On Monday 20 March 2006 05:31 am, listrcv wrote:
> What is DirectAdmin?
I'm guessing this thread is now long enough to get a history lesson.
The thread was originally started by Bradley Walker, who uses an
exim.conf file with his DirectAdmin hosting control panel
(
http://www.directadmin.com/). I'm not affiliated with them, but I did
write the exim.conf file they use.
I can't make changes to it that don't work within their structure.
> > Not filtering for spam works for me. Sure I get some. But it's
> > better to get some than have the server problems.
>
> You might run into user problems instead ;)
So far we've been lucky. We manage servers hosting thousands of domains
with probably tens of that many mailboxes, and our spam blocking works
well enough that our clients who's systems don't use SpamAssassin
aren't complaining.
> > What I'd really like to do is run email on it's own server(s),
> > heavy-duty, built for the task.
>
> Yeah, such things need to be reliable. Always use hardware RAID on
> servers that need to be reliable and have to store valuable data. You
> will probably not want to use a mail store that keeps all mail in a
> single file per user. At the same time, keep it as simple as
> possible.
We use Linux software RAID 1. Because it gives us full redundancy,
faster access, and immunity against kernel updates which tend to make
hardware RAID not work on all the cheaper hardware RAID controllers
(the ones that tend to be installed on the motherboards of our 1u
hosting server solutions).
> Think about running exim 4.60, using the built-in means for virus
> scanning and SPAM checking (with a messages size limit applied), and
> cyrus 2.2 as a backend.
Some of our servers use 4.60, but we don't force updates until we're
ready to install new solutions that require it, or we find bugs in the
old versions.
We can't use Cyrus 2.2 because we're "stuck" with what DirectAdmin
supports.
That said, we're happy with their newly integrated Dovecot support and
will start supporting it with our next release.
> > However there's only one control panel I know of that sets that up
> > (H-Sphere) and it uses qmail (please excuse me; I need to go and
> > clean myself up after using that word <wry grin>).
>
> Control panel?
I thought this was covered in previous emails in the thread; I apologize
if it wasn't.
We're in the webhosting business, using the DirectAdmin control panel.
Control Panels have their postives and negatives, but we use 'em anyway
<smile>.
Jeff
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