no style

I was thinking that I’d be able to write these entries in a certain style and I’m realizing I have enough problems updating the way it is that throwing the extra burden of trying to stylize them would make it that much harder so I think I’ll skip that for now.  I am down at Big Iron today and first thing out of the gate is SpamCop is reporting us as a spammer. Not that were really doing anything wrong mind you, it’s just that Qmail accepts messages by default and then sends bounce backs if it figures out there is not valid mailbox.  This is valid mail behavior but the problem is this sets up a situation where a spammer can say their mail is from the person they want to spam to an invalid mailbox on our domain.  A body of X comes with that email which then normally gets forwarded back with the bounce notification that things failed.  I’ve taken the qmail servers out of the loop for now and I’ll need to apply a local check during the SMTP session to verify valid recipients before it accepts mail in the first place, there’s a few patches out there that do such things.

I need to contact Extreme also, I can go copper from the Pix to the 8806 but I can’t go from fiber directly in and currently I’m going through a small switch.  I’ll bet it’s something entirely simple I’m over looking and I’ll feel like an ass once I figure out what it is.  I don’t have time to go through the 1000+ pages of command reference to look for what I need at this point though.

Build, build, build the backup server… and this time you will keep running damn you.  I think the Seagate and HP drive mix was freaking the array controller out and I really hope it’s not the controller itself.