[BlueOnyx:26346] Re: 5210R sendmail to postfix switch questions

2023-07-03 Thread Barry Mishkind via Blueonyx
At 12:46 PM 7/3/2023, Michael Stauber via Blueonyx wrote: >On 5210R/5211R you can switch between Sendmail and Postfix at any time and in >either direction. Typically the clients won't even notice and no config >changes are required server side or client side. > >The main difference between Sendma

[BlueOnyx:25765] underscore issue

2022-11-27 Thread Barry Mishkind
I have a problem with mailchimp, which is asking us to put a couple of lines for accommodate dkim. There is another problem with mailman which apparently does not handle dkim in V2.1.15 Mailchimp asks is to put in a key k2._domainkey but BX does not allow us to install an underscore. We we

[BlueOnyx:25025] Re: "no such user" problem in mailman

2021-07-23 Thread Barry Mishkind
Hi Michael, Thanks for the information. It looks like there is something I had not seen before, as I always accessed "mailing lists" from the Server Management page. Actually, there was progress, but  ... but something odd. In the GUI go to "Site Management" and in the "Virtual Site List" click

[BlueOnyx:25020] Re: "no such user" problem in mailman

2021-07-23 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 12:22 PM 7/23/2021, Michael Stauber wrote: >> Problem: this particular list "appears" to be set up, >> and Chris said it was OK, but any email sent to it >> bounces with "no such user." >> >> I've tried this over the months, and no change. >> >> in /etc/mail/aliases.mailman, the list looks th

[BlueOnyx:25018] "no such user" problem in mailman

2021-07-23 Thread Barry Mishkind
Hi ... I was asked by Chris to send a note. We are on 5209r, but the mailman part of the GUI has never worked here. When I go to the page, the only thing other than "mailman enabled" and a password I've never seen before has a button for mailman administration, but that is just the typical li

[BlueOnyx:23884] Re: 5209r question about dictionary attacks

2020-05-22 Thread Barry Mishkind
Thank you very much for the info, Michael, At 11:11 AM 5/22/2020, Michael Stauber wrote: >I recommend Fail2ban and APF from the BlueOnyx shop. They're available >for 5209R and 5210R. ___ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.bl

[BlueOnyx:23857] 5209r question about dictionary attacks

2020-05-20 Thread Barry Mishkind
Mike, I have a question regarding dictionary attacks to the sshd on my 5209r system. In recent month, the former 25 kB daily "logwatch" started to grow to somewhere between 300 and 600 kB. Now, in recent weeks, it has gotten as high as 2700 kB. We have set the ftp setting that only allows access

[BlueOnyx:22539] Re: greylist gone ?

2018-12-11 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 12:23 PM 12/11/2018, Colin Jack wrote: >It appears that host is not re-queuing emails within a reasonable time >if the delivery had been refused with a tempfail. > >We have had to stop using greylisting unfortunately because a lot of the big >players (Microsoft, Google etc.) are using p

[BlueOnyx:22492] Re: Backscatter problem

2018-11-13 Thread Barry Mishkind
urns >to sender after 5 days. > >You can simply adjust these two to your liking and then rebuild the >sendmail.cf this way: > >cd /etc/mail >make all > >-- >With best regards > >Michael Stauber >___ >Blueonyx mailing list >Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it >http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx - - Barry Mishkind - Tucson, AZ - 520-296-3797 ___ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx

[BlueOnyx:20991] Address fails to return

2017-05-02 Thread Barry Mishkind
Over the past week, my address for one site BD*r@***.net was stolen (not hacked, just "stolen") for the launching of a lot of spam, which resulted in over 1400 bounces and complainers. I am on 5209r, and using the GUI, checked 'Disable this user's email" in order to stop the flood, and perha

[BlueOnyx:20285] Re: Mailman config issue

2016-11-21 Thread barry mishkind
Hi Mike, At 12:25 PM 11/21/2016, Michael Stauber wrote: The thing is you came from a 5106R that initially had Majordomo and that got manually replaced with Mailman. So the entire setup was slightly off in several regards compared to later BlueOnyx versions that shipped directly with Mailman.    

[BlueOnyx:20277] Mailman config issue

2016-11-19 Thread barry mishkind
Hello, We recently upgraded from 5106 to 5209, and, now, none of the admin messages from Mailman go anywhere. Neither moderator advisements nor new subscriber reports are received. Is there a config file that might not have been found as we converted. I know that the file /ver/spool/root/cron

[BlueOnyx:17402] Re: strange delay from mailman

2015-04-02 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 11:29 AM 4/2/2015, Tigerwolf wrote: >On Thu, 2 Apr 2015, Barry Mishkind wrote: > >> But .. the same post is delayed for one to two hours in sending the copy to >> the local address here on the server. If I subscribe directly to my ISP >> address, >> it comes righ

[BlueOnyx:17400] strange delay from mailman

2015-04-02 Thread Barry Mishkind
A very odd issue has arisen, and perhaps someone knows of a solution. In the interests of spam prevention, I was advised to turn on greylisting. (The server is using BX 5106R Mailman V 2.1.9) While it appears that greylisting is working, a side-effect has occurred, which turning greylisting off

[BlueOnyx:17204] Re: TalkTalk bounce

2015-03-05 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 10:47 PM 3/4/2015, Michael Stauber wrote: >> I have taken a quick look at it, and may need >> some help from Chris or someone else to >> implement, but if it works, it would solve a myriad >> of problems that even talking to Cox HQ in >> Atlanta could

[BlueOnyx:17198] Re: TalkTalk bounce

2015-03-04 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 09:12 PM 3/4/2015, Michael Stauber wrote: >> Can you give me a clue how to avoid/suppress the cox IP? > >Colin dug up this here: >http://www.devside.net/wamp-server/removing-senders-ip-address-from-emails-received-from-header > >That's the way to do it. But like said: I'll add something to the n

[BlueOnyx:17181] Re: TalkTalk bounce

2015-03-04 Thread Barry Mishkind
Hello Michael, At 10:14 AM 3/4/2015, Michael Stauber wrote: >If he's using an email client and SMTP-Auth (or webmail) and sends from >your server directly, then the mail should go through. Other than that >there is no easy way around this. Could you possible elaborate a bit? I have found

[BlueOnyx:16567] Re: vestige of the FTP recovery?

2014-11-25 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 07:18 PM 11/25/2014, Michael Stauber wrote: >One fix would be to modify the logwatch config file ... >/etc/logwatch/conf/ignore.conf >... to tell it to ignore certain events. > >If you add the following two lines to it, then that should suppress the >aborted login messages from the logwatch repo

[BlueOnyx:16553] vestige of the FTP recovery?

2014-11-25 Thread Barry Mishkind
dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured, session=<2vCZeqUI3QB/AAAB>: 1 Time(s) dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, - -

[BlueOnyx:14646] Re: webmail (SquirrelMail) shows blank page

2014-02-14 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 10:43 AM 2/14/2014, David Hahn wrote: >its been changed since last week to use ports 444 and 81 only. Are you >able to send attachments? Perhaps I am not doing it right, but domain/webmail is still a blank page domain:444/webmail gets "file not found" domain:

[BlueOnyx:12629] Re: Maximum number of RCPTs for Vhost

2013-03-27 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 10:39 AM 3/27/2013, Michael Stauber wrote: >Hi Adam, > >> *My best suggestion would be to have AV-SPAM scan outgoing mail.* >> >> *This should be the default setting ­ do you know why it was changed?* > >Yeah, that default setting changed two years ago on user request. But >you can of course al

[BlueOnyx:12592] Mailman report question

2013-03-20 Thread Barry Mishkind
Greetings At one time, Mailman had a daily report of what messages had bounced because of bad address, full mailbox, etc. (Not the list of pending admin actions, but where x...@.com is met with "no such user." ... it used to be a list ... followed by transcript of session, or something lik

[BlueOnyx:12407] Re: Mail filtering alternative to Postini

2013-03-05 Thread Barry Mishkind
cker >> > Thacker Network Technologies Inc. >> > >> > ___ >> > Blueonyx mailing list >> > Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it >> > http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx >> >> _

[BlueOnyx:12241] Re: AV-Spam delayed messages

2013-02-18 Thread Barry Mishkind
gt;[mailto:blueonyx-boun...@mail.blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Barry Mishkind >Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 6:41 PM >To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List >Subject: [BlueOnyx:12239] Re: AV-Spam delayed messages > >At 03:00 PM 2/18/2013, Michael Stauber wrote: >>AHi DD, >> >&

[BlueOnyx:12239] Re: AV-Spam delayed messages

2013-02-18 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 03:00 PM 2/18/2013, Michael Stauber wrote: >AHi DD, > >> I have your AV-Spam on a 5108R, could you tell me where delayed messages are >> stored and if I can turn of *just* the delay part of the package? > >Turn off Greylisting through the GUI. Where? I just had one delayed 12

[BlueOnyx:11629] Re: BIND config

2012-10-26 Thread Barry Mishkind
Hello Michael, Thanks to you and the others for your help thus far. >> And I can confirm that this option does have an effect. Unchecking >> it may stop recursion, but it also stops all outgoing email ... saying >> "host unknown" > >Yes, please see "[BlueOnyx:11627] Re: BIND conf

[BlueOnyx:11626] Re: BIND config

2012-10-26 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 06:51 PM 10/26/2012, Michael Stauber wrote: >"Network Services" / "DNS". Then see the "Advanced" tab. It's the option >that's called "Cache Record Lookups". The mouseover help text explains >it: "Enabling caching, also called recursion, allows resolution of >domains and network zones that other

[BlueOnyx:11614] Logwatch question

2012-10-26 Thread Barry Mishkind
Until about two weeks ago, my logwatch file was usually about 10 to 20 kB. Since then it has been between one and two MEGABYTES, with a lot of recurring entries like these: connection refused resolving 'sns.vloto.net/A/IN': 46.233.0.6#53: 1 Time(s) connection refused resolving 'sns.vloto.

[BlueOnyx:11139] Re: Mailman in Blue Onyx

2012-08-09 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 08:15 PM 8/9/2012, Michael Stauber wrote: >The mailman admin pages should not really be used to create lists, as >these lists will no longer be compatible with BlueOnyx. So they cannot >be managed through the BlueOnyx GUI and they cannot be migrated with CMU. I wish I had a GUI or admi

[BlueOnyx:10719] Php oddness

2012-06-04 Thread Barry Mishkind
Hi there. Sometime in the past ten days, something has happened to make a couple of pages on the server - pages that use php - display the text php file rather than to show the pages as expected. A user happened to mention it offhandedly that he was looking at a bunch of text. And so it was. I

[BlueOnyx:10049] Error message question

2012-04-04 Thread Barry Mishkind
Hi ... I am going to ask for help again on the repeated error message that I get each day, telling me there is a large corrupted file. ===Quote=== etc/cron.daily/logrotate: /usr/bin/analog: analog version 5.32/Unix /usr/bin/analog: Warning L: Large number of corrupt lines in logfile stdin: turn

[BlueOnyx:09480] Re: worker busy

2012-01-30 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 02:19 PM 1/28/2012, Dudi Goldenberg wrote: >I've seen this before. > >As far as I can recall, I stopped the service, verify using ps that no zombies >are still running and kill -9 if needed, restart the service and was well. Thanks again Dudi. I just wanted to report back that

[BlueOnyx:09468] Re: worker busy

2012-01-28 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 02:19 PM 1/28/2012, Dudi Goldenberg wrote: >I've seen this before. > >As far as I can recall, I stopped the service, verify using ps that no zombies >are still running and kill -9 if needed, restart the service and was well. Dudi Ding! That did it... at least it

[BlueOnyx:09467] Re: worker busy

2012-01-28 Thread Barry Mishkind
ight track. I'll go looking >If this does not solve it for you, then its time for some dipper digging. > >Does 'testsaslauthd -u -p imap' return Success for a valid user/pw >combo? Yes " 0: OK "Success." Thanks

[BlueOnyx:09465] Re: worker busy

2012-01-28 Thread Barry Mishkind
to restart saslauthd as well. Great suggestion. Yes, tried restarting both. Tried stopping both.. .then waiting a minute. No change that I can see. - - Barry Mishkind - Tucson, AZ ___ Blueonyx mailing l

[BlueOnyx:09463] Re: worker busy

2012-01-28 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 09:58 AM 1/28/2012, Barry Mishkind wrote: >However, when I do a top, I get: >top - 10:57:38 up 291 days, 2:51, 3 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 >Tasks: 182 total, 3 running, 179 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie >Cpu(s): 50.1%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 49.8%id, 0.0

[BlueOnyx:09462] Re: worker busy

2012-01-28 Thread Barry Mishkind
000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.96 ksoftirqd/1 7 root RT -5 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1 8 root 10 -5 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.26 events/0 9 root 10 -5 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.28 events/1 10 root

[BlueOnyx:09459] Re: worker busy

2012-01-27 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 03:47 PM 1/27/2012, Dudi Goldenberg wrote: >>Starting about two weeks ago, my logwatch file has had some very odd entries. >>I've never seen it before. >>Perhaps someone has seen this and knows what it all means. > >Sounds like you need to increase the number of workers in dovecot.conf; > >Loo

[BlueOnyx:09456] worker busy

2012-01-27 Thread Barry Mishkind
Good afternoon. Starting about two weeks ago, my logwatch file has had some very odd entries. I've never seen it before. Perhaps someone has seen this and knows what it all means. Specifically, notes about worker-server being busy: dovecot: POP3(bar***): Connection closed top=0/0, retr=0/0,

[BlueOnyx:09001] Re: /var/log/httpd

2011-11-07 Thread Barry Mishkind
and start the web server. >:-) > > >On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Barry Mishkind ><<mailto:ba...@oldradio.com>ba...@oldradio.com> wrote: >I made a really dumb .. dumb error this evening. > >I deleted everything from /var/log/httpd > >So although I o

[BlueOnyx:09000] Re: /var/log/httpd

2011-11-07 Thread Barry Mishkind
OK ... I just did a service httpd restart and the system did open new access_log and error_log and they are collecting entries. That leaves: Are there any other files that should be in there? Thanks At 07:41 PM 11/7/2011, Barry Mishkind wrote: >I made a really dumb .. dumb error this even

[BlueOnyx:08996] /var/log/httpd

2011-11-07 Thread Barry Mishkind
I made a really dumb .. dumb error this evening. I deleted everything from /var/log/httpd So although I opened an access_log and error_log with root root owner, neither of those are collecting any entries. And, I'm sure there are other logs that I can't remember. 1. Is root the right owner?

[BlueOnyx:08867] Re: Login manager not responsive on non valid usernames?

2011-10-19 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 05:56 PM 10/19/2011, Michael Stauber wrote: >Hi Barry, > >> How many attempts will it allow? I had >> one a couple of weeks ago that tried >> a dictionary attack and it ran 1700 tries. > >You can configure that in the GUI. After 30 failed attempts in one hour (this >i

[BlueOnyx:08865] Re: Login manager not responsive on non valid usernames?

2011-10-19 Thread Barry Mishkind
ill block further attempts from the offending host. Even against >other usernames. How many attempts will it allow? I had one a couple of weeks ago that tried a dictionary attack and it ran 1700 tries. - -

[BlueOnyx:08629] Re: Subject line admin mail messages

2011-09-26 Thread Barry Mishkind
Hello Michael, At 08:52 AM 9/23/2011, Michael Stauber wrote: >> Active Monitor has detected recent changes in the state of your server >> appliance.For more details, please see the Active Monitor section of the >> Server Desktop.Summary of changes: * >> - >> - >> - > >OK, to get rid of these p

[BlueOnyx:08581] Re: Subject line admin mail messages

2011-09-23 Thread Barry Mishkind
like said: Mail to "root" and "admin" ends up in the same >mailbox (that of user "admin") anyway. > >-- >With best regards > >Michael Stauber >___ >Blueonyx mailing list >Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it >http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx - - Barry Mishkind - Tucson, AZ ___ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx

[BlueOnyx:08568] Re: Subject line admin mail messages

2011-09-22 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 05:31 PM 9/22/2011, Michael Stauber wrote: >I found the problem in the meantime. As suspected the script >/usr/sausalito/swatch/bin/am_disk.pl was still using the old function to send >emails. I just changed it to use MIME::Lite instead for sending those mails. > >The update is in SVN now: > >

[BlueOnyx:08526] Stats question

2011-09-19 Thread Barry Mishkind
This might not have gotten through. If so, please excuse the resend. One of my subdomains asked for a hit count. I went to AWStats for the site, and noted the base domain had 4000 some hits shown. When I expanded the "Page views" and filtered for the subdomain (eas), I got no page hits at al

[BlueOnyx:08503] Stats question

2011-09-17 Thread Barry Mishkind
When viewing the AWStats for a domain, I expanded the page views and after filtering for the subdomain (eas), got no pages at all for the subdomain. Is that because it is a subdomain? Or is there a different way to see traffic to eas..net thanks! - - _

[BlueOnyx:08437] Re: shell access issue

2011-09-11 Thread Barry Mishkind
the issue, since it seems that the problem was from the same time period. In any event ... thanks for your help! barry - - Barry Mishkind - Tucson, AZ ___ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx

[BlueOnyx:08435] Re: shell access issue

2011-09-11 Thread Barry Mishkind
for user XX by (uid=0) Sep 11 13:31:46 bx1 sshd[32661]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user X - - Barry Mishkind - Tucson, AZ ___ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx

[BlueOnyx:08432] Re: shell access issue

2011-09-11 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 10:12 AM 9/11/2011, Gerald Waugh wrote: >Barry Mishkind wrote: >> At 09:59 PM 9/9/2011, Michael Stauber wrote: >>> Hi Barry, >>> >>>> Shell access is not permitted. >>> You're probably not using "admin" to login by SSH, but s

[BlueOnyx:08428] Re: shell access issue

2011-09-11 Thread Barry Mishkind
At 09:59 PM 9/9/2011, Michael Stauber wrote: >Hi Barry, > >> Shell access is not permitted. > >You're probably not using "admin" to login by SSH, but some other user. And >that doesn't have shell access enabled. Thanks for the note, Michael, maybe I wasn't clear. Yes, I w

[BlueOnyx:08414] shell access issue

2011-09-09 Thread Barry Mishkind
Hello, I am trying to resolve a secure shell access issue. Until this past week, I've always been able to log into a secure shell from putty. FTP is fine, email is fine. I can log in to the secure shell as admin with no trouble at all. Just using my user name causes problems. Login attempts to