MTAs, oh the choices...
by Oliver Jones
Now that I've got a debian box I have a somewhat more eclectic selection
of MTAs. Instead of being "stuck" with sendmail I can select either
Postfix or Exim.
Currently my box has postfix 2.1.5 installed. But I see that I can
install one of the following:
Exim 3.36
Exim 4.50 (stable)
Exim 4.52 (testing)
Postfix 2.2.4 (testing)
I know Daniel is fairly familiar with Exim but I know nothing about
these alternative MTAs. Can anyone provide sage advice on which has
more features, is easier to configure, has powerful plugins, db support,
IMAP server integration, virtual domains, spam filtering that sort of
thing.
Recommendations highly appreciated.
Regards
--
Oliver Jones > Roving Code Warrior > www.deeperdesign.com
14 years, 8 months
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14 years, 8 months
Re: [wlug] looking for python guru
by David Nicholls
ok, what about someone slightly less local?
cheers...
david
-----Original Message-----
From: David Nicholls
Sent: Wednesday, 28 September 2005 3:25 pm
hey guys, a friend of mine (runs a web development business) is
currently searching for someone local - tauranga/hamilton kinda area -
with good python skills. let me know if you think you fit the bill &
i'll pass your details on.
cheers...
David Nicholls
Computer Support Consultant
d.nicholls at waikato.ac.nz
School of Science & Engineering / Dept of Chemistry
The University of Waikato
Hamilton, New Zealand
14 years, 8 months
CFP: Systems Administration Miniconf, linux.conf.au 2006.
by Craig Box
Call for Presentations
Systems Administration Miniconf, linux.conf.au 2006.
This is a call for presentations for a 2 day Linux Systems Administration
mini conference that will be held as part of the linux.conf.au
conference in January 2006. The conference will be held in Dunedin,
New Zealand. Miniconferences are held on the first two days, prior
to the main programme.
Please see our website at http://sysadmin.miniconf.org/ for details.
The organisers of the Systems Administration Miniconf would like to
invite proposals for presentations to be delivered at the Miniconf.
Topics for presentations could include (but are not limited to)
Samba, Databases, Backups, Firewalls, AAA, Troubleshooting, Buying
Decisions,
VPN, Virtual machines (Xen, UML, VMware), Monitoring Software,
Web/Mail/LDAP/etc Server software, Wikis, PHP, Spam and Virus Filtering,
VOIP, Trouble Ticket System, Best Practices, New Developments,
Clustering/High Availability , Automated Installs, Automated configuration,
Packaging Local Software.
Speakers should assume that members of the audience have at least a
couple of years experience in Unix/Linux administration.
Format of Presentations
-----------------------
Presentations of between 30 and 120 minutes (including questions) are
currently being sought. We will also be holding a lightning talks
session, with a list of 5-10 minutes short presentations..
Submitting talks
----------------
Please note that in order to give a presentation you must be register
to attend the main linux.conf.au conference.
In order to submit a talk please see our Call for Presentations webpage at:
http://sysadmin.miniconf.org/cfp.html
Submissions (or any questions) should be sent to:
contact @ sysadmin.miniconf.org.
Dates and Deadlines
-------------------
To encourage early submissions around half the programme will be filled from
presentations submitted before the 31st of October.
31 Oct 2005 - Deadline for early submissions
18 Nov 2005 - Deadline for late submissions
Contact and Questions
---------------------
Please see our website at http://sysadmin.miniconf.org/ for more information
on the miniconf and presenting at it.
If you have any questions please feel free to email the organisers at:
contact @ sysadmin.miniconf.org
14 years, 8 months
'Fixit' meetings
by GunCom
One of the suggestions in Craig's survey was to have 'fixit' meetings.
Informal discussion after the AGM showed there is some support for this
from experienced members.
To gauge the depth of interest, e-mail me off list and mention the sort
of things you would like to have 'fixed'.
If there is enough interest I'll put it to the committee.
Gun Caundle
gun(a)guncom.co.nz
--
14 years, 8 months
Backups are your friend.
by Oliver Jones
My Laptop's Hard Disk croaked yesterday. The device is less than a year
old but it decided to destroy itself. No idea why. So backup early and
often people. You will be thankful one day. I'm glad I have _any_
backup at all. Even if it is 3 or more months old.
Regards
14 years, 8 months
Exim Install on Ubuntu
by Ivan Potgieter
Thanks for all the suggestions,
I've tried apt-get install resulting in:
ivan@silver:~$ sudo apt-get install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
My understanging of the above is that my system is clean. (FYI: I'm
running Ubuntu 5.04)
I have installed exim4, exim4-config, exim4-doc and found that anacron,
at, lsb, mailx & mutt were still installed, but postfix, postfix-lts,
ubuntu-base had been removed (as expected). So all seems fine.
Thanks for all the feedback - it looks like it was just a storm in a
teacup.
Ivan.
Matt Brown wrote:
> What version of Ubuntu are you running Ivan?
> Do you know if the package system was clean before you tried to install
> Exim?
> My suggestion on how to fix this would be to drop to the command line,
> run apt-get install (no arguments). This will handle any packages that
> are not in a clean state. Once you can run apt-get install (no
> arguments) and have it return without doing anything, then try apt-get
> install exim4 exim4-config (or use synaptic if you prefer).
14 years, 8 months
looking for python guru
by David Nicholls
hey guys, a friend of mine (runs a web development business) is
currently searching for someone local - tauranga/hamilton kinda area -
with good python skills. let me know if you think you fit the bill &
i'll pass your details on.
cheers...
David Nicholls
Computer Support Consultant
d.nicholls at waikato.ac.nz
School of Science & Engineering / Dept of Chemistry
The University of Waikato
Hamilton, New Zealand
14 years, 8 months
