Mail statsitics
I created a small procedure to process the PMAS logfiles, and this is the output for February:
PMAS statistics for 02
Total messages : 2828 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted : 1886 = 66.6 o/o (Files: 29)
Relay attempts : 39 = 1.3 o/o (Files: 22)
Processed by PMAS : 903 = 31.9 o/o (Files: 29)
Discarded : 258 = 28.5 o/o (processed), 9.1 o/o (all)
Quarantained : 360 = 39.8 o/o (processed), 12.7 o/o (all)
Delivered : 285 = 31.5 o/o (processed), 10.0 o/o (all)
(I know the percentages do not add up exactly, but this is caused by the way DCL handles division – INTEGER only. But that doesn’t matter since the exact numbers are not the point, just the big view: about 70% doesn’t even make it to be checked. That is what matters)
There have been a number of “False positives”, that are now added to my Allow list, but I don’t keep a record of them I do for “false negative” – passed PMAS but were legally rejected by the SMTP configuration,because they use an unresolvable, or incomplete domain. Last month, there were 17 of them, out of 285 delivered. The next release of PMAS might filter the out as well.
Forum disabled
I removed 200 fake users off the forum – result of two weeks of neglect. Their spam didn’t make it to the memberlist, but they keep feeding the database which is not as stable as I want in the first place. So I decided to disable the forum by removing the logical that refers to the location. Now all they get will be a 404 page: Cannot find the document.
Updates
A number of updates is to be done.
There are a few VMS updates waiting but these are not that critical – I’ll leave things as they are now.
I downloaded – and updated – the forum software, although it will be disabled, who knows a time will come I have it enabled again. A complete new version is available: (PHPBB 3.0) but I’m not sure it will run on VMS.
Wordpress 2.3 is running fine. This blog will be updated as well – I think I’ll have to take another theme, though. This one is missing facilities 😉
The new python diskcontainers – including MoinMoin – and the new Python RTE will be installed shortly, and I will do the full post-installation this time.
Another update is coming: MySQL. I downloaded the latest version, and I’ll do an update when a few questions have been answered. It requires a dump of the current database and restore it in a 5.0 one. Well, restoration has been practiced before so that will not be the big problem. Jean-Francois sees no problem using a PHP5 database with a MySQL4 PHP extension.
Python and MoinMoin update
Installing python and moinmoin is a matter of just a few actions: de-installing a few images of images, dismount the volumes and disconnect the LD devices. Next the two new diskcontainers are created and mounted. Only the mount procedure needs to be updated to have them mounted after a reboot. Installation of the latest Python RTE is as simple as always, with the online manual at hand. testing it with the given procedures worked – once the mapping line was conform the spec. This python part now works.
Next is enabling moinmoin – the wiki software.
In itself, it’s not a problem, but a few changes were needed in order to get things up and going. One is the mapping, but that has been solved now: /* should be /wiki*, and for the documenation I changed /wiki/* to /wikidoc/*. however, both fail because expected files wer missing: moincgiplus.com in the directory where I put the wiki, and moin.cgi in the wikidoc location. I copies moincgiplus.com to the spot and now it’s started – but fails for another reasomn: I forgot to run a procedure to start the wikiserver. Not that this helps: another file seems to be missing – completely. Or the procedure is wrong, or the documentation.