[SLUG] Memory profiler for web applications and other processes.

2007-02-13 Thread Mike Lake
Hi all


I have a virtual server under my control which runs a perl web
application and now a Java Tomcat app which uses mail a fair bit. I'm loking
for something which will tell me how much memory the perl app is taking
versus the Tomcat app over a period of say 1 hour or so. 

Googling for 'memory profiler web applications' and things brings up
things that you use to find memory leaks in apps which I dont want.
Naturally top just gives me instantaneous values which don't mean much
when a web app is only getting a few hits a minute or even less.
Thats why I want to get an average over a few hours or so.

Also I don't have Gnome or any gui thing on this server so it has to be
command line or a perl or bash or other program that can be run from
command line. Output to file would be perfect.

Does anyone have suggestions? What do people here use for getting stats
on programs like this?

Mike

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Re: [SLUG] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

2007-02-13 Thread Mike Lake
Hi all

On Mon 12 Feb 2007, Alex Samad wrote:
 I have had bigpond for about 4 years, I use their smtp server as an outbound,
 to stop my mail being blocked because it came from a dial up (I'm on cable). I
 haven't had a problem.  I have my own domain setup.  Haven't had a problem 
 with
 tpg or exetel either.
 
 I think most isp allow relaying through there smtp (outbound from your laptop
 to the internet) from all of their ip addresses

I had been told that Bigpond would block smtp and searching on Google
for smtp and Bigpond shows many frustrated users who have been blocked
but I had better have a try and see what gives. 

I have reconfigured exim4 and guessed a few things as I don't know much
about mail but Bigpond's website gives its mail site name as
mail.bigpond.com so I set exim to use it and I think it has worked. This
email is sent from mutt while at home using Bigpond.

This email should appear to come from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mike

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Re: [SLUG] Memory profiler for web applications and other processes.

2007-02-13 Thread Amos Shapira

On 13/02/07, Mike Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Googling for 'memory profiler web applications' and things brings up
things that you use to find memory leaks in apps which I dont want.
Naturally top just gives me instantaneous values which don't mean much
when a web app is only getting a few hits a minute or even less.
Thats why I want to get an average over a few hours or so.

Also I don't have Gnome or any gui thing on this server so it has to be
command line or a perl or bash or other program that can be run from
command line. Output to file would be perfect.

Does anyone have suggestions? What do people here use for getting stats
on programs like this?



I'm not sure there is anything special about web applications - after all to
the system they should look as just another process, although it usually
generates lots of network traffic.

exmap seems to be something about this, I haven't used it but from its
Debian package dependencies it looks like it depends on GTK2 so it must be
some sort of a GUI-based application. But maybe you can run it remotely with
its window opened on your local $DISPLAY.

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Re: [SLUG] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

2007-02-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:51:55PM +1100, Mike Lake wrote:
 Hi all
 
 On Mon 12 Feb 2007, Alex Samad wrote:
  I have had bigpond for about 4 years, I use their smtp server as an 
  outbound,
  to stop my mail being blocked because it came from a dial up (I'm on 
  cable). I
  haven't had a problem.  I have my own domain setup.  Haven't had a problem 
  with
  tpg or exetel either.
  
  I think most isp allow relaying through there smtp (outbound from your 
  laptop
  to the internet) from all of their ip addresses
 
 I had been told that Bigpond would block smtp and searching on Google
 for smtp and Bigpond shows many frustrated users who have been blocked
 but I had better have a try and see what gives. 
 
 I have reconfigured exim4 and guessed a few things as I don't know much
 about mail but Bigpond's website gives its mail site name as
 mail.bigpond.com so I set exim to use it and I think it has worked. This
 email is sent from mutt while at home using Bigpond.
 
 This email should appear to come from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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seems to be okay


i think the problem with the smtp servers is people using the in bound smtp
server bigpond have and not the outbound smtp servers


 
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Re: [SLUG] Memory profiler for web applications and other processes.

2007-02-13 Thread Stuart Guthrie

Dtrace? Just kidding.

I'm interested in this answer too. We have similar probs. but between
PHP/Apache and Apache Tomcat.


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Re: [SLUG] Memory profiler for web applications and other processes.

2007-02-13 Thread Michael Lake

Amos Shapira wrote:

On 13/02/07, Mike Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



Googling for 'memory profiler web applications' and things brings up
things that you use to find memory leaks in apps which I dont want.
Naturally top just gives me instantaneous values which don't mean much
when a web app is only getting a few hits a minute or even less.
Thats why I want to get an average over a few hours or so.

Also I don't have Gnome or any gui thing on this server so it has to be
command line or a perl or bash or other program that can be run from
command line. Output to file would be perfect.

Does anyone have suggestions? What do people here use for getting stats
on programs like this?



I'm not sure there is anything special about web applications - after 
all to the system they should look as just another process, although it usually

generates lots of network traffic.
Yes, thats correct. I would just look at the sum total of all the Perl processes=the 
Perl app that is running vs sum of all Java stuff=the Tomcat.



exmap seems to be something about this, I haven't used it but from its
Debian package dependencies it looks like it depends on GTK2 so it must be
some sort of a GUI-based application. But maybe you can run it remotely 
with its window opened on your local $DISPLAY.

I found that using apt-cache on my laptop but to install it it will pull in GTK.
As you mention it I have just looked it up on the web.
Its using GTK for display only and its a perl script underneath that does the 
analysis. See its homepage at: http://www.berthels.co.uk/exmap/


Exmap is a tool to allow the real memory usage of a collection of
processes to be examined. A linux kernel loadable module is used to
export information to userspace, which is examined by a perl/gtk
application to build a picture of how pages are shared amongst
processes and their shared libraries.

BUT!

Exmap is linux-specific, since it uses a linux kernel loadable module. Additionally, 
the kernel module requires a fairly recent kernel (2.6.8 works, as may some earlier 
2.6) in order to successfully compile or run.


The server I have is a vserver running 2.4.22 kernel. So exmap is out anyways.
Thanks for the suggestion.

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[SLUG] Re: GnuPG key signatures - tools to automate accepting them?

2007-02-13 Thread Amos Shapira

On 14/02/07, Andrew Ruthven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I save the signatures into a directory (easy with Evolution's Save All
button) and then in a shell run:

  gpg --import 0x*

Easy.



Thanks to you and others who replied. I ended up using mutt's ^K to
extract most of the keys, though quite a few were sent in a way that this
didn't work, so I had to manually save the keys into a file and to the
--import as you suggested. I'm not sure what was different about these keys
except that apparently they weren't sent using caff :).

I was hoping to be able to avoid the manual work but it turned out not to be
too bad when mutt was on my side...

Cheers,

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[SLUG] Re: GnuPG key signatures - tools to automate accepting them?

2007-02-13 Thread Amos Shapira

On 14/02/07, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


caff deliberately does not upload other people's signatures directly,
though
I don't know if there is some etiquette-related reason for doing that.



Yes actually there is - people might not want their key to be available on
public servers for various reasons (it weakens the key's security a bit,
spam bots harvest addresses, privacy and more).

So the proper thing is to e-mail the signed key back to its owner. Be aware
that once you submit a key to the keyservers there is no way to delete it
(or at least that's what I read in the MIT key server's documentation).

Cheers,

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Re: [SLUG] making boot floppy 'no space left'

2007-02-13 Thread Grant Parnell - slug
Effectively the mkbootdisk command builds the image in temp disk space 
then uses 'dd' (or cp?) to write to the floppy device. If either there's 
not enough space in /tmp or the floppy isn't formatted ok you're going to 
have problems. If /tmp is full firstly try deleting stuff then try 
creating /home/tmp with same permissions then mv /tmp /tmp.old; ln -s 
/home/tmp /tmp You're probably going to need at least half a meg of temp 
space before it does the compression.


It looks more like the target system didn't have enough space. This 
usually means the floppy needs reformatting. man fdformat eg: fdformat 
/dev/fd0H1440 - frequently I find failures because a) the floppy drive is 
old/dirty/disused and secondly the media has been laying around gathering 
dust. Before you start, flip the drive door open and blow air into it to 
dislodge dust. Manually inspect the media for crap inside the jacket - it 
can damage the drive too.


Did I mention I hate floppy drives?

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Voytek Eymont wrote:


I'm tryying to make a boot floppy on 1.44 media, I get: 'no space'

is that space on floppy ? where am I going wrong ?

# mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost.
Press Enter to continue or ^C to abort:
cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.sR3853/vmlinuz': No space left on device
cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.sR3853/initrd.img': No space left on device
cat: write error: No space left on device
cat: write error: No space left on device
20+0 records in
20+0 records out

# df | grep /tmp
  1064312 37060973188   4% /tmp

# ls -al /tmp
total 2968
drwxrwxrwt   7 root root4096 Dec 21 12:48 .
drwxr-xr-x  24 root root4096 Dec 21 12:13 ..
drwxrwxrwt   2 root root4096 Dec 21 12:14 .font-unix
drwxrwxrwt   2 root root4096 Dec 21 12:13 .ICE-unix
drwx--   2 root root   16384 Dec 19 23:36 lost+found
drwx--   2 root root4096 Dec 21 12:40 mc-root
-rw---   1 root root 1474560 Dec 21 12:48 mkbootdisk.di3864
drwx--   2 root root4096 Dec 21 12:38 mkbootdisk.JY3692
-rw---   1 root root 1474560 Dec 21 12:42 mkbootdisk.tO3735
-rw---   1 root root1024 Dec 19 23:52 .rnd





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Re: [SLUG] Memory profiler for web applications and other processes.

2007-02-13 Thread Martin Visser

Michael,

I would probably simply run a script something like

'while [ 1 ]; do date ps.log; ps axv | egrep perl|tomcat|apache

ps.log;sleep 15; done'

Then compare results over time (probably using a perl script to parse
and accumulate the data you need)

sar is also nice to log and give overall stats e.g.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$  sar -r 2 5
Linux 2.6.15-27-386 (reepy) 14/02/07

10:26:16kbmemfree kbmemused  %memused kbbuffers  kbcached
kbswpfree kbswpused  %swpused  kbswpcad
10:26:1848964142516 74.43 15372 46796
984856 19164  1.91 4
10:26:2048964142516 74.43 15372 46796
984856 19164  1.91 4
10:26:2248964142516 74.43 15376 46796
984856 19164  1.91 4
10:26:2448964142516 74.43 15376 46796
984856 19164  1.91 4
10:26:2648836142644 74.50 15376 46796
984856 19164  1.91 4
Average:48938142542 74.44 15374 46796
984856 19164  1.91 4


Regards, Martin

On 2/14/07, Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Amos Shapira wrote:
 On 13/02/07, Mike Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 Googling for 'memory profiler web applications' and things brings up
 things that you use to find memory leaks in apps which I dont want.
 Naturally top just gives me instantaneous values which don't mean much
 when a web app is only getting a few hits a minute or even less.
 Thats why I want to get an average over a few hours or so.

 Also I don't have Gnome or any gui thing on this server so it has to be
 command line or a perl or bash or other program that can be run from
 command line. Output to file would be perfect.

 Does anyone have suggestions? What do people here use for getting stats
 on programs like this?


 I'm not sure there is anything special about web applications - after
 all to the system they should look as just another process, although it 
usually
 generates lots of network traffic.
Yes, thats correct. I would just look at the sum total of all the Perl 
processes=the
Perl app that is running vs sum of all Java stuff=the Tomcat.

 exmap seems to be something about this, I haven't used it but from its
 Debian package dependencies it looks like it depends on GTK2 so it must be
 some sort of a GUI-based application. But maybe you can run it remotely
 with its window opened on your local $DISPLAY.
I found that using apt-cache on my laptop but to install it it will pull in GTK.
As you mention it I have just looked it up on the web.
Its using GTK for display only and its a perl script underneath that does the
analysis. See its homepage at: http://www.berthels.co.uk/exmap/

Exmap is a tool to allow the real memory usage of a collection of
processes to be examined. A linux kernel loadable module is used to
export information to userspace, which is examined by a perl/gtk
application to build a picture of how pages are shared amongst
processes and their shared libraries.

BUT!

Exmap is linux-specific, since it uses a linux kernel loadable module. 
Additionally,
the kernel module requires a fairly recent kernel (2.6.8 works, as may some 
earlier
2.6) in order to successfully compile or run.

The server I have is a vserver running 2.4.22 kernel. So exmap is out anyways.
Thanks for the suggestion.

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Re: [SLUG] Memory profiler for web applications and other processes.

2007-02-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Stuart Guthrie

 Dtrace? Just kidding.

Why kidding? It's an exceptional tool for the job. How much does your Open
Source operating system choice *really* matter [1]? It's worth changing the
complement to your work if it's not helping you!

- Jeff

[1] Okay, so 'management' is a really good answer to this. You could always
run multiple testing platforms.

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[SLUG] revoking and unrevoking uid looses signatures?

2007-02-13 Thread Amos Shapira

Hello,

I've mistakenly revoked an old uid then realized that what I should have
done is to add my new e-mail address to that key.
I've unrevoked the key by removing the revocation signature but now it
doesn's list all the signatures I had on this key before.

I haven't updated key servers with the key yet, so there is no issue of
that...

Is there a way to get these signatures back?

Thanks,

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Re: [SLUG] Memory profiler for web applications and other processes.

2007-02-13 Thread jam
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 08:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have a virtual server under my control which runs a perl web
 application and now a Java Tomcat app which uses mail a fair bit. I'm
 loking for something which will tell me how much memory the perl app is
 taking versus the Tomcat app over a period of say 1 hour or so.

 Googling for 'memory profiler web applications' and things brings up
 things that you use to find memory leaks in apps which I dont want.
 Naturally top just gives me instantaneous values which don't mean much
 when a web app is only getting a few hits a minute or even less.
 Thats why I want to get an average over a few hours or so.

 Also I don't have Gnome or any gui thing on this server so it has to be
 command line or a perl or bash or other program that can be run from
 command line. Output to file would be perfect.

 Does anyone have suggestions? What do people here use for getting stats
 on programs like this?

If you are finding it hard ... it's because there is no such thing!

An app running consists of [the app]-usually small [shared libraries]-usually 
big.
So 10 apps is a bit more than 1 app. (10*app + shared libraries)

At any one instant memory-usage-on-a-system vs system+app1 and system+app2
is a broad fuzzy kind of general hint. 
EG an app may use vast amounts of mem that is never touched and is safely 
ignored in swap. So it would look like a memory pig but really be a very 
attractive (efficiency wise) program.
EG kde is much more memory hungry than icewm. How much? well lots! Does it 
show? Depends on what else the system is doing!

The metric you are seeking could easily be totally misleading. If you insist 
on doing this study the output of top until you are bored.

UNIX is not like windows. A metric on one does not compare to the other.

Best advice: lower the physical ram until your system swaps. compare apps.
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Re: [SLUG] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

2007-02-13 Thread jam
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 08:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I have had bigpond for about 4 years, I use their smtp server as an
  outbound, to stop my mail being blocked because it came from a dial up
  (I'm on cable). I haven't had a problem.  I have my own domain setup.
   Haven't had a problem with tpg or exetel either.
 
  I think most isp allow relaying through there smtp (outbound from your
  laptop to the internet) from all of their ip addresses

 I had been told that Bigpond would block smtp and searching on Google
 for smtp and Bigpond shows many frustrated users who have been blocked
 but I had better have a try and see what gives.

 I have reconfigured exim4 and guessed a few things as I don't know much
 about mail but Bigpond's website gives its mail site name as
 mail.bigpond.com so I set exim to use it and I think it has worked. This
 email is sent from mutt while at home using Bigpond.

I have read (in Bigpond blurb) that various ports are blocked including smpt. 
They also say that for $10 / month you can get a fixed IP and unblocked 
ports. Now THAT may be the only good thing they've every done smile
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Re: [SLUG] Memory profiler for web applications and other processes.

2007-02-13 Thread Matthew Hannigan


You might try dstat - http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/


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Re: [SLUG] Memory profiler for web applications and other processes.

2007-02-13 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:04 +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
 
 You might try dstat - http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/

Cute!

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Re: [SLUG] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

2007-02-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:48:49AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Wednesday 14 February 2007 08:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   I have had bigpond for about 4 years, I use their smtp server as an
   outbound, to stop my mail being blocked because it came from a dial up
   (I'm on cable). I haven't had a problem.  I have my own domain setup.
    Haven't had a problem with tpg or exetel either.
  
   I think most isp allow relaying through there smtp (outbound from your
   laptop to the internet) from all of their ip addresses
 
  I had been told that Bigpond would block smtp and searching on Google
  for smtp and Bigpond shows many frustrated users who have been blocked
  but I had better have a try and see what gives.
 
  I have reconfigured exim4 and guessed a few things as I don't know much
  about mail but Bigpond's website gives its mail site name as
  mail.bigpond.com so I set exim to use it and I think it has worked. This
  email is sent from mutt while at home using Bigpond.
 
 I have read (in Bigpond blurb) that various ports are blocked including smpt. 
 They also say that for $10 / month you can get a fixed IP and unblocked 
 ports. Now THAT may be the only good thing they've every done smile
I think that is only for adsl not for cable

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Re: [SLUG] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

2007-02-13 Thread Zhasper

On 14/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Wednesday 14 February 2007 08:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I have had bigpond for about 4 years, I use their smtp server as an
  outbound, to stop my mail being blocked because it came from a dial up
  (I'm on cable). I haven't had a problem. I have my own domain setup.
  Haven't had a problem with tpg or exetel either.
 
  I think most isp allow relaying through there smtp (outbound from your
  laptop to the internet) from all of their ip addresses

 I had been told that Bigpond would block smtp and searching on Google
 for smtp and Bigpond shows many frustrated users who have been blocked
 but I had better have a try and see what gives.

 I have reconfigured exim4 and guessed a few things as I don't know much
 about mail but Bigpond's website gives its mail site name as
 mail.bigpond.com so I set exim to use it and I think it has worked. This
 email is sent from mutt while at home using Bigpond.

I have read (in Bigpond blurb) that various ports are blocked including smpt.
They also say that for $10 / month you can get a fixed IP and unblocked
ports. Now THAT may be the only good thing they've every done smile
James


SMPT? Simple Mail.. Posting Transport?

Blocking outbound SMTP generally means blocking outbound connections
on port 25. Gmail's service requires you to use SSL on port 465, will
generally bypass this.

There's been quite a few mentions in this thread about the header that
gets added by Gmail. The header that gets set is the Sender: header.
Outlook in particular does bizarre things with this header: an email
with From: Phil A. Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Sender: Phil B.
Scarrat [EMAIL PROTECTED] will show in outlook as being From: Phil
B. Scarrat [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Phil A. Scarrat
[EMAIL PROTECTED].

From: headers, reply-to headers and the like will be left unmunged,
and that's better than some mailing lists I could mention..

If you can live with that, Gmail is cheap and reliable.

I just noticed that, amongst the rest of the evil munging this list
does, it also munges the sender address to be
[EMAIL PROTECTED]. That must mean that anyone reading the
list in outlook sees each and every post to the list as being Fom:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of. ick!

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Re: [SLUG] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

2007-02-13 Thread Zhasper

On 14/02/07, Zhasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I just noticed that, amongst the rest of the evil munging this list
does, it also munges the sender address to be
[EMAIL PROTECTED]. That must mean that anyone reading the
list in outlook sees each and every post to the list as being Fom:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of. ick!


Yes, yes it does.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zhasper/389821431/

Eww.


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There is nothing more worthy of contempt than a man who quotes himself
- Zhasper, 2004




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