Re: qpsmtpd-async weird ParaDNS lookup problem

m/> Please direct all support questions to our support team at host...@teklinks.com <http://mailto:host...@teklinks.com/> or 205.314.6634. -Original Message- From: David Favor Date: Friday, July 18, 2014 at 9:07 AM To: Edward McLain Cc: qpsmtpd Subject: Re: qpsmtpd-async weird P

Re: qpsmtpd-async weird ParaDNS lookup problem

ks.com <http://mailto:host...@teklinks.com/> or 205.314.6634. -Original Message- From: David Favor Date: Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 10:58 AM To: Edward McLain Cc: qpsmtpd Subject: Re: qpsmtpd-async weird ParaDNS lookup problem >Ed McLain wrote: >> For an IP you need to look

Re: qpsmtpd-async weird ParaDNS lookup problem

For an IP you need to lookup the PTR in reverse notation (1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa) vs an A record which is name to IP. PTR is IP to Name. -- Edward McLain Director of Cloud Architecture Solutions Architect, VCP, CDCDP emcl...@teklinks.com d:205.314.6646 Please direct

Re: lastest uribl plugin

st my perl is so-so.. I write mostly in PHP and bash. -- Ed McLain Director of Data Center Operations TekLinks Managed Services Group p. 205.314.6646 e. emcl...@teklinks.com Please direct all support questions to our customer support team available at 205.314.6634 or host...@teklinks.com -

Re: lastest uribl plugin

Responses are below.. I'm doing some testing with this new version and will let you know how it goes.. Things are a bit crazy over here so it may take a few days to get you something useful back. I was excited to see someone playing with my plugin so I worked some tonight on integrating the cha

RE: FIXED -- high CPU on "lost" processes with forkserver

box processing roughly 6-12 connections per second. -- Thanks, Ed McLain -Original Message- From: Ed McLain Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:31 PM To: qpsmtpd@perl.org Subject: RE: high CPU on "lost" processes with forkserver Does anyone have any problems with the patch to fix t

RE: high CPU on "lost" processes with forkserver

've been testing it for a while and haven't seen any issues, also don't have any stuck processes anymore either. I'm not a perl monger though so I just want to make sure I'm not doing anything insane. Any and all input is greatly welcome. -- Thanks, Ed McLain -----Orig

RE: high CPU on "lost" processes with forkserver

Anything new on a fix for this bug? I seem to have quite a few connections hitting this these days. -- Thanks, Ed McLain -Original Message- From: Jose Luis Martinez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:42 AM To: qpsmtpd@perl.org Subject: Re: high CPU on "

Re: Multiple server

Heh.. Yeah.. I've re-designed the site and haven't gotten all the software back up there yet. Here is a direct link to the software: http://www.edmclain.com/software/qpsmtpd/mysql_greylist.zip Let me know if you need anything else. -- Ed McLain From

Re: uribl plugin questions

Thanks Devin.. Looks like I was running version 454 and I'm not sure where I got it from ;). I've updated to the latest and will let you know if the problem persists. Thanks again. Ed McLain On 10/6/07 2:41 PM, "Devin Carraway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri,

uribl plugin questions

l because it is finding the name in surbl. I'm trying to fix it but I'm not really good at regex. Is there somebody out there who could re-write the regex checks and not have them hit on something like this? Thanks, -- Ed McLain

Connection Killed Patch

de to $self->respond. If the code is 4xx or 5xx then _killed gets set and no other commands are taken by read_input except for quit. It's working here just fine it seems but if anybody has any problems or comments with it let me know. The diff is against svn 790. -- Ed McLain Sr. Data Ce

Use of uninitialized value

r way. -- Ed McLain

Re: Transaction IDs

the IP address. This allows transaction ids to be > unique across 10 servers. When servers get fast enough this may end up > causing dup ids. A scheme like this allows easy auditing of problems > because the id contains the "when and where". > > Cheers, > >

Re: Performance / Tuning questions

conf files > specifying the IP and ports to my pleasure. > > As to the overall efficiency and speed, I'd really figure that -async can > lay a beat-down on anything that doesn't select() socket arrays. > > With all that said, I rely on syslog for any events that get written to > disk, so I may not be the right person to ask about this stuff. (Though I'm > close to logging solely to sql. ) > > > > peter > > -- Ed McLain

Re: Performance / Tuning questions

> > I don't see the behavior you describe. > > > StartServers 5 > MinSpareServers 5 > MaxSpareServers 10 > MaxClients 150 > MaxRequestsPerChild 0 > > > Child churn happens as a product of load over time, typically better than

Re: Performance / Tuning questions

nection. The big win with Apache::Qpsmtpd over > forkserver at Apache, IIRC, was in measuring the ratio of forks > to connections. With forkserver, the ratio is 1-1, whereas > with Apache::Qpsmptd it's configurable within httpd, and for > apache is on the order of 1 fork per 5000 connections. -- Ed McLain Sr. Data Center Engineer TekLinks, Inc. 205.314.6634 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Performance / Tuning questions

8/15/07 6:05 PM, "Fred Moyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Ed McLain schrieb: >>>> I'm all for any changes you have. I found most, I think, of the issues on >>>> our beta system had to do with some of the plugins, not sure though.. If >&g

Re: Performance / Tuning questions

ay at the moment. I will send you them - when i'm back in 2 > weeks. > > But would be more luckier, if yome of the devolopers seem to care. Cause > qpsmtpd is a real great program i think... and it should be stable in a > new release and not that buggy as it is... i think this

Re: Performance / Tuning questions

S!!! We > tried to use it for about 500 servers with over 10 000 connections / 10 > minutes - and it wasn't useable at all. > > We've now changed many lines - in the code and it works well. I've > already posts some messages to the list but nobody seems to care - so .

Re: Performance / Tuning questions

I was thinking my config could be off, but never really got any. I've got a test box going with 0.40 and the pre-fork server now and it seems much better. On 8/15/07 2:40 PM, "Fred Moyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ed McLain wrote: >> Hello all, >> Got a quick

Performance / Tuning questions

in # run the virus checking plugins virus/trophie - custom virus/clamdscan # Log good mail logging/maillog # queue mail to postfix queue/postfix-queue # Log denied mail logging/denylog Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Ed McLain

Re: Apache - Qpsmtpd - TLS

t 6 21:13:08 tmx1 qpsmtpd[4684]: tls Oct 6 21:13:08 tmx1 qpsmtpd[4684]: count_unrecognized_commands Oct 6 21:13:08 tmx1 qpsmtpd[4684]: Unrecognized command '^G Oct 6 21:13:08 tmx1 qpsmtpd[4684]: tls Hope this helps some. Thanks, Ed. On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:16:58 -0700, Ask Bjørn Hanse

Re: Apache - Qpsmtpd - TLS

mpt of SSL negotiation. It's like pinging a machine to make sure it's there before you try to hit the website on it. Thanks, Ed On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:16:58 -0700, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > > On Oct 6, 2006, at 15:39, Ed McLain wrote: > >>> What client are you trying to

Re: Apache - Qpsmtpd - TLS

tely, maybe a 1 or 2 second pause. Is there a timeout period on tls negotiation? When I try a telnet against my qmail box it sits there and waits for the client to attempt a tls negotiation before it bombs out. Thanks, Ed > > Good luck & let us know what you find. > Brian > > On

Apache - Qpsmtpd - TLS

Ok.. Now that I have everything working with apache and qpsmtpd I'm wanting to throw tls into the mix as well. I've got the certs and keys built, however, when I issue a STARTTLS command I get the following: 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250 STARTTLS STARTTLS 220 Go ahead with TLS 500 TLS Negotiati

Re: Qpsmtpd - Apache

Thanks for all of the help everybody. The solution I finally came up with was to set the MaxClients variable. On an interesting note though, I did some tests with apache using the prefork and worker mpm's and it turns out that qpsmtpd runs very nice under both, but scales better on the worker mpm

Qpsmtpd - Apache

s counting the number of qpsmtpd-forkserver processes but that doesn't quite work in the apache realm. Any help would be appreciated. Apache 2.0.59 Qpsmtpd: 0.32 Thanks, Ed McLain

Re: Share Greylisting DB Across Multiple Machines

I actually re-wrote the greylisting plugin for qpsmtpd to support mysql some time ago. Works really well and we have 5 servers here all using it. If you want a copy it is available in my qpsmtpd_cluster package at http://www.edmclain.com/?page=qpsmtpd Just let me know if you have any problems.

Re: New Patch: MaxLoad/MaxConnection handler

After looking at using a connect plugin I realized that for my situation that just wouldn't work so well. Since I have 5 boxes in a load balanced config I need the load balancer to be able to determine if a box is able to take more connections. Since a plugin would have to load after the connecti

Re: New Patch: MaxLoad/MaxConnection handler

Heh.. Sadly, I never thought of that ;) But that does tend to make more sense. Ed On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:55:58 -0600, Peter Eisch wrote: > On 1/26/06 10:42 PM, "Robert Spier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm sure there is a module that >> someone has written that abstracts this all away. >

Got lots of plugins, anybody want them?

Where I work I have implemented qpsmptd on our front-line mx servers in a quite geeky way. We currently we have 6 qpsmtpd boxes that pxe boot from a load balancer where they then mount there root directories from an iscsi san using oracles clustered file system. The biggest hurdle I've had to ove

New Patch: MaxLoad/MaxConnection handler

# possible something condition... @@ -167,7 +210,7 @@ # don't do this! #$0 = "qpsmtpd-forkserver: $ENV{TCPREMOTEIP} / $ENV{TCPREMOTEHOST}"; - +$running++; ::log(LOGINFO, "Accepted connection $running/$MAXCONN from $ENV{TCPREMOTEIP} / $ENV{TCPREMOTEHOST}"); # dup to STDIN/STDOUT ** End qp-fork-maxload.patch *** Ed McLain Sr. Colocation Engineer TekLinks, Inc.

Re: implementing greylisting on multiple MX

I actually ran into the same thing not to long ago and hacked together a patch to do this with whitelisting and greylisting both coming from a mysql database. If you are interested let me know and I'll send it to you. On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:16:49 +0545, Bikrant Neupane wrote: > Hi, > I am

Re: Odd Connection Issues - Part 2

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:48:44 -0800, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > > Sounds like the same problem we had on the apache.org mail server when > using pperl. > > The recommended work around is to use forkserver instead. :-) > > - ask Is forksever part of the 0.28 release or is it only available in

Odd Connection Issues - Part 2

best way to run Qpsmtpd? pperl, xinetd, apache, forkserver? We are currently running 0.28 using tcpserver/pperl. Any help would be appreciated. Ed McLain

Re: newbie

intensive ( not nearly as much as clamd and SA ), but the plug-ability and amount of customization you can do literally wipes that out. Hope that helps some. Ed McLain

Per Domain Config

is anybody working on this or would it be worth it for me to rewrite the config function into something more pluggable where you could say make the same calls as now just be able to store the config in a database/files/dirs/ldap whatever? Thanks, Ed McLain

Re: Strange bounce problem

? I looked at it a little bit last night but didn't see any documentation on how to use it or get everything going either. Thanks for the help. Ed McLain

Re: Strange bounce problem

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 16:44:16 -0600, Ed McLain wrote: > Hey guys just wanted to bounce this off the list and see if anybody else > has seen this issue or know of a fix. We run 4 qpsmtpd servers all load > balanced using ultra monkey, linux ha basically, and lately I am getting > alo

Strange bounce problem

133 Running: FC 2, SpamAssassin 3.0, ClamAV 0.80, qpsmtpd 0.29 SA is running with 13 .cf files including bigevil. At 25 connections we starting hitting a load of 1.5 - 2.0. If that's normal it's cool, if not what might I be doing wrong? Thanks in advance everybody. Ed McLain High Speed Solutions

Application for qpsmtpd

will need to add more. Let me know if anyones finds any errors or has any ideas to make it better. http://www.edmclain.com/?page=qpsmtpd Thanks, Ed McLain

Re: Regex Question

7;s 12:05 it searches on 12:00 -> 12:04, if it's 11:03 it searches on 10:55 -> 10:59) then dumps the average number of connections and the total number of records found. I'm using this with net-snmp and cacti to graph our mail servers load. So far so good. Thanks again, Ed McLain.

Regex Question

' however it will not do '2004-10-06 14:40' directly. Can anybody see what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Ed McLain

Question for the masters

would be appreciated. Thanks, Ed McLain

Re: SpamAssassin 3.0

epted Mails. > > > -kju I know this is kind of off subject from my original post, but is there any software/plugins which will give you stats as far as rejected/accepted messages then break it down as far as sa/rhsbl/dnsbl? I was thinking of writing my own, but if one exists I don't want to re-invent the wheel. Ed McLain

SpamAssassin 3.0

Has anyone tried to run this with qpsmtpd yet? and if so what plugin works the best with it? Thanks, Ed McLain

Re: Trohpie Plugin for qpsmtpd

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:31:45 +0200, Michael Holzt wrote: >> Hello everyone. Just want to start by saying that I think qpsmtpd >> is an absolutely awesome smtpd server. I have been working with >> it for a little while now and decided that it needed a trohpie >> plugin so I wrote one for it. >

Trohpie Plugin for qpsmtpd

onths now, so I'm deeming it stable :). Give it a try and let me know what you think. The plugin can be found here: http://www.edmclain.com/?page=qpsmtpd Later, and thanks for the great work everybody. Ed McLain.