Re: [toaster] Suggestions for improving performance

2004-05-24 Thread Peter Maag
    Darrell, Honestly I am not sure how you would go about sending e-mails through your scanning machine.Hopefully someone else from the list will respond with the answer.     Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I may need to reroute outgoin

Re: [toaster] Suggestions for improving performance

2004-05-24 Thread judge
Peter, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I may need to reroute outgoing AOL mail thru the gateway email server. I attempted this yesterday by creating an smtproutes file and adding "aol.com:my.gtw.ip.addr" . The gateway sent me a message back telling me that: Remote host said: 553 sorry,

Re: [toaster] Suggestions for improving performance

2004-05-24 Thread Peter Maag
    Darrell, I wasn't that specific in my original post, and for that I apologize.  Our setup is configured like I mentioned, except for the fact that our primary mail server(the one with the vpopmail accounts) is configured as a backup MX in our DNS zones.  This way if our primary scanner goes

Re: [toaster] Suggestions for improving performance

2004-03-01 Thread Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 23:54, Bill Shupp wrote: > No. The chkuser patch needs access to the .qmail-default file to > determine whether a catchall is in use. It also requires access to to > .qmail files to check for aliases/forwards, as well as mailing lists. Hrm... So using NFS is the "accept

Re: [toaster] Suggestions for improving performance

2004-02-29 Thread Bill Shupp
Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote: If you set up the toaster as per Bill's instructions, and you're using MySQL with vpopmail, won't the checkuser patch still work? No. The chkuser patch needs access to the .qmail-default file to determine whether a catchall is in use. It also requires access to

Re: [toaster] Suggestions for improving performance

2004-02-29 Thread Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 17:46, Peter Maag wrote: > Jeff, > Yes, as Bill pointed out we do loose the benefit of the checkuser patch, > but many of our users use catch-all accounts. So, in that respect there > really was no downside in not going with the chkuser patch(unless I am > mistaken, an

Re: [toaster] Suggestions for improving performance

2004-02-27 Thread Jeff Koch
Has anyone ever tried this - is it a reliable solution? do the servers bog down waiting for NFS repsonses? At 06:04 PM 2/27/2004, you wrote: Tom Collins wrote: On Feb 27, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Bill Shupp wrote: The one thing that you can lose by doing this is chkuser support. Two workarounds are t

Re: [toaster] Suggestions for improving performance

2004-02-27 Thread Jeff Koch
We thought about using valias support but even with that mailinglists and autoresponders addresses would be missed. NFS mounting of /home/vpopmail always seems a little risky to us. We're going to try mirroring via rsync just the top couple of levels of the /home/vpopmail/domains directories so

Re: [toaster] Suggestions for improving performance

2004-02-27 Thread Bill Shupp
Tom Collins wrote: On Feb 27, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Bill Shupp wrote: The one thing that you can lose by doing this is chkuser support. Two workarounds are to use MySQL w/ valias support, or perhaps share the mail spool via NFS. Mailing lists aren't stored in MySQL, even with valias support turne

Re: [toaster] Suggestions for improving performance

2004-02-27 Thread Peter Maag
Jeff, Yes, as Bill pointed out we do loose the benefit of the checkuser patch, but many of our users use catch-all accounts. So, in that respect there really was no downside in not going with the chkuser patch(unless I am mistaken, and it works with catchalls). Peter Jeff Koch wrote: H

Re: [toaster] Suggestions for improving performance

2004-02-27 Thread Jeff Koch
Hi Peter: I was thinking of that also. But didn't you lose the benefit of 'checkuser' patch. We have one domain that used to have a catch-all and now gets 40,000 spams a day addressed to every possible name. We shut down the catch-all and the checkuser patch rejects them all saving us all kind

Re: [toaster] Suggestions for improving performance

2004-02-27 Thread Tom Collins
On Feb 27, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Bill Shupp wrote: The one thing that you can lose by doing this is chkuser support. Two workarounds are to use MySQL w/ valias support, or perhaps share the mail spool via NFS. Mailing lists aren't stored in MySQL, even with valias support turned on. I have ideas o

Re: [toaster] Suggestions for improving performance

2004-02-27 Thread Bill Shupp
Peter Maag wrote: Jeff, We had a similar problem, and our bottleneck was SpamAssassin and Clam Scanner. We ended up putting SpamAssassin and Clamd on a seperate machine that simply scanned the incoming messages and passed them onto the primary mail machine that housed the vpopmail accounts,

Re: [toaster] Suggestions for improving performance

2004-02-27 Thread Peter Maag
Jeff, We had a similar problem, and our bottleneck was SpamAssassin and Clam Scanner. We ended up putting SpamAssassin and Clamd on a seperate machine that simply scanned the incoming messages and passed them onto the primary mail machine that housed the vpopmail accounts, etc. All you need

Re: [toaster] Suggestions for improving performance

2004-02-27 Thread Jeff Koch
Hi Bill: Thanks for the reply. I know how to run mysql from another server but how would one move spamd and clamd to another server? Your other suggestions are good but we're using a 1U rack server that unfortunately has room for one drive (big mistake!). At 02:44 PM 2/27/2004, you wrote: Jef

Re: [toaster] Suggestions for improving performance

2004-02-27 Thread Bill Shupp
Jeff Koch wrote: Does anybody have any suggestion for improving the performance of a mailserver runnning qmail/vpopmail/qmailadmin/qmail-scanner/spamassassin? We're using a 2.4Ghz P4 with 1GB RAM and a 40GB SCSI drive. The operating system is a basic RH8.0 install with the ext3 journalling fil

[toaster] Suggestions for improving performance

2004-02-27 Thread Jeff Koch
Does anybody have any suggestion for improving the performance of a mailserver runnning qmail/vpopmail/qmailadmin/qmail-scanner/spamassassin? We're using a 2.4Ghz P4 with 1GB RAM and a 40GB SCSI drive. The operating system is a basic RH8.0 install with the ext3 journalling file system. We're ha