[axxs-sysadmin] Mailman/qmail/httpd troubles on axxs.org

[Dave Fregon]

On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 10:24 +1100, musicman wrote:
> Michael, we experienced the same problem and eventually had to move
> off axxs.org for that very reason.
> 
> If I'm not mistaken at least one issue that will need to be confronted
> is the age of the software on axxs.org - I think it's a couple of
> versions behind the latest releases, and as a result is probably
> missing some bug fixes?
> 
> Pls note that I am not really a redhat user, and am quite new to the
> axxs admin, so I could be really wrong in my diagnosis :)

If we can get stuff backed up on axxs.org and cleaned up, we can move to
a bigger server .. at the moment we are on old software, and the spam
stuff is shiite ..

the reason we have plesk, is for those that aren't geeks, can still do
stuff like manage their own email accounts and lists etc.

Dave


> 
> L.
> 
> On Dec 8, 2007 11:09 PM, maikkeli <mkli at riseup.net> wrote:
> > axxs.org .. plesk ..
> >
> > Qmail is still choking on email at times (mostly spam-replies), and
> > maybe the config needs some tuning to help it out.
> > ..Or maybe Qmail just needs ditching:
> > [...hmm, I was trying to dig up something talking about how Qmail
> > isn't well maintained/featured (anti-spam features) compared with
> > something like Postfix, in part due to its ambiguous licensing..]
> > ..but instead turned up this:
> > http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html
> > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3147768955127254412&q=%22Bernstein+releases+code+to+public+domain%22&total=1&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
> >
> > Mailman sometimes chokes and doesn't deliver mail for a few days
> > (despite messages being in list archives). I don't know why.
> >
> > The web server sometimes takes a while to respond.
> >
> > I'd like to further investigate these (and other) troubles and work
> > out solutions, but don't currently have sudo access.
> >
> > Maybe it's in part due to axxs.org being bound up by plesk, so maybe i
> > should be moved to borg?
> >
> > Anyway.. i've a few months of free time before uni/work starts up
> > again.. keen to get cranking on a bit of tech stuff.
> >
> >  michael.
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> 
> 
> 
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