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Tentakel to execute commands on multiple Linux or UNIX Servers

by camel
Many times, you want to execute a command not only on one server, but also on several servers. For example, find out * Version of kernel * Version of Apache web server * Update static html or images files on all web servers via rsync * Find out user information, server information, memory usage etc * Security/patch checking tentakel I have already covered how to execute commands on multiple Linux or UNIX servers via shell script. The disadvantage of script is commands do not run in parallel on all servers. However, several tools exist to automate this procedure in parallel. With the help of tool called tentakel, you run distributed command execution. It is a program for executing the same command on many hosts in parallel using ssh (it supports other methods too). Main advantage is you can create several sets of servers according requirements. For example webserver group, mail server group, home servers group etc. The command is executed in parallel on all servers in this group (time saving). By default, every result is printed to stdout (screen). The output format can be defined for each group.

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September 2008

HTML Composition in Thunderbird - Tales From The Geek Side - The geeky musings of Greg Rowe.

by night.kame

Generally I write email using plain text. Sometimes I really want to use HTML. I couldn’t find an easy way to switch to compose in HTML when composing a message in Thunderbird so I started searching for extensions. I found that you don’t need an extension to accomplish this. All you need to do is hold shift while clicking on the compose button (”write” button). This doesn’t work with the keyboard (ctrl-shift-m)

En parlant d'interface utilisateur ratée, un peu comme les claviers d'Apple.

Mail Avenger

by camel
Mail Avenger is a highly-configurable, MTA-independent SMTP server daemon. It lets users run messages through filters like ClamAV and SpamAssassin during SMTP transactions, so the server can reject mail before assuming responsibility for its delivery. Other unique features include TCP SYN fingerprint and network route recording, verification of sender addresses through SMTP callbacks, SPF (sender policy framework) as a general policy language, qmail-style control over both SMTP-level behavior and local delivery of extension addresses, mail-bomb protection, integration with kernel firewalls, and more.

farcemail.com

by Tetsuo6995
Et si le président de la république vous envoyait un email pour vous annoncer la remise de votre légion d’honneur. Et si votre patron vous annoncait une prime de 10000 Euros pour avoir rangé le dossier au bon endroit Vous y croiriez ? Ce n’est qu’en lisant le message jusqu’au bout que le destinataire découvrira cette phrase : Ce message est un canular. L’auteur de cet email n’est pas : SteveJob@apple.fr Ce message à été envoyé à partir du site farcemail.com

August 2008

smtp-delay plug-in for qmail

by camel
smtp-delay is an add-on/plug-in intended for use with qmail. It was written primarily to add banner delays and antipipelining to qmail. These two features are known to be able to block certain types of spam and virus mail sent through non-rfc-compliant SMTP engines. When I looked around for programs to add this functionality to qmail, I found only one such program, and didn't like the way it was done. BTW...I have the same objections to the way its done in sendmail 8.13.x. Since banner delays (the server pausing for some time before issuing an SMTP banner) cause every SMTP connection to take longer, I thought it would be a good idea to somehow exempt "legitimate" mail servers...or at least not subject them to long banner delays. So I decided to tune the banner delay time based on the connecting IP's reverse DNS. IPs with no rDNS get treated the worst (longest banner delay). IPs with rDNS matching a regex intended to detect dynamic/end-user IPs get a moderate delay. All other IPs get a very short banner delay...just long enough to see if they immediately pipeline (send SMTP commands before the banner's been sent). The original intent for smtp-delay was that it should be run before rblsmtpd, and simply set the RBLSMTPD environment variable if applicable, letting rblsmtpd issue the 4xx response. Pretty early on, I realized smtp-delay should be able to run standalone (without dependence on rblsmtpd to do its talking) and issue a 4xx response on its own. Lately, the spam load against our mail cluster has gotten so bad that I've started running smtp-delay after rblsmtpd, based on the idea that there's no point waiting out a long banner delay holding an open socket to an IP we have no intention of accepting mail from anyway. This reduced our concurrency by about 20%.

Throttling qmail SMTP receive bandwidth | www.enchantedage.com

by camel
I wrote the program "throttle.c," which you can insert into the tcpserver chain of commands for a qmail smtpd server. It takes one argument: the number of kilobytes per second to let through on the incoming file descriptor. Throttle does not throttle the outgoing file descriptor, because that's usually just status from your mail server. Additionally, throttle will set an alarm, so that any session longer than 15 minutes will expire and disconnect. This affords some amount of protection against lingering sessions that eat up your parallelism limit; I've seen such sessions from presumably trojaned DSL machines connecting to the mail server to send spam.

July 2008

Interazioni: chkuser 2.0

by camel
The original qmail-smtpd accepts by default all messages, checking later for the existence of recipients. So, if the message is delivered to not existing recipients, a lot of additional system work and network traffic are generated, with multiple expensive bouncing if the sender is a fake one. chkuser has been developed with the goal to improve the acceptance SMTP phase of qmail-smtpd. qmail-smtpd patched with chkuser may check the existence of e-mail recipients immediately in the SMTP acceptance phase of a message and rejects instantly all messages not directed to existing users, avoiding additional traffic, work and messages bounced more times.

Envoyer vos documents avec Gmail

by Giraultises & 1 other (via)
gAttach! est un petit utilitaire qui vous permettra d'envoyer vos documents directement par Gmail à l'aide du clic droit de la souris, puis "envoyer vers > Destinataire". Petit et utile...

June 2008

GlobeNet <> No-Log * Je ne suis pas un log de connexion !

by paulantoinem & 5 others
Le service No-Log comprend : - 1 accès à Internet gratuit par modem, ligne RTC ou RNIS : La connexion se fait par le même numéro d'appel quelle que soit la localisation de l'utilisateur en France métropolitaine. La tarification est celle d'un

SMTP Performance Benchmarking

by camel (via)
To test and benchmark several common SMTP servers for Unix. This is inspired by the work done by Matthias Andree at his Postfix vs. qmail - Performance page. His information, while likely still highly relevant is based heavily around file system I/O and not overall performance of the MTA. Additionally, more MTAs and OSs will eventually be tested here.

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