[IMC-Dissent-admin] Temporary postfix access check discards for dissent server

[Alster]

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Hi!

I just returned from holidays, haven't checked email for a couple days.

I found this memo by pabs:
- -MemoServ- Memo #1 from pabs (sent 5 days (18h 13m 5s) ago) [N]:
- -MemoServ- hey, are you gonna remove those temporary DISCARDs on sarai?

Pabs is referring to the discard rules I added to the beginning of
  /etc/postfix/checks/access
when we had this problem with the dissent server overloading sarai in
february:
  http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/mmid/listwork/2006-0218-8m

Pabs is very much right about asking me about these rules at this time,
esp. as they are marked as temporary. Thanks, pabs.

I didn't remove these rules since as I never heard from the server
admins or the website maintainers that the problem had been fixed, and
the server which I was told is poorly maintained, so the chance of this
problem reoccurring seems high and as a 'listworker' it's more important
to me to have sarai in a functioning state than to have sarai transfer
email for a server which may be misconfigured.

I just reduced the access checks to a single line, which should have the
same effect as the ones that were there before:
  69.48.73.242 DISCARD added by alster for log flood

I'm fine with removing this access check, too, provided that we receive
a reply by the server admins or the website admins that the server will
no longer mass email logs to mailing lists or there is consensus
(despite me) amongst listwork to remove it.

I'm forwarding below an email I sent to Masha and Warren which I have
not received a reply to so far (as far as I can remember and as far as
my email archive can tell). I'm CC'ing
dissent-sysadmin at lists.indymedia.org, a mailing list which has not seen
an email added to its archives since september '05.

Hope I'm not complicating things more than neccessary.

Alster

> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Betreff: Re: [Listwork] massive email throughput to imc-atlanta-tech
> Datum: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:01:30 +0100
> Von: Alster <alster at indymedia.org>
> An: mahsa <ms.mahsa at gmail.com>
> CC: warren at riseup.net
> Referenzen: <43F65653.2070006 at indymedia.org>
> <43F68600.1000002 at indymedia.org>
> <cbfdd9cb0602171937g583931b7udf120b8d7774ad67 at mail.gmail.com>
> 
> mahsa schrieb:
>> alster, thanks for all the work your doing, just wanted to let you
>> know that jamie has not been active with us for over a year now.  and
>>  the atl-imc (local) server is no longer working, so he can't receive
>>  emails at the address you've sent them to.  warren at riseup.net would
>> be the other tech whose  actively involved right now, i've forwarded
>> him your first message. i know he was going to do some work on the
>> site a week or so (i believing it entailed installing some patches),
>> so he's most up to date on where things currently stand with our
>> site. thanks mahsa
> 
> Hi Masha,
> 
> thanks for your quick reply.
> 
> If atl-imc is down, then it'd be good if you or warren would update the
> email addresses which are set in the dadaimc admin interface. Login as
> an admin, then go to soemthing which says "general site settings" (or
> something, I'm not really sure, maybe browse through the available
> option) and see if you find outdated email addresses there. These should
> then be updated to point to an email adress people actually read.
> 
> Please make sure that email generated by dadaimc is not sent directly to
> a mailing list. It should be sent to an admin instead. We can also set
> up a small distribution list for you using email aliases at listwork for
> this purpose. In case this sounds to technical, just ask Warren to help
> out  making a decision here...
> 
> Currently, the indymedia mail server is set up to drop all email fsent
> from your server. Please let us know at listwork at indymedia.org when the
> email addresses in dadaimc have been updated and do no longer point to a
> mailing list.
> 
> In addition, it would be good to report to imc-tech what exactly has hit
> atlanta.indymedia.org today. From the emails we received, I assum eit
> was some kind of a spam bot...
> 
> Thanks again for the quick reply,
> 
> Alster

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