{Disarmed} Re: New server setup, best practice?

Jerry Benton jerry.benton at mailborder.com
Tue Aug 16 18:41:43 UTC 2016 

Everything is a pain in the ass with RHEL 7.

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On Aug 16, 2016, 14:34, at 14:34, Tracy Greggs <mailscanner-list at okla.com> wrote:
>If you need the xtables-addons for geoip blocking, it is a major PITA
>with Centos 7 or RHEL 7.  You might want to stick to Centos 6.8
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>Just my 2 cents for whatever it is worth.
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>Tracy Greggs
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>How:
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>find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec mv {} \; /path/to/destination 
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>That would be one way.
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>Where: Depends on the situation. Sometimes it’s from SSD to HDD,
>sometimes it’s from local HDD to remote NAS using NFS or CIFS.
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>Best? I like CentOS 5 best just because it remained pretty much the
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>That being said, CentOS 7 would be the way to go; you just need to know
>where to put things.
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>On Aug 15, 2016, at 4:19 AM, Remco Barendse <mailscanner at barendse.to>
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>Thanks Alex!  How/where do you move the mail older than a couple of
>days ?
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>What would be the best distro to use, CentOS 6 or 7 ?  I read earlier
>that CentOS 7 broke quite a number of conventions but support wise 7
>seem
>wise ?
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>On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:
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>Again, depends so much on the specific circumstance… I just set up a
>$5/month VPS with it, with 15GB total space, storing only the past
>couple of days’ worth of e-mail for a handful of users.
>I’ve also set up systems for thousands of users, with a terabyte of SSD
>storage for “local, recent” stuff plus mbox-purge processes exporting
>stuff to a couple of dozen terabytes of local HDD storage and monthly
>processes moving
>stuff elsewhere using NFS and/or rsync.
>I’d rather mount NFS than SMB for performance/permissions reasons.
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>On Aug 10, 2016, at 2:06 PM, Remco Barendse <mailscanner at barendse.to>
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>Thanks Alex!
>The choice for CPU/MEM/storage is easy when it's a virtual machine, can
>move around as needed. Was curious what the recommended disk size is
>for a MailScanner machine and what people do with archive copies of
>mail/spam. Mount
>an NFS or SMB share to store that or something else?
>Thanks :)
>On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:
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>It really depends on context. Space, CPU and I/O issues can vary
>greatly from site to site.
>If you want to upgrade, look into your biggest bottlenecks first.
>Sometimes it’s RAM, sometimes it’s disk I/O (where SSD’s would be
>great), sometimes it’s CPU
>     power.
>In my case I usually go for SSD’s for storing the OS, programs, and
>mail - and regular hard drives for things like quarantines and such,
>with scripts moving older
>stuff with various protocols (NFS, rsync, FTP) over to long-term
>storage to make space when needed.
>Oh, and it’s not “virii”. Virus is a “mass noun”, like “rice”.  
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>On Aug 2, 2016, at 5:46 AM, Remco Barendse <mailscanner at barendse.to>
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>     Hi list!
>     I would like to upgrade the servers that are running MailScanner.
>What is the best approach on storage? It will be virtual machines
>(which i guess is what a lot of people are doing now), how to approach
>the storage issue,
>what would be the best approach / design? What size for the MailScanner
>root partition etc. ?
>I have to keep verbatim copies of anything that goes in or out of the
>mail servers, i keep the qf/df pairs from sendmail.
>I read some people seeing their quarantine getting filled with 7 Gb of
>virii just in one day, what would be recommended storage sizes and how
>to deal with
>quarantine / archive folders? If it wise or recommended to mount an
>external volume at /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine and
>     /var/spool/MailScanner/archived or is  there a better way ?
>If I have several MailScanner servers, is it OK to keep all
>spam/archived copies in one and the same mount ?
>     Will CentOS 7 work flawlessly? Anyone using standard cloud images?
>     Thanks for any tips / suggestions :>)
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