I don’t know if it was just me, or if it is a server-wide issue, but aparently, when formail updated at the end of November, it either changed or corrupted my message ID cache. The mail would be sent by exim, to procmail, to formail, and formail would silently drop every message except one junkmail per day.

Not everyone is using a message ID cache. If you are using procmail, you’ll want to check the file ~/.procmailrc and see if you have one. If you don’t see it near the top, then all should be well.

OK, I have changed spam assassin to not save copies of messages which are auto-deleted, or marked as spam.

There are just TOO many to realistically expect any possibility of ever going back through and verifying there wasn’t a false reject.

On the bright side, messages have to get a pretty high spam score to be rejected. The worst false positive should STILL deliver the message to your inbox, encapsulated in a warning message. Let me know about any of those sorts of messages.

OK, so, spam automatically goes to a `junk` folder in your home dir.
You can see it from pine or mutt, from webmail, or from IMAP.
POP3 won’t see the junk folder at all.

From webmail, if you go to options, then `Server and Folder` and at the bottom is `Junk Mail Folder`.
Set this to `Junk`.

Now, from the webmail interface, you can select any message and say `Report As Spam`.
From within the junk folder, you can choose `Report as Innocent`.

Also from Options, you have the option of sending your PGP or S/MIME key to the mail server and then you can set to sign or encrypt your messages automagically.

Also, today, mysql binlogs filled /var. Horde was down for about 10 mins. I’ve set up so these are cleaned up nightly after backups. We’ll keep 5 days worth, which should be fine.

Somehow the server forgot it’s password and missed doing backups for a few nights. This is fixed and I’ll need to check again in a few days to make sure it’s all OK.

Backup logs now rotate.

Lots of little things.

APC (php accelerator) has been installed.

Chora is working so if you want access to your favorite CVS or SVN repository, let me know.

OK, so, php5 for DebIan is broken bad in many ways, and the maintainers are… well…. they just don’t pay attention to what’s written/said.

SO anyway, moving back to PHP4 and doing some minor touchups, and most all is working.

addressbook doesn’t work… the tables in the DB are missing.
The SQL files make tables, but aparently it’s not enough.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339536

OK, so, SpamAssassin has been working for a while, but some of you still get spam.

The key is, that unless it’s 99.99999% chance it’s spam, Spam Assassin only MARKS it as spam.
If you view headers on your spam, you’ll probably see a line like this:

X-Spam-Flag: YES

So, you can edit ~/.procmailrc to move these to a junkmail folder, or, I’m TRYING to upgrade Horde to V3 and we’ll see if Ingo will actually let you do this from the web interface.

OK, tsm packaged converted to .DEB with alien and installed.
Options file and sys file adapted and configured.
Proper exclude, exclude.fs, exclude.dir and exclude.compress implemented.
using client side compression since this is just a big disk pool.

Seems to be happy over the gigabit backup network.

last night at 12:30am, lost connection
Reconnected and was dynamic vs static
called, said upgrading until 6am.
at 2pm, checked, still have dynamic.
disconnect/reconnect, still dynamic.

called, vru said power down, 30 seconds,
power up modem, wait for solid link, power on router or PC PPOE
I did this and now I can’t get an IP from the PPOE server at all.

Called back, Mike is looking up my account.
Couldn’t find it on the first 3 tried, but now it comes up.

DSL support said static IP was dropped from account.
Over to local office
over to tiffany
She’s calling the Biz office
katie in biz office
She’s calling DSL NOC
They just fixed it.

What happenned is that static IP is *not* included free with business DSL
So when the order was placed, they dropped the static IP.
This is fixed, and the static IP is still $20.

Ultimately, the conversion to business DSL cost $18 more per month.
I already deduct the static IP as a biz expense, so the $18 can be added to that.

Maybe I should start collecting money from people at some point.

Either way, this is still very much worth it for the 1536/512 speed vs 768/256.
Compare to to $550-650 for 1.5/1.5 (Full T-1).

There’s an option to move Dish over to my phone account and I’ll save $5/month.
I didn’t want to wait on hold for Dish to do this though.

surf surf surf
hang
drop
reboot DSL modem.
Reboot router.
Router has no config
Restore config
Realize it’s missing firewall rules
Realize it’s on dynamic IP
call support
`DSL maintenance from 12am until 6am`
*sigh*

Here’s all I could find:

Under Advanced, then Management, down at the bottom is a button called `Start Up Script` and another called `Firewall Script`.

So, in the firewally script, I have this for PPTPD passthru from EXTERNAL to internal:

/sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp –dport 1723 -j DNAT –to 192.168.1.2
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p 47 -j DNAT –to 192.168.1.2

Now, I get to add some DROP rules for romania and italy.

Still need ports and port triggers for my FTP foo.
I’ll leave it DMZ’d for a while. :(