efa-project.org

Rocky Linux 9.x here, not a fan of CentOS Stream due to the rolling release cycle that is ahead of stable releases.

Alma is probably more used and seems to have a better community behind it and is more 'independent' as rocky is created by the same guy who created CentOS, Alma is non-profit, rocky ...

lets see if it works better now, I configured the forum to send using smtp instead of php mail.
it is now correctly sending messages from @efa-project.org instead of @forum.efa-project.org (which is the vhost name..)

Yep, hetzner cloud has a auto ip config in the image they use.

(Note that if you use an custom ISO image for re-installation that you can use the IP configuration )

Yup, check the mail header it should give you the path the mail has taken to reach the client mailbox and go from there to figure out how the mail reached the clients inbox. (maybe you missed it in eFa or maybe it was malware directly from client to client..)

So you only want to use eFa for outbound filtering but it must be send to a different relay host? (no incoming traffic?)

Than the only thing you should do is configure your outbound mail relay and grant your mailserver relay access nothing more..

in eFa-Configure option 7 (Mail Settings) -> option ...

We have monitoring on it from around the world and all say it is active so, must be something local/ISP related.

Try again later, and if it still doesn't work you might try to change the scripts and replace it with dl.efa-project.org

I also just use google search or duckduck when needed, we allow full crawling from bots.

Don't want to incorporate google search on the site because of all the 'extra' cookies and loading of data from 3th party websites.
(when you add that we will also need to have a cookie notification because non ...

Done,

It is annoying but adding extra steps make it harder for users to post and register also.. Looking at the logs we already block 99%..

That is a mailserver function and not something that is in eFa, as all mail is passed through the system on to the receiving mail server.

(As a workaround can't you use a external contact in a distribution group )

We are, currently development is slow because of limited time, but also because of all the things we want to make work in a new version..

Maybe we should just start with a initial release on centos 8 and add features later on so we have more releases..

2GB mem will probably not be enough, but it all depends on how many mails are being processed.

I also have a really small test setup running that has maybe 50 mails to process on a day and it currently uses 2.3GB of memory (system has 4 GB) and has 8GB of storage used. Mainly clamav and mailscanner ...

All,

Just a heads up, we had a storage outage causing corruption on all virtual machine's we run on sunday 18th of November.
We had to restore from backups, so it might be that some posts have lost and/or that there are still some items not fully functional.

Everything is redundant but because of ...

Try again, created a quick workaround to fix this for now.

it doesn't seem to affect the safe sites list so this should fix it for now, thanks for reporting

My mistake, removed the mirror as mirror.centos.org is much faster than our own servers nowdays (when we started with the testing our mirror was next to our dev environment and thus faster for us to start testing..)

changed it now, http://dl.efa-project.org/build/3/ks.cfg now points to a working ...

Keep in mind that in some cases your 'backup' MX might even get a higher load than your primary.

We sometimes see domains that receive 80% of their spam on the secondary MX.
Some tricks spammers sometimes use is to send mail only to the secondary MX as some domains just have a 'relay' for the ...

Yea it is a trade off, or we make it userfriendly for new users (thus allow them to post everywhere after registering) or deny that and they might giveup because the admins need to approve all accounts first.. (which is anoying at best).

I don't really like to limit the forums, as this also means ...

There is no limitation in the software, only in resource/throughput based on the performance of the box you run eFa.

what does a lint test show when you run one?

See option 8 'mail settings' and then option 2 ' outbound smarthost'.

We need about 3 times the size of your mysql DB so you probably need to increase the disk size.

See: https://forum.efa-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=516

For a quick check you could run:

sudo echo "Free Space: $(df -P /var | awk '{print $4}' | grep [0-9])"
sudo echo "Mysql Size: $(du -c /var ...