04-Nov-2010

Maintenance
The monthly clean-up job has run nicely – but it still contains the flaw that the procedure deletes the operator logfiles that the daily job – run just before – has created the index of these files. So any access on the subsequent day leads to 404-errors..
But this time, the log statistics now show correct results:
PMAS statistics for October
Total messages    :  10408 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   :   1159 =  11.1 o/o (Files: 31)
Relay attempts    :   8073 =  77.5 o/o (Files: 31)
Accepted by PMAS  :   1176 =  11.2 o/o (Files: 31)
 Handled by explicit rule
        Rejected :    580 =  49.3 o/o (processed),   5.5 o/o (all)
        Accepted :    215 =  18.2 o/o (processed),   2.0 o/o (all)
 Handled by content
       Discarded :    133 =  11.3 o/o (processed),   1.2 o/o (all)
    Quarantained :    220 =  18.7 o/o (processed),   2.1 o/o (all)
       Delivered :     28 =   2.3 o/o (processed),    .2 o/o (all)

A huge number of relay attempts! This is definitely something to take care off. These addresses should be blocked at the gate. Just find a way to extract them from the files…
There has been a minor issue with the filtering of messages containing the string “CV”: although I set up a system-wide rule to reject these messages, they kept showing up being quarantined. I askled Process, and Hunter Goatley suggested to enable debug. And so I found the reason: I also had a user rule to quarantine such messages. This rule has now been deleted, so I shouldn’t see these messages any more.
Restore of Aphrodite
I tried to do a ‘restoration installation”: rerun the installation on an existing Windows environment, but though it did finish, reboot now caused a BSoD – disappearing too fast to see what’s going on. I found free partition, and installed XP on that one, only to find that the dual boot between Ubuntu and Windows was now gone. Well, that is not a real problem since the Linux environment doesn’t hold real data, but it should be addressed. The real drawback is that I will need to re-install all software – but this is now a far more clean system than I had before. Anyway – this system has run for about 5 years without problems, and since it doesn’t contain ‘funny’ stuff, it will not be that complicated. And all data is untouched.