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by mbreitba
2009-03-01 21:56
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Greylisting whitelisting entries
Replies: 3
Views: 2897

Re: Greylisting whitelisting entries

Ugh - that's what I figured - guess it's time to slog out a few hundred class C's.
by mbreitba
2009-03-01 19:39
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Greylisting whitelisting entries
Replies: 3
Views: 2897

Greylisting whitelisting entries

So I'm updating my greylisting rules, and I'm trying to add gmail stuff. When I look at their SPF records, the amount of IP addresses (and ranges) is staggering. Does the whitelist table support a range of IP's - ie - 127.0.0.1-127.0.23.1? Or do I need to list each class C with a wildcard - ie 127.0...
by mbreitba
2008-12-12 17:20
Forum: Feature requests
Topic: Poll : Offline Que Editing
Replies: 6
Views: 6734

Re: Poll : Offline Que Editing

I've always gotten errors when I tried to do that, but it's worth another shot.
by mbreitba
2008-12-12 16:24
Forum: Feature requests
Topic: Poll : Offline Que Editing
Replies: 6
Views: 6734

Poll : Offline Que Editing

I'd love to see a feature that would allow me to edit/clean up the mail que in an offline fashion. Currently to get into HmailAdministrator, you have to have Hmailserver running (or the Admin will automatically start it). This poses a problem with a lot of domains and a lot of messages. Currently I'...
by mbreitba
2008-12-12 16:14
Forum: Feature requests
Topic: Limit Outgoing emails by either User or Domains [50%]
Replies: 14
Views: 20054

Re: Limit Outgoing emails by either User or Domains

I'd really love to see this feature. We've seen it several times where a customers email account password gets comprimised, and immediately their account blasts 100-200,000 messages into the mailserver. The mailserver is on big enough hardware that it typically handles it, but delivery gets slow and...
by mbreitba
2008-10-14 15:54
Forum: Archived feature requests
Topic: SpamAssasin Integration
Replies: 49
Views: 67895

Re: SpamAssasin Integration

Milan wrote:For antispam I prefer to use ASSP, is stable on windows, self learning, just install and forget. Why to implement features which are allready done.
ASSP is pretty good, but it just doesn't scale well. A backend SpamAssassin solution scales much better than ASSP running on the same server.
by mbreitba
2008-09-12 17:39
Forum: Archived feature requests
Topic: hMailServer X64 Bit Support
Replies: 49
Views: 103630

Re: hMailServer X64 Bit Support

It is highly unlikely that you will need more than 2GB of RAM. We are currently running 4GB of RAM in our installation, and it does not use all of it (in fact, there is 2997MB free, according to MRTG). We currently server well in excess of 15,000 mailboxes and process somewhere around 500,000 messag...
by mbreitba
2008-09-03 01:28
Forum: Archived feature requests
Topic: hMailServer X64 Bit Support
Replies: 49
Views: 103630

Re: hMailServer X64 Bit Support

By downgrading your system to 2GB of RAM instead of 4GB of RAM, you are not forcing anything into 32 bit mode. Your system is still running in 64 bit mode even though it has less memory. What this sounds like is a symptom of bad memory or a bad memory controller more than anything. I have successful...
by mbreitba
2008-06-13 01:09
Forum: General discussions
Topic: SMTP AUTH match sender address
Replies: 73
Views: 62375

Re: SMTP AUTH match sender address

Sweet - exactly what I was looking for - thanks!
by mbreitba
2008-06-13 00:05
Forum: General discussions
Topic: SMTP AUTH match sender address
Replies: 73
Views: 62375

SMTP AUTH match sender address

Is there any way to force the SMTP-AUTH username to be used as the "from" address on hmailserver? I'm asking because we've been seeing more and more customers with comprimised accounts sending emails with a from address of yahoo.com, gmail.com, etc. Sometimes it's all one username, sometimes they ra...
by mbreitba
2008-04-17 22:52
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Turning off the cache for Network Load Balancing
Replies: 5
Views: 4506

Re: Turning off the cache for Network Load Balancing

NLB would be very nice, I agree, but as arguably one of the largest installed bases of Hmailserver, it's not a deal breaker. We use MS Cluster services to move the service around, and we've never had an issue where Hmailserver cannot handle the load of all of our users at once. If you absolutely nee...
by mbreitba
2008-04-15 19:08
Forum: Development & alpha discussions
Topic: Grey list option for version 5
Replies: 14
Views: 10794

Re: Grey list option for version 5

One thought I had on making greylisting a little more flexible would be to use the /24 address of a mailserver, rather than the individual IP address. That would effectively fix the "little guy" mail clusters that are on the same network that use multiple mailservers to send out email. How difficult...
by mbreitba
2008-03-20 18:18
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Server 2003 vs. XP
Replies: 25
Views: 17661

We currently run hmailserver on a dual-proc opteron 248 system w/ 4GB of ram. That system sucessfully supports nearly 30,000 users on about 7500 domains. Any hardware that you buy today from dell will certainly support 200 users without any issue. The question, as you put it, comes down to features ...
by mbreitba
2008-03-07 06:39
Forum: General discussions
Topic: syncing mail servers
Replies: 8
Views: 7242

You could accomplish this with a few tools - 1 - you'd need to have synchronized DB servers - Pretty easy to set up w/ MSSQL 2005 2 - Set up DFS between the servers. I believe that you have to have 2003 Enterprise to support this, as it is part of cluster services. 3 - if your mailservers handle any...
by mbreitba
2008-03-03 20:55
Forum: Archived feature requests
Topic: Auto-scroll realtime log window
Replies: 7
Views: 7869

Holy crapanoli batman - unless you're tailing and grepping, I can't see the usefullness, unless you have a non-busy mailserver. I can't personally imagine 1-2GB of scrolling text going over my screen every day. I do think the tail -f logfile.log | grep username would be neat, but if those tools alre...
by mbreitba
2007-12-28 17:43
Forum: General discussions
Topic: creating a new rule
Replies: 1
Views: 2134

creating a new rule

Hi all - while I'm ok at setting up rules, this one's got me stumped. I want to "flag" all emails that are forwarded (using a forward rule) from our mailserver to AOL accounts. I'd like to add a header, or some other information that can tell me who the forwarding account holder is. We currently get...
by mbreitba
2007-12-18 22:02
Forum: General discussions
Topic: ASSP V Spamassassin?
Replies: 12
Views: 14700

Just an FYI - we tried running ASSP in front of our Hmail system, with greylisting enabled. We had an entire dedicated server (dual xeon 2.6g procs, 3GB RAM) and it couldn't keep up with our usage. Granted, our usage is excessive to say the least, but if you intend on scaling, ASSP does not appear t...
by mbreitba
2007-11-26 23:02
Forum: Development & alpha discussions
Topic: hMailServer 5.0, build 256 (Alpha)
Replies: 28
Views: 21886

Blargh....nevermind - I might have already been running MSSQL 2k5 on that box. Nevermind, ID-10-T error...
by mbreitba
2007-11-26 23:00
Forum: Development & alpha discussions
Topic: hMailServer 5.0, build 256 (Alpha)
Replies: 28
Views: 21886

Yeah, we only upgraded one of our test systems :) When I log in to the HmailAdmin interface, it says MSSQL 127.0.0.1.
by mbreitba
2007-11-26 22:36
Forum: Development & alpha discussions
Topic: hMailServer 5.0, build 256 (Alpha)
Replies: 28
Views: 21886

One other thing - it appears to have upgraded our MySQL installation to an MSSQL installation (which is fine) but it left the MySQL Daemon running. Is that the intended behavior?
by mbreitba
2007-11-26 22:33
Forum: Development & alpha discussions
Topic: hMailServer 5.0, build 256 (Alpha)
Replies: 28
Views: 21886

I likey the new features :) One thing I wondered though, would it be possible to add a per-mailbox SpamAssassin threshold setting? Currently it appears as though it is a global setting.
by mbreitba
2007-11-26 22:27
Forum: General discussions
Topic: How to run redundant hmail server(s)?
Replies: 2
Views: 3058

We've implemented this using Windows 2003 Enterprise R2. You need to use a shared storage device (iscsi, or DFS replication) and then set up a cluster node. It's kinda a pain to get it all set up, but it works pretty well. You can push the service around to different servers, and the IP address move...
by mbreitba
2007-11-15 18:01
Forum: General discussions
Topic: HMail in a virtual server, does it work?
Replies: 10
Views: 7824

You might consider setting up a Xen environment - then you could run Win2k3 and Linux on the same box, at the same time.
by mbreitba
2007-11-15 17:58
Forum: General discussions
Topic: bulk-send performance?
Replies: 6
Views: 5225

With 500 threads, was it sending the mail out faster, and did you see more CPU utilization?
by mbreitba
2007-11-14 23:54
Forum: General discussions
Topic: bulk-send performance?
Replies: 6
Views: 5225

I'd increase your delivery thread limit. Put it way up there. I'd give it 500 and see how it does. If the system is _only_ used for bulk mailing, there's no harm in trying it.
by mbreitba
2007-10-18 21:59
Forum: Off-topic discussions
Topic: Going to..
Replies: 4
Views: 3666

Have fun in Barcelona (if you can find the time)!
by mbreitba
2007-10-12 22:46
Forum: Development & alpha discussions
Topic: SpamAssassin testing
Replies: 7
Views: 7719

m0n0 works well, we used it for about a year, but pfsense has better load balancing and failover capabilities.
by mbreitba
2007-10-12 22:39
Forum: General discussions
Topic: memory issues
Replies: 11
Views: 6657

We're running Windows 2003 Server.
by mbreitba
2007-10-12 18:07
Forum: General discussions
Topic: memory issues
Replies: 11
Views: 6657

Hmmm.....that seems awful low for using that much memory. We're currently at 343MB of memory with 207 threads.
by mbreitba
2007-10-12 18:06
Forum: Development & alpha discussions
Topic: SpamAssassin testing
Replies: 7
Views: 7719

Yeah, I'm hoping for it to eventually be done like that, but I'm not exactly an expert with BSD/Linux :) . I'd also encourage people to use Pfsense (m0n0wall derivative) to load balance across several SpamAssassin systems.
by mbreitba
2007-10-11 22:33
Forum: Development & alpha discussions
Topic: SpamAssassin testing
Replies: 7
Views: 7719

Shouldn't be any special hardware requirements, other than that the HDD needs to be larger than 6.4GB. As for being able to configure additional filters, you can, but they are not included at this time. Currently, I'm working on building it on a linux distribution so that I can make the final distro...
by mbreitba
2007-10-10 19:39
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Max Message Size bug?
Replies: 4
Views: 3236

David, Have you tried setting your limit a little bit higher? An email that's within 300k of being over seems to be a pretty poor test. Set your limit to 25mb, see if the message goes through. My guess would be that with the encoding, it may actually be larger than what is being reported in your log.
by mbreitba
2007-10-09 21:41
Forum: General discussions
Topic: hMailServer running out of memory
Replies: 33
Views: 26274

That'd explain at least why your memory usage is so much lower than ours. We're caching message lists, etc for 25,000 active users.
by mbreitba
2007-10-09 21:24
Forum: General discussions
Topic: hMailServer running out of memory
Replies: 33
Views: 26274

573 is the memory that hmailserver is using. Total windows memory usage is around 2.8GB.

Also - do you have a lot of active users pop/imap checking the system, or is it just one system that then distributes the mail?
by mbreitba
2007-10-09 21:05
Forum: General discussions
Topic: hMailServer running out of memory
Replies: 33
Views: 26274

We process a lot of mail (not a million a day), maybe around 150k-200k per day. Our system isn't just a honeypot though, we've got about 25,000 users and ~7,000 domains on the one hmailserver. We do see some errors from time to time, usually around 1,000,000 messages processed. What is the user load...
by mbreitba
2007-09-20 02:16
Forum: Development & alpha discussions
Topic: SpamAssassin testing
Replies: 7
Views: 7719

SpamAssassin testing

We've got a bootable ISO that we'd like a few people to play with. Unfortunately, due to the use of FreeBSD, we had to take a snapshot of the entire drive, rather than just the used space, and the resulting ISO is about 2.5GB The system has been tested extensively on P3 800mhz machines w/ 512MB of R...
by mbreitba
2007-09-15 17:42
Forum: Development & alpha discussions
Topic: hMailServer for *nix/*BSD
Replies: 39
Views: 48465

Currently we're at 7100+ domains in a single installation, somewhere around 25,000 users or so. We do have some stability issues, and have to have some failover set up. Right now we believe that the stability issues may be coming from our SpamAssassin plugin, but we're too busy with another project ...
by mbreitba
2007-09-13 08:59
Forum: Development & alpha discussions
Topic: hMailServer for *nix/*BSD
Replies: 39
Views: 48465

Exactly....I'm wondering if there's not enough hardware there, or if something is mis-configured. For our user base, hmailserver on windows 2003 works great.
by mbreitba
2007-09-12 20:52
Forum: Development & alpha discussions
Topic: hMailServer for *nix/*BSD
Replies: 39
Views: 48465

Re: hMailServer for *nix/*BSD

Hey guys, As the title suggests I am getting a server and plan on putting FreeBSD on it, however hMailServer is a windows server, thus making it so it won't natively work with FreeBSD. The reason I am asking this is I have finally found an excellent mail server that I like, and I don't wish to have...
by mbreitba
2007-06-26 18:22
Forum: Archived feature requests
Topic: Email address blocking
Replies: 1
Views: 3810

Email address blocking

I'd like to see a provision that allows you to block an email address on a per-mailbox, per-domain, and server-wide level. Would this be something that is possible? --Edit-- I know we can do this via rules on a server-wide and per-mailbox level, but I can't find a way to do it on a per-domain level.
by mbreitba
2007-06-24 19:56
Forum: Archived feature requests
Topic: add file operations to COM API
Replies: 18
Views: 16993

Martin - One thing I would like to see with this integration is a log created that tells which messages were dropped due to score. Maybe just the message ID, and what it's score was, or something like that. It'd make tracking down messages that were dropped due to SA levels very easy.
by mbreitba
2007-06-20 20:57
Forum: General discussions
Topic: hMailServer Mysql db VS. Existing Mysql db in use by site
Replies: 4
Views: 3587

Personally - if it's a busy mailserver, the MyISAM table design leaves something to be desired. We ran into locking issues with that table design, but we're probably one of the largest users of Hmailserver. For most people it should be fine, but if you plan on having thousands of users, and processi...
by mbreitba
2007-06-18 00:44
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Have I reached the limits of hMailServer?
Replies: 4
Views: 4336

10,000 messages per hour is a lot of mail. There are a lot of different factors that could be limiting you. I would suggest first monitoring CPU/Memory/Disk I/O usage, and take a look at all of those. Once you have a few days worth of data, you will probably be able to find your bottleneck pretty qu...
by mbreitba
2007-06-05 04:28
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Question for large scale users (of any email server)
Replies: 3
Views: 4346

Just an update - We had some issues that we found that were limiting our performance. 1 - MyISAM table design. The MyISAM storage engine locks the tables pretty badly. To counter this, we ended up moving to MSSQL 2005. It was a messy process, and I would suggest that if you plan to have a large syst...
by mbreitba
2007-06-05 04:18
Forum: Archived feature requests
Topic: Message status in undelivered mail que
Replies: 2
Views: 4546

Message status in undelivered mail que

One thing I noticed in the undelivered message que is that there is no reason given for the failed delivery attempt. Could we create a field that would display the error received when the mailserver attempted to deliver the message? It'd be nice to be able to see what messages are getting delayed fo...
by mbreitba
2007-05-30 00:45
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Default Timeout value?
Replies: 1
Views: 2257

Default Timeout value?

We're getting some issues where greylisting triplets aren't being deleted properly. It appears as though we generate enough greylisting triplets that need to be dropped that the SQL server is not getting them dropped before the query is terminated. Is there anything in Hmailserver that could be caus...
by mbreitba
2007-05-21 19:13
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Increasing hMail performance
Replies: 16
Views: 16343

Out of curiosity, what are people setting for their threading options? Also, what sort of configuration would be good for the Cache? Ours is currently set at 100 command threads, 200 delivery threads. So far, that seems to work pretty well. We had our delivery threads set at 50, but the mail que wo...
by mbreitba
2007-05-09 20:07
Forum: General discussions
Topic: restore .sql backup file
Replies: 21
Views: 15354

Well, it definately worked at the first 4 hour interval. We saw an outage for a few minutes around the 2nd 4 hour interval, but nobody was monitoring. 3rd 4 hour interval looked good, and then windows did a reboot due to windows update, and checkdisk kicked in and has been causing havoc since. I've ...
by mbreitba
2007-05-08 22:28
Forum: General discussions
Topic: restore .sql backup file
Replies: 21
Views: 15354

Yup - I've modified it and restarted the service to accommodate the change to the greylisting functionality. Should be another two hours or so, and we'll know if it fixed the issue.
by mbreitba
2007-05-08 20:31
Forum: General discussions
Topic: restore .sql backup file
Replies: 21
Views: 15354

Martin - thanks for the update. I've installed, and I'll let you know how it looks in 4 hours :)

Again - very very much appreciated.
by mbreitba
2007-05-08 00:11
Forum: General discussions
Topic: restore .sql backup file
Replies: 21
Views: 15354

Martin - after much discussion with Shiloh, we'd like to see greylisting disabled when doing the table updates every 4 hours. How difficult will this be to implement, and when would we be able to use something like this?
by mbreitba
2007-05-07 23:06
Forum: General discussions
Topic: restore .sql backup file
Replies: 21
Views: 15354

I agree - they both feel slightly "clumsy". I've finished the import of the SQL backup into our other server, and it's running as InnoDB currently, doesn't appear to be any issues. We've never really seen the greylisting be a problem on the server that we're testing on, so we won't be able to get a ...
by mbreitba
2007-05-07 22:40
Forum: General discussions
Topic: restore .sql backup file
Replies: 21
Views: 15354

That would be a decent stopgap solution, but overall I don't know that it would be a great permanent fix for this issue.
by mbreitba
2007-05-07 21:42
Forum: General discussions
Topic: restore .sql backup file
Replies: 21
Views: 15354

The delete time being configurable is nice, but it seems like the longer I wait, the longer the outage is. If I did it once every few days, it may be an hour of downtime to process through that table. When it was doing it once a minute, it was only taking 11 seconds to complete the query, which wasn...
by mbreitba
2007-05-07 21:31
Forum: General discussions
Topic: restore .sql backup file
Replies: 21
Views: 15354

I'm actually migrating our mailandnews.com system to InnoDB. The users aren't quite as heavy of users, and it see's significantly less traffic, but it should at least give me an idea of what to expect from a performance standpoint.
by mbreitba
2007-05-07 21:30
Forum: General discussions
Topic: restore .sql backup file
Replies: 21
Views: 15354

I've also increased the number of available connections to 15. Doesn't seem to help much, as once it locks that table, it doesn't take very long for greylisting activities to fill up all of the available connections (no matter how many I would add). Would it be possible to designate one or two conne...
by mbreitba
2007-05-07 21:26
Forum: General discussions
Topic: restore .sql backup file
Replies: 21
Views: 15354

I did actually add the index that you mentioned in a previous thread about 5 days ago. It did not appear to solve the problem. I'm hoping that moving to InnoDB with row level locking will help, as stuff shouldn't fail as often (or as long) due to locks. I could be totally off base, but that's my hope.
by mbreitba
2007-05-07 21:17
Forum: General discussions
Topic: restore .sql backup file
Replies: 21
Views: 15354

Thats kinda what I figured. I grabbed them, and am importing now (god only knows how long that import will take). I'm hoping that this will reduce some of our table-locking issues. We're seeing more and more downtime related to greylisting updates (table is locked during the entire update process, a...
by mbreitba
2007-05-07 20:38
Forum: General discussions
Topic: restore .sql backup file
Replies: 21
Views: 15354

restore .sql backup file

I'm working on moving from MyISAM to InnoDB on one of our systems to test performance and compatibility. The problem I'm having is that the GUI tools won't run the 1GB script that's been generated by MySQLDUMP. All of the command line instructions that I've found use the command mysql, which doesn't...
by mbreitba
2007-05-03 02:54
Forum: General discussions
Topic: MyISAM vs INNODB
Replies: 3
Views: 4324

Thanks for that thread - I've voted :)