Hello,
Spam to my e-mail address has recently exceeded my tollerance level and
I am now looking in to implementing spam checking, I am however having
some trouble configuring exim4 to use the BitFolk shared SpamAssassin
service.
Currently I have done the following in attempting to configure my mail
server to use SpamAssassin, per the documentation at [1]:
- Replace exim4-daemon-light with exim4-daemon-heavy
- Add "spamd_address = 212.13.194.5 783" to
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.
- `update-exim4.conf -v` (this indicates /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template
is used).
- `/etc/init.d/exim4 restart`
I then send a test message via a foreign mailserver I have access to,
however no spam checks are made. I checked /var/log/exim4/maillog and
it does not show any references to attempting to contact a spamd
server.
Does anyone have any pointers regarding how I can troubleshoot this, or
anything I am doing wrong?
Thank you,
[1] http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.68/doc/html/spec_html/ch41.html#SECTscanspa…
--
Robert Leverington
http://rhl.me.uk/
Hello,
BitFolk is proud to be one of the sponsors of OggCamp on October
25th 2009 in Wolverhampton, UK:
http://oggcamp.org/
If you're planning to attend OggCamp and/or LugRadio Live the day
before:
http://lugradio.org/live/2009/
then do let me know so I can say hello. :)
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
>> I have just recently purchased a Feathercraft Big Kahuna kayak
> does it have a heater?
Of course not. Everyone knows you can't have your kayak and heat it.
-- James Fidell
Hello,
BitFolk's Terms and Conditions have been altered in order to clarify
when a payment schedule may be changed.
The current T's and C's are here: http://bitfolk.com/policy/terms.html
The additions are:
# The Customer may request for their payment schedule to be
lengthened (from Monthly to Quarterly/Yearly, or from
Quarterly to Yearly) at any time before the next due date
by giving written notice by email to BitFolk's support
address. This shall take effect from the next due date.
# The Customer may request for their payment schedule to be
shortened (Yearly to Quarterly/Monthly or Quarterly to
Monthly). Such requests must be made at least 30 days
before the next due date by giving written notice by email
to BitFolk's support address.
The purpose of this is to remove the administrative burden of
changing people's payment schedules for bills that have already
fallen due.
These changes take effect immediately.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hi,
There's a local->root privilege escalation exploit in almost all
versions of the Linux kernel:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-08/0174.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516949https://bugs.launchpad.net/fedora/+source/linux/+bug/413656
i.e. on affected kernels a local unprivileged user can become root.
Therefore I suggest that you check your distributions for the
relevant security update or else investigate the workarounds. I
have seen an updated kernel package hit Debian lenny.
If you are still on an old VPS setup where you don't have control
over your kernel then please contact support(a)bitfolk.com to get that
sorted out.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
"Xandros's low-level support for the Eee mostly seemed to consist of a pile of
shell scripts made of cheese and failure." -- Matthew Garrett
Hi guys,
I'm trying to familiarise myself with the xen-shell, and when I log
in, I'm greeted with the console output from my VPS machine, not the
xen-shell console. In other words, i see the "<machine name> login: "
prompt.
How do I get from this screen to the xen-shell screen where I can
execute these commands:
http://xen-tools.org/software/xen-shell/commands.html
Been trying a few key combinations, but I thought it would be better
to ask than destroy something!
Thanks!
/Jocke
Hi folks,
As you may know, BitFolk currently offers free secondary DNS and
backup MX for up to 50 domains as long as you have a VPS.
I've had a couple of customers who have reached or are very near to
the 50 domain limit, and while I don't like to say no, I also don't
really want to be doing this for free for 100s of domains when there
is clearly a market for it as a paid service.
I don't really want to offer paid backup MX service because it would
involve paid for-spam/virus filtering, which is a complicated matter
and I think anyone needing to do that on a big scale should be
either doing it in-house or buying the service from a company that
specialises in that.[1]
I feel secondary DNS is a different matter though.
Looking at the market today:
Typical large domain registrar:
free with purchase of domain
portfast.co.uk:
£10/10 domains/year
gradwell.com:
£24/50 domains/year
£42/100 domains/year
£108/1000 domains/year
(+VAT)
Of course, all of those come with web interfaces to manage the
domains. On the other hand, BitFolk comes with a VPS to manage the
domains. :)
I'm happy to continue to offer the first 50 domains for free (plus
best effort backup MX), but if you had 51, or 100, or 1000 domains,
how much would you be willing to pay?
Cheers,
Andy
[1] AntibodyMX.net have talked to me about offering a whitelabel
service or possibly some sort of deal for BitFolk customers so
if their service is something you have any interest in, please
let me know off-list.
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
"I'd be happy to buy all variations of sex to ensure I got what I wanted."
-- Gary Coates (talking about cabling)
Hi,
A couple of hours ago the server kwak.bitfolk.com stopped being able
to start new VPSes or do networking to itself and an emergency
reboot is required, which is happening now. Apologies for the
disruption.
More detail to follow.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
[originally just to Andy but I thought it might be of general interest]
Hi Andy,
I am thinking of upgrading my VPS to Lenny and was wondering what you
think the easiest, or least downtime, option would be.
I suppose either;
0) Do a dist-upgrade - is this liable to work like a charm?
1) Back-up the server and get you to put a fresh Lenny image up that I
then go and configure as I want.
2) Take a fresh Lenny image off your hands, configure it and send it
back to you to replace the current Etch image.
3) Create my own Lenny image and send it to you.
I have not administered a Xen host before so I was wondering what your
recommendation would be?
I'm quite happy to play with Xen, that's not an issue.
I'm really wondering whether there are any bitfolk-specific things that
you've done to the images that mean taking one off your hands and
configuring it would be more useful than sending you my own that I build
from a default Lenny install?
Regards,
Nigel
