Re: Replacing delivery method...

[Tim Tsai]

[using SQL for mail store]

Wasn't usa.net doing this?  I seem to remember seeing a few messages in
the past about this.

Tim

Re: Maildir format

[Tim Tsai]

  What do you guys do for backup's?  Do you put two NIC cards in each
server and maintain a separate network for that?

  Thanks, from a guy that's about to take that big plunge into a scalable
mail design.

  Tim

On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 02:56:59AM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
 On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 09:41:48AM -0600, Tim Tsai wrote:
Russ, what is your definition of a "large" installation?  10k, 100k, 1m
  users?  Just exactly how many lighter-weight servers is practical to
  manage and upkeep before it's cheaper to buy NetApp's?
 
 As someone who has purchased and maintained a lot of NetApp hardware over the
 last year let me tell you that NetApp is heinously expensive. The head unit
 alone usually goes for around $50k. Then add disks. We have since ditched the
 NetApp solution and re-architected things to use clusters of PC's. We are much
 happier with the cost effectiveness and the reliability. Of course we aren't
 using them for mail but I can think of ways to distribute a large mail load on
 cheap PC's.

Re: Maildir format

[Tim Tsai]

What do you guys do for backup's?  Do you put two NIC cards in each
  server and maintain a separate network for that?
 
 Do you have *a lot* of pc-hardware around? What failed, last time? And
 before that?

  No, that wasn't why I asked.  The main reason for two NIC's is to keep
the backup traffic separated from the regular traffic.  Obviously with
NetApp (and other centralized storage) backup is simpler.

  Tim

Re: Sqwebmail and IMAP

[Tim Tsai]

 I think that most ISPs are reluctant to offer IMAP because UW-IMAP server
 is such a bloated pig.  I know for a fact that that's why at least one
 major national ISP claimed was the major reason they declined to offer it.

  There has also been a history of security problems with UW IMAP.  "bloat"
I can live with, root security exploits I can not.

  I haven't seen any reports of UW IMAP exploits for awhile though.

  Tim

Re: IMAP/Maildir

[Tim Tsai]

  I am hoping Sam means that he's going to write an IMAP server from
scratch that works with Maildir.  :-)

  Tim

On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:11:45PM -0400, David Harris wrote:
 
 Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
  Denis Voitenko writes:
 
   Are there any known IMAP servers that would work with Maildir?
 
  There are patching of UW-IMAP.  I'm seriously considering writing one from
  scratch.
 
 Why not just dig in the detail of the current UW-IMAP driver and clean it up?
 Or if you really want to write something from scratch, write a maildir driver
 from scratch. You could save quite a bit of work, I think.
 
  - David Harris
Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services

Re: SQWebMail or IMP?

[Tim Tsai]

 http://www.mollymail.com

  This just uses emumail, which is available free (with advertising).

  Tim

Re: ORBS check, except for specific users.

[Tim Tsai]

Look at rblcheck, which would allow you to do it from procmail or
.qmail.

Tim

On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 01:00:26AM -0400, Adam D . McKenna wrote:
 You can do ORBS/RBL/DUL checks in .procmailrc if you want to.  Unfortunately
 I don't remember where I saw how to do this, but I know it can be done and
 you can probably find out if you do a little digging.  (I am pretty sure it
 was either the RBL homepage, the ORBS homepage, or the procmail homepage.)
 
 --Adam
 
 On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 11:30:27AM +0200, torben fjerdingstad wrote:
  A long time ago some bosses decided that every user has
  an email address of the form: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   :-(
  
  The MX host for ourdomin.dk does ORBS check.
  
  Now, a few bosses are angry because they can't receive
  mail from open relays, while others definitely don't
  want mail from open relays.
  
  How can they all be satisfied?
  Their official email address must not be changed.
  
  -- 
  Med venlig hilsen / Regards 
  Netdriftgruppen / Network Management Group
  UNI-C  
  
  Tlf./Phone   +45 35 87 89 41Mail:  UNI-C
  Fax. +45 35 87 89 90   Bygning 304
  E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   DK-2800 Lyngby
  

Re: OpenSMTP - another approach

[Tim Tsai]

 1. SMTP relay looks kind of open - and relay attempts are 
 accepted (not sent out, just accepted).

  I think you're going to end up in RBL sites with that.

  Tim

Re: RBL(s)

[Tim Tsai]

On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 07:55:05PM -0500, xs wrote:
 as anyone had the pleasure of dealing with some of the (excuse the
 language) ass pirates that refuse to fix their MTA(s) or work to get their
 sites taken out of the ORBS, RBL, DSSL, or DUL databases?

  We haven't had these types of complaints yet, as we only use RBL and
DUL on a site basis currently.  I do use ORBS on my personal account in
an advisory basis (mail goes to a separate folder not bounced) but I
don't think I can enable it for our site.  gte.net (which one of my
friends use) and a few competitor ISP's are in ORBS and I don't want to
lose e-mail coming from them.

  I catch most of the SPAM using a procmail receipe by simplying looking
for e-mail not specifically addressed to me (or any of my known aliases).
ORBS comes second.  We hardly ever see RBL or DUL rejects, but I guess
we're not a big enough site yet.

  Tim