Hello fellow Debian users,
I am in the process of setting up an email system that will host
thousands of domains, many aliases per domain as well as forwarding
capabilities on a per-domain basis.
As far as the MTA is concerned, my choice is postfix. After reading the
postfix-users mailing for
Hello fellow Debian users,
After a healthy debate on this very list couple of weeks ago, I decided
to use postfix as my MTA of choice. My task consists in providing email
for virutal users under virtual domains. I devided the project into the
following:
1- Relay outgoing. That's when a customer
Hi all,
I am trying to install Potato (2.2) on a system with 1Gb of RAM (Dell
6350). It gives me crap when the kernel loads. The crap is: Kernel stops
loading, screen goes black when it tries to detect IDE devices.
I had this problem before with Dells with 1GB of RAM. I fixed it by
removing so
Peter Billson wrote:
>
> > In this case, I can't take the RAM off. I need to modify the kernel
> > contained in the boot disk (and in the basic packages I guess) so that I
> > can install the damn thing.
> >
> > Anyone knows where I could start?
>
> Does passing a mem= kernel parameter on boot
It is bad practice to respond to your own posts, but I will make an
exception for this one.
The problem got fixed by installing 2.2r3.
Haim.
Haim Dimermanas wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to install Potato (2.2) on a system with 1Gb of RAM (Dell
> 6350). It giv
Hi all,
I need to do email hosting for a large number of domains. My solution
consists in Postfix for the MTA, Cyrus for the LDA and IMP for the MUA.
Emails have to be accessible by POP as well.
After some research, I came to the conclusion that each individual needed
to have an account under
Kevin,
> If you apply Dave Fuchs' patch to make a '.' a valid character (but making '/'
> and invalid one), then that becomes a valid Cyrus username. Search the Cyrus
> IMAP mailing list archives for it. He sent it out for 2.0.14 some time last
> week when I requested it (but I don't have it on
> HD> So using that patch makes the "." part of a valid username. What do I do
> HD> about the '@' in the email address?
>
> AFAIK, the '@' is already a valid character in the Cyrus mailbox namespace.
Great!
Now I have another question :-)) How do I manage to tell Postfix to treat
"[EMAIL P
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote:
> Then, keep it simple.
I agree. The simpliest way is to have the user's email address be their
username.
> # adduser someuniqueid
Using Cyrus, why would I need to "add" a physical user to the system? Is
there something I am missing here?
> cyradm> cm user.so
> > Using Cyrus, why would I need to "add" a physical user to the system? Is
> > there something I am missing here?
>
> You need some sort of authentication, the simplest is /etc/passwd
I strongly disagree. The whole purpose of using Cyrus was (for me at least)
the ability to check username
Kevin,
AFAIK, you can use PAM directly from Postfix without having to go through
SASL. The book fro R. Blum fails to mention it.
Haim.
"Kevin J. Menard, Jr." wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Anyone here have all this working together? I apt-get'ed the source for
> postfix and altere
> RC> It is definately possible. It makes sense to me, this is what
> RC> MX records were designed for!
>
> I agree but, this is also what name server delegation is designed for!
And this is THE way to go in your case.
Let's say you put the mailing list software on the web server. T
> Why not use vhost_alias_module in Apache and something like the following:
> VirtualDocumentRoot /home/www/%-1/%-2/%-3/%-4+
I have one large problem with this solution and I have been working on it
for days without being able to solve it.
What do you do if your customer have a URL that has le
> > Now imagine that the guy wants his website accessible via
> > http://example.com as well. The URL only has 2 parts. Apache will look for
> > the files in /home/www/com/example/_/_/(notice the 2 "_" this time) when
> > example.com is requested.
> >
> > Any solution?
>
> Enable sym-links in Ap
> > What type of cluster features dou you need ?
> > High availability, load balancing, both?
>
> Both.
Than I suggest you invest in some kind of hardware appliance. Cisco CSS
11000, F5 BigIP, things of that nature.
Round Robin DNS is a very cheap sloppy way of doing load balancing. If you
a
> > Why not use vhost_alias_module in Apache and something like the
> > following: VirtualDocumentRoot /home/www/%-1/%-2/%-3/%-4+
>
> because that's not as flexible as my system. it's fine if you want
> all your vhosts exactly the same, but it doesn't allow for individual
> variation.
Absolute
> The problem with that comes when you have multiple web server machines.
>
> I set things up with logging to a single file. Then for multiple machines
> it's easy to use ssh to get the logs from each machine and merge them into a
> single log file.
Again, take a look at mod_spread for Apache
Hey Kevin,
I have been working on the same exact thing for the past 2 months. The only
thing is I do not use LDAP.
I tought about doing the same exact thing, creating mailboxes named like
the email address. I ran into the same problems. I personnally use the
following schema:
[EMAIL PROTECTED
Hey Robert,
I strongly suggest you take a look at ProFTPd with the LDAP or MySQL modules.
You can put all your users information in a directory or an SQL database
(homedir, username, pass, etc) and have the FTP server look in there.
For more info on how to set it up, take a look at the doc I w
> Hmm, I don´t want to cope with LDAP and/or MySQL just for a bunch of
> ftp-accounts (~ 30). Flat berkeley-db-files are much more appealing
> for such small numbers (they´re definitely not supposed to grow, not on
> this box, it´s just that I´m much more security-aware since it was
> hacked not
> Anyway, I´ve now got it (mentioning it here for the sake the
> search-engines):
I must say, it is very clever. I guess I did not spend enough time on
reading the doc. You found a great solution :-)
Haim.
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Theodore Knab wrote:
>
> Hi, I am having difficutly setting Cyrus-imapd with Exim.
Yeah, it's a bitch!
> Could someone refer me to a recent Cyrus-imapd install or config document that works
>with Exim.
Funny you said that. When I read this email I was writing a doc on how to
setup Postfix w
I suggest taking a close look at Netsaint. http://www.netsaint.org
Haim.
Robb Kidd wrote:
>
> I'm giving this a whirl on debian-isp as I figure its subscribers have
> the most experience with this. I'm looking into setuping up network
> monitoring on one of my home boxes to kee
Hi *,
I need to get Perl 5.6 installed on Potato. Of course, I don't want to break
anything important. Any idea?
Sorry if it's a little off-topic but this is the only debian mailing list I am
subscribed to.
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Hi *,
I have netsaint configured to monitor 5 T1.connections I installed a modem
on the netsaint machine. I would like to have netsaint dial out if all 5 T1
connections are down.
Did any of you do that? If yes, do you have a doc somewhere that explains
the process?
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Hi all,
Right now I have my mail server (running postfix) set to allow messages up
to 5MB. What are the ramifications of allowing users to post attachments up
to 15MB?
Where would the load be? What would I have to do to make sure it does not
swamp the server?
Haim.
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Craig wrote:
>
> Open my firewall for 113 Auth ... has worked, now
> i need someone or some docs to explain what/how and why :)
http://www.amaranth.com/cgi/showport.cgi?prot=tcp&port=113
>
> Thought auth was a security exploit ?>
Not if you don't have an auth server running :-)
Haim
I have a documentation that might help you. It covers Postfix with Cyrus.
You can find it on my web site:
http://dudle.linuxroot.org
I hope it will help you.
Haim.
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The setup I have uses Postfix with cyrus as the IMAP server and the delivery
agent. I do not use a RDBMS, just a single db file. Since Cyrus uses SASL
for the authentication process, you need to take a look at sasl +
(my|postgres)sql.
Anyway, you can find the doc at http://dudle.linuxroot.org. I
Hi fellow debian users,
I am sorry for the off-topic but times are bad and like many others I need
to find a new job. I am willing to relocate. You can find my resume on my
web site at http://dudle.linuxroot.org
I would like to stay in the ISP business and I only use Debian so I figured
this i
Andrew Pollock wrote:
>
> Hi,
Hello :-)
> I'm looking at starting to do some commercial virtual web hosting on a Linux box
> I have that was previously just used for tinkering.
Good. Could you detail what it is you will make available for your
customers? You spoke about CGI access but it wou
I do not want to start a flame but ...
Did you consider using proftpd ? I had the exact same issue and never
figured it out. Proftpd does all I ever needed.
Haim.
David Bishop wrote:
>
> I just installed wu_ftp, and it's doing the infamous "hang for a minute, then
> let you login normally" tri
> Is it possible to have a secure way to access a computer behind a firewall
> remotely?
Depends what you mean by accessing. Usual web/mail/dns servers are
behind a firewall (in a DMZ). Explain what you want to access and how
you are planning on accessing it (ssh, telnet, smtp). For complex nee
> I need to create areas in my ftp-area that ist password protected. (proftpd
> on potato)
It might sound a little overkill but it works : mysql module for
proftpd. You create your users in a MySQL database (with home directory,
username, passwords, etc) and proftpd uses this database for
authent
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
> >
> > Then just "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade"
> Doh! Don't do 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. Do 'apt-get upgrade' instead,
> unless you want to install woody.
stable points to potato AFAIK. Is there something I am missing here ?
Haim
> domain users add to the confusion. Is there a method out there already that
> will allow the nice sorting of users (/home/a, /home/b, etc) and some way
> to break out virtual domain users, along with their mail, that will work
> with the POP and IMAP daemons, and exim?
in /etc/adduser.conf
# If
Foreword : I *really* don't want to start a flame war on that. I am just
_very_ curious. I am currently using Exim. I don't really know a whole lot
about it. I just think that it's nice to have a human readable config file
and a good documentation. I am considering switching to qmail or postfix (I
Hi all,
I am looking for a free web based DNS hosting service. Someone told me
about http://www.granitecanyon.com/ and I wanted to have your opinion on
it.
Haim.
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> You might want to try a hardware based balancer. Something like Local
Director.
Cisco bought Arrowpoint last year or so. I had the pleasure to play with
their CSS-11000 and it kicks ass!
The Local Director never was a good load balancer, it was more of a
intellingent routing switch doing load
Hi all,
I own the domain dudle.net and I signed up with secondary.com to get
secondary (slave) name servers for this domain. On the master, I use
potato with bind 8.2.3-0.potato.1 (the current stable bind package).
My problem is the following : the master sends NOTIFY request to the
slaves for
> My understanding of DNS/BIND is that the SOA and NS entries are in
> seconds, which would explain your problem quite nicely... why don't you
> try to change the numbers to the actual seconds, and see if that
> helps... see my soa below...
I tried and it doesn't fix the problem. Any other idea?
> My problem is the following : the master sends NOTIFY request to the
> slaves for that zone every 8 seconds (sometimes 10 sec, sometimes 4
> sec).
Thanks to the folks from the South Florida Linux User Exchange, we
found the solution.
dudle.net has ns1.linuxroot.org as his authority DNS serv
> Anbody knows what is loggend in the Apache log in the field size (i.e.
> included HTTP Header or not) , and what does net-acct take for the size of a
> packet (just the payload, or the headers too?)
>From the Apache docs @
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_log_common.html
bytes
The number
Hi Debian ISP,
After the thread we had a couple of weeks ago, I decided to give
postfix a shot. I installed postfix from deb (using 0.0.19991231pl11-1).
It didn't work at first because of my iptables rules on the box. I
fixed them and then I get this error when I run postfix start :
postfix/ma
> > I am not running anything listening on port 25, 'fuser -v 25/tcp'
> > doesn't show anything. If I try telneting on port 25 I get a connection
> > refused. I don't know what is going on. Help anyone ...
>
> Edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out the "smtp" line.
> /etc/init.d/inetd reload reloa
Hi all,
I am running potato, postfix is installed from deb. So far so good.
I installed and configured Cyrus exactly like described on the
Cyrus-IMAP HOWTO available at http://linuxdocs.org. I use inetd with the
following 2 lines inside /etc/inetd.conf (they are the only lines in the
file):
im
Hello fellow Debian users,
I am in the process of setting up an email system that will host
thousands of domains, many aliases per domain as well as forwarding
capabilities on a per-domain basis.
As far as the MTA is concerned, my choice is postfix. After reading the
postfix-users mailing for a
Hello fellow Debian users,
After a healthy debate on this very list couple of weeks ago, I decided
to use postfix as my MTA of choice. My task consists in providing email
for virutal users under virtual domains. I devided the project into the
following:
1- Relay outgoing. That's when a customer
Hi all,
I am trying to install Potato (2.2) on a system with 1Gb of RAM (Dell
6350). It gives me crap when the kernel loads. The crap is: Kernel stops
loading, screen goes black when it tries to detect IDE devices.
I had this problem before with Dells with 1GB of RAM. I fixed it by
removing som
Peter Billson wrote:
>
> > In this case, I can't take the RAM off. I need to modify the kernel
> > contained in the boot disk (and in the basic packages I guess) so that I
> > can install the damn thing.
> >
> > Anyone knows where I could start?
>
> Does passing a mem= kernel parameter on boot
It is bad practice to respond to your own posts, but I will make an
exception for this one.
The problem got fixed by installing 2.2r3.
Haim.
Haim Dimermanas wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to install Potato (2.2) on a system with 1Gb of RAM (Dell
> 6350). It gives m
Hi all,
I need to do email hosting for a large number of domains. My solution
consists in Postfix for the MTA, Cyrus for the LDA and IMP for the MUA.
Emails have to be accessible by POP as well.
After some research, I came to the conclusion that each individual needed
to have an account under C
Kevin,
> If you apply Dave Fuchs' patch to make a '.' a valid character (but making '/'
> and invalid one), then that becomes a valid Cyrus username. Search the Cyrus
> IMAP mailing list archives for it. He sent it out for 2.0.14 some time last
> week when I requested it (but I don't have it on
> HD> So using that patch makes the "." part of a valid username. What do I do
> HD> about the '@' in the email address?
>
> AFAIK, the '@' is already a valid character in the Cyrus mailbox namespace.
Great!
Now I have another question :-)) How do I manage to tell Postfix to treat
"[EMAIL PR
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote:
> Then, keep it simple.
I agree. The simpliest way is to have the user's email address be their
username.
> # adduser someuniqueid
Using Cyrus, why would I need to "add" a physical user to the system? Is
there something I am missing here?
> cyradm> cm user.som
> > Using Cyrus, why would I need to "add" a physical user to the system? Is
> > there something I am missing here?
>
> You need some sort of authentication, the simplest is /etc/passwd
I strongly disagree. The whole purpose of using Cyrus was (for me at least)
the ability to check username/
Kevin,
AFAIK, you can use PAM directly from Postfix without having to go through
SASL. The book fro R. Blum fails to mention it.
Haim.
"Kevin J. Menard, Jr." wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Anyone here have all this working together? I apt-get'ed the source for
> postfix and altered
> RC> It is definately possible. It makes sense to me, this is what
> RC> MX records were designed for!
>
> I agree but, this is also what name server delegation is designed for!
And this is THE way to go in your case.
Let's say you put the mailing list software on the web server. Th
> Why not use vhost_alias_module in Apache and something like the following:
> VirtualDocumentRoot /home/www/%-1/%-2/%-3/%-4+
I have one large problem with this solution and I have been working on it
for days without being able to solve it.
What do you do if your customer have a URL that has les
> > Now imagine that the guy wants his website accessible via
> > http://example.com as well. The URL only has 2 parts. Apache will look for
> > the files in /home/www/com/example/_/_/(notice the 2 "_" this time) when
> > example.com is requested.
> >
> > Any solution?
>
> Enable sym-links in Apa
Andrew Pollock wrote:
>
> Hi,
Hello :-)
> I'm looking at starting to do some commercial virtual web hosting on a Linux
> box
> I have that was previously just used for tinkering.
Good. Could you detail what it is you will make available for your
customers? You spoke about CGI access but it w
I do not want to start a flame but ...
Did you consider using proftpd ? I had the exact same issue and never
figured it out. Proftpd does all I ever needed.
Haim.
David Bishop wrote:
>
> I just installed wu_ftp, and it's doing the infamous "hang for a minute, then
> let you login normally" tr
> Is it possible to have a secure way to access a computer behind a firewall
> remotely?
Depends what you mean by accessing. Usual web/mail/dns servers are
behind a firewall (in a DMZ). Explain what you want to access and how
you are planning on accessing it (ssh, telnet, smtp). For complex ne
> I need to create areas in my ftp-area that ist password protected. (proftpd
> on potato)
It might sound a little overkill but it works : mysql module for
proftpd. You create your users in a MySQL database (with home directory,
username, passwords, etc) and proftpd uses this database for
authen
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
> >
> > Then just "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade"
> Doh! Don't do 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. Do 'apt-get upgrade' instead,
> unless you want to install woody.
stable points to potato AFAIK. Is there something I am missing here ?
Hai
> domain users add to the confusion. Is there a method out there already that
> will allow the nice sorting of users (/home/a, /home/b, etc) and some way
> to break out virtual domain users, along with their mail, that will work
> with the POP and IMAP daemons, and exim?
in /etc/adduser.conf
# I
Foreword : I *really* don't want to start a flame war on that. I am just
_very_ curious. I am currently using Exim. I don't really know a whole lot
about it. I just think that it's nice to have a human readable config file
and a good documentation. I am considering switching to qmail or postfix (I
Hi all,
I am looking for a free web based DNS hosting service. Someone told me
about http://www.granitecanyon.com/ and I wanted to have your opinion on
it.
Haim.
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> You might want to try a hardware based balancer. Something like Local
Director.
Cisco bought Arrowpoint last year or so. I had the pleasure to play with
their CSS-11000 and it kicks ass!
The Local Director never was a good load balancer, it was more of a
intellingent routing switch doing loa
Hi all,
I own the domain dudle.net and I signed up with secondary.com to get
secondary (slave) name servers for this domain. On the master, I use
potato with bind 8.2.3-0.potato.1 (the current stable bind package).
My problem is the following : the master sends NOTIFY request to the
slaves for
> My understanding of DNS/BIND is that the SOA and NS entries are in
> seconds, which would explain your problem quite nicely... why don't you
> try to change the numbers to the actual seconds, and see if that
> helps... see my soa below...
I tried and it doesn't fix the problem. Any other idea
> My problem is the following : the master sends NOTIFY request to the
> slaves for that zone every 8 seconds (sometimes 10 sec, sometimes 4
> sec).
Thanks to the folks from the South Florida Linux User Exchange, we
found the solution.
dudle.net has ns1.linuxroot.org as his authority DNS ser
> Anbody knows what is loggend in the Apache log in the field size (i.e.
> included HTTP Header or not) , and what does net-acct take for the size of a
> packet (just the payload, or the headers too?)
>From the Apache docs @
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_log_common.html
bytes
The number
Hi Debian ISP,
After the thread we had a couple of weeks ago, I decided to give
postfix a shot. I installed postfix from deb (using 0.0.19991231pl11-1).
It didn't work at first because of my iptables rules on the box. I
fixed them and then I get this error when I run postfix start :
postfix/m
> > I am not running anything listening on port 25, 'fuser -v 25/tcp'
> > doesn't show anything. If I try telneting on port 25 I get a connection
> > refused. I don't know what is going on. Help anyone ...
>
> Edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out the "smtp" line.
> /etc/init.d/inetd reload relo
Hi all,
I am running potato, postfix is installed from deb. So far so good.
I installed and configured Cyrus exactly like described on the
Cyrus-IMAP HOWTO available at http://linuxdocs.org. I use inetd with the
following 2 lines inside /etc/inetd.conf (they are the only lines in the
file):
i
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