re: Legal aspects of greylisting in Europe

2004-12-07 Thread mimo
In the UK you have to "voluntarily" keep logs for the law enforcement agencies for quiet a long time and most major ISPs here are doing this voluntarily. They are currently trying to push something like this through on the EU level, so might be coming to you soon too! mimo David Schmitt wrote:

Re: Is gray-listing a one-shot anti-spam measure?

2004-12-07 Thread mimo
Russell Coker wrote: On Friday 03 December 2004 20:07, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (And - this to Stephen Frost, I believe - there is a patch to postgrey which I will include in the next version, and I believe which will also be included in the

Re: MySQL Max connections?

2004-12-07 Thread Achim Schmidt
Am Dienstag, den 07.12.2004, 13:07 -0600 schrieb Jacob S: > > Do you or anybody else know what the default number is for > max_connections? 100 is the default-value for max_connections > I suppose it could be system load causing my problem, > since top usually shows an average of 4.0 or 5.0 whe

Re: MySQL Max connections?

2004-12-07 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 14:14:41 -0500 Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Jacob S said: > > Do you or anybody else know what the default number is for > > max_connections? I suppose it could be system load causing my > > problem, since top usually shows an average of

Re: MySQL Max connections?

2004-12-07 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Jacob S said: > Do you or anybody else know what the default number is for > max_connections? I suppose it could be system load causing my problem, > since top usually shows an average of 4.0 or 5.0 when the problem > occurs. It seems like the whole mysql server or apac

Re: MySQL Max connections?

2004-12-07 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 19:07:08 +0100 Achim Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 07.12.2004, 11:47 -0600 schrieb Jacob S: > > Can anyone tell me if this is the correct way to increase the max > > number of connections, or how to do it if it's not? I would try to > > test it myself,

rotating mail.log

2004-12-07 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, My server just ran out of space due to mail.log and mail.info getting massive. I have run syslogd-listfiles --weekly, and both files are listed in the output. Any ideas on how I can debug this? (Please CC me, I'm not subscribed.) Antony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: MySQL Max connections?

2004-12-07 Thread Ward Willats
Can anyone tell me if this is the correct way to increase the max number of connections, or how to do it if it's not? I would try to test it myself, but it is a bit hard to do on a busy server and when I would need a huge number of connections. Back in the olden-days (1999) on Solaris boxes, a comp

Re: MySQL Max connections?

2004-12-07 Thread Achim Schmidt
Am Dienstag, den 07.12.2004, 11:47 -0600 schrieb Jacob S: > Hello list, > > I am having a problem with mysql refusing connections intermittently on > a webserver. It acts like an invisible limit has been hit on the maximum > number of connections. Not finding any info in the config files about > t

MySQL Max connections?

2004-12-07 Thread Jacob S
Hello list, I am having a problem with mysql refusing connections intermittently on a webserver. It acts like an invisible limit has been hit on the maximum number of connections. Not finding any info in the config files about the max number of connections allowed, I did some googling. This url

Re: MailScanner with Sendmail

2004-12-07 Thread Matt Collier
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 00:23, Penbrock wrote: > I am a newbie trying to learn our office servers so I have put a system up > at home just like the ones our office uses for the ISP servers. I am > trying to play around to find better ways to work things and I have come > across MailScanner. I t