Re: blacklists

On Sunday 05 December 2004 11.31, Michael Loftis wrote: > we use bl.spamcop.net up front at the SMTP level before taking any > messages from a site. Hmm. Various AOL mailservers, the Debian mailservers, and other servers sending out lots of regular mail get listed in spamcop regularly, so my re

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

On Friday 03 December 2004 19.03, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder said: > > (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 wil

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

On Friday 03 December 2004 09.44, Russell Coker wrote: > accept mail) on a spam-trap will be fine. The Postfix implementation of > gray-listing postgrey does not send it's 450 code until after the rcpt > to:, Just for completeness. Greylisting, as the term was defined in the original paper, al

Re: decent webmail software - does it exist? (Test: äöüÄÖÜ)

On Thursday 18 November 2004 10.23, Bertrand Yvain wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:19:36PM +0500, Timur Irmatov wrote: > > Then it was OpenWebMail. It has problems with Subjects containing > > russian text. > > FYI, headers must be in plain ASCII (RFC822). But I agree that everyone >

Re: exim or postfix

On Friday 12 November 2004 07.47, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 05:12:34AM +, John Goerzen wrote: > > > 4 ETRN > > > > Weird, people are just sending ETRN commands to you? me too. One is a mail server of a respected company that is apparently misconfigured, and has bee

Current status in antivirus & antispam / MTA integration

Yo! I'll be setting up a mailserver here soon - based on postfix (let's not argue about that in this thread, please :-) and cyrus imapd (the latter because AFAICT opengroupware.org requires it or at least runs best with cyrus). I'm wondering how to set up my virus and spam defenses - antispa

Re: What stripe size for mail server?

On Thursday 11 November 2004 09.12, Chris Wagner wrote: > Since you (happy Adrian??) Much easier to read :-) [...] > If u have 32KB stripes so that > almost every file fits in 1 stripe, the leftover space is wasted. So a > 2.5KB file written in a 32 KB stripe wastes 30.5 KB. Err. This statemen

Re: What stripe size for mail server?

On Wednesday 10 November 2004 23.29, Chris Wagner wrote: It's 'you' - three letters :-) > If u still need RAID 5 then I would make the > stripe size equal to average file size / number of data disks up to no > more than 32KB stripe. To optimize random small reads, it's best if a read can be sati

Re: additional dns search spaces

On Friday 29 October 2004 10.38, martin f krafft wrote: > My question is how to add additional domain names to search when > using dhcp in the smartest possible way. > > We are using resolvconf if it matters. IIRC you can edit the basis resolv.conf template, and add these entries there, somewher

Is this the new debian-user or what?

Hi, I fear I may be preaching to the choir, but anyway: please try to remember that there *is* a difference between debian-user, where trivial questions about how to use Debian may be on topic, and debian-isp, where they are certainly not. greetings -- vbi -- Oops pgpDs1iPNiP8N.pgp Descrip

Re: Bug#276217: postfix: random SIGSEGV in smtp processes

On Tuesday 12 October 2004 22.49, Emmanuel Lacour wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 07:33:36PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > No other strange log messages, no mail being lost that I know of. > > Add "-v" option for smtpd in master.cf to v

Bug#276217: postfix: random SIGSEGV in smtp processes

Package: postfix Version: 2.1.4-5 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yodel! For the last few days, I've been seeing random messages that smtp processes have been killed: | Oct 12 16:23:13 zbasel postfix/master[22384]: warning: process | /usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 1075

Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

On Monday 13 September 2004 01.55, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 00:41, Russell Coker wrote: [reading 2 files from RAID1] While I really substantiate my assumtption, Russel's right, in theory: in RAID1, you *do* have 2 disks, so reading 2 independent files *should* be possible w

Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

[no cc:s please, thanks] On Sunday 12 September 2004 16.41, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:35, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder > Machines that can handle such an IO load have faster CPUs. So for any > but the very biggest machines there is no chance of CP

Re: addenda to question about status of VLAN support in Debian/Linux in general

On Sunday 12 September 2004 12.41, Leonardo Boselli wrote: [...] > using only one NIC per server is just a > "clean wiring" consideration.) I guess the most important (and obvious) consideration is that all VLANs on the same wire share the same bandwidth. With normal loads, this should be fine,

Re: status of VLAN support in Debian/Linux in general

On Saturday 11 September 2004 21.30, Andreas John wrote: [a lot of stuff] Thanks a lot, that's exactly the kind of information I was looking for. -- vbi -- Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 35th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3170 pgpFGzWtgpGhD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: High volume mail handling architecture

On Thursday 09 September 2004 01.33, Ruth A. Kramer wrote: > Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > On behalf of all joe-job victims: Whatever you do, *please* do it in a > > way that allows you to know whether mail is going to be delivered at > > the

Re: High volume mail handling architecture

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 14.38, Maykel Moya wrote: > I'm looking for documentation which help me to design a failover, > redundant and scalable mail system to handle 20K users with plans to > scale soon to about 50K. 20k or 50k users are not unheard of on a single server (obviously you'll nee

Re: status of VLAN support in Debian/Linux in general

On Wednesday 08 September 2004 17.30, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ... > ..play with oraclic > http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=Debian+wifi+802.11+laptop+wireless ... play with spelling. VLAN == 802.1q == virtual LAN != WLAN == wireless LAN thanks -- vbi -- Ist der Virus erst entdeckt, ist die Pl

status of VLAN support in Debian/Linux in general

Hi, I've some questions regarding VLAN support in Debian and in Linux. First: is still the main page? Google makes me think so, but there are some references to 2.2 kernels and none to 2.6 kernels, so I'm a bit unsure. 2.6 kernels: are they ready

Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

On Monday 06 September 2004 13.38, Dmitry Golubev wrote: > > PS: i wouldn't recommend software raid 5 if you care about performance. > > i am going to convert one of my raid-5 machines (4 x 80GB barracudas) > > to raid-1 (2 x 200GB barracudas) very soon because i'm unhappy with the > > performance

Re: Ceriftication?

On Monday 30 August 2004 08.36, DJ wrote: > Ok, i am sick of windows. But due to the fact that i have been using it > for so long, i still persist with it and dont get to spend as much time > as i would like in linux(too much time fixing windoze.). Is there a > debian course of some description tha

Re: DSPAM Setup

On Saturday 24 July 2004 19.34, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > * Russell Coker wrote: > > Postgrey build-depends on libberkeleydb-perl (>= 0.25-1), so if > > libberkeleydb-perl is back-ported then it should be really easy to > > back-port postgrey... > > Not really... looks like it requires a python2.

Re: DSPAM Setup

On Friday 23 July 2004 15.46, ITC-Hosting wrote: > We are currently running a Postfix[...] Since you're running postfix... you may want to have a look at greylisting - the postgrey package provides this Unfortunately, postfix 2.1 is required, so woody users will have to wait. Greylisting is a

Re: greylisting

On Tuesday 20 July 2004 15.46, Russell Coker wrote: > It's not similar to TMDA in that it normally should not bother users, > as opposed to TMDA which is specifically designed to annoy people. The similarity is that it requires an extra step by the sender, which is why most spammers/viruses fail

Re: What is GreyListing (was: Re: Christian Hammers...)

On Tuesday 20 July 2004 15.23, Russell Coker wrote: > Hmm, the postgrey package is not available for woody (no great > surprise I guess), I'll have to back-port it. I guess you saw my other message by now - written in the apparently mistaken assumption that you probably knew what greylisting is.

greylisting

On Tuesday 20 July 2004 14.06, Russell Coker wrote: > [...] Greylisted for 300 seconds... [...] > [..] mail server is broken. Russel, if there are arguments against greylisting, I'd like to hear about them - so far, I've mostly seen success reports. (I like greylisting because while the idea is

Re: max requests a celeron web server can handle

On Monday 19 July 2004 19.22, Shannon R. wrote: > I've been googling around for recorded info on how many static files > per second a [...] Apache web server can serve before it starts > getting slow. Hi, In my experience, unless you have a *very* fast network connection, apache should be able t

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network? [SCANNED]

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 23.15, David Thurman wrote: > On 6/30/04 10:43 AM, "Robert Cates" wrote: > > Well I do not remember ever seeing on the evening news or morning > > news paper that somebody was hurt or worst killed from a Spam > > attack! > Maybe no one has been killed, but given the human

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network? [SCANNED]

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 23.15, David Thurman wrote: > On 6/30/04 10:43 AM, "Robert Cates" wrote: > > Well I do not remember ever seeing on the evening news or morning > > news paper that somebody was hurt or worst killed from a Spam > > attack! > Maybe no one has been killed, but given the human

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

[no cc:s on list mail, please] On Wednesday 30 June 2004 18.17, Russell Coker wrote: > If you reject a message with a 55x and a suitable message then the > author of the message can find another method of contact and there is > no loss merely inconvenience. While I personally agree, some people r

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

[no cc:s on list mail, please] On Wednesday 30 June 2004 18.17, Russell Coker wrote: > If you reject a message with a 55x and a suitable message then the > author of the message can find another method of contact and there is > no loss merely inconvenience. While I personally agree, some people r

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 15.54, Robert Cates wrote: > Hi, > > why don't you make life easier for yourself and forget trying to > block Spam! Let your customers and/or users be responsible for > blocking Spam! [...] Apart from what Russel says: are you prepared to pay for it? According to some (

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 15.54, Robert Cates wrote: > Hi, > > why don't you make life easier for yourself and forget trying to > block Spam! Let your customers and/or users be responsible for > blocking Spam! [...] Apart from what Russel says: are you prepared to pay for it? According to some (

Re: weird http probes

On Monday 28 June 2004 20.56, Joris wrote: > I noticed the following just now in my apache logs: [...] > Notice the very uncool double reverse resolve of that ip: AFAIK such double reverse resolves are, while uncommon, perfectly legal. > I don't know what's the dominant feeling on this right now.

Re: weird http probes

On Monday 28 June 2004 20.56, Joris wrote: > I noticed the following just now in my apache logs: [...] > Notice the very uncool double reverse resolve of that ip: AFAIK such double reverse resolves are, while uncommon, perfectly legal. > I don't know what's the dominant feeling on this right now.

Re: restricting sftp/ssh login access

On Monday 28 June 2004 12.17, Robert Cates wrote: > I would like to know if there is a way to restrict user logins to > their home directories (or any other designated directory for that > matter) using sftp/ssh. I've got my ftp server configured so that rssh is what you are looking for. Be sure

Re: restricting sftp/ssh login access

On Monday 28 June 2004 12.17, Robert Cates wrote: > I would like to know if there is a way to restrict user logins to > their home directories (or any other designated directory for that > matter) using sftp/ssh. I've got my ftp server configured so that rssh is what you are looking for. Be sure

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

On Wednesday 23 June 2004 09.51, Blu wrote: > I run a number of public service servers and in the past, from the > perspective of an user of a server which blocks mail from mine, the > mails were being blackholed at my host. They never got an answer or > even a bounce. Huh? Either your servers ar

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

On Wednesday 23 June 2004 03.27, Blu wrote: > > > In my server, my policy is to reject mail from hosts which are > > > blocking me. > [...] blocking mail which cannot be > answered blocks a lot of forged sender spam too, something like 80% > here, being conservative. You did say two different thi

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

On Wednesday 23 June 2004 09.51, Blu wrote: > I run a number of public service servers and in the past, from the > perspective of an user of a server which blocks mail from mine, the > mails were being blackholed at my host. They never got an answer or > even a bounce. Huh? Either your servers ar

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

On Wednesday 23 June 2004 03.27, Blu wrote: > > > In my server, my policy is to reject mail from hosts which are > > > blocking me. > [...] blocking mail which cannot be > answered blocks a lot of forged sender spam too, something like 80% > here, being conservative. You did say two different thi

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

On Tuesday 22 June 2004 11.37, Niccolo Rigacci wrote: > You say that because unwanted mail comes often from a dynamic > address, you will block all dinamic addresses. What do you tink > if I block all the mail originated from a Windows machine, simply > because many Windows machine are infected an

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

On Tuesday 22 June 2004 11.37, Niccolo Rigacci wrote: > You say that because unwanted mail comes often from a dynamic > address, you will block all dinamic addresses. What do you tink > if I block all the mail originated from a Windows machine, simply > because many Windows machine are infected an

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

On Friday 18 June 2004 16.29, Francisco Borges wrote: [...] > a Block List [...] that blocks not only blocks huge IP > > blocks /permanently/ but also whole countries > (some 25 by default). ouch. > We need to use some form of Block List at the connection level, For a minimal false positive

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

On Friday 18 June 2004 16.29, Francisco Borges wrote: [...] > a Block List [...] that blocks not only blocks huge IP > > blocks /permanently/ but also whole countries > (some 25 by default). ouch. > We need to use some form of Block List at the connection level, For a minimal false positive

postgrey [was: Re: Problems with a perl script for postfix]

On Thursday 17 June 2004 18.10, Carlos L.M. wrote: > I´m testing greylisting policy features for postfix > with postgrey (http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/). Yo! Speaking of greylisting: how does postgrey compare to greylistd? (... and does anybody know about an ETA for postfix 2.1 in sarge

postgrey [was: Re: Problems with a perl script for postfix]

On Thursday 17 June 2004 18.10, Carlos L.M. wrote: > I´m testing greylisting policy features for postfix > with postgrey (http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/). Yo! Speaking of greylisting: how does postgrey compare to greylistd? (... and does anybody know about an ETA for postfix 2.1 in sarge

Re: dancer's shell

On Thursday 17 June 2004 12.05, Thomas Kirk wrote: > xxx: dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. /sbin:/usr/sbin is not in your $PATH. I'm not really sure when that happens, but IIRC it's one or both of ssh and su in some sircumstances. greetings -- vbi -- Beware of the FUD - know your enemies.

Re: dancer's shell

On Thursday 17 June 2004 12.05, Thomas Kirk wrote: > xxx: dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. /sbin:/usr/sbin is not in your $PATH. I'm not really sure when that happens, but IIRC it's one or both of ssh and su in some sircumstances. greetings -- vbi -- Beware of the FUD - know your enemies.

Re: spam from an auto-responder

Chris, here's a present for you --> yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo <-- Please use them in front of your 'u's, makes your messages so much easier to read. On Wednesday 16 June 2004 08.27, Chris Wagner wrote: > An auto-responder has no way of knowing who or what emailed it. You're saying... Yes

Re: spam from an auto-responder

Chris, here's a present for you --> yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo <-- Please use them in front of your 'u's, makes your messages so much easier to read. On Wednesday 16 June 2004 08.27, Chris Wagner wrote: > An auto-responder has no way of knowing who or what emailed it. You're saying... Yes

Re: how to relocate servers transparently

On Monday 14 June 2004 14.59, Gavin Hamill wrote: > Yep, rinetd is a simple userspace proxy. I used it for a while, but > it had a few unpleasant 'features' I didn't like (we were using > dynamic DNS with it, so I expect you wouldn't encounter them) > > Once our 'remote points' were static IPs, I s

Re: how to relocate servers transparently

On Monday 14 June 2004 14.59, Gavin Hamill wrote: > Yep, rinetd is a simple userspace proxy. I used it for a while, but > it had a few unpleasant 'features' I didn't like (we were using > dynamic DNS with it, so I expect you wouldn't encounter them) > > Once our 'remote points' were static IPs, I s

Re: Cyrus / Sieve

On Tuesday 08 June 2004 15.15, Fraser Campbell wrote: > like Outlook their filtering policies could still apply. Are there > email clients that can directly manipulated sieve scripts? Mulberry, I think. (Sorry, can't help about cyrus) cheers -- vbi -- The content of this message may or may

Re: Cyrus / Sieve

On Tuesday 08 June 2004 15.15, Fraser Campbell wrote: > like Outlook their filtering policies could still apply. Are there > email clients that can directly manipulated sieve scripts? Mulberry, I think. (Sorry, can't help about cyrus) cheers -- vbi -- The content of this message may or may

Re: You can start saving now

On Monday 24 May 2004 13.57, Matej Kovac wrote: [] > test what takes > so long for spamassassin, and report it. Please file a bug against spamassassin and tell them using perl is a bug. Perhaps even Severity: important since it affects performance severely. Seriously, what was your point of

Re: You can start saving now

On Monday 24 May 2004 13.57, Matej Kovac wrote: [] > test what takes > so long for spamassassin, and report it. Please file a bug against spamassassin and tell them using perl is a bug. Perhaps even Severity: important since it affects performance severely. Seriously, what was your point of

Re: Urgent! Need help with abuse-detection and prevention

On Monday 10 May 2004 23.23, Peter Klein wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've lately experienced excessive Apache-usage (to be clear: several > hundered open connections in a very short time) to one of my servers. > And I believe that FTP etc. are also subject to similar attacks. For > Apache it resulted in

Re: Urgent! Need help with abuse-detection and prevention

On Monday 10 May 2004 23.23, Peter Klein wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've lately experienced excessive Apache-usage (to be clear: several > hundered open connections in a very short time) to one of my servers. > And I believe that FTP etc. are also subject to similar attacks. For > Apache it resulted in

Re: domain registrar recommendation?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 30 April 2004 06.45, Dan MacNeil wrote: [picking registrars] > Criteria in order of importance are: > > 0) Business integrity (no network solutions please) > 1) Almost perfect uptime > 2) Ease of administration/support > 3) price > 4) Ease o

Re: domain registrar recommendation?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 30 April 2004 06.45, Dan MacNeil wrote: [picking registrars] > Criteria in order of importance are: > > 0) Business integrity (no network solutions please) > 1) Almost perfect uptime > 2) Ease of administration/support > 3) price > 4) Ease o

Re: Monitoring software

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 26 April 2004 11.23, Craig Schneider wrote: > Hi Guys ... Craig, This is a mailing list of the Debian project, and deals mainly with Debian specific issues. While debian-isp is less Debian specific than others, it is still not a general L

Re: Monitoring software

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 26 April 2004 11.23, Craig Schneider wrote: > Hi Guys ... Craig, This is a mailing list of the Debian project, and deals mainly with Debian specific issues. While debian-isp is less Debian specific than others, it is still not a general L

Re: Frontends to administer servers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 April 2004 09.43, Craig Schneider wrote: > use mysql or ldap [...] (personal note: I'd not use mysql, but postgresql instead. YMMV.) Generally: use whatever technology you know already. This means I have a heavy anti-LDAP bias, but I

Re: Frontends to administer servers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 April 2004 09.43, Craig Schneider wrote: > use mysql or ldap [...] (personal note: I'd not use mysql, but postgresql instead. YMMV.) Generally: use whatever technology you know already. This means I have a heavy anti-LDAP bias, but I

Re: ReiserFS via NFS

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 02.22, Donovan Baarda wrote: > For me, inclusion into > the standard Linux kernel counts for something; others have already > thought hard about what is "ready" to go in, I don't have to > duplicate that effort. AFAIK raiser and ext3 are the only ones in so > far. Just FYI

Re: ReiserFS via NFS

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 02.22, Donovan Baarda wrote: > For me, inclusion into > the standard Linux kernel counts for something; others have already > thought hard about what is "ready" to go in, I don't have to > duplicate that effort. AFAIK raiser and ext3 are the only ones in so > far. Just FYI

Re: How to set up a Debian mirror..

On Monday 29 March 2004 17.27, Sonny wrote: > > Are there utilities in Debian that will make it easy to maintain a mirror > of i386 Debian ? apt-cacher is a good tool, it will only cache things you download anyway. So, the first download of anything will be slow, but after that it's in the cach

Re: How to set up a Debian mirror..

On Monday 29 March 2004 17.27, Sonny wrote: > > Are there utilities in Debian that will make it easy to maintain a mirror > of i386 Debian ? apt-cacher is a good tool, it will only cache things you download anyway. So, the first download of anything will be slow, but after that it's in the cach

Re: Jesus Help Me !

On Wednesday 24 March 2004 08.57, Tarragon Allen wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 06:36 pm, Comcast Mail wrote: > > well... I am confused...I typed "Jesus help me live" & got a > > website.. I only respond because I am a lost sheep..Do you > > understand?? ..c > > Y'know, if you actually g

Re: Jesus Help Me !

On Wednesday 24 March 2004 08.57, Tarragon Allen wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 06:36 pm, Comcast Mail wrote: > > well... I am confused...I typed "Jesus help me live" & got a > > website.. I only respond because I am a lost sheep..Do you > > understand?? ..c > > Y'know, if you actually g

Re: login access to change account password only

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 13.30, Francis Tyers wrote: > set the login shell for the user in /etc/passwd to be /usr/bin/passwd? > > just tested it and it seems to work... I don't exactly know how ssh works - are you sure that it always executes anything via the shell on the remote side? Setting u

Re: login access to change account password only

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 13.30, Francis Tyers wrote: > set the login shell for the user in /etc/passwd to be /usr/bin/passwd? > > just tested it and it seems to work... I don't exactly know how ssh works - are you sure that it always executes anything via the shell on the remote side? Setting u

Re: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found

On Friday 20 February 2004 20.10, Arnd Vehling wrote: > Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > On Friday 20 February 2004 07.36, Arnd Vehling wrote: > >>Can anyone clue me in on how to get those two forsaken libs cleanly > >>installed on a debian stabl

Re: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found

On Friday 20 February 2004 07.36, Arnd Vehling wrote: [app requires new libc] > Can anyone clue me in on how to get those two forsaken libs cleanly > installed on a debian stable system so this damn binary will run? Is it an option to run that app in a chroot? cheers -- vbi -- Today is Sweetm

Re: qmail or postfix? (was: RE: What is the best mailling list manager for qmail and Domain Tech. Control ?)

On Thursday 19 February 2004 23.28, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:34:52PM +0100, Bj?rnar Bj?rgum Larsen wrote: > > For example, I'd like comments on > > http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/Reviews/UnixMTSes/postfix.ht > >ml > > a collection of lies, half-truths, and mis

Re: qmail or postfix? (was: RE: What is the best mailling list manager for qmail and Domain Tech. Control ?)

On Thursday 19 February 2004 21.56, Dan MacNeil wrote: > > http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/Reviews/UnixMTSes/postfix.ht > >ml > > says at the very bottom: > > Postfix is only available in source form, > not as precompiled or prepackaged binaries. > There is a list of

Re: qmail or postfix? (was: RE: What is the best mailling list manager for qmail and Domain Tech. Control ?)

On Thursday 19 February 2004 21.34, Bjørnar Bjørgum Larsen wrote: > I am in the process of choosing between postfix and qmail for our mail > relays. I've not decided yet. Matter of taste - I find postfix' log files are orders of magnitude easier to read than qmail's. Also matter of taste - I cou

Re: Comparison of antivirals for postfix on Debian

On Monday 15 September 2003 15:26, Chris Evans wrote: [look at the subject...] I recently started using clamav, mainly because it's free. Can't say anything about effectivity and performance yet. But I also don't expect to catch many viruses in email since we're running mime_header_checks:

Re: Postfix! [WAS: Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..]

On Sunday 07 September 2003 15:48, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: Apologies - missing attribution. This was Brian: > > What is the connection between the nationality of Wietse Venema and > > people who sent spam? This is a very strange argument and more fitte

Re: Postfix! [WAS: Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..]

Hans, Glad to hear the situation is getting better in .nl. Having been hit by several 10s of spam from some dutch provider the other day just didn't imply this :-) > What is the connection between the nationality of Wietse Venema and > people who sent spam? This is a very strange argument and m

Re: PHP 4.3.x

On Thursday 07 August 2003 10:31, Wouter wrote: > as I posted before > > check http://www.apt-get.org/ and search for php4 ok,okok. see it now. When I saw your mail originally, apt-get.org was down, so I didn't look myself. And when somebody pointed out the 4.2.x packages, I thought oh, wel

Re: PHP 4.3.x

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 22:27, Gregory Wood wrote: > Christian, > > 1. cd /etc/apt > 2. there you will find a file sources.list > 3. vi sources.list (or whatever editor you use) > 4. add the 'deb' line below. > 5. run dselect and search for php4. You will find it is version 4.4.2.3-14 Which is

Re: Apache log analyzer

On Monday 04 August 2003 12:00, Sami Haahtinen wrote: > webalizer > It works, but somehow it appears to ignore my ignore clauses and fails > to properly create indexes (this might be due to me, or something > else) I had problems with Ignore statemtns if there's already an incremental datab

Re: sane trouble-ticket systems

On Thursday 10 July 2003 03:20, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Hi all. I'm searching for a trouble-ticket system that doesn't suck. One of the projects on my (infinitely long) I'll-do-one-of-those-when-I-get-time projects list. I thought rt was one of the best out there, but I know exactly what you

Re: sane trouble-ticket systems

On Thursday 10 July 2003 03:20, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Hi all. I'm searching for a trouble-ticket system that doesn't suck. One of the projects on my (infinitely long) I'll-do-one-of-those-when-I-get-time projects list. I thought rt was one of the best out there, but I know exactly what you

Re: Bill Gates' ludicrous ideas to "block spam"

On Sunday 29 June 2003 05:39, Gene Grimm wrote: > Has anyone heard any details about Gates' new ideas on how to "block" > spam? [...] > First, he wants to create a "challenge response" scheme [...]This is what > I fear: > 3. Recipient's mail client downloads incoming message for analysis > 4. Re

Re: Bill Gates' ludicrous ideas to "block spam"

On Sunday 29 June 2003 05:39, Gene Grimm wrote: > Has anyone heard any details about Gates' new ideas on how to "block" > spam? [...] > First, he wants to create a "challenge response" scheme [...]This is what > I fear: > 3. Recipient's mail client downloads incoming message for analysis > 4. Re

Re: Routingtable vulnerability

On Monday 26 May 2003 11:47, Thomas Hebinck wrote: > Hi, > > is there really nobody who knows anything about this vulnerability? > We use Debian Woody as firewall ... A new Debian kernel-sources (and, IIRC, also kernel-image-...) package is out with the routing table fix, also adds a few other fi

Re: sendmail or qmail or what?

On Wednesday 21 May 2003 17:10, Ana Paula Sabelli wrote: > Hi, > I´m setting up a mail server, I ´d like to hear opinions about which one is > better. Personally, I don't like qmail mainly because of its license (I never explored further than that), and because about the only things I regularly

Re: Content filtering proxy 2

On Thursday 15 May 2003 23:57, Kay-Michael Voit wrote: > I've no idea why my last message was empty... Sorry... So again... Funnily, kmail showed the message just fine. It seems to delete all empty lines up to the first line of the body with some content. > I'm looking for a content filter proxy

Re: scponly, rssh

On Tuesday 29 April 2003 02:35, Peter Holm wrote: > Hi, > > looking for a solution to allow users ONLY scp without a shell, I > found > > http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/ > > I was wondering, if there are any debs somewhere, but could not find > any. You didn't look hard enough. rssh is packaged i

Re: Does hotmail using any spam blocking services?

On Wednesday 16 April 2003 03:54, Andy Gardner wrote: > We have an smtp server that delivers mail to hotmail fine (well, their > server says it's been accepted) but it never reaches it's destination > mailbox. > > A while back someone sent a spam with a fake reply address that pointed to > a domain

Re: Bad Blocks in IDE software Raid 1

On Tuesday 15 April 2003 11:45, I. Forbes wrote: > Hello All > > I have had a number of cases with disk's reporting as "failed" on > systems with IDE drives in software RAID 1 configuration. > > I suppose the good news is you can change the drive with minimal > downtime and no loss of data. But som

Re: using spamassassin in an isp environment ?

On Wednesday 09 April 2003 11:42, Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote: > Hi > I've thought several times about using DNSRBLs, but I don't know nothing > about them... Do you recommend them to me? Are they difficult to add to my > sendmail? Any doc where I can get more info about them? http://spews.org has a

Re: using spamassassin in an isp environment ?

On Tuesday 08 April 2003 20:25, Markus Welsch wrote: [spamassassin] > since it's written in perl it will be a huge performance decrease, right? The biggest problem with spamassassin is the startup delay until the interpreter is loaded and the perl program is compiled. Running with spamd/spamc s

Re: Partitioning a Web Server

On Thursday 03 April 2003 21:08, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 17:46, Andrew Miehs wrote: > > hmmm.. Isn't it better to try and have swap in the middle of the disk? > > That way you always have about the same access time? Problem is, just > > because I > > That may be the case for spora

Re: Partitioning a Web Server

On Thursday 03 April 2003 21:08, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 17:46, Andrew Miehs wrote: > > hmmm.. Isn't it better to try and have swap in the middle of the disk? > > That way you always have about the same access time? Problem is, just > > because I > > That may be the case for spora

Re: Partitioning a Web Server

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 11:24, Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote: > If you say partitioning wastes a lot of seek time (which I did not consider > when I decided partitioning), I think I should evaluate if it's worth to > waste this time for security or if (as it seems, and as you say) it's not

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