[vchkpw] [OT] VPS recommendations to offload spam/virus scanning?
One of my hosting servers has become overwhelmed with processing inbound mail, and it's affecting the web and POP/IMAP hosting too much. I feel that it will be easier to move spam/virus scanning off to another machine than it will be to try splitting my customers across two servers (I do not want to move web and email hosting for a bunch of domains). I'm currently considering a VPS (virtual private server) solution, and it looks like I'll be fine with a server that provides 512MB of RAM and a minimal amount of disk space. Can anyone recommend a hosting company that they've been happy with? My plan is to do a full Shupp Toaster install, but leave out apache and SquirrelMail. I'll use rsync from my main server to sync ~vpopmail/domains (minus Maildir directories) so chkuser will work. I'll sync the appropriate files from /var/qmail/control, and add an smtproutes file built from the rcpthosts and morercpthosts files (it will just point to my server's IP). If, over time, the VPS becomes overloaded, I should be able to pay for a larger resource allocation with my VPS provider, or just duplicate the VPS and start another instance with it's own IP and have equally-weighted MX records point to each. I'd probably even host the VPS copy with a different provider for redundancy. Thoughts? Recommendations? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
[vchkpw] chkuser and qmail ext
What am I doing wrong with my chkuser setup? I want to have an alias of .qmail-fred, yet allow email to be accepted for .qmail-fred-something. I'm using chkuser 2.0.8. Do I need to create .qmail-fred-default and define CHKUSER_ENABLE_ALIAS_DEFAULT? I have CHKUSER_ENABLE_USERS_EXTENSIONS defined, but it only seems to apply for users and not aliases. If I have a .qmail-fred-default, will email for fred come in, or will it only work for fred-something? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] [OT] VPS recommendations to offload spam/virus scanning?
Tom Collins wrote: One of my hosting servers has become overwhelmed with processing inbound mail, and it's affecting the web and POP/IMAP hosting too much. I feel that it will be easier to move spam/virus scanning off to another machine than it will be to try splitting my customers across two servers (I do not want to move web and email hosting for a bunch of domains). I'm currently considering a VPS (virtual private server) solution, and it looks like I'll be fine with a server that provides 512MB of RAM and a minimal amount of disk space. Can anyone recommend a hosting company that they've been happy with? My plan is to do a full Shupp Toaster install, but leave out apache and SquirrelMail. I'll use rsync from my main server to sync ~vpopmail/domains (minus Maildir directories) so chkuser will work. I'll sync the appropriate files from /var/qmail/control, and add an smtproutes file built from the rcpthosts and morercpthosts files (it will just point to my server's IP). If, over time, the VPS becomes overloaded, I should be able to pay for a larger resource allocation with my VPS provider, or just duplicate the VPS and start another instance with it's own IP and have equally-weighted MX records point to each. I'd probably even host the VPS copy with a different provider for redundancy. Thoughts? Recommendations? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've heard good things about Slicehost (www.slicehost.com) from friends but have not used them personally. If you're going to split things up, you should look at John Simpson's validrcptto patch instead of chkuser. Only one file needs to be synced across. http://qmail.jms1.net/mailhub.shtml Adam
Re: [vchkpw] [OT] VPS recommendations to offload spam/virus scanning?
If, over time, the VPS becomes overloaded, I should be able to pay
for a larger resource allocation with my VPS provider, or just
duplicate the VPS and start another instance with it's own IP and
have equally-weighted MX records point to each. I'd probably even
host the VPS copy with a different provider for redundancy.
Thoughts? Recommendations?
Don't use Verio - we have a system right now and they keep mucking up my
startup configuration, putting crontabs back that I've deleted, and
semi-randomly restarting services (including those I've turned off) every
time the do an OS update (they relink just about everything, which is
good for binaries but bad for configuration files...). I've already
spoken to someone once, and it seems liek they're still getting the hang
of doing it on Linux (they have apparently done this for a long time with
BSD). Probably great if you just need a {random|generic} linux box to
work with, or want all their default services running, but we're using it
for external nagios monitoring and I want nothing running that isn't
needed for that...
Josh
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Re: [vchkpw] chkuser and qmail ext
Tom Collins ha scritto: What am I doing wrong with my chkuser setup? I want to have an alias of .qmail-fred, yet allow email to be accepted for .qmail-fred-something. I'm using chkuser 2.0.8. Do I need to create .qmail-fred-default and define CHKUSER_ENABLE_ALIAS_DEFAULT? I have CHKUSER_ENABLE_USERS_EXTENSIONS defined, but it only seems to apply for users and not aliases. If I have a .qmail-fred-default, will email for fred come in, or will it only work for fred-something? The second. You should create both .qmail-fred and .qmail-fred-default for having accepted both fred and fred-something. Which is the qmail behaviour without chkuser in such a case? I can change chkuser behaviour if it is in contrast with qmail's one. Tonino -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]Interazioni di Antonio Nati http://www.interazioni.it [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[vchkpw] Re: [OT] VPS recommendations to offload spam/virus scanning?
Adam Cantwell wrote: My plan is to do a full Shupp Toaster install, but leave out apache and SquirrelMail. I'll use rsync from my main server to sync ~vpopmail/domains (minus Maildir directories) so chkuser will work. I'll sync the appropriate files from /var/qmail/control, and add an smtproutes file built from the rcpthosts and morercpthosts files (it will just point to my server's IP). If you're going to split things up, you should look at John Simpson's validrcptto patch instead of chkuser. Only one file needs to be synced across. http://qmail.jms1.net/mailhub.shtml Taking that concept one step further... I would run an instance of qpsmtpd [1] with my check_validrcptto_cdb plugin [2]. You might find you don't even need another server - I found that the reduction in load caused by rejecting mail at the SMTP conversation rather than accepting it and bouncing it was quite staggering. R. [1] http://smtpd.develooper.com/ [2] http://robinbowes.com/projects/check_validrcptto_cdb
Re: [vchkpw] [OT] VPS recommendations to offload spam/virus scanning?
On 2007-10-25, at 15:44, Adam Cantwell wrote: If you're going to split things up, you should look at John Simpson's validrcptto patch instead of chkuser. Only one file needs to be synced across. http://qmail.jms1.net/mailhub.shtml you do also need to make sure the rcpthosts and/or morercpthosts.cdb files are built on the remote server (what i call a mailhub) as well... but that's only an issue when you add or remove domains. and in either case, there is no need to synchronize an entire directory structure. the web page does explain the mechanics and has a bunch of scripts, but it also relies on qmail being built with my validrcptto.cdb patch as well... and while i (obviously) think it's better, it can be a little bit of a learning curve for somebody who is already used to some other solution (such as chkuser.) tom, feel free to contact me off-list if you decide to try going the validrcptto.cdb route and want to ask questions. | John M. Simpson--- KG4ZOW ---Programmer At Large | | http://www.jms1.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173 | PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[vchkpw] Quota Excess Notification
Hi all, i am using qmail + courier imap + vpopmail + qmailadmin for my email server for my email users, they are using Outlook Express to check the mails from my email server (with IMAP) and i have set a email quota for each user. ok, the question is ... how user can be notified, once they are going to hit the max. of quota? can system automatic send an email to user? Please advise ... Thank you Regards, Kenny
Re: [vchkpw] Quota Excess Notification
Kenny Lee wrote: Hi all, i am using qmail + courier imap + vpopmail + qmailadmin for my email server for my email users, they are using Outlook Express to check the mails from my email server (with IMAP) and i have set a email quota for each user. ok, the question is ... how user can be notified, once they are going to hit the max. of quota? can system automatic send an email to user? Please advise ... Thank you Regards, Kenny following is what i use at my end. save following as /home/vpopmail/domains/..quotawarn.msg with permission vpopmail:vchkpw From: Mail Delivery System lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Diskhog User:; Subject: Mail quota warning Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Mail User, Your mailbox on the server is now more than 90% full. So that you can continue to receive mail you need to remove some messages from your mailbox (Delete messages from inbox, sent etc..). To delete Mails Kindly logon to http:// Regards,
Re: [vchkpw] Quota Excess Notification
Hi Dhaval, i just need to create the msg file? how about the configuration for vpopmail, which to call this msg to send? thank you Regards, Kenny - Original Message - From: Dhaval Thakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Quota Excess Notification Kenny Lee wrote: Hi all, i am using qmail + courier imap + vpopmail + qmailadmin for my email server for my email users, they are using Outlook Express to check the mails from my email server (with IMAP) and i have set a email quota for each user. ok, the question is ... how user can be notified, once they are going to hit the max. of quota? can system automatic send an email to user? Please advise ... Thank you Regards, Kenny following is what i use at my end. save following as /home/vpopmail/domains/..quotawarn.msg with permission vpopmail:vchkpw From: Mail Delivery System lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Diskhog User:; Subject: Mail quota warning Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Mail User, Your mailbox on the server is now more than 90% full. So that you can continue to receive mail you need to remove some messages from your mailbox (Delete messages from inbox, sent etc..). To delete Mails Kindly logon to http:// Regards,
Re: [vchkpw] Quota Excess Notification
Kenny Lee wrote: Hi Dhaval, i just need to create the msg file? how about the configuration for vpopmail, which to call this msg to send? README.quotas lines 46-56
Re: [vchkpw] Quota Excess Notification
Kenny Lee wrote: Hi Dhaval, i just need to create the msg file? how about the configuration for vpopmail, which to call this msg to send? dear just you need to copy this file set proper permissions, now try filling up storage of test email account, it should work. for reference, vpopmail source/README.quotas
