We are having problems delivering mail to @btinternet.com addresses from
our VPS running Postfix on Debian Lenny. From the limited information I
found on Google it seems likely that the e-mails are being delivered but
then moved to the users webmail spam folder. In my case the (two) users
are not aware that they have webmail, but I believe they do (provided by
Yahoo?).
Here's a mail.log file extract (user name edited):
Dec 28 17:28:44 vs1 amavis[9066]: (09066-08) Passed CLEAN, [86.0.209.51]
[86.0.209.51] <martin(a)jset.net> -> <xyz(a)btinternet.com>, Message-ID:
<4D1A1E26.2060901(a)jset.net>, mail_id: BQJb5C4gVigN, Hits: -5, size:
6507007, queued_as: 41CD6E2F7, 1372 ms
Dec 28 17:28:44 vs1 postfix/smtp[9732]: 69772E2F3:
to=<xyz(a)btinternet.com>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=74,
delays=73/0/0/1.4, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok, id=09066-08,
from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 41CD6E2F7)
Dec 28 17:28:44 vs1 postfix/qmgr[5081]: 69772E2F3: removed
We use the same server for business and personal e-mails and the only
problem I'm aware of is with @btinternet.com addresses. Thunderbird on
the client machine is using the vs1 SMPT server with hostname jset.net.
Emails are delivered if we use our broadband provider's SMPT server (but
they are slow and frequently time out and not suitable for mobile working).
Any suggestions/configuration changes to debug this would be welcome.
Regards, Martin
Hello,
I hope you're all having a great Christmas.
As announced in UK's June budget, the standard UK VAT rate will
increase from 17.5% to 20% with effect from midnight on January 4th,
2011. Invoices for services that are provided after this date will
be showing VAT at 20% if you normally have to pay UK VAT.
If you pay by automated PayPal subscription then your payments will
be adjusted by us. PayPal will probably notify you of that over the
next couple of days.
If you normally receive PayPal or Google payment requests then these
will be for the new price.
If you normally pay by standing order then you're going to need to
change it. You can wait to receive the invoice (7 days before it
falls due) or you can have a look at
https://panel.bitfolk.com/account/config/ which will tell you what
it's going to be.
Otherwise if you do manual payments by whatever means then please do
see the invoice for the correct amount.
If you have any questions please do let us know, either here or to
support(a)bitfolk.com.
Last time we changed prices (July), many people did not read their
invoices and carried on paying the old price. A lot of time was
spent trying to contact people to inform them of this, but even now
there are still some paying the wrong amount, who were fortunate
enough to have their service decrease in price and are slowly
building up credit.
This time we aren't going to be able to chase people beyond the
usual sequence of late payment reminders, so if you start receiving
notices of late payment please do contact us to find out why.
Finally I'd just like to wish you all a happy and prosperous 2011.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hello,
Today I have rewritten most of your VPS configs to allow you to boot
the Debian lenny netboot installer from Xen Shell.
Basically that means that if you wish to reinstall your VPS with
Debian lenny then you can do so yourself, and the process is almost
identical to any other netboot install of Debian.
There are more details here:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Using_the_self-serve_net_installer
Unfortunately a large number of existing customers have a style of
VPS configuration that is just not going to work for a netboot
install and that can't be fixed by me alone as it will require some
small modifications on your part; generally just the renaming of
some of your block devices.
Given that before today you had to contact support to ask for a
re-image, or do it yourself with the rescue environment and chroot
(which still works), this is hopefully not too much of a hardship
since your config can just be updated next time you ask for a
re-image. If you'd like it sorted out before then, then please by
all means open a support ticket.
I will now be adding Debian squeeze, then looking at Ubuntu Lucid,
Ubuntu Maverick and CentOS 5. You can follow progress of this at:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/redmine/issues/7
Obviously the above feature request is for a means to do this from
the web panel, and that is still the eventual goal, but this is what
will underpin that and there's no need to make you wait for it.
Cheers,
Andy
--
"I'm /extremely/ miffed about today's events, and in my quest to try to make
you understand the level of my unhappiness I'm likely to use an awful lot
of what we would call /violent sexual imagery/, and I just wanted to check
that neither of you would be terribly offended by that." -- Malcolm Tucker
>> > For those running Exim <= 4.69 (the default Debian MTA), you should be
>> > aware there is an exploit for remote *root* code execution in the wild.
>>
>> I don't know whether to be worried or not...
>
> If you run Debian and have not updated in the last 2-3 days then yes
> you need to worry (and may already have been exploited).
>
>> dpkg-query -l exim
>> exim 3.36-18.2 An obsolete MTA (Mail Transport
>> Agent), replaced by exim4
>
> This is a virtual package designed to transition people to exim4
> from years ago. Try again with exim4. You want 4.69-9+lenny1, if
> we're talking about Debian lenny.
Is there anyway to confirm whether or not this exploit is still
exposed in the 3.36-18.2 package...someone on another list suggested
it was not...
(...not that it might not have other, different exploits or a stack of
other good reasons why it should be upgraded)
So I've been a bit of a slacker and fallen behind on OS upgrades. This is
where I am:
james:~$ uname -a
Linux www 2.6.18-6-xen-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:43:13 UTC 2008 i686
GNU/Linux
james:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
Codename: intrepid
Will I hit kernel problems if I upgrade the OS without the kernel, or the
kernel without the OS?
Is there a recommended/tested kernel package?
Thanks
James
Hi,
I've had a few people ask about hosting WikiLeaks mirrors at BitFolk
and whether it is allowed.
These are my thoughts on the subject at the moment. Depending on how
things go they may have to change.
- TLDR version
This is very risky; we recommend you do not do it. Also if you did
do it, UK is not a very good place to do it from. If you feel you
must do it, please read the rest of this email.
- Risk of DDoS
Hosting contentious material such as a WikiLeaks mirror can (and
has) drawn denial of service attacks. If you are the subject of a
denial of service attack then our policy is described here:
http://bitfolk.com/policy/netabuse.html
Should such a mirror hosted at BitFolk become subject of a large
denial of service we would need to ask our upstream to ask their
upstreams to blackhole the IP address of the mirror. This would not
be instant and the traffic received in the meantime would be
chargeable. We would also require you not to put your mirror back up
after the attack stops.
This could result in a bill of thousands of pounds to you.
- Risk of UK government intervention
This is not legal advice, but it is my experience that should UK
government find an interest in knowing who you are and/or stopping
you from doing it then all they have to do is get a court order or
section 22 notice under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.
As a UK company we are legally obliged to act on these and may not
be able to tell you that one has been received.
- Risk of libel action
This is not legal advice, but it is well known that UK has an
extremely harsh libel system that makes it very difficult to publish
information about people that those people do not like. Should you
publish something (say, in a WikiLeaks mirror) that says something
about an individual or company that they do not appreciate being
published, then they may decide to sue you.
If that were to happen, we would ask you to remove the information.
Even if you believe that the information is true, we would ask you
to provide a large (tens of thousands of £) deposit to cover our
possible legal costs should you decide you want to prove the truth
of the statements in court.
Does this mean that anyone with enough money can stop you
publishing, via a cheap UK hosting account, things they don't like?
Yes unfortunately it does, but that is how UK libel laws work, and
there is no UK hosting company that will let you continue to publish
such things once they have received a notice of action for libel,
unless you indemnify them.
- Risks to your domain name
Top level domains in com/net/org are operated by Verisign, a US
corporation. As such they are required to obey US law. As a
consequence of the PATRIOT Act it is possible for the US government
to hand Verisign a sealed, secret court order requiring them to
suspend services. This has been done before for sites that are
alleged to assist in the sale of counterfeit goods and illegal
distribution of copyright material.
The effect of the above happening would be that your domain name
stops resolving and you can't work out why, and neither can your
registrar.
They may not even need to go that far as Verisign may choose to
react on a mere *request* from their government, and if they don't
then your registrar may decide to act upon a *request* also.
- In summary
Given all of the above, I believe that hosting a WikiLeaks mirror on
a BitFolk VPS is one of the more risky things you could do. I
personally would not do it and would not recommend doing it. I also
think that any UK host is a poor choice for such a mirror and the
resources would be better sent elsewhere. If despite all of the
above you still want to do it, so be it.
Should the risks get worse, for example if the encrypted file that
WikiLeaks have been distributing as insurance has its key released
and mirrors start getting overloaded or attacked, we might need to
change our policy on this to "absolutely do not do this".
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hi all,
Just wondering what the status of squeeze is on bitfolk? I'm considering
upgrading my VPS from lenny to squeeze now it's approaching release.
I've had a search of the archives but not found anything since Andy's
message in January (
http://lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/message/20100131.142338.3cc389ca.en.html
) - presumably still applicable, but are their any other issues I'm
likely to run into?
Cheers,
Joseph
Hi,
I'm just about to get my first VPS. I see the base is 240MB RAM. I'm
looking at one of the Linux images (probably Debian or Ubuntu, maybe
Centos). If I take the 240MB option to try out do you know roughly how
much free RAM I will have to install programs please? I'm going to be
starting with an OpenVPN instance on it and maybe then trying out Trixbox.
Thanks,
Paul.
