Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Cyrus IMAP Server is case sensitive

From Mike at work:

Looks like Cyrus mail boxes have been case sensitive for some time:

From: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/download/imapd/changes.html

Changes to the Cyrus IMAP Server Since Version 1.3

  • Implemented the "reconstruct -m" command, for reconstructing the mailboxes file. IMPORTANT: it is necessary to run the command "reconstruct -m" as the cyrus user after upgrading the Cyrus IMAP software from version 1.3 or earlier. We recommend you make a backup copy of the mailboxes file in the configuration directory before performing the conversion.
  • Mailbox names are now case sensitive, not case insensitive. "INBOX" is the exception, and is treated as being case-insensitive.


Here is what I found the fix to be. I added the following line to imapd.conf:

lmtp_downcase_rcpt: yes

Thursday, March 31, 2005

postfix queue operations and tools

Tonight I found a utility called mailq (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2002-January/010542.html) (not quite the same as the mailq that comes with postfix). To remove the name conflict, I renamed this to mq and placed it in the /usr/local/bin directory. This utility can scan the postfix queue and report on the contents using a regex to filter the output by domain or e-mail address. Using mq with postcat (postcat -q `mq -i e-mail@domain.tld`) can be used to print the content of queued e-mails. The should be helpful for creating a web interface for monitoring the queue status. Also used with postsuper messages can be deleted (postsuper -d) or placed on hold (postsuper -h).

Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Use Open Source software to defend against spyware

Here's the idea:
Configure squid to block Internet access for Internet Explorer. Configure the firewall to require that all Internet web browsing go through squid. Looking at the squid documentation I see that the FAQ lists that ACLs can filter on the "User Agent" value from the browser. By blocking IE (and Outlook which uses IE to retrieve web content) from accessing all but approved sites, you could virtually eliminate adware / spyware issues from the network.

Good idea?

Thursday, January 13, 2005

DocuWiki

DocuWiki combined with OOo appears to be an interesting set of tools for creating a documentation site.

Given that the Iannz DokuWiki macro works with OpenOffice.org, I would expect that it would also work with Star Office.

My bookmarks on DocuWiki: http://del.icio.us/rwsiv/docuwiki

Thursday, June 10, 2004

New Items

Domain registrations - renewals due
Recipient list - recipient white list - make compatible with postfix relay_recipient_list
Web site - update
  letter of referral
  new services
Traffic reports - report overages based on configured amounts (not the current fixed amount)
Traffic reports - chi3 site
Consider having google not cache portions of the web site (http://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html#cached)
Look at firewall settings and use (http://www.testyourvoip.com/index.html) for testing
Increase log storage

Saturday, April 03, 2004

team members

Consider adding new team members and creating a news site for the web site.

web site

Of course, the web site needs to be redone.
A redirector has been setup that handles /go/ URLs. This needs to be database driven.
Get a Wiki setup for Matt.

monthly tasks

Automate the reporting of secondary DNS hosting (example):
(echo "From: User@Domain"
echo "to: Billing@Domain"
echo "subject: list of domains for CustomerDomain"
echo ""
ll | grep CustomerDomain | awk '{printf "%s\n", $9}'
) | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -fUser@Domain


Automate the reporting of e-mail hosting counts.

Friday, April 02, 2004

March SPAM statistics

Here are my personal stats for the month of 3/2004:
SPAM: 13316
False Positives: 4 (Should not have been tagged as spam)
False Negatives: 226 (Should have been tagged as spam)

Friday, March 26, 2004

UMS

'admin' access controls

DNS

Figure out secondary classless reverse DNS

FTP

Setup FTP services

Friday, March 05, 2004

Reference Letters

Add new refernce letters to the web site.

Thursday, February 26, 2004

monitoring

We need more monitoring!!!

Tuesday, February 24, 2004

UMS - Search

Add the same search and paging functionality as 'Forwards' has to 'Users'

2004/02/29 - update - completed

Monday, February 23, 2004

Site 1

Setup server 3 as a stats server.

site 3

I need to create off-site replication of the database.
I need to install additional mail servers at site 3.
I need to test remote lmtp access.

Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Idea

Consider using a blogger site to create a 'news' page on the main web site.

Jeff - Firewall

Jeff needs me to update firewall setting for him. Need to limit incoming SMTP access.

2004/02/20 - update - completed

Ed - Firewall

Ed has questions about his Linux firewall. I need to send him an e-mail with instructions.

2004/02/26 - update - completed